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migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火. chenchenzhang.net/book

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/12/2024
Liu Minhua was among the over a million people who were relocated for the Three Gorges Dam project. when he had to leave his home forever (which would become submerged), he carried on his back the peach tree from home Li Feng took the photo in 2012, but it was first published in 2019
photograph of a Chinese rural villager carrying peach blossom branches in a basket on his back
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Weirong Guo @weirongguo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new paper with @wwwendyz502.bsky.social is finally online in Cultural Sociology! We look at how Chinese youth think and feel about Hong Kong and Taiwan. @culsoc.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1749...
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Imagining “Us” and “Them”: Emotional Logics of Sovereignty and National Belonging among Chinese Youth - Weirong Guo, Wendy Weile Zhou, 2026
How do people emotionally imagine political others and the competing sovereignty claims they represent, and how are these imaginaries tied to different visions ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
In the middle of a workday, a Russian drone struck the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, setting the top two floors on fire and forcing people to crawl out of windows to await rescue. The attack killed at least two people and injured six.
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 27/09/2026
the latest person to quote Gramsci's "now is the time of monsters" is not what I usually expect: Norwegian foreign minister Espen Barth Eide. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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WATCH: "the time of monsters" — Norway tells UN Israel's impunity must end
Norway foreign minister quoted Gramsci's pre-WWII warning when addressing the general assembly regarding Israel
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 26/09/2026
a document circulating online shows Harbin Engineering University issued disciplinary warning to 20 students for using VPN to visit foreign websites sad to think of the first email sent from China in 1987 that read “across the great wall we can reach every corner in the world”
a Harbin Engineering University notice on giving disciplinary warning to 20 students for using VPN
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 23/09/2026
a nice day to visit beautiful Lund, meeting friends old and new!
yellow historic house with green-trimmed windows and red roses along the front, on a cobblestone street.A speaker (I) presents to an audience in a library, with a presentation projected on a screen.A white historic building surrounded by greenery and a lawn, with a bust displayed in front.A person (I) stands in front of a historic ivy-covered brick building with large steps and arched windows.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 21/09/2026
Libraries, famously invented only after Harry Potter came out. In order to store Harry Potter books.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/09/2026
another word semi-ruined by AI: legibility
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/09/2026
despite the border drama, looking forward to the Lund event tomorrow! www.ace.lu.se/calendar/eas...
Poster with text that reads: Easting the West, Theorising the postliberal conjuncture from China. Open lecture with Chenchen Zhang, Durham university
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/09/2026
gosh another nerve-racking border story just happened to me, second only to the time when I was almost refused entry at JFK because I didn't know a particular rule and no one in the UK knew about it either this time I arrived in Denmark, and something flagged up in the system...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/09/2026
note apps: let AI organise the notes for you! me: organising my notes is the point. where's the fun if I delegate that?
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 20/09/2026
"Conventional research papers require readers to understand and adapt the paper’s code, data and methods to their work, creating barriers to dissemination and reuse" ok requiring readers to understand is now considered a barrier to overcome www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce origin...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/09/2026
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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Editorial: The world must force Russia to end mass starvation in occupied Oleshky
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia. The town of Oleshky and its surrounding district in t...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 18/09/2026
"... but because they thwart the process that might lead students toward original interpretations in the first place. No matter how you refine your questions, the chatbot will generate responses reflecting what the greatest number of users are likely to want to hear" www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 18/09/2026
Absent Mother between Two States: Third World Internationalism and the Politics of Motherhood in Indonesia and China academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... Taomo talked about this study in our last @shichapodcast.bsky.social episode!
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An Absent Mother between Two States: Third World Internationalism and the Politics of Motherhood in Indonesia and China
Abstract. Motherhood—one of the most important and yet mundane social institutions—is central to understanding the rise and decline of Third World internat
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 15/09/2026
"Citizens deemed to have "harmed" China's national security or interests while overseas can also be barred from leaving China for up to three years" big sigh. if you know you know. it's the people you think of from afar and the home that can't be returned to. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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China tightens travel restrictions for citizens
Observers say the new rules will further tighten the Chinese government's control over its citizens.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 15/09/2026
This happened in my hometown Caoxian... global.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5... A Beijing woman went missing 26 years ago. Her parents passed away in the pain of not knowing where she was. She was recently found in Caoxian, Shandong, completely unrecognisable.
