[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@gonglei89](/creator/twitter/gonglei89) "This is because socialist policies are not just about post distribution adjustments but pre distribution configurations. You can do more before market distribution by directly shaping ownership structures"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946867005740785721) 2025-07-20 09:37:19 UTC 17.6K followers, 10.6K engagements "@JK99928789839 do you have food and goods if the seller wont take your dollar bills Lots of Americans wish they had deflation ravaging them right now π€"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947954951331922072) 2025-07-23 09:40:26 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@SimonSW13 (Like can we please get the easy money nepo babies out of creative production and hand that power back to people who actually know how to make art in a deeper meaningful way)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1948107730495140285) 2025-07-23 19:47:31 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@Satvik_Pen X too if they need more than one. Or X feature films it might work that way too. Going to go Free Navy on this planet soon if they dont deliver"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947796411946573943) 2025-07-22 23:10:27 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@JK99928789839 Hate to break it to yah but de-dollarization can happen even without a fake BRICS currency"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947957651947847817) 2025-07-23 09:51:10 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@yifullofsin This is the correct take. We need the filmmakers to recapture the industry from the nepo babies"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947367032070279478) 2025-07-21 18:44:15 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "The West Taiwan meme kinda tells you they dont actually care about Taiwanese independence they just want China to be controlled by a US vassal"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1944131703242732017) 2025-07-12 20:28:12 UTC 17.5K followers, 68.4K engagements "@RomTheRoger @xx7empest I know more info research than you. Thats how I know what Falun Gong media is and you dont. Guys like you are so easy to dupe π€"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947786883414823278) 2025-07-22 22:32:35 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "@JK99928789839 lol if you actually understood what you were talking about youd be looking at RMB cross border settlements. Turns out paper is pretty easy to replace"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947956677812109421) 2025-07-23 09:47:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "We are getting real time confirmation that soft power is mostly just the shadow of hard power"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946344284397211895) 2025-07-18 23:00:13 UTC 17.5K followers, 37.3K engagements "@SecondRingSZN @iwrite4jacobin Okay but insofar as citrus beverages go C100 is unmatcWAIT DOES THAT SAY BLOOD ORANGE THEY HAVE A BLOOD ORANGE FLAVOR NOW (When are they making pomelo flavor π)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947432224791699608) 2025-07-21 23:03:18 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "@Reterritorialz Privatization of pensions and social security is very neoliberal"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947501209709105516) 2025-07-22 03:37:25 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@JK99928789839 You should come back and tell me when you get the inflation youve been begging for π€ Btw is this China getting more isolated π"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947954495901868038) 2025-07-23 09:38:37 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@fireobserver32 Imo I dont think its all torched just yet. This is like the gradual contraction of Rome"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947183684504928414) 2025-07-21 06:35:41 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements "@BorgesCarpenti @policytensor Eh answer here is pretty straightforward. ISI is not a universal answer but it can be a very helpful if not necessary part of a more complex sequence of requirements. Learning algebra doesnt mean you can do calculus but you cant learn calculus without first learning algebra"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947453062517301503) 2025-07-22 00:26:06 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@Yungsifustan @HannsBursell Localism wasnt any better on short termism. There was already institutionally inherited short termism in the local context from generational poverty. Your context window isnt defined by geographic affiliation. Its defined by your cognitive horizon for higher order thinking"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1945926038095315039) 2025-07-17 19:18:15 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "Earlier this week in a coffee shop conversation I submitted the opinion that Jensens exuberant activities in China is a sign that hes planning ahead for the days when Taiwan is no longer a politically autonomous actor"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946344011960311905) 2025-07-18 22:59:08 UTC 17.6K followers, 16.1K engagements "Theyre writing revenge fanfiction now basically"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946783502206488856) 2025-07-20 04:05:31 UTC 17.5K followers, 4997 engagements "@PioneerColumn22 Mostly the same place China is where it is because its been very good at cultivating productive capacity. Markets can help with this when configured correctly. They can also hurt when not. Markets arent automatic wins. Countries that developed successfully understood this"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947928910794236107) 2025-07-23 07:56:57 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "The deepest irony of Trumps trade deals is that the more he wins the more America actually loses. US friendly countries that tried negotiating in earnest did so assuming this would yield less harsh terms thatd let them preserve their relations with the US. As theyre forced"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947827525293641810) 2025-07-23 01:14:05 UTC 