now whenever I see footages like this I CANNOT HELP BUT ASK: what's gonna happen to their sperm?!

Dealing with Newsom probably does not involve having to witness elderly abuse …

When will anglophone news sources learn not to refer to Chinese persons by their given names lmao. It’s so flirtatiously endearing to refer to Wang Yi as Yi — or to Xi as Jinping ~~~~~

Wait so … this is literally G7 minus Japan, who apparently can’t be included in the Zionism support fest?

What kind of white power meeting is this lmao.

my conspiracy brain tells me it's not actually aimed at average western readers. During this round of real estate downturn (which started in 2020) there's been some concerted effort both inside and outside china in the business/finance journalism to force the gov to pump out massive amounts of cash and bail out those loser-financiers (perhaps à la USA in oct 2008?). Instead, not only is the gov reluctant to do so, but they've also done the appallingly unthinkable of jailing many CEOs and board members (the gov has also, to my limited understanding of macroeconomics, refused to let those real estate firms declare bankruptcy before they actually finish those construction projects for which people have already paid the deposits and taken on loans). Anyway, there's probably a rather materially cynical reason for all this clamor of "Xi's intentionally letting the economy go bust"

Grew up in China and did college in US. First time I read about “mandate of Heaven” in English-language histories of China I had to look it up cuz I had no idea what they were talking about, even with guess work

“Healthcare leftism” = I just want more shares of the imperial spoil but those fucking tankies want to destroy the empire!!!!

reminds me of how the first National Assembly of the "democratically governed" "Taiwan" lasted from 1947 to 1991

When you try to sound like an intellectual but don’t even know how to write

I read it and I don't have anything smart or rational to say, other than how tired I am of this one particular assumption palpable in the way many Western lefties think (including this piece, I feel): "y'all in the third world need to catch up with us — that is, become Western/modern AND THEN, ONLY THEN can we start building solidarity to takedown capitalism." It seems really difficult for many on the Western left (whatever that definition is) to imagine solidarity NOT on the terms of their Eurocentric history and experiences. /rant.

I'm not an American so I can't vote in your stupid elections anyway

Lmao I’m glad i’m not the only one who loves to troll the lib yanks this way.

French aristocrat knights, c. 14th century: “how dare these English peasants shoot me with longbows!!! Where’s their chivalry!!!”

(Actual military history may vary)