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China-focused independent researcher in 🇪🇺 Occasional satire.
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does she though...? By her own admission this 'irl friend' did not want to engage with her, and she also seemed surprised/outraged by that fact.
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Surely not the same google that sponsors all sorts of pro-journalism initiatives?
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Deux espions chinois priés de quitter la France, après la tentative de rapatriement forcé d’un ressortissant
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Xi Jinping recently encouraged more US academics to come to China. Foreign academic in ninth year of tenure at a PRC university:
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Report that the China Coast Guard boarded a Taiwanese fishing ship near Kinmen and took it to a Chinese port, blocking the Taiwan Coast Guard seeking to come to the rescue:
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Rishi Sunak posted an election campaign video depicting a dystopian future under a Labour government. It shows a father waking up to find there is no electricity, no school places for his child, and that a woman is bidding to become Labour leader.
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“What's happened in the years since then is that the Chinese Communist Party, who've made it clear no one can trust them further than you can spit, … trashed a treaty which had been lodged at the United Nations."
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tired: History wired: Herstory inspired: Xistory
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Alternative headline: Tories embrace former candidates of "racist, bigoted and misogynistic" party.
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Another British university installed 'suicide locks' to try and prevent more staff killing themselves due to overwork.
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Did you know British universities have used literally deceased staff to teach students?
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"Jess Rolfe, a third-year politics student at York, said her £9,250 tuition has bought just five hours of teaching a week and facilities so busy they’re often unusable." Normal Island doing Normal Island things
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What in the sci-fi film background prop newspaper headline
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人民日报：“走好网络群众路线”（总书记的人民情怀）
paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/20...
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"Especially remarkable is the case of Meta, which bolstered its labelling approach and showed more reluctance to remove AI-generated content."
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Now I'm curious...was wind direction not a factor at all? Or was scattering everyone in different directions about not overwhelming escape routes?
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They're coming out with more Matts
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"Efforts are required to explore and strengthen Party building in new types of economic and social organizations as well as groups in new forms of employment, and innovate the setup and activities of Party organizations."
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🗳️ Voici les résultats définitifs (sous réserve d'éventuelles corrections) du premier tour des élections législatives par circonscription publiés ce lundi matin par le ministère de l'Intérieur. 39 députés du RN ont été élus dès le premier tour, 32 du côté du Nouveau Front populaire #AFP
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French legislative elections first round exit poll results
Le Monde election results page
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BBC live blog
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"Certainly! Indeed, funding the humanities..."
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Translation: I agree with what you posted and we are concerned by it, so please stop posting about it.
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Activists unfurled an image of Putin above a stage where Farage was speaking. The image was captioned 'I ❤️ Nigel' and organisers appeared to struggle to remove it, forcing audience members to start a chant of 'rip it down, rip it down'.
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"In recent years, Canada has grappled with a wave of cases in which people falsely claimed Indigenous identity."
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'Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s visit to Xinjiang underscores an expanding partnership with China, signaling a shift in Türkiye’s approach to the Uyghur issue and demonstrating a renewed focus on strengthening bilateral ties.'
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🇨🇳State media published an opinion piece endorsing far right party leader Farage for the UK elections. Key point: "If, once elected, Farage and his colleagues can advocate an end to NATO’s provocations and expansionism sufficiently loudly, it may give the warmongers pause for thought."
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bluesky moderation algorithm when you post an image containing a woman's knee
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"Shortly after the BBC approached TikTok about a number of videos on one account, the material disappeared." TikTok moderation, always ahead of the curve...
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"And so, there is an elite disagreement about these things. Now, there might be grumbles about certain targets of the anti-corruption campaign or that Xi Jinping himself has amassed a certain amount of personal power. But what I think that Xi Jinping would respond is that this is party power.”
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"...who disagreed is already out of the system, right? And so, the people who are left are the people who agreed to put him in that position in the first place with this idea of party rebuilding, party centralization, governance around party-led mobilization.”
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Jessica Teets: “in the West, I think we tend to look at everything as Xi Jinping is doing this, but what we have to remember is that he is a product of an elite consensus that put him in that role to do that exact thing. And so, we're always looking, I think, for elite disagreement, and anyone...
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'In this episode...Jude Blanchette is joined by Jessica Teets, Professor at Middlebury College and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Political Science. They discuss her work on resilient authoritarianism and information flows in contemporary China.'
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"The Organised Crime and Triad Bureau on Wednesday evening rearrested five men aged 21 to 31 alleged to have been involved in violent clashes at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in November 2019, a statement issued the same day said."
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Ten thousand beautiful cadres stand before me.
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Satire I wrote some years ago: "The overwhelming majority of visitors will not be taken hostage." China now: Most can visit with no need to worry (about being executed)
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Babe wake up new China soft power campaign dropped
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BBC: Three activists in Singapore have been charged over rallying people to deliver letters to the prime minister urging him to end ties with Israel.
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At another point during the event Xi nearly tumbled off the stage and had to be pulled back by bodyguards.
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How might Xi Jinping perform in a live debate? At a 2019 economic forum in Russia (friendly territory) the host asked Xi a question about US China relations. Xi paused for a while, took out some notes, began shuffling through them and said "I'm looking to see if I have this content in my notes".
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Xinhua's analysis of the Ukraine war after US-Russia defence chiefs had their first phone call in 15 months
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Sir, I'm going to need you to show your working
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