In retrospect, the 2022 Shanghai lockdown changed China even more than the original Wuhan lockdown

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Spare a thought, if you can for the Shameless ‘Good China Foreign Friends.’ It’s tough days out there for them, mining in the backbreaking propaganda mines, having to pretend like there’s any equivalent to the histrionic reaction ginned up over a soccer player.

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What's hilarious about the Mbappé affair in Chinese media is it's universally condemned, featured in 3 out of Weibo's top 11 trending topics, but nowhere can you find out what he said. all that's allowed to say is "inappropriate comments", "hurt Chinese feelings".

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One of my husband's aunts is a retired professor of comparative literature with a doctorate from the Sorbonne. This is her most famous book in the Arabic-speaking world (about 400 million people). This fing guy can't even buy a suit that fits. jarirbooksusa.com/products/mud...

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Don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of Fontaines, especially the early stuff, it's just there are so many others that deserve attention too

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