Michael Wang

[LuJun Quan @QuanLujun]

笑死了，中华民国台湾海巡署台中舰呛中共海警非常精彩：

中华民国台湾是主权独立的国家
与中华人民共和国互不隶属
这是无法否认的事实与现状；
台湾人民在民主自由的体制下创造了经济奇迹和民选总统的骄傲
你们应该回去争取民主自由😂
解决经济下行的问题
让中国百姓过上安稳的日子；
现在请你立即转向
立即转向
迅速离开台湾水域，
否则我们将依法采取必要行动…

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

lol.

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

近日，网友发视频，分享东莞某桥洞下大量年轻人生活窘迫，无家可归。

[Hung Cao @HungCao_VA]

Happy birthday America! April and I are proud to be with our Sailors and Marines today.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Ackman is right on the mechanism.

A rent freeze in a rising-cost environment is balance-sheet expropriation through price control.

The city is taking an inflation problem it failed to solve and forcing private buildings to absorb it. Taxes rise. Insurance rises. labor rises. utilities rise. repairs rise. debt service rises. Then revenue is frozen by politics. That is not housing policy. That is cash-flow confiscation with tenant-relief branding.

The most important line is operating leverage. Real estate looks stable until the spread breaks. A building can appear fine from the street while the owner’s economics are collapsing inside the walls. When rent cannot move and expenses keep moving, the owner has only a few choices:

Defer maintenance.

Cut service.

Stop investing.

Sell at a distressed price.

Default.

Convert if legally possible.

Fight politically.

Exit the market.

That is how housing quality dies. Not all at once. Slowly. Boiler replacement delayed. Roof work delayed. Hallways decay. Super gets cut. Response times worsen. Repairs become triage. Then tenants live inside the result of the “protection” they voted for.

The rent freeze gives existing stabilized tenants immediate relief. That is the political seduction. The cost shows up later as building decay, lower investment, fewer rental conversions, higher market-rate pressure, owner distress, and reduced supply appetite. The policy spends future housing quality to buy present political loyalty.

The South Bronx reference is not random drama. It points to the decay mechanism. When revenue cannot support the operating cost of the asset, owners eventually stop maintaining the asset. If the legal system prevents economic adjustment, the physical system adjusts instead. Pipes, roofs, elevators, boilers, facades, and hallways do not care about campaign promises.

The ugliest part: this crushes small owners before it crushes the truly powerful. Small landlords with debt and old buildings cannot absorb years of political theater. Large capital has lawyers, reserves, optionality, tax structuring, distressed-buying capacity, and patience. A hostile regime often claims to punish landlords and ends by killing the small owner layer, then making the remaining market more institutional, more scarce, and more expensive.

That is the contradiction.

The policy claims to protect tenants from capital.

It weakens the fragile owner class and leaves the field to entities with deeper capital.

Market-rate renters get hit hardest over time. If stabilized rents are frozen and new supply is discouraged, pressure moves into the unregulated stock. The city then gets two markets: protected incumbents and everyone else paying the clearing price for scarcity.

NYC is trying to preserve affordability while attacking the economics required to supply and maintain housing. That cannot work indefinitely.

Housing is physical. It has costs. Those costs must be paid by someone. If tenants do not pay, owners pay. If owners cannot pay, buildings pay. If buildings pay, the city decays.

A rent freeze is not free.

It is a transfer.

From owners to tenants now.

From maintenance to decay later.

From market-rate renters to stabilized incumbents.

From future supply to present politics.

From the physical city to the electoral machine.

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@EleanorOlcott Communism in action.

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@LiYuan6 lol

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@juanchogordillo @YanPeronn You would be correct under old tied breaking rules. But they have new rules. USA will win the group.

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

BREAKING: Chinese police in Chengdu raided a Sunday worship service at the well-known Early Rain Covenant Church on June 14, detaining multiple elders, church members, and even children.

According to witnesses, around 50–60 police officers and officials stormed the gathering, recorded attendees’ IDs, and transported worshippers to local police stations using buses and police vehicles. The whereabouts of many detainees remain unclear.

Early Rain Covenant Church has faced years of persecution since a major crackdown in 2018. Its pastor, Wang Yi, was sentenced to 9 years in prison in 2019 after criticizing restrictions on religious freedom and defending church independence from state control.

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@anish_koka Why would an “elite” program here take someone educated abroad?

