Michael Wang

@TonySeruga Stop posting and give the Iranians wrong ideas.

My Pentagon source has indicated that the second crew member was the Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) and had established initial radio or beacon contact with US forces earlier, which is helping guide the ongoing search. However, this has not yet translated into a successful recovery. Prayers are being requested as the situation is a race against Iranian forces and locals. US fighter pilots, including those flying the F-15E Strike Eagle, receive intensive SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) training. This is specifically designed to prepare them for exactly the scenario unfolding with the missing second crew member in southwestern/central-southern Iran (Khuzestan and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces). What SERE training covers All US military aviators (and many high-risk personnel like special operators) go through SERE as part of their preparation. Key phases include: Survival: Immediate actions after ejection — treating injuries, finding water/food, building shelter, signaling for rescue while in harsh terrain (mountains, desert valleys in this case). Evasion: The core skill you're referencing — avoiding detection and capture. Pilots learn camouflage, movement discipline (travel at night, stay off roads/trails), terrain masking, and the use of natural cover. The goal is to buy time until friendly forces (like the low-flying Black Hawks and HC-130Js we've seen) can extract them. They prioritize concealment over aggressive fighting, as "you're not going to gun your way out" in most cases. Resistance & Escape: If captured, techniques to resist interrogation, avoid giving propaganda value, and look for escape opportunities. This draws from the military Code of Conduct. SERE includes realistic field exercises: live evasion against simulated enemies, navigation challenges, and mock captivity with stress inoculation. It's demanding and tailored — Air Force SERE has its own schools, while Navy/Marine programs (sometimes involving SEAL instructors) can overlap for certain personnel. Special operations forces (including SEALs) undergo advanced SERE variants, often integrated with or building on BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training) skills like small-unit tactics, hand-to-hand, and endurance under duress. Fighter pilots get a focused version emphasizing aircrew-specific needs (e.g., using survival vests, radios, beacons from the ejection seat kit). In real-world terms, this training "kicks in" almost immediately after ejection — even while descending under parachute, decisions about landing zones and initial hiding spots are made. Ex-pilots and instructors note that muscle memory from SERE often helps downed aircrew stay calm and methodical in the critical first hours. The missing crew member (the Weapons Systems Officer) is presumed to be applying these exact skills right now: Hiding in the mountainous or riverine terrain to avoid Iranian forces and locals mobilized by state media bounties. Using encrypted survival radios or beacons for intermittent contact with US rescue forces. Moving cautiously toward a recoverable location while US CSAR assets provide top cover. 🙏

@EWess92 A reasonable holding would be to declare the EO unconstitutional but reserve judgment on whether and how Congress could alter the “closed set.”

All the Court watchers explain that President Trump is likely going to lose. I'm not going to disagree. But listening to the argument I'm a lot less sure about how or why than others seem to be. Sauer was excellent. Read the transcript here: supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…

Trump v. Barbara: Birthright Citizenship argument. Listening, what stood out to me, was the ACLU Attorney's argument tension. She argued (1) the three exceptions (diplomats, invaders, Indians) are a closed, unchangeable set but also (2) could not answer where those came from

@liqian_ren There is no such thing as “law” in China?

China ministry commerce on Manus sale to Meta: need to follow Chinese law in tech export. My take: like the Tictok sale, it will happen, just China is not used to export tech to US so every regulation is made on the fly using Manus as an example. In terms of limiting founders leaving China, all depend on circumstances. Founders know China has no due process in legal proceedings going in. Unless you actually have some private information on why/how they decide to go to mainland, you are just trying to be a novelist and guess. And most people outside China don’t do good guesses. 此次商务部再度发声，是对1月8日首次回应的重申与强调。中方态度始终如一： 中国政府一贯支持企业依法依规开展互利共赢的跨国经营与国际技术合作。需要说明的是，企业从事对外投资、技术出口、数据出境、跨境并购等活动，须符合中国法律法规，履行法定程序。商务部将会同相关部门对此项收购与出口管制、技术进出口、对外投资等相关法律法规的一致性开展评估调查。

@ka_grieco Appetite to take us casuaty is lower.

8/ The U.S. can still achieve air superiority, but it is slower to achieve, more resource-intensive, and more limited. Iran suggests a return to a harder baseline for operating in heavily defended airspace.

Gen. Caine announced Tuesday that after 30 days of strikes, B-52s are now flying overland missions over Iran. Is that a sign it's becoming harder to achieve air superiority against US adversaries? Yes. A 🧵. war.gov/News/Transcrip…

@petergyang And no right to vote?

Some initial observations about Shanghai after not being back for 10 years: 1. The city is incredibly modern - more so than New York and even Tokyo. It's funny riding modern subways and trains here and reading about how California has to shut down the BART/Caltrain due to budget cuts on X. 2. Apps run everything - Wechat, Amap (Google Maps), Dianping (Yelp), Alipay, etc. Basically, there's a Chinese equivalent of every US app and more. 3. Meals are probably 1/3 the price of the US and absolutely delicious. There's ALOT of variety in Chinese regional cuisines. Funny enough almost every restaurant has a Dianping coupon you can use to get free desserts. I like my spicy food :) 4. Fewer foreigners than I expected and concentrated in a few areas. Coming from the US, it's just a pain to have to get a visa, set up eSim, download all the apps, etc. You have to do alot of research before coming here. 5. The overhead highways kind of ruin the vibe a little with the cityscape. 6. People still smoke alot, but appears to be mostly older generation. 7. Speaking of the old generation, they know to have fun. Went to Fuxing park and many elders dancing, playing yoyo, singing, and more. 8. In contrast, from what I hear, the younger generation is working super hard and many college grads cannot find jobs are are "tang ping" (lie flat). It's great to be back, will share more later.

