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# ![@gonglei89 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::532488124.png) @gonglei89 Lei Gong

Lei Gong posts on X about china, money, countries, gdp the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 6604 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [finance](/list/finance)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [currencies](/list/currencies)  [stocks](/list/stocks) 

**Social topic influence**
[china](/topic/china) #998, [money](/topic/money), [countries](/topic/countries) #2475, [gdp](/topic/gdp) #347, [chains](/topic/chains) #196, [over the](/topic/over-the), [infrastructure](/topic/infrastructure) #386, [all the](/topic/all-the), [$4732t](/topic/$4732t) #384, [build a](/topic/build-a) #1047

**Top assets mentioned**
[Goldman Sachs (GS)](/topic/goldman-sachs) [ON Semiconductor, Corp. (ON)](/topic/$on)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::532488124/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"When you string together all the quotable lines Bessent generated today it sounds like someone having a total meltdown like the point in an argument where one person is reduced to shouting every verbal attack they can think of because theyve got nothing left* but angry words"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978641646893097289) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-16T01:58Z 19.9K followers, 18.4K engagements


"Okay fine Ill start using CPC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978999967055245504) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T01:42Z 19.9K followers, 17.2K engagements


"Just figured out one good tell for whether the real estate industry is properly aligned to social equity is to ask who is making the most money in real estate activities. Is it people building and designing homes or people playing financial games That right there is the problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979296118166163564) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T21:19Z 19.9K followers, 1901 engagements


"@_PeterRyan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @baoshaoshan @philippilk This problem is going to persist until the financial system is revved back up to speed because policy supported financing to create better opportunities for new grads with higher entry level expectations is sparse but thats a process that will likely take another year or two"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979324244464144553) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T23:10Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@_PeterRyan @baoshaoshan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @philippilk I disagree with Warwick a little here I think theres clearly some notable hysteresis. Otherwise the post real estate deflation recovery would be going a lot smoother. Its just not dire. The aches and pains are still manageable and should be easy enough to resolve with time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979330487538848088) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T23:35Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Told my work bestie Chinese biotech is going to do the complete buzzsaw in 3-5 years. Youll only be able to understand how China was able to do this if you understood the inherent inefficiencies that have prevented the biotech industry from delivering its best work for decades"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1975275892453875811) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-06T19:04Z 19.9K followers, 38.2K engagements


"@szetoinsitu I hope all my biology friends have found fairer pasture by then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1975323769192521962) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-06T22:14Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Chinas energy mix is only XX% imported oil and China domestically produces XXX million tonnes of grain and XX millions tonnes of meat per year which is X kg of food per person per day. Either way you can try a blockade if you want but good luck surviving the rain of missile ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1977108891143225538) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-11T20:27Z 19.9K followers, 5071 engagements


"The USs response to Chinas new export controls is to increase its trade deficit with China. Are yall tired of winning yet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1977437254231674986) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-12T18:12Z 19.9K followers, 15.5K engagements


"Guess whos making the power semiconductor components enabling this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1977964315706896408) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-14T05:06Z 19.9K followers, 13.9K engagements


"Well punish China even if it means wrecking our own economy sounds very persuasive until quarterly earnings collapse and the recession hits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978489224732221821) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-15T15:52Z 19.9K followers, 15.6K engagements


"@XiWellWisher Sometimes I wonder if western leftists are just Christian fundamentalists whove swapped Jesus for Marx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979360235061154285) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T01:33Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@MarmotEffendi @Manletrevo2 @favelaoverlord You can internationalize the RMB without giving up capital controls. Thats what the HKD buffer is for. The USD has no utility if the US is a volatile actor. Not sure if you guys have caught on to that part of the trust equation. There was global trade before the USD too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979391676264387026) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T03:38Z 19.9K followers, XX engagements


