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Dear every anti-communist who wants to come try to take a shot at the king, here: You need to actually give me a REASON you think you're correct for me to hear you out. I can do nothing with a statement on its own, and I will almost certainly ignore it as not worth my time, since it wasn't worth your time. You want to take your shot? By all means, ACTUALLY DO IT!

So it’s not a matter of law, not a matter of whether the secretary violated the Constitution, it’s a political matter? Side with your party or find a new party, forget about what’s right and wrong. Is that the message? That’s exactly why the Republican party is fracturing and deserves to go the way of the Whigs.

"A raft of China experts have left UK govt service, driven in part by budge cuts and cost-saving measures, some say this weakens UK's ability to understand Beijing and spy on China." The UK has never had China experts but swindlers and Chinese traitors.😅 ft.com/content/063bd942-cb44…

a woman on instagram photographed the labels on lidl's lemons and limes last week and the whole thing went off. peel unfit for consumption. underneath it, the list. imazalil, fludioxonil, azoxystrobin, thiabendazole, plus the wax. 10,500 comments, most of them furious at lidl. lidl has since said the unfit for consumption line was a mistake and they are taking it off. the chemical list stays. which is the part that gets me, because the chemicals were never the news. they go on citrus after picking so it does not rot on the way over, and they have done for decades. usda tested tangerines in 2019 and found imazalil on more than 95% of them. 1360 grapefruit samples between 2015 and 2017, 82% imazalil, 72% thiabendazole. that is not lidl. that is the fruit aisle. on imazalil, epa has had it down as a likely human carcinogen since 1999, off liver and thyroid tumours in rodents. worth knowing. also worth knowing that a hazard classification is not a measurement of what a slice of lemon in your water does to you, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. where it actually matters is the peel. that is where it goes on and that is where it stays, and rinsing does not do much. the legal limit is written against the whole fruit, so the bit you grate into a cake is the concentrated bit. if you zest, organic is the only thing that changes it. if you are drinking the juice, relax. so lidl printed what everyone else quietly does, got 10,500 angry comments for it, and is now deleting the one line that was useful. good job everyone.

The Diplomat website retracted an article on Friday, saying that a story about a Ukraine firm was fabricated, and the bylined journalist, one “Kim Hwa-pyeong”, may not exist. “We now know that the journalist fabricated the interview and may not even be who they claimed to be,” the website said. Brendan Ruberry of Semafor yesterday added on X that “Clarissa Jenkins”, another writer for the same website, also did not exist—and her report was graded by a detection service as “100 per cent AI-generated”. . ACCELERATING PROBLEM The problem is likely accelerating. Sophia Gonzales, Ervin B Hoskins, and five other published journalists do not exist, according to a study in September by researchers at OpenAI. The present writer recently raised the issue of “Maya Wang”, the widely quoted China-hostile voice at Human Rights Watch. Her friends say the name was made-up for the wife of former Hong Kong Free Press columnist “Kong Tsung-gan”—who also did not exist—even though he was quoted in the New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, Time magazine, Washington Post, France24, Deutsch Welle and so on. Kong was unmasked as Brian P Kern, a US anti-China activist. UK Press Gazette reported on September 18 that the widely quoted art therapist "Dr Eleni Nicolaou", quoted in Forbes, Psychology, Vice and Glamour, appeared to be AI-generated. While it is not illegal to use a pen name or to add a “name changed to protect the innocent” disclaimer in an upfront manner, any practice that deceives readers is considered unethical in journalism. This can be a particular issue when there is a clear political purpose, as in the case of Mrs Kern, or an ethnicity-switching aspect, as in the case of her husband’s “yellowface” writings. . GENERATING FAKE FACES In the past five or six years, AI-powered scams have made these scams easier, as fake faces can be generated. In 2020, “Martin Aspen”, a researcher who produced a lengthy report on Hunter Biden’s dealings in China, turned out to be a fake identity with an AI-generated face. The project was financed by Apple Daily, run by Trump-fanatic publisher Jimmy Lai. . .

