The party inside China preaches monism - that there’s one truth, and it’s their truth. The party outside China flirts with pluralism, that the world needs ‘diverse views’ on China and therefore their falsehood and lies ought to be taken seriously too. I’m sorry, you can’t have it

理解中国经济和政治，今天人们普遍在听许成钢、吴国光和秦晖，我也是。但我认为还至少应该加上吴思和胡平。他们谈论问题、分析中国政治和社会变迁，有一种独特的通透和爽感，看问题入木三分、直达微观机理，又具有全球比较视角、历史维度和个人经历，是中国公共知识界的宝藏。我很珍惜这几位的任何新的

一个校园霸凌事件可以整的满城风雨，引得警察暴力镇压。可以说，中国社会矛盾和政治压抑已经到了某种临界点。水面之下，是积蓄已久的不满和愤怒，任何微小的社会事件都会成为水银泻地、火山迸发的契机。维稳体制已行将就木，中国已经离拐点不远了。

网友投稿 8月7日，北京开始大规模招募 守桥员， 守电线杆员，以及临勤保密项目（看上访人员）。

Isn’t it a good thing that someone in America owns and knows this much about China’s chips industry? It should be the Chinese government that’s afraid, and America should be secretly laughing they have someone on the inside there. Just stupid to out Lip Bu Tan this way.

真的不一样

Just a reminder that China has placed an exit ban on a seven-year-old US child. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is softening China policy to get a Xi meeting: sending AI chips to China, canceling Taiwan defense exchanges, and freezing export control and sanction actions.

明星的微博已没有一丝人味儿

To those who tell me ‘America is the same’ when I criticize China, I say: please check against your American centrism. I have no intention to diminish the dangers America faces, but equally you should not minimise the plight and injustice faced by the Chinese people with your

中国什么时候，才能成为发达国家？ 👇

So Shanghai’s GDP jumped by 17.3% this year… because they now have a new GDP calculus. Among other things, it includes ‘rent’ by homeowners. So if you live in your own house, the stats bureau now counts the equivalent rent of your house towards local GDP. The new system began

In Shinjuku, saw a smoking hot white woman feeding milky ice cream to a smoking hot Asian man. Gives me hope that world peace is possible after all

8月16日，广东惠州，有网友拍到夜色中的红色电子屏格外刺眼，“南山快速路一标拖欠农民工6个月工资”。

感谢CHRD人权捍卫者! 愿家喜在放风的权利，打亲情电话的权利，看牙的权利，收到友人来信的权利被剥夺或侵犯的江北监狱里，生日快乐！

😅exactly

I think of the people - friends, acquaintances, strangers - who are arrested, detained, imprisoned, sent to labour camps in China for speaking up for the rest of us. And I think of all who continue to voluntarily speak on the party’s behalf, do the state’s bidding, argue for the

今天朋友提起冯斯瑜的事。Amherst的本科生，18年因为在新疆大学研究新疆女性民俗而被党国抓捕，后来判了重刑（据说是15年）。冯斯瑜被抓之前正准备去哈佛大学读历史系博士，做Mark

“百年未有之大变局”原本是句陈词滥调的空话，但说多了，也快成真了

感谢不明白。Kotkin是美国国宝级知识分子，值得让更多人听到