"@wiprepairshop @Sim89776996 Learn how to build a proper fighter jet first ๐Ÿฅฑ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979908761633325499) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T13:53Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"Not all export controls induce development of capacity. It depends on whether you have institutional capability to adapt to them aka an industrial policy regime to organize and reallocate factors. Three decades ago this wouldnt be a question for the US. Much more dubious today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1976444502803087578) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-10T00:27Z 20K followers, 16.2K engagements


"MAGA pursues trade war shenanigans because they want a symbolic monument to prove that they are invulnerable top dogs of the world which is why they go full pig brained derangement whenever theyre reminded just how vulnerable they are. Endless charade of infantile insecurity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1976853565810655335) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-11T03:33Z 20K followers, 6308 engagements


"Chief economist. Chief Strategist. GoldmanSachs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1977446845506048368) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-12T18:50Z 20K followers, 22K engagements


"lmao was sending emails discussing Tiananmen with my cousin while living in Shanghai so no. Youre a know nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1977790701955055913) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-13T17:37Z 20K followers, 12.7K engagements


"@mr_dosei The problem here is worse. Its not even measuring the thing it claims to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1977889130710204849) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-14T00:08Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@drdomicile"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1977974424336056814) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-14T05:47Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Huawei is sending Trump a gift basket for juicing their OS ecosystem development personally signed by Meng Wanzhou"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978130203206414493) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-14T16:06Z 19.9K followers, 33.8K engagements


"If the rest of the world had the ability to pull forward efforts to reduce dependence and develop alternatives it would have already done so by now and China wouldnt have this lever at all today ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚ Aspirations are easy when you dont look at the execution side of the picture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978502741426082260) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-15T16:46Z 20K followers, 3571 engagements


"This is definitely the thing you say out loud when you have the upper hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978507515341001148) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-15T17:05Z 19.9K followers, 35.6K engagements


"Its much worse than that. They dont even understand the other sides primary objectives in the negotiation. They think China wants a deal as much as they do. In reality China is agreeing to talk to run down the clock. Their real moves are outside the negotiation room"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978850445721268695) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-16T15:48Z 20K followers, 26.9K engagements


"@_PeterRyan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @baoshaoshan @philippilk Theres a lot going on but basic story here is even before the pandemic the Chinese economy was struggling to absorb the surge of new college graduates. The immediate employment soaks for that were real estate and private tutoring but those were also considered underemployment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979322668425068753) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T23:04Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@_PeterRyan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @baoshaoshan @philippilk Post real estate contraction and private tutoring ban upper tier economy (not confined to tier 1s) shed a lot of entry level jobs that normally absorbed new grads. Real estate correction also took out capital for entrepreneurship and services downstream of upper tier consumption"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979323748370256294) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T23:08Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@GlennLuk Honestly given that were talking about different kinds of physics here its very hard coming up with standardized assessment but Id just say physical working environment and engineering standards advanced jet engines have to meet is much less forgiving than an EUV scanner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979681195727491404) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T22:49Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@nise_yoshimi The America you thought could be saved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979720852561367510) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T01:26Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@epr_sci Not the kinds of mirrors Zhizhen is advertising"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980111195861651885) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T03:17Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Of course because China already put in decades of work on semiconductor self sufficiency. They only need to close a XX% capability gap whereas the US has to close a XX% capability gap for REEs and other export controlled materials. This trade fight was ill conceived from day 1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1976634197939998932) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-10T13:01Z 20K followers, 20.5K engagements


"Ive figured it out bros we need Pochita to eat the China devil its the only way bros (Just booked my Chainsaw Man tickets)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979639877043155408) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T20:05Z 20K followers, 2100 engagements


"Learn how to build a proper fighter jet first ๐Ÿฅฑ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979908794713837744) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T13:53Z 20K followers, 20.3K engagements


"Its also supremely ironic that no one is tracking the new service retail sales series when one of the central planks of the China suppresses consumption argument is that most of the suppression is in the service economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980329884431135003) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T17:46Z 20K followers, 2428 engagements