17.6K followers, 692.6K engagements "@JK99928789839 Uhh I know this must be really difficult to grasp when you only have two brain cells but *where I physically live* is not symbolic. While wrecking my credit score in the US would be pretty funny I would prefer not to get arrested at the border when I have to visit my parents"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947966658854994176) 2025-07-23 10:26:57 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@JK99928789839 LOL do you not understand the real economy is physical goods not money Chinas production is growing while its goods get cheaper and you think thats a bad thing I genuinely hope you enjoy the inflation youve been begging for π€"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947951642902675599) 2025-07-23 09:27:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@policytensor @BorgesCarpenti ISI is not magic. Export orientation strategies also fail. Both are just situationally conditioned strategies to bootstrap human capital development and industrial learning. How effectively you organize your institutional systems to do that is a nonnegotiable difference maker"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947454526543564889) 2025-07-22 00:31:55 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@soupycresta @nise_yoshimi One of the issues here is that consumption of art has been decoupled from a relationship to both meaning of the work and its creator. And in a sense because theres no exchange of dialogue in the act of consumption the object of creation ceases to be art but a baser vulgarity"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947765469907485015) 2025-07-22 21:07:30 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@JK99928789839 The dollar is literally the worlds reserve currency lol"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947956918624166248) 2025-07-23 09:48:15 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "This stuff not the chat bots is the AI that will actually matter"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947107610877911441) 2025-07-21 01:33:24 UTC 17.6K followers, 480.3K engagements "Lmao you had to generate a fake AI tank with a dildo for a gun"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946810775114572119) 2025-07-20 05:53:53 UTC 17.5K followers, 2602 engagements "@soupycresta @nise_yoshimi Neither the artist nor its audience are seeking a connection to one another anymore both being moved by dissociated but parallel compulsions that have nothing to do with the point of exploring wonder in place of an emotionally cheaper transaction. This is how meaning dies"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947766143189717319) 2025-07-22 21:10:10 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@baoshaoshan I should market myself as a mystic mage"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947474201696477569) 2025-07-22 01:50:06 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "I took the leap during Covid. Got tired of doing the usual deferential equivocation for being a Chinese person who wasnt ashamed to be Chinese. Not an honest way to live your identity. Shouldnt have to apologize for saying positive things about China like its a normal place"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946118308450996489) 2025-07-18 08:02:16 UTC 17.5K followers, 15.3K engagements "@Tachanka7121885 π€¨Where did I say ChatGPT is stopping them"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947202574953902247) 2025-07-21 07:50:45 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements "In a sense demand is already catching up. Its just that less developed regions that are the target beneficiaries of the correction have lower prices by 2-4x so they would need to consume 2-4x as much just to offset revenue loss from withdrawn demand from high income regions"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946474073615417784) 2025-07-19 07:35:57 UTC 17.5K followers, 2920 engagements "@SecondRingSZN π€― WTF (but also I guess that makes sense since I never see it in non canto places)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947112590532055504) 2025-07-21 01:53:11 UTC 17.5K followers, XX engagements "@JK99928789839 π€¨What did you get I am a bicultural Chinese American whose family came here when China was a still poor seeking opportunity and I am very sad the country I grew up in has turned to shit because of dumbasses like you. Youre the only one lying to yourself here dummy"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947977929490886959) 2025-07-23 11:11:44 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "In one sense neoliberalism turned out to be the capitalist innovation of what if instead of exploiting the spatially adjacent lower class I exploit the temporally adjacent younger generation. (And that right there is your fertility problem)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947493577837453514) 2025-07-22 03:07:06 UTC 17.6K followers, 6660 engagements "@PioneerColumn22 π€·π»β People can choose to save in a stock market that accrues value or a savings account that doesnt. Their call. If the only way a stock market can accrue value is parasitically and destructively then eventually it will be scrapped for some other investing vehicle"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947908608920068377) 2025-07-23 06:36:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "Its not propaganda to not be ashamed about being Chinese π€·π»β"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946114475129778183) 2025-07-18 07:47:02 UTC 17.6K followers, 7050 engagements "@JimRayn99592544 You missed an opportunity to scaremonger about China implanting commie microchips"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947509183542399098) 2025-07-22 04:09:06 UTC 17.6K followers, 4482 engagements "@TonamiPlayman @GlennLuk The real challenge with partial vacuum is less about the technical difficulties and more about economic feasibility I think. You can engineer one that works but it might be impractical for protracted lengths. You need a lot of fans and pumps and they have to operate in synch"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946465048316252204) 2025-07-19 07:00:05 