| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| China acts to reduce foreign control of Chinese companies. | 2021-12-29 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476048584436948993 | 1476048584436948993 |
| A Trumpist model of how strong leaders run elections. | 2021-12-19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472471400426340353 | 1472471400426340353 |
| Transmitting foreign propaganda can be profitable! | 2021-12-15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470992275677216768 | 1470992275677216768 |
| Chinese disinformation on Facebook. | 2021-12-03 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466594900284100610 | 1466594900284100610 |
| China undertakes active measures to exclude foreign | 2021-11-26 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464123346681876485 | 1464123346681876485 |
| China contests with US and Australia for control of | 2021-11-26 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464118064060850180 | 1464118064060850180 |
| NoMeToo in China! | 2021-11-24 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463410673916907523 | 1463410673916907523 |
| Europe warming to Taiwan, to displeasure of PRC. | 2021-11-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458476721053655043 | 1458476721053655043 |
| You think the chip shortage is bad and auto prices are | 2021-11-10 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458455604419170307 | 1458455604419170307 |
| How cult of personality immortalizes itself. | 2021-11-10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458280005583007744 | 1458280005583007744 |
| Planning for war, practicing just in case, or just | 2021-11-08 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1457730327103737857 | 1457730327103737857 |
| Hazards of comparing the new PRC to the old Soviet Union. | 2021-11-06 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456842151552159745 | 1456842151552159745 |
| How to build a cult of personality. | 2021-11-05 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456614393794347015 | 1456614393794347015 |
| PRC actively raising the cost of US defense of Taiwan. | 2021-11-04 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456110969688518659 | 1456110969688518659 |
| What do the people of Taiwan want? Ideally, | 2021-10-29 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1454130752761651209 | 1454130752761651209 |
| Is this how it ends? | 2021-10-28 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453535809689165824 | 1453535809689165824 |
| How will China's demographic and economic crises be | 2021-10-24 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452289702464270338 | 1452289702464270338 |
| How far will Evergrande infect? | 2021-10-13 | 94 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1448167893988823044 | 1448167893988823044 |
| Has China peaked and started on the way down? | 2021-10-11 | 143 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447424380275884042 | 1447424380275884042 |
| Xinjiang as historical tourist attraction. | 2021-10-10 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1447349354843443206 | 1447349354843443206 |
| Strategic ambiguity on the PRC side, too. | 2021-10-09 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1446837672429768714 | 1446837672429768714 |
| The Chinese Wild West is over. From now on the Party | 2021-10-06 | 192 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1445883029692420103 | 1445883029692420103 |
| China's era of Wild West capitalism might be drawing to | 2021-10-04 | 156 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1444868081470173188 | 1444868081470173188 |
| Xi obviously wants to conquer Taiwan during his rule. | 2021-10-03 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444764142888386562 | 1444764142888386562 |
| Cold war with China? | 2021-09-30 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1443432489679081472 | 1443432489679081472 |
| The TPP is the big prize that Trump threw away. | 2021-09-24 | 157 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441530616151887877 | 1441530616151887877 |
| Preparing to keep the peace or fight a war? | 2021-09-23 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441056054180073482 | 1441056054180073482 |
| China wants to take over the TPP trade deal that Trump | 2021-09-22 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440677527190589446 | 1440677527190589446 |
| Can we avoid war with China? | 2021-09-20 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1439978324286083081 | 1439978324286083081 |
| How well did it work last time? | 2021-09-08 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435483589236310017 | 1435483589236310017 |
| China outsourced its cyberwarfare - to maintain plausible | 2021-07-20 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417362556172193797 | 1417362556172193797 |
| Business is different in China. | 2021-07-20 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417297003692789772 | 1417297003692789772 |
| Dropouts from the Chinese rat race? Are hippies next? | 2021-07-05 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1411934074759913474 | 1411934074759913474 |
| Forced assimilation of minorities by destroying their | 2021-06-17 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1405317809916186627 | 1405317809916186627 |
| Population control and the standard of living. | 2021-06-10 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403018789050978304 | 1403018789050978304 |
| Keep producing the right kinds of soldiers! | 2021-06-07 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402039658951806980 | 1402039658951806980 |
| Wolf warriors of lovable. You can't have both. | 2021-06-04 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400641224390832128 | 1400641224390832128 |
| China's model exported to the world - do what you're told | 2021-06-03 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400450993028882446 | 1400450993028882446 |
| Xi shows Trump how to fail at becoming the dominant world | 2021-05-28 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398331436093034499 | 1398331436093034499 |
| No Facebook or Twitter allowed in China - but its diplomats | 2021-05-12 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1392329795157991424 | 1392329795157991424 |
| Welcome to the club of prosperous industrialized nations, | 2021-05-11 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1392265930923659271 | 1392265930923659271 |
| Time to ratify the Law of the Sea. | 2021-05-08 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390890303901470723 | 1390890303901470723 |
| Why the US finally abandoned the Mideast. | 2021-05-06 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390354459335675908 | 1390354459335675908 |
| What should be done about Taiwan? Removing strategic | 2021-05-06 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1390171584405512194 | 1390171584405512194 |
| What about March 2034? The governments of China, Russia, | 2021-04-28 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1387302108592963584 | 1387302108592963584 |
| How far will the US go to protect Taiwan? | 2021-04-09 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1380524395462942727 | 1380524395462942727 |
| Can we use China's strengths against it? | 2021-03-30 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376714760738152451 | 1376714760738152451 |
| Partnership with China - you take the risk, they take | 2021-03-30 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376714150210981890 | 1376714150210981890 |
| Like Trump - and Hitler and Stalin before - Xi and Putin | 2021-03-29 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376627109041332224 | 1376627109041332224 |
| Is spending more on the defense budget the answer to China? | 2021-03-19 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372940689231671299 | 1372940689231671299 |
| What is going to be the relationship between NATO and | 2021-03-14 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371159025178451969 | 1371159025178451969 |
| Infrastructure? China? Voting rights? | 2021-03-10 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369714856379641858 | 1369714856379641858 |
| "Rejuvenation" - the excuse for retaining a Communist | 2021-03-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369663304344367104 | 1369663304344367104 |
| Russia and China are trying to figure out what they can | 2021-03-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368744932807086081 | 1368744932807086081 |
| China has advanced into the club of wealthy countries. | 2021-03-05 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367983020649504775 | 1367983020649504775 |
| Blame somebody else for your failures! | 2021-03-04 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367495494189129736 | 1367495494189129736 |
| A new nuclear arms race. | 2021-03-01 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366390305834950657 | 1366390305834950657 |
| Chinese dispute resolution. | 2021-03-01 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366244396434251780 | 1366244396434251780 |
| Covid bad? Try nuclear war over Taiwan. | 2021-02-18 | 75 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1362208742008180741 | 1362208742008180741 |
| A distracted, inward-focused America is a tempting target | 2021-02-01 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1356117008107008007 | 1356117008107008007 |
| The new Space Race. It's 1958 all over again. | 2021-01-25 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1353576430181834752 | 1353576430181834752 |
| China will exploit American weakness. | 2021-01-21 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1352129140443410432 | 1352129140443410432 |
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========== China acts to reduce foreign control of Chinese companies. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-imposes-curbs-offshore-ipos-092408878.html #PS1china ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-29 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476048584436948993 ========== A Trumpist model of how strong leaders run elections. https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-election-only-china-loyalists-approved-to-run-b81e71d83d99b58864f1f5b1bdeab0fb #PS1china ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-19 07:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472471400426340353 ========== Transmitting foreign propaganda can be profitable! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html #PS1china ===== impress 30 time 2021-12-15 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470992275677216768 ========== Chinese disinformation on Facebook. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-health-business-california-07d1da2e760bdbf4cfca38fd1e58411e Numerous Chinese entities were involved - unlikely without government approval. #PS1china ===== impress 21 time 2021-12-03 02:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466594900284100610 ========== China undertakes active measures to exclude foreign competitors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-business-foreign-companies/2021/11/25/f0ff625a-4056-11ec-9404-50a28a88b9cd_story.html #PS1china ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-26 06:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464123346681876485 ========== China contests with US and Australia for control of western Pacific. https://apnews.com/article/china-new-zealand-environment-pacific-ocean-marshall-islands-ec40aeea0cd5da4a17d6f3012e5874ff https://apnews.com/article/china-new-zealand-environment-pacific-ocean-marshall-islands-ec40aeea0cd5da4a17d6f3012e5874ff #PS1china ===== impress 30 time 2021-11-26 06:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464118064060850180 ========== NoMeToo in China! https://apnews.com/article/sports-china-media-crime-social-media-75efe52e2caae9d5bee9c73e7e16b073 China's Communist Party must feel very insecure. #PS1china ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-24 07:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463410673916907523 ========== Europe warming to Taiwan, to displeasure of PRC. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/world/asia/taiwan-europe-china.html #PS1china ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-10 16:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458476721053655043 ========== You think the chip shortage is bad and auto prices are high now - think about a Taiwan war! https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2021-11-03/taiwan-china-us-tensions-semiconductor-chip-supply-3482114.html Xi hopes to occupy Taiwan without firing a shot but he domestic pressure might push. So there's a global effort to build strategic chips elsewhere. #PS1china ===== impress 46 time 2021-11-10 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458455604419170307 ========== How cult of personality immortalizes itself. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/world/asia/china-xi-jinping.html #PS1china ===== impress 15 time 2021-11-10 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458280005583007744 ========== Planning for war, practicing just in case, or just bluffing? https://apnews.com/article/business-china-united-states-beijing-navy-da8da0eb9a4a6d9e53671d25837cae11 Xi might not want war, but might be pushed by popular opinion. #PS1china ===== impress 35 time 2021-11-08 15:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1457730327103737857 ========== Hazards of comparing the new PRC to the old Soviet Union. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/opinion/biden-china-cold-war.html #PS1china ===== impress 54 time 2021-11-06 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456842151552159745 ========== How to build a cult of personality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-xi-jinping-history/2021/11/05/387835c8-388f-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html #PS1china ===== impress 117 time 2021-11-05 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456614393794347015 ========== PRC actively raising the cost of US defense of Taiwan. https://apnews.com/article/china-united-states-beijing-nuclear-weapons-congress-5a8c5ceb9d248810b9dd513894f195f8 #PS1china ===== impress 96 time 2021-11-04 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456110969688518659 ========== What do the people of Taiwan want? Ideally, independence. Practically, the status quo. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/opinion/taiwan-china-biden.html Xi and Biden - and the Taiwanese - all want to achieve their aims without starting a world war. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1528844204126760 #PS1china ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-29 16:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1454130752761651209 ========== Is this how it ends? https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ With democratization of weapons of mass destruction for which there is no defense? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/china-hypersonic-missile.html #PS1china ===== impress 20 time 2021-10-28 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453535809689165824 ========== How will China's demographic and economic crises be resolved? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/opinion/china-bubble-economy.html By an external adventure that rallies the masses yet poses no threat to the ruling class? #PS1china ===== impress 43 time 2021-10-24 15:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452289702464270338 ========== How far will Evergrande infect? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-evergrande-debt-property/2021/10/12/403d48ca-2b1a-11ec-b17d-985c186de338_story.html #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 94 time 2021-10-13 06:05 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448167893988823044 ========== Has China peaked and started on the way down? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/china-rise-vs-authoritarian-decline/ If so, it's more dangerous as it seeks distractions - perhaps a war with Taiwan. #PS1china ===== impress 143 time 2021-10-11 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447424380275884042 ========== Xinjiang as historical tourist attraction. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-china-health-travel-7a6967f335f97ca868cc618ea84b98b9 #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2021-10-10 23:52 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447349354843443206 ========== Strategic ambiguity on the PRC side, too. https://apnews.com/article/xi-jinping-taipei-beijing-taiwan-china-61f510599558249f9afa839052c4000a Will he or won't he use force on Taiwan? #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2021-10-09 13:59 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446837672429768714 ========== The Chinese Wild West is over. From now on the Party will control all large enterprises. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/business/china-businesses.html #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 192 time 2021-10-06 22:45 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445883029692420103 ========== China's era of Wild West capitalism might be drawing to a close. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/business/china-evergrande-economy.html Leverage has its risks, financially and politically. #PS1china ===== engage 2 engage-rate 1% impress 156 time 2021-10-04 03:32 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444868081470173188 ========== Xi obviously wants to conquer Taiwan during his rule. But will he risk war? https://apnews.com/article/china-united-states-taiwan-a3afef4fa39ee74f8d902d98cfc74dad Will the US risk war to defend Taiwan? #PS1china ===== impress 99 time 2021-10-03 20:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444764142888386562 ========== Cold war with China? https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/sep/29/us-china-face-off-looks-a-lot-like-the-cold-war/ The main danger is that it might become a hot war over Taiwan. #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 66 time 2021-09-30 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443432489679081472 ========== The TPP is the big prize that Trump threw away. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/contain-china-joining-pacific-trade-pact-might-be-more-effective-than-new-submarines/ But then he never was sure if he was for or against Xi. Trump admires strong leaders. #PS1china ===== impress 157 time 2021-09-24 22:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441530616151887877 ========== Preparing to keep the peace or fight a war? https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-joe-biden-australia-beijing-europe-3fcbf65b68f005316bc92c34a297fabe If Xi wants to conquer Taiwan in his lifetime, it might be war. #PS1china ===== impress 85 time 2021-09-23 15:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441056054180073482 ========== China wants to take over the TPP trade deal that Trump rejected. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/opinion/china-biden-australia-tpp.html #PS1china ===== impress 70 time 2021-09-22 14:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440677527190589446 ========== Can we avoid war with China? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/opinion/china-us-xi-biden.html #PS1china ===== impress 58 time 2021-09-20 15:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439978324286083081 ========== How well did it work last time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_revolution_theory No matter, it's what you get with cult of personality! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution Continuous cultural revolution again! https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-asia-beijing-xi-jinping-1a03a0ad19397face74b2e2dd2130d33 #PS1china ===== impress 26 time 2021-09-08 06:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435483589236310017 ========== China outsourced its cyberwarfare - to maintain plausible deniability or to increase the number and intensity of attacks. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/technology/china-hacking-us.html #PS1china ===== impress 34 time 2021-07-20 05:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417362556172193797 ========== Business is different in China. Profit is not the only goal; national security matters - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/technology/china-microchips-tsinghua-unigroup.html Every major firm has to have a party secretary to coordinate with the Party - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/technology/what-china-expects-from-businesses-total-surrender.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1458824131128768 #PS1china ===== impress 29 time 2021-07-20 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417297003692789772 ========== Dropouts from the Chinese rat race? Are hippies next? https://apnews.com/article/business-d2b9f71d73219b32d78709b0afb443ca But it turns out to just be the same old problem - east and west, then and now, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. What will the Communist Party do about income inequality? #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2021-07-05 06:24 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1411934074759913474 ========== Forced assimilation of minorities by destroying their culture - should be familiar to Native Americans. https://apnews.com/article/dalai-lama-tibet-china-europe-business-ee607f3daa747b03414c972541251306 #PS1china ===== impress 41 time 2021-06-17 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405317809916186627 ========== Population control and the standard of living. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ You can't adjust one without adjusting the other. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/08/china-family-planning-population-crisis/ #PS1china ===== impress 46 time 2021-06-10 15:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403018789050978304 ========== Keep producing the right kinds of soldiers! Hitler imposed a bachelor tax to get Aryan birth rates up. Maybe Xi will too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/07/china-three-child-feminism/ #PS1china ===== impress 45 time 2021-06-07 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402039658951806980 ========== Wolf warriors of lovable. You can't have both. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/03/china-wolf-warrior-reset/ You know what Trump would have chosen. #PS1china ===== impress 36 time 2021-06-04 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400641224390832128 ========== China's model exported to the world - do what you're told or else! https://apnews.com/article/china-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-business-health-06be676e04bbd672120ebabc9e6e9561 https://apnews.com/article/china-government-and-politics-921c300e9057ea339d356c867bb9899f https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-middle-east-europe-government-and-politics-76acafd6547fb7cc9ef03c0dd0156eab #PS1china ===== impress 35 time 2021-06-03 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400450993028882446 ========== Xi shows Trump how to fail at becoming the dominant world power, by getting carried away by cult of personality. But Trump knew it all already. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/27/xis-china-cant-seem-stop-scoring-own-goals/ We don't think much of Modi but we will accept him as an ally against Xi. #PS1china ===== impress 50 time 2021-05-28 17:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398331436093034499 ========== No Facebook or Twitter allowed in China - but its diplomats used them extensively to propagandize abroad. https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-china-europe-middle-east-government-and-politics-62b13895aa6665ae4d887dcc8d196dfc #PS1china ===== impress 43 time 2021-05-12 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1392329795157991424 ========== Welcome to the club of prosperous industrialized nations, where nobody can afford children. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ Welcome to the quandary of what to do next. https://apnews.com/article/china-business-432f0128432ef1171888476c7967f7a5 There are lots of people in the world - in poor countries. #PS1china ===== impress 46 time 2021-05-11 23:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1392265930923659271 ========== Time to ratify the Law of the Sea. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/07/south-china-sea-conflict-danger/ #PS1china ===== impress 59 time 2021-05-08 04:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390890303901470723 ========== Why the US finally abandoned the Mideast. https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-africa-china-business-government-and-politics-24f774a952eaabcb38d2b25380b61a62 China intends to project power globally in a way that Russia never could. #PS1china ===== impress 47 time 2021-05-06 17:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390354459335675908 ========== What should be done about Taiwan? Removing strategic ambiguity might be dangerous. Actually getting into a shooting war could easily become catastrophic. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/opinion/biden-taiwan-china.html #PS1china ===== impress 48 time 2021-05-06 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1390171584405512194 ========== What about March 2034? The governments of China, Russia, and Iran are threatened by democracy and need to distract their populations from the failure of their domestic policies. The US is an easy target - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/china-us-2034.