"@przidnt1 @fncischen Sorry this is the best youre going to get out of this America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980516451640569947) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T06:08Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"This isnt Chinas full hand. Chinas full hand would be total shutout of access to Chinas supply chain for US businesses and coordinated dumping of USD with other countries that are looking to evacuate their reserve positions. People still dont understand Chinas leverage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1976765349304713613) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-10T21:42Z 19.9K followers, 355.3K engagements


"If the USs offer is an unstable relationship that requires a new agreement every X months then the US China relationship may as well be dead under Trump. China is decoupling faster and isnt likely to ever come back to the table if an initial agreement is even reached at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979370623639130407) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T02:15Z 20K followers, 16.3K engagements


"Whether they are good or not and what kinds of changes they should adopt is not for armchair spectators to decide ๐Ÿ˜œ Either way theyre not breaking diplomatic protocol for this meeting. I would be very surprised if the meeting happens without resolving this recent impasse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979388561251274823) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T03:26Z 20K followers, 2174 engagements


"@rinconhilldad Bruh why are you telling on yourself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979742745146314973) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T02:53Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@Sim89776996 One reason the old city area of Beijing was built with so many canals and artificial lakes was to serve a similar drainage function and to this day the old city area doesnt flood. The reason newer urban areas in China flood so often is because they neglected to build drainage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979773704440832446) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T04:56Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@nise_yoshimi One day we will finally perfect the one true American the Omni-erican"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980135750705557656) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T04:55Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@bwwgpro1 It wont. Chinas export share of GDP has already gone down significantly over the last two decades while its GDP grew 7x. China is not uniquely exposed because its export share of GDP is smaller than most G7 countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980350077857329589) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T19:07Z 19.9K followers, XX engagements


"@bwwgpro1 If exports are a predominant driver of GDP growth then its share of GDP wouldnt fall as the economy grew. Youre trying to argue against a hard mathematical identity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980353655007244334) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T19:21Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"@bwwgpro1 GDP grew 7x while export share fell. That tells you export contributions had to fall much faster than GDP growth even if GDP growth also shrank. Thats a mathematical identity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980356809597804628) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T19:33Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"Truly hilarious how Bessents public tantrum attempting to put Li Chenggang in trouble has done the opposite for him in China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979215614385263042) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T15:59Z 20K followers, 27.6K engagements


"This argument only works if you think the economy is about financial flows and not material flows. Paper is much easier to replace than production especially if youre very socialist. Money doesnt have the definitive power most Americans think at this level of geopolitics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979304118352253433) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-17T21:50Z 20K followers, 25K engagements


"@przidnt1 @fncischen Things have to get to Haiti levels before you get to the cannibal cults sorry bruh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980517077204234597) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T06:10Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"Ironically recycling is much easier to promote when youre not tied down to the profit incentives defining market efficiency. If you want to promote turnover of environmentally harmful systems for environmentally friendly systems you will still need to promote growth so no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980534912580219073) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T07:21Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"Angelica too is discovering that a lot of the youth unemployment in China is from college kids who dont want to work jobs they think are beneath them and can afford to coast for a bit because their parents are set not from a lack of available jobs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1965487573209583998) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-09-09T18:48Z 19.9K followers, 20.2K engagements


"Uhh someone forgetting all the extraterritorial tech restrictions and Huawei shenanigans in the late 2010s. The tensions were never contained to begin with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978127604377874611) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-14T15:55Z 20K followers, 13.5K engagements


"After so many years of these Chinese dissident types insisting every popular hyped adversity that enters the narrative stream spells doom for China and the CCP the only reason you should still be taking any of these folks seriously is if you want to be swindled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1978657950207213860) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-16T03:03Z 19.9K followers, 9323 engagements


"If I was forced to put up money today I would bet that the Xi Trump meeting isnt happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979371811772207573) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T02:19Z 20K followers, 13.9K engagements


