| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Can Biden, or anybody, keep a cold war cool? | 2022-11-22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594929763386376192 | 1594929763386376192 |
| "opposed by China’s many inland provinces, dominated | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587930716418887680 | 1587930716418887680 |
| Cult of personality transition plan. | 2022-10-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585828450933219329 | 1585828450933219329 |
| "party loyalty trumps everything else" | 2022-10-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585282890996142082 | 1585282890996142082 |
| In a cult of personality, succession is seldom smooth. | 2022-10-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584765705731596289 | 1584765705731596289 |
| Cults of personality seldom adapt or change on their own. | 2022-10-23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584311754137358338 | 1584311754137358338 |
| So much for free trade with China. | 2022-10-21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583584879916163073 | 1583584879916163073 |
| Based on Ukraine, Xi hopes a GOP Congress won't be able | 2022-10-21 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583255901237936128 | 1583255901237936128 |
| The dictator trap - the end state of personality cults. | 2022-10-15 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581154832764715008 | 1581154832764715008 |
| Cults of personality seldom end well. Stable succession | 2022-10-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581078199110279168 | 1581078199110279168 |
| Building a cult of personality - by learning from the | 2022-10-08 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1578599325474885632 | 1578599325474885632 |
| How Xi has become a cult of personality. | 2022-10-07 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1578208253950930945 | 1578208253950930945 |
| China and climate - a confusing tale of internal | 2022-09-15 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570267130788212737 | 1570267130788212737 |
| How can Xi benefit from Putin's distress? Or at least | 2022-09-14 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1570052171131158529 | 1570052171131158529 |
| The new Axis powers - everything coming up roses for Xi. | 2022-09-09 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568104643263348736 | 1568104643263348736 |
| The alliance to restore medieval political values - | 2022-09-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1567731668328546305 | 1567731668328546305 |
| Chinese GPS easily hacked - by design? | 2022-09-01 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565194302572994560 | 1565194302572994560 |
| Chinese local authorities collect all the data on everybody | 2022-08-29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564285162367504384 | 1564285162367504384 |
| In China, everybody is supposed to have a smart phone and | 2022-08-29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564121765160243200 | 1564121765160243200 |
| Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving | 2022-07-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552664841063542784 | 1552664841063542784 |
| Personality cult leaders are alike! | 2022-06-24 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540195480201601025 | 1540195480201601025 |
| Trumpist thought under Chinese Communism - facts and | 2022-06-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1537793508211208192 | 1537793508211208192 |
| The US Coast Guard is on duty in the Western Pacific. | 2022-06-03 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532588256746799104 | 1532588256746799104 |
| What could happen with Taiwan? | 2022-06-01 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531843618343768065 | 1531843618343768065 |
| Chinese Trumpism | 2022-05-30 | 70 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531267780007276544 | 1531267780007276544 |
| "China’s failure to match the West in developing | 2022-05-29 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531009329754607616 | 1531009329754607616 |
| Another Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. | 2022-05-25 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1529466751741661190 | 1529466751741661190 |
| Chinese crowd-cancel - not so different from America's | 2022-05-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528768730133434368 | 1528768730133434368 |
| Being Uyghur is a crime | 2022-05-17 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526423729294561280 | 1526423729294561280 |
| Foreign investors starting to have doubts about China. | 2022-05-06 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522397650644914176 | 1522397650644914176 |
| What lessons will Xi learn from Ukraine? | 2022-04-21 | 504 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516989249140142080 | 1516989249140142080 |
| There's a reason why America's founders insisted on an | 2022-04-21 | 482 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516937353515864064 | 1516937353515864064 |
| There's a reason why America's founder insisted on an | 2022-04-20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516842355730489348 | 1516842355730489348 |
| "China has often sought to present two different narratives | 2022-04-14 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1514434548297216003 | 1514434548297216003 |
| How China is exploiting Ukraine. | 2022-04-08 | 108 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512409630520995840 | 1512409630520995840 |
| How to make a living as a social media influencer! | 2022-03-30 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509155876166246402 | 1509155876166246402 |
| Xi wants to keep Russia as a strong but subordinate | 2022-03-27 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1508103407223025671 | 1508103407223025671 |
| Ukraine inspires Taiwan. | 2022-03-25 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507202702987587587 | 1507202702987587587 |
| How are Ukraine and Taiwan alike and different? | 2022-03-23 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506735600027660292 | 1506735600027660292 |
| Like Putin, like Xi. | 2022-03-21 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1505788396165210116 | 1505788396165210116 |
| China's covid problems underline the hazards of | 2022-03-18 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504676651933728768 | 1504676651933728768 |
| Chinese secret agents harass Chinese Americans. | 2022-03-18 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504636312082534400 | 1504636312082534400 |
| China is not a neutral observer. Xi want Russia to | 2022-03-17 | 62 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1504300888399114242 | 1504300888399114242 |
| China aims to win the Ukraine war - by doing as little | 2022-03-15 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503525735465586689 | 1503525735465586689 |
| China and Xi are too inwardly focused to be effective | 2022-03-14 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503509396478824448 | 1503509396478824448 |
| Putin's actions change military thinking in Japan. | 2022-03-14 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503213136765063171 | 1503213136765063171 |
| China can't bail out Putin. | 2022-03-10 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501763893214867462 | 1501763893214867462 |
| Does Xi still think Putin is a useful ally? | 2022-03-10 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501720573444976641 | 1501720573444976641 |
| The Chinese Communist Party bases its rule on economic | 2022-03-07 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1500687264015212544 | 1500687264015212544 |
| A failed attempt to influence China on Ukraine. | 2022-03-01 | 84 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1498522293177229313 | 1498522293177229313 |
| Ukraine and Taiwan - maybe not now. But sooner or later. | 2022-02-23 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1496479743025508352 | 1496479743025508352 |
| Actually it wasn't Russia OR al-Qaeda. It was China. | 2022-02-23 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1496342259687911427 | 1496342259687911427 |
| How China uses (and Germany used) market power to control | 2022-02-07 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490546010564685825 | 1490546010564685825 |
| There might be limits to Chinese support for Putin. | 2022-02-06 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490228097399939076 | 1490228097399939076 |
| Olympic athletes get to experience Chinese life. | 2022-02-04 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489442354658349057 | 1489442354658349057 |
| A strong leader model for Trump - | 2022-02-03 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489099088104624131 | 1489099088104624131 |
| Chinese scanners available below cost. What could | 2022-01-20 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484158674910138370 | 1484158674910138370 |
| China won't be a threat to Silicon Valley after all. | 2022-01-18 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1483504774532067329 | 1483504774532067329 |
| Can any one country become self-reliant AND competitive | 2022-01-04 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1478198505374056449 | 1478198505374056449 |
| PRC monitors foreign internet users. | 2022-01-01 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477130614897659905 | 1477130614897659905 |
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========== Can Biden, or anybody, keep a cold war cool? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/biden-xi-china-cold-war-not-hot/ #PS1china ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-22 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594929763386376192 ========== "opposed by China’s many inland provinces, dominated by state-owned Chinese industries that had no interest or ability to compete globally the way China’s coastal provinces could." Sound familiar? Flyover country resentful of coastal elites? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opinion/china-united-states-trade-economy.html #PS1china ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 22:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587930716418887680 ========== Cult of personality transition plan. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/27/world/asia/hu-jintao-congress-videos.html Who knows what happens if you don't go along quietly? #PS1china ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-28 02:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585828450933219329 ========== "party loyalty trumps everything else" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/business/china-gdp-economy.html Loyalty driving out competence is a hazard of cults of personality, as Putin and Trump have so amply demonstrated. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1788564064821438 #PS1china ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-26 14:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585282890996142082 ========== In a cult of personality, succession is seldom smooth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/mao-zedong-xi-jinping-china-leaders/ If you're lucky, the violence is contained within the ruling class. #PS1china ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-25 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584765705731596289 ========== Cults of personality seldom adapt or change on their own. They have to be forced by external events. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/opinions/china-communist-party-congress-xi-power-johnson/index.html #PS1china ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-23 22:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584311754137358338 ========== So much for free trade with China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/opinion/biden-china-semiconductor-chip.html Good move strategically - unless it provokes a war - but bad for inflation. There are good economic reasons for globalization - as long as everybody is more interested in peaceful trade than war. #PS1china ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-21 22:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583584879916163073 ========== Based on Ukraine, Xi hopes a GOP Congress won't be able to agree to oppose his plans to dominate Taiwan and the Pacific. https://news.yahoo.com/mccarthy-no-blank-check-ukraine-201152336.html So he wants more military capability to make the most of the opportunity. https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-xi-jinping-mao-zedong-government-and-politics-58c5232aaa6a578b24f7345700460de3 #PS1china ===== impress 19 time 2022-10-21 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583255901237936128 ========== The dictator trap - the end state of personality cults. They then have a problem with an orderly succession. