Schrodinger's China:
China is both a threat to world's peace, and on the verge of collapse.
China is both a threat to world's peace, and on the verge of collapse.
Schrodinger's response to COVID-19:
China's response is both delayed and riddled with missteps - and is also an over-reaction, massive in scale, and ruthlessly effective:
China's response is both delayed and riddled with missteps - and is also an over-reaction, massive in scale, and ruthlessly effective:
https://twitter.com/MaitreyaBhakal/status/1274058560159154176?s=19
Schrodinger's Xi Jinping:
Xi Jinping is both "Chairman of Everything" and China's "most authoritarian leader in decades" - and is also always facing heavy criticisms and threats to his rule.
Xi Jinping is both "Chairman of Everything" and China's "most authoritarian leader in decades" - and is also always facing heavy criticisms and threats to his rule.
Schrodinger's Nationalism:
China both picks up fights with neighbours and revises its history to encourage nationalism in Chinese people and distract from domestic troubles - and it is also undemocratic, authoritarian, unresponsive and doesn't care what people think.
China both picks up fights with neighbours and revises its history to encourage nationalism in Chinese people and distract from domestic troubles - and it is also undemocratic, authoritarian, unresponsive and doesn't care what people think.
Schrodinger's R&D:
China both steals Intellectual Property - and is also investing massively in science and technology and is a threat to western tech dominance.
China both steals Intellectual Property - and is also investing massively in science and technology and is a threat to western tech dominance.
Schrodinger's Infrastructure:
China's OBOR is both an epic failure and riddled with debt traps - and is also a threat to the US-led global order, akin to the Marshall plan.
China's OBOR is both an epic failure and riddled with debt traps - and is also a threat to the US-led global order, akin to the Marshall plan.
Schrodinger's Education:
China's education system both encourages rote learning and stifles creativity - and is also creating future skilled workers, scientists, and engineers that are stealing our jobs and technology dominance.
China's education system both encourages rote learning and stifles creativity - and is also creating future skilled workers, scientists, and engineers that are stealing our jobs and technology dominance.
Schrodinger's Soft Power:
China's soft power is both centralized and top-down and draconian and ineffective and a waste of money - and is also a threat to academic freedom and freedom of speech.
China's soft power is both centralized and top-down and draconian and ineffective and a waste of money - and is also a threat to academic freedom and freedom of speech.
Schrodinger's Hong Kong:
Hong Kong is both reeling under the CCP's authoritarian, communist rule which doesn't let it embrace western ideals and concepts - and is also riddled with extreme capitalism and utmost income inequality.
Hong Kong is both reeling under the CCP's authoritarian, communist rule which doesn't let it embrace western ideals and concepts - and is also riddled with extreme capitalism and utmost income inequality.
Schrodinger's Police Brutality:
Hong Kong is both a city where protestors can burn people alive, beat them, destroy and set fire to property, try to murder policemen and STILL not get killed - and also a city that suffers from massive police brutality against peaceful protestors
Hong Kong is both a city where protestors can burn people alive, beat them, destroy and set fire to property, try to murder policemen and STILL not get killed - and also a city that suffers from massive police brutality against peaceful protestors
Schrodinger's Quarantines:
China's quarantine's measures are both draconian and ineffective and an over-reaction and won't work in democracies - and also the only way to prevent the spread of the disease and flatten the curve.
China's quarantine's measures are both draconian and ineffective and an over-reaction and won't work in democracies - and also the only way to prevent the spread of the disease and flatten the curve.
https://twitter.com/MaitreyaBhakal/status/1242694133614927872?s=19
Schrodinger's Huawei:
#Huawei is both a company that steals IP and is linked to the PLA and receives massive state support and is a threat to western technology - and it also wins contracts only because its products are cheap and competitive pricing, not because of quality.
#Huawei is both a company that steals IP and is linked to the PLA and receives massive state support and is a threat to western technology - and it also wins contracts only because its products are cheap and competitive pricing, not because of quality.
Schrodinger's Chinese Students in the US:
Chinese students in the US are both spies working for China - and also relieved of finally being free from China's authoritarian clutches, and thankful for the academic freedom and free speech in the US.
Chinese students in the US are both spies working for China - and also relieved of finally being free from China's authoritarian clutches, and thankful for the academic freedom and free speech in the US.
It's the China Uncertainty Principle. A Quantum Theory of China.
It's NOT that China is rising, it's NOT that China is collapsing, it's NOT that China is first rising and then collapsing - it is in fact doing BOTH simultaneously.
It's NOT that China is rising, it's NOT that China is collapsing, it's NOT that China is first rising and then collapsing - it is in fact doing BOTH simultaneously.
Just as light is both a particle and a wave simultaneously, China is both rising and collapsing at the same time.
When China is observed (or "watched") by a China Watcher, it's two states will coalesce, and China will assume the position that most suits the Op-Ed's argument.
When China is observed (or "watched") by a China Watcher, it's two states will coalesce, and China will assume the position that most suits the Op-Ed's argument.
