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[Lei Gong @gonglei89]

By far the most common distortion in how the average China pundit reads Chinese policy is whenever they see “boosting consumption” they presume that policymakers are talking about switching away from investment driven growth rather than repairing auxiliary demand dislocations.

[林 Linnamon @_linnamon_]

-🇨🇳 caused the outbreak by constructing the 3 Gorges Dam, teh CCP deposed for it
-🇨🇺 turned “democratic” after being flooded by US refugees
-🇺🇸 leading world’s war on zombies
-🇮🇱 the only unscathed society because muh superior intelligence

The book is liberals’ Mein Kampf

[Starezilla @starezilla]

@_linnamon_ the idea that the Chinese in 2006 are just a bunch of stupid flesh automatons who send human wave attacks of kids with knives against hordes of the undead while Israel is the bastion of peace and love and understanding was a uniquely American libshit viewpoint

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I'll save you the read: Noah Smith's "argument", if you can call it so, is that the U.S. has lost any moral superiority over China, is building "a sort of gulag archipelago", attacks weaker countries and is run by people "far less competent" than the Communist Party.

His conclusion: "we" can still beat China, and the trick is "to let them beat themselves." Because it's China, you see, that apparently suffers from internal contradictions.

And all this after admitting, at the very start of his piece, that that he basically doesn't know anything about China.

You genuinely couldn't make this up. Puzzles me how anyone can still read this guy's slope unironically.

[Lei Gong @gonglei89]

Anytime there’s a shitshow in global supply it’s producer states that can make things everyone needs which benefits the most. Producer power amplifies resilience and economic leverage.

[Lei Gong @gonglei89]

Really good point. As fuel costs go up it changes the cost topology of global supply chain configurational efficiencies. The value of dispersing some activities into geographies with cheaper labor is no longer worthwhile relative to tradeoff cost of additional transit.

[来都来了 @SecondRingSZN]

And you people yell at Chinese people to "get over it"

[Fergie @XiWellWisher]

Zero deaths in the “Uyghur genocide” btw lol

[Orikron 🇵🇹 骆培思 @orikron]

This is not just an AI scare story. It's about American Imperialism.

The US would have no business boarding a Chinese ship delivering anything to Iran.

[St. Wilding Gyres @wilding_gyres]

This the price you pay for being collectively indifferent to the cabal of warmongering genocidal incompetent Zionist pedophile cannibals who own and run your country

[Neeva Gang 2.0 @PunishedGramsci]

*You* don't give a shit about them. They exist like everything else in your guys entire existence, as a contentless rhetorical device to own posters you dislike.

[Fergie @XiWellWisher]

Hasan had a meltdown at me here because he is a Uyghur googler

[Fergie @XiWellWisher]

Hasan Piker is doubling down on “Uyghur genocide” lmfao

[Zhu Jingyang @zhu_jingyang]

Una lógica increíblemente extraña: cuando la mayor potencia mundial es incapaz de salir de una guerra que ha iniciado imprudentemente, The Economist argumenta que la segunda mayor potencia, China, debería ser considerada responsable; de ​​lo contrario, ¡es China la que está siendo irresponsable!

[来都来了 @SecondRingSZN]

When you fuck up the dynasty it is widely recorded for example every Chinese kid has been forced to memorize this poem before even starting kindergarten

[信号侠-真-自由混合形态 @Signalman_Free]

似乎中日对于炒饭的手法理解有很大的不同，不少日本朋友还问为啥要这么夸张的去颠锅，小心炒不就不会撒那么多吗，认为这个颠锅是个无意义的动作，但在中国厨师看来这个颠锅是很有必要的，因为街边快餐要求出餐速度，街摊锅深火力大，如果不一直转动铁锅就会出现受热不均匀的情况，端出来的炒饭没法吃

[Lei Gong @gonglei89]

This story is actually far more important news for the Chinese economy than monthly growth figures, fwiw. The operational mechanics of China’s financial system is currently undergoing a fundamental structural transformation, something I’ve talked about for a number of years now.