"I dont think this kind of culturally over-indexed perspective is actually helpful. There are lots of academic works on modern R&D development and innovation systems that are far more useful and offer much better explanatory power than an overly peculiarized cultural argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979479479333605592) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T09:27Z 20K followers, 4740 engagements


"Seems like an example of challenge impossible right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979601111498776886) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-18T17:30Z 20K followers, 2918 engagements


"You did what now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979739380165312842) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T02:40Z 20K followers, 9319 engagements


"@Sim89776996 The sponge cities concept was invented to rectify this. The idea is to make grey infrastructure more porous employ urban greening and wetland expansion to help soak up excess water etc. Waterways specifically are diversion infrastructure *since the water needs somewhere to go*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979775007074185486) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T05:01Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@przidnt1 @pplsartofwar Maybe Japan will finally get its reset"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979794953024020705) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T06:21Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements


"The only lithography machine that uses mirrors is EUV so ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1979976224517783679) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-19T18:21Z 20K followers, 15.9K engagements


"@robert_baiguan I mean you screencapped it right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980145445986062599) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T05:33Z 20K followers, 2724 engagements


"@AngelicaOung Honestly given where things are today if this issue went kinetic I cant imagine the ROC military command actually choosing bleed to the last Taiwanese over quick surrender so long as they give us nice terms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980146236301939197) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T05:37Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"But also whenever someone nags about Chinas export dependence you have to wonder why they dont do the same for western economies that have much larger export share of GDP or if they even looked at comparative data at all when they formed this conclusion about China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980334952920281523) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T18:07Z 20K followers, 5544 engagements


"China is trapped in a condition that my college economics textbook called perfect market competition which Ive been hearing every free market ideologue say is the ideal economy to have but now its considered fierce and brutal ๐Ÿคจ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980336014997799398) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T18:11Z 20K followers, 36.4K engagements


"Illustrating my point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980339448132075959) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T18:24Z 20K followers, 4520 engagements


"@bwwgpro1 Sure and my point is that X is an option if countries want to take it so Im not sure what the problem is ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980348575642185956) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T19:01Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@bwwgpro1 ๐Ÿคจ Thats not how they actually used their export surplus and their financing for their infrastructure buildout was not from trade but land finance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980360307014009133) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T19:47Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"@przidnt1 @sayingboourns Ugh Sony was the only one matching Apples peak consumer retail energy. Same aesthetic level but way less stuck up. RIP ๐Ÿ˜ข"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980376677483180471) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T20:52Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"Uhh that basically translates to we are not interested in external validity. Are you even still a science field if you cant reproduce external validity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980378829970632907) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T21:01Z 20K followers, 7645 engagements


"@Brad_Setser If you produce a lot that drives prices down and generates surpluses that turn into various forms of savings for consumers who knew ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980409525858627794) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T23:03Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@jenzhuscott Thats a really funny self financing strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980415303520752094) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T23:26Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@yieldsearcher If it makes you feel any better digital infra for most critical systems is so old and technologically backwards they dont face the same platform dependent fail points we saw with the AWS outage. The real risk with older systems is if they go down they may be hard to get back up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980419988575203423) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T23:44Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@JoeWeisenthalt I think it absolutely is. The cultural miasma is an output variable not an input variable and millennial culture is mostly just a collection of ongoing psycho-cultural reactions to lack of formal institutional power and control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980420445724913844) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-20T23:46Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"@shah8comment I know of no biologist who isnt deeply concerned with external validity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980509136082334203) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T05:39Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"@Nolongerscot Poorer countries should absolutely promote human welfare and that requires growth. If youre concerned about the environment just promote forms of production that arent harmful to the environment even if its less expedient to market profit. Not sure why thats so controversial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980554219653574756) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T08:38Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"@Marxistcham @RnaudBertrand Its unreadable if youre serious about real basketball"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980562500178608582) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T09:11Z 20K followers, XX engagements


