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Interested in History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, IR丨Views my own丨Retweet≠Endorsement丨No BOTs, please.

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Neither Mao Zedong nor Chiang Kai-shek recognized the Treaty of San Francisco.

[Kellie Meyer @KellieMeyerNews]

The documents just viewed by President Trump and President Xi, I’m told by a source familiar, include:

1. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights

2. Brick from the Great Wall of China

3. Treaty of Wanghia, 1844 - Peace, Amity, and Commerce between the U.S. and China

4. Treaty of Tientsin, 1858 – Supplementing the Treaty of Wanghia, 1844

5. Letter from the Guangxu Emperor to President Grover Cleveland, 1895

6. Treaty of San Francisco, 1951

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"It was not clear whether the chatbot was a commercially available one or a US government product."
https://t.co/3fknBW1Q8R

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The US "almost started a war" against China, nearly launching an operation against a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring, in the midst of the Iran war, after an AI-generated intelligence report falsely identified the vessel as carrying nuclear weapons components, with armed US personnel preparing to board and military aircraft already in the air before officials found the report had been produced with a chatbot, per CNN.

A special operations command analyst had used a chatbot to fuse open-source material with classified signals intelligence, then used AI again to package the result into a standard intelligence report and circulated it across the US military.

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Prior to modern times, the word 'China/Zhongguo' was indeed recorded in use, though infrequently and not necessarily with the exact same meaning as today. The term that was truly invented in the 20th century is the 'Chinese nation中華民族'.

[William Han @W_T_Han]

Certain folks claim that the Chinese never called their own country China (Zhongguo 中國) until modern times. Now every time I see a premodern usage it jumps out at me, like in this Southern Song era “huaben” or storyteller’s outline, 大宋宣和遺事 “Events of the Xuanhe Era of the Great Song.” We also see here that, writing 8-900 years ago, the author understood Chinese history by then as having gone on for 三千餘年 “over 3000 years.”

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"Take a few facts and figures, extrapolate them to infinity in a way that confirms your priors and then calling it a day."

Perhaps that is how the majority of research articles operate?

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

I still remember being on a panel with Noah Smith in what was it 2024? He was dismissing Russians as « Ice Trolls » with GDP on par with Italy and that the Europeans can take care of them with no problem without America.

Take a few facts and figures, extrapolate them to infinity in a way that confirms your priors and then calling it a day seems to be his MO.

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

I’m not sure why, but while I find it acceptable to study a philosopher’s hand-written manuscripts, browsing through the files on their computer after their death—especially recovering deleted data as described in this article—feels like a desecration.
https://t.co/KkOrAur7jY

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"the song’s lyrics apply nearly as well to Trump’s hopes for his “friendship” with Xi today. “I got a problem and I don’t know what to do about it,” he sings. “It’s got me stuck between my fantasy and what is real.”"
https://t.co/hCW1rKd2B5

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"Relative to their human-written sources, AI-edited texts show only a small increase in lexical diversity and a decrease in entropy, rather than the joint increase that characterizes AI generation."
https://t.co/TTVJegwmxX

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"the young Chinese Communists created their Red Army by pretending to ally with their rivals, the Nationalist Party..."

No, the Red Army was formed after the breakdown of the KMT-CCP alliance, in August 1927.

[Jackie Deal @JacquelineNDeal]

Studying in China is like embedding with the Mafia. You can take precautions, but it's never safe.

My latest, in @DailyCaller...

https://t.co/XSDu3n7siH

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Nuclear warheads aren't video game items that you can just keep in a backpack and pull out whenever you want. They require regular maintenance, or they become useless. Can Russia's struggling economy still maintain such a massive nuclear arsenal?

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"A nuclear-armed great power cannot be pushed indefinitely without creating the possibility that it will respond in ways that neither side intended."

I've been wondering how many of Russia's nuclear warheads are actually operational, and how many ICBMs they have to go with them.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

John Mearsheimer: The West Is Failing to Understand a Multipolar World
https://t.co/Qiez5AdBIn

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

The Soviet Union seems to have had a similar practice. Molotov later claimed in an interview that Stalin's expansion in Eastern Europe before WWII was to increase the distance for the German army.

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

Do you know why the US has maintained an empire hiding in plain sight in the Pacific Islands region the past 70 years? https://t.co/5qrOKX418V

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Anyway, Marx was bad at math and made dozens of mistakes in Capital. It succeeded in legitimizing revolution, but it's just not a good economics book.

[Praxis @praxiss]

Marx wasn’t looking at the stars. He was reading factory reports, how many hours you work, what you get paid for it, who owns the place and who has to show up to it etc etc. If that’s mysticism, so is your rent.

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Historically, the CCP has rarely assassinated enemy targets—surveillance, subversion, and entrapment are all possible, but assassination is not.

However, they certainly do assassinate traitors.

[William Han @W_T_Han]

Hilarious they're trying to say the Chinese want to assassinate DJT. They call him Chuan Jianguo in China, "Nation-Building Trump," & by "nation" they mean China. The last thing they want is to get rid of him.

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

The post-WWI Eastern European order envisioned by Józef Piłsudski, if successful, would have made it difficult for the Nazis and the Soviet Union to ignite a new world war.

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

If we do this, we BECOME:

1. The largest economy in Europe
2. The largest army in Europe
3. The biggest alcohol producer
4. The largest car manufacturer
5. The most respected country in Europe
6. The largest market for sausages
7. The largest problem for Russia

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Considering Marx's views on his own nationality, I wonder who he would have voted for if he'd lived in 1930s Germany.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“Hitler Juden,” or Nazi Jews, represented less than 2 percent of Germany’s Jewish population—but they provide a cautionary tale of what happened when a minority community cast its vote with a political leader who despised them, Timothy W. Ryback argues. https://t.co/T4fIETZZqd

[Yuen Yuen Ang @yuenyuenang]

Acemoglu / AJR argues that economic growth requires “non-extractive” institutions. I agree.

Thus, the puzzle isn’t China - but the rise of the West

How did the West prosper despite extractive institutions?

https://t.co/P4pmn0q0hM

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Saving Private Wittgenstein

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Make a movie philosophical.

I'll start: Citizen Kant

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"If exams are seen to be fair, then it is much harder to take issue with the winners and losers."

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Surveys show that most Chinese citizens believe that poverty is due to individual failings and laziness, and only 25% support redistribution.

The country’s brutal winner-takes-all examination system helps foster this ideology. https://t.co/QVSRenqM4N

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

Canadian military personnel are stationed at NORAD in Colorado. So...

[Art Crunchy @ArtCrunchy]

If you have a US base in your country you are not a sovereign nation.

[Anti-B @PRC_Research]

"Mr. Kissinger said that when Mao and Chou—or at least Mao— die in the next five years this will cause a tremendous upheaval in [Page 830]China. Ambassador Shen interjected that this is what the GRC has been predicting all along."
https://t.co/k5mlRHYx71