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements "@JK99928789839 And what do you have Copium"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947957225831661680) 2025-07-23 09:49:28 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "Tell me youre someone who left China more than a decade ago and havent gone back since without telling me"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1945952453465428288) 2025-07-17 21:03:13 UTC 17.6K followers, 175.3K engagements "Not sure why people have to make this stuff sound so mysteriously salacious. XJPs goal was always institution building. The more secure he is about the shape of the political system and its processes hes built over the last decade+ the more likely he is to entrust delegation"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947462921896005638) 2025-07-22 01:05:17 UTC 17.6K followers, 6677 engagements "@Kuhle_Wampe Not in most places. The few places that do the tuition isnt high and prohibitive"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947036304832938349) 2025-07-20 20:50:03 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements "@AnonAno79719484 He aint *my* chairman. Im just glad they took Spino down a peg for the real king carnivore to reclaim his title"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947893839433502775) 2025-07-23 05:37:36 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "@PioneerColumn22 China runs a market economy. That doesnt make it a free market. Chinas successes come from the fact that it recognizes this distinction"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947957970018734403) 2025-07-23 09:52:26 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "Omg @pachabelcanon she touched the third rail π«£ (But I agree with Angelica Singapore is in fact pretty socialist Just not very Marxist)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1944684881713484140) 2025-07-14 09:06:20 UTC 17.5K followers, 5408 engagements "To accept harsher terms to reach an agreement prospects for maintaining justifiably beneficial relations with the US shrivel and any deals that are reached become more about punts meant as provisional steps to buy time for strategic pivots away from now harmful US dependencies"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947827528837829088) 2025-07-23 01:14:06 UTC 17.6K followers, 59.9K engagements "Not sure about today but this level used to be normal for high schools in Cupertino when I was a kid"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947812911457702371) 2025-07-23 00:16:01 UTC 17.6K followers, 4487 engagements "@Hazara501 @MrBig2024 @AngelicaOung @KnowBothSides @teortaxesTex @grok Uhh no historically real Mongolians descended from Xiongnu steppe groups. A portion of proto Mongolians migrated south and assimilated into China (Xianbei) in the post X kingdoms period. Migration in East Asia has almost always been north to south not south to north"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1943913483474706934) 2025-07-12 06:01:05 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "You know its really *that* bad when the nicest person in China watching calls it out"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947842722888618070) 2025-07-23 02:14:28 UTC 17.6K followers, 10.7K engagements "@GlennLuk @TonamiPlayman (I recall they did a Mythbusters episode on this)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947103001287553182) 2025-07-21 01:15:05 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements "Lots of new infill construction in China doing a modern revamp of these aesthetics but with modern amenities now"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946787824910692796) 2025-07-20 04:22:41 UTC 17.5K followers, 2339 engagements "@JK99928789839 The data disagrees with you. Keep coping π€·π»β"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947958186503528494) 2025-07-23 09:53:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "@driscoll1142 If you cared so much about truth you would stop lying to yourself π€"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1948098233458368722) 2025-07-23 19:09:47 UTC 17.6K followers, 1911 engagements "@BorgesCarpenti @policytensor Development really isnt so mysterious once you reset focal point around production learning. Development is about being able to make your own high value things or getting sufficient access to it from someone else (which is trade which means you need something worth trading)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947453748831535189) 2025-07-22 00:28:50 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "@matthewswspence @GlennLuk Whats being accessed is Chinas processing capacity not its endowment"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947370206713786400) 2025-07-21 18:56:52 UTC 17.5K followers, XX engagements "(Give us the last few seasons Jeff Bezos you plastic humping coward)"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947784694113964435) 2025-07-22 22:23:53 UTC 17.6K followers, 2457 engagements "@policytensor @BorgesCarpenti Development is hard for the same reason becoming a pro at any high performance activity is hard. Its not about this one neat trick but getting a whole bunch of different skills and processes right in sequence. Seeing this as a matter of learning functions makes things clearer"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947454942228439494) 2025-07-22 00:33:34 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "@JK99928789839 LOL do you eat and live in dollar bills No you depend on someone making those knickknacks for you to eat and live. Chinas youth unemployment is creeping down btw but even those unemployed youth are going to be consuming better than you when the tariff inflation kicks in π"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947954063813095900) 2025-07-23 09:36:54 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@JK99928789839 Ah shit youre right Chinas been getting increasingly isolated for XX years now π€π"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947952558804463773) 2025-07-23 09:30:55 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements "@HannsBursell @kerd50659461 @ThePoliEcon Thats effectively the objective logical conclusion. If