[大狐帝国史官邹智萱（笔名段歌文） @Rococo90933671]

很多中国大陆人出国或翻墙之后，看到很多台湾人对世界的认知，看他们谈政治谈历史就跟看笑话似的，包括看西方人大多也是如此，除非是那些真正的精英。为什么会出现这种情况呢？

因为你只要是中国大陆人，你的政治敏感度天生就在全球的前20%。不是因为你天赋异禀，也不是你多么关心天下大事，而是因为你从小就活在一个充满政治空气的环境里，哪怕你从来没看过新闻联播，没关注过国际局势，你也早就被一套极其系统的政治教育潜移默化地改造过了。

我小时候最怕政治考试，那时候根本不知道“经济基础决定上层建筑”是什么意思，只觉得这句话念起来特别费舌头，像谁发明出来专门整人的。更不明白“国家是阶级矛盾不可调和的产物”、“法律是统治阶级意志的体现”、“军队是国家的主要暴力机关”这些更饶舌的话。

历史课也不怎么感兴趣，觉得那些朝代的更替、谁造了反、谁灭了谁，跟我生活完全没关系。语文课还好点，但像《曹刿论战》《触龙说赵太后》这种一看就很古板的东西，我当时巴不得快点背完应付考试。

但成年以后，你会开始不断地“返场”回忆这些课本。像是那些小时候被你随手丢在教室角落的破铜烂铁，突然在某个节点被生活打磨成了锋利的刀剑。

你忽然明白，《曹刿论战》里说的“夫战，勇气也，一鼓作气，再而衰，三而竭”，其实说的是斗争时机。如果1937年的蒋校长懂得这个道理，就不会在淞沪平原停战三次，最终导致：优势→均势→劣势→溃势；“王侯将相宁有种乎”不仅是一句口号，更是对社会结构的质问；马哲课讲的“社会存在决定社会意识”，其实能解释你为什么小时候觉得一切都理所当然，长大后才发现有些荒谬原来一直在那里，只是你当时没有看清。

这些不是你努力去理解的，是这个国家的教育，悄悄地，把这些东西灌进了你的脑子里。它不像西方国家把“批判性思维”挂在嘴边，而是用极其强悍的“结构性信息输入”，从小到大地塑造你，让你具备了一种特别的理解力。

你也许从来没把自己当成一个政治人，可你在看待新闻、评估风险、处理人际关系的时候，几乎本能地带着“政治脑”。因为你从小看惯了“王朝的兴衰”，你知道权力不是永恒的，你知道任何看起来强大无比的机构或国家都有它的漏洞和软肋；你知道“胜者未必正义，正义未必胜利”，你甚至知道“谁控制了话语权，谁就控制了叙事”。这不是哲学课告诉你的，是你小学到高中的教育，从“鲁迅是怎样批判国民性的”到“毛泽东为什么能搞定蒋介石”一路输送给你的。

有些人可能觉得这叫“洗脑”，可你真把国外的基础教育拿来比，你会发现这反倒是某种意义上的“开窍”。你知道为什么美国人普遍地理差吗？因为他们很多学校压根没把地理列入必修课，学地理的人少之又少，而且学的东西极其浅薄。我们呢？我们十几岁的时候就能指出非洲几大板块裂谷的分布，能在空白地图上标出中东的石油产区。我们从小就被教会“世界是一个整体”，国与国之间的关系是一种竞合态势，而不是“我们是好人他们是坏人”这种简单粗暴的价值判断。

你在中国生活，哪怕你只是一个普通人，你对“国家”和“体制”的感知能力，也远超全球大多数人。比如你知道什么叫“敌进我退，敌驻我扰，敌疲我打，敌退我追”，你知道“射人先射马，擒贼先擒王”，你甚至知道“留得青山在，不怕没柴烧”。这些兵法不是拿来打仗的，而是活在我们日常生活的逻辑里。你在公司跟领导博弈，在市场上与客户周旋，在朋友圈刷舆论场，都用得上这些智慧。哪怕你没有意识到，你早就被训练得有点“将军思维”了。

你懂得不动声色地分析形势，懂得在资源有限的情况下寻求突破口，懂得在困局中保留退路。你知道什么时候该硬碰硬，什么时候该绕道走，什么时候该做局，什么时候该认输。这种素养，在其他国家，是精英大学的政治学院才教的内容，而我们是初中必修。

