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Jeremy Goldkorn
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What you need to know about China this week: thechinaweek.com

Lessons from China, Russia, South Africa, North Korea etc. for Trump's America: rhymingchaos.com

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War is peace over at Trump's Truth Social feed:
Screenshot from Donald Trump's Ttuth Social feed juxtaposing an ad for a military-style rifle and a post that Rump reposted reading "The Democrat party has become the party of Domestic Terrorists."
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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New AI-generated propaganda music video from China’s state-owned Xinhua news agency.From a tweet with this text: “‘Mess with fire, you're gonna get fried…’ Enjoy a new song from China's CD Rev rap group, say no to Japanese militarism”

From: x.com/XHNews/statu...
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Books. Bah! Listening to to the Oddysiad at 1.5x is max alpha.
Tweet from Marc Andreessen @pmarca: "There is so much alpha in books from 1870 to 1930, it's unreal." Reply from Elon Musk @elonmusk, with photo of cover of Penguin edition of The Oddysey: "For maximum alpha, complete with fighting for princesses, the Iliad. Penguin audiobook at 1.25X speed is best. It was meant to be a spoken, not written, story."
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Featuring this photo:
Xi Jinping laughing during meeting with Donald Trump. See: https://www.thechinaweek.com/p/very-british-china-problems
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Amazing set of photos of Trump showing Xi a note that cracks him up, and more, from their meeting this week.

Source: www.whitehouse.gov/gallery/pres...
Xi Jinping cracking up with laughter after Donald Trump shows him. a note.
November 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Screenshot of two Bluesky posts in my feed: Senator Eric Schmitt says Antifa "is a well-coordinated organization with safe houses and money that is laundered internationally." [with CPAN image] https://bsky.app/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social/post/3m4cgd36rx225 AND A person in Alabama was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor, and other items, intending to attack synagogues across the US South. With a CNN story featuring a photo of body armor, guns, and ammo. https://bsky.app/profile/joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4cg2jbwec2b
October 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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David Sacks too:
Tweet in X from David Sacks of AI image of Trump as king with sword
October 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Screenshot of Amazon web page advertising a frog costume similar to the one worn by Portland protestors.
October 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Trump's response to China's new rare earths export controls does not sound like him at all (text in ALT):
From: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115350455734003647 Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three th…
October 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I think Musk actually imitated the design of the Casspir, the apartheid South African era police and military vehicle used to suppress protests:
Apartheid-era South Africa armored vehicle Casspir, which looks a little like a Cybertruck.
October 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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不相上下

Welcome to the beginning of Locknet, U.S. version.
Screenshot of Baidu.com search result for "White Paper Revolution" that reads: "Sorry, there are no results for this search." See Wikipedia for details on White Paper Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China Screenshot of results for Google search for "does trump show signs of dementia." The AI result at the top is "An AI Overview is not available for this search."
October 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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The hummingbirds are still here
September 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Hello.
Photo of eastern rat snake
September 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I stayed in a hotel in Asheville NC a few years ago. There was a church group staying at the same hotel, and the pastor was wearing this jacket:
A photo of a man wearing a gold jacket with Trump depicted as a bullfighter with an American flag coming out of his sleeve
September 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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New York Times home page right now.
New York Times home page. Above the fold the stories are: - Rupert Murdoch and His Children Reach Deal to Resolve Succession Fight - The Murdoch Succession Fight Is Over. So What Does Lachlan Control? - You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama - 10 Tiny Homes
September 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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By @koryodynasty.bsky.social

The whoe, thread is over there at x.com/koryodynasty...
Twitter post: Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty 1/ S. Korea's entire media establishment across political spectrum has united in unprecedented editorial consensus expressing profound betrayal, outrage, national humiliation, and fundamental breach of US-ROK alliance re: mass arrest of Korean workers at Hyundai's Georgia plant. Quote Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty · Sep 6 1/ Something that's not being reported much re: ICE crackdown at Hyundai-LG Georgia battery factory: Korean companies investing billions cannot get proper visas, are then criminalised for bringing skilled workers to fill gaps American labour cannot.
September 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Caption contest:

This image from is going into tomorrow's @thechinaweek.com newsletter. Got a smart caption for it? I'll link and credit anything I use.
Putin fiddling with his dress short sleeve, Modi pointing his index finger down and grinning a little too intensely at Xi Jinping, and Xi Jinping, from the back, apparently smiling in an avuncular way. Photo from August 31, from Indsamachar News. https://x.com/Indsamachar/status/1962358719536418910
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Screen grab from the live feed of the Sptember 3, 2025 military parade in Beijing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYpf7_E1KY
September 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM