Pascal
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Pascal
@MPascalH
Intl relations, Global studies, human rights & all that. Asian studies at @LundUniversity


🚨 Manchester United could lose 13 players this summer with INEOS planning a brutal clear-out to reduce wages and squad size: 🇧🇷 Casemiro 🏴 Marcus Rashford 🇩🇰 Rasmus Højlund 🏴 Jadon Sancho 🇳🇱 Tyrell Malacia 🇨🇲 André Onana 🇹🇷 Altay Bayındır 🇨🇿 Radek Vitek 🇺🇾 Manuel Ugarte 🏴 Tyler Fredricson 🏴 Toby Collyer 🏴 Dan Gore (Source: Express)

Any chance this will be a balanced, well researched film about Russia and Putin, or a wall to wall propaganda hit piece slopfest?





This video of a defiant young man is going viral in Taiwan. “Frankly speaking it doesn’t matter if I’m Taiwanese or Chinese. If I’m dead I’m dead, and I want to be alive.”



You may not like to hear this, but there is a correlation between improving views of China globally and Beijing’s expulsion and harassment of foreign journalists. The Chinese Communist Party has successfully shaped the portrayal of China globally, by severely restricting journalists ability to analyze and report on the country. The result? Higher favoribility ratings of Xi Jinping and China than Trump and the United States, and growing favoribility rates of China in the United States. This is not to downplay the clear, Trumpian reasons the U.S. has lost global luster — rather, it’s to express consternation and concern of entities around the world for believing China to be a responsible global actor. fccchina.org/2026/04/20/fcc…














I don’t see how that can be the case with the Americans acting erratically all over the map. But even if it were committed to the defense of Taiwan the ability to fight in China’s front yard is highly in doubt. Since Taiwan was never a colony it’s used to more autonomy and it will work for the mainland to grant us that autonomy as long as we come to a negotiated settlement. Taiwan can either be the free-est Chinese province with a deal or the least free Chinese province after a war.










