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Monday, December 29, 2025

Propaganda posters for China's latest operation menacing Taiwan













(Analysis in the threads)
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Thursday, December 25, 2025

"Why Were 100,000 Pregnant Women’s Blood Samples Smuggled Out of China?"

Here's the setup, can you guess why the blood was being smuggled?

The case was part of a major operation by Guangzhou’s anti-smuggling authorities following a year-long investigation and the mobilization of 265 officers. As part of the operation, two professional criminal groups specializing in the smuggling of pregnant women’s blood samples were dismantled, and a total of 26 people were arrested.

The groups earned a staggering 30 million yuan (US$4.2 million) from their blood-smuggling activities.

So far, the story reads almost like a vampire novel, especially with Chinese media detailing how the blood was smuggled: smugglers reportedly strapped tubes of blood to their bodies to cross the border. Others hid them in specially modified suitcases with concealed compartments.

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Terrible, terrible story about China's One Child Policy




Wikipedia. This book, I believe.
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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Absurdly long parking garage entrance includes a chicane

@eon.chongqing Chongqing s-curve garage #travel #chongqing #chinatravel #cyberpunkcity ♬ original sound - Eon's Chongqing Code
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

China's new stealthy tactical jet looks a lot like a dragon




Speaking of Chinese tech:





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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Today's news and jokes









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Saturday, March 8, 2025

No. 3 Warehouse restaurant in Shanghai

@trip.train 📍No.3 Warehouse Restaurant, Shanghai, China #cybercity #china #shanghai #restaurant #fyp #travel ♬ original sound - Trip.Train






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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Aircraft carrier sculpted out of ice





@aabubakar9007 The opening ceremony of the 40th China Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival #Meet at Harbin Ice and Snow Festival #Harbin Ice and Snow World #Harbin #travelrecommender #harbiniceandsnow ♬ original sound - Abubaker Siddique


@poketraveller The coldest memory by far!! -30°C was quite an experience!! 🥶🥶🥶 #harbin #traveltiktok #travel #explore #china #winter #freezing #ice #experience #coldestmoments ♬ Traveling - Melodion
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A report that a US Navy Aircraft carrier was nearly struck by an apparent Houthis anti-ship missile over the summer

I happened to see this earlier today:

By some accounts, an ASBM or other missile arrived at a very shallow trajectory, with minimal warning, without a chance for interception, and splashing down around 200 meters from the Eisenhower. Details gathered from interviews with Yemen-focused U.S. and U.K. intelligence officers for this study. Names of interviewees, and dates and places of interviews withheld at interviewees’ request. The Houthis propagandized the carrier’s departure. See “America’s withdrawal from the Red Sea confirms the fall of the myth of Washington’s great power”

Tonight:

U.S. B-2 bombers and other aircraft struck five underground Houthi weapons storage locations in parts of Yemen that the Iranian-backed rebel group controls

And from earlier this month: 

China rejected pleas from the United States to take joint international action against Houthi attacks on international shipping, a senior American diplomat said, and encouraged the rebel group to attack the ships of other countries rather than its own.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

ZhongWei Desert Diamond Hotel






From the architect's site:
Inspired by diamonds, the “purest, strongest and most eternal” element, the project aims to create a space that is both sci-fi and romantic, allowing guests to experience an extraordinary and ultimate journey in the desert.

The hotel building is cleverly integrated into the vast sand dunes, with sharp geometric sculptures contrasting with the soft curves of the desert, which not only reflects the awe of nature, but also highlights the unique temperament of the building. The design team carefully planned diamond-shaped sand-viewing windows and faceted spaces to incorporate the desert landscape into the field of vision, so that each room has a unique sand-viewing perspective and private landscape.

When night falls, the building's surface is dotted with starlight, which complements the bright starry sky and creates a dreamlike atmosphere. In particular, the Star Auditorium, as the spiritual symbol of the hotel, has a starry sky ceiling of more than 27 meters and a triangular glass of more than 10 meters high, which perfectly integrates natural beauty with ceremony space, making it an ideal place for weddings and other special events.

