Andrew Stokols
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Cities, tech, Pol-Econ- poster of China ephemera. lecturer @MITDusp fmr @FulbrightPrgrm @cal +@HarvardGSD; lived in PEK, ICN, XIY, SIN, BOS, BKK.
Cambridge, MA
Joined November 2009
How is Xi remaking China's "urban ideology"? Find out in this new article on Xiong'an 雄安新区 for Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society .
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A wind farm, in China.
TRUMP: And we are putting up wind. It does not work, aside from ruining our fields and valleys and killing all the birds. Being very weak and expensive, all made in China. I have never seen a wind farm in China. Why is that?
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RT @BillGates: The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here….
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RT @ianbremmer: average change in annual income for americans once the big beautiful bill passes (imminently)
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the first abundance-inspired policy? CA rolls back CEQA--will it actually speed up housing construction? .
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Exiled insider living in U.S. Cai Shenkun, who claims he received a letter from a high-ranking cadre advocating Xi's resignation.
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This video by Katherine Hu makes fairly specific claims about the various factions in China and their recent moves, albeit without any attribution of sources and the reporter with a clear ideological agenda.
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In @ForeignPolicy a report on Li Qiang's rising influence on economic decision making (not by itself particularly unusual).
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This article by Willy Lam in @ChinaBriefJT cites a reshuffling of positions in military and security apparatuses, removing Xi loyalists and gradually weakening his power base.
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This @nypost on Xi's purported loss of power has almost 0 sources; here are a few other recent reports, with somewhat more specific claims (still highly speculative) that Xi is losing his grip on power; military reshuffling, loss of allies in key posts, fewer media mentions. .
Is Xi Jinping on his way out? Very likely not, but it's extremely difficult to tell. As Winston Churchill once said, "Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it.
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Late capitalism is subscribing to an app that tracks your recurring charges, which then becomes itself another recurring charge 😓.
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The gathering at Victory Monument has particular salience in this moment, as it commemorates the Thai victory against French Indochina (now Cambodia) in 1941 during which Thailand reclaimed areas that had formerly been under its influence, now at heart of border dispute.
HAPPENING NOW: Anti-govt protesters are rallying at Victory Monument to demand the ouster of PM @ingshin following the phone leak with Cambodia’s Hun Sen, in which she appeared kowtowing to the family friend of the Shinawatras amidst simmering tensions with its neighbor.
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Speculation, but a reason people have neg views of govt employees could be because many individual interaction w/govt is in agencies where customer service can be quite bad (USPS, DMV, etc)-- citizens don't interact w/federal agencies on daily basis.
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US and China converge further-U.S. set to receive “golden shares” in US Steel not unlike how under Xi China has taken golden shares in its own tech companies .
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Nothing encapsulates our current era greater than a dinner of bratty 20-something crypto bros who paid for access to see Trump at his golf club, complained about the menu and Trump's underwhelming speech, all the while posting selfies
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Harvard. Apple. Trump seems to think the “golden age” means destroying every American brand there is.
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