you cant tell the difference after X SD that means the metric is not measuring anything after that point. The problem with concepts like IQ is external validity"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947769602114732531) 2025-07-22 21:23:55 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements "Is China about to turn surgeries into a global service export business π"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1947502983744524654) 2025-07-22 03:44:28 UTC 17.6K followers, 199.2K engagements "You can decentralize the tools but the reason R&D is done in large labs is because you cant decentralize complex engineering nearly as easily. Everyone who does R&D finds out the value of committed onsite time when theyre trying to make something more complex than XXX pieces"  [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) on [X](/post/tweet/1946361786019598837) 2025-07-19 00:09:46 UTC 17.5K followers, 5355 engagements
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"This is because socialist policies are not just about post distribution adjustments but pre distribution configurations. You can do more before market distribution by directly shaping ownership structures" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-20 09:37:19 UTC 17.6K followers, 10.6K engagements
"@JK99928789839 do you have food and goods if the seller wont take your dollar bills Lots of Americans wish they had deflation ravaging them right now π€" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:40:26 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@SimonSW13 (Like can we please get the easy money nepo babies out of creative production and hand that power back to people who actually know how to make art in a deeper meaningful way)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 19:47:31 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@Satvik_Pen X too if they need more than one. Or X feature films it might work that way too. Going to go Free Navy on this planet soon if they dont deliver" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 23:10:27 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@JK99928789839 Hate to break it to yah but de-dollarization can happen even without a fake BRICS currency" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:51:10 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@yifullofsin This is the correct take. We need the filmmakers to recapture the industry from the nepo babies" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 18:44:15 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"The West Taiwan meme kinda tells you they dont actually care about Taiwanese independence they just want China to be controlled by a US vassal" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-12 20:28:12 UTC 17.5K followers, 68.4K engagements
"@RomTheRoger @xx7empest I know more info research than you. Thats how I know what Falun Gong media is and you dont. Guys like you are so easy to dupe π€" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 22:32:35 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"@JK99928789839 lol if you actually understood what you were talking about youd be looking at RMB cross border settlements. Turns out paper is pretty easy to replace" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:47:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"We are getting real time confirmation that soft power is mostly just the shadow of hard power" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-18 23:00:13 UTC 17.5K followers, 37.3K engagements
"@SecondRingSZN @iwrite4jacobin Okay but insofar as citrus beverages go C100 is unmatcWAIT DOES THAT SAY BLOOD ORANGE THEY HAVE A BLOOD ORANGE FLAVOR NOW (When are they making pomelo flavor π)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 23:03:18 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"@Reterritorialz Privatization of pensions and social security is very neoliberal" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 03:37:25 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@JK99928789839 You should come back and tell me when you get the inflation youve been begging for π€ Btw is this China getting more isolated π" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:38:37 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@fireobserver32 Imo I dont think its all torched just yet. This is like the gradual contraction of Rome" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 06:35:41 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements
"@BorgesCarpenti @policytensor Eh answer here is pretty straightforward. ISI is not a universal answer but it can be a very helpful if not necessary part of a more complex sequence of requirements. Learning algebra doesnt mean you can do calculus but you cant learn calculus without first learning algebra" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 00:26:06 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@Yungsifustan @HannsBursell Localism wasnt any better on short termism. There was already institutionally inherited short termism in the local context from generational poverty. Your context window isnt defined by geographic affiliation. Its defined by your cognitive horizon for higher order thinking" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-17 19:18:15 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"Earlier this week in a coffee shop conversation I submitted the opinion that Jensens exuberant activities in China is a sign that hes planning ahead for the days when Taiwan is no longer a politically autonomous actor" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-18 22:59:08 UTC 17.6K followers, 16.1K engagements
"Theyre writing revenge fanfiction now basically" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-20 04:05:31 UTC 17.5K followers, 4997 engagements
"@PioneerColumn22 Mostly the same place China is where it is because its been very good at cultivating productive capacity. Markets can help with this when configured correctly. They can also hurt when not. Markets arent automatic wins. Countries that developed successfully understood this" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 07:56:57 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"The deepest irony of Trumps trade deals is that the more he wins the more America actually loses. US friendly countries that tried negotiating in earnest did so assuming this would yield less harsh terms thatd let them preserve their relations with the US. As theyre forced" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 01:14:05 UTC 17.6K followers, 692.6K engagements
