That’s just great

Lovin’ those ChatGPT generated papers!

A great write-up by Zichen Wang on Professor Lan Xiaohuan's book on local government and economic growth, looks like it tells the story of land finance very well. I missed buying this when I was in China, shucks pekingnology.com/p/chinas-land-…

So for this to work, many ppl buying stamps would need to not notice that anything was wrong with the stamps telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer…

A very honest statement

Trump megadonor John Paulson warns against ‘decoupling’ from China
Hedge fund billionaire is considered possible pick for Treasury secretary

ft.com/content/5a4cb6… via @ft

Join us for a public talk on 4/24 by Yasheng Huang 黄亚生 MIT Sloan School of Management who will tell how autocracy and ideology have impeded Chinese technological development and their potential to do so again, draw on his new book 'The Rise an Fall of the EAST.' Victor Shih
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Eh wow, not a topic I typically dwell on but I guess that is the “vibe” these days unfortunately

Yes join us in person or online!

Interesting and Comrade Wang Huning makes an appearance on Xi’s other side. How long did the meeting last?

Sadly that’s the majority of people, if one believed some of the polling results

Yeah I can just see it “不行，机器坏了”

Why is this happening? looks like it’s some sort of security concern

There you go “This talk introduces the use of Virtual Reality as a tool for behavioral research in political science and economics”

非常感谢大家对野夫先生的著作的关注。在香港澳门言论自由受到严控，其他中文世界对大陆相关问题文献兴趣有限的情况下，关于中国问题的中文独立出版面临非常严峻的困境。丧失了独立出版，既会让这个社会集体丧失历史记忆，也必然对中国社会的思想启蒙造成严重障碍。如何保护中文独立出版可能是所有关心…

Peking University may be a special case, but the number of foreign students in my classes has soared in the past year. That's a good thing. American and other foreign students should definitely consider spending some time here.

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Accords with things I have heard. MOF supposedly imposed hard debt ceilings on indebted provinces but I am skeptical that they will work

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That might be a little optimistic. Spending may be up 1.1% since 2019, but in those four years real GDP was up 20% and nominal GDP up 28%. This suggests that Chinese are spending a much smaller share of their income per trip than they were in 2019.

Indeed

Victor Shih These exact billboards have genuinely blanketed our freeways in the past few months here in San Antonio. It’s nuts, and upsetting