Ann Listerud

Indo-Pacific econ analyst by day, @LACHINET_ advocate by night. Come for the East Asia Econ/Finance hot takes, stay for the cat pictures. 以前住所：大阪、开封，深圳，東京

[Ann Listerud @lianlist]

To see a sample of my writing, go to Google and click on the first result for:
- Understanding SASAC
- Negotiable certificate of deposit China
- Mixed ownership reform China
- Company party China
- Huarong crisis

[Ann Listerud @lianlist]

Hey guys, I got published! SOE Fraud in the crosshairs!
The fun thing about this is a) how blatant the fraud is, and b) it includes fake Military Civil Fusion contracts

https://t.co/Xd6yRpLAm1

[ErrantScience @ErrantScience]

There are many areas in research that the rise of AI won't yet impact... however, that won't stop people from trying to shoehorn it in #AI #ChatGPT

[Taisu Zhang @ZhangTaisu]

(And the answer to both questions is “no” IMO.)

[Taisu Zhang @ZhangTaisu]

Look, Beijing’s already shown its cards on this: it’s going to double down on exports. The only questions are whether it can shrug off the tariffs that are inevitably coming its way, or if there’s enough demand in developing countries to make up. https://t.co/TwUO4Ema45

[Taisu Zhang @ZhangTaisu]

Obligatory thoughts on the Third Plenum decision document (https://t.co/w7HLKzFg8e): substance was unremarkable, with no significant departures from current reality. That said, the Party’s political emphasis seems to have to fully shifted back to economic development.

[No Context Cats @nocontextscats]

Data analyst

[Eliot Chen @eliotcxchen]

🧵For the last year, @PekingMike @NorthropKatrina and I have investigated a secret about Jack Ma’s business empire:

For years, Xiao Jianhua, jailed financier to China’s political elite, found early, lucrative windows to invest $1B+ in Ma’s companies, from Alibaba to Ant. 1/8

[Paprika Girl @PaprikaGirl_JP]

A "hagaki" (葉書) is translated as a "postcard," but did you know it was once actually a message written on a leaf - the literal translation? It was meant to flatter the temporary nature of the message. For this reason, people would write love letters and poetry on leaves.
You can still do this, of course, for musings and scribbles, or as tea ceremony gifts, like this.

[Lev Nachman @lnachman32]

Personally I (and most of Taiwan) feel that childless cat ladies make strong presidents.

[Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @PekingMike]

@thewirechina @NorthropKatrina @eliotcxchen @DavidBarboza2 @QianIsabelle @muyixiao @vwang3 @rory_tolan_ If you have ANY information on the identity of Ms. Sun Dan, owner of BVI "Harbour Yields" which owned 6.5% of Reorient Shares, please consider reaching out to us. You can always use https://t.co/u2LPq4PyZK (32/32) END

[Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @PekingMike]

@thewirechina @NorthropKatrina @eliotcxchen @DavidBarboza2 @QianIsabelle @muyixiao @vwang3 It was a uniquely Hong Kong deal. Ko sold 1.94 billion new shares to Yu and Ma's consortium at a price WAY lower than what Reorient was trading at. For anyone in the deal, it was a license to print money b/c once word got out that Ma was behind the deal, shares soared. (13/x)

[Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @PekingMike]

@thewirechina @NorthropKatrina @eliotcxchen @DavidBarboza2 Why are they amazing? Because they are the internal docs of a deeply politically connected, criminal, brilliant billionaire and they tell a story SHARPLY at odds with what the public is told, and they give unique insight into how business is done at elite levels in China (6/x)

[Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @PekingMike]

@thewirechina @NorthropKatrina @eliotcxchen @DavidBarboza2 The source of the docs is a former employee who wanted to expose how Xiao could secretly control companies behind the scenes. The source also wanted to shine a light on shoddy enforcement and oversight, particularly in Hong Kong, that allowed Xiao to get away with this. (4/x)

[Ann Listerud @lianlist]

#ChinaGovEconNews
MOFA released a statement sanctioning "U.S. Military Companies" (美国军工企业) to punish the U.S. for selling arms to Taiwan.

I just enjoy the verbal parallels to U.S. restrictions towards "Chinese Military Industrial Complex"(CMIC)

https://t.co/JxGFIP3iNE

[Elise A. Mitchell @byeliseam]

But, individually, we can conquer imposter syndrome - because people are really out here submitting first drafts. Don't do that. But, don't pursue perfection either. A lot of revising happens between acceptance and publication.

Perfect is the worst enemy of good enough.

[Elise A. Mitchell @byeliseam]

The bar for revise and resubmit (rather than rejection) at many journals is much, much lower than most of today's grad students and early career folks think.

This isn't the job market where unfortunately you have a shot in the dark. Publications need and want your articles.

[ErrantScience @ErrantScience]

I have seen all 4 of these lines of best fit in published peer-reviewed papers and oddly the top left is probably the rarest type 📉

[ErrantScience @ErrantScience]

This is a Sankey diagram of how a typical lab project goes. Let us know if we missed any categories #Sankey #DataVis

[Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb]

民主 in contemporary CJKV languages means 'democracy' (lit. 'demos-ruler'), but in classical texts it could refer to the monarch, i.e. the 'lord of the people,' as here in the Book of Documents 書經. /

[MOFBA • Advertising History in China @MOFBACN]

Look at the size of this thing!

Ca. 1920s matchbox for "New Style Tank" safety matches, made in China.