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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 4h

It also means the welcome is conditional and can be taken away at any time. If the UK wants to kick HKers out, they can also just as easily and suddenly decide we are not productive or educated enough, and what then?

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 4h

One the one hand - thanks? On the other hand, seeing Brits do mental arithmetic on 'desirables vs undesirables' doesn't feel right. It seems like we're in the 'desirables' bucket simply because they think HKers are productive and not because they are actually deserving of some dignity as *people*

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 6h

“If Britain has no space for a group like the Hongkongers, then our national panic over immigration will surely have gone too far. This country needs some immigration, and if it is not the productive & educated exiles from Hong Kong, to whom we also have a moral duty, then who will we let in?”

Hong Kong’s migrants are the ones we need

Tightening the rules makes life harder for 160,000 highly educated and employable refugees

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 9h

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧? 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙖 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚.
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So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚/𝙄𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙝 ~
• Why China’s tech successes don’t drive rapid economic growth
• County governments “shuffling funds from one pocket to another”
• New book alert: “The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China”
open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝗽𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 but predicts slowdown next year. The property market in much worse shape than thought, says S&P. And humanoid robot maker hoping for $6.4 billion IPO in Hong Kong next year. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 as “legitimate action," criticizes US’s “willful threats of high tariffs.” And Beijing to levy port fees on US ships on Oct 14, same day as US does. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 277𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧.
𝗦𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗲: China slaps restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls move “rather sinister and hostile,” retaliates with 100% tariffs on Chinese. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 9h

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧? 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙖 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚.
open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚/𝙄𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙝 ~
• Why China’s tech successes don’t drive rapid economic growth
• County governments “shuffling funds from one pocket to another”
• New book alert: “The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China”
open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

open.substack.com

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝗽𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 but predicts slowdown next year. The property market in much worse shape than thought, says S&P. And humanoid robot maker hoping for $6.4 billion IPO in Hong Kong next year. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

open.substack.com

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 as “legitimate action," criticizes US’s “willful threats of high tariffs.” And Beijing to levy port fees on US ships on Oct 14, same day as US does. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

open.substack.com

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 10h

𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 277𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧.
𝗦𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗲: China slaps restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls move “rather sinister and hostile,” retaliates with 100% tariffs on Chinese. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

Trade War

So much for the trade truce: China slaps wide-ranging new restrictions on rare earths. Trump calls Beijing’s move “rather sinister and hostile,” and retaliates with planned additional 100 percent tari...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Thiel’s main Antichrist argument is that politics should be framed apocalyptically, and that Silicon Valley—potentially an agent of the Antichrist—should be empowered to do whatever it wishes because it alone can save (or destroy) the world.

www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘

Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

www.thenerdreich.com

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing my Autocrats vs. Democrats book tour! I’ll be travelling across the US to talk about the ideas in my book. I can’t wait to see you all there.

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Trump has responded angrily on social media to China's latest rare earths controls, calling them a "rather sinister and hostile move," threatening a "massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products" and the possibility he might cancel his planned meeting with Xi Jinping

Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 3d

China Plays Its Rare Earth Trump Card youtu.be/Je6EkVqgLC4?...

China Plays Its Rare Earth Trump Card

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Trump has responded angrily on social media to China's latest rare earths controls, calling them a "rather sinister and hostile move," threatening a "massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products" and the possibility he might cancel his planned meeting with Xi Jinping

Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 3d

China Plays Its Rare Earth Trump Card youtu.be/Je6EkVqgLC4?...

China Plays Its Rare Earth Trump Card

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 2d

you may have heard that china is becoming an "electrostate" or that it's leading the world in decarbonization. but actual chinese economic policy is far more muddled and complex. essential piece from @jeremywallace.bsky.social heatmap.news/ideas/china-...

China Can’t Decide if It Wants to Be the World’s First ‘Electrostate’

The country’s underwhelming new climate pledge is more than just bad news for the world — it reveals a serious governing mistake.

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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 2d

“That’s not what you train for,” one retired Marine officer told me. (“I’m not a liberal,” he made clear.) “You’re hearing, ‘Blood makes the grass grow! Kill, kill, kill!’ in bayonet training, and then you send them to a U.S. city?”

My latest.

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Portlandia

As Trump masses troops outside blue cities in the name of protecting federal properties, current and former members of the military grapple with the question of which orders are legal—and resent being...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

One good rule for a veteran writer: Break your own rules ruthlessly. I don't do profiles and rarely write about theater, so when T asked me to do a deep dive into the life & work of David Henry Hwang, naturally I said yes! Huge thanks to DHH for his time and openness. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 3d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Any news organization that treated "Will Trump Get Nobel?" as a remotely serious question, and not one more indication of his accelerating hallucinatory patterns, has some 'splaining to do.

Looking at you, all major news orgs.

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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · 3d

Rare earths stocks surge after #China tightens grip on global supplies
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/c... #economy #politics

Rare earths stocks surge after China tightens grip on global supplies

Rare earths stocks were jumping Thursday

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Before the snow

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Before the snow

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Dexter Tiff Roberts @dtiffroberts.bsky.social · 5d

𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 276𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙧.
Trump vows to get China buying American soybeans again. White House to bailout US farmers. And China been diversifying away from American purchases for years and that won't change. open.substack.com/pub/dexter/p...

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Trump vows to push China to start buying American soybeans again. Treasury Secretary Bessent says White House will announce major bailout of US farmers.

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