Westerners translate “天命” as “Mandate of Heaven” and interpret it like being anointed by the gods, but “天” is less like Jesus or Zeus, and more like “everything working together like it should”. In today's English the closest usage to “天命” is probably “state capacity”.

Yay for me (I think)

Mr Sunak, how are you going to retreat to your Santa Monica penthouse if you win your seat? This is the best outcome for you

Qin Shihuang at 49: Sharp and focused but sometimes mysteriously refusing to leave his carriage

Babi guling 🥹😋 straitstimes.com/world/worlds-o…

I am starting to be convinced that attention compromised people almost certainly cannot be long term oriented. If you see someone posting for attention, discount heavily.

"Senility is part of the human condition, but dignity is usually a choice." Louder for those at the back theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Looking forward to reading this book

Tfw Kwongfu-wah is your actual mother’s tongue 😉

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There's a theory that this is what allowed the Han dynasty to occupy Southern China - the fish ate enough mosquito larvae to reduce malaria to survivable rates, allowing central plains people with little native immunity to move further and further south.

Not my MP at the back sniggering 🫠💀😂

I know I’ve been fanboying out about PM Pedro Sánchez on this visit, but it’s mainly his speech at Tsinghua from Monday that blew me away. Read it here — just run the text through your favorite LLM into your native language. It’s brilliant on so many levels.