@mchonos.bsky.social

Political economy, communications and China studies. PhD student @TrierUni

[World Bank Group Publications @WBGPubs]

What determines which industrial policies countries can use?
• Government capacity
• Market size
• Fiscal space

Countries with stronger capacity and larger markets can experiment more—others must be more selective. 📘: https://t.co/EkteRCJ4us

[Global Taiwan Institute @globaltaiwan]

Taiwan’s media regulator is paralyzed by partisan gridlock in the LY—putting key regulatory governance on hold. #GTI intern Diarra Molock breaks down why the NCC’s crisis signals a deeper need for reform. Read more: https://t.co/JwEGCtdl98

#Taiwan #MediaReform #NCC

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Open-Access

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

Post-Soviet Brides in the China Dream: Migration, Marriage, and Geopolitics Across Borders by Elena Barabantseva
An interdisciplinary exploration of marriage migration from former Soviet Republics to China as both intimate and geopolitical projects.
📚 https://t.co/4lNRGy0cGp

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@NewLeftEViews Pick essential three?

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

Unsurprisingly, the best obit on Habermas so far is by @OliverBWeber:

https://t.co/heU0gJ8UkP

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@richten_nach Explain for non-native speaker?

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@vo_ro_na Wait… so you just screenshot them without any link/reference?

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@MoRientalist Орос хэлний үгийн сан 👏🏾

[Inderjeet Parmar @USEmpire]

“The Ford Foundation and the development of international relations in China” - Review of International Studies - How Ford helped integrate China into the LIO and unintentionally to help China challenge US hegemony from within - ⁦⁦@ShipingTang⁩ https://t.co/qvMSdm5oBN

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Interesting read by noted historian Chou Wan-yao on the history of flags representing Taiwan. The triangle and circle flag is the most obscure but perhaps the most interesting, with symbolism ranging from being a farmer's hat to the 台 of Taiwan

https://t.co/GlBDfixgdt

[Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb]

Why is Russia Eluosi 俄羅斯 or short E-guo 俄國 in Mandarin? Because the translation comes from Mongolian (through Manchu), and Mongolian doesn't like its words to begin with /r/, so the Mongols added a vowel before: O-rus ᠣᠷᠤᠰ (Орос in Cyrillic Mongolian) 1/4

[Chelsea Ngoc Minh Nguyen @cnmngg9]

The year of 2025 in Vietnam saw a large-scale crackdown on super-rich bureaucrats, celebrities, entrepreneurs & businesses that amassed their wealth by approving & selling fraudulent products (cosmetics, skincare, food, milk, crypto-trade). It exposed a deep societal illness. 1/

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@ted_huang @egasmb So it has nothing to do with this?

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@HistorianZhang @Chiuchiyin https://t.co/XjpmUuFcNs

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@Hongnumongol99 Хэв маягаас харвал "Залуучуудын Үнэн" бололтой

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New knowledge everyday

[Luka Ivan Jukic @lijukic]

What about Luxembourg irredentism?

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@notXiangyu Correction: Kitay is derived from Mongolic (or proto-Mongolic) word of Khitad - plural from Khitan another conquest dynasty of Liao 遼. It was through Mongols Russians took Kitay for China. Even today Mongolians use Khitad for China - PRC is thus Bugd Nariamdakh Khitad Arad Ulus

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Veterans of the 1848 German revolution immigrated to America with three passions burning in their hearts: barbells, beer, and socialism.
https://t.co/6MNezZQqeo

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@egasmb 列宁列宁 我们的父亲
Would love to get the rest of the poem

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一定發財務公司

[Alan Smithee @AlanSmithee1987]

God of Gamblers (1989, dir. Wong Jing).