Mike Chen

Chinese. Amateur.

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

Anschluss, but for Taiwan.

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

Another small bit of evidence here --

the consolidation of the industry around a few large state owned companies and crackdown on smuggling (after that weakened the controls in 2010) was clearly meant in large part to make China's export controls more effective

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@davidshor @bariweiss The question that got the result in 3) does not seem to be fairly worded.

Instead of asking whether the program was in favor of Ds or Rs, how about left or right? So many chose “not sure” for that question.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Senators elected this fall will be in office when the SocSec trust fund hits insolvency. So it *should* be a major campaign issue.

But few voters care. They have their silly narratives ("stop stealing the trust fund,") & fake solutions ("remove the cap"). But, y'all were warned.

[Bill Bishop @niubi]

Not news. Parton discussed this in his chat with me last year https://t.co/PAPqCCLjMF

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@changwei1006 @Im_Sdog 悲剧？惨剧吧。

[𝕊𝕕𝕠𝕘 @Im_Sdog]

好消息：没有媒体机，没有媒体特调了
坏消息：大横评没了，可能评测也没了

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@autumntjohnson @holden_bukowski @PhilipRCMarlowe Johnson isn’t telling you that apparently it’s costlier to serve residential solar customers. Just google “solar Grid Access Charge”. I don’t know anything about energy policy, but looks like it isn’t as simple as what she wants you to believe.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Here's email I received from the journal Contemporary European History in 2021 when I alerted them to Quinn Slobodian's quote manipulations. They insisted he had gone through "rigorous peer review."

I learned shortly thereafter that a referee flagged the same quote manipulations in 2018 and recommended rejection. The editors overruled their own referee.

Slobodian was named co-editor of the same journal in 2020. As I said yesterday, academic rot goes much deeper than a simple crisis of rigor.

[Razven @RazvenHK]

HK Sec. for Justice Paul Lam: The Chief Executive's determining a normal criminal case endangers national security cannot be revoked or appealed by the courts as it involves "sensitive, highly classified information" and not something the courts is capable making a judgment on.

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

A hidden spy camera was just discovered inside a ceiling panel at the absolute heart of the UK government, and intelligence agencies have no idea who is watching. The device was found inside the heavily guarded Whitehall building housing the Home Office and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Security officials are scrambling to figure out how a hostile actor bypassed elite checkpoints to plant the camera, how long it has been recording, and exactly what high-level state secrets have been covertly streamed out of the building.

The timing of this catastrophic breach is terrifying. This exact Whitehall hub was the operational command center where civil servants handled the fiercely contested, fast-tracked approval of China’s new London mega-embassy earlier this year. That massive diplomatic compound, set to be Europe's largest, was pushed through by ministers despite explicit warnings from security experts that the site sits directly over critical fiber-optic cables carrying vital financial and government data. The reality that a covert camera was active in the very offices managing this geopolitical flashpoint raises immediate fears of a successful, high-level foreign intelligence operation.

This breach completely shreds the illusion of Whitehall’s physical security. For a physical spy camera to be hardwired into a ceiling, the perpetrator either possessed an insider security pass or exploited a massive blind spot in maintenance vetting and routine electronic bug sweeps. With a high-stakes judicial review of the Chinese embassy decision looming, MI5 is left racing against the clock to assess the damage to a domestic security hub that has been thoroughly compromised from the inside out.

#Whitehall #Espionage #NationalSecurity #UKPolitics #HomeOffice #ChinaEmbassy #MI5 #SecurityBreach

https://t.co/Qe1rnCmKkH

[David Santoro @DavidSantoro1]

This is significant:

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@drmarkhyman Begging for government intervention on trivial matters like what you are doing here should be illegal.

[Bill Bishop @niubi]

Yup, the great firewall extends to PRC mobile users in the US through roaming agreements

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

They did not verify before making the claims. What a joke.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

📌Committee to Protect Journalists has quietly removed 8 fake Gaza "journalists" because it finally admitted they "participated in combat." @pressfreedom issued over 100 articles since 10/7 slamming Israel but not ONE mention that Hamas & PIJ abused the press vest for combat. 1/

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@FeralPHunter I remember you setting your account to private to vent about some stupid policy by Trump.

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@silsrc 问题是聪明的女人对你感兴趣不。

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@qinglongzui If a regime is willing to mass murder protesters, protesting hardly moves the needle. Iran is a good example of that.

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@gorlak357 @jkenney Where did you get that from? They were mainly pro democracy and anticorruption.

[Mike Chen @Mike_chen2]

@Mr_Andrew_Fox The police is going to have to prove they weren’t racists and frankly it’s not easy.