Su Zhu

Excellent summary

Word of the year will be “Eschatological”

Spice https://t.co/xdv2ot4gJv

America has become the true Leninist society in that loyalty to the party exceeds loyalty to the state. This is why you will see anti-war people be pro-war when their party is in power, and vice versa.

NFT to defensetech pipeline

The idea that society needs a high birth rate only makes sense if you are a consumer goods company, a boomer hoping someone will buy a house for a much higher price, or planning to conscript people into war. Otherwise, lower population vs national resources will be a major edge. UBI will be cheaper and quality of life will be higher. You can also turn on and off the immigration spigot selectively.

One of the biggest benefits of sending your kid to Europe or US for school is that he gains a tolerance and appreciation for 白人饭. Those who haven’t developed this skill are unable to go a week without craving for hotpot.

As a sign of the times and just how magnanimous in spirit America used to be, something like 80,000 Chinese were immediately given green cards in the early 90s via the Chinese Student Protection Act. George HW Bush and Nancy Pelosi spearheaded.

One public-private way to pump birth rates is to allow families to buy failson insurance from the open market. Then either your child will take care of you in forty years or the insurance payouts will. The markets will then analyse the child’s genome at birth, as well as hukou status, parental and grandparental CVs, ideally all encrypted via zero-knowledge proofs. Then whenever the govt wants more children born in a year, perhaps to offset softness due to zodiac-related reasons, the SOE insurers can simply sweeten failson payouts.

He has a thick neck, a head full of hair, reasonable teeth, kind eyes, some eyebrows, and a functional moustache. Completely looksmatched in most provinces. https://t.co/rLVOWWc6eI

Heard a thesis today that political instability is bullish humanoid robotics because foreign workers can suddenly turn political while robots cannot.

Beijing robotics scene is on fire

Andrew Tate is relatively popular in south China. He is kind of spiritually Fujianese. His basic message of “make money, get bitches” is the same spirit of the Hokkien diaspora, giving Ming dynasty energy.

Due to the lack of nations offering visas and banking for Iranians, most are much safer inside Iran than outside of it and they are well aware of this fact. This plays a lot into the risk reward of participating in any kind of regime resistance.

Have any ship captains simply tried asking if they may kindly cross the strait of hormuz

It is not surprising that embryo selection and other forms of eugenics are becoming mainstream in China. The logical conclusion of the Confucian circle of life, the idea that childcare by parents is repaid with elderly care by children, is eugenics. Birth rates remain low if potential parents believe that a potential child will not do well enough to help them in old age. In other words, the child will not ROI. Embryo selection either actually makes them better, or at worst acts as a placebo that makes parents believe in their children enough to create them.

Straits Times, early 1900s Jew v. Chinaman https://t.co/vM20AJipQJ

Some people posting about Greater Switzerland, but after Brexit, France is the only country in the EU with a nuclear arsenal and energy independence. Explain to me why European Union won’t end up as the French Sixth Republic eventually. They just need to ban English again and suppress the Germans. The Spanish and Italian are Francophiles. Rename the euro the franc. Recruit legionnaires from the Mahgreb and install in main cities. Arabic used as the language of the empire, French for the centre. Re-invade North Africa. Revive corpse of Napoleon and create messianic concept around it, etc.

Empire of Oman https://t.co/nMjV7ENiVH

Not surprising at all. Western classical music is already best cultivated in the East. Buddhism left India and is practiced most in the East. Badminton left the UK and is played best in the East. Entirely logical for Greek and Latin to be studied best in the East as well.

Beijing <> Pyongyang bi-directional passenger train goes live this week. https://t.co/UiEgkucRxo

Why are Wikipedia editors so scared of Prof Jiang? https://t.co/v0kZcP2yjV

You can only properly invade Tehran from the north, so you would need Russian collaboration. From the South it is a fool’s quest. Vivek was probably right that America would’ve been better off allying with Russia instead of Europe for its overall security architecture goals.

The American political left - right divide is generally goyslop in the purest sense. Early kibbutz culture was commune socialist, yet also settler colonialist. Right-wing Zionists freely celebrated the successes of left-wing settlers.

Although it may not feel like it right now, Trump’s Beijing Mar31-Apr2 visit will be deescalatory across multiple fronts. Nowadays the media and influencers on both sides are more hawkish than the actual governments and populaces. This is because to get you to click and read they need to spike your cortisol.

Prof Jiang is attractive because he doesn’t sound like he is regurgitating talking points of any side, and he presents a coherent and predictive vision of history and asks to be graded on its accuracy.

Given recent geopolitical developments in the MENA region, Bali looks poised to become the new global capital of padel.

Singapore to London Heathrow on economy one-way is $7-10k usd now.

France has officially entered the Middle East conflict, to defend Lebanon from Israel

To the extent that a squeeze on oil and natural gas is painful for China, it is 10x more painful for Korea, Japan, Taiwan.