Richard Chen

Drunken Contrarian, tweet about NBA, China-Taiwan/ Education biz owner and also help import wine

[Richard Chen @RollingWave0720]

I’ll stick my neck out a little here and make a call

Barring major injuries, Reed Sheppard will make an all star team before his second contract ends

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

Well-said Mitch.

It’s so funny how westerners never stop giving China “well-intentioned advice” on how they’re doing it wrong. The better China does, the more intense this effort becomes.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

My roomie for the trip Ah Lien loved Xinjiang so much she’s moving here! She a Taiwanese digital nomad and Xinjiang is her favorite place on the mainland because it’s not humid.

It’s not easy for a Taiwanese to actually move to the mainland and make a living. Like…fun to spend money here but what’s your unique selling point if you’re actually working in Chinas hyper competitive environment? It’s not like 20-30 years ago where just being Taiwanese is a golden ticket to a managerial position because American customers prefer to have the Taiwanese manage Chinese. These days, you come here you’re just another Chinese person. I met a lady from Taoyuan in a cellphone store last time I was in Xi’an. She’s running a mini-mart.

For even younger kids, taking the GaoKao and completely going into the Chinese system is an option. It’s always seen as a challenge, but potentially a worthwhile one. The full marks for the GaoKao is 750. Being from Taiwan gives you an extra 10-20 points extra. Every one of those point could make a huge difference to a kid’s future.

[Richard Chen @RollingWave0720]

@pretentiouswhat Me me me, the Chen family name is said to be from Zhou kou, as it was the capital of the Chen duchy and the grave of the first duke is there, also the grand temple of Fuxi ( one of the legendary figures of prehistoric china) is there

[Richard Chen @RollingWave0720]

@astaf_gorilla Most of Chinese history is about trying to correct (and often over correct) the previous era / dynasty's flaws, so no the odds of China today not taking tech too seriously seems very low

[Roland Fink @Frei_Fink]

Lösung für Deutschlands Probleme:

Den Linken erklären, dass ne Klimaanlage auch nur ne Wärmepumpe ist.

Den Rechten erklären, dass ne Wärmepumpe auch nur ne Klimaanlage ist.

[ツユナギ【FUCK PLAYSTATION】 @TsuyuriNagisa]

高考の結果が出ました

重慶市上位0.5％です

この3年間、応援してくださった皆さん、本当にありがとうございました

[Lei Gong @gonglei89]

The real puzzle is why you guys think lower value production will automatically manifest in countries with no production capability if some trade space opens up. This lazy understanding of how development works has been failing the Global South for well over a half century now.

[王海滨的财经闲谈 @wangwatchworld]

卧槽，眼光犀利，视角独特

[上官亂 @shangguanluan]

亲历六四并中弹的台湾记者徐宗懋，拒绝贩卖自己受伤，不喜欢六四一代，并主张两岸交流与和平

柴静最近采访了台湾知名文史工作者、前中国时报记者徐宗懋——六四事件时中弹的台湾亲历者。

以下是他的见证，他并不回避学生们的问题，和市民与军人的冲突，也不讳言自己对六四一代的不屑：

1、他戒严第七天到广场，看到的是松松散散，垃圾很多。财务不透明。他认为真正的民主运作不是这样的。

2、徐宗懋说，一开始所有人都不认为会镇压，包括学生，包括cia的报告，包括共产党自己，也包括台湾媒体记者徐宗懋。

3、5月30号本来学生们都要撤退，但是自由女神雕像竖立起来后，运动热情重新燃起。

但是徐宗懋觉得那个女神像不是美国那种一手拿宪法一手拿火炬，而是两手拿火炬，更像法国大革命。很多学生拒绝撤退，但当时的领袖已经管不了学生了。

4、6月2日夜间，徐宗懋在长安街上已经看到了市民和军人之间的冲突：军人说“我已经忍无可忍了”，市民则抢军人的头盔摔到地上。

5、6月3日，徐宗懋看到广场上火光冲天（因为熄灯，学生们在点燃纸板），在戒严部队后面，有市民持木棍打军人，军人没回应。有妇女跪下来，求市民不要打军人，“打不过他们的”。徐宗懋觉得非常惊骇，“发疯了，失控了”。

6、4号凌晨，经过一夜冲突，徐宗懋返回广场，他强调“没有看到尸体”，但是看到很多被烧焦的军车。天安门广场上“已经没有学生了”，坦克开始开进来，碾过帐篷（人已经撤离）。广场上只有稀稀拉拉的人了，他慢慢往外走，走到正阳门，突然中弹。(所以他不是在冲突中中弹，而是冲突结束，撤离的时候四处走而中弹)

7、杨渡去医院为手术的徐宗懋签字。徐宗懋是被一个木匠送到医院的。

8、护士对徐宗懋说，“帮我们把真相报道出来”。

9、徐宗懋推断，市民和学生的伤亡比例是10：1.