"@JK99928789839 Uhh I know this must be really difficult to grasp when you only have two brain cells but where I physically live is not symbolic. While wrecking my credit score in the US would be pretty funny I would prefer not to get arrested at the border when I have to visit my parents" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 10:26:57 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@JK99928789839 LOL do you not understand the real economy is physical goods not money Chinas production is growing while its goods get cheaper and you think thats a bad thing I genuinely hope you enjoy the inflation youve been begging for π€" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:27:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@policytensor @BorgesCarpenti ISI is not magic. Export orientation strategies also fail. Both are just situationally conditioned strategies to bootstrap human capital development and industrial learning. How effectively you organize your institutional systems to do that is a nonnegotiable difference maker" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 00:31:55 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@soupycresta @nise_yoshimi One of the issues here is that consumption of art has been decoupled from a relationship to both meaning of the work and its creator. And in a sense because theres no exchange of dialogue in the act of consumption the object of creation ceases to be art but a baser vulgarity" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 21:07:30 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@JK99928789839 The dollar is literally the worlds reserve currency lol" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:48:15 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"This stuff not the chat bots is the AI that will actually matter" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 01:33:24 UTC 17.6K followers, 480.3K engagements
"Lmao you had to generate a fake AI tank with a dildo for a gun" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-20 05:53:53 UTC 17.5K followers, 2602 engagements
"@soupycresta @nise_yoshimi Neither the artist nor its audience are seeking a connection to one another anymore both being moved by dissociated but parallel compulsions that have nothing to do with the point of exploring wonder in place of an emotionally cheaper transaction. This is how meaning dies" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 21:10:10 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@baoshaoshan I should market myself as a mystic mage" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 01:50:06 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"I took the leap during Covid. Got tired of doing the usual deferential equivocation for being a Chinese person who wasnt ashamed to be Chinese. Not an honest way to live your identity. Shouldnt have to apologize for saying positive things about China like its a normal place" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-18 08:02:16 UTC 17.5K followers, 15.3K engagements
"@Tachanka7121885 π€¨Where did I say ChatGPT is stopping them" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 07:50:45 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements
"In a sense demand is already catching up. Its just that less developed regions that are the target beneficiaries of the correction have lower prices by 2-4x so they would need to consume 2-4x as much just to offset revenue loss from withdrawn demand from high income regions" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-19 07:35:57 UTC 17.5K followers, 2920 engagements
"@SecondRingSZN π€― WTF (but also I guess that makes sense since I never see it in non canto places)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 01:53:11 UTC 17.5K followers, XX engagements
"@JK99928789839 π€¨What did you get I am a bicultural Chinese American whose family came here when China was a still poor seeking opportunity and I am very sad the country I grew up in has turned to shit because of dumbasses like you. Youre the only one lying to yourself here dummy" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 11:11:44 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"In one sense neoliberalism turned out to be the capitalist innovation of what if instead of exploiting the spatially adjacent lower class I exploit the temporally adjacent younger generation. (And that right there is your fertility problem)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 03:07:06 UTC 17.6K followers, 6660 engagements
"@PioneerColumn22 π€·π»β People can choose to save in a stock market that accrues value or a savings account that doesnt. Their call. If the only way a stock market can accrue value is parasitically and destructively then eventually it will be scrapped for some other investing vehicle" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 06:36:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Its not propaganda to not be ashamed about being Chinese π€·π»β" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-18 07:47:02 UTC 17.6K followers, 7050 engagements
"@JimRayn99592544 You missed an opportunity to scaremonger about China implanting commie microchips" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 04:09:06 UTC 17.6K followers, 4482 engagements
"@TonamiPlayman @GlennLuk The real challenge with partial vacuum is less about the technical difficulties and more about economic feasibility I think. You can engineer one that works but it might be impractical for protracted lengths. You need a lot of fans and pumps and they have to operate in synch" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-19 07:00:05 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements
"@JK99928789839 And what do you have Copium" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:49:28 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Tell me youre someone who left China more than a decade ago and havent gone back since without telling me" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-17 21:03:13 UTC 17.6K followers, 175.3K engagements
