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[China Museums @MuseumsChina]

🥳A thrilling breakthrough in Chinese archaeology and literature! Bamboo slips from the Marquis of Haihun tomb in Jiangxi province have revealed the first known complete version of The Book of Songs (Shi Jing), dating to the Qin (221-206 BC) and Han (206 BC-AD 220) dynasties.📜

📌NOTICE: The gallery dedicated to books and bamboo slips at the museum built in the National Archaeological Site Park for Nanchang Han Dynasty Haihun Fief Site is now closed for renovation. It will reopen next year with newly conserved pieces on display. Stay tuned!

Learn more🔎:
https://t.co/uSDe2Gx8u7

#ChineseArchaeology #ChineseLiterature #TheBookofSongs #MarquisofHaihuTomb #archaeology #heritage

[Elena Song 🤯 @elenasongsong]

My mom goes to elderly university for free in China. It is probably the best thing they have done for elderly. She likes it so much. You can take any subject you like, no exam, no certificate, just learning for fun. She’s now learning gardening, music, philosophy, and some geopolitics. There are farmers travelling all the way to the school everyday to learn. This is 1000x better than stupid elderly home which basically kill elderly quickly rather than care.

[Rina @lindcai]

@zhouliang_mask @BerlinBuyers Will these fit the ONE and ZM100 frames?

[Rina @lindcai]

@steIIarevue I thought this large arc would end with Nuonuo never finding out who Ghostblade is. But considering she found out, plus what's to come, I have a horrible feeling she'll choose not to maintain contact with him, which is way sadder than her never finding out in the first place :(

[Rina @lindcai]

@zhouliang_mask Are there any plans to create a completely black version for permanent sale? Many mask wearers (in the West at least) find that we receive fewer comments, less abuse, and more acceptance from non-maskers if the mask is black versus white.

[Rina @lindcai]

@Rosmeihey Lovely 🥹 Will these be hardback or paperback? And are you planning on obtaining the licenses for any more baihe? We baihe fans don't have many physical copies🥺

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If you aren't cynical after that...

To punish the ICC for its attempt to go after Israel for Gaza, Trump launched a series of sanctions on the court's officials.

@KarimKhanQC, the chief prosecutor, had his personal email deleted by Microsoft and his bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

If you've ever wondered why the ICC only ever goes against Global South countries or individuals, you have your answer... Because when they don't, they quite literally have their personal lives destroyed.

Src: https://t.co/ZDhQT1pKqS

[Rina @lindcai]

@steIIarevue Loool my eye went straight to 陆光默杀什么关系 😂

[Rina @lindcai]

@marisa_honda @lifeweava The files that Lin Ling was reading in ep 3 said the villain that E-Soul was chasing and who smashed into Bu Dao wasn't human, it was some sort of modified organism so maybe the figure at the end of ep 4 is also a modified organism...but what does that mean for the real E-soul 🥺

[Rina @lindcai]

@steIIarevue Do you think this means he gets revived by the antagonists, but instead of trust he's being powered by fear 😭😭

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

People probably don't realize the stakes at play here and how thankful they should be for China's unyielding position since "liberation day". The future of the global order literally rests on it.

Basically they keep repeating almost word-for-word the same thing for 3 weeks:

"Tariff and trade wars have no winners... China doesn't look for a war but neither are we afraid of it... If the U.S. wants to talk, it should stop threatening and blackmailing [us] and seek dialogue based on equality, respect and mutual benefit. To keep asking for a deal while exerting extreme pressure is not the right way to deal with China and simply will not work."

Translation: remove the tariffs, approach us as equals, or there will be no deal. Period.

There's a good case to be made that it is this very consistency in China's stance that's:
a) emboldening other nations to resist American pressure—not a single country has capitulated to US demands since China took its stand
b) forcing the Trump administration to negotiate against itself, exposing the fundamental weakness of bullying as diplomatic strategy

This moment echoes pivotal historical turning points where great power behavior set precedents for decades—like Suez in 1956 or the Cuban Missile Crisis—only with potentially more far-reaching consequences.

Like those watershed events, China's resistance now sets a precedent that will probably shape international relations for years to come.

If China were to yield, make no mistake about what would follow:

The geopolitical landscape would transform overnight—smaller nations and probably even regional blocs like the EU would read the writing on the wall and fall in line, knowing resistance would be futile against a vindicated America if even China had to yield.

We'd witness American hubris on steroids, with Trump and future administrations validated in their belief that unilateral bullying is effective foreign policy: it would become their blueprint in an even worse way than it already is.

Most disturbing would be the effective end of multipolarity—for what is a 'pole' if it can simply be intimidated into compliance? In fact, it would undermine the very concept of sovereignty itself.

While China certainly pursues its own interests, its steadfast position makes it objectively the main bulwark against a pure "might makes right" world.

And as such what's at play here goes far whether China or America "wins" this particular standoff, but whether concepts like sovereignty and multilateralism, can survive.

Paradoxically we're in a place where if there's such thing as a "rules-based international order", China is the last meaningful defender of its core tenets, and the primary check against a dystopian slide toward predatory unilateralism, where sovereignty would become merely ceremonial—a polite fiction maintained at the pleasure of Washington.