Zhongwei Desert Diamond Hotel is not only a place to stay, but also a haven for people to release their souls and regain energy. Here, guests can get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, get close to nature, experience the wonders of the desert smoke and the sunset over the long river, and feel the unique charm and power of the desert.
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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Promotional video for China's lunar EVA suit




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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The Chinese Football Association banned 38 soccer players and five club officials for life

Reuters:

The investigation found that 120 matches had been fixed, with 41 football clubs involved

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The sport has long grappled with corruption, which fans have blamed for the underperformance of the men’s national team.

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Friday, August 9, 2024

Chinese company accused of stealing thousands of bodies to use the bones for dental grafts

What's on Weibo:

Due to the high demand for bone implant materials and limited supply, it is an incredibly lucrative industry.

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The case has allegedly been transferred to the Taiyuan Procuratorate for review and potential prosecution

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On Friday, the news topic on Chinese social media was tightly controlled

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Saturday, June 1, 2024

Might be footage from China's moon lander in about 30 minutes

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Ukrainian woman discovers someone is selling goods on Chinese social media using an AI-generated version of her that pretends to be Russian

VOA:

In some videos, the avatars talk about how much they value Russia and China's close ties. In other videos, they praise Chinese history and culture or talk about how much Russian women want to marry Chinese.

"If you marry Russian women, we will wash clothes, cook, and wash dishes for you every day," an avatar said. "We will also give you foreign babies, as many as you want."

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HeyGen is an AI company headquartered in Los Angeles that was launched in China in 2020. It specializes in realistic digital avatars, voice generation and video translating.

The technology developed by HeyGen was used in AI videos of Donald Trump and Taylor Swift speaking perfect Mandarin that went viral on Chinese social media in October 2023. According to Forbes, the company is now valued at $75 million.

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

"A trove of leaked emails shows how administrators of [The Hugo's] censored themselves because the awards ceremony was being held in China"

404:

The emails, which show the process of compiling spreadsheets of the top 10 works in each category and checking them for “sensitive political nature” to see if they were “an issue in China,” were ... published on fandom news site File 770 and ... Patreon, where they uploaded the full PDF of the emails

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The email replies to this directive show administrators combing through authors’ social media presences and public travel histories, including from before they were nominated for the 2023 awards, and their writing and bodies of work beyond just what they were nominated for



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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Intriguingly ominous Thailand hotel described in Dan Wang's annual letter

From his wide-ranging letter about the youth fleeing China, book recommendations, and more:

One night, we were the only guests at a resort so creepy that we debated whether the whole thing was a front for tax fraud. Its bungalows looked like they were the 3-D printed output of an AI generator that received a detailed description of Antonio Gaudí’s Park Güell. That the hotel staff kept taking photographs of us, as if they were documenting that they had real guests, didn’t allay our unease that our presence could be abetting a fraudulent enterprise. 

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Monday, January 22, 2024

Troubling censorship at the 2023 Hugo Awards in China?



John Scalzi:
There’s a new controversy with this last year’s Hugo Awards, involving, among other things, a number of potential nominees declared ineligible for not-at-all-clear reasons, including R.F. Kuang’s novel Babel, which was a presumed front runner before the finalist lists came out. Rather than try to explain the controversy myself (I have been away this weekend and am still catching up), I am going to point you to this piece by Cora Buhlert, which features links to other posts/articles exploring this recent uproar. I will note that at this point everything is at the “what the hell?!?” stage, and the rumors and speculation are just that, rumor and speculation

Discussion at Reddit and Metafilter. These two feeds also have good discussions.

(No comment from the Hugos themselves from what I saw.)

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Sunday, December 10, 2023

Japan failed to register newly-designed fruit, and thus can't stop China and South Korea from selling cheap knockoffs

AFP:

The variety of juicy grape ... took scientists 33 years to develop and can sell for $100 a bunch in Tokyo department stores.

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According to the Japanese government, China and South Korea took Shine Muscat seedlings out of Japan and grafted them onto local vines to produce fruit that looks and tastes -- almost -- as good.

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Japan cannot stop China or South Korea from growing the fruit because Tokyo -- some say naively -- failed to register the variety overseas within the six years required under international rules.

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Japan cannot export grapes to China itself because of Beijing's quarantine rules, so Chinese growers are not technically cannibalising Japanese sales.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

"Chinese rocket that slammed onto Moon likely carrying mysterious undisclosed payload"

The rocket's behavior and nature of the crater it created indicate something mysterious was attached to it, and China denies that it was even their rocket.

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