"Not sure why people have to make this stuff sound so mysteriously salacious. XJPs goal was always institution building. The more secure he is about the shape of the political system and its processes hes built over the last decade+ the more likely he is to entrust delegation" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 01:05:17 UTC 17.6K followers, 6677 engagements
"@Kuhle_Wampe Not in most places. The few places that do the tuition isnt high and prohibitive" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-20 20:50:03 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements
"@AnonAno79719484 He aint my chairman. Im just glad they took Spino down a peg for the real king carnivore to reclaim his title" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 05:37:36 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"@PioneerColumn22 China runs a market economy. That doesnt make it a free market. Chinas successes come from the fact that it recognizes this distinction" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:52:26 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"Omg @pachabelcanon she touched the third rail π«£ (But I agree with Angelica Singapore is in fact pretty socialist Just not very Marxist)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-14 09:06:20 UTC 17.5K followers, 5408 engagements
"To accept harsher terms to reach an agreement prospects for maintaining justifiably beneficial relations with the US shrivel and any deals that are reached become more about punts meant as provisional steps to buy time for strategic pivots away from now harmful US dependencies" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 01:14:06 UTC 17.6K followers, 59.9K engagements
"Not sure about today but this level used to be normal for high schools in Cupertino when I was a kid" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 00:16:01 UTC 17.6K followers, 4487 engagements
"@Hazara501 @MrBig2024 @AngelicaOung @KnowBothSides @teortaxesTex @grok Uhh no historically real Mongolians descended from Xiongnu steppe groups. A portion of proto Mongolians migrated south and assimilated into China (Xianbei) in the post X kingdoms period. Migration in East Asia has almost always been north to south not south to north" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-12 06:01:05 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"You know its really that bad when the nicest person in China watching calls it out" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 02:14:28 UTC 17.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"@GlennLuk @TonamiPlayman (I recall they did a Mythbusters episode on this)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 01:15:05 UTC 17.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Lots of new infill construction in China doing a modern revamp of these aesthetics but with modern amenities now" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-20 04:22:41 UTC 17.5K followers, 2339 engagements
"@JK99928789839 The data disagrees with you. Keep coping π€·π»β" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:53:17 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"@driscoll1142 If you cared so much about truth you would stop lying to yourself π€" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 19:09:47 UTC 17.6K followers, 1911 engagements
"@BorgesCarpenti @policytensor Development really isnt so mysterious once you reset focal point around production learning. Development is about being able to make your own high value things or getting sufficient access to it from someone else (which is trade which means you need something worth trading)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 00:28:50 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"@matthewswspence @GlennLuk Whats being accessed is Chinas processing capacity not its endowment" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-21 18:56:52 UTC 17.5K followers, XX engagements
"(Give us the last few seasons Jeff Bezos you plastic humping coward)" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 22:23:53 UTC 17.6K followers, 2457 engagements
"@policytensor @BorgesCarpenti Development is hard for the same reason becoming a pro at any high performance activity is hard. Its not about this one neat trick but getting a whole bunch of different skills and processes right in sequence. Seeing this as a matter of learning functions makes things clearer" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 00:33:34 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"@JK99928789839 LOL do you eat and live in dollar bills No you depend on someone making those knickknacks for you to eat and live. Chinas youth unemployment is creeping down btw but even those unemployed youth are going to be consuming better than you when the tariff inflation kicks in π" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:36:54 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@JK99928789839 Ah shit youre right Chinas been getting increasingly isolated for XX years now π€π" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-23 09:30:55 UTC 17.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@HannsBursell @kerd50659461 @ThePoliEcon Thats effectively the objective logical conclusion. If you cant tell the difference after X SD that means the metric is not measuring anything after that point. The problem with concepts like IQ is external validity" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 21:23:55 UTC 17.6K followers, XX engagements
"Is China about to turn surgeries into a global service export business π" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-22 03:44:28 UTC 17.6K followers, 199.2K engagements
"You can decentralize the tools but the reason R&D is done in large labs is because you cant decentralize complex engineering nearly as easily. Everyone who does R&D finds out the value of committed onsite time when theyre trying to make something more complex than XXX pieces" @gonglei89 on X 2025-07-19 00:09:46 UTC 17.5K followers, 5355 engagements
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