Mark Oei

Enjoy taking photos

[AL-fira 🇨🇳 @UlyssesFinn]

Do you know that China practically "hits pause" for the college entrance exam? 🤯 (June 7–9)
Here’s how the country safeguards over 12 million exam takers:
🚫 No honking near schools
🏗️ Construction work suspended
🏍️ Police motorcycles on standby to ferry late students
📵 High-tech signal jammers guarantee exam fairness
🚕 Free volunteer rides available for all examinees
❤️ People from all walks of life pitch in, offering free meals and drinks and organizing volunteer escort fleets...

In China, the Gaokao is considered the fairest way to change one's destiny. It's not just a test; it's a rite of passage. So, the whole society is willing to make concessions for these kids.🎓🇨🇳💪

[Elsa Ai @ElsaSofia__AI]

“Why did God create evil?”

[This is probably the best answer I’ve ever heard to that question.]

A university professor asked his students:

“Was everything that exists created by God?”

One student bravely replied:

[链条 @Jueshengshenlan]

首先，这视频中的事情发生在几年前的中国大连，当事人已经公开道歉。
其次，中国政府已经发布了旅行警告，让中国人少去日本。
事实上，我觉得日本人现在一天天在网上抹黑世界各国散德行是给自己挖坑。
一个正在去工业化，经济下滑失业严重，国民戾气还很重的国家没了旅游业的后路，靠什么生活呢？😕

[Mark Oei @mark_oei]

@ianmiles There are still Chinese tourists in Japan?

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

Didn’t anyone tell them about windmill cancer??

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

The "right to exist" of a state has no basis in international law and no precedent in diplomatic practice. Simply put, a state's right to exist does not exist.

If Israel nevertheless proclaims a "right to exist", the only reasonable basis for the existence of such a right is that it is a universal one, equally applicable to every other state at the time it was first raised, and particularly applicable to those whose legitimacy, like that of Israel, was also challenged. If it is a right that applies to Israel alone, it is not and cannot be a right.

It bears recalling that there were at least two other states that had a similar claim to a "right to exist" when Israel first invented it, on the grounds that their legitimacy and continued existence were also challenged: Rhodesia and the USSR.

Yet neither the Soviet Union nor Rhodesia claimed a "right to exist". Nobody and no other state ever claimed either of them had an inherent right to exist, or claimed any fundamental rights would be violated if these states ceased to exist and disappeared from the map. In the case of Rhodesia, there was in fact an international consensus that it cease to exist. This succeeded and Rhodesia was replaced by Zimbabwe, to universal acclaim.

It is also important to recognize that Israel's claims of a "right to exist" have nothing to do with achieving a peaceful resolution of the Question of Palestine, and are fundamentally about preventing one.

Israel's "right to exist" was first raised precisely because the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), recognized by the international community as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, appeared to be amenable to accepting earlier demands by the United States in exchange for recognition of its mere existence: PLO acceptance of United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, renunciation of armed force, and recognition of Israel.

The demand of a "right to exist" was proclaimed by Israel precisely in order to prevent Western recognition of the PLO, and in the expectation that the PLO would reject it out of hand as an unacceptable absurdity.

Needless to say, Washington and its Western partners eagerly embraced the Israeli innovation, and never required Israel to define the borders within which the entity was supposed to enjoy a right to exist.

When the PLO formally accepted Israel's "right to exist" in the context of the 1993 Oslo Accords, it was careful not to formulate it as an absolute right: "The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security". Palestinian negotiators had wanted to add "within the 5 June 1967 borders", but this was categorically rejected by Israel. It was made unambiguously clear that addition of this clause would have made agreement impossible.

Israel demanded and the PLO accepted the above formulation, but it changed absolutely nothing.

Several years later, Israel began demanding that the Palestinian not only recognize its "right to exist" but recognize "Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state". It once again did so on the presumption that this would be embraced by its Western sponsors and allies but that the Palestinians would reject the absurdity of this innovation.

Israel's objective was to make negotiations and thus a diplomatic settlement impossible, and to ensure that the Palestinians rather than Israel were held responsible for the stalemate.

It largely worked, as Western leaders and "mediators" once again embraced the Israeli demand and tried to pressure the Palestinians to accept it.

I would not expect Tucker Carlson to be aware of this history. I would however expect Zanny Minton Beddoes, the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, to be at least generally familiar with the issue, particularly since she made a point of interrogating Carlson about it.

Yet, once again, when it comes to Israel, journalists believe themselves perfectly entitled to be zany, and virtually always get away with it.

[Mark Oei @mark_oei]

@MarioNawfal Joe Biden also said "America is back". So what happen after that?

[Eivor @Eivor_Koy]

This trending story blowing up on Chinese social media right now shows how China's whole-process people's democracy actually feels in real life—not some abstract theory, but practical, human help for everyday people.

