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Alex Colville

@colvap.bsky.social
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Chinese AI researcher @ChinaMediaProject. Some words ft. @Economist, @FT, @thewirechina, @thechinaproject(RIP). Still recovering from zero-Covid.

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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
media.tenor.com
a group of people standing in front of a screen with a red ball in the background
ALT: a group of people standing in front of a screen with a red ball in the background
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It's a real keyboard arrangement apparently, the cangjie input method en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie...
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Cangjie input method - Wikipedia
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 05/09/2025
US-PRC convergence takes another step forward as Washington adopts the time-honoured practice of "One Institution with Two Names" (一個機構兩塊牌子).
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One Institution with Two Names - China Media Project
“One institution with two names” describes the frequent practice in China of giving a single Party-state body, such as a government ministry, bureau, or work unit, two distinct names. This practice is...
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
CCTV has a montage of cute small children watching the military parade yesterday, netizens saying this is "the best patriotic education." There really isn't any national security topic state media hasn't tried levering cuteness into to make it more appealing. mbd.baidu.com/newspage/dat...
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
On parade day, amid talk of a new world order, Jordyn Haime looks at the notion of China as a "civilizational state" (文明型国家). Arising years before "civilization" joined the core of CCP thought, it connects today to Xi's “Global Civilization Initiative.” chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dict...
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Civilizational State - China Media Project
The “civilizational state” is the idea that China is unlike any other ordinary country, but a civilization forced into the restrictive nation-state framework developed in the West. While the notion is...
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Foreigners in Taiwan 🇹🇼 外國人在台灣 @foreignersintw.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
China’s growth is impressive, but have you seen Taiwan’s growth?
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Jordyn Haime 韩新慧 @jordynhaime.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
One of those articles that gives the most terrifying possible answer to the question "is AI *really* stealing my job?"
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I've been reading the court docs and it is incredibly upsetting reading. Absolutely awful.
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Great piece from @alexludoboyd.bsky.social on what America is actually reading about China: "American reading appetites, when it comes to China, skew towards conspiracy theories and analyses of Cold War redux" Willing to bet the UK little different.
chinabooksreview.com
What America Reads About China | China Books Review
Conspiracy theories and alarmism about Cold War redux are the best selling China books on Amazon.com. We read them so you don’t have to.
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Boris Johnson in Taiwan suggests "the solution to the cross-strait dispute would be to ask Beijing if they really wanted Taiwan." Give the man his Nobel Peace Prize. Kudos to Sasha B. Chhabra for pointing out the DPP paying BJ and Liz Truss 100k to speak on Taiwan is money down the drain.
taipeitimes.com
Invite ‘will-bes,’ not has-beens - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
As did their re-enactment of the first heart transplant www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDr...
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Monty Python - The First Heart Transplant
YouTube video by rylxyc
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
DeepSeek web version says it can't talk about a serious bullying incident in China that's currently a public scandal. Chinese AI being coopted into the wider "social stability" system...
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
That's quite the headline.
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Visualizing Power in China’s Press: Despite speculation about Xi Jinping’s political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals. chinamediaproject.org/2025/07/10/v...
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Visualizing Power in China's Press - China Media Project
Despite speculation about Xi Jinping's political troubles, our latest analysis reveals his continued dominance in Chinese state media, overshadowing all known potential rivals.
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
thanks!
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hey Matt, you got a link for this?
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit: Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool. chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/24/d...
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DeepSeek’s Democratic Deficit - China Media Project
Governments and companies are underestimating the power of the high-performing AI model as a propaganda tool.
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hypocritical when it comes to rights and freedoms. chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/16/a...
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A Trump Card for China’s Media - China Media Project
The authoritarian actions of the Trump administration have added jet fuel to one of the Chinese Communist Party's most enduring external propaganda frames — that the United States is fundamentally hyp...
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 24/06/2025
HK’s Environment Protection Dep’t says the wastewater will be too diluted by the time it hits HK to cause damage, so that is reassuring. But if you followed all the official hysteria and state media fear-mongering around the release of treated wastewater from Fukushima, it is also extremely ironic.
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This man sounds like he is from mainland China. In the video, he is crying "help" in Chinese (“救命“). I'm so heartbroken for immigrants from China and around the world who are experiencing this. (Then one naturally wonders, "am I the next, with my strange name and my accent?")
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
DeepSeek's latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese. The company's success has likely invited more concerted government involvement. That could set the tone for any other Chinese LLMs that become as famous as they have.
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China’s Global AI Firewall - China Media Project
DeepSeek's latest model is its most restricted yet, particularly for users making politically sensitive queries in Chinese. Is a global split opening in AI?
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Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Xi Jinping's daughter, Xi Mingze (習明澤), joined a private dinner with Lukashenko on June 8, her first-ever appearance at a dinner with a foreign leader, according to Belarus state media.
