Stuart Morris
@foundinchina.bsky.social
Teaching would-be international students from within the belly of the dragon. Here for sanity, civility, and honesty in China-related discourse. Hoping the planet doesn't blow up while waiting for answers. Confidence level < Hades.
Awful news out of HK this evening. These numbers are going much higher, sadly.
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Awful news out of HK this evening. These numbers are going much higher, sadly.
That include you, @zurch.bsky.social ?
Yeah. Of course it did.
Yeah. Of course it did.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
That include you, @zurch.bsky.social ?
Yeah. Of course it did.
Yeah. Of course it did.
So, the BBC publishes *gasp* details of a leaked memo full of right-wing talking points alleging bias the other way (including an absolute whopper about 2024 US election coverage). Shameless fuckers. Check this out:
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
So, the BBC publishes *gasp* details of a leaked memo full of right-wing talking points alleging bias the other way (including an absolute whopper about 2024 US election coverage). Shameless fuckers. Check this out:
Oh, what an utterly delicious sideswipe at those going in the other direction. Well played!
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Oh, what an utterly delicious sideswipe at those going in the other direction. Well played!
FFS!
The country is on fire, the world in turmoil, and the BBC's US team spearheaded by the likes of Bernd Debusmann Jr (@BernieDebusmann on X) and the Trump apologist @zurch.bsky.social are busy lending credibility to the absurd idea that Trump is a serious candidate for the NPP.
Utter wankers.
The country is on fire, the world in turmoil, and the BBC's US team spearheaded by the likes of Bernd Debusmann Jr (@BernieDebusmann on X) and the Trump apologist @zurch.bsky.social are busy lending credibility to the absurd idea that Trump is a serious candidate for the NPP.
Utter wankers.
October 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
FFS!
The country is on fire, the world in turmoil, and the BBC's US team spearheaded by the likes of Bernd Debusmann Jr (@BernieDebusmann on X) and the Trump apologist @zurch.bsky.social are busy lending credibility to the absurd idea that Trump is a serious candidate for the NPP.
Utter wankers.
The country is on fire, the world in turmoil, and the BBC's US team spearheaded by the likes of Bernd Debusmann Jr (@BernieDebusmann on X) and the Trump apologist @zurch.bsky.social are busy lending credibility to the absurd idea that Trump is a serious candidate for the NPP.
Utter wankers.
Well, let’s see if this 400-character comment on behaviour at the Ryder Cup gets by the BBC’s content moderator:
September 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Well, let’s see if this 400-character comment on behaviour at the Ryder Cup gets by the BBC’s content moderator:
So, the BBC has a global disinformation watchdog unit. Hooray!
Now. where TF were they when @zurch.bsky.social and the rest of his pro-Trump US political team were busy normalising their candidate by failing to call out said disinformation a year ago?
I'll wait.
Now. where TF were they when @zurch.bsky.social and the rest of his pro-Trump US political team were busy normalising their candidate by failing to call out said disinformation a year ago?
I'll wait.
September 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
So, the BBC has a global disinformation watchdog unit. Hooray!
Now. where TF were they when @zurch.bsky.social and the rest of his pro-Trump US political team were busy normalising their candidate by failing to call out said disinformation a year ago?
I'll wait.
Now. where TF were they when @zurch.bsky.social and the rest of his pro-Trump US political team were busy normalising their candidate by failing to call out said disinformation a year ago?
I'll wait.
@zurch.bsky.social and BBC website colleagues doing their best to pretend there's only one thing of import happening in the world right now. What they haven't said is that Tyler Robinson was a white male right wing extremist.
Go Figure.
Go Figure.
September 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
@zurch.bsky.social and BBC website colleagues doing their best to pretend there's only one thing of import happening in the world right now. What they haven't said is that Tyler Robinson was a white male right wing extremist.
Go Figure.
Go Figure.
The BBC website, which trips over itself to mention Trump in the largest available font, has gone dark. Spineless.
September 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The BBC website, which trips over itself to mention Trump in the largest available font, has gone dark. Spineless.
Man, I keep staring at these two pictures and I swear I'm no longer sure which is which.
June 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Man, I keep staring at these two pictures and I swear I'm no longer sure which is which.
Regardless of the issue; no matter how unequivocal the legality, decency, or morality of an action taken or words spoken—you can rely on BBC’s US team to bothesides the mother out of it. Been going on for a decade.
June 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Regardless of the issue; no matter how unequivocal the legality, decency, or morality of an action taken or words spoken—you can rely on BBC’s US team to bothesides the mother out of it. Been going on for a decade.
Inside the last hour, the BBC (similarly afflicted since 2016):
May 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Inside the last hour, the BBC (similarly afflicted since 2016):
That wanker Zurcher at the BBC must have needed and extra box of Kleenex while he was writing this.
