From an unpublished Tsinghua student paper looking at younger (35-47 y.o.) "America hands" in Chinese think tanks and universities. Many do see U.S. in relative decline, but even among those, most don't see China surpassing the U.S. by most measures soon. This is one of five student papers to be presented on Friday at the Sinologia Conference. The event is free, from 8:50 am to 12:15 pm EDT. Some excellent work! events.supchina.com/event/sinologi…

Jesus fucking Christ. McCarthyism rides again. These motherfuckers will have blood on their hands, fanning the flames of anti-Asian hate once again. video.foxnews.com/v/628922349700… This piece of shit even goes so far as to call for the end to educating any Chinese nationals in the U.S. The whole argument, linking America's Dems & progressives with the CCP, is horrifying and insidious. The worst thing? I'm sure this will resonate with the GOP base.

I can’t attest to the accuracy of this post making the rounds on Chinese social media. It purports to summarize reforms proposed by Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng, who took office in Aug. Rumors of major changes have been abroad a while but this would be quite extreme. 1/N Huai was formerly president of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, vice-minister of the MIIT, deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee, and secretary of the Party Group of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology. 2/N

Xi Jinping's essay on "common prosperity" in Qiushi has been published. DeepL translates it pretty decently if you don't feel like slogging through the Chinese. qstheory.cn/dukan/qs/2021-… Early into the essay (from a speech delivered in August), he warns about the dangers of income inequality, political polarization, the tearing of the social fabric, the collapse of the middle class, and the rise of populism in "some countries." Insists China won't go that way.

On this week's @SinicaPodcast, leading Taiwan scholar Shelley Rigger of Davidson College discusses her excellent new book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘸𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢'𝘴 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘪𝘴𝘦. supchina.com/podcast/how-ta… We also publish a transcript of our podcast for those who prefer reading. You can find that here: supchina.com/2021/10/14/a-h…

There’s a Chinese language Clubhouse room on the Xinjiang camps right now. Some fantastically candid things being said. One woman asked, earnestly, how to handle the sense of offense, her instinctive defensiveness, as a Han person confronted with allegations and evidence of the atrocity. Absent so far is any overt denial or apologism.

1/ You’ve probably seen the photo of Trump’s modified speech, where he crossed out “Corona” and wrote in “Chinese.” This was a deliberate provocation, and he said as much even before the pictures were out. He'll doubtless use it again in his upcoming press conference. 2/ But even if Trump is not a hateful bigot – and there’s every reason to believe he is – then at the least, he’s unacceptably tolerant of bigotry and insensitive to how he is fomenting it. He is endangering people who look like my wife, and my children, and many of my friends.