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1403474109997104 #PS1china ===== impress 50 time 2021-04-28 07:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1387302108592963584 ========== How far will the US go to protect Taiwan? https://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000 https://apnews.com/article/beijing-taiwan-china-08fd7c5e4002a6b295acb0282cb81d58 Starting a war is a traditional way of stifling internal dissent, though Xi is already pretty good at stifling by other means. #PS1china ===== impress 57 time 2021-04-09 14:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1380524395462942727 ========== Can we use China's strengths against it? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/opinion/biden-china.html Cults of personality seldom survive more than one generation, though North Korea seems to be an exception. #PS1china ===== impress 51 time 2021-03-30 01:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376714760738152451 ========== Partnership with China - you take the risk, they take the profit. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/americas/ecuador-china-dam.html #PS1china ===== impress 52 time 2021-03-30 01:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376714150210981890 ========== Like Trump - and Hitler and Stalin before - Xi and Putin accuse other countries of doing the same things they are doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/world/asia/china-us-russia.html It's the "everybody does it so we are no worse" ethos. #PS1china ===== impress 51 time 2021-03-29 20:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376627109041332224 ========== Is spending more on the defense budget the answer to China? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-pentagon-is-using-china-as-an-excuse-for-huge-new-budgets/2021/03/18/848c8296-8824-11eb-8a8b-5cf82c3dffe4_story.html All it takes is one hypersonic missile to sink an aircraft carrier. So build more large expensive targets? The future threat is swarms of cheap weapons. #PS1china ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-19 15:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372940689231671299 ========== What is going to be the relationship between NATO and China? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/chinas-rise-is-exactly-the-kind-of-threat-nato-exists-to-stop/2021/03/11/c3adfad6-8211-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html #PS1china ===== impress 44 time 2021-03-14 17:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371159025178451969 ========== Infrastructure? China? Voting rights? https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/10/president-bidens-second-big-bill-may-be-china-package-pushed-by-top-senate-democrat/ China is the only issue with a chance of getting any Republican support, since it appeals to voters AND donors. #PS1china ===== impress 49 time 2021-03-10 18:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369714856379641858 ========== "Rejuvenation" - the excuse for retaining a Communist dictatorship and suppressing dissent and minorities. https://apnews.com/article/technology-legislature-coronavirus-pandemic-china-asia-pacific-562b40c73740d97f8ddd3099f08fa0a4 #PS1china ===== impress 47 time 2021-03-10 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369663304344367104 ========== Russia and China are trying to figure out what they can get away with. They are going to push our government toward their model where the government controls and monitors all internet access. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/politics/microsoft-solarwinds-hack-russia-china.html #PS1china ===== impress 31 time 2021-03-08 02:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368744932807086081 ========== China has advanced into the club of wealthy countries. Declining birth rate proves it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/05/chinas-looming-population-slide-could-make-it-an-even-more-dangerous-global-threat/ It's a problem that all wealthy countries face - children are too expensive. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1china ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-05 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367983020649504775 ========== Blame somebody else for your failures! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/04/covid-trump-xi-josh-rogin/ How much alike were Trump and Xi! #PS1china ===== impress 35 time 2021-03-04 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367495494189129736 ========== A new nuclear arms race. https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-china-russia-united-states-f711665a7ebb3a58d6c5bb7ce899ff1d #PS1china ===== impress 37 time 2021-03-01 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366390305834950657 ========== Chinese dispute resolution. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/us/politics/china-india-hacking-electricity.html #PS1china ===== impress 40 time 2021-03-01 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366244396434251780 ========== Covid bad? Try nuclear war over Taiwan. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-lloyd-austin-china-russia-united-states-a527916527940705a0aa9fb7d1f36eaf Xi aims to restore China's rightful place among nations - just like Hitler in 1933. #PS1china ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 75 time 2021-02-18 01:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362208742008180741 ========== A distracted, inward-focused America is a tempting target for Xi, Putin, Kim, and all the rest. It's hard to be optimistic. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/opinion/sunday/foreign-policy-china.html #PS1china ===== impress 41 time 2021-02-01 05:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1356117008107008007 ========== The new Space Race. It's 1958 all over again. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/trump-biden-pentagon-space-missiles-satellite.html #PS1china ===== impress 38 time 2021-01-25 05:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1353576430181834752 ========== China will exploit American weakness. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-foreign-policy-coronavirus-pandemic-china-us-news-c53ee902caf3218f2d0103f356db1376 #PS1china ===== impress 60 time 2021-01-21 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1352129140443410432