Little-known fact about Marshal Nie Rongchen: he knew how to put it on

Lol

First thing Norwegian news outlets do when a natural disaster happens is find a random Norwegian on site to say "yep, the ground shook for real"

Man what can you even say about this blood and soil shit

Professor Li Bin (2001) on the risks of China responding to MD efforts by growing its arsenal. Of course, few would think in 2001 that China's economy would be on the verge of $14k/GDPPC in 2025. Thus, if you have more money and concerns about survivability persist, you end up with arsenal growth.

Well this seems pretty unambiguous

The question is not if I will taste the forbidden spam, the question is when

Per the online conversation some months ago about the lying commies stealing the Nationalists’ thunder in war commemoration, here are a few pics from 上海四行仓库纪念馆, a Shanghai museum dedicated to a company of KMT soldiers who defended a warehouse from the Japanese during the battle of Shanghai in 1937.

Been enjoying the daily salaryman shuttle with my suited brethren on the Tokyo subway. Variety is the horseradish-mustard sauce of life.

Priorities.

Just cracked this open. No spoilers, please.

This is the same argument Ely Ratner made for an "Asian NATO." At some point, you have to wake up and smell the coffee. Countries are not going to take loads of crap on the economic side and still line up for more US-led security engagement. And I doubt this will just snap back to normal post-Trump.

For context, the greatest internet debate of all time (aside from the bodybuilding forum "how many days in a week" one)

Everyone post your favorite graphs, I'll start:

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Key point from a Baiguan newsletter a few weeks back: listening to people who have been talking about China's economic slowdown like a collapse (and many of them have been proclaiming this "collapse" for over a decade) leads to policy own-goals like the recent tariff escalation.

From @Molson_Hart on Twitter. His point is on the economic side, but this same concern was voiced to me in conversations on security when I was last in Beijing. Even administration figures like Elbridge Colby who are supposedly "China guys" lack any real experience in or knowledge of the country.