"The problem with this argument is timing. Relaxation of capacity biased structures simply isnt going to happen until they get at minimum regional convergence of economic outcomes. Thats not going to be realized over the next five years. Common prosperity sets the timeline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980565076156547533) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T09:21Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"Current anti-involution policies are squarely aimed at re-anchoring price trends now that real estate is no longer a primary of driver inflation because without inflation they cant restore credit circulation. This round is not about moving away from general production bias"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980565081122554348) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T09:21Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@wstv_lizzi The problem with this argument is timing. Relaxation of capacity biased structures simply isnt going to happen until they get at minimum regional convergence of economic outcomes. Thats not going to be realized over the next five years. Common prosperity sets the timeline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980565238287376790) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T09:22Z 20K followers, XXX engagements


"@wstv_lizzi Current anti-involution policies are squarely aimed at re-anchoring price trends now that real estate is no longer a primary of driver inflation because without inflation they cant restore credit circulation. This round is not about moving away from general production bias"  
[X Link](https://x.com/gonglei89/status/1980565974769406369) [@gonglei89](/creator/x/gonglei89) 2025-10-21T09:25Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

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Social topic influence china #998, money, countries #2475, gdp #347, chains #196, over the, infrastructure #386, all the, $4732t #384, build a #1047

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"When you string together all the quotable lines Bessent generated today it sounds like someone having a total meltdown like the point in an argument where one person is reduced to shouting every verbal attack they can think of because theyve got nothing left* but angry words"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-16T01:58Z 19.9K followers, 18.4K engagements

"Okay fine Ill start using CPC"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T01:42Z 19.9K followers, 17.2K engagements

"Just figured out one good tell for whether the real estate industry is properly aligned to social equity is to ask who is making the most money in real estate activities. Is it people building and designing homes or people playing financial games That right there is the problem"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T21:19Z 19.9K followers, 1901 engagements

"@_PeterRyan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @baoshaoshan @philippilk This problem is going to persist until the financial system is revved back up to speed because policy supported financing to create better opportunities for new grads with higher entry level expectations is sparse but thats a process that will likely take another year or two"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T23:10Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@_PeterRyan @baoshaoshan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @philippilk I disagree with Warwick a little here I think theres clearly some notable hysteresis. Otherwise the post real estate deflation recovery would be going a lot smoother. Its just not dire. The aches and pains are still manageable and should be easy enough to resolve with time"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T23:35Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Told my work bestie Chinese biotech is going to do the complete buzzsaw in 3-5 years. Youll only be able to understand how China was able to do this if you understood the inherent inefficiencies that have prevented the biotech industry from delivering its best work for decades"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-06T19:04Z 19.9K followers, 38.2K engagements

"@szetoinsitu I hope all my biology friends have found fairer pasture by then"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-06T22:14Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Chinas energy mix is only XX% imported oil and China domestically produces XXX million tonnes of grain and XX millions tonnes of meat per year which is X kg of food per person per day. Either way you can try a blockade if you want but good luck surviving the rain of missile ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-11T20:27Z 19.9K followers, 5071 engagements

"The USs response to Chinas new export controls is to increase its trade deficit with China. Are yall tired of winning yet"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-12T18:12Z 19.9K followers, 15.5K engagements

"Guess whos making the power semiconductor components enabling this"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-14T05:06Z 19.9K followers, 13.9K engagements

"Well punish China even if it means wrecking our own economy sounds very persuasive until quarterly earnings collapse and the recession hits"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-15T15:52Z 19.9K followers, 15.6K engagements

"@XiWellWisher Sometimes I wonder if western leftists are just Christian fundamentalists whove swapped Jesus for Marx"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T01:33Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@MarmotEffendi @Manletrevo2 @favelaoverlord You can internationalize the RMB without giving up capital controls. Thats what the HKD buffer is for. The USD has no utility if the US is a volatile actor. Not sure if you guys have caught on to that part of the trust equation. There was global trade before the USD too"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T03:38Z 19.9K followers, XX engagements