Future historians may mark this moment as when the international system either reaffirmed its commitment to sovereign equality or surrendered to the law of the jungle—with China, somewhat unexpectedly, standing as civilization's last line of defense.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The way imperialists fantasise about genocidal mass extermination of people in various global South countries is actually sick and insane.

[Trigg @Triggeredal]

a uniquely American culture trait is threatening the lives of millions of uninvolved innocent people because they don't get their way

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It is indeed "one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of Trump's presidency" in the sheer level of gaslighting at play: he's trying to make one of the biggest and clearest humiliations in US history look like a win.

But there's no amount of lipstick that can disguise this pig. What happened is remarkably similar to the 2022 Liz Truss fiasco in the UK: Trump came out with a remarkably foolish and terribly executed policy that created a market panic—including in the bonds market—and he had to walk it back.

But unlike the British system that—for better or worse—can get rid of woefully incompetent Prime Ministers (that is, more incompetent than the average), the U.S. is stuck with Trump.

And unlike Liz Truss, Trump remains insulated by a circle of sycophants like Lutnick who reframe humiliating capitulations as 'extraordinary' triumphs, and a voter base that interprets even his most flagrant policy failures as masterful 4D chess moves.

Fact is, even after this retreat, the U.S. is in a far worse position than it used to be.

Contrary to what Lutnick and Trump are saying, what this episode proved beyond doubt is that the world is NOT ready "to work with President Trump to fix global trade". In fact, besides Israel's Netanyahu, I haven't seen a single country on earth come out publicly to support Trump's plan.

Sure, a couple of weaker countries who are heavily dependent on trade have reluctantly come forward to find a way to mitigate the damage Trump would do to their economies but to conflate this with enthusiastic cooperation is pure fantasy.

What we're witnessing instead is damage control by nations caught in the crossfire of his insane economic policies. And you can be sure that the long-term strategy of these countries will now be to reduce dependencies and trading links to the U.S. in order to avoid being caught in a similar situation in the future.

More importantly, the countries that together make up about 50% of trade with the U.S.—namely Canada, the EU and China—have all announced retaliatory tariffs and measures, which a) means that Trump's claim that countries other than China "aren't retaliating in any way, shape, or form against the United States" is a complete lie and b) shows that his approach has accomplished the remarkable feat of uniting geopolitical rivals in opposition to him.

Which is undoubtedly why his new approach seems to be to single-handedly focus on China, with a retreat to the good old U.S. strategy of trying to get others to help them contain China.

This has zero chance of working either, for 2 main reasons.

The first one is that if Trump has demonstrated one thing in the past 3 months, it's that he's fundamentally unstable and unreliable, and so is the United States. His chaotic governance sends a clear message to the world: America's word means nothing beyond the next Truth Social post.

If the notion that a country would take the risk of putting all its eggs in the American basket was already delusional before his presidency; it is now beyond absurd. What he's done is transform America from a cornerstone of global trade into a risk factor that must be hedged against.

The second one is that the "deal" on the table for these countries is absolutely repugnant, from their standpoint.

I mean, think about it: the "deal" would presumably be for these nations to abandon or significantly reduce their economic relationship with China—their largest trading partner in many cases—in exchange for a trading relationship with the U.S. that is worse than it used to be, with 10% additional tariffs. In effect it's asking countries to sacrifice their economic sovereignty and strategic flexibility for a lesser punishment.

It's a lose-lose proposition that might play well on Truth Social, but will get you laughed out of the room in the world of international relations. Unless you're say a tiny country that has the misfortune of being too weak and dependent on the American market.

But even in this latter case, these countries might amuse Trump in the short-term but they'll undoubtedly put in place long-term strategies to de-hitch themselves from the US crazy train as fast as possible in the medium term.

So all in all, what we're looking at here is not a strategic masterstroke but the desperate flailing of an administration that didn't anticipate how markets and trading partners would respond to economic coercion.

Trump is "teaching the world a lesson" all right: he taught them that America is now the biggest threat they face for their prosperity and the result of this won't be to "work with him", but to hedge themselves as much as they can from the American madness he's unleashed.

History will remember this not as an "extraordinary" moment of American strength, but as the point when the world concluded that diversifying away from the American market was no longer just economically prudent but existentially necessary for their own economic security.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Every African country needs to learn from Namibia 🇳🇦

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I genuinely don't know what's more pathetic: the richest country in the world somehow convincing itself they're a victim and asking the whole world to literally pay for the privilege of being subjugated, or those countries that choose to abandon all self-respect, validate this madness and fund their own oppression.

One thing is crystal clear though: this episode will go down as one of the most nakedly exploitative power plays in human history, and those submitting will likely carry the stain of their cowardice for a long, long time.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

"China makes crappy clothes anyway, so who cares?"

This is a very outdated view. Let me show you just one shop in Beijing, which I think makes clothes that surpasses Loro Piana, The Row, or whatever luxury ready-to-wear brand you can name. 🧵

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Message to Europe: “China is not an enemy. China is just a success story. That's Why it's viewed by the US as an enemy.”