Sinobabble
@sinobabble.bsky.social
✨Chinese history, politics & culture
🎤Host of the Sinobabble podcast
✍️ https://sinobabble.substack.com/
🎤Host of the Sinobabble podcast
✍️ https://sinobabble.substack.com/
Happy Mother's Day everyone 🌸
My latest substack post out now - an exploration of the single momfluencer trend in China and how truthful it a representation it is of the realities of single parenting sinobabble.substack.com/p/get-a-car-...
My latest substack post out now - an exploration of the single momfluencer trend in China and how truthful it a representation it is of the realities of single parenting sinobabble.substack.com/p/get-a-car-...
"Get a car. Get a house. Get a baby." The Weird World of China's Single Momfluencers
As legislation around children born to single mothers has changed, so have attitudes. Should the CCP embrace this trend as a birthrate Hail Mary?
sinobabble.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Happy Mother's Day everyone 🌸
My latest substack post out now - an exploration of the single momfluencer trend in China and how truthful it a representation it is of the realities of single parenting sinobabble.substack.com/p/get-a-car-...
My latest substack post out now - an exploration of the single momfluencer trend in China and how truthful it a representation it is of the realities of single parenting sinobabble.substack.com/p/get-a-car-...
Latest substack post is up now! Discussing why China's new, new, new plan to develop its western frontier is just as likely to work as every other attempt
sinobabble.substack.com/p/the-proble...
sinobabble.substack.com/p/the-proble...
The problem with China's Periphery
The transformation of a historically contested space into the next global industrial hub provides more challenges than distance and capital investment.
sinobabble.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Latest substack post is up now! Discussing why China's new, new, new plan to develop its western frontier is just as likely to work as every other attempt
sinobabble.substack.com/p/the-proble...
sinobabble.substack.com/p/the-proble...
Reading about Guo Wengui for an upcoming podcast episode and just...omg
March 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reading about Guo Wengui for an upcoming podcast episode and just...omg
After months of sickness, finally felt well enough to edit and post a podcast episode I recorded all the way back in January! A little trip down memory lane, we're talking Zhao Ziyang, 80s politics and Tiananmen Square,
Check it out on Youtube or on any podcast player you use youtu.be/UkNpOLaLkLs
Check it out on Youtube or on any podcast player you use youtu.be/UkNpOLaLkLs
Zhao Ziyang
YouTube video by Sinobabble
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March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
After months of sickness, finally felt well enough to edit and post a podcast episode I recorded all the way back in January! A little trip down memory lane, we're talking Zhao Ziyang, 80s politics and Tiananmen Square,
Check it out on Youtube or on any podcast player you use youtu.be/UkNpOLaLkLs
Check it out on Youtube or on any podcast player you use youtu.be/UkNpOLaLkLs
Are there any books like Shum's Red Roulette that deal with firsthand accounts of corruption in China?
March 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Are there any books like Shum's Red Roulette that deal with firsthand accounts of corruption in China?
Someone red pill me on drone deliveries please
February 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Someone red pill me on drone deliveries please
I'm not calling it the CPC and you can't make me.
February 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm not calling it the CPC and you can't make me.
Am I the only one who finds all this RedNote stuff really underwhelming? Someone asked if I'd do an episode about it and I was like "to talk about what??" Seriously, is there even an interesting angle on this topic?
January 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Am I the only one who finds all this RedNote stuff really underwhelming? Someone asked if I'd do an episode about it and I was like "to talk about what??" Seriously, is there even an interesting angle on this topic?
First substack of 2025 is out now! Following up on my recent podcast episode on decoupling from China and the move towards deglobalisation by western nations
open.substack.com/pub/sinobabb...
open.substack.com/pub/sinobabb...
Ramblings about deglobalisation
Decoupling, derisking, deglobalisation. Ending connections. Maintaining hegemony. Preventing the usurpation of China. Making sure everyone can still buy cheap knick-knacks online.
open.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
First substack of 2025 is out now! Following up on my recent podcast episode on decoupling from China and the move towards deglobalisation by western nations
open.substack.com/pub/sinobabb...
open.substack.com/pub/sinobabb...
Currently bingeing Ed Zitron. Every post has links to another post that links to another post. I can't stop. www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...
Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title.
What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 24, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Currently bingeing Ed Zitron. Every post has links to another post that links to another post. I can't stop. www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...
