Handan Bao

🇨🇳🇩🇪🇺🇸 Professional dabbler, aka, Conference Interpreter. auditory learner. Amateur designer. I drive a stick shift and parallel park, but love trains.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

I am no Académie Française, but I care about my (twin) mother tongue, Mandarin Chinese.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

@fuchsiadunlop Aww, this looks so legit. Where is my invitation to the banquet?😍

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

You need to see the whole clip.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

"Surprise invites overreaction, overreaction risks escalation, and escalation endangers all sides’ interests." A lot hinges on expectation management and precision of rhetoric.

[Ryan Hass @ryanl_hass]

1/ After having had an opportunity to privately compare notes with counterparts on both sides of Taiwan Strait in recent days on President Lai's inaugural address, I am struck by the scale of the disconnect that exists between both sides. A few brief observations (🧵)...

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

The silver lining in this whole fiasco may be that she’s now put on record so much that is unspoken. The pent up grievances against a rotten strand of corporate culture now has a clear target to rally against. Those suffering can put their finger on something. That’s helpful.

[Liqian Ren @liqian_ren]

Baidu’s PR in PR trouble for saying she only cares about performance, not the employee’s family bc she’s not the mother-in-law.

Baidu can use some help in PR or IR. Many Chinese companies could learn some practices so these kinds of things don’t have opportunity to become news.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

NEWS

Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is now tuition-free thanks to a $1 billion gift from Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former professor.

Gottesman, whose late husband was an early investor with Warren Buffett, has made it a condition of the gift that the college NOT change its name—an unusual requirement in a world where much smaller gifts often come with the requirement that the colleges be named after the donor.

Most students at the Einstein College of Medicine graduate with $200,000 in debt; they will now be free of that burden.

https://t.co/SOekmWV8d4

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ Russian media: China's 3 biggest banks stop accepting payments from sanctioned Russian institutions.

https://t.co/Zc6W5jvCOA

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

What the actual f! I am unsubscribing from the Economist.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

@AnnRutledgeRR I hane not.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

A tiny fraction of husband’s DVD collection. He has enough for at least one semester of East Asian Cinema. I am less familiar with the Taiwanese and Japanese titles im his collection. Will slowly explore now that they have come out of grandma’s attic.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

#Timeline #History from 小红书 @你不知道的三金

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Tom Cotton's prejudiced remarks haven't gone unnoticed in China 👇, and I bet in the rest of Asia.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

I didn’t miss the opportunity to ask everyone at the table the day I cooked bamboo shoots with leafy greens, “Are you someone who eats shoots and leaves?” All my boys were amused. Happy reunion with an old book. #book #punctuation

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

No idea. You need to try and tell me. Was just thinking how to render it into Chinese. 杯子饭，杯饭（盒饭），杯装饭，饭杯。What do you prefer? #rice

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

@Poppersghost Speaking of ypsilon

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@AjaanMark Cup-rice……

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

The last and the second last movies we watched during our 9+ year sojourn in the US. It’s easy to guess which two.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

toppings on quite some days. World peace starts with accepting ridiculous breakfasts.

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

We may not be from Mars and Venus, but some of us are from Planet Rice and some from Planet Non-rice. Simple as that. I was born and raised on Planet Rice, now I eat müsli or rye bread with stinky French cheese, Spanish ham, smoked salmon, Fleischsalat or any such “ridiculous”

[Handan Bao @BridgeWeShall]

@NeysunM @SchwarzmanOrg @CISSTsinghua The second to @NeysunM’s left is Prof. 袁明.Dead sure about that. She looks amazing for her age. Not so sure it is 贾庆国 that I also spot in the panel, though. Can he be that young?