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/international-world/china-politics-xi.html #PS1china ===== impress 9 time 2022-10-15 05:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581154832764715008 ========== Cults of personality seldom end well. Stable succession is almost impossible to manage. https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-xi-jinping-congress-government-and-politics-274ca67943b353ef9183724592a06cd9 #PS1china ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-15 00:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581078199110279168 ========== Building a cult of personality - by learning from the expert. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/xi-jinping-mao-zedong.html #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 9% impress 11 likes 1 time 2022-10-08 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578599325474885632 ========== How Xi has become a cult of personality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/05/china-xi-jinping-party-congress/ #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 18% impress 11 time 2022-10-07 02:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578208253950930945 ========== China and climate - a confusing tale of internal contradictions. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/environment/china-climate-change-heat-drought.html Perhaps most important, the population of China is aging and probably decreasing soon - just like many other industrialized countries, including America. #PS1china ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-15 04:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570267130788212737 ========== How can Xi benefit from Putin's distress? Or at least avoid further harm. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/opinions/putin-xi-meeting-uzbekistan-summit-ghitis/index.html Major reductions in trade with the west would be an economic disaster for China and Xi. #PS1china ===== engage 4 engage-rate 17% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-09-14 14:09 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570052171131158529 ========== The new Axis powers - everything coming up roses for Xi. For Putin, not so much. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/08/russia-china-iran-alliance-dictators/ "Russia’s increasing dependence on China is a big problem for Putin over the long term" #PS1china ===== impress 16 time 2022-09-09 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568104643263348736 ========== The alliance to restore medieval political values - https://apnews.com/article/putin-xi-to-meet-in-uzbekistan-84239cfea4b649e3d184561ffc734622 These two plus N Korea and Iran and a few others - aligned against the Enlightenment! #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-08 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1567731668328546305 ========== Chinese GPS easily hacked - by design? https://apnews.com/article/technology-boston-b9a6912652794a18e9e1d9bf06fc7b32 The Chinese Communist Party likes to know exactly what everybody is up to. #PS1china ===== impress 15 time 2022-09-01 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565194302572994560 ========== Chinese local authorities collect all the data on everybody and then don't take very good care of it! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/china-police-data-breach.html #PS1china ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-29 16:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564285162367504384 ========== In China, everybody is supposed to have a smart phone and is supposed to leave it on all the time. A model for dictatorships elsewhere? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/06/27/asia-pacific/crime-legal-asia-pacific/china-future-police/ #PS1china ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-29 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564121765160243200 ========== Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving opportunists all the way down! Under capitalism or communism alike. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/world/asia/china-bank-scandal-protest.html Especially when there's only one branch of government - the leader and his party. #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-28 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552664841063542784 ========== Personality cult leaders are alike! https://www.sgvtribune.com/2022/06/14/how-vanessa-huas-novel-of-china-forbidden-city-grew-out-of-her-time-at-uc-riverside/ "Mao is a man with an eye for younger women, he thrives on creating chaos among his advisors, he is willing to damage to his country to maintain power and he believes his own lies, as do his followers." #PS1china ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-24 04:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540195480201601025 ========== Trumpist thought under Chinese Communism - facts and logic don't matter. Only the feelings of the leader will be studied! https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-china-beijing-hong-kong-4fdabb78fd9f467da44ca453f3655e27 #PS1china ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-17 13:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1537793508211208192 ========== The US Coast Guard is on duty in the Western Pacific. As it has been for many years. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/asia/us-coast-guard-pacific-islands-china-intl-hnk-ml/index.html Chinese fishing fleets are not popular in small island countries. #PS1china ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-03 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532588256746799104 ========== What could happen with Taiwan? https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/asia/china-taiwan-invasion-scenarios-analysis-intl-hnk-ml/index.html The lowest-risk option would be a quarantine - with strategic ambiguity about its ultimate intent. #PS1china ===== impress 25 time 2022-06-01 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531843618343768065 ========== Chinese Trumpism https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/china/china-textbook-illustration-controversy-intl-hnk-mic/index.html Who knows more about culture wars than the Chinese Communist Party? #PS1china ===== engage 5 engage-rate 7% expands 3 hashclicks 2 impress 70 time 2022-05-30 13:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531267780007276544 ========== "China’s failure to match the West in developing effective coronavirus vaccines, resulting in continued shutdowns and an anemic recovery, should dispel the notion that it has some inherent advantage over the West" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/29/china-policy-biden-blinken-asia-trip-despite-war-ukraine-china-matters-most/ #PS1china ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-29 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531009329754607616 ========== Another Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere History repeats! https://apnews.com/article/wang-yi-beijing-china-new-zealand-96f78c97071116055ebc3e7c216a0ef8 #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-05-25 14:17 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529466751741661190 ========== Chinese crowd-cancel - not so different from America's reactionary attack trolls. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/18/business/china-internet-censors-ip-address.html #PS1china ===== impress 11 time 2022-05-23 16:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528768730133434368 ========== Being Uyghur is a crime https://apnews.com/article/china-terrorism-c90fcc319775278d91da70e8bbe7c226 #PS1china ===== impress 58 time 2022-05-17 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526423729294561280 ========== Foreign investors starting to have doubts about China. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/investing/china-capital-outflows-covid-ukraine-war-intl-mic-hnk/index.html Too many potential problems at the moment. #PS1china ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-06 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522397650644914176 ========== What lessons will Xi learn from Ukraine? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-china-xi-jinping-taiwan-e9f50d985c38c487aba918d088099f9a #PS1china ===== impress 504 time 2022-04-21 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516989249140142080 ========== There's a reason why America's founders insisted on an Emoluments clause - https://britannica.com/story/what-is-the-emoluments-clause It's how big powers take over little countries. https://nytimes.com/2022/04/20/world/australia/china-solomon-islands-security-pact.html #PS1china ===== impress 482 time 2022-04-21 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516937353515864064 ========== There's a reason why America's founder insisted on an Emoluments clause - https://www.britannica.com/story/what-is-the-emoluments-clause It's how big powers take over little countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/world/australia/china-solomon-islands-security-pact.html #PS1china ===== impress 2 time 2022-04-20 18:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516842355730489348 ========== "China has often sought to present two different narratives -- one for domestic audiences and another for those overseas." https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/china/china-ukraine-great-translation-movement-intl-hnk-mic/index.html #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 likes 1 time 2022-04-14 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514434548297216003 ========== How China is exploiting Ukraine. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-china-europe-beijing-32a35d62c98c1b109f95408140337a12 A weakened Russia makes a more reliable partner. India might be anxious about friendly Russia and hostile China acting together. #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% expands 1 impress 108 time 2022-04-08 12:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512409630520995840 ========== How to make a living as a social media influencer! https://apnews.com/article/china-tiktok-facebook-influencers-propaganda-81388bca676c560e02a1b493ea9d6760 #PS1china ===== impress 36 time 2022-03-30 13:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509155876166246402 ========== Xi wants to keep Russia as a strong but subordinate strategic ideological partner - without imperiling China's prospects in a globalized economy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/24/xi-jinping-putin-china-russia-sanctions/ #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2022-03-27 15:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1508103407223025671 ========== Ukraine inspires Taiwan. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/24/ukraine-resilience-has-inspired-taiwan/ Xi, take notice. #PS1china ===== impress 53 time 2022-03-25 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507202702987587587 ========== How are Ukraine and Taiwan alike and different? https://www.bedfordgazette.com/useful-lesson-to-taiwan/article_f5d996e9-a230-53b2-8b7b-b63dd411b018.html The right to keep and bear arms might pay off if persons exercising those rights do so against foreign invaders instead of fellow citizens. #PS1china ===== impress 59 time 2022-03-23 20:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506735600027660292 ========== Like Putin, like Xi. https://apnews.com/article/business-china-beijing-xi-jinping-south-china-sea-d229070bc2373be1ca515390960a6e6c Xi said they would not militarize their artificial islands. Then they did. To what end? #PS1china ===== impress 38 time 2022-03-21 06:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1505788396165210116 ========== China's covid problems underline the hazards of dictatorship. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/opinion/china-russia-xi-jin-ping.html #PS1china ===== impress 70 time 2022-03-18 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504676651933728768 ========== Chinese secret agents harass Chinese Americans. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/nyregion/china-target-congress-campaign.html Some was what's called "opposition research" in American politics - firms whose business is digging up or making up dirt on political candidates. #PS1china ===== impress 32 time 2022-03-18 01:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504636312082534400 ========== China is not a neutral observer. Xi want Russia to win against the west, but he also wants to avoid any trade sanctions against China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/16/china-ukraine-russia-war-diplomacy-strategy/ #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 62 time 2022-03-17 03:37 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504300888399114242 ========== China aims to win the Ukraine war - by doing as little as possible. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/14/world/asia/china-russia-ukraine.html #PS1china ===== impress 75 time 2022-03-15 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503525735465586689 ========== China and Xi are too inwardly focused to be effective global players. Xi in particular has no interest in rescuing democracies. Like Putin, Xi views democracies as threats to his backward vision. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/opinions/china-russia-war-against-ukraine-johnson/index.html #PS1china ===== impress 73 time 2022-03-14 23:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503509396478824448 ========== Putin's actions change military thinking in Japan. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/13/asia/japan-russia-ukraine-war-international-politics-hnk-intl/index.html Pacifism and non-nuclear status no longer sound so good. #PS1china ===== impress 76 time 2022-03-14 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503213136765063171 ========== China can't bail out Putin. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/china-russia-sanctions-economy.html #PS1china ===== impress 82 time 2022-03-10 03:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501763893214867462 ========== Does Xi still think Putin is a useful ally? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/08/china-russia-xi-jinping-rethinking-putin-bromance/ #PS1china ===== impress 84 time 2022-03-10 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501720573444976641 ========== The Chinese Communist Party bases its rule on economic progress - which has slowed lately for a variety of reasons - https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-business-china-beijing-b0eacddcca1d4cc0bf0faef378092eed But the Ukraine war and its aftermath will have an even more profound effect no matter how it ends - https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/china-russia-ukraine-invasion-1.50527279 #PS1china ===== impress 66 time 2022-03-07 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500687264015212544 ========== A failed attempt to influence China on Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/us/politics/us-china-russia-ukraine.html They don't want foreign interference when they invade Taiwan. #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 84 time 2022-03-01 04:55 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1498522293177229313 ========== Ukraine and Taiwan - maybe not now. But sooner or later. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/china/taiwan-ukraine-parallels-china-russia-intl-hnk-mic/index.html #PS1china ===== impress 36 time 2022-02-23 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1496479743025508352 ========== Actually it wasn't Russia OR al-Qaeda. It was China. But hopefully that is a future chapter. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/politics/mitt-romney-russia-ukraine/index.html Though Al-Qaeda and IS are hoping for comebacks too. #PS1china ===== impress 31 time 2022-02-23 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1496342259687911427 ========== How China uses (and Germany used) market power to control US film studios. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/04/china-hollywood-nazi-germany-parallels/ #PS1china ===== impress 33 time 2022-02-07 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490546010564685825 ========== There might be limits to Chinese support for Putin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/economy/russia-china-ukraine-economy-intl-hnk/index.html #PS1china ===== impress 64 time 2022-02-06 07:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490228097399939076 ========== Olympic athletes get to experience Chinese life. https://www.arcamax.com/sports/olympics/s-2627339 #PS1china ===== impress 18 time 2022-02-04 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489442354658349057 ========== A strong leader model for Trump - https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-technology-sports-business-china-b5aeeed14e662e72570df15076290830 So why couldn't Trump be President, Speaker of the House, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Chair of RNC? That would eliminate inefficiency and corruption and promote Trump Thought, just as in China. #PS1china ===== impress 40 time 2022-02-03 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489099088104624131 ========== Chinese scanners available below cost. What could go wrong? https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-china-russia-europe-120b7dedacd8d545bf4521a1948bc31e #PS1china ===== impress 26 time 2022-01-20 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484158674910138370 ========== China won't be a threat to Silicon Valley after all. They'll have to go back to industrial espionage. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/technology/china-tech-internet-crackdown-layoffs.html That's what happens when the leader/party/government decide to regulate technology for political ends. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1583056932038820 #PS1china ===== impress 30 time 2022-01-18 18:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1483504774532067329 ========== Can any one country become self-reliant AND competitive in technology? China is going to try. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-europe-china-beijing-2987b725a845e36b2a9735d9294bfb90 #PS1china ===== impress 30 time 2022-01-04 02:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478198505374056449 ========== PRC monitors foreign internet users. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-harvests-masses-of-data-on-western-targets-documents-show/2021/12/31/3981ce9c-538e-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html #PS1china ===== impress 25 time 2022-01-01 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477130614897659905