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The world is upside down. Harvard students interviewed on campus about the international student ban by *Chinese state media journalists*, request anonymity "for fear of retaliation from the US government." baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1833179...
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百度安全验证
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 08/05/2025
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).
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Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonizat...
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Concerning CEO opinions read like a "poor china takes" bingo card.
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Anyone seeking to pad their resumé should check out Michael Kovrig's LinkedIn, 2018-2021. What a way to turn an awful situation on its head.
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Xiang Li 向莉 @alicedreamss.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
4月15日凌晨,四川成都 某高架桥上被人悬挂横幅 “没有政治体制改革就没有民族复兴” “人民不需要一个权力不受制约的政党” “中国不需要谁指明方向,民主才是方向”
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Jemimah Steinfeld @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Spent all week looking for the perfect China tariff meme. Finally found it
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I know a lot of people are scared at the moment, but the populism and tribalism gripping the US right now are pretty universal trends, that could happen in any country at any time. Comparisons should stay local. Is there no part of US history we can compare this moment to, rather than China's?
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I remember some comparing Brexit to the Cultural Revolution back in 2016 - people were scared of a sudden, unprecedented surge of irrational populism threatening to sweep away the world as they knew it. So they desperately grasped for comparisons to make sense of it.
theatlantic.com
Brexit Is a Cultural Revolution
Why Boris Johnson’s deal is acceptable, but Theresa May’s was not
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
These sorts of comparisons are still too sensational. As long as citizens in small-town America aren't being beaten to death in show trials for being "anti-MAGA", and news editors aren't jumping to their deaths for criticizing Trump, the US is NOT doing its own version of the "Cultural Revolution."
thewirechina.com
America’s Cultural Revolution - The Wire China
President Trump is seeking a fundamental break from historical norms in a way that bears comparison with the decade of turmoil Mao Zedong instigated in China, albeit in a much less violent way.
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Ian TB @iantb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I love where OpenAI goes with its test prompts
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hundreds of gigabytes of data from an unsecured server expose how China is using artificial intelligence to automate the surveillance of online discourse, with a sophisticated classification system prioritizing military, social, and political content. chinamediaproject.org/2025/03/24/c...
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China’s AI Content Dragnet - China Media Project
Hundreds of gigabytes of data from an unsecured server expose how China is using artificial intelligence to automate the surveillance of online discourse, with a sophisticated classification system pr...
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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Slightly worrying…
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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Party leadership steadfastly adheres to Andrew Jackson's Conception of Judicial Irrelevance, Reaganomics Theory, the Silicon Valley Outlook on Development, Moving Fast and Breaking Things, and Donald Trump Thought on the Art of the Deal in the New Era, to preserve the Party with Trump as its core.
A tweet by Sen John Cornyn recommending Trump's "The Art of the Deal", showing a picture of him reading it avidly.
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PubTech Radar @pubtechr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The launch of Google’s AI-powered search summaries has led to a 19% drop in click-through to academic reference services according to OUP product strategy director John Campbell: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-sear...
timeshighereducation.com
AI search summaries cannibalise academic publishers’ web traffic
Rise of robot-written summaries should push publishers to articulate value and impact of research more clearly, argues Oxford University Press director
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China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Our informative and free Lingua Sinica newsletter is going out soon. Enjoy! But remember, this labor of love from our whole team takes effort. Consider becoming a paid subscriber for offerings like China ChatBot. For the rest of March, 10% off. Act now! linguasinica.substack.com/march2025spe...
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
An outrageous injustice to ordinary Chinese people, and would shut the US off from a large talent supply. Is there really no other way to root out spies than banning an entire population?
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I don’t think you should be able to revoke a degree for anything other than fraud in obtaining the degree itself. It’s a qualification, not an honor.
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Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
OK, I am an @openai customer, but it literally is not training on any mainland Chinese data even though China is the top or top two producers of original texts on the planet. It's really inexcusable how bad the Chinese language results are
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Sounds like good metaphor material
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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 13/03/2025
My swan song for the China Media Project: an investigation into the state-run Sino United Publishing group that operates a virtual monopoly on the printing and selling of books in Hong Kong. Readers might know about its links to the Liaison Office exposed in 2015, but a lot has happened since then.
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Media in Focus: How Sino United Created a Publishing Monopoly
One company tightly bound to the Chinese state has a stranglehold on publishing and bookselling in Hong Kong and is now making inroads into news media.
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Top Party cadres praise Xinhua yesterday for their coverage of Xi Jinping's actions during the Two Sessions. Here's some of that sparkling coverage.
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Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Retracing this Mishima short story, of four geisha setting out to cross seven bridges in the Ginza without stopping and in total silence, might be interesting. Lots of the post-war landmarks are still there by the looks of it www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...
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The Seven Bridges
On the night of the September full moon, four geisha, K…
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