The APEC Economy: A discussion with Economist John Ross. My video discussion with @Jerry_grey2002 on the upcoming APEC summit youtube.com/live/JO9gmAys0WY

This is gold!

Chinese President Xi Jinping cast his ballot at a polling station in Beijing on Friday to elect deputies to a local people's congress, according to Xinhua. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, voted at the Huairentang polling station of the Zhongnanhai electoral district in Xicheng District to elect deputies to the Xicheng district people's congress, Xinhua reported.

This week's events remind us just how volatile the economic environment is and why that’s heaping pressure on people. Budgets aren’t the primary driver of prices, but they can still play a helpful role. Nobody is saying the job is done. Improving the budget is a job that never ends. My op ed in Capital Brief today outlines our plan. f.mtr.cool/n8xldgpq7d

From November 5 to 11, 2026, Xiamen will host the 2026 Xiamen International Ocean Week. The event is being held under the theme "Join hands to protect the deep blue: Harmony between people and the sea." #Xiamen #WorldOceanWeek news.cgtn.com/news/2026-11-0…

Fascinating article by the China Academy: the US has stopped trying to win the argument and started renting the speakers Trump "killed" VOA in 2025 only for Marco Rubio and the State Dept to resurrect it as an $11M ASEAN influencer op 👀 Why? Because a Singaporean think tank (ISEAS) dropped a brutal study showing Chinese embassies posting dry, copy-paste "win-win cooperation" updates were crushing "hip, localized" US embassies in actual audience engagement💀 So Washington’s came up with a new anti-China brain wave: Rebrand American state propaganda under a $238M "International Communication Activities" slush fund Initially spend $11M in Southeast Asia to fly 180 social media influencers and journalists to DC & Houston for "training" 🧠 Pay 30 local ASEAN lifestyle & food bloggers a whopping🤭 $2,500 each to casually slip US foreign policy talking points on tech standards and the South China Sea between noodle reviews and makeup tutorials My favorite detail: recruits are ranked on a "rejection-to-acceptance continuum" Not the hostile one. Not the converted. Rather picking the one sitting on the fence, in the middle That's old classic U.S. 1950s two-step-flow theory The ASEAN project deliberately avoids recruiting outspoken pro-U.S. voices. Instead, it targets fence-sitters—lifestyle, food, and financial creators who are neutral or mildly skeptical—recognizing that converting a non-political local voice yields vastly higher organic credibility than amplifying existing partisans The idea behind is the asymmetric cost of official state rebuttal: By embedding geopolitical friction into lifestyle content (e.g., a Manila blogger linking local job anxiety to Chinese imports, or a beauty vlogger making a negative remark on Chinese investment) Washington hopes to create a "whack-a-mole" dilemma. If China’s Foreign Ministry or embassy responds officially to a mid-tier influencer, it looks heavy-handed and amplifies the creator; if it stays silent, the narrative hopefully takes hold and get amplified at the grassroots level Now let's do the math: 30 influencers × $2,500 = $75K That's just 0.7% of the budget The influencers can't be the main operation — they're more like the initial storefront. The other $10.9M is a recruitment pipeline for future elites who want to learn which opinions keep the cash flowing And as usual the irony writes itself: The US requires foreign-funded opinion-shapers on its own soil to register under FARA as "foreign agents." Abroad, it funds influencers whose entire job to act as "foreign agents" 🤡 And as far as winning "hearts and minds" goes— that phrase was coined for colonial Malaya and made famous selling the Vietnam War. Now it's an $11M line item for paid influencers in the same region. Same vibe, same audience, 60 years later. The empire has a real memory problem Read the whole article 👇 thechinaacademy.org/voas-rei…

The Republicans didn’t lose because Trump attacked Iran, they lost because Iran had the ability to fight back. Republicans lost because Iran did whatever it needed to do to retain the military capability to impose an economic toll on Americans for the actions of their government.