"@wiprepairshop @Sim89776996 Learn how to build a proper fighter jet first ๐Ÿฅฑ"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T13:53Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"Not all export controls induce development of capacity. It depends on whether you have institutional capability to adapt to them aka an industrial policy regime to organize and reallocate factors. Three decades ago this wouldnt be a question for the US. Much more dubious today"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-10T00:27Z 20K followers, 16.2K engagements

"MAGA pursues trade war shenanigans because they want a symbolic monument to prove that they are invulnerable top dogs of the world which is why they go full pig brained derangement whenever theyre reminded just how vulnerable they are. Endless charade of infantile insecurity"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-11T03:33Z 20K followers, 6308 engagements

"Chief economist. Chief Strategist. GoldmanSachs"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-12T18:50Z 20K followers, 22K engagements

"lmao was sending emails discussing Tiananmen with my cousin while living in Shanghai so no. Youre a know nothing"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-13T17:37Z 20K followers, 12.7K engagements

"@mr_dosei The problem here is worse. Its not even measuring the thing it claims to be"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-14T00:08Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@drdomicile"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-14T05:47Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Huawei is sending Trump a gift basket for juicing their OS ecosystem development personally signed by Meng Wanzhou"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-14T16:06Z 19.9K followers, 33.8K engagements

"If the rest of the world had the ability to pull forward efforts to reduce dependence and develop alternatives it would have already done so by now and China wouldnt have this lever at all today ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚ Aspirations are easy when you dont look at the execution side of the picture"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-15T16:46Z 20K followers, 3571 engagements

"This is definitely the thing you say out loud when you have the upper hand"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-15T17:05Z 19.9K followers, 35.6K engagements

"Its much worse than that. They dont even understand the other sides primary objectives in the negotiation. They think China wants a deal as much as they do. In reality China is agreeing to talk to run down the clock. Their real moves are outside the negotiation room"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-16T15:48Z 20K followers, 26.9K engagements

"@_PeterRyan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @baoshaoshan @philippilk Theres a lot going on but basic story here is even before the pandemic the Chinese economy was struggling to absorb the surge of new college graduates. The immediate employment soaks for that were real estate and private tutoring but those were also considered underemployment"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T23:04Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@_PeterRyan @AngelicaOung @MiquelVilam @baoshaoshan @philippilk Post real estate contraction and private tutoring ban upper tier economy (not confined to tier 1s) shed a lot of entry level jobs that normally absorbed new grads. Real estate correction also took out capital for entrepreneurship and services downstream of upper tier consumption"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T23:08Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@GlennLuk Honestly given that were talking about different kinds of physics here its very hard coming up with standardized assessment but Id just say physical working environment and engineering standards advanced jet engines have to meet is much less forgiving than an EUV scanner"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T22:49Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@nise_yoshimi The America you thought could be saved"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T01:26Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@epr_sci Not the kinds of mirrors Zhizhen is advertising"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T03:17Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Of course because China already put in decades of work on semiconductor self sufficiency. They only need to close a XX% capability gap whereas the US has to close a XX% capability gap for REEs and other export controlled materials. This trade fight was ill conceived from day 1"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-10T13:01Z 20K followers, 20.5K engagements

"Ive figured it out bros we need Pochita to eat the China devil its the only way bros (Just booked my Chainsaw Man tickets)"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T20:05Z 20K followers, 2100 engagements

"Learn how to build a proper fighter jet first ๐Ÿฅฑ"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T13:53Z 20K followers, 20.3K engagements

"Its also supremely ironic that no one is tracking the new service retail sales series when one of the central planks of the China suppresses consumption argument is that most of the suppression is in the service economy"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T17:46Z 20K followers, 2428 engagements

"@przidnt1 @fncischen Sorry this is the best youre going to get out of this America"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T06:08Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"This isnt Chinas full hand. Chinas full hand would be total shutout of access to Chinas supply chain for US businesses and coordinated dumping of USD with other countries that are looking to evacuate their reserve positions. People still dont understand Chinas leverage"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-10T21:42Z 19.9K followers, 355.3K engagements

