they draw a direct link between Cuban foreign policy and the "modern BLM movement". I've seen this foreign influence playbook somewhere else. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

David Jekel@davidjekel.myatproto.social · 2w ago

The new anti-Cuba report from the state department charts connections with third-worldism, opposition to US imperialism, Black organizing, and all kind of leftist organizing. It is a blueprint to crack down on all dissent as "foreign influence." www.state.gov/cuba-the-cap...

I don’t know who needs this perspective but I first came across Jason Arday in an autism parenting group. Everyone commented on how inspiring this is, how much hope the story gave them. It’s not that I want my not-fully-verbal child to become a Cambridge professor

people love a "Chinese versus American" story so much. Zhong Shu has had all her education since high school in the US and is doing a PhD in political philosophy (specialisation in classics) in an American university.

one of the most frightening small things the platform does to human behaviour

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why is the ‘link in the comments’

male insecurity off the charts

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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If you can’t be bothered writing it, I can’t be bothered reading it. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

If you can't be bothered writing it, I can't be bothered reading it.

The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market.

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My new article in APSR is out, where I engage critically with Yuhua Wang's (2022) study on the political geography of Wang Anshi's Reform, and explore the inherent limitations of quantitative history.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last wk.

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - Is Blood Thicker Than Water(-and-Earth)? Partisanship Geography in Imperial China and the Limits of Quantitative History - https://cup.org/4h3uBLm - @linsantu.bsky.social #FirstView

in 2007, I had just graduated and was spending the summer back home in Shandong. one day I went back to Shanghai for some uni paperwork; I didn't tell him until I was already at the train station about to leave. he came to the station to see me off,

Fleeing by boat, sleeping in cars: "Apocalyptic" wildfires drive 300,000 from their homes in France and Spain.

Fleeing by boat, sleeping in cars: ‘Apocalyptic’ wildfires drive 300,000 from their homes in France and Spain

NBC News spoke with residents as some of Europe’s most severe wildfires in decades threaten the Atlantic coast, including the tourist hub of Bordeaux.

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🚨New Article🚨 In their latest paper, Ferhat Cagri Aras and Bahar Baser focus on India’s evolving diaspora governance policy under the Modi government. It shows how state mechanisms help to create ideologically filtered political spaces beyond national borders. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The saffron diaspora: Hindutva mobilization and state-led diaspora governance in the United Kingdom

In line with the neoliberal trends in global politics, home states started showing more interest in harnessing their diasporas for economic, political and cultural benefits. For illiberal home stat...

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"Mr. Zhang took part in nighttime raids on Uyghur homes to confiscate Qurans and other religious items. “I was usually the first to charge in,” he recalled. “I believed they were bad people" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...

He Helped China Repress Uyghurs. He Says He’s a Victim, Too.

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I joined this interesting podcast project documenting Chinese migrant lives in the UK and experiences of "temporality". so I was here to talk about my experience rather than my research, which was fun! www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/6a67...

城识 x 东奔西走：“我所归属之地，要等我亲手创造才会存在”

听《城识 UrbanSense》上小宇宙。 「城识 UrbanSense」是一个从批判视角解读当代城市状况的学术平台。我们横跨地理学、人类学、文学、建筑与规划、城市研究、文化研究等领域，以“城市”为镜，以“反思”为钥，拆解全球城市现象的深层逻辑。 我们力图以播客为媒介，将「城识」编辑团队和读者社群的讨论分享给广大听众。在这里，您能听到针对城市议题的深度对谈，面向前沿城市理论的生动剖析，从而更好地...

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"Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about." thewire.in/rights/cockr...

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

thewire.in

Hong Wang and Yu Deng getting Fields Medal apparently prompted yet another national soul-searching debate about "where our high ed went wrong" back in China. especially the story of Wang, who reportedly felt discouraged while at Peking and only gained confidence when studying in France

ICE raids simulations are offered in summer camps in China to get students prepared for studying in the US.... www.scmp.com/news/china/p...

