🇨🇳 #China 's militia ships have turned back in the direction of Mischief Reef after loitering just outside the #Philippines ' 24nm contiguous zone. Very odd behavior. Perhaps intended to send a message at the beginning of the 🇵🇭🇺🇸Balikatan exercise?

So sad that ASEAN can’t come up with anything edgier on the shocking escalation of violence on Thai/Myanmar border - 5-point concesus plan? Cease violence? Hello, Jakarta, it has clearly gone well beyond that. Francesca Regalado for Nikkei Asia asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myan…

Harvard is within its rights to remove a disruptive protestor. But it must do so with its own authorized people. and not let random thugs do the job for it. Harvard must find out who this person was and act accordingly.

China uses UN against Taiwan dipl. allies – Taipei Times: ‘China has been bribing UN officials to obtain “special benefits” and to block funding from countries that have diplomatic ties with Taiwan, a former UN employee told the British House of Commons’ taipeitimes.com/News/front/arc…

#Germany Funded #Chinese #Defense Research Tracker

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The 'Germany Funded Chinese Defense #Research Tracker' is a specialized tool designed to monitor & provide transparency regarding research activities funded by Germany with Chinese defense institutions.

One of XJP's phrases that stands out to me is the need to 'build a network information system that corresponds to the requirements of modern warfare and has PLA characteristics' 建设符合现代战争要求、具有我军特色的网络信息体系. There's a contradiction being addressed here.

Statement of the National Security Adviser
Secretary Eduardo M. Año
Manila, Philippines | 20 April 2024

The persistent discourse about alleged, unsubstantiated or imaginary promises; of secret non-binding gentleman agreement or deals has been used to create distractions,

Phnom Penh and Beijing denied that the Ream naval base would be used by the Chinese navy exclusively in 2022.
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China establishes new Information Support Force.

Big news in the PLA world. and raises questions about why the need to establish such a force. This is what the SSF is supposed to do, afterall.
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Extremely excited to share this piece I wrote about Mandarin hegemony and structural linguistic hierarchies in China for People's Map of Global China thepeoplesmap.net/globalchinapul…

So anyone who uses the term 'CCP' is a propagandist? Better tell China Daily. Panchèn Ndézo

Can we please put this zombie fallacy to rest? CCP, CPC: both fine. CCP is the abbreviation that's been used for decades in the English-language literature, both favorable and critical.

Zhu Rongji on overcacpity in 2000: overcapacity is supply outstripping demand; price lower than cost; losing enterprises relying on bank loans and gov't subsidies. remedy: cut off their loans and subsidies & let them survive by themselves or die

I completely agree with Wayne Soon, and the same consistency should be applied to writing the names of Southeast Asian Chinese, such as using 'Tan Kah Kee' instead of 'Chen Jiageng' and 'Lee Choon Seng' instead of 'Li Juncheng.'

Singapore is facing a dangerous world as it changes leaders, writes Karishma Vaswani. A fractious US-China relationship will be a major concern trib.al/lC9iuNg via Bloomberg Opinion

When Xu Jiyu wrote about elections in the USA, he described them like Song texts (~800 years earlier) had described the Khitan selecting their chieftains.

YIN Shoufu 殷守甫 has a fascinating article on this in Oriens Extremus! /

'Zero-dollar shopping' videos depicting the US as a lawless hellscape where woke politics mean criminals walk free have been going viral for years in China and on Chinese-language media. What lies behind this trend?

A new piece produced with 端傳媒 Initium Media.
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