In which Cindy Yu bemoans being done dirty yet again by the GoT showrunners, Kaiser Kuo opens the proverbial can of allegory-worms, and I confess my love for Panda Express. This was a lot of fun!

No idea of how authoritative this is, if at all, but I'll take it! (But part of me thinks, 'I'll bet you say that to all the podcasts.')

This week's essay on Sinica is free: it's the text of a speech I gave about a year ago in Madison on five habits of mind to look for when sorting through all the noise in the China discourse and figuring out who's worth paying attention to. Audio, too. open.substack.com/pub/sinica/p/d…

Why does China do what it does, what are its priorities, and how does it understand the actions of other geopolitical players?

Shorenstein APARC's Tom Fingar and Johns Hopkins SAIS's David Lampton join Kaiser Kuo on the Sinica Podcast to discuss.

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Glenn Luk is such a breath of fresh air. Kudos for your tireless sense-making and much-needed corrective to this and other misleading narratives.

Just a fantastic arrangement and a killer performance.
As my brother once said,

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue,
There's always some Asian kid better than you.

Real footage of the solar eclipse

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TikTok has always been prone to Chinese manipulation. Gen-Z Americans are now trying to buy high quality industrial grade glycine from Donghua Jinlong—a Chinese-controlled firm with CCP links—instead of our allies. Very soon they’ll be monopolize the supply chain of…

The latest 'Ultimate China Bookshelf' by Paul French 🖋️ is now out on the Sinica Substack. Check it out!

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Russia's Lavrov says Chinese peace plan on Ukraine is most reasonable so far - Reuters (this, of course, ensures that it will again be condemned and ridiculed in Kyiv, Brussels, and Washington. Gee, thanks Sergei!) apple.news/AGnovYtwKRI2cD…

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