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Decided I'll start a new project this year called 'The Year in Chinese Rail', documenting the new rail lines, stations, & anything else exciting in the world of Chinese rail in one thread.

So here it is: The Year in Chinese Rail, 2025 🧡
*that was in 2022, after just one of the many coups that overthrew Xi Jinping that year, the years prior, & the years since.
& they don't even acknowledge it. They just do it again a few months later.

It's never 'could be ill', it's 'HAD A MASSIVE STROKE'.

There must be a reason for it, but I can't work it out. I've spoken about this for years*, & it still happens & still has an audience. Really interesting.
Or it's always big, concrete statements that, after the fact, they can't even blag that they were 'kinda right'.

Like, it's never 'there's tension among leadership' - which us laymen obviously can't prove or disprove, so it's good mistique for slow news days.

It's always 'THERE HAS BEEN A COUP'
I'll never quite work out why the Falun Gong always choose lies with really short deadlines to be disproven.

It's never a long game or a grey area. It's always 'this massive thing WILL happen in TEN MINUTES' & then no mention of it again.

Such a bizzare technique. Why?
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Leaked footage of the latest John Bishop gig.
The unequal peninsula, from today's BBC report on deprivation in the UK.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Taken from today's BBC article on deprivation. Sometimes the figures just speak for themselves. I have nothing to say.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tbh this is the one that bothers me most. 'Bravo!'? Just 'Bravo!'?

I put a lot of effort into my reviews of things, thank you! This is just lazy!
It mostly just consists of getting signed up en masse every few months or so to the endless, endless newsletters they put out, & having to go the hassle of unsubscribing from each one, knowing they'll be back again shortly
I was of course in China for the entirety of January 2024 - something anyone can verify by looking at my Tweets that month. Here I am moaning about ticket machines πŸ‘‡πŸ»

So did you perfom in China? Or are the reviews of your show actually fake?

It has to be one of them, lads!
I recently discovered the Falun Gong have been leaving fake reviews of their Shen Yun show using my full name - just one of many bizzaro tactics they've used against me for daring to question their legitimacy as the source for the seemingly weekly coups that aparently keep happening to Xi Jinping...
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The Central Committee of the Communist Party lays out the key directions and priorities for China for the next five years. It reaffirms the importance of clean energy for China's energy, economic and industrial policy, but raises concerns about commitment to 2030 climate targets.
Just bought an excellent, bnib very small camera part on Xianyu from a lovely older lady in Zhejiang
Buy very small very expensive camera part
Leave in my home office in wrapper
Mother in law β€œcleans up”
Presumes it’s trash
Throws it out

I spend evening sifting through trash
Can’t find it
Reordering
Life is grim
I'm changing my monthly Q&A to a seasonal one to keep it fresh.

Get your questions in here & I'll answer them at some point in November.

Anything you want - China, Life, Culture. Whatever.

It's all anonymous.

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I've visited 200 of Beijing's 343 subdistricts, towns, townships, & ethnic minority townships since April.

Pick a number between 1 & 200 & I'll tell you which one you are (& a little about it).
I was behind a lot of this article. So you could ask me something about it if you have any issues or queries.

On Wikipedia, anyway. Not on 'Grokipedia'
So X has released a 'Wikipedia competitor' that is just a straight scrape of Wikipedia in most places, only without citations to verify & no way of knowing who wrote what or being able to contact those that wrote something for whatever reason.
Yeah we're pretty gutted to be honest mate
Today is my 9 year anniversary in China.

We've just been rejected from our dream apartment because the landlord decided she didn't want to to rent to a foreigner.

Shishi is crying. I'm too busy with work to feel sad. My bank account is sparce & I'm tired and sick.

I'd have enjoyed those trains.
I always like to imagine that when they cite 'people close to Beijing' they actually mean close geographically & they're just asking some uncles in Langfang what they think
(not included here - had our first ζ²™εŽΏ of the winter, I went for a bike ride near Lugouqiao this morning, & I just saw a random duck walking the streets)
Cheers mate. We had our first mulled wine of the year on Friday night, went for a walk around the Summer Palace on Saturday, & today we found the apartment we think we're going to move to next month (great views of the mountains & trains!).

Just got back from the local Hema near Lize Soho now 😬