Schrodinger's Loss of Face:
China is both worried about its international reputation and "loss of face" - and it also bullies other countries and doesn't care what the word thinks and wants to be "feared, not admired".
China is both worried about its international reputation and "loss of face" - and it also bullies other countries and doesn't care what the word thinks and wants to be "feared, not admired".
Schrodinger's Socialism:
China is both an authoritarian, communist state with no democracy, where the Party exercises complete control over society - and is also a thoroughly capitalist, unequal society with rampant poverty, where Party leaders are all corrupt billionaires.
China is both an authoritarian, communist state with no democracy, where the Party exercises complete control over society - and is also a thoroughly capitalist, unequal society with rampant poverty, where Party leaders are all corrupt billionaires.
Schrodinger's Economy:
The Chinese economy both has unsustainable levels of debt and risks a hard landing and is going to collapse any time now - and is also on track to overtake the US and become the largest economy in the world any time now.
The Chinese economy both has unsustainable levels of debt and risks a hard landing and is going to collapse any time now - and is also on track to overtake the US and become the largest economy in the world any time now.
https://twitter.com/MaitreyaBhakal/status/1272474147625394177?s=19
Schrodinger's Crisis:
Every crisis in China is both subject to heavy state censorship where dissent is severely crushed - and is also "the biggest threat to the Party's rule since Tiananmen".
Every crisis in China is both subject to heavy state censorship where dissent is severely crushed - and is also "the biggest threat to the Party's rule since Tiananmen".
https://twitter.com/MaitreyaBhakal/status/1246379638089068545?s=19
Schrodinger's Diplomat:
Chinese diplomats and mandarins both think strategically 100 years ahead and play 6-dimensional chess - and are also bungling up China's rise and stupidly picking up useless fights with other countries.
Chinese diplomats and mandarins both think strategically 100 years ahead and play 6-dimensional chess - and are also bungling up China's rise and stupidly picking up useless fights with other countries.
Schrodinger's Population Control:
China is both concerned about an aging population and wants women to have more babies - and is also sterilizing women and preventing them from having more babies.
China is both concerned about an aging population and wants women to have more babies - and is also sterilizing women and preventing them from having more babies.
Schrodinger's Genocide:
China is both committing genocide against Uyghurs and wants to eradicate Uyghur culture - and is also encouraging inter-marriage between Hans and Uyghurs.
China is both committing genocide against Uyghurs and wants to eradicate Uyghur culture - and is also encouraging inter-marriage between Hans and Uyghurs.
Schrodinger's High-Speed Railway:
China's high-speed trains are both a waste of money, under heavy debt and white-elephant, loss-making projects - and are also a symbol of China's breakneck progress, its undemocratic land-acquisitions and ruthless,authoritarian development model
China's high-speed trains are both a waste of money, under heavy debt and white-elephant, loss-making projects - and are also a symbol of China's breakneck progress, its undemocratic land-acquisitions and ruthless,authoritarian development model
Schrodinger's Journalists and Sinophobia:
Western China correspondents and think tank analysts both spread Sinophobia - and are also surprised and shocked when Sinophobia occurs.
Western China correspondents and think tank analysts both spread Sinophobia - and are also surprised and shocked when Sinophobia occurs.
https://twitter.com/MaitreyaBhakal/status/1283672000313978880?s=19
Schrodinger's CCP:
The CCP is both an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent entity that governs every aspect of life in China - and is also a crumbling, weakening party being destroyed from within by dissent and pushback against the Party elite and increasing corruption.
The CCP is both an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent entity that governs every aspect of life in China - and is also a crumbling, weakening party being destroyed from within by dissent and pushback against the Party elite and increasing corruption.
Schrodinger's Chinese influence abroad:
China is both garnering support from other nations and institutions by using economic ties as bait and coercive tactics - and is also losing allies and harming it's international reputation due to its arm-twisting and coercive tactics.
China is both garnering support from other nations and institutions by using economic ties as bait and coercive tactics - and is also losing allies and harming it's international reputation due to its arm-twisting and coercive tactics.
Schrodinger's Global Times:
Global Times is both a nationalistic tabloid which nobody takes seriously - and is also to be taken extremely seriously and for its word when it threatens Taiwan or India.
Global Times is both a nationalistic tabloid which nobody takes seriously - and is also to be taken extremely seriously and for its word when it threatens Taiwan or India.
Schrodinger's Russia:
Russia is both "upper Volta with missiles" with a smaller economy than Italy and a weak nation that Obama called a "regional power" - and is also an existential threat to US democracy and powerful enough to influence the outcome of US elections.
Russia is both "upper Volta with missiles" with a smaller economy than Italy and a weak nation that Obama called a "regional power" - and is also an existential threat to US democracy and powerful enough to influence the outcome of US elections.
