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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 17h

China:Three Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils commemorating Beijing's 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests have been handed prison sentences of up to seven years. CCP crackdown on hong kong freedom and autonomy virtually complete, the 1997 settlement is now dead

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 17h

China:Ford’s Use of Chinese Tech Called ‘Unacceptable’ by Transportation Secretary—Battery deal with CATL, joint venture with China’s Geely among concerns in public letter

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China:. @McFaul to @bcamcrane : “Putin talked about Xi Jinping as his good friend. Xi doesn’t lean into it as much as Putin does…But that’s all real. Putin and Xi are close, and China and Russia are closer today than ever before.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China:“Much criticism itself had an ephemeral life online. ‘If a culture doesn’t leave room for a little harmless banter, aren’t we being wound too tightly?’ wrote one observer—only for his post to be deleted from WeChat.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China:@ZichenWanghere : “National confidence can evolve. One response to greater power is to conclude that China no longer needs to look outward quite so much. Another is to become less anxious about looking outward at all. The latter is surely the more useful.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China:The Trillion-Dollar Bright Spot in China’s Economy: Tourism—Tens of millions of foreigners visit each year and domestic travel is rising, but some visitors are tightfisted

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China: CXMT Highlights Smartphone, AI Advances as Market Share Climbs—Xiaomi’s coming flagship smartphone will use chips from China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies -China is now directly challenging South Korea's long-standing global duopoly in memory technologies-samsung, sk hynex-and U.S micron

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

Chinese economist Li Xunlei: “By the end of 2025, Guizhou’s total expressway mileage had already reached 9,563 kilometres…Estimates of Japan’s total expressway mileage…stood at 10,328 kilometres…Japan’s GDP was 13.4 times that of Guizhou.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China:Reuters: Humanoid robots working on factory floors, AI models challenging global rivals and electric-vehicle plants churning out cars at breathtaking scale are drawing a new wave of foreign visitors to China.-china maxing phonemenon

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

U.S-China superpower summit:. @FareedZakaria : “Survival depends on adaptation. For the U.S. and China, that may include cooperation…In a merciless environment, species…‘lock’ into cooperative arrangements not as acts of kindness but because mutual support is the only viable path.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China:. @afrazhaowang : “They’re like the Woodstock generation in the West,” @iandenisjohnson told me. The previous generation in China underwent huge leaps in the availability of material goods. For their children, existential questions have emerged.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China Wants More Babies. So It Is Glamming Up the City Hall Wedding.—Chandeliers, poetry and flower arches decorate a marriage registry and officials hope baby carriages will follow

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China-U.S superpower competiton: See How the U.S. Is Attacking China’s Control of Critical Minerals—A Trump administration initiative to create a China-free supply chain for military and industrial inputs is starting to work

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 18h

China:FT: Nicaragua has handed mining concessions covering more than a tenth of its land to Chinese companies in the past three years, expanding Beijing’s foothold in the gold-rich country as it tussles with Washington for influence.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

NYT: For many in China, those doomsday warnings feel remote and distinctly Western. The idea that the ruling Communist Party could lose control over a technology is almost unfathomable.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China:The ‘Colossal Headache’ of Building a Made-in-America Monopoly Game…“The product made in China has so many little things that are better than we can do here…It’s hard to say that they are equivalent even though the Americana is so much more money.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China-U.S superpower summit:The Economist: “Mr Trump likes a grand show, with himself at the centre, and he got one…Pageantry is one area where Mr Trump and Mr Xi can see mutual benefit. Meanwhile, the 21st century hurtles onwards, without responsible leadership.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

Yonhap News: North Korea allegedly runs a secret detention facility in its embassy in China to interrogate and repatriate its nationals deemed threats to the regime, a report said Tuesday.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China:Bloomberg: China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for top AI professionals in private firms to include the families of key personnel, further tightening measures designed to prevent the outflow of critical know-how and information to the US.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China:“The party has made itself the guardian of traditions it once belittled and even tried to crush. In so doing, it has summoned forces whose roots run much deeper than its own, and which may ultimately have greater claims on the loyalty of the people.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits in autonomous AI that have raised global alarm about US models, research documents and experts say. @ParkSuAm1996 @lauriechenwords

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China PMIs Signal Economic Improvement Across Sectors—The official manufacturing purchasing managers index returned to growth in September

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China:. @KaiserKuo : “The U.S. has always been in outward denial about the efficacy of industrial policy (even as it practiced it in quiet), until China’s challenge seemed to have completely upended things and we saw the U.S.…openly embrace industrial policy.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China Offers Subsidies on Some Residential Mortgages—The policy is expected to provide greater support to home sales in smaller cities-China will offer subsidies on interest costs for eligible first-home mortgages as

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

U.S-China superpower competition:Reuters: The Republican chair of the congressional committee focused on China is calling on the Trump administration to scrutinize US ally South Korea’s warming ties with China, which he said pose “significant risks” to the United States.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China-UK:Reuters: Britain’s MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to warn that a Chinese organisation was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf ‌of Beijing’s state security service.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China:Apple’s Biggest Battleground for Foldable Phones Is China—Huawei and other Chinese competitors reported higher demand for foldables after announcement of iPhone Duo

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China-U.S AI competition:The Economist: “China appears reluctant to pick up the phone because it wants time to gather information and formulate a response. But it also often sees an advantage in stalling to maximise leverage over the Americans.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China:FT: Starbucks has opened its first cafés in China’s Xinjiang region, in a high-profile expansion by one of the world’s best-known consumer brands into an area that has attracted international concern over the repression of Uyghurs.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China-U.S superpower competition:“Beijing does not want Washington—or the existing U.S.- and European-centered AI-safety community—to define the concepts, standards and rules first and then ask China to accept them. It wants China to participate in writing those rules from the beginning.”

