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(FRO)](/topic/$fro) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Thank you for the comment. Fortunately the question of whether my thesis was accepted is determined by Stanford University and the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary China-not by someone impersonating a Harvard professor online. For what it's worth the thesis has in fact been cited by a professor who do work at Harvard. So there's really no need for further embarrassment on your part" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1996148712670912884) 2025-12-03T09:25Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements "A few days ago while attending a conference on ChinaUS relations a senior professional in foreign affairs asked me whether I thought the Chinese and Japanese leaders would hold a meeting during the APEC summit. It was said that after Sanae Takaichi's election as Japan's prime minister she received a congratulatory message from China's premier but not from President Xi. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that the greetings had been arranged "in accordance with established practice." My assessment at the time was that China's top leadership attaches great importance to relations" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1984298421906522515) 2025-10-31T16:36Z 16.2K followers, 301.3K engagements "I've been extremely busy lately and planned to sleep early until Beijing released the official press statement that Xi Jinping and Donald Trump had a phone call tonight (Beijing time). The statement is short but surprisingly dense. Here are the key parts I translated and why they matter. --"Xi noted that last month during our successful meeting in Busan South Korea we reached many important consensuses which helped calibrate the course and inject momentum into the great vessel of China-U.S. relations while also sending a positive signal to the world." When Xi met Trump in Busan he used a" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1992992084954083488) 2025-11-24T16:21Z 16.2K followers, 555.1K engagements "I must say I am genuinely surprised. Compared with the hesitant silence we have often seen in the past Japan's decision to issue a direct and public counter-response this morning to China's letter at the United Nations is unexpected. I have read Ambassador Yamazaki's letter carefully. While the document is tidy and follows diplomatic conventions there is substantial room for improvement logically historically and legally. I studied China-US-Japan relations at Stanford for three years and have conducted extensive archival research in multiple presidential libraries such as FDR Nixon and Reagan" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1993345401559425380) 2025-11-25T15:45Z 16.2K followers, 387K engagements "I truly appreciate the attention many of you have shown to my Stanford thesis on the question of the Ryukyus. If yesterday's post was about how the great-power dynamics among the United States Britain the Soviet Union China and Japan shaped the fate of the Ryukyus then today I want to turn to the group who lived the consequences was most often overlooked yet deserves being seen: the Ryukyuan people themselves. In October this year China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sun Lei publicly urged Japan to "end its discrimination and prejudice against the indigenous people of" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1995209177610994081) 2025-11-30T19:11Z 16.2K followers, 80.3K engagements "Thank you. I've discussed this topic with many Japanese friends. The Chinese government has always expressed appreciation for Japan's ODA. But it's also important to recognize that China renounced war reparations from Japan after WWII and ODA is a low-interest loan-not free aid and not interest-free. And if you measure it by numerically it's too tiny compared to what Japan should have paid China" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998022880979022334) 2025-12-08T13:32Z 16.2K followers, XX engagements "Please stay tuned to my future tweet where I will fairly analyze this issue. And according to the 1880 agreement by China and Japan both Miyako-jima () and Yaeyama Islands () should be put under the rule of China. So statement by a disqualified low-ranking diplomat cannot prove anything" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998038306593051035) 2025-12-08T14:33Z 16.2K followers, 5919 engagements "Thank you. Actually if you ever visit China you might be surprised by two things. First Chinese people are generally very very friendly toward Japanese visitors-unless someone insists on calling the figures enshrined at Yasukuni "heroes" which may lead to a very different matter😆 Second China has almost no places where photography is prohibited except for military facilities. As a member of the National Museum Association of China I can tell you responsibly that no museum in China bans photography (most only restrict flash). There is no rule banning photography inside govt facilities either" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998374440766509219) 2025-12-09T12:49Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements "Who decides the reincarnation of a senior Tibetan lama-the Buddha the monasteries or the state In recent years and even in recent days the 14th Dalai Lama has made a series of striking public statements about his next life including the possibility of being reborn as a woman a bee or not at all. These claims have stirred global media attention-but do they align with centuries of religious tradition and precedent I am a historian on China and a scholar of international relations. XX years ago while studying at Cornell I devoted an entire semester in a 4000-level seminar to the study of