Daniel Cheng

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Daniel Cheng

Daniel Cheng

@DanielYCheng

@nycdsa since 2017🌹 Words in @jacobin and @damagemagazine on China and other political economy topics.

انضم Nisan 2018
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Matt Huber
Matt Huber@Matthuber78·
Still frustrated by the energy illiteracy among otherwise smart political economy ppl. Many are acting like solar is a substitute for oil - Mark Blyth says it's easy to swap a 'panel' for a 'gallon' - despite the fact oil is largely used for transport fuel not electricity. (1/3)
Matt Huber@Matthuber78

On Pakistan: sorry but a left political economy podcast needs to offer a more critical (class!) analysis than simply "solar line go up" or per the guest, "everybody has solar." See FT piece👇how solar advantages businesses/wealthy homeowners, leaving the poor w/ a degraded grid

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Seaver Wang@wang_seaver·
A vigorous, comprehensive rebuke, with its refusal to even acknowledge or mention the appalingly bad earlier Jacobin take on the subject as the cherry on top. 😊 Well done to Daniel Cheng. jacobin.com/2026/04/china-…
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Daniel Cheng@DanielYCheng·
@wang_seaver Thanks for the shoutout! Been following your work for a while and just listened to your great podcast appearance on Decouple this morning
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Daniel Cheng@DanielYCheng·
I wrote about China-maxxing and the Kill Line for @jacobin, explaining how both memes come from American and Chinese workers' shared anxieties about economic security
Jacobin@jacobin

Chinese observers see US dysfunction and feel their own problems are manageable. Meanwhile, Americans idealize China’s efficiency and security. Beneath both views, each society faces similar issues: alienation, unemployment, and weak welfare systems. jacobin.com/2026/04/china-…

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Illapa 🌹易雅博
Illapa 🌹易雅博@illapaNYC·
The members of @32BJSEIU keep our city running. Building service workers, doormen, security guards, and airport workers — these are hard-working New Yorkers who deserve good pay and working conditions. I will always stand with them, both in Albany and on the picket line.
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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders·
Claire Valdez is a union organizer who worked minimum-wage fast food jobs and understands firsthand how this economy fails working people. In my view, Congress needs more voices like Claire, who come from America's working class.
Claire Valdez@claireforny

Three things made me a democratic socialist: low-wage jobs, the labor movement, and the campaigns of @BernieSanders. His political revolution changed my life — and showed millions of Americans what's possible when working people organize. I am so grateful for his support.

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Illapa 🌹易雅博
Illapa 🌹易雅博@illapaNYC·
New York is a union town, and I’m so proud to have the first union endorsement in this race — @NYHTC! Union hotels are the lifeblood of Manhattan’s tourist industry, and the economic anchor for tens of thousands of hard-working families in our city.
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Soda
Soda@fredsoda·
incredibly stupid opinion
Policy Tensor@policytensor

Will the damn Chinese step the fuck up? Only China can provide the security guarantee to Iran. What use is all this power if you’re simply unwilling to use it for the production of global public goods? Can China graduate from being a consumer of international order to a producer of it? It is Chinese cowardice that this dragging the world into a great depression. “Iran’s president reiterated that his country was open to ending the war, but only if it receives “guarantees” that US-Israeli aggression will not be repeated.”

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Joe Weisenthal
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart·
One thing that's really impressive is China moving up the manufacturing value chain, while still absolutely dominating the low end. As @Camrjohnson has pointed out (and industry data confirms), China still absolutely dominates in areas like Christmas ornaments.
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Taisu Zhang
Taisu Zhang@ZhangTaisu·
As much as I usually enjoy Tooze’s usual commentary, this is wishful thinking. For starters, no sane Chinese leader would count on reliable cooperation from the Europeans given the threat that Chinese manufacturing poses to the European economy. ft.com/content/cf2eee…
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☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋
☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋@LilithLovett·
Oh my God bruh stop talking about Taiwan. Taiwanese people don’t want ‘unification’ either, we want the status quo of de facto independence. The progressive, pro-independence party (DPP) has won three elections in a row, despite CPC spending billions on the pro-unification KMT.
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hasanabi@hasanthehun

the us doesn’t want peaceful reunification. but they’re maybe too busy rn.

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Leigh Phillips
Leigh Phillips@Leigh_Phillips·
Jason Hickel’s Degrowthism-Dengism is just the weirdest cognitive dissonance ever. What kind of organic, GMO-free, agroecologically grown stuff do you have to be smoking to think that the most productivist government on the planet wants to constrain economic growth in any way? (Or for that matter that China’s one-party state is a grassroots democracy. Good lord)
Progressive International@ProgIntl

For Building the Future, Paweł Wargan and Jason Hickel look at the concept of “whole-process people’s democracy” in China, a complex system of political participation and grassroots governance that is a mainstay of the process of Chinese modernisation. buff.ly/6QANNI7

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PJ
PJ@PJ11819211·
The most bottom of the barrel, pure dogshit Hickelslop being constantly published by reputable journals and institutions always makes me think that he has some insane dirt on journo editors.
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Daniel Cheng@DanielYCheng·
@TheStalwart @NewLeftEViews I did my UG and MA in Comp Lit and German and much of the humanities is openly hostile to the idea that hard scientific knowledge is possible. On the other hand, the social sciences have physics envy and have become obsessively focused on quantitative research.
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Joe Weisenthal
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart·
@NewLeftEViews wait, say more about the divergence between social sciences and humanities
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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart·
Economists get a lot of shit for wanting to be taken seriously like a hard science. But it might be way worse in linguistics. Recently started a book where the authors claimed their work is virtually indistinguishable from chemistry and physics, except more consequential.
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New Left EViews
New Left EViews@NewLeftEViews·
Speaking as a great admirer of the Chinese state-led developmental system but as an owl on trade: I have to say the funniest thing about the sino-futurist campism on the left is that the people who speak uncritically of systemic superiority and emulation often simply don’t know about basic features about China’s economy which should be anathema to them: the incredibly regressive income tax system, the prohibition of independent unions, the fact that 30% of the labour force is in the gig economy, the still deeply entrenched opposition to welfare transfers, the profound social conservatism etc.
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BruceTL
BruceTL@BruceTL_·
Just wanna make sure we are talking about the same person here Are you referring to Hasan "CrimeaRiver" Piker? The one who regurgitates Russian talking points and supports Russian Imerialism?
Cameron Kasky@camkasky

Yeah, no shit big politicians are talking to Hasan Piker. More of them should be. God forbid a candidate actually work with new media, which the Right has used to dominate us. Hasan has been consistently anti-war, can the pundits on your “acceptable” news media say the same?

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