Stephen McDonell
@stephenmcdonell.bsky.social
BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent.
Manya has found lots of examples of these nationalist videos in #China. Tapping into racism like this really is the lowest. bsky.app/profile/many...
Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d agoMany of the videos show foreigners engaging in uncivilized behavior and disrupting China’s cleanliness, etiquette, and public order. In these scenes, foreigners are portrayed as dirty, smelly, and disorderly. These videos predominantly feature Indian characters.
This nationalist crap in #China is quite frightening…
Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d agoChinese 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🧵
Growing military coordination between China, Russia and North Korea is heightening security risks for Japan, Tokyo said in a defense white paper, citing increasingly provocative Chinese-Russian bomber patrols and Moscow’s support for North Korea’s military www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Japan Defense Report Warns On China, Russia, NK Military Links
Growing military coordination between China, Russia and North Korea is heightening security risks for Japan, Tokyo said in its latest defense white paper, citing increasingly provocative Chinese-Russi...
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This nationalist crap in #China is quite frightening…
Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d agoChinese 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🧵
Without reading it, I’mma tell you the answer: As a foreigner in China, you have no right to privacy. In fact, you are required by law to register yourself with the local police within 24hrs every time you change addresses or take a trip. You think they’re hiding this tracking? Lololololololololol
For my friends in Beijing, Zhang Shouwang is preforming tomorrow night at Raw Material as part of the Sally Can't Dance series. Whenever he performs it is a highlight.
[The Yongzheng Emperor]: "...doesn't seem so difficult."
XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore@xingwu.bsky.social · 2d agoIn Chinese #folklore, Wu Song’s bare-handed battle with the tiger turns courage into legend. After eighteen bowls of wine, he ignores warnings and climbs Jingyang Ridge, where a man-eating beast stalks the road. Alone, unarmed, and half-drunk, Wu Song meets 1/2 #WaterMargin
In Chinese #folklore, Wu Song’s bare-handed battle with the tiger turns courage into legend. After eighteen bowls of wine, he ignores warnings and climbs Jingyang Ridge, where a man-eating beast stalks the road. Alone, unarmed, and half-drunk, Wu Song meets 1/2 #WaterMargin
And ain’t it good to be back in the red… m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrdt...
Back in the Red
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Friday music time… Ride your wild desire while you still can! Crank it up! m.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_w...
Wild Desire
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It used to be a pretty decrepit collection of Korean War-era tanks, with few displays and almost no visitors. Now it's crawling with people and Xi Jinping's image is all over the place.
Beijing's military museum has undergone quite the renovation since I was last there.
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
I think I waited til too late in life to watch Animal House because I’m very much on the administration’s side
The Grinch. Can you imagine how loud those damn Whos have to be that he can hear them way up on top of the mountain? Obviously the authorities aren't enforcing the noise ordinances. Maybe vigilantism is wrong but what do you expect in a society where the rules don't apply to the in crowd.
honestly the dean (Dean Wormer) in Animal House put up with a lot of shit and was just trying to administer an institute of higher education.
There is a great film to be made about an eclectic group of Aussie dickheads trying to nick this. "Barred Up" on a streaming service in 2028.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5d agoThe Perth Mint has unveiled the world's largest gold bar, weighing 521.2 kilograms and refined to 99.999 per cent purity.
Is ""leaking"" this an attempt at market manipulation, or is he just simply that naive? With this administration, we're always playing a game of "Grift or Stupidity?"
Wife: "Have you bought that $10 billion in JPY yet? You said you'd do it yesterday!" Bessent: "I'll do it after the game is over. 😒"
EXCLUSIVE: Bessent's 'to do' list: buy $5-10 billion worth of Japanese yen, Reuters photo shows reut.rs/4w1pLC6
EXCLUSIVE: Bessent's 'to do' list: buy $5-10 billion worth of Japanese yen, Reuters photo shows
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday exposed a "to-do" list during President Donald Trump's cabinet meeting indicating he was contemplating U.S. purchases of $5 billion to $10 billion worth of Japanese yen, a Reuters photograph taken during the meeting held at Camp David shows.
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the nine year old will live entirely on pesto pasta if we allow him to he is, truly, my son
Friday music time… Ride your wild desire while you still can! Crank it up! m.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_w...
Wild Desire
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There is quite a large proportion of the Musk business fully reliant on taxpayer funding...
