So, Lenin was a Tatar.
Civixplorer@Civixplorer
Sketches used by USSR police to identify suspects based on their ethnicity.
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Interested in History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, IR丨Views my own丨Retweet≠Endorsement丨No BOTs, please.
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"Subsequently, all empires from the Eastern Han to the Qing had documents that suggested their rule over those lands."
Ming did not.
Monthly Review@monthly_review
What is really happening in Xinjiang? Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak shine a light on the accusations of genocide against the Chinese state, from the allegations' sources to the historical factors leading up to today. monthlyreview.org/articles/the-i… Image courtesy of @qiaocollective.
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I just found out that Kuo Ting-yee is actually buried in Beijing.
Kaiser Kuo@KaiserKuo
It’s Qingming, so Fanfan and I came out to the Wan’an Cemetery in western Beijing to see my grandfather and grandmother and clean their grave and tell them that everyone is doing alright!
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"This analysis demonstrates a clear increase in references to journal articles (as opposed to book sources) between 1990 and 2024, accelerating after the COVID-19 pandemic."
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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The nightmare of all men.😱 According to this article, during the Cultural Revolution, some Chinese psychiatric hospitals attempted to treat mental illness using traditional Chinese medicine. As a result, one unfortunate patient’s glans penis was subjected to moxibustion.
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How much oil China gets from Iran (aka Malaysia) and Venezuela remains a mystery, and so do the prices it pays for Russian oil and natural gas.
Adam Tooze@adam_tooze
Where China gets is oil from. This and more in the today's Chartbook Top Links.
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"The new rules only apply to English Wikipedia. Other versions of the site operate independently and may adopt different approaches."
Dexerto@Dexerto
Wikipedia has banned the use of AI to write articles on the site
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It’s striking how far North Korea today has departed from the socialist tradition, yet its history textbooks still preserve so many Soviet traces—especially History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks): Short Course.
김더그라스@IAmDouglasKim
4th grade history for DPRK students
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So that JSDF officer was not without precedent. In 1934, a Japanese serviceman broke into the U.S. consulate in Mukden.
nytimes.com/1934/07/18/arc…
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What about the books translated by AI?
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@LuizaJarovsky
Nobody wants to read AI-generated books.
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@PRC_Research there's also another book that might be of interest (bookmarked it but havent read yet): Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War. Agents, Activities, and Networks. Ed. by Luc van Dongen , Stéphanie Roulin and Giles Scott-Smith
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I’m not sure if any psychologists have pointed this out, but kids sometimes don’t seem afraid of things that adults would find dangerous.
Byron Wan@Byron_Wan
😱 somewhere in China…
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"Unlike China’s centralized “Great Firewall,”...Russia’s system operates internally. Internet providers are required to route traffic through state-installed deep packet inspection equipment capable of controlling and analyzing data flows in real time."
POLITICO@politico
The great Russian disconnect dlvr.it/TRV52b
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"Hair products - wigs, eyelashes, and false beards - now account for nearly half of China’s imports from North Korea, rising 327-fold over the last decade."
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Reuters@Reuters
Growing trade ties and new border infrastructure show Beijing is drawing Pyongyang back into its orbit. The rapprochement could give the Chinese leadership leverage as US President Donald Trump eyes renewed talks with the isolated state reut.rs/3MZIE89
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"Importantly, the authors found that Chinese leaders consistently do not express desire for global hegemony, but instead often explicitly deny such ambitions. Chinese leaders also consistently state that they have no ambition of replacing the United States."
The Diplomat@Diplomat_APAC
The United States has become the dangerous revisionist power it long warned us that China would be. buff.ly/miluG7Y
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"A Chinese oil and gas trader, who asked not to be named, said “no one really knows” how many months of oil the country had stockpiled. But she doubted Beijing would release its strategic reserves “purely for the purpose of price control”."
Financial Times@FT
Iran war tests Xi’s plan to build China’s stockpiles ft.trib.al/ZYAeHXF
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Both Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek have been accused of relying on ghostwriters for some of their wartime writings. Mao was said to have depended on Chen Boda and Ai Siqi, while Chiang had Chen Bulei and Tao Xisheng.
Claire Lee Chennault ❂@CLeeChennault
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reading a copy of his own book 'China's Destiny', 1943.
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"If a people’s own essence is not a possible object of deception, then it also cannot be an appropriate object for enlightenment."
doi.org/10.1515/agph-2…
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