"If the USs offer is an unstable relationship that requires a new agreement every X months then the US China relationship may as well be dead under Trump. China is decoupling faster and isnt likely to ever come back to the table if an initial agreement is even reached at all"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T02:15Z 20K followers, 16.3K engagements

"Whether they are good or not and what kinds of changes they should adopt is not for armchair spectators to decide ๐Ÿ˜œ Either way theyre not breaking diplomatic protocol for this meeting. I would be very surprised if the meeting happens without resolving this recent impasse"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T03:26Z 20K followers, 2174 engagements

"@rinconhilldad Bruh why are you telling on yourself"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T02:53Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@Sim89776996 One reason the old city area of Beijing was built with so many canals and artificial lakes was to serve a similar drainage function and to this day the old city area doesnt flood. The reason newer urban areas in China flood so often is because they neglected to build drainage"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T04:56Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@nise_yoshimi One day we will finally perfect the one true American the Omni-erican"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T04:55Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@bwwgpro1 It wont. Chinas export share of GDP has already gone down significantly over the last two decades while its GDP grew 7x. China is not uniquely exposed because its export share of GDP is smaller than most G7 countries"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T19:07Z 19.9K followers, XX engagements

"@bwwgpro1 If exports are a predominant driver of GDP growth then its share of GDP wouldnt fall as the economy grew. Youre trying to argue against a hard mathematical identity"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T19:21Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"@bwwgpro1 GDP grew 7x while export share fell. That tells you export contributions had to fall much faster than GDP growth even if GDP growth also shrank. Thats a mathematical identity"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T19:33Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"Truly hilarious how Bessents public tantrum attempting to put Li Chenggang in trouble has done the opposite for him in China"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T15:59Z 20K followers, 27.6K engagements

"This argument only works if you think the economy is about financial flows and not material flows. Paper is much easier to replace than production especially if youre very socialist. Money doesnt have the definitive power most Americans think at this level of geopolitics"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-17T21:50Z 20K followers, 25K engagements

"@przidnt1 @fncischen Things have to get to Haiti levels before you get to the cannibal cults sorry bruh"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T06:10Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"Ironically recycling is much easier to promote when youre not tied down to the profit incentives defining market efficiency. If you want to promote turnover of environmentally harmful systems for environmentally friendly systems you will still need to promote growth so no"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T07:21Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"Angelica too is discovering that a lot of the youth unemployment in China is from college kids who dont want to work jobs they think are beneath them and can afford to coast for a bit because their parents are set not from a lack of available jobs"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-09-09T18:48Z 19.9K followers, 20.2K engagements

"Uhh someone forgetting all the extraterritorial tech restrictions and Huawei shenanigans in the late 2010s. The tensions were never contained to begin with"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-14T15:55Z 20K followers, 13.5K engagements

"After so many years of these Chinese dissident types insisting every popular hyped adversity that enters the narrative stream spells doom for China and the CCP the only reason you should still be taking any of these folks seriously is if you want to be swindled"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-16T03:03Z 19.9K followers, 9323 engagements

"If I was forced to put up money today I would bet that the Xi Trump meeting isnt happening"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T02:19Z 20K followers, 13.9K engagements

"I dont think this kind of culturally over-indexed perspective is actually helpful. There are lots of academic works on modern R&D development and innovation systems that are far more useful and offer much better explanatory power than an overly peculiarized cultural argument"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T09:27Z 20K followers, 4740 engagements

"Seems like an example of challenge impossible right now"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-18T17:30Z 20K followers, 2918 engagements

"You did what now"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T02:40Z 20K followers, 9319 engagements