Fake ICE raids and kidnapping drills: how Chinese teens prepare for US college

As Trump’s toughening rules spark anxiety, Chinese parents pay for camps teaching how to survive being seized by gunmen or ‘hidden dangers’.

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sigh. pathetic but entirely on brand with most of the political commentary content on e.g. bilibili, where the belittling of Southeast Asia is normalized, but also this particular trope: they act entirely according to their "western masters" and have no agency. this kind of content is profitable

johnraff@johnraff.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Beijing has created a system stuffed with insular ‘yes men’, and is ordering them to release content ever-quicker into a world it doesn’t understand." China Daily's racist monkey video was a PR disaster waiting to happen. It won't be the last. toosimple.substack.com/p/china-dail...

Icymi: I joined the SPRC podcast to talk about my book, digital reactionary discourse, and our own Shicha podcast & the new Chinese diaspora Episode webpage: soundcloud.com/ucl-advanced... Media file: feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/23651...

SPRC In Conversation with Dr Chenchen Zhang

Luke de Noronha is joined by Chenchen Zhang, Associate Professor in International Relations at Durham University. Chenchen’s book Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, w

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NO WORDS can describe my feeling reading this as a mother of a special needs kid. this 6-year-old girl was verbal, could eat with chopsticks, would give her favorite stuffed animal to another child who was upset. she was perfect. many parents www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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funny thing about this is the same can be said to this post: facebook's problem is allow too many people to have a say and post something stupid like this

loath to spread this but it has so many likes so: "black power" is a response to centuries of systemic oppression and inequity, a call to empower from disempowerment. "white power" is an expression of racial supremacy. thinking them the same because they share a word is how babies think

Freethinkers United For Change@freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hong Wang wins 2026 Fields Medal, the third woman ever www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.

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At least 5,764 excess deaths in France were recorded during the record-breaking heatwave last month, marking the country's deadliest heat event since 2003.

Over 5,800 excess deaths recorded in France during the June heatwave

At least 5,764 excess deaths in France were recorded during the record-breaking heatwave last month, marking the country's deadliest heat event since 2003.

l.euronews.com

today's reality stranger than jokes Instagram a HK property video tour turned up on my timeline and the agent unironically says this 3 m2 "room" for domestic worker in a 30 mil HKD flat is her favourite part of it, and that it's worth 900k HKD based on square meters

Hear me out, what if Nolan tried to keep the linearity by cutting the timeline down to a day and setting it in Dublin

really enjoyed this conversation with Luke de Noronha on the SPRC podcast (a podcast I've long been a fan of) where we talked about the book and other things. it was recorded in June and we started with how weibo influencers exploited the murder of Henry Nowak. on.soundcloud.com/c1HHJct9tUsw...

SPRC In Conversation with Dr Chenchen Zhang

Luke de Noronha is joined by Chenchen Zhang, Associate Professor in International Relations at Durham University. Chenchen’s book Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, w

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really like this essay: "growing up on the periphery of Beijing". 得之於山，失之於山：在北京的邊緣長大 theinitium.com/20260704-rov...

得之於山，失之於山：在北京的邊緣長大

北京戶口是有其便利性，但並不能真的讓你一勞永逸，北京人內部也是分三六九等的。

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It was a true pleasure for me to have this conversation with Chenchen on her new book, which I have thoroughly enjoyed reading. Also my first time working with Made in China Journal, which I’ve been reading for a long while, and that’s great experience too!

Made in China Journal@madeinchinajournal.com · 3w ago

In 'Easting the West', @chenchenzhang.net stares into the abyss of digital reactionary discourse in China, showing how the Chinese right appropriates the language of postcoloniality to reproduce racial and civilisational hierarchies and justify exclusion. A conversation with @clydewang.bsky.social.

A human rights lawyer who fled China, applied for asylum in the US, and was delivering packages for Amazon when ICE took him this week:

ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown

Arrest in Pennsylvania of Wu Shaoping, who is awaiting asylum decision, raises fears of deportation and persecution

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can't believe this was already 7 years ago...