Fergus Ryan 
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News, analysis, and discussion about China — politics, economy, technology, culture, and US-China relations.
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Mahan Air is an Iranian airline closely connected with the IRGC. It is sanction by the EU. It also has regularly scheduled flights to Beijing. Are you trying to tell me that if those flights land and refuel, China will be barred from using the US dollar? On the eve of Xi Jinping's visit?
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WaPo's David Lynch: "Anemic job growth has pushed more than 280 million Chinese into gig economy jobs, up 75 percent from 2019, according to the China New Employment Forms Research Center."
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Why China’s economy may be headed for its worst year since 1991
Chinese influence is on the rise as President Xi Jinping arrives in D.C. this week, but millions of his citizens are stuck in dead-end jobs in a stagnant economy.
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Bloomberg: "Chinese gold imports through August topped 1,000 tons, surpassing the total posted for the whole of 2025."
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China’s Gold Imports Top 1,000 Tons on Strong Investment Demand
Chinese gold imports are at record levels this year, helped by a slump in international prices and a firmer yuan.
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Reuters: Xi is expected to press Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales under a 1982 joint statement during a visit to Washington this week, which he could do at the US National Archives
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EXCLUSIVE: China's Xi expected to press Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales under 1982 agreement, sources say
Three sources told Reuters that China is likely to bring up its interpretation of the third of the three "joint communiques" between the two countries signed in 1982.
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SCMP: "Beijing should expand central government borrowing and accelerate local debt restructuring, as China’s relatively low price levels offer a rare window for stronger fiscal support to bolster demand, according to some prominent Chinese economists."
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Economists urge Beijing to act fast on local-level debt while prices remain low
Prominent advisers note importance of central authorities expanding borrowing to fund infrastructure before the current window of subdued inflation closes.
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Details on Xi's visit. Trump not only will greet Xi on the tarmac but also do a military flyover as part of a welcoming ceremony. Wondering where 'perfect reciprocity' went. (Trump did not get this in Beijing. He got singing children.) www.whitehouse.gov/briefi….
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First Lady Melania Trump Releases Details Ahead of His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of The People’s Republic of China, and Madame Peng Liyuan’s Visit to The White House
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will welcome His Excellency Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and Madame Peng
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🇨🇳 An important report from @chrdnet.bsky.social on prisoner torture in China. Grisly feature: denying medical care as a way of indirectly killing people — getting away with murder. For the Chinamaxxing whataboutists: yes, US ICE has cases also. Doesn't make either okay! 🔗 bit.ly/chrd-torture-2026
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MUST-READ: When we look back, authors @bequelin.bsky.social and @yaqiu.bsky.social argue that the most consequential foreign policy failure of Trump's administration will be on China, not with Iran and the Middle East.
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China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle
In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front.
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this is such a China move tbh. A huge problem with China's internet ecosystem is how little of it is on the open web. Innovating can be hard because many services (and data) are locked up in walled gardens
Karl Bode @karlbode.com
the future is going to look a lot like the past as in, endless gamesmanship as giant corporations attempt to ratfuck each other
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“If you want to organise a public event, anything explicitly related to feminism or LGBT issues is basically not possible, at least in Beijing."
Great news that she's out, but this article highlights how much worse things are now than in 2018... which in turn was more restrictive than 2010.
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‘People had naive expectations’: How MeToo has changed in China
On Friday, MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin was released from prison. She returns to a landscape changed by censorship, and a new generation of feminists
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despite the border drama, looking forward to the Lund event tomorrow!
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Some 30 human rights organizations have written an open letter to Xi Jinping ahead of his DC visit to — among other things — "release prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders, and those arbitrarily detained for family members’ activism." 🔗 bit.ly/xi-letter-2026
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Reminder of what political repression looks like in Xi's PRC.
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‘People had naive expectations’: How MeToo has changed in China
On Friday, MeToo journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin was released from prison. She returns to a landscape changed by censorship, and a new generation of feminists
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Last Empress and Emperor Wanrong and Puyi photographed around the time of their marriage in 1922 when both just 16…
The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City (Elliot & Thompson) is out now in the UK; US in November.
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Really enjoyed talking to @davidjlynch.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com for this article on the state of the Chinese economy and Xi Jinping's vision for the country
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Get ready for 2028. I have long said that the late 2020s/early 2030s are the most likely time for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. This was the case before Russian/US attacks on Ukraine/Iran, but those attacks & the general international situation have only made it more certain.
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🗞️ "My mother fears she will die in jail." Families of detainees are speaking out as our new report documents systemic #torture in prisons in 🇨🇳 — 209 cases, 2016–2025.
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Rights group, relatives accuse China of using torture in prison
China persists in using torture on prisoners to force confessions, including beatings and withholding medical care, a human rights group said Wednesday, with the daughter of one detainee telling AFP h...
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《追光者》报道CHRD最新酷刑报告《欲盖弥彰》，并采访 #尹登珍 的女儿夏贝贝和 #丁家喜 的妻子罗胜春。
从酷刑、医疗照护不足和投诉无果，到长期监禁给家庭带来的影响，两位家属讲述统计数字背后的真实经历。
🔗 阅读完整报道： pulsehknews.com/20260914c….
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1) good if they’re prepared to consult on any emergency
2) really there’s not a current way to get in touch if the other side is willing to listen?
3) of course china has a history of not picking up when us rings on the hotline
4) an “agreement” not yet endorsed by the boss, but leaked to press
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New Draft rules from the state council on the protection of minors online may make minors' modes closer to mandatory by requiring that users be switched to minors modes after they are identified as minors-- including by their online behavior patterns.
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Draft Rules for Protection of Minors Online
China's State Council has released a new volley in the country's ongoing efforts to make the internet safe and healthy for minors. The new draft authority
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给狱中的人权律师 #谢阳 写封信。
CHRD新报告《欲盖弥彰》记录，谢阳曾在羁押期间遭受酷刑，他提出投诉，但未获处理。
谢阳目前在湖南省赤山监狱服刑，距离刑满还有111天。
📮 通信地址：湖南省沅江市南嘴镇赤山监狱六监区一中队
邮编：413104
📖 报告全文： nchrd.org/wp-content/u...
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