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Nine Dragons
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Exclusively posting here now about HK/China and global events/issues. Occasional nonsense.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 9d
October 2025's China quarrel thread begins here, to keep track of the various arguments, incidents & threats being made by & against China. September 2025's thread below.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · Sep 8
September 2025's China quarrel thread begins here, to keep track of the various arguments, incidents & threats being made by & against China. August 2025's thread below.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · Aug 6
August 2025's China quarrel thread begins here, to keep track of the various arguments, incidents & threats being made by & against China. July 2025's thread below.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1h
No.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1h
The bit where it collapsed and fell apart.

If he brings that back for Russia, that'd be great.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1h
11. China vs Scott Bessent
Bessent accused China of being weak and wanting to pull the world economy down with them over their trade restrictions on rare earths.
www.cityam.com/trumps-treas...
Trump's treasury secretary Scott Bessent lashes out at ‘weak’ China
The FTSE 100 has fallen by 0.1 per cent following attacks by US treasury secretary Scott Bessent on China’s trade policy.
www.cityam.com
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 2h
10. China vs Zion Church
China is continuing to crack down on non-government controlled churches.
www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...
Pastors and staff from underground church are arrested in China
China has in recent years arrested and detained Christian leaders of underground churches, who are not registered with the government and under its control.
www.npr.org
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 21h
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"real life words and actions"
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Totally real bro.
People in China widely mock the obviously fake government propaganda that is the FICTIONAL STORY of "Lei Feng".
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1d
The numbers aren't massive, but certainly big enough to make a significant difference, especially cumulatively over time.
2024 numbers:
China: -318,992
Japan: +153,357
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1d
One other reason China has a population decline problem that is rarely discussed is that it has persistent negative net migration (image 1) on top of low & dropping birth rates. Japan by contrast has persistent positive net migration (image 2).
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1d
a man in a blue shirt and white shorts is walking down a street .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and white shorts is walking down a street .
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1d
9. China vs Netherlands
The Dutch government announced that it is taking action at Nexperia, a Chinese-owned major local chipmaker, citing concerns that sensitive technology could be transferred to its Chinese parent company, Wingtech.
investinglive.com/stock-market...
Netherlands intervenes at Chinese-owned chip-maker Nexperia over China technology concerns | investingLive
Dutch government steps in at Nexperia over China tech-transfer fears. The government’s rare intervention allows it to block harmful decisions while keeping production running, citing administrative la...
investinglive.com
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 1d
8. China vs the Philippines
China is attacking Filipino ships again.
news.sky.com/video/china-...
China accused of 'dangerous ramming' of Philippine vessel in South China Sea
China's coastguard claimed two Philippine government vessels "illegally entered" waters near Sandy Cay, leading to a collision.
news.sky.com
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 2d
Location of Thitu Island, for reference:
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 2d
Location of Thitu Island, for reference:
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 2d
Location of Thitu Island, for reference:
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 2d
Location of Thitu Island, for reference:
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 2d
Xi Jinping just lectured world leaders about the need to include more women in government. If only there was someone who could influence such a change in the Chinese government eh?
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 3d
Unlike earlier this year, this round of the trade conflict seems like it was started by China.
They did suddenly impose major restrictions out of the blue after things had calmed down significantly.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 3d
Good evening
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 4d
Sullivan was probably telling him not to as he was worried that playing hardball would be escalatory.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 4d
Next time there's a large tsunami, i expect around 1,000 fake AI videos for every real one and by then they will be almost certainly impossible to distinguish.
My only hope is that this leads some people to revert back to using traditional media & abandoning social media as unusable.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 5d
If they're gonna be a propaganda arm for Beijing, they're gonna need to ignore the first half of point 2.
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 5d
"Russia has won" "Ukrainian army has collapsed". Jan 2025.
Been seeing this since literally the opening hours of the war but it's over 3.5 years now...
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 6d
7. China vs Taiwan
An in-depth look at China's use of TikTok as part of its cognitive warfare campaign against Taiwan.
www.spf.org/spf-china-ob...
Assessing China’s Cognitive Warfare against Taiwan on TikTok | SPF China Observer | THE SASAKAWA PEACE FOUNDATION
www.spf.org
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 6d
6. China vs EU
The EU has called BS over China's attempts to portray UN Resolution 2758 (from 1971) as giving international backing to its claims to Taiwan.
2758 was solely about representation at the UN & it took China 54 years to reach its new interpretation.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 7d
5. China vs your phone
Stolen phones are ending up in China in massive numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China
BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Nine Dragons @ninedragons.bsky.social · 7d
1. again (UK)
China threatens retaliation if the UK takes any effective steps to stop China spying at will.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
China threatened to retaliate against UK over foreign influence rules
Exclusive: Chinese officials warned that targeting its security apparatus would negatively affect relations
www.theguardian.com
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