Xizang" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1940477330163749312) 2025-07-02T18:27Z 16.2K followers, 190.8K engagements "If every calm statement Japan makes is "the truth" and every Chinese response is "bullying" maybe the issue isn't China. Maybe it's the oversimplified script some US politicians keep recycling for applause. With thinking like this no wonder some people keep failing to win elections" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1996419532877873619) 2025-12-04T03:21Z 16.2K followers, 26.3K engagements "Thank you for your question. From what I understand these activities increased notably after Pelosis provocative visit to Taiwan. They are intended as a declaration of sovereignty and have not harmed anyone in Taiwan. In fact many people in Taiwan even go out of their way to watch them for fun" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998039353629847746) 2025-12-08T14:37Z 16.2K followers, XX engagements "Exactly. The US isn't falling behind because others are succeeding but because it spends more energy stirring up trouble than on solving its own problems. I'd also like to share a personal experience. It happened nine years ago. At that time I was in the process of moving back to Beijing from DC. A friend introduced me to a famous IR professor at one of China's top universities suggesting that I might seek a position there or perhaps pursue a PhD under his supervision. In fact he and I were both Cornell alumni and several of my professors knew him personally. To be honest I was never" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1973975625435394134) 2025-10-03T04:57Z 16.2K followers, 61.1K engagements "I think China may have just quietly reopened the Okinawa question-and this could reshape Asia's balance of power in ways few people are ready for. Although China usually keeps a low profile on Okinawa several recent statements by Takaichi- including her implication of potential armed intervention in Taiwan Japan's continuted deployment of strategic assets in Okinawa and her Nov. XX assertion that "according to the Treaty of San Francisco we are not in a position to recognize Taiwan's legal status"-appear to have prompted China to revisit the question of Okinawa assumed by many as long dead." [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1994775413764362268) 2025-11-29T14:28Z 16.2K followers, 858.4K engagements "@american_bot_ @mrjeffu If youre so confident in your own narrative feel free to visit and film everything. Real reporters spend years looking for proof-you seem to think a weekend trip with an iPhone will do the job. Go ahead. Make history. Or stay online and repeat the same non-sense forever" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1996981250683273691) 2025-12-05T16:33Z 16.2K followers, 3482 engagements "Tokyo said one sentence. Beijing bristled. Washington pretended nothing happened. And suddenly a treaty signed XX years ago returned to the center of Asian geopolitics. In late November Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi stated during a party leaders' debate that Japan maintains practical non-governmental relations with Taiwan. "Under the San Francisco Peace Treaty Japan relinquished all authority and therefore has no position to determine Taiwan's legal status." Yoshihiko Noda () former prime minister and current leader of Japan's largest opposition party immediately reinforced her remark" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998016215923695815) 2025-12-08T13:06Z 16.2K followers, 766.2K engagements "The US-Japan alliance debate cannot be understood without looking at its historical foundations and the unresolved fault lines beneath. That's exactly why I wrote this thread: How the San Francisco Peace Treaty inappropriately left key territorial issues deliberately ambiguous and why today's tensions around Okinawa and Taiwan are not sudden" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998027124746420693) 2025-12-08T13:49Z 16.2K followers, 7690 engagements "Yes exactly. And the tragedy is that some people in Japan today are misled into viewing individuals who committed wartime atrocities as "heroes" which creates an image of modern Japan that is far from admirable. In reality had it not been for the United States deciding during the Cold War to keep Japan as a frontline ally against communism Japan could have remained a poor and devastated country for decades. They nearly destroyed Japan in 1945. This is why honest historical education matters. It protects a country's dignity rather than undermining it" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998380049800876120) 2025-12-09T13:11Z 16.2K followers, XX engagements "Hi Gordon I actually mentioned you in my thread though I didn't expect you would XXX% really see it. Still thank you for paying attention. That said what we're discussing here is the postWorld War II international order. Taiwan the Diaoyu Islands and Okinawa are all directly anchored in the framework of the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation which is precisely why some of them remain unresolved legal questions to this day. About the three other Chinese territories you mentioned I could write for each a paper on JCC. But in short the regions you brought up Tibet and Xinjiang had no" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1995148890597953969) 2025-11-30T15:12Z 16.2K followers, 18.6K engagements "Miles I'm not just surprised-I'm genuinely concerned. We both worked at Hoover and even as a junior scholar there I was able to point out the ambiguities and structural flaws of the San Francisco Treaty. Yet you cite it without a single layer of academic scrutiny. That inevitably raises questions about whether your writing is guided by scholarship or by predetermined political narratives. Your entire argument rests on one assumption-the so-called "undetermined status of Taiwan." But that logic has already been superseded by the modern international framework: UN Resolution 2758 and the" [X Link](https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1998425417200566665) 2025-12-09T16:12Z 16.2K followers, 34.2K engagements