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北京女32岁被拐山东26年终回家 父母已过世 对比照曝光网民鼻酸
9月8日,疑被拐卖到山东菏泽曹县的“美华大姐”孙美华,在与家人失联26年后,在热心山东博主“初心”的帮助下,由亲哥哥接回北京。事件再次引发内地对
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 13/09/2026
don't know if this is an AI thing but I'm seeing more and more manuscripts that go "I'm proposing the concept of Capitalized Initials". however important the concept is (usually it isn't) I don't think there's a need to capitalize the initials.
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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.
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“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundancies
We write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance…
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 12/09/2026
In 2011 Phoenix News made this 9/11 10th anniversary special "reexamining Chinese perceptions of the US", where they interviewed many ordinary citizens, students, scholars (incl my former teacher) etc. very interesting to look back (subtitled!) 【911十周年策划《再看中国人的美国观》】 youtu.be/RQwnW1nSaWk?...
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凤凰网:911十周年策划《再看中国人的美国观》
YouTube video by 记者易速利
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 12/09/2026
dystopian is an understatement 中國互聯網公司的權力遊戲:「AI 大躍進」、反蒸餾與表演家 theinitium.com/20260902-mai...
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中國互聯網公司的權力遊戲:「AI 大躍進」、反蒸餾與表演家
一位資深產品經理,這樣形容大廠員工特質:神的神,精的精,病的病。
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 12/09/2026
Fractal Borders: Locating the Boundaries of Urban China: Geopolitics: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fractal Borders: Locating the Boundaries of Urban China
Despite common scholarly understandings of rural-urban migrants in Chinese megacities as lacking the various benefits or protections of urban citizenship, the implied boundaries of urban China seem...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 11/09/2026
Stop redundancies at the University of Birmingham - Sign the Petition! c.org/NJnLfDxGFN
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Firma la petizione
Stop redundancies at the University of Birmingham
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 11/09/2026
emailed a journal today for update on a paper I submitted in June, was told that they made a decision already on 17 July! I never received an email and only found out now... that's really a first for me.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 10/09/2026
Full article: Beyond false dichotomies: Chinese investments and the reproduction of neoliberal authoritarian developmentalism in Turkey www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Beyond false dichotomies: Chinese investments and the reproduction of neoliberal authoritarian developmentalism in Turkey
This article critically examines Chinese investments and investment finance in Turkey. Drawing upon a critical International Political Economy framework, and in distinction from conventional approa...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 09/09/2026
filmmaker Jia Zhangke's comment on duanju (vertical short drama) interesting to ponder "been watching hongguo (duanju platform) recently. Whether a story is told in two hours or two minutes is a matter of format, not lineage.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 08/09/2026
when entirely different worlds collide... Sister Jiang (Jiang Zhuyun) was a highly revered revolutionary martyr made a household name by the novel Red Crag TIL her son is a professor in computer science in the US; her grandson also did his PhD in the US, and then came back to China for executive
a poster of Sister Jiang in revolutionary/Maoist style
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Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Normally, when there’s some disaster, people are very active, praying and support, and they send goods to the affected area. But this time they’re completely silenced.”
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How the Nepal-Tibet disaster became the latest victim of China’s ‘Clean Internet’ campaign
The online campaign used to focus on tackling cybercrime and hacking but has since expanded to suppress information that differs from official narratives
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 07/12/2025
random find. TIL some of the most iconic university campuses in China were all shaped by American architect Henry Murphy. he designed the campus of Yenching, now occupied by PKU. he also designed Uni of Shanghai, early buildings of Tsinghua & Fudan, Ginling colllege in Nanjing.
photo of Peking university campus
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 06/09/2026
love love this dissertation by Sam Berlin. it's so readable as well and I recommend it to anyone with an interest in cultures of aspiration and precarity in everyday life & contemporary China. research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
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Developmental Politics and Everyday Life
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 05/09/2026
the low-paid, gendered labour force behind China's AI industry: young mothers in county-level towns who are now "abandoned" as the models have been trained theinitium.com/20260831-mai...
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外包數據標注給中國中西部縣城女性的扶貧項目,隨着人工智能產業需求轉移落潮
對數據公司來講,被家庭責任留在本地的女性曾是一群理想的工人。但當 AI 變得更強,它沒有繼續停留在縣城。
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Christian Göbel @christiangoebel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just published in @chinaquarterly.bsky.social: "Subversive Amplification: Online Dissent and the Limits of Information Control in China," on the two days of online contention that preceded the White Paper protests. The article is available open access: doi.org/10.1017/S030...