[朱韵和 @zhu0588]

根據蔣彥永在2004年向中共中央及國家領導層遞交的公開信及其後媒體轉述，他描述在6月3日晚上約10點至午夜12點短短兩小時內，301醫院共接收了89名被子彈打傷的傷員，其中7人因搶救無效死亡；在手術過程中，他與醫務人員發現多例傷者內部器官被打碎、體內有大量碎彈片（被指為俗稱的「開花彈」或「達姆 彈」）造成的嚴重創傷。作為親歷救治過程的外科主任，蔣彥永的敘述是關於六四當晚北京街頭傷亡情況較具代表性的個別醫學見證之一。

六四當晚，位於北京西郊復興路的解放軍301醫院，成為距離屠殺現場最近的大型軍方醫院之一。蔣彥永親自指揮了那場徹夜的搶救行動。

晚上約10點，蔣彥永在宿舍聽到北方傳來連續密集的槍聲。幾分鐘後，他的呼叫器響起——急診室緊急呼叫。他趕到急診室時，眼前的一幕讓這位從醫30多年的老外科醫生幾乎暈過去：地上和診斷床上已躺著七名滿身是血的青年，其中兩人經心電圖確認已經死亡。

「我當外科醫生已30多年，到鐵道兵修成昆鐵路時也搶救過成批傷員，但那都是意外事故。而眼前，在堂堂中國首都北京，躺著的卻是被中國人民子弟兵用人民給予的武器殘殺的自己的人民。」蔣彥永後來在信中如此記述。

緊接著，一陣又一陣密集槍聲過後，周圍老百姓用木板、平板三輪車不斷送來傷者。301醫院共有18間手術室全部開啟，蔣彥永在急診室負責分診和緊急處理。從晚上10點多到午夜12點短短兩個小時內，醫院就接收了89名被子彈打傷的傷員，其中7人因搶救無效死亡。醫生們分三批連夜做手術，直到天亮才將能救的傷者救回。

蔣終身難忘的幾個具體案例：
1、一位20多歲的男青年，父母是301醫院對面七機部離休幹部。全家本來在家打麻將，聽到槍聲後，他和剛領結婚證的未婚妻跑上街。在五棵松十字路口遭到密集槍彈掃射，女友折返回來時發現他倒在血泊中。送到醫院後，心電圖呈直線，只有左手臂內側一個彈孔。母親跪在蔣彥永面前，雙手拉著他的腿哭求救兒子。蔣彥永淚流滿面，只能告訴她：「他心臟已被打碎，無可能救活。」母親後來大罵：「我跟著共產黨打日本、打蔣介石，現在解放軍卻把我兒子打死了！」

2、一位身體強壯的摩托車運動員，當天下午在豐臺練車，晚上回五棵松路口還沒下車就被子彈擊中。送到醫院時血壓還正常，但左腹股溝有巨大彈孔，大量出血無法止住。醫生眼睜睜看著他張大嘴掙扎呼吸，最終死去。

3、醫生們在手術中發現許多傷員體內有大量碎彈片（俗稱開花彈或達姆彈），這類子彈擊中人體後會碎裂，撕碎肝臟、腸道等內臟，造成遠比普通子彈更嚴重的破壞。

午夜後，部隊已通過301醫院門口，不再有新傷員送來。蔣彥永去手術室查看時，看到肝臟被打碎、腸道內滿是金屬碎片的傷者，內心震驚不已。醫院停屍間裡，死者遺體被解放軍看守，不准家屬領走，官方一律稱���「暴徒」。

這場搶救行動，暴露了軍方使用的特殊彈藥，也讓301醫院部分醫護人員對「平息反革命暴亂」的官方說法產生深刻懷疑。

图：蒋彦永，摄于2013年。

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@jayvanbavel 100 percent!!

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@DavidZhang360 And destroyed a civilization!

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@DEricSayers @ajphelo We should not let Chinese propagandists come in as journalists

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@luoleiorg 没有自由的社会。

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@JulieBlackadder @frasersugden No I it won’t. It is a failed country.

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@ProfDBernstein lol

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@drterrysimpson You ignore the fact that many Asian applicants overcome huge odds in life. Why should be daughter of Chinese immigrants who do not even speak English be less favored than the son of a black professional couple with lower test scores and grades?

[Michael Wang @mwangjd]

@ajphelo @WeiDuCNA That is not her job. She is here to report and document.