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@ZhaiXiang5 Zhai Xiang
Zhai Xiang posts on X about china, beijing, japan, taiwan the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Months XXXXXXXXX +279%
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Social category influence countries #1256 travel destinations #335 social networks XXXX% technology brands XXXX% products XXXX%
Social topic influence china #55, beijing #2, japan #55, taiwan #2, prime minister #8, tokyo #10, geopolitics 5.26%, donald trump #4656, the official #1860, matter #1462
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Thank you for the comment. Fortunately the question of whether my thesis was accepted is determined by Stanford University and the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary China-not by someone impersonating a Harvard professor online. For what it's worth the thesis has in fact been cited by a professor who do work at Harvard. So there's really no need for further embarrassment on your part"
X Link 2025-12-03T09:25Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements
"A few days ago while attending a conference on ChinaUS relations a senior professional in foreign affairs asked me whether I thought the Chinese and Japanese leaders would hold a meeting during the APEC summit. It was said that after Sanae Takaichi's election as Japan's prime minister she received a congratulatory message from China's premier but not from President Xi. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that the greetings had been arranged "in accordance with established practice." My assessment at the time was that China's top leadership attaches great importance to relations"
X Link 2025-10-31T16:36Z 16.2K followers, 301.3K engagements
"I've been extremely busy lately and planned to sleep early until Beijing released the official press statement that Xi Jinping and Donald Trump had a phone call tonight (Beijing time). The statement is short but surprisingly dense. Here are the key parts I translated and why they matter. --"Xi noted that last month during our successful meeting in Busan South Korea we reached many important consensuses which helped calibrate the course and inject momentum into the great vessel of China-U.S. relations while also sending a positive signal to the world." When Xi met Trump in Busan he used a"
X Link 2025-11-24T16:21Z 16.2K followers, 555.1K engagements
"I must say I am genuinely surprised. Compared with the hesitant silence we have often seen in the past Japan's decision to issue a direct and public counter-response this morning to China's letter at the United Nations is unexpected. I have read Ambassador Yamazaki's letter carefully. While the document is tidy and follows diplomatic conventions there is substantial room for improvement logically historically and legally. I studied China-US-Japan relations at Stanford for three years and have conducted extensive archival research in multiple presidential libraries such as FDR Nixon and Reagan"
X Link 2025-11-25T15:45Z 16.2K followers, 387K engagements
"I truly appreciate the attention many of you have shown to my Stanford thesis on the question of the Ryukyus. If yesterday's post was about how the great-power dynamics among the United States Britain the Soviet Union China and Japan shaped the fate of the Ryukyus then today I want to turn to the group who lived the consequences was most often overlooked yet deserves being seen: the Ryukyuan people themselves. In October this year China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sun Lei publicly urged Japan to "end its discrimination and prejudice against the indigenous people of"
X Link 2025-11-30T19:11Z 16.2K followers, 80.3K engagements
"Thank you. I've discussed this topic with many Japanese friends. The Chinese government has always expressed appreciation for Japan's ODA. But it's also important to recognize that China renounced war reparations from Japan after WWII and ODA is a low-interest loan-not free aid and not interest-free. And if you measure it by numerically it's too tiny compared to what Japan should have paid China"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:32Z 16.2K followers, XX engagements
"Please stay tuned to my future tweet where I will fairly analyze this issue. And according to the 1880 agreement by China and Japan both Miyako-jima () and Yaeyama Islands () should be put under the rule of China. So statement by a disqualified low-ranking diplomat cannot prove anything"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:33Z 16.2K followers, 5919 engagements
"Thank you. Actually if you ever visit China you might be surprised by two things. First Chinese people are generally very very friendly toward Japanese visitors-unless someone insists on calling the figures enshrined at Yasukuni "heroes" which may lead to a very different matter😆 Second China has almost no places where photography is prohibited except for military facilities. As a member of the National Museum Association of China I can tell you responsibly that no museum in China bans photography (most only restrict flash). There is no rule banning photography inside govt facilities either"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:49Z 16.2K followers, XXX engagements