10、他第二年就选择了再回天安门现场，他说“我作为一个中国人要进入的思考：为什么发生这样的事情”。

11、再后来，他还见到了王沪宁。他说中国应该学东欧，王沪宁说中国绝不能像东欧。

12、回台湾后，徐宗懋经常听到海外的六四领袖的演讲。他说，他见到一位领袖（女性）掉过眼泪，对那行被他们“丢弃”的学生感到愧疚，其他人都没有。徐宗懋说“我同情他们，但是没有任何尊敬”。因为他们“一直呆在帐篷里没有出来，根本没有看到发生什么事”。

13、从此，徐宗懋开始研究历史，开始真正了解这片土地上的更多伤痛——不止六四。他发现，只有两岸和解，这个民族才有真正的未来。

当时的广场上的台湾人，还有杨渡，广场还回荡着苏芮的歌声。

如今，这些真正经历过六四的台湾人，都被认为“亲中”。
现在活跃的六四一代基本都没有受过伤，在清场之前就离开了中国，但一直是强烈的反对派。

而徐宗懋这个真正的广场清场受害者，却在后来一直致力于两岸交流、两岸和平，和批评民进党政府，经常被大陆官媒报道，上一篇报道是六天前。

更神奇的是，他们提到的镇压前刚刚选出来的领袖李录，如今也早已多次回中国，并成为投资界的主流传奇人物。
有意思的是，在百度百科里，有徐宗懋的介绍，用的“秦风”，其中亲历有一条“1989年：因工作受伤。”

他经常参加两岸交流活动，对大陆充满好感，对大陆人当年的救命之恩充满感激。他是怎么转变的，柴静没追问更深。

结尾时，柴静想深挖的依旧是他广场上的受伤经历，但是徐宗懋有些近乎激动地说：“那只是一刹那的事情，这30年我做了很多，我这人很不喜欢自怜。”

看起来柴静此次的采访初衷是一个悲壮的“广场勇士”，到了结尾依然这样想。

看来，她一直没明白，为什么徐宗懋真正受了伤，却从不想贩卖这件事。那是，希望有一天，她能真正明白。

[Big Baller Brandon @BrandonBeck4]

If you ever find yourself wanting to do the same thing as the Kings and/or Pelicans you need to stop everything you are doing and rethink your life

[哈结棍 @EricY_SH]

你会不会有时候对潮汕宗族的团结，有祠堂有祖先的根亲归属感有一丝丝羡慕？
我是有的。在上海这个百年商业化，家庭原子化的文化里，我们习惯了互不打扰，却也无限疏离。

[Gen Ho Chi Minh @genHCM]

Everyone is starting to realize China lowballed its GDP by 2-3x

But no one realizes Vietnam is also catching up with many developed European economies in living standards.

Within a generation @Ardaffaf

[Carl Worker @carlworker]

Give it a rest.

[王海滨的财经闲谈 @wangwatchworld]

美伊要是这一年都达不成协议，日元估计要去180了。

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

The neoliberal Happy Leprechauns manifested the proverbial pot of gold for Ireland, but instead of living happily ever after, all is not right in the Emerald Isle. Everything is expensive, opportunities in the silicon docks can prove illusory for ordinary Irish, and some feel like the economic miracle manifested by hosting the EU headquarters of large international corporations is a house of cards that made Ireland rich on paper at the expense of hollowing out its real economy and maybe even undermining true Irish sovereignty.

Most disturbingly, all this money and the best growth in the EU for years can’t seem to buy competence. The Children’s Hospital cost-overrun scandal for example

[ChinaTime @LinkerLife]

Chinese Chaoshan beef hotpot is incredibly delicious.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

In 1884, Ulysses S. Grant was dying of throat cancer and was dead broke.

His money was wiped out by a swindler who stole his fortune.

Desperate to leave something for his wife, he agreed to write his Civil War memoirs and was close to signing a contract for a meager 10% royalty.

Mark Twain stepped in, called the deal robbery and offered Grant 70% of the profits through his own publishing company.

Grant raced death to finish the book, completing it just days before he died in July 1885.

It became one of the greatest memoirs ever written.

The royalties left his widow nearly half a million dollars, about $16 million today, and the book has never gone out of print.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

In reality, Iran was the only country fighting Al Qaida long before 9/11-
and is the main reason that ISIS isn’t in control of half of the Middle East today.

In return, the US put Iran on the Axis of Evil after 9/11 & later assassinated Qassem SoleImani, the worst enemy of ISIS

[Jacquelyn Melinek @jacqmelinek]

I’ve had amazing steaks in Japan, Argentina, USA etc. But this was hands down, the best steak of my life.

Got it at an unassuming 500 year old cider house outside of San Sebastián, Spain.

[Nik Stankovic @nikstankovic_]

Not understanding China would be forgivable (if it was 2005), but the problem is much deeper. It is this conviction that it is not necessary to understand China, indeed, probably, that it would be a waste of time to do so.

It is a feeling that Europe is so superior to the Chinese--because of its "values" (don't get me going), "rule of law" (don't get me going), "freedom and democracy" (don't get me going)--that nothing the Chinese can do can prevent European domination. That whatever recent evidence you might present to the contrary is just because the Chinese are cheating and we will fix that quickly.

I imagine a conversation with Merz might go something like this:
- Do not use the term "Plaza Accord" in regards to China publicly ever again. In fact, probably not privately, but certainly not publicly. [explanation]
- But why? What are they going to do?
- They are not going to agree to whatever deal you try to push through because they will see through it.
- THEY WON'T HAVE A CHOICE!
- Yes, they will. They won't sign up to it.
- We will sanction them!
- Like Russia?
- Yes, like Russia.

And that of course is check-mate in the head of average European brainiac. Because they think Russia is about to collapse and that Europe is winning the war in Ukraine because they see smoke and fire above Moscow. Fun fact: EU has lost+spent more on the war in Ukraine that Russia EUR for EUR, and EU's economic damage is a lot worse that Russia's. In fact, Russia had to figure out how to make many things itself because of the sanctions, and it has done so successfully (with the help of China), and now has virtually full employment. EU's industry is moving to the US, where there is cheap energy, while unemployment is rising. Another fun fact: Russia's debt to GDP ratio is around 20%. EU's is over 100%.

Unfortunately, I am not optimistic that as a group Europe can learn and snap out of its state of delusion in a sort of "democratic debate" kind of way and elections (so much for that).

Europe will learn it the ugly way, as it always has.