Nury Vittachi
@NuryVittachi
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Ex-SCMP, ex-Far Eastern Economic Review, ex-Reader’s Digest, ex-op-ed writer for NYT, etc, author of 40+ books; now running Hong Kong’s ‘Friday’ news project
Hong Kong
Joined August 2012
THERE ARE SO many surveillance cameras in the city in China in which I live, that every time I need to adjust my underpants I have to take a day trip to Cambodia
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IOC: IF YOU BAN ISRAEL, WE’LL BAN YOU MORE The International Olympic Committee last night banned Indonesia from hosting any international sports events of any kind for the indefinite future—because it chose not to allow athletes from Israel into its country. Horrified by the
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I WAS JUST putting in our family’s annual order for 20 metric tons of US soybeans when the digital speaker (installed in every home in China by law) issued new orders: “To deal with overcapacity, every citizen, including children, is now required to own three electric vehicles."
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🚨 ATTN. New Jersey: We can do SO much better than Mikie Sherrill. She voted against the child tax credit… She voted for tax hikes… She voted to give your money to illegals… Reject her on Nov. 4th.
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LIKE ALL FAMILIES in China, we’re required to make 5km of High Speed Rail a week. My son lays tracks while the rest of us work on the bullet train chassis, except for my eldest daughter, who welds maglev units to the undercarriage. Every 1,000km gets us a free weekend in Siberia
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Seven months after the launch of the global tariff war...
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Independent journalist Chris Hedges’ superb talk on the shocking slaughter of reporters in Gaza was banned by the National Press Club of Australia. So he delivered it to a new audience this week. Full speech can be found on YouTube
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WESTERN MAINSTREAM MEDIA SECRETS #35: Subeditors are required by law to suck lemon slices when writing headlines about China. This ensures that even positive stories have a suitably sour tone: “but at what cost?”, “downsides of success” etc
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MI6 PLAN TO CUT CHINA INTO THREE COUNTRIES BREAKING NEWS: Unearthed documents show that MI6, the British spy service, planned to cut China into three separate countries. The British plan was formulated as recently as the 1990s—and part of it is STILL RUNNING NOW. This is an
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MI6 PLAN TO CUT CHINA INTO THREE COUNTRIES BREAKING NEWS: Unearthed documents show that MI6, the British spy service, planned to cut China into three separate countries. The British plan was formulated as recently as the 1990s—and part of it is STILL RUNNING NOW. This is an
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LIFE IN CHINA: Our family’s social credit score fell 2.6% yesterday because I dropped the children at Sweat Shop No. 68 two minutes late. But the youngest made almost double her quota of iPhones and the oldest made an entire BYD Emax-7 car BY HIMSELF, so we ended the day 4.3% up
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They tell you China is building concentration camps, But never mention the U.S. runs the largest prison system on Earth. They tell you China censors the internet, But forget that every Western platform is owned, filtered, and funded by corporations that sell your data to the
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese just got off a plane in Washington DC for a meeting with Donald Trump on “regional security” in Asia Pacific. Everyone who has attended western geopolitical conferences knows that Asian “regional security” discussions focus on America’s
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@davidkersten The three C’s of Chinese politics: cooperation; consultation; consensus. The three C’s of Western politics: competition; confrontation; conflict. The US has no idea how to deal with a country that it can’t bully and abuse.
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Elon Musk is launching a rival to Wikipedia -- and it is due to drop later today (Monday Oct 20, 2025). It may even be less anti-Chinese. Musk described the early version as "buggy" but "still better than Wikipedia". . PROBLEMATIC Although widely used worldwide, Wikipedia has
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UH-OH CANADA: Hong Kong anti-China campaigner Jimmy Lai is a key element in a carefully cultivated network of Sinophobic narratives. Aidan Jonah takes an eye-widening look at groups in Canada who are playing along to push the US-backed storyline.
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Why is a jailed Trump fanatic tycoon tabloid publisher making waves? The simple answer is that he isn’t. Most of the world (Asians and Africans are 76% of humanity) have no interest in Jimmy Lai. But...
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🚨🇨🇳 BREAKING: China has unveiled the world’s first zero-carbon intelligent port terminal in Tianjin — showcasing what the future of global shipping could look like. 🔹 Electric autonomous transport vehicles guided by the Beidou Navigation System 🔹 Fully automated cranes
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A cargo plane veered off a runway into Hong Kong waters, killing two people in an airport vehicle early this morning, police said. Emirates flight EK9788 from Dubai slid off its landing route at 3:50 am and ended up floating in the sea. Initial reports say the Boeing 747
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