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

China’s Peak-Season Auto Sales Growth Disappoints—Automakers are dealing with weakening demand and oversupply issues-shows china dual economy, falling consumer demand only partially ofset by exports and high tech investments

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 19h

India:The US has deliberately become a lonelier power,” Jaishankar says 🌍 Washington’s repositioning, he argues, is a conscious policy choice 📍 The remarks came at the Munich Leaders Meeting in New Delhi

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 20h

China-logan wright:This allows the leadership to sustain the current model through the end of the decade, with Rhodium Group modeling China's aggressive manufacturing export push running well through 2030- The strategy will persist until it hits a hard ceiling imposed by the rest of the world.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 23h

China-logan wright: Logan Wright does not view Beijing’s current export-heavy, investment-led strategy as a choice with a specific expiration date; rather, he argues Beijing will persist with this model indefinitely because they have no other choice.In his analysis, Chinese

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 23h

China-Logan wright:Wright and Rhodium Group model a scenario where China’s share of global exports could swell to 28% by 2030. However, because global demand is finite, China's gains mean direct losses for other major manufacturing economies.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 23h

China-logan wright: Looking ahead through the end of the decade, Wright notes that even Beijing's internal projections hidden within its multi-year economic strategies imply that true household consumption will only contribute about 1.5 percentage points to

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

China-logan wright-contnd: New strategic industries like EVs and robotics won't fix this either, he argues. They're capital-heavy, not job-heavy, and don't solve the deeper problem: Chinese households don't consume enough, and the fix

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

China's own economic miracle just got declared broken, by one of the people who studies it closest. Logan Wright of Rhodium Group titled his new book "Broken China." His argument, in his own words: "this credit-dependent, investment-driven growth model has basically come to an end."

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Europe has zero of the world's 15 biggest refineries. In a diesel crisis, that leaves it with no bargaining power. 🇮🇳India's Jamnagar (Reliance) leads at 1.36M b/d. 9 of the top 15 are in Asia and the Gulf, and 3 of those are in 🇰🇷South Korea.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Israeli forces have attacked towns across southern Lebanon with artillery and air strikes,The town of Mansouri is being hit with intermittent artillery shelling, launched from positions in occupied Lebanese territory south of the city of Tyre.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Iran war:US official confirmed the Pentagon was deploying the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group to waters around Iran. The Associated Press said the ships carry more than 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines. U.S has 3 carriers in the gulf

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Iran war live: Hormuz Strait closed until US meets seven agreed conditions-Iran ⁠will upgrade its long-range missiles with US forces now positioned as ‌much as 1,000km (620 miles) away from the Iranian coast, army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia says.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

India:Ukraine calls India’s peace proposal the most comprehensive among four international initiatives 🇮🇳 Says New Delhi has signalled willingness to play a more active mediating role 🕊️ Proposals from the US, Turkey and Egypt are also under discussion

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

India:Film-makers have courted Bihar's audience in the past few years. Pawan Singh sang for Stree 2, and Allu Arjun launched the Pushpa 2 trailer in Patna. The Vvaan made Chhath its subject, and Patna became its third-biggest centre after Mumbai and Delhi.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Indian expats in Germany unnerved by far-right AfD's electoral gains Big shift in politics jar with government policy of opening doors to skilled workers

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After nine years of decline, democracy scores have risen in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. That trend may happen elsewhere, too

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

China-Iran war:Intervening diplomatically goes against Chinese instincts. But if there is a third and more devastating round of US-Iran war, whose economic shocks China no longer can insulate itself from, Beijing may be incentivized to intervene in a manner Washington may prefer to avoid.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Iran war:“Trump does not want to lift the blockade on Iran, which he believes will bring Iran to its knees. He underestimates Iran’s ability to counter-escalate and, as a result, prefers to squeeze the Iranians until they surrender rather than strike a deal with them,” Parsi told Al Jazeera.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Iran war:Bottom line is that Trump feels that he has a winning hand: In his perception, the blockade is squeezing Iran while Tehran no longer can squeeze the global economy through the Strait of Hormuz. Consequently, time is on his side, and he is in no rush to make a deal or lift the blockade.

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ysy1976.bsky.social @ysy1976.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is interesting. Cousin marriage is extremely high in Pakistan - especially Balochistan and Sindh. The problem with this type of cousin marriage is that lineages (which are traced only through the father) become more isolated with each generation and each marriage.

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