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something is off about that WWII-era flag of china. i can't figure out what it is exactly, but it's definitely off you're doing great, marge legible pie charts are my

framing progressive policy in terms of competition with China concedes the narrative of China as a dominating national concern. This legitimizes hawkishness at the expense of substantive domestic policy for

if you have one of those weird, reservedly gleeful reaction to the lower efficacy of the Chinese vaccine(s) I do in fact think you're a bad person a lot of

Over the last several months I’ve fielded a lot of good-faith questions from people about what’s happening in Xinjiang. I’ve been translating and summarizing a number of primary source documents

if you categorically refuse to engage with the opinions of Chinese citizens as anything besides the product of mindless propaganda and brainwashing you are being extremely condescending and also doing

Highly recommend the Xinjiang Data Project map. Look up the coordinates yourself. Google Maps will often be blurry/ outdated, but many ruins are visible. Two possibilities: ASPI is just making

fall is rapidly approaching the American Eastern Seaboard. you know what that means: pumpkin spice, beautiful leaves, and hordes of prestigious and wealthy foreign affairs institutions offering internships for little

The people who are best qualified to speak on these issues are those--the Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, and even occasional Han--who have been victims of the camps and abuse faced therein.

lol so I believe this is the 2nd or 3rd time I've been accused of "defendingNED" in the last week, which it's time for a thread~ Namely: what regime change

1/ bit uncomfortable with this wording tbh but I'm going to try explain why in terms of the history of intel activity at US universities, bc I don't think it's