#Chinese

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/8For the past 2-3 years regulators have encouraged Chinese banks to issue perpetual bonds as a way of recapitalizing. The newest twist involves perpetual bonds with an equity-conversion feature, with

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

Vice Signaling: nobody sane wants to listen to politicians, professors, movie stars, rappers, tech billionaires & journalists testify to their own moral superiority over the rest of us mortals who

eleanor careless

elcareless

most memorable food scenes from novels i have read this year, a thread: The Lost Children Archives, Valeria Luiselli: long fries dipped in ketchup and mayo at the Dixie Cafe

Cal Chelcicky

Cal_Crucis

https://unherd.com/2021/02/why-china-is-terrified-of-christianity/Without justifying the particular policies of Xi's PRC, this article is afflicted w/ typical western hysteria & ignorance, particularly of its own history. The main p

âpihtawikosisân (Zoticus)

apihtawikosisan

A while back I bought a picture book called "Rutherford, the Time Traveling Moose" because when I flipped through it, it was all about Edmonton. It was too wordy for

Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐

avtansa

How Misrī मिसरी (crystal sugar) reached India from Egypt? ~ a threadLong before its introduction to China, Indian sugar making technology was introduced to the West. Cane sugar remained almost

Andrew Jones

AJ_FI

China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission is set to launch between 04:00-07:00 UTC/12-3 am Eastern July 23 (Thursday), with airspace closure notices suggesting launch ~4:45 UTC. No confirmation of live streams yet.

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Kick Ass Thread about China, the Social Credit System, Discourse Power, NBA, Hollywood, Culture, Human Rights, "the virus" and South Park. You’ll know so much, it'll make you high. Let’s

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7China’s trade surplus in December came in above expectations at $78.2 billion. Equal to 6% of China's December GDP and 1.2% of the rest of the world's GDP, this acts

🖤💚🖤 failed e•girl 🍧🍧

bimbocommunist

Finally read this in full. Absolutely insane articlehttps://apnews.com/article/79d6a427b26f4eeab226571956dd256e The tone of the whole thing is like... “yeah so there’s tons of Uyghur militants going to Syria to fight alongside al-Qaeda

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

2015: "To examine the emergence potential (the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein -from the RsSHC014-CoV sequence that was isolat

Mike Forsythe 傅才德

PekingMike

One reason there hasn’t been a good biography of Xi Jinping is the enormous personal cost. The CCP jealously guards his official story. Attempts to do in-country research on his

Laury Silvers 🕋 Author of The Sufi Mysteries

waraqamusa

A female imam is a woman who leads others in prayer. Her question is akin to asking how many women drink coffee. Her arrogant ignorance on the nature of prayer

Nacho Oliveras

NachoOliveras

My hierarchy of "good politics" in a democracy would look rather like the below.My take here is that the level 0, and the one that I have a greater problem

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

man_integrated

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦You may have heard, Ukraine has been in the news lately.But the real game of interest is not the impeachment proceedings.It involves a company few Americans have heard

Conspirador Norteño

conspirator0

What's with all these similarly-named accounts retweeting this @globaltimesnews tweet? #SundaySpamcc: @ZellaQuixote Answer: a few recent @globaltimesnews tweets have been amplified by two distinct groups of bots. (It's possible that

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