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This week on Chinese social media: personality tests, amateur football and ancient artefacts
Spend too much time monitoring the situation, and you soon forget about normal life. So we thought it’d be both fun and insightful to explore three things now trending behind China’s Great Firewall, starting with… Mmmkay, but why are you writing about personality tests? That’s exactly what we thought when we spotted an article in […]
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The art of influencer diplomacy
215,000 subscribers on YouTube is a solid haul for a guy who calls himself Wheelsboy and does nothing but showcase China’s tech-laden EVs to curious Western audiences. Like virtually every other YouTube success, Ethan Robertson (aka Wheelsboy) does paid colabs, and is now even leading personalised Beijing Auto Show tours for $399 a pop! Why […]
How embassies are reading that attempt on Trump
After the latest presidential assassination attempt saw Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner cancelled, we know at least one G20 ambassador who ended up hosting fellow envoys back at his official DC residence for pizza! You think they chatted about the cherry blossom bloom? The latest Nationals MLB wobbles? Or the ‘omg have you tried […]
Deep dive: Palantir’s manifesto
Tech bros get enough attention, but when they start minting mass contracts with the Pentagon, the Department of Agriculture, Poland’s defence ministry, and even French intelligence, all while becoming a swear word hurled during protests… it’s worth a look. Throw in a new 22-point manifesto outlining Palantir’s worldview, triggering more debate than whether a hot […]
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