Why Is the U.S. Navy Recruiting in Mandarin on WeChat? U.S. Navy Sean Spicer Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party This can’t be real. “The U.S. Navy recruitment office located in Alhambra, California, where every recruiter is mainland Chinese, all applicants in this video are also mainland Chinese,

A good thread on Trump and China. When he was re-elected, many China policymakers in DC worried not that Washington's relations with Beijing would get worse, but that they would get better.

Surprised by how little this gets mentioned, but one reason China has become less hospitable to foreigners and investors is the strong leftward turn under Xi Jinping. China has moved strongly to the left over the last 13 years. Grateful to Wired for the opportunity to share some

During each Trump term, he'd attempt a congressional insurrection, thru legal or illegal means. Now that's a tradition.

The redistricting battle is Trump's Reichstagsbrand.

What to do if China gives you the middle finger on trade? Lash out at Intel.

The first signs of a non-Chinese battery materials supply chain emerging: Korea's Posco aims to "complete a vertically integrated supply chain from raw materials such as lithium and nickel to intermediate precursors and finished cathodes." kedglobal.com/batteries/news…

What a pile of jokes PRC uniformed seamanship has become. 🙃 H/t: Ray Powell for alerting me to this.

Correlation isn't *necessarily* causation, but it often is, and is in this case. Putin retreats against strength and attacks against weakness. Trump has refused to pressure him at all, while instead pressuring his victim, Ukraine. Why wouldn't Russia increase attacks?

Nobel peace prize for #JimmyLai

1/ #JimmyLai Update: The closing arguments in Lai’s nat. security trial postponed again due to concerns over his health. His lawyers said he has been experiencing heart palpitations & fatigue, has not received prescribed medication, and was advised to wear a 24hr heart monitor.

#HongKong: CPJ warns Jimmy Lai’s health is worsening as his trial was delayed again today over heart problems. The court ordered him to wear a heart monitoring device and postponed the case to Monday. #FreeJimmyLai Read more: cpj.org/2024/11/jimmy-…

This is Putin’s new phone wallpaper. American soldiers kneeling under the big letters reading RUSSIA. To fix the red carpet. For a war criminal.

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Today in 1945, George Orwell published a devastating critique of Communism. Animal Farm reveals why every communist revolution follows the same tragic pattern: liberation to corruption to oppression. Here are 10 truths from Animal Farm Orwell warned us never to forget 🧵👇🏼

Is he an idiot or just pretending to be one very well? Russia wants to kill Ukrainians and destroy Ukraine. Ukrainians want to live and be left alone.

People should be familiarizing themselves with what Putin did to Russia's leading private companies and their directors early in his administration.