Attention Lin-Manuel Miranda

The times we live in. How will Beijing react? Publicly, my wager is they'll object and condemn this move. Privately, I think there will be some corks popped.

Trump to Congress: kill funding for PBS, NPR and public broadcasters My story for NPR npr.org/2025/06/03/nx-…

From the British Embassy in #China… #UK #Britain

The 6/4 footage from Hong Kong, of swarms of police arresting lone individuals for peacefully memorializing the events of 36 years ago in public…

Per USTR, Vietnam imports $13.1 billion (with a b) worth of goods from the U.S., not "twelve-and-a-half million". Still makes for a large goods trade deficit, but worth clarifying b vs m.

Public broadcasting has a history of bipartisan support. Right now, partisan battle lines have formed over Trump push to defund NPR, PBS and the rest Deirdre Walsh sets the scene npr.org/2025/06/04/g-s…

Shocker. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

I was today years old when I learned there was only one F.

RTRS - AI firm DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intelligence operations, a senior US official told Reuters, adding that the Chinese tech startup sought to use SE Asian shell companies to access high-end semiconductors that cannot be shipped to China under U.S. rules.

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Let's put it this way, China has exported a mountain of potential IPs to the US by allowing these high achieving engineers to study and work in the US. It makes no sense to put up any barriers to this highly beneficial process (to the US).

LISTEN TO THIS NOW --> NPR journalist in Gaza describes his harrowing experience seeking food from a distribution site run by private American contractors. He found himself facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves. npr.org/2025/07/02/125…

"The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck... OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles' 'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources' nytimes.com/2025/07/03/opi…

Does this count as MCF? ai.mil/Latest/News-Pr…

Very sad to hear that the only traditional Chinese-language newspaper in Vietnam (“Saigon Liberation”) will no longer go on print from August 1st. It’s over 50 years old, mostly read by old people to keep up with their mother tongue & not so digitally-savy.

This gives me hope for US China relations since both countries now produce official statistics in the same way, continuing the convergence between the two governments

Any national polls out there on the Texas Republicans' gerrymandering plan?

Another wild scoop on NPR from Tom Dreisbach: Video shows a man on Jan. 6 shouting for the crowd to kill police: “Kill ‘em!” He admitted saying it. One of Trump’s first acts in office was to cancel his trial and hire him for a job at the Justice Department.