Adam Wu
@adamwt.bsky.social
PhDing in Political Science at UCSD. Once journalist. Authoritarianism | China | bureaucracy | diplomacy | text analysis | mixed methods
A feed for Chinese politics & policy: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:doce3n3wwji3qtenc7ktcu5r/feed/aaacdrgczzosm
A feed for Chinese politics & policy: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:doce3n3wwji3qtenc7ktcu5r/feed/aaacdrgczzosm
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The U.S. has banned government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, AP has learned. A blanket “non-fraternization” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War
w/Didi Tang, Matt Lee
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US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens
The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citize...
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April 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The U.S. has banned government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, AP has learned. A blanket “non-fraternization” policy, as it is known, has been unheard of publicly since the Cold War
w/Didi Tang, Matt Lee
apnews.com/article/chin...
w/Didi Tang, Matt Lee
apnews.com/article/chin...
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My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
March 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
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Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided.
This. Is. Crushing.
This. Is. Crushing.
March 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided.
This. Is. Crushing.
This. Is. Crushing.
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In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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I had missed this detail earlier, but we're at the people won't speak to the media for "fear of retaliation from the government" stage of things.
March 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I had missed this detail earlier, but we're at the people won't speak to the media for "fear of retaliation from the government" stage of things.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Columbia University now has what we'd call a Party secretary in China, a person whose only job is to enforce the "correct" political line
Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
www.wsj.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Columbia University now has what we'd call a Party secretary in China, a person whose only job is to enforce the "correct" political line
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In Depth: Where Chinese overseas investment is heading – Caixin Global: ‘As Western markets impose stricter regulations, Chinese investments are flowing into emerging economies eager to modernize their industry.’
In Depth: Where Chinese Overseas Investment Is Heading
China’s ODI grew 10.1% last year to $162.8 billion, with significant funding going to Southeast Asia and the Belt and Road countries
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March 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In Depth: Where Chinese overseas investment is heading – Caixin Global: ‘As Western markets impose stricter regulations, Chinese investments are flowing into emerging economies eager to modernize their industry.’
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WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism.
Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
March 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism.
Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.
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The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said. nyti.ms/41GYSGt
March 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said. nyti.ms/41GYSGt
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Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models – June Yoon for FT: ‘By open sourcing AI models, Chinese tech groups create an ecosystem where global developers continuously improve their models — without shouldering all the development costs.’
Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models
The pace of Beijing’s open source push has been relentless
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March 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models – June Yoon for FT: ‘By open sourcing AI models, Chinese tech groups create an ecosystem where global developers continuously improve their models — without shouldering all the development costs.’
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If you think this is being alarmist there are 100s of political scientists who work on authoritarian regimes who will affirm that this is whats happening.
the plan isn't to cancel elections, it's intimidate opposition with draconian crackdowns on protests, investigations into dissidents, and stripping power and authority from the entire opposition's political ecosystem. elections that are neither free nor fair but are, technically, still elections
This is, quite literally, how democracies die www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
March 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you think this is being alarmist there are 100s of political scientists who work on authoritarian regimes who will affirm that this is whats happening.
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is angry about a Hong Kong company’s plan to sell Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led group, in part because the company didn’t seek Beijing’s approval in advance.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Exclusive | China’s Xi Is Angered by Panama Port Deal That Trump Touted as a Win
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is angry about a Hong Kong company’s plan to sell Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led group, in part because the company didn’t seek Beijing’s approval in advance.
www.wsj.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is angry about a Hong Kong company’s plan to sell Panama Canal ports to a U.S.-led group, in part because the company didn’t seek Beijing’s approval in advance.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
Beijing is arranging meetings between Xi and 72 global CEOs, including top executives from Blackstone, Pfizer, and Qualcomm, at the China Development Forum in late March, aiming to stabilize the decline in foriegn investment flow into China on.ft.com/4kJu5ld
China courts global CEOs for meeting with Xi Jinping
Planned contact comes as Beijing seeks support of international business and fends off Trump’s tariffs
on.ft.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Beijing is arranging meetings between Xi and 72 global CEOs, including top executives from Blackstone, Pfizer, and Qualcomm, at the China Development Forum in late March, aiming to stabilize the decline in foriegn investment flow into China on.ft.com/4kJu5ld
When Trump tanks the US market while China signals a boost for private enterprise www.reuters.com/markets/asia...
Donald Trump makes Chinese stocks (somewhat) great again
As U.S. President Donald Trump's wide-ranging trade war rouses fears of recession, global investors have found an unlikely new sanctuary: Chinese equities.
www.reuters.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
When Trump tanks the US market while China signals a boost for private enterprise www.reuters.com/markets/asia...
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This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
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Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
www.axios.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets.
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
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NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
www.science.org
March 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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It’s just fucking corruption. It’s just capture of spending to line his pockets. Crony spending lining the pockets of glorious ruler’s buddies is the hallmark of any strongman authoritarian government and ours is no exception.
FAA officials ordered staff on Friday to find tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, sources tell us, and most or all of these directives came verbally, which we are told is highly unusual.
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FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink
After Trump and Musk gutted the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal.
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March 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s just fucking corruption. It’s just capture of spending to line his pockets. Crony spending lining the pockets of glorious ruler’s buddies is the hallmark of any strongman authoritarian government and ours is no exception.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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Someone has apparently been fucking with the NIH’s nameservers
March 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Someone has apparently been fucking with the NIH’s nameservers