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Does this mean that Chang Li-chi is now stateless? I wonder if Beijing will offer citizenship. Statelessness seems like a harsh punishment for something that just a few months ago wasn't a crime at all — and that wasn't a crime when Chang did it.

Just in: Hong Kong-based 中国劳工通讯 CLB suddenly announced dissolution “due to financial difficulties and debt issues” It said its other social media platforms “have also been removed.” clb.org.hk/zh-hans/conten…

Chinese universities ranked above MIT, Oxford, Stanford in the new 2025 Nature Index: Zhejiang, USTC, Peking, Tsinghua, Nanjing, Shanghai Jiaotong, Sun Yat-sen, Fudan, Sichuan China’s heavy investment in scientific research underpins all of its tech & industrial advances.

Hong Kong police launch first known joint operation with Beijing’s national security office. In full: buff.ly/VE78pyU

Taiwan blacklists China's Huawei and SMIC, further aligning with U.S. trade policy. cnbc.com/2025/06/16/tai…

It’s been more than eight years since Rizawangul NurMuhammad has been able to talk to her brother, Mewlan. newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/17/if-…

Russia steps out from the shadows in Africa. With the rise of the Africa Corps, a paramilitary force that analysts say is controlled by the Kremlin, Russia is openly expanding its state military footprint on the continent u.afp.com/SNtN

Many thanks to Anthony Kao for a fun and wide-ranging interview for New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) about my forthcoming book, Ghost Nation. Give it a listen! newbooksnetwork.com/ghost-nation-t…

Fawning clips about Hong Kong from Jimmy O, such as these, were supported by local taxpayers: bloomberg.com/news/newslette… Just as in China: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

More than 150,000 people traveled out of state to get an abortion last year — and nearly one-fifth came from Texas alone, a new report found. wapo.st/44hBDnA

China wants to be the global leader in AI by 2030. To achieve this, China is deploying industrial policy tools across the entire AI tech stack, from chips & data centers to foundation models & applications. Check out the new RAND report from me, Gerard DiPippo, and team:

“Inflation will always and everywhere be fought in the labor market!” Main empirical finding: The pandemic-era inflation resulted from shocks to prices given wages. Main policy conclusion: Controlling inflation remains all about the labor market.

As with visa bans for college students, the State Department has been cracking down most aggressively on speech that is critical of Israel rather than the United States

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder to learn what to expect from a warming world. See which ones the Trump administration pulled. apnews.com/article/climat…

NEW: University of California President Michael V. Drake sent a letter to all campuses today saying student governments are banned from boycotting Israel: latimes.com/california/sto…

From ping pong diplomacy to pickleball diplomacy Beijing, July 6 (Xinhua) — Recently, President Xi Jinping sent a written reply to the teachers and students of the youth pickleball cultural-exchange delegation from Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, who visited China under the