Eric Hundman
@ehundman.bsky.social
China analyst and research director at BluePath Labs, scholar, sometime artist. 中文通（非中国通), sci-fi geek, ex-STEM. Security, tech, and foreign policy in China + Taiwan. Views my own. 🏳️🌈 http://www.erichundman.com/ Chicago is home.
This happened in October and reportedly was because several of the trees were sick or damaged
Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · last mo.The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.
If we’re going to have Beijing air then we should at least get Beijing restaurants/bookstores/bike lanes too
AQI: 179. That’s about the threshold at which I wouldn’t go outside without a mask when living in China
Eric Hundman@ehundman.bsky.social · 3mo agoStrong ~2010 Beijing vibes in Chicago today. Smells very strongly of smoke
Strong ~2010 Beijing vibes in Chicago today. Smells very strongly of smoke
Hilarious, actually, as I’ve had to retool my team’s professional translation processes repeatedly over the last 6 months as LLMs infiltrate formerly good tools and break old machine-assisted processes. Those tools now routinely make up passages or omit entire paragraphs from the source
Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 4mo agoOk .... this is where the increasing lack of language skills is taking us. If you don't know Korean, maybe leave the study of Korean history to those who do.
“Managing risk alone” is exactly what it felt like to teach social science for an American university in the PRC, FWIW. At least admins at local universities could sometimes be honest about red lines and help faculty navigate them.
Yale AAUP@aaupyale.org · 5mo agoToday, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.
I submit to you that these are functionally equivalent.
A wild tidbit in the new issue of Foreign Affairs "Some Trump officials have even invoked the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's dictum "hide your strength, bide your time" to describe their rationale for avoiding confrontation with China"
Google Translate is also mostly broken due to Gemini integration 🫠
The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 6mo agoAI integration is breaking google docs, this is miserable
Like, the Holy See has been around an order of magnitude longer than the US, sit tf down
Chris Levesque@levesque-chris.bsky.social · 6mo agoOnly the Trump administration would think they could threaten a Pope from Chicago.
NYT reporting that China intervened with Tehran to push for a ceasefire at the last minute. Not that shocking tbh, any wider escalation risks forfeiting the massive benefits China is getting during Washington’s distraction by squeezing their energy supplies and economy further
Pretty sure no one, anywhere, has the full picture right now
Rupert offers a vicious timeline cleanse for a very strange day
Since Artemis will orbit the moon today, sharing one of the all-time great Chinese propaganda posters, in which the moon rabbit gives a bouquet to the world’s most cherubic astronaut. The late scholar Stefan Landsberger used this as the cover of his wonderful book of Chinese posters.
15/ This will have the biggest impact on China. At 5.2 mbd, any disruption to Persian Gulf supply would hit China harder than any other nation, with limited short-term substitution options. Approximately a third of China's oil supply comes from the Gulf.
I’d love to see the average white North American Tik Tok user be subjected to a Chinese auntie’s blunt comments and probing questions about your weight, love life, babies, and salary. I’d bet that many would not be “Chinamaxxing” anymore
Cherie Wong 王卓妍@chercywong.bsky.social · 7mo ago"Chinamaxxing" isn't a harmless trend, but an inherently racist concept that perpetuates ethnic stereotypes and cultural appropriation. "Chinese" is not a monolithic identity, and it is a damn shame that embracing ethnic identity is becoming an internet fad for white people (again).
Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?" Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.
New from me and my team, on how China manages its electromagnetic spectrum resources: www.uscc.gov/research/chi...
China’s Management of Electromagnetic Spectrum Resources
Prepared by BluePath Labs, LLC
uscc.gov
I just simply cannot imagine being a supposedly Serious Person and directing my staff to police which photos of me as a public figure got published, not to mention the staff gleefully going along with it as if it was normal (yes, I know *image* matters, that is not what this is)
Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 7mo agoScoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."
NASA just completely overhauled its lunar program, functionally admitting what I reported a while back: that China is in position to beat the United States back to the Moon, and declare an end to a century of American technical and scientific supremacy. www.wired.com/story/china-...
Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing
If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
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There is so much going on in the Draft Cybercrime Law that I can't do it justice: - fortifying real-name registration - threatening VPNs - China's first penalties for possession of CSAM - cyberviolence protections - New offenses for enabling cybercrime (including converting gains to crypto)
China's Draft Cybercrime Law
The draft is already controversial, with some commentators concerned that it increases online surveillance, fortifies censorship, and extends long-arm jurisdiction to conduct overseas. While it is not...
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