Also good observations in here by @jeremywallace.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social. I work in a firm that monitors Chinese manufacturing, prices, and policies for solar and BESS and this is the best description I've seen yet to explain what is going on over there. /end

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This is a lovely and rather sad essay by an old friend from our mutual years in China, who returned for a long visit with his family after several years away. The fizz and optimism I remember from the early 2000s has given way to something more melancholy.

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As ever - Me vs Fall Semester

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For those of you who are mourning the loss of Victor Mair, the Sinica Podcast archives (sinicapodcast.com) has preserved a delightful, informal conversation with Prof. Mair recorded in 2012. (You can bypass SoundCloud) chinafile.com/library/sini... @kaiserkuo.bsky.social

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@kaiserkuo.bsky.social on the China Hawks’ self-fulfilling prophecy: “The containment policy hasn’t just failed to stop China. It may actually be perversely manufacturing exactly the kind of implacable & belligerent adversary that the hawks say they already found.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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