Sino Stacks

Exploring Chinese & Sinosphere culture, identity and modern life.

History, diaspora, commerce & global influence.

Building understanding, one layer at a time.

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Sino Stacks begins here

Chinese culture is too deep to be flattened into stereotypes, headlines, or shallow insights

Sino Stacks explores the layers behind it. History, identity, aesthetics, commerce, diaspora, modern life, politics & the forces shaping how the world sees China

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Night aerial views of the Chengdu city's skyline in #china 🇨🇳

[Mi.C @michch_mi]

本Shang人在大理暴晒暴走 喝喝喝的一天

[Beautiful China @PDChinaLife]

Ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival, the festive spirit is already in full swing in Qingtian County, east China's Zhejiang Province, where dragon boat teams gather to race to the rhythm of pounding drums and clashing gongs.

[Sino Stacks @sinostacks]

3/ People don't have to agree on their governance (I would never live there personally), but it's definitely growing.

Many people would be very shocked if they visited Pyongyang in person as a tourist.

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1/ Culture is part of this, but in this case, the real reason is the capital injection from the war-economy boom. Part of the liquidity funding Pyongyang's new apartments and development is tied to the ongoing conflict. There's an estimated $10 billion in capital injected

[鍾翔宇 Xiangyu @notXiangyu]

Only naive redlibs thought this. It was quite apparent to many people whose views were more grounded in reality and objectivity that the DPRK is an economic miracle waiting to happen, while things look less bright for Cuba. And while geography is oke factor, it isn't the only one

[Sino Stacks @sinostacks]

2/ into the DPRK (North Korea) 🇰🇵. Not only that, but this came with critical raw materials, energy supplies, and sophisticated military technology.

That being said, the DPRK punches far above its weight as the world's second most sanctioned country, plus multilateral bans.

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@raptorsringszn2 @raptorsringszn2 You're welcome. I appreciate the kind words.

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📕 Sino Notes

1/ What is Ho Chi Minh Thought In #vietnam 🇻🇳?

Ho Chi Minh Thought isn't a watered-down nationalist gloss on Marxism-Leninism. It's the most fully worked-out version of Vietnamese communism there is

And no, the label "Vietnamese communism" doesn't explain itself

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@kage_urufu Thank you 🙏

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@clashreport @kage_urufu

Cuba is executing the same strategy as the Deng Xiaoping reforms in China and the Doi Moi in Vietnam.

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Last thing, the threads are the highlight reel. The actual long-form work on Sinosphere history, politics, culture, and economics is going into my e-commerce store's blog and media section.

Content first, product drops to follow.

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13/ The fusion is the whole point. Communist, but built for one country's history. Nationalist, but unwilling to stop at a border. Vietnam trying to become independent, unified, and socialist on terms nobody handed it.

That is the Ho Chi Minh Thought.