Larry Backer
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China Unveils New Rules to Crack Down on “Malicious Entities” Complying with Foreign Extraterritorial Sanctions | Geopolitechs geopolitechs.org/p/china-unveil…

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The latest edition of Qiushi Journal is now online: 2026年第7期《求是》目录 qstheory.cn/20260331/d42c1… Highlights include Xi's op-ed on establishing and practicing a correct understanding of Party governance performance plus additional op-eds on performance;... 1/4

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We now offer all the documents used to write Zhou Xun’s classic history of the Great Famine.
中国民间档案馆 | China Unofficial Archives@MinjianArchives
中国民间档案馆新增馆藏:“《中国大饥荒,1958-1962》原始文献”。这是学者周逊在《中国大饥荒,1958-1962》一书中引用的中文原始文献的汇编。欢迎读者和学者朋友们阅览、下载、收藏!链接:minjian-danganguan.org/zh/archive/4857
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3. Law on National Development Plans
The Law will codify China's existing procedural framework governing the drafting, approval & implementation of 5-Year Plans for Economic & Social Development, including the Communist Party's role throughout process.
npcobserver.com/2026/02/24/chi…
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@jonathanbfine Its mean girl dynamics across different tiers of dork
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no one in academia is cool. absolutely nobody at all.
Mathieu@miniapeur
Academia is like high school. There are the cool kids doing research that everyone talks about, and it's pretty hard to get into those circles.
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国新办举行新闻发布会 介绍市场监管服务经济高质量发展情况
The State Council Information Office held a press conference to introduce the situation of market supervision serving economic development.
scio.gov.cn/live/2026/3802…

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@jcmittelstaedt He did just remind cadres that this was coming……
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what's interesting is not just the number but also that the severity of punishment has increased

Jonathan Cheng@JChengWSJ
Xi’s Enforcers Punished Nearly a Million in 2025—and China’s Leader Wants More: Xi Jinping vows to escalate his war on graft this year to build loyalty to his agenda @ByChunHan wsj.com/world/china/xi… wsj.com/world/china/xi…
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@HusaJaakko Talking is the new reading; images are the new talking......you might wNt to send them a picture.
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@williamnee @JosephTorigian The future is always the past present it seems......
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I’m very belatedly going through @JosephTorigian’s epic book: The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping.
I knew Xi Zhongxun was purged & suffered in the CR, but didn’t know the scope & the violence of the campaign against him before the CR

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@SdBachman @IlhanMN There have been stories for a while.....there is a segment of the US-Euro elites for whom this may not be perceived as negative; but then they would have affirmed Ukrainian annexation in 2022 on the first day this 2nd phase of the war
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Following MAGA logic he should be stripped of his citizenship and deported - he is clearly a traitor to his country and Trump and his mob want to deport @IlhanMN: so let us start with Witkoff.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@jcmittelstaedt State policy must always reflect the fundamental structures of their political economic model
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@HusaJaakko Apparently the rules of human collectives received valuable input from this source;
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