"Who decides the reincarnation of a senior Tibetan lama-the Buddha the monasteries or the state In recent years and even in recent days the 14th Dalai Lama has made a series of striking public statements about his next life including the possibility of being reborn as a woman a bee or not at all. These claims have stirred global media attention-but do they align with centuries of religious tradition and precedent I am a historian on China and a scholar of international relations. XX years ago while studying at Cornell I devoted an entire semester in a 4000-level seminar to the study of Xizang"
X Link 2025-07-02T18:27Z 16.2K followers, 190.8K engagements
"If every calm statement Japan makes is "the truth" and every Chinese response is "bullying" maybe the issue isn't China. Maybe it's the oversimplified script some US politicians keep recycling for applause. With thinking like this no wonder some people keep failing to win elections"
X Link 2025-12-04T03:21Z 16.2K followers, 26.3K engagements
"Thank you for your question. From what I understand these activities increased notably after Pelosis provocative visit to Taiwan. They are intended as a declaration of sovereignty and have not harmed anyone in Taiwan. In fact many people in Taiwan even go out of their way to watch them for fun"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:37Z 16.2K followers, XX engagements
"Exactly. The US isn't falling behind because others are succeeding but because it spends more energy stirring up trouble than on solving its own problems. I'd also like to share a personal experience. It happened nine years ago. At that time I was in the process of moving back to Beijing from DC. A friend introduced me to a famous IR professor at one of China's top universities suggesting that I might seek a position there or perhaps pursue a PhD under his supervision. In fact he and I were both Cornell alumni and several of my professors knew him personally. To be honest I was never"
X Link 2025-10-03T04:57Z 16.2K followers, 61.1K engagements
"I think China may have just quietly reopened the Okinawa question-and this could reshape Asia's balance of power in ways few people are ready for. Although China usually keeps a low profile on Okinawa several recent statements by Takaichi- including her implication of potential armed intervention in Taiwan Japan's continuted deployment of strategic assets in Okinawa and her Nov. XX assertion that "according to the Treaty of San Francisco we are not in a position to recognize Taiwan's legal status"-appear to have prompted China to revisit the question of Okinawa assumed by many as long dead."
X Link 2025-11-29T14:28Z 16.2K followers, 858.4K engagements
"@american_bot_ @mrjeffu If youre so confident in your own narrative feel free to visit and film everything. Real reporters spend years looking for proof-you seem to think a weekend trip with an iPhone will do the job. Go ahead. Make history. Or stay online and repeat the same non-sense forever"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:33Z 16.2K followers, 3482 engagements
"Tokyo said one sentence. Beijing bristled. Washington pretended nothing happened. And suddenly a treaty signed XX years ago returned to the center of Asian geopolitics. In late November Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi stated during a party leaders' debate that Japan maintains practical non-governmental relations with Taiwan. "Under the San Francisco Peace Treaty Japan relinquished all authority and therefore has no position to determine Taiwan's legal status." Yoshihiko Noda () former prime minister and current leader of Japan's largest opposition party immediately reinforced her remark"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:06Z 16.2K followers, 766.2K engagements
"The US-Japan alliance debate cannot be understood without looking at its historical foundations and the unresolved fault lines beneath. That's exactly why I wrote this thread: How the San Francisco Peace Treaty inappropriately left key territorial issues deliberately ambiguous and why today's tensions around Okinawa and Taiwan are not sudden"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:49Z 16.2K followers, 7690 engagements
"Yes exactly. And the tragedy is that some people in Japan today are misled into viewing individuals who committed wartime atrocities as "heroes" which creates an image of modern Japan that is far from admirable. In reality had it not been for the United States deciding during the Cold War to keep Japan as a frontline ally against communism Japan could have remained a poor and devastated country for decades. They nearly destroyed Japan in 1945. This is why honest historical education matters. It protects a country's dignity rather than undermining it"
X Link 2025-12-09T13:11Z 16.2K followers, XX engagements
"Hi Gordon I actually mentioned you in my thread though I didn't expect you would XXX% really see it. Still thank you for paying attention. That said what we're discussing here is the postWorld War II international order. Taiwan the Diaoyu Islands and Okinawa are all directly anchored in the framework of the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation which is precisely why some of them remain unresolved legal questions to this day. About the three other Chinese territories you mentioned I could write for each a paper on JCC. But in short the regions you brought up Tibet and Xinjiang had no"
X Link 2025-11-30T15:12Z 16.2K followers, 18.6K engagements
"Miles I'm not just surprised-I'm genuinely concerned. We both worked at Hoover and even as a junior scholar there I was able to point out the ambiguities and structural flaws of the San Francisco Treaty. Yet you cite it without a single layer of academic scrutiny. That inevitably raises questions about whether your writing is guided by scholarship or by predetermined political narratives. Your entire argument rests on one assumption-the so-called "undetermined status of Taiwan." But that logic has already been superseded by the modern international framework: UN Resolution 2758 and the"
X Link 2025-12-09T16:12Z 16.2K followers, 34.2K engagements