Garyn Tan

Econ PhD-in-training; ex-pharmacist; Melbo

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

I see Euro A/C is in the discourse again. One time I was working for a summer in a law firm in France and I was miserable in the heat. When I asked the partner why they didn't have A/C he said, "It's bad for the lungs," as he took a long drag from his cigarette.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Every few weeks, the second Trump administration does something that would have sunk any other president.

https://t.co/xY6QbDCskm

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

PREACH

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The number of Europeans whose lives would be saved if Europe switched to U.S. levels of air conditioning is just INSANE.

https://t.co/wDOx87nbIM

[Ana Costa-Ramón @anacostaramon]

Come work with us on exciting research projects!

[Steven Perlberg @perlberg]

Interesting. The USA House in Davos has all the woke milks

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@Stata It's helped me to spend less time cleaning, more time analysing

[David Dorn @ProfDavidDorn]

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[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

For my New Year's essay, I wrote some reflections on my disillusionment with progressivism, and where a liberal should go from here.

https://t.co/inIzcxHwJd

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@Noahpinion This made me want to cry 🥹

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@KhoaVuUmn Owned.

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@Stata Answering policy questions one reghdfe at a time!

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@jbarro That’ll do it

[Oren Kessler @OrenKessler]

Nova survivor dies by suicide, 2 years after girlfriend was killed in front of him https://t.co/pVv1tJCfxh

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@jburnmurdoch @mattyglesias What about Australia?

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Europe's official reason for resisting air conditioning is climate change. But underneath, I sense that defense of traditional culture -- the typical barrier to adoption of foreign technologies -- is at work.

https://t.co/i4mdum1xnY

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@Stata hdfe!

[Garyn Tan @GarynTan]

@Timodc How the actual f were they able to call it this early???

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

Extraordinary scenes in the Vatican.