bethanyallen.bsky.social
China, AI, technology, and authoritarianism. Currently ASPI. Was Axios, Foreign Policy, Yale, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing. Author BEIJING RULES, Financial Times Best Books of 2023. Robert Lewis Watchdog Award, Batten Medal for Courage in Journalism finalist
👤 Joined on 28 August 2023
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@bethanyallen.bsky.socialBefore the embers consume me whole, I choose to bloom one final time. #digitalart #fire #oc #illustration
Show PostNEW REPORT 📌 ASPI has released its Cost of Defence budget brief for 2026-27. It warns the ADF is being asked to “carry the deterrence load with less”, as new defence investment remains backloaded while acquisition and sustainment spending falls. 🔖 Read the full report: bit.ly/3Q2tWyB
Show Postanyway frankly if you live in America in 2026 and are going to smugly judge the desire of European Jews to have a state of their own in the first half of the twentieth century you can go fuck yourself
Show Postyou never lived without a state. you never came to a border in fear and trembling. you were never asked for your papers to prove you were the 'right' kind of person. (And yes, this is also the situation of Palestinians, which is why Palestinians want *and deserve* a state of their own.)
Show PostA lot of excitement here, after #China took the snooker world championship for the second year in a row! But it's the fairytale nature of Wu Yize's win that's really captured people's imagination. www.bbc.com/sport/snooke...
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