"So, what's it like to be a king?" "It's great. How's the weather in Thailand?"

Of course, anyone who was watching China for something other than the lowest price has been warning on this for nearly a decade. The National Intelligence Law, which mandates cooperation with Beijing's priorities, was promulgated in <checks notes> **2017**.

Looks like Christmas has come early. Thank you, 吴江浩WuJianghao and 薛剑XueJian, for helping further strengthen the deep bond between the United States and Japan. 🇺🇸🇯🇵

The EU still has a hard time saying "decouple," but Beijing was flooding the Italian market with tomatoes exported by the XPCC, the entity used by the CCP (per @statedept) to implement forced labor, forced cultural assimilation, and society-wide control and coercion in Xinjiang.

Back in 2007 China's military blew up a satellite adding a massive amount of debris into orbit. We see the CCP involved in reckless activity again and again. Yet we still enable the regime with investment and scientific collaboration.

China, big manufacturer of prescription drugs. But the foreign ministry can't seem to get a hold of any generic Xanax?

It's 2025, and Berlin is still asking for market reciprocity from Beijing and assistance in ending a 4-year war just a day's drive from its eastern border. Is there a German word for "time to move on"?

Crooked Media Can the Pod Save America guys stop platforming this grifter as a guest speaker without asking some questions he probably can’t answer? Tommy Vietor how about a debrief of Hasan’s trip to China on Pod Save The World on a special edition of how China’s United Front influence

Lowest fiscal spending since people were still being welded into their apartment buildings.

Yet the government continues to tolerate plans for a new PRC "embassy" at the Royal Mint site...

It used to be that Beijing could have its domestic fiction while others lived in reality, but even that is too troublesome now. So the question is whether a country wants subjugate themselves within Beijing's fiction, or do what is necessary to forge their own ex-China course.

Choreographed lethality 🇺🇸🇰🇷 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) sails alongside Republic of Korea Navy ships ROKS Seoae Ryu Seong Ryong (DDG 993), ROKS Yulgok Yi I (DDG 992), ROKS Wang Geon (DDH 978), and ROKS Gang Gam Chan (DDH 979) during a joint

Let's not leave out the most important part of the story here, which is that her 'small-town mayoralty' was invalidated by a Manila court because it ruled her to be a Chinese national, and by some others' accounts, was also a spy. abs-cbn.com/news/nation/20…

Nvidia has finally declared victory over chip smuggling — using a truly innovative accounting trick. This quarter, Singapore — the global rerouting hotspot, the sensitive country that has received a lot of attention and about which Nvidia has been asked repeatedly — suddenly

Maybe the foreign concessions that weren't formally ceded still belong to foreign powers. Central Shanghai might still be French. I think there needs to be some research on that as well.

It's anecdotes like this that make one want to apply ITAR regulations across the entire US AI space.