再说白一点，这种教育让你拥有了极强的“防骗体质”。你看到某个国家在打仗，不用查资料，你就知道这背后有资源争夺、有地缘政治、有意识形态操控；你看到某个明星塌房，不是跟风骂，而是会问：是谁在背后推动、放风、带节奏？你不容易被煽动，不轻易站队，不轻信“正义”的口号，这不是你冷漠，是你知道，“立场”往往是被制造出来的，“真相”从来都不是赤裸裸地摆在面前的。

我记得很清楚，我上高中的时候，历史书上有句话，“因资产阶级天生的软弱和妥协，注定资产阶级革命无法拯救中国”，当时我完全不懂这句话的意思。后来我进入职场，看到公司领导平时骂员工像骂孙子一样，结果一见甲方爸爸就堆笑递烟，连敬酒的姿势都比我熟练，我一下子想起了这句话。原来那本书不是讲过去的，它是在讲我们身边的现实。这种反应能力，不是我特别聪明，而是我从小被训练出来了。

就像我现在刷到一条关于某国政变的新闻，我第一反应不是“他们真惨”，而是“是谁的代理人推的？”我不觉得这是阴谋论，我觉得这是对复杂世界的基本敏感。你甚至可以说，中国教育教你在看一个国家兴衰时，会本能地套一遍“亡征”的清单。比如乌克兰这几年，政策急变、权臣横行、外援为主、地理脆弱、国内舆论被掌控，这些事，在《韩非子》里面都有对应。不是说中国人更会预测未来，而是我们从几千年的历史中提炼出了一整套判断体系，而这套体系，在今天依然适用。

可能你会说，那我们就没缺点了吗？当然不是，中国教育的问题也很多，比如死记硬背、应试为主……但不可否认的是，它在最底层给了我们一种“看破不说破”的能力，一种不轻信、不跟风、不容易被裹挟的生存本能。

也许我们没有那些西方国家那么自由的言论空间，但也正是这种环境，让我们比别人更懂得信息的复杂性。你不会轻易相信一个声音，也不会把任何一个“事实”当作不容质疑的真理。你知道世界上没有绝对的对与错，只有立场和利益的碰撞。你知道制度从来不是用来满足理想主义，而是权力妥协的结果。

说到底，出生在中国，是一种“政治觉醒”的前置条件。你可能从来没意识到自己在学这些，但你早就内化为一种世界观，一种面对变化不惊的稳定感。

所以我常常想，那些动不动就想移民、想去别的国家寻找“更好生活”的人，真的明白自己要面对的是怎样一个认知重启过程吗？你以为你要的是自由，但你其实不知道那种自由的代价和本质。你以为他们看得更清楚，其实你在他们眼里才是那个看得更透的人。只是你还未意识到，抑或意识到了不说而已

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Yup, this is a big deal: the Pinglu Canal is China's first river-to-sea canal since the founding of the People's Republic.

It cost US$10.2 billion to build and is designed for 5000-ton ships of 90 meter length.

It's part of a bigger master plan that China calls the "New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor" (ILSTC, 西部陆海新通道) to solve a structural geographic problem: the country's vast western interior (places like Chongqing, Sichuan Guangxi, Guizhou, Gansu, Qinghai) has historically been cut off from global shipping lanes, with goods having to travel east - often thousands of kilometers - to reach the coast at ports like Guangzhou or Shanghai before heading out to sea.

Which is super inconvenient for, for instance, China's trade with ASEAN - its biggest trading partner today.

Up until recently, if you wanted to ship something from, say, Chongqing to Vietnam, you had to go east all the way down to Guangzhou before you could head back south. A massive detour.

In effect the entire logic of the plan, including the Pinglu Canal, is to reorient the economic geography of China's less developed western provinces away from dependence on the wealthy eastern seaboard and toward direct engagement with Southeast Asia.

It's as much about internal rebalancing - developing the west - as it is about external trade connectivity.

[Q. Ali @NobleQAli]

People don't like to admit this, but the war against AI was never fought in the first place. You never had a say in having to interact with networked technology through LLMs.

The only issues up for debate are how they're used and managing the environmental consequences.