3月25日，河北。深夜里一名母亲背着还在襁褓中的孩子，在路边摆摊炒饭。

@liqian_ren Chinese tech IS useless!!!! They never works,

Morris Chang of TSMC founder is great but he also underestimated Chinese tech advances.

@liqian_ren That is a feature of communism. To end it we must end communism first.

Why the left behind rural Children is one of the biggest Chinese policy failure last 50 years? 1. China could significantly increase economic growth by allowing anyone living and working in the cities full residency benefits. This can be achieved by keeping the Hukou system but change residency regulations. 2. Pres Xi actually most likely agrees with my view. Right now the ones against it are mostly old guards. 3. Yes, I think it’s a huge failure, partly because I lived it. My father has city citizenship and my mother not. Thus my brother and I are rural citizens through mother lineage and lived through the most unfair system in China. 4. It’s bringing significant problems in perpetuating inequality, much much much worse than the stupid idea of pushing inheritance taxes in China.

@liqian_ren Let us do an election to find out what Chinese people think,

How off can this be? I think most Chinese don’t support inheritance taxes even it caused some inequality to perpetuate. (Do I have data, no, but I am relatively confident of my read on Chinese public opinion.) Like I said, if you want to highlight something about China that needs a good discussion, at lease feature a topic typical Chinese actually cares.

@liqian_ren What he said is accurate as a matter of history.

Taiwan Pres Lai: Nationalist party from mainland treated Taiwanese worse than Japanese colonizers. I thought it was fake news and checked the source. Reality IS better than fiction nowadays. 賴總統指出，「尤其是國民黨政府來到台灣之後，對待台灣人民比殖民統治的日本還要差，這是為何已故前總統李登輝、日本作家司馬遼太郎特別提到台灣人的悲哀，原因就在這裡」。

Where is all of China’s old friends now? A run through of what happens if you ally with China. Video is AI generated, we didn’t manage to hire all of the person in the video. Can anyone contact them? Would like to interview.

@CGasparino @AriFleischer SIPA has always been a cash cow. Serious students do not enroll there.

I really feel for this guy. This country welcomes him with open arms; he got into what WAS a top university on God knows what criteria. But instead of studying to try to get a job to support his family, he starts protesting against this country, and taking his bizarre political beliefs out on Jewish students. Now the leadership of this country wants him out and he can't understand why. Which begs the question: How dumb is he and what "criteria" was used by @Columbia to let him in? A Year After His Arrest, Mahmoud Khalil Lives in Limbo and in Fear nytimes.com/2026/03/08/nyr…

@liqian_ren China is incapable of doing anything on Taiwan. A failed country with a failed government.

If China doesn’t make a move on Taiwan in 2026 and didn’t take advantage of (perceived) US distraction in Mideast, would these people acknowledge in a year their framework of analysis on China/Pres Xi is a bit off? We shall find out.

@FeiyanXie 在共产党统治的失败国家。

1941年，美国摄影记者卡尔·迈登斯在重庆南山拍到一名中国抗战女兵。 85年过去了，她所坚守的这片国土已成为繁华的都市。

@tongbingxue “Elected?”

An ethnic delegate gets the newly-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vice Premier Li Keqiang to sign an autograph after the election of the new president during the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing，March 14, 2013. Photo by GOH Chai Hin.

出生日期　1994年11月7日 出生地点 浙江省金华市 教育程度　美国马萨诸塞州的阿默斯特学院历史学学士（2016年） 职业　　　前新疆大学民俗研究中心研究人员 拘捕日期　2018年1月 罪名　　　 危害国家安全 刑期 有期徒刑十五年 关押地点　 浙江省女子监狱 chinesepen.org/blog/archives/…

@polijunkie_aus She has not given up her US nationality.

TIME: Gu declines to engage on the citizenship question. “I don’t really see how that’s relevant” I don't think the US government should or can strip her citizenship as many MAGA commentors are suggesting, but the way she evades the question really doesn't help her. Whether or not she is still holding a US passport (or using it when she travels to sponsor events in Europe or going back to America) is quite a fundamental question on her identity.

@nordwild 大陆没有基本的自由。 基本无法生活！

I desperately need to know if Mike ad-libbed all that or if he’s using the prompter. Either way, it’s one of the all-time great closes to a sporting event I’ve ever seen. It resonated deeply with the audience. If he did that off the top of his head, crown him now. Wow.

@mccarrennews @ewong What did he do?

This is my friend journalist Dong Yuyu. 4 years ago today as Beijing #Olympics were wrapping, PRC security swooped in arresting him on bogus charges. They waited for the cameras to leave. This Olympics they are proud participants while Yuyu remains in prison. Shame! #FreeYuyu