Wowza, hadn't realized how much housing prices have fallen in China--index of 4 major cities shows drop of 40% since 2021, double the fall in US during financial crisis (though fallout was far greater in US b/c of loan defaults & banking crisis). nytimes.com/video/world/...

Once again starting to see a whole lot of very serious, non-satirical commentaries that look almost exactly like this satirical commentary from almost a decade ago. web.archive.org/web/20170926...

1 in 3 student visa applications by foreign students wanting to study in the US were denied last year. The denial rate was 61% for Indians, the largest source of international students. Surprisingly, the denial rate for Chinese was below the average at 18% www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The share of Americans with an unfavorable view toward China shot up from 47% to 83% between 2017 and 2023. But now that trend is reversing, down to 71% now. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

You’d think expensive oil would make our government focus on solar and wind energy, you would of course be wrong

wrote about Nick Shirley, Michael Moore, local TV news investigations and the future of both propaganda and investigative journalism. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...