"@Sim89776996 The sponge cities concept was invented to rectify this. The idea is to make grey infrastructure more porous employ urban greening and wetland expansion to help soak up excess water etc. Waterways specifically are diversion infrastructure since the water needs somewhere to go"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T05:01Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@przidnt1 @pplsartofwar Maybe Japan will finally get its reset"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T06:21Z 19.9K followers, XXX engagements

"The only lithography machine that uses mirrors is EUV so ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-19T18:21Z 20K followers, 15.9K engagements

"@robert_baiguan I mean you screencapped it right"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T05:33Z 20K followers, 2724 engagements

"@AngelicaOung Honestly given where things are today if this issue went kinetic I cant imagine the ROC military command actually choosing bleed to the last Taiwanese over quick surrender so long as they give us nice terms"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T05:37Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"But also whenever someone nags about Chinas export dependence you have to wonder why they dont do the same for western economies that have much larger export share of GDP or if they even looked at comparative data at all when they formed this conclusion about China"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T18:07Z 20K followers, 5544 engagements

"China is trapped in a condition that my college economics textbook called perfect market competition which Ive been hearing every free market ideologue say is the ideal economy to have but now its considered fierce and brutal ๐Ÿคจ"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T18:11Z 20K followers, 36.4K engagements

"Illustrating my point"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T18:24Z 20K followers, 4520 engagements

"@bwwgpro1 Sure and my point is that X is an option if countries want to take it so Im not sure what the problem is ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T19:01Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@bwwgpro1 ๐Ÿคจ Thats not how they actually used their export surplus and their financing for their infrastructure buildout was not from trade but land finance"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T19:47Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"@przidnt1 @sayingboourns Ugh Sony was the only one matching Apples peak consumer retail energy. Same aesthetic level but way less stuck up. RIP ๐Ÿ˜ข"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T20:52Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"Uhh that basically translates to we are not interested in external validity. Are you even still a science field if you cant reproduce external validity"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T21:01Z 20K followers, 7645 engagements

"@Brad_Setser If you produce a lot that drives prices down and generates surpluses that turn into various forms of savings for consumers who knew ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ™‚"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T23:03Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@jenzhuscott Thats a really funny self financing strategy"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T23:26Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@yieldsearcher If it makes you feel any better digital infra for most critical systems is so old and technologically backwards they dont face the same platform dependent fail points we saw with the AWS outage. The real risk with older systems is if they go down they may be hard to get back up"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T23:44Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@JoeWeisenthalt I think it absolutely is. The cultural miasma is an output variable not an input variable and millennial culture is mostly just a collection of ongoing psycho-cultural reactions to lack of formal institutional power and control"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-20T23:46Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"@shah8comment I know of no biologist who isnt deeply concerned with external validity"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T05:39Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"@Nolongerscot Poorer countries should absolutely promote human welfare and that requires growth. If youre concerned about the environment just promote forms of production that arent harmful to the environment even if its less expedient to market profit. Not sure why thats so controversial"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T08:38Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"@Marxistcham @RnaudBertrand Its unreadable if youre serious about real basketball"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T09:11Z 20K followers, XX engagements

"The problem with this argument is timing. Relaxation of capacity biased structures simply isnt going to happen until they get at minimum regional convergence of economic outcomes. Thats not going to be realized over the next five years. Common prosperity sets the timeline"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T09:21Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"Current anti-involution policies are squarely aimed at re-anchoring price trends now that real estate is no longer a primary of driver inflation because without inflation they cant restore credit circulation. This round is not about moving away from general production bias"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T09:21Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@wstv_lizzi The problem with this argument is timing. Relaxation of capacity biased structures simply isnt going to happen until they get at minimum regional convergence of economic outcomes. Thats not going to be realized over the next five years. Common prosperity sets the timeline"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T09:22Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

"@wstv_lizzi Current anti-involution policies are squarely aimed at re-anchoring price trends now that real estate is no longer a primary of driver inflation because without inflation they cant restore credit circulation. This round is not about moving away from general production bias"
X Link @gonglei89 2025-10-21T09:25Z 20K followers, XXX engagements

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