Liddokun
@liddokun.bsky.social
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天下為公。Kindness and compassion is paramount to a functioning society. There are no evil countries, only garbage leaders and exploitative systems. I mostly talk about geopolitics, technology and the economy. 我們正進入一個需要自游的危險時代。🇺🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦
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#China navy/coast guard bullying #Filipino subsistance fishermen. The #CCP always take from the poor to give to themselves. Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippines Seas documentary. Despite a 2016 #UNCLOS arbitration ruling that China refuses to abide. #Philippines
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Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea Trailer | Doc Edge Festival 2025
YouTube video by Doc Edge
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Never believe in what the #CCP says, watch what they do. #China
No shit, just about every pledge made by Xi has been broken.

• not to militarize islands
• stop hacking
• phase 1
• HK autonomy for 50 years
Sad #HolgerChen has turned into a #CCP propaganda spouting turd all for a few more YT/TikTok views. I guess all that body building has turned him into 💯 musclehead. #Taiwan
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Important intervention as an act of solidarity by Sinophone artists against the Chinese state’s efforts to conduct political censorship of artists in one of Thailand’s leading artistic institutions
These American celebrities seems to have forgotten that visiting other countries is a privilege offered by the host country, if you act like a deranged a**h*** with extremist views countries can deny you the priviledge of entry even if you are a celebrity. 🤷‍♀️🤷🤷‍♂️ #CandaceOwens #KanyeWest #Australia
Candace Owens has followed Kanye West in being refused entry to Australia after a court upheld a decision that her record failed a “character test” under local laws.
Candace Owens Loses Legal Fight to Enter Foreign Country Over Her ‘Extremist’ Views
Owens failed to overturn a visa denial imposed for fears she would “incite discord.”
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Many of these VFA have a hidden wartime component. While the primary focus is maintaining peace and stability of the region, it is also the framework by which how countries will act during #war time (ie. offer A-B-C during times of war). #Philippines #UK
www.inquirer.net/455316/west-...
West PH Sea: UK visiting forces pact seen as clear support for PH claim
The Philippines welcomed the UK's intention to forge a VFA with Manila, calling it a clear show of support for the country’s position in the West Philippine Sea.
www.inquirer.net
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WSJ: "According to the people close to Beijing’s decision-making process, Xi’s hard-line strategy is based on the belief that Trump will ultimately fold and offer concessions rather than deploy Washington’s own significant leverage."
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
China, Betting It Can Win a Trade War, Is Playing Hardball With Trump
Chinese leader Xi Jinping thinks the president will fold before launching new tariffs that would roil markets.
www.wsj.com
#China was obviously freaked out about this deal and reacted with massive REE export controls because in 5-10 years time it will allow #Pakistan to develop its own REE manufacturing supply chains.
This is the US building an alternative #RareEarth supply chain right on China's own backyard. This actually benefits #Pakistan instead of China's BRI projects which is a closed circuit debt trap (where the money flows from China to SOE back to China).
#Pakistan #US
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
‘Strategic handshake’: How Pakistan is wooing Trump with critical minerals
Minerals diplomacy opens doors, but questions linger over Pakistan’s capacity to benefit from the $500m deal.
www.aljazeera.com
This is the US building an alternative #RareEarth supply chain right on China's own backyard. This actually benefits #Pakistan instead of China's BRI projects which is a closed circuit debt trap (where the money flows from China to SOE back to China).
#Pakistan #US
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
‘Strategic handshake’: How Pakistan is wooing Trump with critical minerals
Minerals diplomacy opens doors, but questions linger over Pakistan’s capacity to benefit from the $500m deal.
www.aljazeera.com
Instead of taking in two countries as a whole it's better to look at both #Afghanistan and #Pakistan regions as a series of ethnic tribes along the Durand line that don't usually necessarily get along with each other. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
Border Clash Between Afghanistan and Pakistan Threatens a Wider Conflict
www.nytimes.com
Considered armed and dangerous with funky music and dance moves. 😁😁😁 #antifa #terrorist
FBI Most Wanted Antifa List
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Despite a raft of stimulus measures "during the National Day holiday (Oct. 1 to 8), new home subscriptions in 22 key cities tumbled 33% from a year earlier and 38% from September," after posting their first monthly and annual sales gains this year in September.
www.caixinglobal.com/2025-10-10/c...
China’s Property Rally Fizzles After September Rebound
Gains in first-tier cities failed to spark a broader recovery as national home sales slumped during the holiday
www.caixinglobal.com
The reality is #Hulu was the more successful and profitable TV streaming model while #Disney+ with all its premium shows are barely profitable but the executives will protect #Disney at the expense of #Hulu. It's like burning the village down to save the village.
www.al.com/news/2025/10...
Hulu is officially shutting down after 20 years: Here’s why
Hulu was first launched in 2007.
www.al.com
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I published two pieces on women in China this week! First, a review essay @chinabooksreview.com on two Fang Fang novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame (tr. Michael Berry). Gendered oppression has persisted during the socialist period and capitalist reforms, despite the CCP's promise of liberation.
No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
chinabooksreview.com
I think the calculation from both sides ( #Beijing / #Washington) was to see if the other side would blink and also if it's own the respective #economy could withstand full decoupling/stress test. The damage might be immense but it's not Xi nor Trump paying the economic price. #tariffs #China
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NEW: “The Justice Department seemed poised to pursue an indictment against Letitia James on pathetically weak charges. Yet the charges that actually ended up in the indictment a jury returned on Thursday may somehow be even weaker.”

By @mollyroberts.bsky.social

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Courts & Litigation Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law
Executive Branch
The Justice Department's
Dangerously Weak Case Against
Letitia James
Molly Roberts
Friday, October 10, 2025, 12:20 PM
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Lindsey Halligan didn't have a strong case against Letitia James. She indicted her anyway.
Absolutely 💯 true. #TerryGuo #JensenHuang
The only difference between Terry Guo and Jensen Huang is that Terry Guo is honest about his collusion with China, unlike Jensen, who keeps making big fat lies, claiming there’s “no evidence of any AI chip diversion.”
Congratulations Maria Corino #Machado !!! #NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize #Venezuela
The White House responded to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition activist María Corina Machado by saying the prize committee was playing politics by not giving it to President Donald Trump. bit.ly/3Ww2qsR
In Beijing's worldview the west being collectively weakened and diminished is a good thing. #EU #US #Defense #China #Russia
Beijing kills two (or more) birds with one stone with the new export controls. For Europe, this means seriously slowing down Europe’s rearmament by hitting hard at European defence industries. Beijing was never a fan of the 5% GDP defence target.
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“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize