#  @henrysgao Henry Gao Henry Gao posts on X about china, tariffs, beijing, countries the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::229854865/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] -53% - [--] Month [---------] +188% - [--] Months [---------] +80% - [--] Year [---------] +983% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::229854865/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +36% - [--] Month [--] +185% - [--] Months [---] +87% - [--] Year [---] +158% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::229854865/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.25% - [--] Month [------] +4.10% - [--] Months [------] +17% - [--] Year [------] +40% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::229854865/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [currencies](/list/currencies) [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [china](/topic/china) #1292, [tariffs](/topic/tariffs), [beijing](/topic/beijing), [countries](/topic/countries) #1847, [trade](/topic/trade) #315, [taiwan](/topic/taiwan) #367, [shanghai](/topic/shanghai), [trade war](/topic/trade-war) #91, [ai](/topic/ai), [rare](/topic/rare) **Top assets mentioned** [Frontier (FRONT)](/topic/frontier) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Myth busted: Chinas status as a developing country gives it few benefits in the World Trade Organisation In complaining about Chinas alleged special treatment by the World Trade Organization US President Donald Trump and Australias Scott Morrison are pointing to something that isnt really there" [X Link](https://theconversation.com/myth-busted-chinas-status-as-a-developing-country-gives-it-few-benefits-in-the-world-trade-organisation-124602) 2019-10-06T21:16Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements "sounds like a hyper-jealous girl/boyfriend: if you dare to touch her/him I will break up with you Is this the "DON'T YOU DARE NEGOTIATE AN FTA WITH CHINA" clause https://t.co/h6GZw4Rm9q Is this the "DON'T YOU DARE NEGOTIATE AN FTA WITH CHINA" clause https://t.co/h6GZw4Rm9q" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1046754341116203008) 2018-10-01T13:30Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "But the violations are only found for subsidies provided in 2012-2015 and the WTO doesn't have retrospective remedies. Not sure if the victory means anything other than making it easier for the US to name & shame China" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1101143019506421761) 2019-02-28T15:32Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "@snlester @WeihuanZhou I agree. China is not ready yet at least in the trade area" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1111640674774839296) 2019-03-29T14:46Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "It seems that the Parties tacitly adopted many of the US proposals including: [--]. no obiter dicta/advisory opinion; [--]. no Art. [--] claim; [--]. no exceeding 90-day limit without agreement by the Parties; [--]. no adoption of report by DSB thus no presidential value. Any more I had a few thoughts comments and questions about the "Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement Pursuant To Article [--] of the DSU" that the EU circulated today: https://t.co/gRorgh3pxg I had a few thoughts comments and questions about the "Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement Pursuant To Article [--] of the" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1243540761397919744) 2020-03-27T14:09Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "So China's ambassador to Australia was not bluffing when he said "Maybe the ordinary people will say 'Why should we drink Australian wine Eat Australian beef"" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1260778244023783424) 2020-05-14T03:45Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "Honored to be part of the #T20 Taskforce on Subsidies. Enjoy the Policy Brief New #T20PolicyBrief from #T20TF1: Industrial Subsidies as a Major Policy Response since the Global Financial Crises: Consequences and Remedies https://t.co/DVMQJuhBv9 @PeterDraper5 @henrysgao @SimonEvenett @UniofAdelaide @UniJenna @sgSMU @HSGStGallen https://t.co/vLbdAfUwjl New #T20PolicyBrief from #T20TF1: Industrial Subsidies as a Major Policy Response since the Global Financial Crises: Consequences and Remedies https://t.co/DVMQJuhBv9 @PeterDraper5 @henrysgao @SimonEvenett @UniofAdelaide @UniJenna @sgSMU" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1305119172532215808) 2020-09-13T12:20Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "I'm most amused by the argument by China that the criminalization of a conduct under domestic law doesn't really provide sufficient justification for invoking public morals exception. I wonder if its lawyers ever realized that this argu could be used against China in another case" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1305891637411807232) 2020-09-15T15:30Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "6. China could take necessary countermeasures" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1347748291375583234) 2021-01-09T03:33Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements "The new rules shall be read together with: [--]. US measures banning Wechat TikTok Huawei Alipay etc; [--]. China's recent press releases on such measures; [--]. China's recent attempt to insert denial of benefits provisions in the #CAI with the EU as reported by @fbermingham;" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1347749724942594052) 2021-01-09T03:39Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements "While the rules are new I think they must have been in the works for quite some time. For example President Xi called for BRICS members to oppose illegal unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction" at [----] G20 summit a remark probably prompted by the Meng Wanzhou case. MOFCOM just issued its first order for 2021: Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extra-territorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures. Key message: We are going to prohibit firms from complying with foreign laws prohibiting transactions with Chinese firms. https://t.co/yuBMkOjmeW MOFCOM just issued its" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1348106755448864769) 2021-01-10T03:17Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements "Could we see the first @wto case on mode [--] in trade in services https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-green-certificate-proposal-leaves-eu-countries-in-the-driving-seat-coronavirus-passport/amp/utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-green-certificate-proposal-leaves-eu-countries-in-the-driving-seat-coronavirus-passport/amp/utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1372196821360013313) 2021-03-17T14:43Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "Somehow this "American supply chain" reminds me of the "dual circulation" strategy of China. Again America is trying to out-China China Biden touts his Buy American plans: "Every single thing from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the railing of a new building is going to be built by an American company American workers American supply chain so that we invest American tax dollars in American workers." https://t.co/1p6nISNHz3 Biden touts his Buy American plans: "Every single thing from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the railing of a new building is going to be built by an American company" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1391746147224473610) 2021-05-10T13:25Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "@snlester @howserob @DmitryOpines Let me explain more: if the US thinks they are serious then they are not; if the US doesn't think they are serious then they are. Kind of like schrdinger's cat All depends on the reaction of the observer" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1443920498568564736) 2021-10-01T12:47Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements "My new paper: Data Sovereignty and Trade Agreements: Three Digital Kingdoms. Available on @SSRN at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3940508 http://ssrn.com/abstract=3940508" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1447594265484292099) 2021-10-11T16:05Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements "Leading US election expert Oliver Stone quoted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs to illustrate the hypocrisy of US democracy. https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/202112/t20211203_10462120.html https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/202112/t20211203_10462120.html" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1467300117153681410) 2021-12-05T01:09Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements "Happy to announce my promotion to full Professor of Law@SgSMUYPHSL @sgSMU. Being the first person from China to receive such an honor at a law school in Singapore I am fortunate to have benefited from the guidance and support of so many wonderful mentors friends & colleagues" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1542578067364843520) 2022-06-30T18:37Z 33.5K followers, [---] engagements "Henry Kissinger and Chairman Mao on tariffs and trade barriers the Trade Act of [----] and China's potential exports to the US. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d12 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d12" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1670426640961392641) 2023-06-18T13:42Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements "China to enact the Patriotism Education Law which in particular emphasizes patriotism education for "teaching staff religious believers compatriots from Hong Kong Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese"" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1673240653378256896) 2023-06-26T08:03Z 27.8K followers, [----] engagements "China adopted its first Foreign Relations Law yesterday. Why the law now & what are the implications for foreign businesses I explained in this @SCMPNews story. Rule of law: China adopts new legislation to help combat foreign sanctions via @scmpnews" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1674250704792481793) 2023-06-29T02:57Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "Whose fault is it to kill the trees to make room for the crops Xinhua answers the question and confirms the rumor" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1678812179171266564) 2023-07-11T17:08Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Implications of China's new app registration rules: [--]. Chinese phones will not be able to install apps that have not been registered with the Chinese government; [--]. Even if you manage to install them you might not be able to access the mobile data services when using such apps" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1689459184662933505) 2023-08-10T02:10Z 33.5K followers, 80.6K engagements "China issued the first-ever Report on WTO Compliance of the United States and calls the US a "Destroyer Unilateralist and Bullying Hegemonist Double Standards Manipulator" and "Disturber of the Global Industrial and Supply Chains"" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1689946013505900544) 2023-08-11T10:25Z 33.5K followers, 196.1K engagements "Whoever wrote @POTUS's speech must be well-versed in Chinese culture because the "bad folks doing bad things" remark is a literal translation of Confucius:" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1690265175956529152) 2023-08-12T07:33Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "What's most interesting in this notice from Sichuan allowing developers in China to sell flats at low prices is that the government stated that "such low price promotions will not be included in the registry of housing prices" meaning even housing price indexes are now fake" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1692063149468606834) 2023-08-17T06:37Z 33.5K followers, 51K engagements "What happened to @hankinbeijing & @maoviews" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1692797692206854570) 2023-08-19T07:16Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements ""suspicious of U.S.-style consumption" as mentioned by @Lingling_Wei in her insightful recent @WSJ article" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1694962063947575310) 2023-08-25T06:37Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "Tiantong Law Firm widely regarded as the best boutique law firm in China with the highest revenue per capita is rumored to be dissolving as lawyers leave en masse. I wouldn't be surprised if the next crackdown targets big law firms" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1696722136835199246) 2023-08-30T03:10Z 22K followers, 15.3K engagements "One firm managed to do more damage to Chinese tech than all Western governments/firms combined. US working to establish full details of Huaweis advances in chip technology after Mate [--] Pro's processor capacity revealed in a teardown via @technology" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1699744054685401583) 2023-09-07T11:18Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Why did Xi go to Northeastern China instead of G20 G20 represents the Deng-style reform and opening-up development policy. NE China represents the Mao-style inward-looking Soviet development policy. So the signal could not be clearer:" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1701110667418460206) 2023-09-11T05:49Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "Why is Evergrande Chairman Hui Ka Yan arrested Not because of his financial problems in China (otherwise he'd already have been taken in [--] years ago). But because he tried to solve his Chinese problems using American law" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1707673149054369895) 2023-09-29T08:26Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Financial risk early warning model of real estate enterprises from the perspective of cash flow. Thesis supervisor: Hui Ka Yan" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1707977327907590603) 2023-09-30T04:35Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements "Want to join the Illuminati According to this urban legend from China all it takes is for you to watch a Crazy Horse show in Paris like the actress Angelababy" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1708820557633069470) 2023-10-02T12:25Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "As a member of the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program I'm pleased to see the further expansion of one of the best technical assistance programs at the WTO. Unlike most other such programs the program also helps to build the capacity of future trade officials" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1710652786004959679) 2023-10-07T13:46Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "The most successful cultural appropriation by China since the sinification of Marxism has to be this year's Halloween in Shanghai" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1719721192033255805) 2023-11-01T14:20Z 22K followers, 22.2K engagements "Is another former Chinese Premier about to fall down China announced today that Lee Zhang is under CCDI investigation. Given his connections to Wen exposed by @PekingMike's @nytimes story [--] years ago one might wonder who they are fishing for this time. NEW THREAD on Deutsche Bank. Some big discoveries about Lee Zhang () who ran the bank's China operations until [----]. He is one of the two main characters (along with longtime CEO Josef Ackermann) in today's story: https://t.co/Hq0B2NOCoc NEW THREAD on Deutsche Bank. Some big discoveries about Lee Zhang () who ran the bank's China operations" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1720715113639051415) 2023-11-04T08:10Z 33.5K followers, 87.8K engagements "Chinese biography of Hui Ka Yan calls him a national hero for having won the "war in peacetime" and "setting a model for Chinese firms" for foiling plots to short Evergrande by evil Western institutions such as @CitronResearch" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1726045627103216060) 2023-11-19T01:12Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "Thanks to @fstockman for citing my paper in this @nytimes editorial. While I have a slightly different take on the implications of the US' reversal of digital trade rules I think @nytimes is doing a great service by bringing this important issue into the realm of public debate" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1729292063819382960) 2023-11-28T00:12Z 22K followers, [---] engagements "A literal real-life illustration of Wu Si's Law of Blood Compensation" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1730208550063055171) 2023-11-30T12:53Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "In this museum in Shanghai the great Master is turned into the great bookmaker as people keep throwing money at the statute of Confucius and his students" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1733461000815534388) 2023-12-09T12:18Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements "Nice to see that the study I did six years ago on unilateral autonomous tariff dismantling for @SECO_CH with the great team at @WTIunibe led by @koenberden bearing fruit" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1735347051310072051) 2023-12-14T17:12Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements "BREAKING NEWS: Tencent is changing its name to Fivecent while Netease will change its name to Netelse" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1738166839887491278) 2023-12-22T11:57Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Time to remember Xi's remarks [--] days ago at the Central Economic Works Conference: "The Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements for economic work need to be understood by leading cadres at all levels and implemented in a complete accurate and comprehensive manner" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1738365740477288582) 2023-12-23T01:07Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "They must not be distorted". The audience listened attentively and the General Secretarys tone became more serious: Discounting is distortion and doubling up is also distortion" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1738365938045759606) 2023-12-23T01:08Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "Why is Mao popular among both the establishment and the anti-establishment in China Because he's the only thing most people know just like Europe before the Reformation. Today is Maos birthday (1893-1976) Mao brought unprecedented suffering & death to the China. Almost [--] yrs after his death what do ppl think about him Unlike Hitler who was thoroughly condemned Mao is more popular in the west than ever. He has also been gaining popularity https://t.co/QVW6uVWZYi Today is Maos birthday (1893-1976) Mao brought unprecedented suffering & death to the China. Almost [--] yrs after his death what do" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1739814993586200912) 2023-12-27T01:06Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Three places in China with permanent long queues: Mao's Mausoleum for people who miss the past; National Bureau of Letters and Calls for people who are unhappy with the present; The U.S. Embassy for people who want a better future" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1743272257483645308) 2024-01-05T14:04Z 22.2K followers, 14.4K engagements "2. Another crime of Tang is failure to prevent and resolve financial risks. To prevent & resolve financial risks is one of the hottest buzzwords in recent years that even made its way into the Political Report of the 20th Party Congress. But what exactly did Tang do wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1743815267522949249) 2024-01-07T02:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "If I guessed correctly this could refer to his decision to raise the leverage ratio for clients of his bank from 1:2 to 1:2.5 when almost all other banks reduced the ratio during the [----] stock market crash" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1743815624890142740) 2024-01-07T02:03Z 22K followers, [---] engagements "But essentially this simply means that the financial institutions will be forced to become state instruments to support state-led growth as I warned last year: The [----] reform prepared the banks in China for the upcoming WTO accession when China made many commitments in the financial sector; The current reform is to prepare China to enter into the era of state-led growth with banks supplying ammunition to SOEs and high-tech sector. The [----] reform prepared the banks in China for the upcoming WTO accession when China made many commitments in the financial sector; The current reform is to" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748190478955385089) 2024-01-19T03:47Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Xi also talked about controlling risks in the financial sector. When he took over in [----] he talked about risks in the real estate sector and you all know how he solved it: by popping the bubble in the sector. I guess this also explains the current chaos in the stock market" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748191460925813061) 2024-01-19T03:51Z 22K followers, [---] engagements "Despite its high ratings on opening Wong Kar-wai's "Blossoms Shanghai ()" tanked as it wrapped up. People blasted it as providing a rather superficial account of Shanghai in the 90s through the lens of HK cinema. To me the biggest disappointment is what is left out i.e.: Wong Kar-wai's first television series Blossoms Shanghai () is an ambitious project that aims to recreate China's Gilded Age like The Great Gatsby. This is also why it is filled with nuances and innuendos that need interpretation. Some are less subtle like the repeated https://t.co/IUcgRH1Tz1 Wong Kar-wai's first television" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748284354680545303) 2024-01-19T10:00Z 22K followers, 10.1K engagements "1. The doom days before the boom days which was covered extensively in the original novel that exposed the communist utopia; [--]. The real power behind the rainmakers like Ah Bao: the stamp-wielding officials who made the arbitrage in both foreign trade and stock market possible" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748284785787854955) 2024-01-19T10:02Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "the state trading company to start her own trading firm to supply jeans for Walmart. As a newcomer she was shut out of the market and only one manufacturer was willing to produce for her but at a much higher markup. But she still signed the contract on the last day of 1993" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748286153323946174) 2024-01-19T10:07Z 22K followers, [---] engagements "because she knew that just one day later China would end its dual-track exchange rate system and allow the depreciation of the RMB from [---] to [---] overnight. As Miss Wang was paying the OEM manufacturer in RMB while she was being paid by Walmart in USD she'd make 50% more" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748287022270435614) 2024-01-19T10:11Z 22K followers, [---] engagements "which more than covered the high mark-up she had to pay. But then such a deal is only possible if you are someone like her who had insider knowledge of the exchange rate policy shift before everyone else including even business tycoons like Ah Bao" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748287382590525693) 2024-01-19T10:12Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "Great thread by @rhodium_group on estimating China's true GDP growth rate from investment trade consumption and gov't spending except that it's still possible to have a high total despite poor components as every professor who has done grade moderation will tell you. For starts our estimate for China's GDP growth in [----] was in the range of 1.5%. For ease of comparison here's what we estimated contributions to be from particular parts of the economy compared to the official numbers: https://t.co/SSmAuWFVRR For starts our estimate for China's GDP growth in [----] was in the range of 1.5%. For" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1748513708878532734) 2024-01-20T01:12Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "The most puzzling enigma of 2024: In [----] the rupture of the housing bubble and the ensuing stock market collapse in the US triggered a worldwide financial crisis. Similarly the crash of the housing market and currency in Thailand in [----] led to the Asian Financial Crisis" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1752863999304356264) 2024-02-01T01:18Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Which sector will be the first to achieve the target of Made in China [----] The stock market" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1761362716550402416) 2024-02-24T12:09Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "@snlester According to the Chinese version Wang also expressed China's solemn concerns over the US tariffs on China and Taiwan-related issues in the economic and trade field" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1762223396912562362) 2024-02-26T21:09Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "From Lochner to Panera: American law is all toast. California's new $20 minimum wage rule will exempt restaurants that sell bread handing a lucrative break on wages to the Panera chain and one of Governor Gavin Newsoms longtime allies https://t.co/fvC7QCfTla California's new $20 minimum wage rule will exempt restaurants that sell bread handing a lucrative break on wages to the Panera chain and one of Governor Gavin Newsoms longtime allies https://t.co/fvC7QCfTla" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1762985145592868991) 2024-02-28T23:36Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Politburo held the 12th collective study session yesterday and the topic was new energy and China's energy security. Xi: "China is leading the world on new energy technologies and equipment and has built the world's largest clean power supply system" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763540595312881885) 2024-03-01T12:23Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Chinas new energy vehicles lithium batteries and photovoltaic products are highly competitive in the international market. China has become an important promoter of global energy transition and climate change adaption."" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763540875702043030) 2024-03-01T12:24Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "Xi also said China should deepen international cooperation in new energy science and technology innovation promote cooperation in the new energy supply chain build a new win-win model of green and low-carbon energy transformation participate deeply in the reform of" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763541069776793802) 2024-03-01T12:25Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "international energy governance and promote the establishment of a fair just balanced & inclusive global energy governance system. Despite all the rhetoric China's experience inClimate Change &Energy Transition has not always been smooth as I argued in this recent paper" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763542069430345791) 2024-03-01T12:29Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "in the @JIEL_OUP with @WeihuanZhou: Henry Gao Weihuan Zhou Competition among purposes: The Chinese Experience inthe Governance ofClimate Change andEnergy Transition Journal of International Economic Law Volume [--] Issue [--] December [----] pp. 803816" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763542339409289429) 2024-03-01T12:30Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "What word will they replace TikTok with next time TikTok opening page today https://t.co/7H155Z8pAG TikTok opening page today https://t.co/7H155Z8pAG" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1765758256746750383) 2024-03-07T15:15Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "What would happen if TikTok (or more exactly its Chinese equivalent Douyin as TikTok is banned in its country of origin) calls its users in China to call their people's congress representatives to defend their Constitutional right to free expression" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1766314549697990707) 2024-03-09T04:06Z 22.2K followers, 10.6K engagements "The saga continues" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1767008680460034160) 2024-03-11T02:04Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements "Why is Hema Xiansheng () Alibaba's grocery store being sold to COFCO Group () the state-owned grocery giant Because this is regarded as a terrible waste of the vast data and financial resources of the digital giants as I argued before https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon/ https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon/" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1769992609194496457) 2024-03-19T07:41Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements "@AnupamChander It goes to the root of the problem: it's less about TikTok than about the influence of the Chinese government" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1770378022392389911) 2024-03-20T09:13Z 22.3K followers, [--] engagements "is not a new concept. It has been repeatedly used by CCP to describe relationships between different political parties & ethnic groups. So what happened Just look at the relationships between CCP and the democratic Parties & between Han and the minorities He went on to use an interesting metaphor to describe the US-China relationship: I am in you and you are in me () He went on to use an interesting metaphor to describe the US-China relationship: I am in you and you are in me ()" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1775798167209967633) 2024-04-04T08:10Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements "So more directly on US-China relationship the reference of reflects what China regards as an ideal state of relationship: China uses US investment and technology; US uses Chinese products and TikTok" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1775799184349618615) 2024-04-04T08:14Z 22.3K followers, [---] engagements "@SRoach_econ on the CDF 2024: After all I had long been viewed as a good friend of China. My error was to presume that my special relationship gave me license to raise tough questions about important issues. Whats the Point Thats the question I ask myself after a very disappointing trek to the China Development Forum. I have seen the CDF in its best and worst days. Chinas premier platform of debate and engagement with the world hit a new low in [----]. https://t.co/5zpPDKvTqk Whats the Point Thats the question I ask myself after a very disappointing trek to the China Development Forum. I have" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1776570623940087822) 2024-04-06T11:20Z 22.3K followers, 30.9K engagements "What if the wall came down in Beijing just like in Berlin" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1777018242281713981) 2024-04-07T16:58Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements "The West regards overcapacity as a bug of the Chinese system. They couldn't be more wrong. This is meant to be THE feature as per the Communist Manifesto: "The proletariat will use its political supremacy . to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible."" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1780851929201205512) 2024-04-18T06:52Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements "After @RishiSunak called China an authoritarian state Baidu changed definition on authoritarianism and re-defined it as a political system which "provides a stable environment for economic development and lays the foundation for transformation to democracy"" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1783653011702890902) 2024-04-26T00:23Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements "The flowers in the room at the last Xi-Blinken meeting were lotus which means "peace". This time the lotus flowers were replaced by crotons a toxic plant whose true colour is difficult to figure out. The trees in the background painting also faded from green to yellow" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1784196867645223233) 2024-04-27T12:24Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements "I think Article [--] should be renamed China dream a dream where a teacher/peasant could not only extort the local public prosecutor/police chief and but also send his wife to jail. The movie is so good that it deserves at least [--] sequels with the last one being: Article 23" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1784378769148707315) 2024-04-28T00:27Z 22.4K followers, [---] engagements "@elonmusk finishing up the last missing piece for @Tesla FSD mapping in China: Zhongnanhai compound" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1784980717673627664) 2024-04-29T16:19Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements "Mastercard finally making inroads in China twelve years after China lost the payment case in the WTO" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1788949957451632830) 2024-05-10T15:11Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements "Now you know how far would Hollywood go to avoid being censored in China" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1797182146194649598) 2024-06-02T08:23Z 22.5K followers, [----] engagements "What is worse than murder Tax evasion at least to the many local governments in China which are chasing firms for underpaid tax as far back as [--] years ago even though the statute of limitation for murder is only [--] years in the country" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1804896018724503787) 2024-06-23T15:15Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements "2. The possibility for this is further confirmed by Art. [--] of the Law which states that: If towns and villages really need it they can set up rural collective economic organizations" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1806893601085108470) 2024-06-29T03:32Z 22.6K followers, [---] engagements "So maybe I'm saying just maybe [--] years after China decided to separate the government from the people's commune and establish local government at the township level instead we could be seeing the return of the People's Commune Vive la Commune" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1806895890084553041) 2024-06-29T03:42Z 22.6K followers, [---] engagements "What happens when you outsource police service Find out from this rare case in China" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1806897242969874437) 2024-06-29T03:47Z 22.6K followers, [--] engagements "He was the surprise choice for vice president when the president was about to start his second term. He spent his youth in the poorest region of the country. He made a major blunder on math when he was young but he quickly mastered the new concept afterwards. Who is he" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1814437795659731314) 2024-07-19T23:10Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements "Today's hottest topic on Chinese cyberspace is Chinas proposed rules on an online identity verification system. Despite widespread discussion many are missing the key point. Needing verified identities to go online/transact is nothing new: it has been the norm for decades" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1818635685534089606) 2024-07-31T13:11Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements "driving censorship on platforms like Weibo and WeChat. Currently firms like Tencent and Alibaba handle identity verification giving them control over vast troves of user data. But a visionary leader recognized the problem [--] years ago and vowed to change this. At the 2nd" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1818635945178263953) 2024-07-31T13:12Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements "CCP Constitution which explicitly notes that CCP represents the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces. This is also reflected in Article [--] of the PRC Constitution which stipulates that The foundation of the socialist economic system of the PRC is" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1818639157847376118) 2024-07-31T13:25Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements "socialist public ownership of the means of production. According to the proposed rules the new system will centralise ID verification under a national platform. Companies like Tencent/Alibaba could still issue their own IDs but must verify them through this national system" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1818639781242470875) 2024-07-31T13:28Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements "This new system grants the government unprecedented access to user data across all platforms from purchases on Taobao to interactions on WeChat and videos watched on Douyin/TikTok. It not only enhances governmental power but also provides a new revenue stream through" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1818639970577662439) 2024-07-31T13:28Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements "MOFCOM on Canada's EV tariffs: "Canada claims to support free trade and the multilateral trading system based on WTO rules but it blatantly violates WTO rules blindly follows certain countries and adopts unilateral tariff increases. This is quintessential trade protectionism."" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1828382019946193200) 2024-08-27T10:40Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "Now that gives Beijing another reason to take Taiwan back. DTF is pulling out of Beijing. When one door closes another door opens. I know another capital city that could use some DTFs. Think strategically and do the right thing. @TECRO_USA @dintaifungusa https://t.co/9UVZCivxh8 DTF is pulling out of Beijing. When one door closes another door opens. I know another capital city that could use some DTFs. Think strategically and do the right thing. @TECRO_USA @dintaifungusa https://t.co/9UVZCivxh8" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1828382491817935191) 2024-08-27T10:42Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements "MOFCOM is considering raising tariffs for high-displacement vehicles. I'm sure this is just to protect the environment and has nothing to do with the EU EV subsidy case" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1829141669939425726) 2024-08-29T12:58Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "Why did the Monkey King still have to work as the peach orchard watchman after he went to Heaven in Black Myth: Wukong Because the definition of a Chinese-style heaven is a job guaranteed for life by the state. https://t.co/aIPm3VabR7 https://t.co/aIPm3VabR7" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1829152400227348560) 2024-08-29T13:41Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "Three Strikes against Canada just announced by China: [--]. WTO case: [--]. Anti-discrimination investigation; [--]. Antidumping investigation on Canadian canola oil" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1830815511061635556) 2024-09-03T03:50Z 23.5K followers, 18K engagements "Why does China have such a strong reaction against Canada this time Two reasons: [--]. China regards Canadas EV tariffs as worse than the ones by the US and EU because Canada did not conduct its own investigation beforehand but simply followed the US action. This is why China Three Strikes against Canada just announced by China: [--]. WTO case: [--]. Anti-discrimination investigation; [--]. Antidumping investigation on Canadian canola oil. https://t.co/8a8VIk64f7 Three Strikes against Canada just announced by China: [--]. WTO case: [--]. Anti-discrimination investigation; [--]. Antidumping investigation on" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1831230333515391165) 2024-09-04T07:18Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "Xinjiang People's Congress passed Resolution on resolutely opposing the U.S. Xinjiang-related sanctions series of laws to support the development of sanctioned enterprises and related industries https://law.pkulaw.com/chinalaw/26633e911eb2b0d832ac5558ee776a30bdfb.html https://law.pkulaw.com/chinalaw/26633e911eb2b0d832ac5558ee776a30bdfb.html" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1831242642963005824) 2024-09-04T08:07Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "Taobao is finally accepting Wechat pay. Must be one of the deliverables of the recently concluded 3-year long rectification of @AlibabaGroup" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1831268409918755139) 2024-09-04T09:49Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "Look forward to seeing everyone at the #WTOPublicForum next week. Join me and @J_A_Hillman @JoostPauwelyn @miraburri Debbi Elms @hinrichfdn @katrin_kuhlmann @Jamesnedumpara at these two great events organised by @genevatrade_gtp & @CitdGeorgetown" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1831669369514160461) 2024-09-05T12:23Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "My take on China's retaliation to Canada's EV tariffs in the @SCMPNews: https://sc.mp/i762wutm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=3277339&utm_medium=share_widget https://sc.mp/i762wutm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=3277339&utm_medium=share_widget" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1831887228177674354) 2024-09-06T02:48Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "Biggest financial news of 2024: China just hiked income taxes by 20%+ by raising pension contribution years by [--] & delaying pension age by [--]. Moves like this could topple governments elsewherebut in China Not a peep. If no one's complaining expect another hike in [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1834642406634914168) 2024-09-13T17:16Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "is not in line with their public statement that they want to resolve the case through dialogue. On the one hand the European side claimed to be willing to solve it through dialogue but on the other hand it quickly rejected China's suggestion and never gave any specific case" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1834950138038829370) 2024-09-14T13:39Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "which did not show the sincerity at all. If the consultation fails to reach a consensus in the end the responsibility lies entirely with the European side. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/s5JMT62671Prh24IF5pHzQ https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/s5JMT62671Prh24IF5pHzQ" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1834950370319384778) 2024-09-14T13:40Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "If you live long enough you will see the government of a Communist country lending money to institutional investors with the only condition that they use it for no purpose other than investing in the stock market" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1838502528696356928) 2024-09-24T08:55Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "@JJNews002 Of course if you believe that having more money would increase your chance of winning in the casino" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1838524852376080568) 2024-09-24T10:24Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements "Fantastic thought-provoking keynote speech from @JPTrachtman on ways to address the "imaginary limits" that leads to domestic and international policy fragmentation at the International Conference of the Asian African @wto Chairs hosted by @Jamesnedumpara @CWS_iift" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1839688734532374906) 2024-09-27T15:29Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "The largest Capitalist country faces port strikes while the biggest Communist country pushes people into the stock market. What a world we live in" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1841640473401962791) 2024-10-03T00:44Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "China announced antidumping measures against EU brandy in response to the EV tariff as I mentioned to @JDMayger @business [--] days ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-07/eu-s-yes-votes-on-china-ev-tariffs-seen-as-targets-for-revengeembedded-checkout=true https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-07/eu-s-yes-votes-on-china-ev-tariffs-seen-as-targets-for-revengeembedded-checkout=true" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1843559995302130065) 2024-10-08T07:52Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements "MOFCOM just announced that the retaliation list includes pork dairy in addition to brandy and tariffs for high-displacement vehicles I mentioned [--] months ago. Perhaps even more to come https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1829141669939425726 MOFCOM is considering raising tariffs for high-displacement vehicles. I'm sure this is just to protect the environment and has nothing to do with the EU EV subsidy case. https://t.co/mlNEOMh2bk https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1829141669939425726 MOFCOM is considering raising tariffs for high-displacement vehicles. I'm sure this is just to protect the environment" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1843586293101654073) 2024-10-08T09:36Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "A list of WTO disputes sparked by Chinas electric vehicles: [--] DS623: United States Certain Tax Credits Under the Inflation Reduction Act; [--] DS626: European Union Provisional Countervailing Duties on New Battery Electric Vehicles from China; [--] DS627: Canada Measures on" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1843919192871055391) 2024-10-09T07:39Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "Certain Products of Chinese Origin; [--] DS628: China Initiation of CVD Investigation on Imports of Certain Dairy Products (EU); And soon to come [--] Chinas dispute against Turkey EV tariffs" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1843919229206311090) 2024-10-09T07:39Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "In an attempt to save its economy China published a draft Private Economy Promotion Law today. Will it save the ailing Chinese economy Highly unlikely. Yet this Law is still very useful in that it reveals the many problems plaguing Chinas private economy" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1844372581627162957) 2024-10-10T13:41Z 33.5K followers, 157.5K engagements "In summary the very fact that China needs a law to promote private economy is problematic. In this aspect it is similar to the law on the protection of endangered species which is often doing too little and too late" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1844376800820068686) 2024-10-10T13:57Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements "200 years after the Monroe Doctrine China announced its own: "We need to strengthen the Asian Consciousness. Asian affairs should be handled by Asian people through consultation and the future of Asia must be firmly kept in our own hands." -Li Qiang at the 27th ASEAN+3 Summit" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1844912497272422619) 2024-10-12T01:26Z 33.5K followers, 139.4K engagements "Overheard at the press con today: Vice Minister of Finance whispering to the Finance Minister in response to a question on the specific scale of the stimulus package: "Do you want to mention the specific scale" "Don't mention it yet" the Finance Minister replied. [----] https://t.co/njRnU2SEIa [----] https://t.co/njRnU2SEIa" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1845064275267813425) 2024-10-12T11:29Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "Why did the Chinese government choose to save local governments instead of consumers in the latest stimulus package Because bailing out local governments only creates a moral hazard while giving money directly to the people creates a politcal hazard" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1845274433751023929) 2024-10-13T01:24Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "@DesmondShum Trust is vital in most nations but not in China. Historically Chinese dynasties maintained power not through trust but through their capacity to inflict harm. In other words most dynasties ruled not through trust or Confucian ideals but by wielding Legalist force" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1845647556744998947) 2024-10-14T02:07Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements "This is a must-read for anyone interested in trade policy industrial policy and global imbalances. Although the proposed policy solutions may be challenging for staunch free-traders the piece does an excellent job of highlighting that trade policy isn't just an economic issue By targeting specific trade violations rather than balanced flows trade policy has been focusing on the wrong outcome and creating a trade system that stifles the promise of global trade as a result write @michaelxpettis and Erica Hogan: https://t.co/GIWK3mmsRP By targeting specific trade violations rather than balanced" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1847203005999006169) 2024-10-18T09:08Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements "but a political decision shaped by the ruling elites of each country reflecting the type of society they aim to build or preserve. Additionally for those puzzled by recent volatilities in Chinas stock market it provides insight into why under its current political system" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1847203204494450717) 2024-10-18T09:08Z 28.7K followers, [---] engagements "Xis visit to Hefei - self-labeled Chinas innovation capital - is less about highlighting the importance of tech or self-reliance as these have been consistent priorities since the Mao era. The key takeaway from his visit lies in how China aims to achieve tech self-reliance:" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1847628622024310825) 2024-10-19T13:19Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements "through a state-led model where the government not only provides land and policy support but also acts as a venture capital fund with Hefei being the most successful example to date. This suggests that any forthcoming stimulus package will likely continue to focus on bolstering" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1847628867546370134) 2024-10-19T13:20Z 28.7K followers, [---] engagements "Based on limited information from official statements and other sources it appears the government initially refused to acknowledge that the official died in the line of duty sparking complaints from the family" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1847827792966406290) 2024-10-20T02:30Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements "As Chinas economic downturn continues civil servant positions have become not only more desirable but also - ironically - more dangerous as lower-level officials are often tasked with enforcing unpopular policies" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1847828166745997517) 2024-10-20T02:32Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements "When has the NPC been so important in economic decision making in China The dates chosen was simply a convenient excuse to wait until after the result of the US election is out. As they say in China do not release the eagle until the rabbit is out of the hole. 2/2 But he continued "any details of Chinas fiscal policy will only come after the conclusion of the National Peoples Congress Standing Committee meeting which is scheduled to take place Nov. [--] to Nov. 8." 2/2 But he continued "any details of Chinas fiscal policy will only come after the conclusion of the National Peoples Congress" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1850196432680317398) 2024-10-26T15:22Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements "The film Stand By Me () offers a compelling summary of the factors driving Chinas declining birth rate: unaffordable housing scarcity of good local jobs inaccessible healthcare lack of basic social safety net and collapse of the social order at the grassroots level" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1852238572788814248) 2024-11-01T06:37Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "The greatest irony however is that none of these issues are regarded as governance failures by the government which permitted the films release. Until these challenges are addressed a rebound in the birth rate is unlikely" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1852238917015343513) 2024-11-01T06:39Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "I always knew that deep down Lighthizer loves the Chinese people" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1853290130465079666) 2024-11-04T04:16Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "Jiang Shigong the PKU law professor who played an instrumental role in shaping Chinas HK policy for the past decade has been appointed as President of Minzu University the top university for Chinas minorities. This could herald major changes in Chinas minorities policy Thanks to @GeringTuvia for alerting us to Jiang Shigong's recent papers on trade and human rights. I'm not a big fan of Jiang but I'd still recommend everyone to read the papers for two reasons: [--]. Jiang's [----] book on HK has deeply influenced China's view and policies there https://t.co/l2ExO6sdrm Thanks to @GeringTuvia for" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1853773055425929480) 2024-11-05T12:15Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements "as China aims to assimilate the minorities regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet into the unified Chinese National Community () identity that the government has been pushing in recent years. Interestingly the subtitle of his last book on HK - The New Frontier" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1853773512759988701) 2024-11-05T12:17Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "between Civilizations hinted the guiding principle of Chinas HK policy for the past decade: assimilate HK new frontier of Chinese civilisation due to its century-long history of colonisation into the mainstream Chinese identity a goal that has largely been achieved by now" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1853773935399334389) 2024-11-05T12:18Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "I wouldnt be surprised if over the next few years the real new frontier -the literal meaning of Xinjiang- is subject to the same fate. In other words get ready for The End of Civilizations and the rise of a China-centric World Empire as Jiang hinted in his last book" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1853775209985380742) 2024-11-05T12:23Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "the dominance of the CCP domestically over its own people and externally over other countries just like the old Soviet model as I discussed in this @CIGIonline op-ed: Beijings Regulatory Crackdown Is Unlikely to End Any Time Soon https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1858131798506537238) 2024-11-17T12:55Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "@CIGIonline [--]. The Taiwan question. This seems to be a well-known issue but it doesnt necessarily mean war as per the conventional CCP line as traditionally there has been a lot of maneuvering space from Deng to Jiang and Hu. The compromise reached by the US and China since the Shanghai" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1858132070851055804) 2024-11-17T12:56Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements "@CIGIonline Communique is simply to maintain the status quo and with this assurance the US supported Chinas economic development. But then there came Xi whose unprecedented infinite-term deal is premised upon the delivery of an unprecedented achievement: the unification of Taiwan" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1858132505695498312) 2024-11-17T12:58Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements "I dont always agree with @Brad_Setser but in this case I do. Contrary to the popular belief that Chinas overemphasis on investment and under-consumption is a failure Id argue that Xi see it as a key feature. While a peace economy prioritizes consumption a war economy Xi looks at China's success in building a world leading EV industry the emergence of a semiconductor design and manufacturing cluster centered around Huawei and SMIC and China's strength in clean technology manufacturing and sees a success story . 2/ Xi looks at China's success in building a world leading EV industry the" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1871479443254071327) 2024-12-24T08:54Z 23.9K followers, 62.4K engagements "Why cant the West simply let China build EVs and then buy them cheaply Two recent developments shed light on this: [--]. Ji Yues Collapse: This highlights what happens when government subsidies dry up. The EV market heavily reliant on state support struggles to sustain itself" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1871541850538127392) 2024-12-24T13:02Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements "exposing underlying inefficiencies. [--]. BYDs Shutdown in Brazil: This reveals critical aspects of how the EVs are produced including potential labor environmental and supply chain issues that may conflict with Western standards or strategic interests. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1871542086476161271) 2024-12-24T13:02Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "@tomfriedman recently suggested that China and the US should sign an updated Shanghai Communiqu to address three epochal challenges: runaway artificial intelligence climate change and global disorder from collapsing states. However this proposal faces significant flaws: What I Learned Most From My Trip to China. https://t.co/QqEADFxb4D What I Learned Most From My Trip to China. https://t.co/QqEADFxb4D" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872199533054284239) 2024-12-26T08:35Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements "1. The [----] Shanghai Communiqu was possible because both the US and China viewed the USSR as their primary adversary. Today however not only do the US and China lack a shared enemy but they increasingly view each other as their greatest challenge" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872199653896442350) 2024-12-26T08:35Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "2. While AI climate change & global disorder might be considered top challenges in the US China regards them more as opportunities: AI: Xi Jinping regards AI as an important strategic lever for gaining dominance in global technology not a crisis to solve collaboratively" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872200361085415765) 2024-12-26T08:38Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "Climate Change: China prioritizes leveraging the energy transition to leapfrog other nations and emerge as a leader in new energy technologies as I tweeted before. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763540595312881885 The Politburo held the 12th collective study session yesterday and the topic was new energy and China's energy security. Xi: "China is leading the world on new energy technologies and equipment and has built the world's largest clean power supply system. https://t.co/EZuk2D3uJ6 https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763540595312881885 The Politburo held the 12th collective study session" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872200518447276443) 2024-12-26T08:39Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "Global Disorder: Beijing views the current upheavals as opportunities. To Xi the greatest shift unseen in a century provides the perfect opportunity to achieve the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese state" which explains why he wants to jointly push https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1672490077727907844 This is indeed "great shi(f)t unseen in a century" https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1672490077727907844 This is indeed "great shi(f)t unseen in a century"" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872201315088310329) 2024-12-26T08:42Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements "for such shift together with Putin who might be regarded as a loser by Friedman but in China's view it will only lead to the loss of the US and therefore is China's gain" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872202094457115093) 2024-12-26T08:45Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "In summary borrowing from one of Friedmans books while some in the US may naively hope to extend an olive branch to China to cope with global challenges all China wants is the shiny new Lexus so that it can outpace the US in global influence & technological dominance" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872202825981391153) 2024-12-26T08:48Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "Whos Gonna Decide the Fate of @tiktok_us Not @realDonaldTrump. Not the US Supreme Court. Not the US Congress. Instead it might just be a former Chinese gymnast: Wu Liufang. Wu whose [--] million followers vanished overnight on Douyinthe Chinese version of TikTokrepresents" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872484715074347289) 2024-12-27T03:28Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements "a cautionary tale of control and censorship. A former national team gymnast Wu struggled to make a living after retiring. To survive she turned to flirty dance videos on Douyin. Her account briefly suspended in Nov was reinstated on Dec [--] skyrocketing to over [--] million" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872485030309867560) 2024-12-27T03:29Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "followers without her posting a single new video. But on Christmas Eve Douyin erased all [--] million followers citing vulgar content. Heres the twist: Wu wasnt the one being punished. The real victims were the [--] million users who consciously chose to follow her only to" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872485173620826482) 2024-12-27T03:30Z 23.7K followers, [---] engagements "have their decisions undone by Douyins algorithms. This matters because Douyin and TikTok are owned by the same company ByteDance. They share the same technology. If Douyin can erase millions of followers with the flick of a switch whats stopping TikTok from doing the same" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872485354764374416) 2024-12-27T03:31Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements "This is why TikToks unchecked power must be scrutinizedor even banned. Now go check your TikTok account. Notice anything strange happening" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872485437538988533) 2024-12-27T03:31Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements "Many are surprised by Xis seemingly naive views on deflation but I'd call it idealism rather than naivety. Xi was just describing Marx's ideal world: the higher phase of Communism that is characterized by material abundance driven by heightened productivity. Whats so bad about deflation I had a front-row seat over past decade covering China as Xi had opportunities to fix economy. Every time he took the fork in the road that led to more control and away fm changes many say are necessary. He is digging in. https://t.co/WZa6TXTAta Whats so bad about deflation I had a front-row seat over past" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872632330336301147) 2024-12-27T13:15Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements "Interesting essay by @gideonrachman in the @FT today especially as it debunks the myth by @tomfriedman that the U.S. and China would collaborate to end global disorder. https://www.ft.com/content/d11fa816-0c8f-4c79-abb0-8523dd2ecfe4 https://www.ft.com/content/d11fa816-0c8f-4c79-abb0-8523dd2ecfe4" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872846779760455974) 2024-12-28T03:27Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements "Instead as I tweeted [--] days ago China views the current disorder not just as a failure of the existing system but more as a feature that it can exploit to launch an alternative system. However can such a system truly emerge The answer is likely no. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872201315088310329 Global Disorder: Beijing views the current upheavals as opportunities. To Xi the greatest shift unseen in a century provides the perfect opportunity to achieve the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese state" which explains why he wants to jointly push https://t.co/W88imxaAGl" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872847557292114386) 2024-12-28T03:30Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements "The USSRs failure shows that such model doesnt work. China tried to build a hybrid system by blending the best features of USSR+US and for a time it seemed poised to succeed. Yet now as it regresses toward the USSR model its prospects for success appear increasingly bleak" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872848231417430229) 2024-12-28T03:33Z 23.7K followers, [---] engagements "Guess that's why it's called BRICS: Brazil Rescues Imprisoned Chinese Slaves. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1873191226880704905) 2024-12-29T02:16Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "disengaged bureaucracy and a disillusioned populace could lead to increased social unrest that the bureaucracy tolerates or even encourages to bolster its own significance much like a plumber neglecting a rotting pipe to get the repair contract until the whole house goes down" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1874406559352234353) 2025-01-01T10:45Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "Supreme Peoples Court recently released its first batch of model cases on protection of foreign investment. Among the [--] cases the first focuses on regulating the conduct of senior executives in foreign-invested enterprises (FIE). Ironically the decision is deeply flawed" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875430375985737873) 2025-01-04T06:33Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "In the case the defendant a general manager of a FIE concealed the fact that his spouse owned 99% of the shares in X Co. and directly controlled it. The defendant facilitated transactions between X Co. and the FIE creating clear conflicts of interest" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875430752407683158) 2025-01-04T06:35Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "Under Article [---] of the PRC Company Law (2018 revision) directors and senior managers are prohibited from engaging in contracts or transactions with their company unless explicitly authorized by the companys articles of association or approved by the shareholders meeting" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875431100916625512) 2025-01-04T06:36Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "Importantly the [----] law limited the prohibition on self-dealing to directors and senior managers themselves; it did not extend to their close relatives or related entities. This however did not prevent Shanghai 2nd Intermediate Peoples Court to rule against the defendant" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875431579746746878) 2025-01-04T06:38Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "by expanding the interpretation of self-dealing under Article [---] to include transactions involving senior executives close relatives or entities under their control. While this broader interpretation aligns with the [----] revision of the Company Lawwhich explicitly extends" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875431751436358055) 2025-01-04T06:39Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "self-dealing prohibitions to cover entities indirectly controlled by close relativesit was not supported by the legal framework in effect at the time of the trial. This judgment is deeply problematic. By expanding the scope of the law retroactively the Shanghai Court violated" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875431909666554221) 2025-01-04T06:39Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "fundamental legal principles including the prohibition of ex post facto application of laws. Such an approach undermines the predictability & consistency of the legal system. What is even more concerning is that the Supreme Court publicly endorsed the decision as a model case" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875432601806360777) 2025-01-04T06:42Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "This endorsement legitimizes an arbitrary and retrospective application of the law sending an alarming signal to foreign investors in China: If the law can be bent backward to attract your investment it can just as easily be twisted to take it away" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1875432719993466911) 2025-01-04T06:42Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "My thoughts on [--] things to watch in global trade policy in [----] @hinrichfdn: [--]. Resurgence of US-China trade war. [--]. Breakthrough in WTO dispute settlement reform. [--]. New developments in Chinas CPTPP bid. [--]. Rise of plurilateral trade agreements. https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/article/trade-policy/four-things-to-watch-in-global-trade-policy-in-2025/ https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/article/trade-policy/four-things-to-watch-in-global-trade-policy-in-2025/" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1876544856753103211) 2025-01-07T08:22Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "Instead of Canada the U.S. should take China as its 51st state. This would not only address the U.S. trade deficit but also make America great again and achieve the great rejuvenation of China" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1876626238711976212) 2025-01-07T13:45Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "Overheard in the corridors of MOFCOM after the US blacklisted Tencent: Find me a US company equivalent to Tencent. Well there isnt one. Tencent does several things: its like Facebook for social media Google for search and X for news. Great lets blacklist them all" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1876823317572690203) 2025-01-08T02:48Z 23.9K followers, 17.3K engagements "Theyve all already been blacklisted ages ago. At that point my source started laughing so hard he got kicked out of the building. Anyone know what happened next" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1876823558069825881) 2025-01-08T02:49Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "After [--] months MOFCOM finally issued its final determination on the trade and investment barrier investigation concerning the EUs Foreign Subsidy Regulation (FSR). https://cacs.mofcom.gov.cn/cacscms/article/jkdcarticleId=183031&type=11 MOFCOM formally launched the trade barrier investigation against EU Foreign Subsidy Regulation today. This is significant as it is the only 4th case after the TBI mechanism was introduced [--] years ago. https://t.co/cpJ5uRY33C https://cacs.mofcom.gov.cn/cacscms/article/jkdcarticleId=183031&type=11 MOFCOM formally launched the trade barrier investigation against" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1877180441242787958) 2025-01-09T02:27Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "Breaking News: China is making significant moves to improve US-China relations ahead of Trump's inauguration by altering the Chinese translation of @SenMarcoRubio's name to one distinct from the version on the sanctions list. Chinese wisdom from thousands of years of diplomacy" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1880236960817770738) 2025-01-17T12:53Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "An article is circulating on Chinese social media claiming that China is taking a historic step by granting access to major websites like Google/Meta in Shanghai. This claim based on a document issued by the Shanghai gov on Dec [--] is highly misleading for the following reasons" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1882424605719347683) 2025-01-23T13:46Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "1. The Shanghai document cited never mentions Google/Meta. The closest it gets is references to Internet data centers content distribution networks application stores ISPs online data processing and transaction processing and information protection and processing services" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1882425062638387427) 2025-01-23T13:48Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "2. The list is not new. It merely reiterates a MIIT notice in April [----] which states that China will remove foreign equity restrictions for IDC CDN ISP online data processing & transaction processing and information release platform & delivery services in pilot areas" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1882425837502574724) 2025-01-23T13:51Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "3. Some might argue that Google/Meta could fall under information release platform and delivery services within information services. However this is incorrect. In Chinas Telecom Services Classification Catalogue this is a sub-category of item B25 (Information Service)" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1882426242777149671) 2025-01-23T13:52Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "Googles services are classified under a different sub-category: Information search query services not information release platform and delivery services. [--]. While Meta (and X) might arguably be categorized under information release platform and delivery services" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1882426388118225116) 2025-01-23T13:53Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements "Of course Colombia deserves the tariffsthey made the fatal mistake of placing themselves dangerously close to the original target: China" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1883772477639393439) 2025-01-27T07:02Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "The political message from the Spring Festival Gala () could not be stronger: A call for "no more counting dollars" from OneRepublic while those performers from HK Taiwan and Macau are no longer noted separately as before" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1884396868047950256) 2025-01-29T00:23Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "Quick thoughts on America First Investment Policy: [--]. It aims to usher in Americas Golden Age which will be achieved through facilitation of investment by US allies and partners and protect the US from new and evolving threats that can accompany foreign investment" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1893493338386710892) 2025-02-23T02:49Z 30.5K followers, 21.8K engagements "Deepseek is so popular that many Fengshui Masters went to the family home of its founder to search for the elusive "Dragon Vein". DeepSeek https://t.co/k2u10NhF38 DeepSeek https://t.co/k2u10NhF38" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1899713534541644185) 2025-03-12T06:46Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements "Too young too simple sometimes naive" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1900552559271838061) 2025-03-14T14:20Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements "The MFA spokespersons statement on a potential investigation into CK Hutchisons planned sale of its Panama ports raises more questions than it answers as it suggests that the assets of a private firm could be considered part of Chinas legitimate interests" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1901985420248047692) 2025-03-18T13:13Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements "Chinese EV sector consolidation is coming guided by the visible hand of SASAC" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1906004217531347332) 2025-03-29T15:23Z 24.5K followers, 18.9K engagements "China announced 34% tariff on US products as I predicted [--] days ago. My take on the potential implications of the Liberation Day tariffs with @AlJazeera. https://t.co/CDt40NxF4l https://t.co/SX8ag84gEF My take on the potential implications of the Liberation Day tariffs with @AlJazeera. https://t.co/CDt40NxF4l https://t.co/SX8ag84gEF" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1908099918784549294) 2025-04-04T10:10Z 25.8K followers, [----] engagements "More retaliatory measures announced: [--]. WTO case; [--]. Export Controls on [--] Rare Earth Elements [--]. [--] U.S. Entities Added to Export Control List [--]. [--] U.S. Defense Firms Sanctioned Under Unreliable Entity List China announced 34% tariff on US products as I predicted [--] days ago. https://t.co/OUk69zCUCu China announced 34% tariff on US products as I predicted [--] days ago. https://t.co/OUk69zCUCu" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1908140702749643076) 2025-04-04T12:52Z 24.8K followers, [----] engagements "Was it because the person translating the Executive Order for Xi didnt dare translate Section 4(b) or because Xi just threw it aside before even getting to it" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1908156976565293546) 2025-04-04T13:57Z 25.2K followers, [----] engagements "1. Heavily one-sided terms like the Phase One deal which contained [--] instances of China shall versus just [--] mentions of the US shall as I counted last time in this @AJIL_andUnbound paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/promising-trail-or-perilous-trap-engaging-china-in-the-wto-and-beyond/3DA2EBFF9BC12080B8E1C9FE44F545BB https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/promising-trail-or-perilous-trap-engaging-china-in-the-wto-and-beyond/3DA2EBFF9BC12080B8E1C9FE44F545BB" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1908501786924900695) 2025-04-05T12:47Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements "@AJIL_andUnbound [--]. No zero tariffs from the US as it requires Congressional approval or the Trade Promotion Authority which Trump doesnt have. At best countries might get access at pre-Liberation Day levelsaround 3%" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1908502105222193377) 2025-04-05T12:48Z 26.6K followers, [----] engagements "Amid Trump tariff chaos Peoples Daily published an editorial today urging everyone to Focus on Doing Your Own Thingsa phrase that sums up Chinas core strategy. This thread breaks it down. It begins by acknowledging that U.S. tariffs do hurt but the sky cant collapse" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909040507512316205) 2025-04-07T00:28Z 33.5K followers, 82.8K engagements "That phrasethe sky cant collapseis notable. Mao used the exact same words in [----] during a meeting of [----] top CCP officials after a disastrous [--] years marked by the Great Famine and split with a world Superpower - the USSR. Fittingly this is also the 13th year of Xis" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909041120660918589) 2025-04-07T00:30Z 26.7K followers, 16.3K engagements "@FT @JKynge On FDI: it has collapsed with FDI dropping 99% in three years and is at its lowest level in [--] years. as I noted [--] months ago. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1891144762301796525 Anyway you have to admire the audacity of someone who boasts about China's performance legitimacywhen FDI has dropped 99% in three years and is at its lowest level in [--] years. https://t.co/pcvxFdZmeV https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1891144762301796525 Anyway you have to admire the audacity of someone who boasts about China's performance legitimacywhen FDI has dropped 99% in three years and is at its lowest" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909043717719331073) 2025-04-07T00:41Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements "@FT @JKynge The editorial adds that China has been fighting this trade war for [--] years and has the tools to handle the pressure. Unfortunately while people have been waiting for the stimulas for a long time as I mentioned last Oct any forthcoming stimulus package would likely continue to" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909043969620857047) 2025-04-07T00:42Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements "Three things you need to know about Liberation Day tariffs: [--]. Its not about the methodology. The formula has been widely mocked but that misses the point. The numbers arent meant to hold up in a PhD defensetheyre meant to shock to create leverage. The more extreme the" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909231728964600049) 2025-04-07T13:08Z 33.5K followers, 257.2K engagements "isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal it doesnt matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American products at 0% 5% or even 9.4% (current rate). [--]. Its not personal with any countryexcept one" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909232673102737864) 2025-04-07T13:11Z 33.5K followers, 107.2K engagements "The tariffs are universal affecting even places like Heard Island and McDonald Islands sparking confusion and anger worldwide. But as @howardlutnick explained this blanket approach is designed to block every possible loophole China could exploit. In effect all countries" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909233453247447193) 2025-04-07T13:15Z 33.5K followers, 40.4K engagements "@howardlutnick have become collateral damage in the U.S.-China economic standoff. Until the two strike a grand bargainor the U.S. builds a broad coalition to ring-fence Chinathe fallout will continue to ripple across the globe" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909233634625953960) 2025-04-07T13:15Z 33.5K followers, 25.1K engagements "Why did Trump impose tariffs on Heard & McDonald Islands-home only to penguins and British Indian Ocean Territory which is occupied solely by military personnel No its not because of internet domain names as some speculated. The answer is found in todays Peoples Daily" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909408542463082662) 2025-04-08T00:50Z 33.5K followers, 80.9K engagements "editorial Pressure and threats are by no means the right way to deal with China which proudly declared that China maintains import and export records with almost all countries and regions in the UN Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use. And guess what Among" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909408934559182881) 2025-04-08T00:52Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "So unless youre expecting a surge of imports from the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands after April [--] they need to be covered by the tariffsas Lutnik pointed out yesterday. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909233453247447193 The tariffs are universal affecting even places like Heard Island and McDonald Islands sparking confusion and anger worldwide. But as @howardlutnick explained this blanket approach is designed to block every possible loophole China could exploit. In effect all countries https://t.co/4aNSbLgY7J https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909233453247447193 The tariffs are" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909410080296251587) 2025-04-08T00:56Z 26.8K followers, 12.9K engagements "The mysterious US$1.4m of machinery and electrical products imports from Heard Island and McDonald Islands to the US. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revealed-how-trump-tariffs-slugged-norfolk-island-and-uninhabited-heard-and-mcdonald-islands Why did Trump impose tariffs on Heard & McDonald Islands-home only to penguins and British Indian Ocean Territory which is occupied solely by military personnel No its not because of internet domain names as some speculated. The answer is found in todays Peoples Daily https://t.co/dA8A90UjaP" [X Link](https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909497373627457773) 2025-04-08T06:43Z 27.6K followers, 10.5K engagements "Repeat after me: It's not about tariffs. It's not about any countryexcept one. It's not about the numbers: they are just leverage to negotiate. isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal it doesnt matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American products at 0% 5% or even 9.4% (current rate). [--]. Its not personal with any countryexcept one. isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal it doesnt matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1910134778713739535) 2025-04-10T00:56Z 33.5K followers, 60.7K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Myth busted: Chinas status as a developing country gives it few benefits in the World Trade Organisation In complaining about Chinas alleged special treatment by the World Trade Organization US President Donald Trump and Australias Scott Morrison are pointing to something that isnt really there"
X Link 2019-10-06T21:16Z 208.1M followers, [---] engagements
"sounds like a hyper-jealous girl/boyfriend: if you dare to touch her/him I will break up with you Is this the "DON'T YOU DARE NEGOTIATE AN FTA WITH CHINA" clause https://t.co/h6GZw4Rm9q Is this the "DON'T YOU DARE NEGOTIATE AN FTA WITH CHINA" clause https://t.co/h6GZw4Rm9q"
X Link 2018-10-01T13:30Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"But the violations are only found for subsidies provided in 2012-2015 and the WTO doesn't have retrospective remedies. Not sure if the victory means anything other than making it easier for the US to name & shame China"
X Link 2019-02-28T15:32Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@snlester @WeihuanZhou I agree. China is not ready yet at least in the trade area"
X Link 2019-03-29T14:46Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"It seems that the Parties tacitly adopted many of the US proposals including: [--]. no obiter dicta/advisory opinion; [--]. no Art. [--] claim; [--]. no exceeding 90-day limit without agreement by the Parties; [--]. no adoption of report by DSB thus no presidential value. Any more I had a few thoughts comments and questions about the "Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement Pursuant To Article [--] of the DSU" that the EU circulated today: https://t.co/gRorgh3pxg I had a few thoughts comments and questions about the "Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement Pursuant To Article [--] of the"
X Link 2020-03-27T14:09Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"So China's ambassador to Australia was not bluffing when he said "Maybe the ordinary people will say 'Why should we drink Australian wine Eat Australian beef""
X Link 2020-05-14T03:45Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Honored to be part of the #T20 Taskforce on Subsidies. Enjoy the Policy Brief New #T20PolicyBrief from #T20TF1: Industrial Subsidies as a Major Policy Response since the Global Financial Crises: Consequences and Remedies https://t.co/DVMQJuhBv9 @PeterDraper5 @henrysgao @SimonEvenett @UniofAdelaide @UniJenna @sgSMU @HSGStGallen https://t.co/vLbdAfUwjl New #T20PolicyBrief from #T20TF1: Industrial Subsidies as a Major Policy Response since the Global Financial Crises: Consequences and Remedies https://t.co/DVMQJuhBv9 @PeterDraper5 @henrysgao @SimonEvenett @UniofAdelaide @UniJenna @sgSMU"
X Link 2020-09-13T12:20Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"I'm most amused by the argument by China that the criminalization of a conduct under domestic law doesn't really provide sufficient justification for invoking public morals exception. I wonder if its lawyers ever realized that this argu could be used against China in another case"
X Link 2020-09-15T15:30Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"6. China could take necessary countermeasures"
X Link 2021-01-09T03:33Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements
"The new rules shall be read together with: [--]. US measures banning Wechat TikTok Huawei Alipay etc; [--]. China's recent press releases on such measures; [--]. China's recent attempt to insert denial of benefits provisions in the #CAI with the EU as reported by @fbermingham;"
X Link 2021-01-09T03:39Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements
"While the rules are new I think they must have been in the works for quite some time. For example President Xi called for BRICS members to oppose illegal unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction" at [----] G20 summit a remark probably prompted by the Meng Wanzhou case. MOFCOM just issued its first order for 2021: Rules on Counteracting Unjustified Extra-territorial Application of Foreign Legislation and Other Measures. Key message: We are going to prohibit firms from complying with foreign laws prohibiting transactions with Chinese firms. https://t.co/yuBMkOjmeW MOFCOM just issued its"
X Link 2021-01-10T03:17Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Could we see the first @wto case on mode [--] in trade in services https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-green-certificate-proposal-leaves-eu-countries-in-the-driving-seat-coronavirus-passport/amp/utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-green-certificate-proposal-leaves-eu-countries-in-the-driving-seat-coronavirus-passport/amp/utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true"
X Link 2021-03-17T14:43Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Somehow this "American supply chain" reminds me of the "dual circulation" strategy of China. Again America is trying to out-China China Biden touts his Buy American plans: "Every single thing from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the railing of a new building is going to be built by an American company American workers American supply chain so that we invest American tax dollars in American workers." https://t.co/1p6nISNHz3 Biden touts his Buy American plans: "Every single thing from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the railing of a new building is going to be built by an American company"
X Link 2021-05-10T13:25Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@snlester @howserob @DmitryOpines Let me explain more: if the US thinks they are serious then they are not; if the US doesn't think they are serious then they are. Kind of like schrdinger's cat All depends on the reaction of the observer"
X Link 2021-10-01T12:47Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements
"My new paper: Data Sovereignty and Trade Agreements: Three Digital Kingdoms. Available on @SSRN at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3940508 http://ssrn.com/abstract=3940508"
X Link 2021-10-11T16:05Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Leading US election expert Oliver Stone quoted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs to illustrate the hypocrisy of US democracy. https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/202112/t20211203_10462120.html https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/202112/t20211203_10462120.html"
X Link 2021-12-05T01:09Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Happy to announce my promotion to full Professor of Law@SgSMUYPHSL @sgSMU. Being the first person from China to receive such an honor at a law school in Singapore I am fortunate to have benefited from the guidance and support of so many wonderful mentors friends & colleagues"
X Link 2022-06-30T18:37Z 33.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Henry Kissinger and Chairman Mao on tariffs and trade barriers the Trade Act of [----] and China's potential exports to the US. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d12 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d12"
X Link 2023-06-18T13:42Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements
"China to enact the Patriotism Education Law which in particular emphasizes patriotism education for "teaching staff religious believers compatriots from Hong Kong Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese""
X Link 2023-06-26T08:03Z 27.8K followers, [----] engagements
"China adopted its first Foreign Relations Law yesterday. Why the law now & what are the implications for foreign businesses I explained in this @SCMPNews story. Rule of law: China adopts new legislation to help combat foreign sanctions via @scmpnews"
X Link 2023-06-29T02:57Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Whose fault is it to kill the trees to make room for the crops Xinhua answers the question and confirms the rumor"
X Link 2023-07-11T17:08Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Implications of China's new app registration rules: [--]. Chinese phones will not be able to install apps that have not been registered with the Chinese government; [--]. Even if you manage to install them you might not be able to access the mobile data services when using such apps"
X Link 2023-08-10T02:10Z 33.5K followers, 80.6K engagements
"China issued the first-ever Report on WTO Compliance of the United States and calls the US a "Destroyer Unilateralist and Bullying Hegemonist Double Standards Manipulator" and "Disturber of the Global Industrial and Supply Chains""
X Link 2023-08-11T10:25Z 33.5K followers, 196.1K engagements
"Whoever wrote @POTUS's speech must be well-versed in Chinese culture because the "bad folks doing bad things" remark is a literal translation of Confucius:"
X Link 2023-08-12T07:33Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"What's most interesting in this notice from Sichuan allowing developers in China to sell flats at low prices is that the government stated that "such low price promotions will not be included in the registry of housing prices" meaning even housing price indexes are now fake"
X Link 2023-08-17T06:37Z 33.5K followers, 51K engagements
"What happened to @hankinbeijing & @maoviews"
X Link 2023-08-19T07:16Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
""suspicious of U.S.-style consumption" as mentioned by @Lingling_Wei in her insightful recent @WSJ article"
X Link 2023-08-25T06:37Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"Tiantong Law Firm widely regarded as the best boutique law firm in China with the highest revenue per capita is rumored to be dissolving as lawyers leave en masse. I wouldn't be surprised if the next crackdown targets big law firms"
X Link 2023-08-30T03:10Z 22K followers, 15.3K engagements
"One firm managed to do more damage to Chinese tech than all Western governments/firms combined. US working to establish full details of Huaweis advances in chip technology after Mate [--] Pro's processor capacity revealed in a teardown via @technology"
X Link 2023-09-07T11:18Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Why did Xi go to Northeastern China instead of G20 G20 represents the Deng-style reform and opening-up development policy. NE China represents the Mao-style inward-looking Soviet development policy. So the signal could not be clearer:"
X Link 2023-09-11T05:49Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Why is Evergrande Chairman Hui Ka Yan arrested Not because of his financial problems in China (otherwise he'd already have been taken in [--] years ago). But because he tried to solve his Chinese problems using American law"
X Link 2023-09-29T08:26Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Financial risk early warning model of real estate enterprises from the perspective of cash flow. Thesis supervisor: Hui Ka Yan"
X Link 2023-09-30T04:35Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Want to join the Illuminati According to this urban legend from China all it takes is for you to watch a Crazy Horse show in Paris like the actress Angelababy"
X Link 2023-10-02T12:25Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"As a member of the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program I'm pleased to see the further expansion of one of the best technical assistance programs at the WTO. Unlike most other such programs the program also helps to build the capacity of future trade officials"
X Link 2023-10-07T13:46Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"The most successful cultural appropriation by China since the sinification of Marxism has to be this year's Halloween in Shanghai"
X Link 2023-11-01T14:20Z 22K followers, 22.2K engagements
"Is another former Chinese Premier about to fall down China announced today that Lee Zhang is under CCDI investigation. Given his connections to Wen exposed by @PekingMike's @nytimes story [--] years ago one might wonder who they are fishing for this time. NEW THREAD on Deutsche Bank. Some big discoveries about Lee Zhang () who ran the bank's China operations until [----]. He is one of the two main characters (along with longtime CEO Josef Ackermann) in today's story: https://t.co/Hq0B2NOCoc NEW THREAD on Deutsche Bank. Some big discoveries about Lee Zhang () who ran the bank's China operations"
X Link 2023-11-04T08:10Z 33.5K followers, 87.8K engagements
"Chinese biography of Hui Ka Yan calls him a national hero for having won the "war in peacetime" and "setting a model for Chinese firms" for foiling plots to short Evergrande by evil Western institutions such as @CitronResearch"
X Link 2023-11-19T01:12Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks to @fstockman for citing my paper in this @nytimes editorial. While I have a slightly different take on the implications of the US' reversal of digital trade rules I think @nytimes is doing a great service by bringing this important issue into the realm of public debate"
X Link 2023-11-28T00:12Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"A literal real-life illustration of Wu Si's Law of Blood Compensation"
X Link 2023-11-30T12:53Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"In this museum in Shanghai the great Master is turned into the great bookmaker as people keep throwing money at the statute of Confucius and his students"
X Link 2023-12-09T12:18Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Nice to see that the study I did six years ago on unilateral autonomous tariff dismantling for @SECO_CH with the great team at @WTIunibe led by @koenberden bearing fruit"
X Link 2023-12-14T17:12Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements
"BREAKING NEWS: Tencent is changing its name to Fivecent while Netease will change its name to Netelse"
X Link 2023-12-22T11:57Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Time to remember Xi's remarks [--] days ago at the Central Economic Works Conference: "The Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements for economic work need to be understood by leading cadres at all levels and implemented in a complete accurate and comprehensive manner"
X Link 2023-12-23T01:07Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"They must not be distorted". The audience listened attentively and the General Secretarys tone became more serious: Discounting is distortion and doubling up is also distortion"
X Link 2023-12-23T01:08Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Why is Mao popular among both the establishment and the anti-establishment in China Because he's the only thing most people know just like Europe before the Reformation. Today is Maos birthday (1893-1976) Mao brought unprecedented suffering & death to the China. Almost [--] yrs after his death what do ppl think about him Unlike Hitler who was thoroughly condemned Mao is more popular in the west than ever. He has also been gaining popularity https://t.co/QVW6uVWZYi Today is Maos birthday (1893-1976) Mao brought unprecedented suffering & death to the China. Almost [--] yrs after his death what do"
X Link 2023-12-27T01:06Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Three places in China with permanent long queues: Mao's Mausoleum for people who miss the past; National Bureau of Letters and Calls for people who are unhappy with the present; The U.S. Embassy for people who want a better future"
X Link 2024-01-05T14:04Z 22.2K followers, 14.4K engagements
"2. Another crime of Tang is failure to prevent and resolve financial risks. To prevent & resolve financial risks is one of the hottest buzzwords in recent years that even made its way into the Political Report of the 20th Party Congress. But what exactly did Tang do wrong"
X Link 2024-01-07T02:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"If I guessed correctly this could refer to his decision to raise the leverage ratio for clients of his bank from 1:2 to 1:2.5 when almost all other banks reduced the ratio during the [----] stock market crash"
X Link 2024-01-07T02:03Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"But essentially this simply means that the financial institutions will be forced to become state instruments to support state-led growth as I warned last year: The [----] reform prepared the banks in China for the upcoming WTO accession when China made many commitments in the financial sector; The current reform is to prepare China to enter into the era of state-led growth with banks supplying ammunition to SOEs and high-tech sector. The [----] reform prepared the banks in China for the upcoming WTO accession when China made many commitments in the financial sector; The current reform is to"
X Link 2024-01-19T03:47Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Xi also talked about controlling risks in the financial sector. When he took over in [----] he talked about risks in the real estate sector and you all know how he solved it: by popping the bubble in the sector. I guess this also explains the current chaos in the stock market"
X Link 2024-01-19T03:51Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"Despite its high ratings on opening Wong Kar-wai's "Blossoms Shanghai ()" tanked as it wrapped up. People blasted it as providing a rather superficial account of Shanghai in the 90s through the lens of HK cinema. To me the biggest disappointment is what is left out i.e.: Wong Kar-wai's first television series Blossoms Shanghai () is an ambitious project that aims to recreate China's Gilded Age like The Great Gatsby. This is also why it is filled with nuances and innuendos that need interpretation. Some are less subtle like the repeated https://t.co/IUcgRH1Tz1 Wong Kar-wai's first television"
X Link 2024-01-19T10:00Z 22K followers, 10.1K engagements
"1. The doom days before the boom days which was covered extensively in the original novel that exposed the communist utopia; [--]. The real power behind the rainmakers like Ah Bao: the stamp-wielding officials who made the arbitrage in both foreign trade and stock market possible"
X Link 2024-01-19T10:02Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"the state trading company to start her own trading firm to supply jeans for Walmart. As a newcomer she was shut out of the market and only one manufacturer was willing to produce for her but at a much higher markup. But she still signed the contract on the last day of 1993"
X Link 2024-01-19T10:07Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"because she knew that just one day later China would end its dual-track exchange rate system and allow the depreciation of the RMB from [---] to [---] overnight. As Miss Wang was paying the OEM manufacturer in RMB while she was being paid by Walmart in USD she'd make 50% more"
X Link 2024-01-19T10:11Z 22K followers, [---] engagements
"which more than covered the high mark-up she had to pay. But then such a deal is only possible if you are someone like her who had insider knowledge of the exchange rate policy shift before everyone else including even business tycoons like Ah Bao"
X Link 2024-01-19T10:12Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Great thread by @rhodium_group on estimating China's true GDP growth rate from investment trade consumption and gov't spending except that it's still possible to have a high total despite poor components as every professor who has done grade moderation will tell you. For starts our estimate for China's GDP growth in [----] was in the range of 1.5%. For ease of comparison here's what we estimated contributions to be from particular parts of the economy compared to the official numbers: https://t.co/SSmAuWFVRR For starts our estimate for China's GDP growth in [----] was in the range of 1.5%. For"
X Link 2024-01-20T01:12Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"The most puzzling enigma of 2024: In [----] the rupture of the housing bubble and the ensuing stock market collapse in the US triggered a worldwide financial crisis. Similarly the crash of the housing market and currency in Thailand in [----] led to the Asian Financial Crisis"
X Link 2024-02-01T01:18Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Which sector will be the first to achieve the target of Made in China [----] The stock market"
X Link 2024-02-24T12:09Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@snlester According to the Chinese version Wang also expressed China's solemn concerns over the US tariffs on China and Taiwan-related issues in the economic and trade field"
X Link 2024-02-26T21:09Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"From Lochner to Panera: American law is all toast. California's new $20 minimum wage rule will exempt restaurants that sell bread handing a lucrative break on wages to the Panera chain and one of Governor Gavin Newsoms longtime allies https://t.co/fvC7QCfTla California's new $20 minimum wage rule will exempt restaurants that sell bread handing a lucrative break on wages to the Panera chain and one of Governor Gavin Newsoms longtime allies https://t.co/fvC7QCfTla"
X Link 2024-02-28T23:36Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Politburo held the 12th collective study session yesterday and the topic was new energy and China's energy security. Xi: "China is leading the world on new energy technologies and equipment and has built the world's largest clean power supply system"
X Link 2024-03-01T12:23Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Chinas new energy vehicles lithium batteries and photovoltaic products are highly competitive in the international market. China has become an important promoter of global energy transition and climate change adaption.""
X Link 2024-03-01T12:24Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Xi also said China should deepen international cooperation in new energy science and technology innovation promote cooperation in the new energy supply chain build a new win-win model of green and low-carbon energy transformation participate deeply in the reform of"
X Link 2024-03-01T12:25Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"international energy governance and promote the establishment of a fair just balanced & inclusive global energy governance system. Despite all the rhetoric China's experience inClimate Change &Energy Transition has not always been smooth as I argued in this recent paper"
X Link 2024-03-01T12:29Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"in the @JIEL_OUP with @WeihuanZhou: Henry Gao Weihuan Zhou Competition among purposes: The Chinese Experience inthe Governance ofClimate Change andEnergy Transition Journal of International Economic Law Volume [--] Issue [--] December [----] pp. 803816"
X Link 2024-03-01T12:30Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"What word will they replace TikTok with next time TikTok opening page today https://t.co/7H155Z8pAG TikTok opening page today https://t.co/7H155Z8pAG"
X Link 2024-03-07T15:15Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"What would happen if TikTok (or more exactly its Chinese equivalent Douyin as TikTok is banned in its country of origin) calls its users in China to call their people's congress representatives to defend their Constitutional right to free expression"
X Link 2024-03-09T04:06Z 22.2K followers, 10.6K engagements
"The saga continues"
X Link 2024-03-11T02:04Z 22.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Why is Hema Xiansheng () Alibaba's grocery store being sold to COFCO Group () the state-owned grocery giant Because this is regarded as a terrible waste of the vast data and financial resources of the digital giants as I argued before https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon/ https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon/"
X Link 2024-03-19T07:41Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@AnupamChander It goes to the root of the problem: it's less about TikTok than about the influence of the Chinese government"
X Link 2024-03-20T09:13Z 22.3K followers, [--] engagements
"is not a new concept. It has been repeatedly used by CCP to describe relationships between different political parties & ethnic groups. So what happened Just look at the relationships between CCP and the democratic Parties & between Han and the minorities He went on to use an interesting metaphor to describe the US-China relationship: I am in you and you are in me () He went on to use an interesting metaphor to describe the US-China relationship: I am in you and you are in me ()"
X Link 2024-04-04T08:10Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"So more directly on US-China relationship the reference of reflects what China regards as an ideal state of relationship: China uses US investment and technology; US uses Chinese products and TikTok"
X Link 2024-04-04T08:14Z 22.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@SRoach_econ on the CDF 2024: After all I had long been viewed as a good friend of China. My error was to presume that my special relationship gave me license to raise tough questions about important issues. Whats the Point Thats the question I ask myself after a very disappointing trek to the China Development Forum. I have seen the CDF in its best and worst days. Chinas premier platform of debate and engagement with the world hit a new low in [----]. https://t.co/5zpPDKvTqk Whats the Point Thats the question I ask myself after a very disappointing trek to the China Development Forum. I have"
X Link 2024-04-06T11:20Z 22.3K followers, 30.9K engagements
"What if the wall came down in Beijing just like in Berlin"
X Link 2024-04-07T16:58Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The West regards overcapacity as a bug of the Chinese system. They couldn't be more wrong. This is meant to be THE feature as per the Communist Manifesto: "The proletariat will use its political supremacy . to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.""
X Link 2024-04-18T06:52Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"After @RishiSunak called China an authoritarian state Baidu changed definition on authoritarianism and re-defined it as a political system which "provides a stable environment for economic development and lays the foundation for transformation to democracy""
X Link 2024-04-26T00:23Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements
"The flowers in the room at the last Xi-Blinken meeting were lotus which means "peace". This time the lotus flowers were replaced by crotons a toxic plant whose true colour is difficult to figure out. The trees in the background painting also faded from green to yellow"
X Link 2024-04-27T12:24Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements
"I think Article [--] should be renamed China dream a dream where a teacher/peasant could not only extort the local public prosecutor/police chief and but also send his wife to jail. The movie is so good that it deserves at least [--] sequels with the last one being: Article 23"
X Link 2024-04-28T00:27Z 22.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@elonmusk finishing up the last missing piece for @Tesla FSD mapping in China: Zhongnanhai compound"
X Link 2024-04-29T16:19Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Mastercard finally making inroads in China twelve years after China lost the payment case in the WTO"
X Link 2024-05-10T15:11Z 22.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Now you know how far would Hollywood go to avoid being censored in China"
X Link 2024-06-02T08:23Z 22.5K followers, [----] engagements
"What is worse than murder Tax evasion at least to the many local governments in China which are chasing firms for underpaid tax as far back as [--] years ago even though the statute of limitation for murder is only [--] years in the country"
X Link 2024-06-23T15:15Z 22.6K followers, [----] engagements
"2. The possibility for this is further confirmed by Art. [--] of the Law which states that: If towns and villages really need it they can set up rural collective economic organizations"
X Link 2024-06-29T03:32Z 22.6K followers, [---] engagements
"So maybe I'm saying just maybe [--] years after China decided to separate the government from the people's commune and establish local government at the township level instead we could be seeing the return of the People's Commune Vive la Commune"
X Link 2024-06-29T03:42Z 22.6K followers, [---] engagements
"What happens when you outsource police service Find out from this rare case in China"
X Link 2024-06-29T03:47Z 22.6K followers, [--] engagements
"He was the surprise choice for vice president when the president was about to start his second term. He spent his youth in the poorest region of the country. He made a major blunder on math when he was young but he quickly mastered the new concept afterwards. Who is he"
X Link 2024-07-19T23:10Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Today's hottest topic on Chinese cyberspace is Chinas proposed rules on an online identity verification system. Despite widespread discussion many are missing the key point. Needing verified identities to go online/transact is nothing new: it has been the norm for decades"
X Link 2024-07-31T13:11Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements
"driving censorship on platforms like Weibo and WeChat. Currently firms like Tencent and Alibaba handle identity verification giving them control over vast troves of user data. But a visionary leader recognized the problem [--] years ago and vowed to change this. At the 2nd"
X Link 2024-07-31T13:12Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements
"CCP Constitution which explicitly notes that CCP represents the development requirements of China's advanced productive forces. This is also reflected in Article [--] of the PRC Constitution which stipulates that The foundation of the socialist economic system of the PRC is"
X Link 2024-07-31T13:25Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements
"socialist public ownership of the means of production. According to the proposed rules the new system will centralise ID verification under a national platform. Companies like Tencent/Alibaba could still issue their own IDs but must verify them through this national system"
X Link 2024-07-31T13:28Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements
"This new system grants the government unprecedented access to user data across all platforms from purchases on Taobao to interactions on WeChat and videos watched on Douyin/TikTok. It not only enhances governmental power but also provides a new revenue stream through"
X Link 2024-07-31T13:28Z 22.7K followers, [---] engagements
"MOFCOM on Canada's EV tariffs: "Canada claims to support free trade and the multilateral trading system based on WTO rules but it blatantly violates WTO rules blindly follows certain countries and adopts unilateral tariff increases. This is quintessential trade protectionism.""
X Link 2024-08-27T10:40Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Now that gives Beijing another reason to take Taiwan back. DTF is pulling out of Beijing. When one door closes another door opens. I know another capital city that could use some DTFs. Think strategically and do the right thing. @TECRO_USA @dintaifungusa https://t.co/9UVZCivxh8 DTF is pulling out of Beijing. When one door closes another door opens. I know another capital city that could use some DTFs. Think strategically and do the right thing. @TECRO_USA @dintaifungusa https://t.co/9UVZCivxh8"
X Link 2024-08-27T10:42Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements
"MOFCOM is considering raising tariffs for high-displacement vehicles. I'm sure this is just to protect the environment and has nothing to do with the EU EV subsidy case"
X Link 2024-08-29T12:58Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Why did the Monkey King still have to work as the peach orchard watchman after he went to Heaven in Black Myth: Wukong Because the definition of a Chinese-style heaven is a job guaranteed for life by the state. https://t.co/aIPm3VabR7 https://t.co/aIPm3VabR7"
X Link 2024-08-29T13:41Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Three Strikes against Canada just announced by China: [--]. WTO case: [--]. Anti-discrimination investigation; [--]. Antidumping investigation on Canadian canola oil"
X Link 2024-09-03T03:50Z 23.5K followers, 18K engagements
"Why does China have such a strong reaction against Canada this time Two reasons: [--]. China regards Canadas EV tariffs as worse than the ones by the US and EU because Canada did not conduct its own investigation beforehand but simply followed the US action. This is why China Three Strikes against Canada just announced by China: [--]. WTO case: [--]. Anti-discrimination investigation; [--]. Antidumping investigation on Canadian canola oil. https://t.co/8a8VIk64f7 Three Strikes against Canada just announced by China: [--]. WTO case: [--]. Anti-discrimination investigation; [--]. Antidumping investigation on"
X Link 2024-09-04T07:18Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Xinjiang People's Congress passed Resolution on resolutely opposing the U.S. Xinjiang-related sanctions series of laws to support the development of sanctioned enterprises and related industries https://law.pkulaw.com/chinalaw/26633e911eb2b0d832ac5558ee776a30bdfb.html https://law.pkulaw.com/chinalaw/26633e911eb2b0d832ac5558ee776a30bdfb.html"
X Link 2024-09-04T08:07Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Taobao is finally accepting Wechat pay. Must be one of the deliverables of the recently concluded 3-year long rectification of @AlibabaGroup"
X Link 2024-09-04T09:49Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Look forward to seeing everyone at the #WTOPublicForum next week. Join me and @J_A_Hillman @JoostPauwelyn @miraburri Debbi Elms @hinrichfdn @katrin_kuhlmann @Jamesnedumpara at these two great events organised by @genevatrade_gtp & @CitdGeorgetown"
X Link 2024-09-05T12:23Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"My take on China's retaliation to Canada's EV tariffs in the @SCMPNews: https://sc.mp/i762wutm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=3277339&utm_medium=share_widget https://sc.mp/i762wutm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=3277339&utm_medium=share_widget"
X Link 2024-09-06T02:48Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Biggest financial news of 2024: China just hiked income taxes by 20%+ by raising pension contribution years by [--] & delaying pension age by [--]. Moves like this could topple governments elsewherebut in China Not a peep. If no one's complaining expect another hike in [--] years"
X Link 2024-09-13T17:16Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"is not in line with their public statement that they want to resolve the case through dialogue. On the one hand the European side claimed to be willing to solve it through dialogue but on the other hand it quickly rejected China's suggestion and never gave any specific case"
X Link 2024-09-14T13:39Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"which did not show the sincerity at all. If the consultation fails to reach a consensus in the end the responsibility lies entirely with the European side. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/s5JMT62671Prh24IF5pHzQ https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/s5JMT62671Prh24IF5pHzQ"
X Link 2024-09-14T13:40Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"If you live long enough you will see the government of a Communist country lending money to institutional investors with the only condition that they use it for no purpose other than investing in the stock market"
X Link 2024-09-24T08:55Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@JJNews002 Of course if you believe that having more money would increase your chance of winning in the casino"
X Link 2024-09-24T10:24Z 23.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Fantastic thought-provoking keynote speech from @JPTrachtman on ways to address the "imaginary limits" that leads to domestic and international policy fragmentation at the International Conference of the Asian African @wto Chairs hosted by @Jamesnedumpara @CWS_iift"
X Link 2024-09-27T15:29Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The largest Capitalist country faces port strikes while the biggest Communist country pushes people into the stock market. What a world we live in"
X Link 2024-10-03T00:44Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"China announced antidumping measures against EU brandy in response to the EV tariff as I mentioned to @JDMayger @business [--] days ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-07/eu-s-yes-votes-on-china-ev-tariffs-seen-as-targets-for-revengeembedded-checkout=true https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-07/eu-s-yes-votes-on-china-ev-tariffs-seen-as-targets-for-revengeembedded-checkout=true"
X Link 2024-10-08T07:52Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements
"MOFCOM just announced that the retaliation list includes pork dairy in addition to brandy and tariffs for high-displacement vehicles I mentioned [--] months ago. Perhaps even more to come https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1829141669939425726 MOFCOM is considering raising tariffs for high-displacement vehicles. I'm sure this is just to protect the environment and has nothing to do with the EU EV subsidy case. https://t.co/mlNEOMh2bk https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1829141669939425726 MOFCOM is considering raising tariffs for high-displacement vehicles. I'm sure this is just to protect the environment"
X Link 2024-10-08T09:36Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"A list of WTO disputes sparked by Chinas electric vehicles: [--] DS623: United States Certain Tax Credits Under the Inflation Reduction Act; [--] DS626: European Union Provisional Countervailing Duties on New Battery Electric Vehicles from China; [--] DS627: Canada Measures on"
X Link 2024-10-09T07:39Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Certain Products of Chinese Origin; [--] DS628: China Initiation of CVD Investigation on Imports of Certain Dairy Products (EU); And soon to come [--] Chinas dispute against Turkey EV tariffs"
X Link 2024-10-09T07:39Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"In an attempt to save its economy China published a draft Private Economy Promotion Law today. Will it save the ailing Chinese economy Highly unlikely. Yet this Law is still very useful in that it reveals the many problems plaguing Chinas private economy"
X Link 2024-10-10T13:41Z 33.5K followers, 157.5K engagements
"In summary the very fact that China needs a law to promote private economy is problematic. In this aspect it is similar to the law on the protection of endangered species which is often doing too little and too late"
X Link 2024-10-10T13:57Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements
"200 years after the Monroe Doctrine China announced its own: "We need to strengthen the Asian Consciousness. Asian affairs should be handled by Asian people through consultation and the future of Asia must be firmly kept in our own hands." -Li Qiang at the 27th ASEAN+3 Summit"
X Link 2024-10-12T01:26Z 33.5K followers, 139.4K engagements
"Overheard at the press con today: Vice Minister of Finance whispering to the Finance Minister in response to a question on the specific scale of the stimulus package: "Do you want to mention the specific scale" "Don't mention it yet" the Finance Minister replied. [----] https://t.co/njRnU2SEIa [----] https://t.co/njRnU2SEIa"
X Link 2024-10-12T11:29Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Why did the Chinese government choose to save local governments instead of consumers in the latest stimulus package Because bailing out local governments only creates a moral hazard while giving money directly to the people creates a politcal hazard"
X Link 2024-10-13T01:24Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@DesmondShum Trust is vital in most nations but not in China. Historically Chinese dynasties maintained power not through trust but through their capacity to inflict harm. In other words most dynasties ruled not through trust or Confucian ideals but by wielding Legalist force"
X Link 2024-10-14T02:07Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This is a must-read for anyone interested in trade policy industrial policy and global imbalances. Although the proposed policy solutions may be challenging for staunch free-traders the piece does an excellent job of highlighting that trade policy isn't just an economic issue By targeting specific trade violations rather than balanced flows trade policy has been focusing on the wrong outcome and creating a trade system that stifles the promise of global trade as a result write @michaelxpettis and Erica Hogan: https://t.co/GIWK3mmsRP By targeting specific trade violations rather than balanced"
X Link 2024-10-18T09:08Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements
"but a political decision shaped by the ruling elites of each country reflecting the type of society they aim to build or preserve. Additionally for those puzzled by recent volatilities in Chinas stock market it provides insight into why under its current political system"
X Link 2024-10-18T09:08Z 28.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Xis visit to Hefei - self-labeled Chinas innovation capital - is less about highlighting the importance of tech or self-reliance as these have been consistent priorities since the Mao era. The key takeaway from his visit lies in how China aims to achieve tech self-reliance:"
X Link 2024-10-19T13:19Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements
"through a state-led model where the government not only provides land and policy support but also acts as a venture capital fund with Hefei being the most successful example to date. This suggests that any forthcoming stimulus package will likely continue to focus on bolstering"
X Link 2024-10-19T13:20Z 28.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Based on limited information from official statements and other sources it appears the government initially refused to acknowledge that the official died in the line of duty sparking complaints from the family"
X Link 2024-10-20T02:30Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements
"As Chinas economic downturn continues civil servant positions have become not only more desirable but also - ironically - more dangerous as lower-level officials are often tasked with enforcing unpopular policies"
X Link 2024-10-20T02:32Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements
"When has the NPC been so important in economic decision making in China The dates chosen was simply a convenient excuse to wait until after the result of the US election is out. As they say in China do not release the eagle until the rabbit is out of the hole. 2/2 But he continued "any details of Chinas fiscal policy will only come after the conclusion of the National Peoples Congress Standing Committee meeting which is scheduled to take place Nov. [--] to Nov. 8." 2/2 But he continued "any details of Chinas fiscal policy will only come after the conclusion of the National Peoples Congress"
X Link 2024-10-26T15:22Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The film Stand By Me () offers a compelling summary of the factors driving Chinas declining birth rate: unaffordable housing scarcity of good local jobs inaccessible healthcare lack of basic social safety net and collapse of the social order at the grassroots level"
X Link 2024-11-01T06:37Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The greatest irony however is that none of these issues are regarded as governance failures by the government which permitted the films release. Until these challenges are addressed a rebound in the birth rate is unlikely"
X Link 2024-11-01T06:39Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"I always knew that deep down Lighthizer loves the Chinese people"
X Link 2024-11-04T04:16Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Jiang Shigong the PKU law professor who played an instrumental role in shaping Chinas HK policy for the past decade has been appointed as President of Minzu University the top university for Chinas minorities. This could herald major changes in Chinas minorities policy Thanks to @GeringTuvia for alerting us to Jiang Shigong's recent papers on trade and human rights. I'm not a big fan of Jiang but I'd still recommend everyone to read the papers for two reasons: [--]. Jiang's [----] book on HK has deeply influenced China's view and policies there https://t.co/l2ExO6sdrm Thanks to @GeringTuvia for"
X Link 2024-11-05T12:15Z 23.5K followers, [----] engagements
"as China aims to assimilate the minorities regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet into the unified Chinese National Community () identity that the government has been pushing in recent years. Interestingly the subtitle of his last book on HK - The New Frontier"
X Link 2024-11-05T12:17Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"between Civilizations hinted the guiding principle of Chinas HK policy for the past decade: assimilate HK new frontier of Chinese civilisation due to its century-long history of colonisation into the mainstream Chinese identity a goal that has largely been achieved by now"
X Link 2024-11-05T12:18Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"I wouldnt be surprised if over the next few years the real new frontier -the literal meaning of Xinjiang- is subject to the same fate. In other words get ready for The End of Civilizations and the rise of a China-centric World Empire as Jiang hinted in his last book"
X Link 2024-11-05T12:23Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"the dominance of the CCP domestically over its own people and externally over other countries just like the old Soviet model as I discussed in this @CIGIonline op-ed: Beijings Regulatory Crackdown Is Unlikely to End Any Time Soon https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon https://www.cigionline.org/articles/beijings-regulatory-crackdown-is-unlikely-to-end-any-time-soon"
X Link 2024-11-17T12:55Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@CIGIonline [--]. The Taiwan question. This seems to be a well-known issue but it doesnt necessarily mean war as per the conventional CCP line as traditionally there has been a lot of maneuvering space from Deng to Jiang and Hu. The compromise reached by the US and China since the Shanghai"
X Link 2024-11-17T12:56Z 23.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@CIGIonline Communique is simply to maintain the status quo and with this assurance the US supported Chinas economic development. But then there came Xi whose unprecedented infinite-term deal is premised upon the delivery of an unprecedented achievement: the unification of Taiwan"
X Link 2024-11-17T12:58Z 23.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I dont always agree with @Brad_Setser but in this case I do. Contrary to the popular belief that Chinas overemphasis on investment and under-consumption is a failure Id argue that Xi see it as a key feature. While a peace economy prioritizes consumption a war economy Xi looks at China's success in building a world leading EV industry the emergence of a semiconductor design and manufacturing cluster centered around Huawei and SMIC and China's strength in clean technology manufacturing and sees a success story . 2/ Xi looks at China's success in building a world leading EV industry the"
X Link 2024-12-24T08:54Z 23.9K followers, 62.4K engagements
"Why cant the West simply let China build EVs and then buy them cheaply Two recent developments shed light on this: [--]. Ji Yues Collapse: This highlights what happens when government subsidies dry up. The EV market heavily reliant on state support struggles to sustain itself"
X Link 2024-12-24T13:02Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements
"exposing underlying inefficiencies. [--]. BYDs Shutdown in Brazil: This reveals critical aspects of how the EVs are produced including potential labor environmental and supply chain issues that may conflict with Western standards or strategic interests. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o"
X Link 2024-12-24T13:02Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@tomfriedman recently suggested that China and the US should sign an updated Shanghai Communiqu to address three epochal challenges: runaway artificial intelligence climate change and global disorder from collapsing states. However this proposal faces significant flaws: What I Learned Most From My Trip to China. https://t.co/QqEADFxb4D What I Learned Most From My Trip to China. https://t.co/QqEADFxb4D"
X Link 2024-12-26T08:35Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements
"1. The [----] Shanghai Communiqu was possible because both the US and China viewed the USSR as their primary adversary. Today however not only do the US and China lack a shared enemy but they increasingly view each other as their greatest challenge"
X Link 2024-12-26T08:35Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"2. While AI climate change & global disorder might be considered top challenges in the US China regards them more as opportunities: AI: Xi Jinping regards AI as an important strategic lever for gaining dominance in global technology not a crisis to solve collaboratively"
X Link 2024-12-26T08:38Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Climate Change: China prioritizes leveraging the energy transition to leapfrog other nations and emerge as a leader in new energy technologies as I tweeted before. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763540595312881885 The Politburo held the 12th collective study session yesterday and the topic was new energy and China's energy security. Xi: "China is leading the world on new energy technologies and equipment and has built the world's largest clean power supply system. https://t.co/EZuk2D3uJ6 https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1763540595312881885 The Politburo held the 12th collective study session"
X Link 2024-12-26T08:39Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Global Disorder: Beijing views the current upheavals as opportunities. To Xi the greatest shift unseen in a century provides the perfect opportunity to achieve the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese state" which explains why he wants to jointly push https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1672490077727907844 This is indeed "great shi(f)t unseen in a century" https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1672490077727907844 This is indeed "great shi(f)t unseen in a century""
X Link 2024-12-26T08:42Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements
"for such shift together with Putin who might be regarded as a loser by Friedman but in China's view it will only lead to the loss of the US and therefore is China's gain"
X Link 2024-12-26T08:45Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"In summary borrowing from one of Friedmans books while some in the US may naively hope to extend an olive branch to China to cope with global challenges all China wants is the shiny new Lexus so that it can outpace the US in global influence & technological dominance"
X Link 2024-12-26T08:48Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Whos Gonna Decide the Fate of @tiktok_us Not @realDonaldTrump. Not the US Supreme Court. Not the US Congress. Instead it might just be a former Chinese gymnast: Wu Liufang. Wu whose [--] million followers vanished overnight on Douyinthe Chinese version of TikTokrepresents"
X Link 2024-12-27T03:28Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements
"a cautionary tale of control and censorship. A former national team gymnast Wu struggled to make a living after retiring. To survive she turned to flirty dance videos on Douyin. Her account briefly suspended in Nov was reinstated on Dec [--] skyrocketing to over [--] million"
X Link 2024-12-27T03:29Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"followers without her posting a single new video. But on Christmas Eve Douyin erased all [--] million followers citing vulgar content. Heres the twist: Wu wasnt the one being punished. The real victims were the [--] million users who consciously chose to follow her only to"
X Link 2024-12-27T03:30Z 23.7K followers, [---] engagements
"have their decisions undone by Douyins algorithms. This matters because Douyin and TikTok are owned by the same company ByteDance. They share the same technology. If Douyin can erase millions of followers with the flick of a switch whats stopping TikTok from doing the same"
X Link 2024-12-27T03:31Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements
"This is why TikToks unchecked power must be scrutinizedor even banned. Now go check your TikTok account. Notice anything strange happening"
X Link 2024-12-27T03:31Z 23.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Many are surprised by Xis seemingly naive views on deflation but I'd call it idealism rather than naivety. Xi was just describing Marx's ideal world: the higher phase of Communism that is characterized by material abundance driven by heightened productivity. Whats so bad about deflation I had a front-row seat over past decade covering China as Xi had opportunities to fix economy. Every time he took the fork in the road that led to more control and away fm changes many say are necessary. He is digging in. https://t.co/WZa6TXTAta Whats so bad about deflation I had a front-row seat over past"
X Link 2024-12-27T13:15Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Interesting essay by @gideonrachman in the @FT today especially as it debunks the myth by @tomfriedman that the U.S. and China would collaborate to end global disorder. https://www.ft.com/content/d11fa816-0c8f-4c79-abb0-8523dd2ecfe4 https://www.ft.com/content/d11fa816-0c8f-4c79-abb0-8523dd2ecfe4"
X Link 2024-12-28T03:27Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Instead as I tweeted [--] days ago China views the current disorder not just as a failure of the existing system but more as a feature that it can exploit to launch an alternative system. However can such a system truly emerge The answer is likely no. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1872201315088310329 Global Disorder: Beijing views the current upheavals as opportunities. To Xi the greatest shift unseen in a century provides the perfect opportunity to achieve the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese state" which explains why he wants to jointly push https://t.co/W88imxaAGl"
X Link 2024-12-28T03:30Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The USSRs failure shows that such model doesnt work. China tried to build a hybrid system by blending the best features of USSR+US and for a time it seemed poised to succeed. Yet now as it regresses toward the USSR model its prospects for success appear increasingly bleak"
X Link 2024-12-28T03:33Z 23.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Guess that's why it's called BRICS: Brazil Rescues Imprisoned Chinese Slaves. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xj9jp57r2o"
X Link 2024-12-29T02:16Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"disengaged bureaucracy and a disillusioned populace could lead to increased social unrest that the bureaucracy tolerates or even encourages to bolster its own significance much like a plumber neglecting a rotting pipe to get the repair contract until the whole house goes down"
X Link 2025-01-01T10:45Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Supreme Peoples Court recently released its first batch of model cases on protection of foreign investment. Among the [--] cases the first focuses on regulating the conduct of senior executives in foreign-invested enterprises (FIE). Ironically the decision is deeply flawed"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:33Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In the case the defendant a general manager of a FIE concealed the fact that his spouse owned 99% of the shares in X Co. and directly controlled it. The defendant facilitated transactions between X Co. and the FIE creating clear conflicts of interest"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:35Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Under Article [---] of the PRC Company Law (2018 revision) directors and senior managers are prohibited from engaging in contracts or transactions with their company unless explicitly authorized by the companys articles of association or approved by the shareholders meeting"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:36Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Importantly the [----] law limited the prohibition on self-dealing to directors and senior managers themselves; it did not extend to their close relatives or related entities. This however did not prevent Shanghai 2nd Intermediate Peoples Court to rule against the defendant"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:38Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"by expanding the interpretation of self-dealing under Article [---] to include transactions involving senior executives close relatives or entities under their control. While this broader interpretation aligns with the [----] revision of the Company Lawwhich explicitly extends"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:39Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"self-dealing prohibitions to cover entities indirectly controlled by close relativesit was not supported by the legal framework in effect at the time of the trial. This judgment is deeply problematic. By expanding the scope of the law retroactively the Shanghai Court violated"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:39Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"fundamental legal principles including the prohibition of ex post facto application of laws. Such an approach undermines the predictability & consistency of the legal system. What is even more concerning is that the Supreme Court publicly endorsed the decision as a model case"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:42Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This endorsement legitimizes an arbitrary and retrospective application of the law sending an alarming signal to foreign investors in China: If the law can be bent backward to attract your investment it can just as easily be twisted to take it away"
X Link 2025-01-04T06:42Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"My thoughts on [--] things to watch in global trade policy in [----] @hinrichfdn: [--]. Resurgence of US-China trade war. [--]. Breakthrough in WTO dispute settlement reform. [--]. New developments in Chinas CPTPP bid. [--]. Rise of plurilateral trade agreements. https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/article/trade-policy/four-things-to-watch-in-global-trade-policy-in-2025/ https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/article/trade-policy/four-things-to-watch-in-global-trade-policy-in-2025/"
X Link 2025-01-07T08:22Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Instead of Canada the U.S. should take China as its 51st state. This would not only address the U.S. trade deficit but also make America great again and achieve the great rejuvenation of China"
X Link 2025-01-07T13:45Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Overheard in the corridors of MOFCOM after the US blacklisted Tencent: Find me a US company equivalent to Tencent. Well there isnt one. Tencent does several things: its like Facebook for social media Google for search and X for news. Great lets blacklist them all"
X Link 2025-01-08T02:48Z 23.9K followers, 17.3K engagements
"Theyve all already been blacklisted ages ago. At that point my source started laughing so hard he got kicked out of the building. Anyone know what happened next"
X Link 2025-01-08T02:49Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"After [--] months MOFCOM finally issued its final determination on the trade and investment barrier investigation concerning the EUs Foreign Subsidy Regulation (FSR). https://cacs.mofcom.gov.cn/cacscms/article/jkdcarticleId=183031&type=11 MOFCOM formally launched the trade barrier investigation against EU Foreign Subsidy Regulation today. This is significant as it is the only 4th case after the TBI mechanism was introduced [--] years ago. https://t.co/cpJ5uRY33C https://cacs.mofcom.gov.cn/cacscms/article/jkdcarticleId=183031&type=11 MOFCOM formally launched the trade barrier investigation against"
X Link 2025-01-09T02:27Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Breaking News: China is making significant moves to improve US-China relations ahead of Trump's inauguration by altering the Chinese translation of @SenMarcoRubio's name to one distinct from the version on the sanctions list. Chinese wisdom from thousands of years of diplomacy"
X Link 2025-01-17T12:53Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"An article is circulating on Chinese social media claiming that China is taking a historic step by granting access to major websites like Google/Meta in Shanghai. This claim based on a document issued by the Shanghai gov on Dec [--] is highly misleading for the following reasons"
X Link 2025-01-23T13:46Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"1. The Shanghai document cited never mentions Google/Meta. The closest it gets is references to Internet data centers content distribution networks application stores ISPs online data processing and transaction processing and information protection and processing services"
X Link 2025-01-23T13:48Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"2. The list is not new. It merely reiterates a MIIT notice in April [----] which states that China will remove foreign equity restrictions for IDC CDN ISP online data processing & transaction processing and information release platform & delivery services in pilot areas"
X Link 2025-01-23T13:51Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"3. Some might argue that Google/Meta could fall under information release platform and delivery services within information services. However this is incorrect. In Chinas Telecom Services Classification Catalogue this is a sub-category of item B25 (Information Service)"
X Link 2025-01-23T13:52Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Googles services are classified under a different sub-category: Information search query services not information release platform and delivery services. [--]. While Meta (and X) might arguably be categorized under information release platform and delivery services"
X Link 2025-01-23T13:53Z 23.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Of course Colombia deserves the tariffsthey made the fatal mistake of placing themselves dangerously close to the original target: China"
X Link 2025-01-27T07:02Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The political message from the Spring Festival Gala () could not be stronger: A call for "no more counting dollars" from OneRepublic while those performers from HK Taiwan and Macau are no longer noted separately as before"
X Link 2025-01-29T00:23Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Quick thoughts on America First Investment Policy: [--]. It aims to usher in Americas Golden Age which will be achieved through facilitation of investment by US allies and partners and protect the US from new and evolving threats that can accompany foreign investment"
X Link 2025-02-23T02:49Z 30.5K followers, 21.8K engagements
"Deepseek is so popular that many Fengshui Masters went to the family home of its founder to search for the elusive "Dragon Vein". DeepSeek https://t.co/k2u10NhF38 DeepSeek https://t.co/k2u10NhF38"
X Link 2025-03-12T06:46Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Too young too simple sometimes naive"
X Link 2025-03-14T14:20Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The MFA spokespersons statement on a potential investigation into CK Hutchisons planned sale of its Panama ports raises more questions than it answers as it suggests that the assets of a private firm could be considered part of Chinas legitimate interests"
X Link 2025-03-18T13:13Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Chinese EV sector consolidation is coming guided by the visible hand of SASAC"
X Link 2025-03-29T15:23Z 24.5K followers, 18.9K engagements
"China announced 34% tariff on US products as I predicted [--] days ago. My take on the potential implications of the Liberation Day tariffs with @AlJazeera. https://t.co/CDt40NxF4l https://t.co/SX8ag84gEF My take on the potential implications of the Liberation Day tariffs with @AlJazeera. https://t.co/CDt40NxF4l https://t.co/SX8ag84gEF"
X Link 2025-04-04T10:10Z 25.8K followers, [----] engagements
"More retaliatory measures announced: [--]. WTO case; [--]. Export Controls on [--] Rare Earth Elements [--]. [--] U.S. Entities Added to Export Control List [--]. [--] U.S. Defense Firms Sanctioned Under Unreliable Entity List China announced 34% tariff on US products as I predicted [--] days ago. https://t.co/OUk69zCUCu China announced 34% tariff on US products as I predicted [--] days ago. https://t.co/OUk69zCUCu"
X Link 2025-04-04T12:52Z 24.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Was it because the person translating the Executive Order for Xi didnt dare translate Section 4(b) or because Xi just threw it aside before even getting to it"
X Link 2025-04-04T13:57Z 25.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1. Heavily one-sided terms like the Phase One deal which contained [--] instances of China shall versus just [--] mentions of the US shall as I counted last time in this @AJIL_andUnbound paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/promising-trail-or-perilous-trap-engaging-china-in-the-wto-and-beyond/3DA2EBFF9BC12080B8E1C9FE44F545BB https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/promising-trail-or-perilous-trap-engaging-china-in-the-wto-and-beyond/3DA2EBFF9BC12080B8E1C9FE44F545BB"
X Link 2025-04-05T12:47Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@AJIL_andUnbound [--]. No zero tariffs from the US as it requires Congressional approval or the Trade Promotion Authority which Trump doesnt have. At best countries might get access at pre-Liberation Day levelsaround 3%"
X Link 2025-04-05T12:48Z 26.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Amid Trump tariff chaos Peoples Daily published an editorial today urging everyone to Focus on Doing Your Own Thingsa phrase that sums up Chinas core strategy. This thread breaks it down. It begins by acknowledging that U.S. tariffs do hurt but the sky cant collapse"
X Link 2025-04-07T00:28Z 33.5K followers, 82.8K engagements
"That phrasethe sky cant collapseis notable. Mao used the exact same words in [----] during a meeting of [----] top CCP officials after a disastrous [--] years marked by the Great Famine and split with a world Superpower - the USSR. Fittingly this is also the 13th year of Xis"
X Link 2025-04-07T00:30Z 26.7K followers, 16.3K engagements
"@FT @JKynge On FDI: it has collapsed with FDI dropping 99% in three years and is at its lowest level in [--] years. as I noted [--] months ago. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1891144762301796525 Anyway you have to admire the audacity of someone who boasts about China's performance legitimacywhen FDI has dropped 99% in three years and is at its lowest level in [--] years. https://t.co/pcvxFdZmeV https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1891144762301796525 Anyway you have to admire the audacity of someone who boasts about China's performance legitimacywhen FDI has dropped 99% in three years and is at its lowest"
X Link 2025-04-07T00:41Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@FT @JKynge The editorial adds that China has been fighting this trade war for [--] years and has the tools to handle the pressure. Unfortunately while people have been waiting for the stimulas for a long time as I mentioned last Oct any forthcoming stimulus package would likely continue to"
X Link 2025-04-07T00:42Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Three things you need to know about Liberation Day tariffs: [--]. Its not about the methodology. The formula has been widely mocked but that misses the point. The numbers arent meant to hold up in a PhD defensetheyre meant to shock to create leverage. The more extreme the"
X Link 2025-04-07T13:08Z 33.5K followers, 257.2K engagements
"isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal it doesnt matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American products at 0% 5% or even 9.4% (current rate). [--]. Its not personal with any countryexcept one"
X Link 2025-04-07T13:11Z 33.5K followers, 107.2K engagements
"The tariffs are universal affecting even places like Heard Island and McDonald Islands sparking confusion and anger worldwide. But as @howardlutnick explained this blanket approach is designed to block every possible loophole China could exploit. In effect all countries"
X Link 2025-04-07T13:15Z 33.5K followers, 40.4K engagements
"@howardlutnick have become collateral damage in the U.S.-China economic standoff. Until the two strike a grand bargainor the U.S. builds a broad coalition to ring-fence Chinathe fallout will continue to ripple across the globe"
X Link 2025-04-07T13:15Z 33.5K followers, 25.1K engagements
"Why did Trump impose tariffs on Heard & McDonald Islands-home only to penguins and British Indian Ocean Territory which is occupied solely by military personnel No its not because of internet domain names as some speculated. The answer is found in todays Peoples Daily"
X Link 2025-04-08T00:50Z 33.5K followers, 80.9K engagements
"editorial Pressure and threats are by no means the right way to deal with China which proudly declared that China maintains import and export records with almost all countries and regions in the UN Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use. And guess what Among"
X Link 2025-04-08T00:52Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"So unless youre expecting a surge of imports from the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands after April [--] they need to be covered by the tariffsas Lutnik pointed out yesterday. https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909233453247447193 The tariffs are universal affecting even places like Heard Island and McDonald Islands sparking confusion and anger worldwide. But as @howardlutnick explained this blanket approach is designed to block every possible loophole China could exploit. In effect all countries https://t.co/4aNSbLgY7J https://x.com/henrysgao/status/1909233453247447193 The tariffs are"
X Link 2025-04-08T00:56Z 26.8K followers, 12.9K engagements
"The mysterious US$1.4m of machinery and electrical products imports from Heard Island and McDonald Islands to the US. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revealed-how-trump-tariffs-slugged-norfolk-island-and-uninhabited-heard-and-mcdonald-islands Why did Trump impose tariffs on Heard & McDonald Islands-home only to penguins and British Indian Ocean Territory which is occupied solely by military personnel No its not because of internet domain names as some speculated. The answer is found in todays Peoples Daily https://t.co/dA8A90UjaP"
X Link 2025-04-08T06:43Z 27.6K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Repeat after me: It's not about tariffs. It's not about any countryexcept one. It's not about the numbers: they are just leverage to negotiate. isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal it doesnt matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American products at 0% 5% or even 9.4% (current rate). [--]. Its not personal with any countryexcept one. isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal it doesnt matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American"
X Link 2025-04-10T00:56Z 33.5K followers, 60.7K engagements
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