Live Event Tues at 2:30pm EST on Xinjiang + Tweets of the Week (Pokemon Censored, QAnon and Guo Wengui, Rabbit Heads in Chicago, Sea Monsters and SOEs)

Oct 25, 2020

Thanks to all of you for helping make my strategy for a Xinjiang full-court press ChinaTalk’s most viewed article.

I will be continuing the conversation online this Tuesday at 2:30 pm EST. I’ll start off by briefly discussing the proposal with Lawfare editor Jacob Schulz, and then open it up to questions and comments from you all. We’ll be hosting the event on Crowdcast, a platform that I promise actually makes webinars functional. I look forward to continuing the conversation next week.

Sign up here to register for my live discussion on US policy in response to Xinjiang, Tues 2:30 EST.

China Twitter Tweets of the Week

Jason @jasondotgov

I’ve been waiting for this clap back for four years.

Listen to ‘Beijing Barry’ and make a plan to vote.

Gady Epstein @gadyepstein

THREAD: Following our cover this week on Uyghurs, I wanted to highlight scholars, journalists, activists and exiles who have helped expose and explain what is happening in Xinjiang, from the camps to population control to the diminishing of Uyghur identity

economist.comThe persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanityIt is also the gravest example of a worldwide attack on human rights

Dan Wang @danwwang

The economic output of China’s state-owned enterprises, which employ around 40mn people, exceeds the GDP of the UK, France, India, Brazil, Italy etc. via @andrewbatson

DD Yang sipping coffee with condensed milk ☕️ @diaodiao_yang

If somebody can trace the scent from the information bubble created around Miles Guo to the popularity of QAnon amongst middle-aged Chinese 1st gen immigrants, it would have enough conspiracy + mystery + scandals and socioeconomic analysis make a series of 5 @replyall episodes.

MacroPolo @MacroPoloChina

In her elusive search for a popular Sichuanese delicacy, restauranteur Damao discovers what it takes to bring her hometown’s culinary traditions to Chicagoans. We sat down with the young chef & founder of "A Place by Damao" to talk about food & culture:

macropolo.orgDamao Zhong on Trailblazing Chengdu Cuisine - MacroPoloIn her elusive search for a popular Sichuanese delicacy, restauranteur Damao discovers what it takes to bring her hometown’s culinary traditions to Chicagoans. As an up-and-coming chef in the Second City, Damao hopes to be a pioneer in making Americans comfortable with Chinese food that is rooted in…

Tianyu M. Fang @tianyuf

before this becomes a scandal I'd like to come out and acknowledge that there is still 90 rmb in my Chinese ofo account

Tony Lin @tony_zy

Want to add one anecdote: just 4 years ago, account deletion still seemed unfathomable to Chinese netizens. 作业本 (Notebook), an early influencer with 8.9m followers, got deleted in 2016. It made national headlines. The slippery slope only took 4 yrs for ppl to get used to

T. Greer @Scholars_Stage

Interesting ideas for what the US can do in response to situation in Xinjiang

chinatalk.substack.comWhat to Do About XinjiangAmerica can effectively push back on human rights abuses in China through tougher border enforcement, stronger sanctions, and a major diplomatic push.

Thread my piece last week by Tanner.

Chinese Nintendo @chinesenintendo

Pokémon announces name change in China. 6 Pokémons names were edited out parts that mean "hooligan", "toxic", "death", "thief" or"bandit". This change was met with great disapproval and suspected to facilitate game approval by obeying China's absurd censorship "regulations".

Rui, screaming inside her heart @rzhongnotes

Heard through the grapevine someone wanted this

Bill Bishop @niubi

It does not have to mean less money for r&d. They could just make less profit and invest the same in r&d. It is a choice

Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ

The U.S.-China tech war is hurting the chip and telco sectors in both countries. For U.S. chip makers, the loss of China sales means less money for R&D, making it harder to continue producing world-leading cutting-edge chips. @stuwoo https://t.co/cnbbi1h98e

Well, the firm that takes what may be a suboptimal strategy of over-investing in R&D could ultimately lose out to a firm that doesn’t, but on the margin, yes, probably true.

Tianyu M. Fang @tianyuf

my career plan is to get a PhD in political science so I can qualify as a Beijing taxi driver

Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue

Today is 126 birth anniv. of Mei Lianfang, a female impersonator and one of the most famous Peking opera artists in modern Chinese theater. Here is the first remaining sound motion video of Mei, in February 1930, in the US by Paramount Pictures.

Rui, screaming inside her heart @rzhongnotes

Thinking about the umibozu, a giant ocean monster that just pops out

James Barnett @jh_barnett

I’m very excited to announce the release of my report with @HudsonInstitute that examines the fascinating and evolving ideological dimension of China-Africa relations A thread on my key findings, which you can also read in the executive summary /12

hudson.orgThe “China Dream” and the African Reality: The Role of Ideology in PRC-Africa Relations - by James BarnettThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes its worldview and political and economic model overseas, particularly in the developing world, albeit in a ...

John Delury @JohnDelury

I'm watching 'For Peace' 为了和平, the 20-part CCTV documentary on China's role in Korean War, so you don't have to. Episode 1 done... only 19 hours to go! #lipsandteeth

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Carl Minzner @CarlMinzner

(1/x) Xi Jinping's visit to China's National Military Museum to commemorate the 70th anniversary of China's military entering Korean war is a *big* deal. Totally agree w/ @niubi on this. Here are some thoughts.

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Simon Rabinovitch @S_Rabinovitch

One of the more stunning trends amid all the focus on US-China decoupling: Chinese firms on track this year for a record number of IPOs... in the US. economist.com/graphic-detail…

𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙒 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙉𝘼𝙉 @mbrennanchina

Chinese internet users app usage during the day

Jordan Schneider 司马乔丹 @jordanschnyc

Japan's sentiment toward China over time. Didn't know it was so favorable in the 80s

Peter Martin @PeterMartin_PCM

Some thoughts on the Fiji fight. How could such a bizarre series of events occur? The first thing to understand is that there’s no such thing as a low-stakes event when it comes to Chinese diplomacy. Especially if it involves Taiwan 1/

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Jordan Schneider 司马乔丹 @jordanschnyc

China soft power struggles example 4963: its 'China Corners' in Japan are lame af. From @devintstewart 's latest on China's underwhelming influence efforts in Japan csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/pu…

Dylan Levi King @dylanleviking

I wrote about the divergence of contemporary Chinese literature and Chinese literature in translation—the former young and vital, and the latter not so much—and why that might be the case.

radiichina.comWhat’s Going Wrong with Chinese Literature in Translation?Chinese readers are often buying entirely different books to international readers of Chinese fiction - what’s going on?

Translating popular fiction would probably do more good for China’s image than funding the thousands of Confucius Institutes. However, I’m pessimistic that the state organs now which fund translation will listen to Dylan and start putting real money toward works that could generate Three Body Problem-level hits and give Americans a more well-rounded sense of Chinese society than the mostly dissident literature that makes it in the US today.

Kelly Hammond @kellyahammond

Things are getting real in the Modern China survey today. #wutangforever

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