I've been studying various aspects of #protest & contentious #politics in #China for 25 years.
What's happening now is novel, interesting, & potentially quite important. But we need to be careful about drawing conclusions or making predictions. A🧵:
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@CamGeopolitics@NCUSCR
It's taken nearly two decades, but today I was finally able to take this shot. Yes, that's Beijing's skyline taken from the Great Wall of China. Massive thanks to @chasbuduo for assisting with the ad-hoc identification of a well-suited part of the wall with the correct alignment.
Most countries' words for tea are variations on either (1) "tea" or (2) "cha"
That's how you can tell if they got it via sea trading (from a coastal part of China calling it "te") or land trading (from a landlocked part of China calling it "cha")
https://t.co/M5pqg26u5U