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If you feel like giving up, remember that Xi Jinping was rejected seven times to join the Communist Youth League of China & rejected nine times to join the CCP until finally made it in his tenth time in 1974 🤝 nothing is impossible.
Apropos of something:
-Tesla's second-biggest market in 2021 was China (after the US)
-Chinese battery makers are major suppliers for Tesla's EVs.
-After 2009, when China banned Twitter, the government there had almost no leverage over the platform
-That may have just changed
The tweet above says that Xi forcing SOEs to stop using Microsoft is disastrous for productivity. If you thought Microsoft Teams was bad, imagine being a poor Chinese government official who now has to work with whatever tech stack SOEs are having to adopt. If anyone wants to dig around on this theme would be fun to explore for a ChinaTalk column.
This image could pass as the ending cinematic for alternate timeline where Fukuyama's End of History actually occurred
How to edit the People’s Daily. Thanks @ChuBailiang for the recommendation! @BeijingPalmer you’re going to love this book
The PRC State & Defense Laboratory System: An Overview
airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/CAS…
Deep dive report on how China is doing R and D from @BluePathLabs
Bluepath Labs is putting in serious work—they’ve assembled quite a corpus on PLA-adjacent questions over the past few years.
A little rant about the problem of China literacy in Europe. Welcome to my Ted talk. For starters, in European governments and other institutions, the lack of China expertise and knowledge is shockingly lamentable. Put bluntly, in no European foreign affairs ministry, you'd ...
Ingrid d'Hooghe @ingriddhooghe
Important thread!
Taiping Rebellion 🧵. In the late Qing dynasty, Hong Xiuquan was a disgruntled mandarin scholar in Guangdong who failed the imperial bureaucratic exam multiple times. He became bitter and became aware of Christianity by hearsay. And in Guangzhou, he chanced an evangelist pamphlet
Steve Hou (“CONSUME LESS!”) @stevehouf
Taiping Rebellion is just the wildest thing.
metmuseum.org/art/collection… this "new piece of art from the met collection every time you open a tab" is such a joy
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@ZoharAtkins @tylercowen
the evolution of the writing of '藝/艺 art'.
in the earliest oracle-bone script, it's a kneeling person caring for a plant. that is ART. and 艺 is one of those few simplified characters that kept the essence of the origin.
Unidentified Ngala artist, Sword, late 19th century–early 20th century slam.org/collection/obj… #museumarchive #slam
(Not Chinese but incredibly cool…)