Last newsletter of the year -- hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas/holiday period
sinobabble.substack.com/p/chinese-ch...
sinobabble.substack.com/p/chinese-ch...
Chinese characters and Orientalism
The debate between western sinologists over the origin of Chinese characters reflects the orientalism of the past, and the present. Oh, and Merry Christmas.
sinobabble.substack.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Last newsletter of the year -- hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas/holiday period
sinobabble.substack.com/p/chinese-ch...
sinobabble.substack.com/p/chinese-ch...
A must read www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
December 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM
A must read www.esquire.com/news-politic...
Every few months I'm like "I'm going to start sharing more of my work and engaging in the community more." Then I start sharing and engaging and immediately remember why I wasn't doing it lol
December 14, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Every few months I'm like "I'm going to start sharing more of my work and engaging in the community more." Then I start sharing and engaging and immediately remember why I wasn't doing it lol
Goodreads reviews make me never want to read a book ever again
December 10, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Goodreads reviews make me never want to read a book ever again
Brilliant
Hong Kong - Cathay Pacific apologises over inflight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Cathay Pacific apologises over inflight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene
Hong Kong carrier removes episode from entertainment system after social media complaint that it might breach national security laws
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant
One of them has to go: architects of China's modern state-sponsored capitalist empire edition
December 4, 2024 at 2:57 PM
One of them has to go: architects of China's modern state-sponsored capitalist empire edition
The absolute state of this script
November 30, 2024 at 4:10 PM
The absolute state of this script
Nothing harder than finishing a podcast script when you've just got an idea for another one
November 29, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Nothing harder than finishing a podcast script when you've just got an idea for another one
This is so bizarre, they just reposting content??
"The vast majority of the content in Huashang Weekly, online and offline, comes not from its staff writers and translators, but directly from CNS and other sources..."
"The vast majority of the content in Huashang Weekly, online and offline, comes not from its staff writers and translators, but directly from CNS and other sources..."
Great story by the @chinamediaproject.bsky.social on the how Huashang Weekly is a complex intersection of private, commercial, and Chinese state interests in Pakistan chinamediaproject.org/2024/11/22/i...
'Iron Brothers' for the China Story - China Media Project
Launched in Pakistan eight years ago, Huashang Weekly offers an up-close look at how China is telling its story overseas by propping up news outlets that amplify its voice.
chinamediaproject.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:26 AM
This is so bizarre, they just reposting content??
"The vast majority of the content in Huashang Weekly, online and offline, comes not from its staff writers and translators, but directly from CNS and other sources..."
"The vast majority of the content in Huashang Weekly, online and offline, comes not from its staff writers and translators, but directly from CNS and other sources..."
BYD proving that they have WINNERS mindset as always 😤 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
BYD and Rivals in China Tell Suppliers to Cut Costs Amid Price War
China’s electric vehicle market is the world’s largest — and also its most cutthroat, with dozens of brands jostling for position.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 AM
BYD proving that they have WINNERS mindset as always 😤 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/b...
Reposted by Sinobabble
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EV competition is likely to intensify over the rest of this decade. According to Yicai, "the competition in China’s auto market will be ruthless over the next few years and will not cease before many of the newly emerged brands have failed."
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/competi...
EV competition is likely to intensify over the rest of this decade. According to Yicai, "the competition in China’s auto market will be ruthless over the next few years and will not cease before many of the newly emerged brands have failed."
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/competi...
No Letup in China's Brutal Auto Market War in Coming Years, Changan’s EV Arm CEO Says
www.yicaiglobal.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:35 AM
1/7
EV competition is likely to intensify over the rest of this decade. According to Yicai, "the competition in China’s auto market will be ruthless over the next few years and will not cease before many of the newly emerged brands have failed."
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/competi...
EV competition is likely to intensify over the rest of this decade. According to Yicai, "the competition in China’s auto market will be ruthless over the next few years and will not cease before many of the newly emerged brands have failed."
www.yicaiglobal.com/news/competi...
When Xi and Biden met at the APEC summit for the last time, things seemed to go well on the surface. But there was an underlying message pervading the meeting - and that message was for Trump
November 26, 2024 at 11:05 AM
When Xi and Biden met at the APEC summit for the last time, things seemed to go well on the surface. But there was an underlying message pervading the meeting - and that message was for Trump