"...just four months after leaving office as a one-term president, and as intense scrutiny is placed on his mental and physical decline during those four years..."
"...just four months after leaving office as a one-term president, and as intense scrutiny is placed on his mental and physical decline during those four years..."
May 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
That wanker Zurcher at the BBC must have needed and extra box of Kleenex while he was writing this.
"...just four months after leaving office as a one-term president, and as intense scrutiny is placed on his mental and physical decline during those four years..."
"...just four months after leaving office as a one-term president, and as intense scrutiny is placed on his mental and physical decline during those four years..."
This is the kind of fawning credulity that typifies the BBC's pro-Trump bias—and has done since @zurch.bsky.social and other right wingers took over US political coverage during the past decade. It's the NYT on acid. Shameful stuff.
May 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is the kind of fawning credulity that typifies the BBC's pro-Trump bias—and has done since @zurch.bsky.social and other right wingers took over US political coverage during the past decade. It's the NYT on acid. Shameful stuff.
BBC's US correspondents still going all out to normalise the most dysfunctional of presidencies. Truly disgraceful reportage—but very much in keeping with the past eight years.
April 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
BBC's US correspondents still going all out to normalise the most dysfunctional of presidencies. Truly disgraceful reportage—but very much in keeping with the past eight years.
April 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The lamentable and embarrassing @zurch.bsky.social with a typically fawning, credulous take on Trump's role in all this. Of course he ignores the fact DT all but blew up hopes of any kind of deal and that it was *Europe* doing the work here.
March 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The lamentable and embarrassing @zurch.bsky.social with a typically fawning, credulous take on Trump's role in all this. Of course he ignores the fact DT all but blew up hopes of any kind of deal and that it was *Europe* doing the work here.
Or, as some would spin it "combative".
For those unaware, Zurcher & the BBC US team have been channelling their inner NYT for eight years or more.
For those unaware, Zurcher & the BBC US team have been channelling their inner NYT for eight years or more.
January 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Or, as some would spin it "combative".
For those unaware, Zurcher & the BBC US team have been channelling their inner NYT for eight years or more.
For those unaware, Zurcher & the BBC US team have been channelling their inner NYT for eight years or more.
Hoo boy!
A lot of familiar denial here of the lengths to which an aggressive & coercive PRC goes in order to get what it wants geopolitically. An uncritical US is now learning where authoritarian BS leads, and "It believes its system is specific to China" is equally credulous. And plain wrong.
A lot of familiar denial here of the lengths to which an aggressive & coercive PRC goes in order to get what it wants geopolitically. An uncritical US is now learning where authoritarian BS leads, and "It believes its system is specific to China" is equally credulous. And plain wrong.
January 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hoo boy!
A lot of familiar denial here of the lengths to which an aggressive & coercive PRC goes in order to get what it wants geopolitically. An uncritical US is now learning where authoritarian BS leads, and "It believes its system is specific to China" is equally credulous. And plain wrong.
A lot of familiar denial here of the lengths to which an aggressive & coercive PRC goes in order to get what it wants geopolitically. An uncritical US is now learning where authoritarian BS leads, and "It believes its system is specific to China" is equally credulous. And plain wrong.
I haven't missed this kind of thread. It's not that it's disingenuous or 'bad', but it trots out an elongated version of the old narrative that 'the US (west) doesn't understand China'. Some points are valid, but less so in most cases if we look China-->US (strangely—but consistently—lacking).
January 30, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I haven't missed this kind of thread. It's not that it's disingenuous or 'bad', but it trots out an elongated version of the old narrative that 'the US (west) doesn't understand China'. Some points are valid, but less so in most cases if we look China-->US (strangely—but consistently—lacking).
As Carl Sagan told us: "The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media [...] lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
January 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As Carl Sagan told us: "The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media [...] lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
She certainly had the desired effect on the deplorables:
January 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
She certainly had the desired effect on the deplorables:
Hang on a sec, @washingtonpost.com , @nytimes.com says 'hold my beer' :
January 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Hang on a sec, @washingtonpost.com , @nytimes.com says 'hold my beer' :
Exuberant, eh @washingtonpost.com ?
Shame on you if that's your framing.
Shame on you if that's your framing.
January 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Exuberant, eh @washingtonpost.com ?
Shame on you if that's your framing.
Shame on you if that's your framing.
More disgraceful normalisation (infatuation, even) and utter lack of scrutiny in this latest endorsement of Trump from the BBC's lamentable @zurch.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
More disgraceful normalisation (infatuation, even) and utter lack of scrutiny in this latest endorsement of Trump from the BBC's lamentable @zurch.bsky.social