Todd Jackson

Thoughts, Opinions, Experience-Based Research and Observations from China.

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Finally got around to sealing this one; happy with the results.
#Middlefork

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Went to CIFTIS in Beijing this week. Everything AI/Robotic/Automated this year. Affordable Dentistry: Who thinks this will be 'the norm' in 10 years time?

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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
https://t.co/8ayjj9Y8vH

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Critical Minerals Report (08.16.2026): The Critical Minerals Bull Market Is Here as China Puts Its Arsenal Back in Play https://t.co/udXQfPgGWt cc: @InvestorNews

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A taste of what's to come as we approach midterms and the presidential cycle heats up. If only stories like this were outliers...

The CBC Challenge in Detroit https://t.co/EKjJuxjXYJ

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Just met Xiao Hai at a small Beijing literary salon. His new Granta memoir, Adrift in the South, explores the lives behind China's economic rise through eyes of the new worker generation. At the top of my reading list. I have a feeling we'll be hearing much more from him.
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Would love to be rowing a boat on this trip- fortunate guide crew...

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@manyapan Manya, he's not all wrong. You are very hip, get used to it.

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Henry Huiyao Wang on building mechanisms for managed interdependence, by @ZichenWanghere https://t.co/t89dbuOTD7

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And keeping with copper news

[Amanda van Dyke @AmandaVandyke13]

This is bad for global copper. Grasberg produced 3% of global copper 680k tonnes in 2023. With curtailment of production due to sulphur shortages, this bodes badly for global copper production. JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are forecasting 3-4% deficit this year. I think it could be closer to 5-6%. Over the last 75years CAGR of production has been 3%, slowing recently because mine supply simply cannot keep up even though demand is likely more than 5% a year. @robert_ivanhoe @jmroberge @SeanZubick @TheOregonGroup @ClemChambers https://t.co/LWyNLZVGm3

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This could rewrite the future if true.

https://t.co/jmFKdjDgqH

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Once again, my former home of Yuxi is found to be at the center of the world:

Newly discovered fossils give scientists first look at the evolution of early complex animals https://t.co/LgIveYq7sV

[Radigan Carter @radigancarter]

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Where the spritz and negroni flowed like a hot summer's hutong rain. One more round for the ghosts of Beiluo...

#HutongGhosts

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@ZichenWanghere Much too early to tell. More than likely it will be a hit to Rubio or Vance's chance to secure the R nomination. How the current lower ranks shake out, and who appears on the D side still matters.

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@KeithWoodsYT He's a Chinese version of JP Sears. It's worked for Jonathan. Seems to be working for 'the Professor' as well.

[Manya Koetse @manyapan]

Just a warm story amid all the heavy news.

In 1999, 3-year-old Wang from Jiaozuo in Henan was on a family trip to Taiyuan in Shanxi with her parents when her dad snapped a pic of her in front of a fruit stall on Yijing Street. The old photo became a treasured childhood memory for Wang, who, now 30 years old and an avid social media user, decided to return to that very same street while visiting Taiyuan during this year’s Spring Festival.

Turns out the fruit seller from 1999 was still there, at the very same spot. His wooden fruit cart has been converted into a modern shop, the street has widened, and the public phone booth in the back has been replaced by 5G mobile phone shops. Fruit stall owner Yang Guoping (杨国平) initially hardly recognized himself in the photo. At the time, he was just starting out as a young single guy. Now he’s a married dad of two adult kids. He says he still remembers that moment 27 years ago — because it was rare for people to take photos in those days.

Wang’s social media posts about the reunion are now going viral, and Yang, who’s been in the fruit business for 30 years, is profiting from it. People are coming to the shop to check it out, and he’s put the 1999–2026 reunion photo on display in his shop window.

The photo’s virality has a lot to do with nostalgia, and with how quickly China’s urban landscape is changing, so it feels rare to see some things remain the same. Beyond the elements of this story that are uniquely Chinese, I feel the universal value is that a single snapshot moment can impact our lives decades down the road, a sweet moment can be remembered forever, and strangers on the street can quietly become an important part of our personal history. So we’d better remember that small moments matter, and to be kind to each other. And especially to 3-year-olds, because they may look like babies today, but are growing into the big influencers of tomorrow.

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Just think of what could be accomplished if these two giants began to work in lockstep, throwing the might of their weight behind it- even on a few common global interests...

[Scott Kennedy @KennedyCSIS]

"What the world needs is not so much a return to the traditional forms of U.S.-Chinese engagement as a new normalization of relations that pulls each side back from the brink."

Wise advice from veteran US-China relations experts Mike Lampton and Wang Jisi.

https://t.co/vP4bJJ91T6 via @ForeignAffairs

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Japan's not directly in my wheelhouse, but with the JGB movements over past weeks and months, high on my radar: The age of Takaichi dawns, by @observingjapan https://t.co/Iq68ok1BUG

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Jack Lifton- someone who knows: "the difficult work is not finding a slogan, but defining the material, the form, the storage method, and the conversion pathway back into an end-user product."
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