‘Acceptance’ is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. (DFW in Infinite Jest) I think everyone currently living in #China can relate to this sentence.

Was geht wohl in den Köpfen dieser beiden Menschen vor? 🇨🇳 #ZeroCovidChina

This is amazing. Due to the backlash from Chinese fans seeing unmasked crowds in Qatar, Chinese TV is now replacing live crowds shots during games and instead cutting to close-ups of players and coaches.

This was such a brilliant video I subtitled it so more people can watch it. Beijing students' response last night to accusations that there are 'foreign forces' at play in this weekend's protests 'The foreign forces you are talking about – are they Marx and Engels?'

A thread here for those who don't understand why the China protests over the weekend protests are so shockingly rare. Surveillance. In. China. Is. Extreme. Think you could evade Chinese police? Let's walk through it:

"There's tons of people protesting, they'll never catch me," nope - Chinese police stations use huge networks of facial recognition cameras that can retroactively trace people for days or even months.

This is what a blank sheet of paper looks like in official #China - don’t acknowledge reality and say nothing. theguardian.com/world/video/20…

After nearly three years being told that trying to coexist with COVID-19 would be catastrophic, many people in China think there's a big risk in opening up, despite the growing lockdown frustrations. reut.rs/3EWvgcH

Yes....press freedom is a wonderful thing. It's good that Mr. Liu has much access on the scene in Ohio. Meanwhile, foreign journalists in Mainland China that have attempted to cover the peaceful "white paper" protests are harassed or get dragged off and detained by the PSB.

In Deutschland werden an diesem Samstag Menschen auf die Straße gehen, um Verhandlungen mit Russland zu fordern. Vor einiger Zeit habe ich die ukrainische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Oleksandra Matwijtschuk gefragt, was sie von solchen Forderungen hält. Das ist ihre Antwort:

For years, Evan did everything he could to tell the story of modern Russia. It is now our turn to keep the light shining on him theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Here is the link to Evan Gershkovich's excellent article "Russia's economy is starting to come undone". Presumably this insightful article is the reason why he was arrested. The current Russian authorities are so predictable, just like the USSR. wsj.com/articles/russi…

Interviewer: “Is it a myth that the West deceived you with regard to the NATO eastward expansion?” Gorbachev: “Yes, that’s actually a myth.”

This rather unScholz-like speech was given last night in Brandenburg. The video omits perhaps the spiciest line: "Dear screamers, Putin is the warmonger you'd be shouting at here if you had any sense in your brains".

"That guy, you see that guy?" "No." "There's a guy who's running in front of the tank. He's standing right in front of it." ... CNN raw video, Chang'an Avenue, June 5 1989. #六四34 #Tiananmen #天安門事件

This is Babi Yar, where the Nazis massacred 200,000 Ukrainian Jews, POWs, and others who stood against evil I prayed here today that the tragedy of the Ukrainian people & this terrible war will end soon 🇺🇦 deserves peace & justice. We have waited long enough

Love is in the air. Ukrainian serviceman meets his beloved at the Kramatorsk railway station, Donetsk region. 📸: Thomas Peter / Reuters