Schrodinger's East Asian Woman:
The East Asian Woman is both submissive, docile, obedient, exotic, a China Doll and a Geisha Girl - and is also cold, domineering, ferocious, a hypersexual dominatrix, a femme fatale, a "Dragon Lady", or a strict, disciplinary "Tiger Mother"
The East Asian Woman is both submissive, docile, obedient, exotic, a China Doll and a Geisha Girl - and is also cold, domineering, ferocious, a hypersexual dominatrix, a femme fatale, a "Dragon Lady", or a strict, disciplinary "Tiger Mother"
Schrodinger's Pandemic in Xinjiang:
China is both committing genocide on Uyghurs and wants to exterminate them - and is also so concerned about their lives that it overreacted and tested 4.7 million people in two (2) days after discovering one (1) asymptomatic case.
China is both committing genocide on Uyghurs and wants to exterminate them - and is also so concerned about their lives that it overreacted and tested 4.7 million people in two (2) days after discovering one (1) asymptomatic case.
Schrodinger's Socialism:
Socialism is both a bankrupt ideology that never works and has failed wherever it has been tried - and is also so powerful and dangerous that it requires massive wars, the killing of millions, and endless propaganda to prevent it from spreading.
Socialism is both a bankrupt ideology that never works and has failed wherever it has been tried - and is also so powerful and dangerous that it requires massive wars, the killing of millions, and endless propaganda to prevent it from spreading.
Schrodinger's Chinese people:
Chinese people are both completely brainwashed by propaganda and brainless automatons who can't think independently - and are also so smart and intelligent that they're taking away our jobs, our science and tech leadership, and our global dominance.
Chinese people are both completely brainwashed by propaganda and brainless automatons who can't think independently - and are also so smart and intelligent that they're taking away our jobs, our science and tech leadership, and our global dominance.
Schrodinger's Chinese people, part 2:
Chinese people are both innocent, saintly people being crushed under the yoke of the brutal Communist regime who deserve our solidarity and sympathy - and are also dirty, filthy, unhygienic people who spread diseases and can't be trusted
Chinese people are both innocent, saintly people being crushed under the yoke of the brutal Communist regime who deserve our solidarity and sympathy - and are also dirty, filthy, unhygienic people who spread diseases and can't be trusted
Schrodinger's Chinese Diplomacy:
China is both pushing nations away with aggressive "wolf warrior diplomacy" and coercive, arm-twisting tactics - and also increasing its influence among other nations and international organizations at the expense of the US.
China is both pushing nations away with aggressive "wolf warrior diplomacy" and coercive, arm-twisting tactics - and also increasing its influence among other nations and international organizations at the expense of the US.
Schrodinger's American Democracy:
American democracy is both messy, partisan, gerrymandered, rigged, bigoted, racist, oligarchic, violent, incompetent, and ineffective - and is also the envy of the world that all other nations aspire to.
American democracy is both messy, partisan, gerrymandered, rigged, bigoted, racist, oligarchic, violent, incompetent, and ineffective - and is also the envy of the world that all other nations aspire to.
Schrodinger's Chinese vaccines:
China's COVID vaccines are both useless and untrustworthy and are pushed through with accelerated clinical trials by cutting corners - and are also a dangerous threat to US influence and are filling a geopolitical vacuum with "vaccine diplomacy"
China's COVID vaccines are both useless and untrustworthy and are pushed through with accelerated clinical trials by cutting corners - and are also a dangerous threat to US influence and are filling a geopolitical vacuum with "vaccine diplomacy"
Schrodinger's RCEP:
The RCEP is both a victory for China and a blow to US influence in Asia and the largest trade deal in the world - and is also largely symbolic, unambitious, patchy, overdrawn, ineffectual, and is ASEAN-led and not China-led, and is no victory for China.
The RCEP is both a victory for China and a blow to US influence in Asia and the largest trade deal in the world - and is also largely symbolic, unambitious, patchy, overdrawn, ineffectual, and is ASEAN-led and not China-led, and is no victory for China.
Schrodinger's North Korea:
North Korea is both so weak and poor that it can't even feed its people - and is also so powerful that it can hack the IT systems of the most powerful country in the world.
North Korea is both so weak and poor that it can't even feed its people - and is also so powerful that it can hack the IT systems of the most powerful country in the world.
Schrodinger's Food Shortage:
China is both suffering from a severe food shortage crisis that is exacerbated by COVID-19 - and also a nation where over half the adult population is overweight.
China is both suffering from a severe food shortage crisis that is exacerbated by COVID-19 - and also a nation where over half the adult population is overweight.
Schrodinger's response to COVID:
China's response to COVID-19 is both an abject failure and too much of a success.
China's response to COVID-19 is both an abject failure and too much of a success.
Schrodinger's White Adjacency:
For a boba liberal, "You're so white" is both an insult and a compliment - depending on whether it's spoken by an Asian person or a White person.
(tweet shared with permission)
For a boba liberal, "You're so white" is both an insult and a compliment - depending on whether it's spoken by an Asian person or a White person.
(tweet shared with permission)
Schrodinger's Chinese victimhood:
China both carries a deep feeling of victimhood - and is also an aggressive bully threatening its victims
China both carries a deep feeling of victimhood - and is also an aggressive bully threatening its victims
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