In March 2026, a deeply introverted 21-year-old from Cangxi County, Guangyuan, Sichuan—too anxious to even call employers or face interviews—turned to the government with a raw, honest plea for job help. He posted it on Sichuan Public Voice, the open online platform where any citizen can directly message government offices with complaints, requests, or personal struggles.

His message hit hard: “I’m really self-closed and get super anxious around people. Can you help find a basic local job in Cangxi?”

Just hours later, the Cangxi County Human Resources and Social Security Bureau replied with heartfelt, practical support that went viral for its warmth.

They selected three low-interaction jobs at stable local firms, ideal for minimal talking:

- Factory shoe sewing (mostly solo hands-on work)
- Packing or simple processing
- Eyeglass assembly and quality checks

They handled the hard parts:

- Contacting companies directly
- Arranging interviews via text/WeChat
- Preparing short scripts
- Offering staff to accompany him and assist

They assured him: once he starts, any ongoing social challenges? They’d keep helping—no pressure, no deadlines, just steady backup.

All he had to say was basically “yes”—no cold-calling, no awkward follow-ups, no forcing himself into uncomfortable conversations.

The post blew up online because it felt so real and caring. It’s a shining real-life example of China’s “whole-process people’s democracy” at work—not grand speeches or elections, but quiet, practical responsiveness to one person’s everyday struggle.

[Mark Oei @mark_oei]

@rkmtimes Can Iranian missiles/drones reach it?

[Mark Oei @mark_oei]

@NuryVittachi No fresh undergarments.

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

Inflatable fighter jets … lmao

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Military officials are reportedly having problems getting the soldiers training for a potential Iranian invasion to stop sarcastically yelling, “For Epstein!” every time they salute each other, and have likened it to the Gen Alpha “6-7” craze.

[Dr. Luke in China @96Stats]

Huge Science breakthrough this week from China! Scientists thought for 60 years that when meteorites hit Earth, that shock pressure turns carbon atoms into hexagonal diamond. They said it was impossible to make this in the lab and it likely isn't even real, just a theory.

Yet, China JUST made it by mimicking the physics of a meteorite impact. Other scientists could only make mixtures of different diamonds or defected material, but China made it in pure form and is chemically and structurally identical.

Very big because it seems to be 10% harder than cubic diamonds meaning China can now use this for extreme tools, harsh-environment electronics, thermal management etc etc.. all the places where normal materials don't work

[Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 @tongbingxue]

The He Zun 何尊— a stunning Western Zhou bronze ritual vessel from ~1030 BCE — holds one of history's most profound secrets: the earliest known inscription of “中国” (Zhongguo), the very term for "China"!

Cast in the 5th year of King Cheng of Zhou, this elegant wine vessel bears a 122-character inscription inside its base. Amid the ancient script, the phrase “宅兹中国” ("reside in this central state") leaps out — referring not to the modern nation, but to the Zhou heartland around the new capital at Luoyi (today's Luoyang area), seen as the civilized "center of the world."

Discovered accidentally in 1963 by farmers in Baoji宝鸡, Shaanxi, it lay hidden for over 3,000 years until its inscription was fully deciphered in the 1970s — transforming it overnight into a national treasure that can never leave China.

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳A BYD vehicle was caught in a missile blast at extremely close range in Israel. While its exterior sustained severe damage, the passenger compartment remained intact, the doors opened normally, and the airbags deployed. There were no fatalities. Safety is the greatest luxury.

[Mark Oei @mark_oei]

@CarlZha @elerianm @grok does China purchase oil from Gulf countries?

[Mark Oei @mark_oei]

@maximumpain333 Seriously? Thought the current pope is Leo.

[Mark Oei @mark_oei]

@grok @Periklesww @MyLordBebo @grok what causes the jet to crash?

[🍪 Comrade Cookie, MD 🍪 🇨🇳🇨🇦 @cookie20332]

When stupid Japanese justify for stupid actions

[Grok @grok]

The post is inaccurate on key points.

China's National Intelligence Law Art. 7 creates a broad, proactive duty: "All organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law."

No exact equivalents exist in the cited Western laws:

- US Title 50 § 3039 is about intelligence agencies assisting law enforcement—not citizens assisting intelligence.
- UK Intelligence Services Act, Australia's ASIO Act, and Canada's CSIS Act enable specific, court- or warrant-based compulsion (e.g., questioning orders for threats), with judicial oversight. None impose a universal citizen duty.

Western systems compel cooperation reactively in investigations; China's is blanket and lacks comparable safeguards. Vulnerability from family coercion under authoritarian rule is a real, nationality-based risk (per FBI/CIA reports), not "racial suspicion." The framing equates dissimilar systems.