Shiping Tang

Distinguished Prof., Fudan University, Shanghai.
Int. Relations, Institutional Economics, & Philosophy of Social Sciences

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

For people who still believe/hope that US can (easily?) win a war against China, now that US (+Israel) cannot even win (easily) against Iran, you are either delusional, or simply reaching for the coping pills for other reasons (i.e., money, job security etc.). Am I too blunt?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

@twittwoods never buy that shit...

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

Man, this is so dated, and so stupid!

[Marcel Münch @_mm85]

I still wonder who came up with this and thought this is a good branding idea in China.

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

See!

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Ivanka Trump announces that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, are building a massive off-the-grid private island in the middle of the Mediterranean.

The island spans 1,400 hectares and currently has no power.

They will be working with some of the world's greatest living architects to bring this vision to life.

"It's massive in scale."

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

Overcapacity is the term for saying: you are too competitive. Germany, Japan, and S. Korea used to have over-capacity in producing cars; and France has over-capacity in wine for centuries...

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

I find the concept of “overcapacity” ridiculous. Does Germany have an overcapacity in cars? France one in wine? Sweden in heavy trucks? Italy in fashion? And don’t tell me that European food exports aren’t subsidized. https://t.co/Bl2yiF8hdg

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The seizing of Lebanon’s Beaufort Castle by Israeli troops is much more than the capture of one of the country’s most well known historic landmarks. It was first taken by the Israeli military in 1982, held for 18 years, and withdrawn from in 2000. Now that it’s again under Israeli control is tragically symbolic for many Lebanese - and the Israeli PM is making it clear here he intends to hold onto this Leb territory and go further 🧵

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

I hope they work together to the war, which ha killed & wounded millions, and a war that could have been prevented if European politicians had known better...
Trump ‘personally called for China’s help’ to end Ukraine war in summit with Xi
https://t.co/eylceDfmHi via @scmpnews

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This war in Iran is the worst foreign policy blunder since Iraq. And just like the Iraq War, it's a war built on lies. Let’s update the record:

On day one, the president said it was running ahead of schedule. On day 10, he said it was very complete . Day 21, getting very close . Day 32, leaving very soon . On day 39, the President of the United States said a whole civilization will die…

And on the next day, day 40, he declared total and complete victory . Day 67, great progress. Day 79, the clock is ticking. Today is day 92 . And on day 92 Iran's ballistic missiles and drones have not been destroyed. The Strait of Hormuz, which was opened before the war is still closed. The regime is intact along with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium—a stockpile Iran only built after President Trump shredded President Obama's Iran deal

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Ambassador, your job is to represent American interests in Israel. With that in mind, please explain what we receive in return for our investment in Israel.

How have Israel’s actions in Iran, Gaza, or Lebanon, to name a few, made America safer & more prosperous?

The arms sales argument is flawed logic. We give Israel money so they can buy American weapons—why not just spend our money on weapons for our own inventories?

The intelligence we get from the Israelis can be useful, but our increasing over-reliance on it has caused our own capabilities to atrophy. We are a sovereign nation. We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests— of course they will put their own interests first. No other nation prioritizes the needs of a different country before its own, because that would be foolish.

Israel can still be a decent partner, so long as we are clear-eyed about the differences between our two countries, and act accordingly. We have to put America’s needs first.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre.

Israel is currently demolishing Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

She was an enabler of the genocide in Gaza!

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Oh this was beautiful to watch. Just beautiful. Never let these ghouls have a moment of peace.

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

This is state-terrorism, to say the least

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

It should disturb you to no end that the US government is doing extrajudicial murder of random people on the ocean. No trial, no evidence, no due process. And now nobody even bothers to talk about it. The number of people killed may be over 200 now.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"

"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"

"Other people had guns inserted inside them"

"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"

Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony:

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

I won't hype what Huawei has achieved so far, but Xu Zhijun was right on this point: without US sanctions, Huawei will be happy to rely on US chips, hence a different company.
https://t.co/f5zoPSl0y2

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

Let me make two points that I hestitated to make: 1) US tried to kill Huawei and failed, and HW is now a much stronger company with presence in many leading sectors. This makes many in US crazy. 2) If China gets (re-)unified (hopefully peacefully), can you imagine US mindset?

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

yes, this will be the site when I go to Sichuan next time...

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Last full day of our 2-week Sichuan road-trip and we end it on a high point: a visit of SanXinDui, one of the greatest archeological discoveries of all times, anywhere in the world.

Unfortunately SanXinDui is bizarrely unknown in the West, even though it ranks on par with things like the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb or the Terracotta army in Xi'an.

SanXinDui used to be the capital of China's ancient Shu kingdom which ruled here between 1,700BC and 1,200BC so everything in the museum is 3,000 to 4,000 years old.
The artifacts found here - and they uncovered an incredible 17,000 objects already - are beyond extraordinary, almost otherworldly, revealing a unique culture unlike anything that had been found in China before. And a culture much more advanced for that time period of Chinese history than had been assumed before.

Here you can see 4 pieces we just saw in the museum:
- A monumental bronze mask in pure SanXinDui style, with protruding eyes that archeologists believe symbolizes a far-sighted leader or shaman
- A typical SanXinDui mask with a gold plated mask on top of it
- A monumental 4m tall bronze "tree" with dragons for its roots and birds with 9 fruits and birds on its branches
- A wheel with 5 beams thought to represent the sun

More artefacts we saw in the museum in the 🧵 below 👇

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Pete Hegseth takes a break from promoting a $1.5 trillion military budget and wars at every corner on the planet, to warn us about the dangers of a military buildup in China - which has not fought a war in 46 years.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎓 “Peace be upon you. From the students of Harvard, to the youth of Dahieh, to the sons of Nabatieh, and the people of Tyre.”

Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzeddine, from the southern Lebanese town of Arabsalim, used her graduation speech to remind her peers of the students in Gaza and southern Lebanon who do not benefit from the same “arbitrary luck and circumstance” that she and her classmates have enjoyed.

Ezzeddine said her presence at that podium was “evidence of what survives the border, the bomb, and the exile,” and of “what becomes possible when people the world has tried to erase are allowed to live.”

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

@multicellgenome agree. I have a paper on how innovations and their control must co-evolve that is now under review.

[Shiping Tang @ShipingTang]

Pretty much summarizing the whole picture.

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

A tale of two genocides.

Western states have officially called the repression in Xinjiang a genocide — while anyone who calls the mass killing in Gaza a genocide is labeled an antisemite.

The FT is just a Western Pravda now, faithfully publishing anti-China articles everyday.

When they write the history of the decline and fall of the west, this mendacity and double standards will loom large. It’ll be said that the West lost its grip on reality before it was put out of its misery.