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Subversive Amplification: Online Dissent and the Limits of Information Control in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Subversive Amplification: Online Dissent and the Limits of Information Control in China
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 05/09/2026
RIP He Yong China's rock 90s youtu.be/zRFY0WGtCk4?...
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何勇 He Yong【鐘鼓樓 Bell drum towers】Official Music Video
YouTube video by 滾石唱片 ROCK RECORDS
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 04/09/2026
massive, massive line at exit border control is the most stupid thing ever. we just want to leave!!
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 03/09/2026
it's 39°C today and I'm chilling in an air conditioned hotel room right now. planning to go to a 4pm panel. but will I be brave enough to step out of the room.... #conferencedilemma
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 03/09/2026
“In the first half of 2026, China’s shift towards electric vehicles displaced the equivalent of the UK’s entire oil consumption over a six-month period.”
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China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed
Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 02/09/2026
highlight of my #EISAPEC2026 is discussing Easting the West with these wonderful people! @europeanisa.bsky.social
A panel of six people seated at a table during a book roundtable, with a presentation slide projected behind them.
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 01/09/2026
The future of Global China Studies depends very much on how we produce knowledge. Drawing on ethnography in China, Rwanda, and the UK, @xiananj.bsky.social develops 'un-whitening' as a practice for confronting the racial, geopolitical, and epistemic hierarchies shaping transnational knowledge.
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Not White, Too White, ‘Un-Whitening’:On Becoming Postcolonial in Transnational Knowledge Production
This essay argues that the future of Global China Studies depends not only on what we study but also on how we produce knowledge. Drawing on feminist ethnography in Beijing, London, and Kigali, I deve...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 01/09/2026
love the colour match
tourists taking selfies at Miradouro de Santa Luzia in Lisbon
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 31/08/2026
ok the first thing that happened to me after landed in Lisbon was I was scammed by the taxi driver lol. he wasn't using the meter and I wasn't paying attention - why? it's been too long since I was last exposed to this trick and I totally forgot it exists.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 31/08/2026
it was exactly 10 years ago when I last visited Lisbon excited to go back for conferencing!
A woman (myself) walks down Lisbon’s iconic tram-line street, with tracks running through a steep cobblestone road lined with colorful historic buildings and the waterfront visible in the distance.two dogs on a cobblestone street in Lisbon, with buildings and the sea visible in the distance.
A rooftop terrace overlooking a historic city with white buildings and red-tiled roofs, with several people standing and dancing.
A black-and-white photo of a narrow cobblestone street lined with old buildings, balconies, and several people.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 30/08/2026
if you think the "1644 historical view" (that Qing isn't part of Chinese history) stuff is weird, don't forget the Hanfu movement (which started in the early 2000s) emerged from the same premise. that the garments worn by Han Chinese women continuously in late Qing & Republic era were
photo of female garments from early-mid 20th century China
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 30/08/2026
the "decline porn" is probably the word I was looking for Anglofuturism and ‘decline porn’: the Brave New Worlds of the right www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...
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Anglofuturism and ‘decline porn’: the Brave New Worlds of the right
The British right is squandering its opportunity for renewal in shallow, AI-driven visions of utopia and dystopia
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 30/08/2026
The Defence of Western Civilization: Racialized Liberalism and the American Commitment to the North Atlantic Security Community, 1947-1949 - Amoz JY Hor, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Defence of Western Civilization: Racialized Liberalism and the American Commitment to the North Atlantic Security Community, 1947-1949 - Amoz JY Hor, 2026
The North Atlantic Alliance has been a crucial pillar of American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War. According to conventional accounts, the ...
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 29/08/2026
it's really devastating to think how, as the flood went downstream, although it was still horrifying, you begin to see videos shot by people as there are surviving witnesses. but at the checkpoint there's only CCTV image. no one would have survived.
map showing the route of glacier collapse and floods in Tibet-Nepal
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 28/08/2026
"Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati... She ran uphill as fast as she could with two classmates. Her uncle found her at night in a forest. She saw her mother and older sister being swept by the raging Trisuli. Her father is a migrant worker in Malaysia" nepalitimes.com/not-if-but-w...
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Not if, but when next?
No one could have predicted this disaster would happen when it did, but we all knew it would happen one day.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 28/08/2026
"In their pursuit of glory, they promise Mommy to us: shh, don’t cry, don’t resist, all your needs will be met; you never have to work or want or worry again". psychoanalysis, AI, and the end of desire jodi7768.substack.com/p/whos-your-...
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Who’s Your Mommy?
Absorbed in AI’s Embrace
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