I know it’s not my usual 赛道 but…what a terribly written SNL-sketch wannabe. Full of dad jokes. Huge waste of talent.

拒绝认罪被重判七年的香港记者何桂蓝：真正定义我们身份的，不是苦难本身，而是我们面对苦难的方式。 何桂蓝（Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam，1990年8月24日生），香港记者与民主派政治人物，被称为“立场姐”。她因参与2020年立法会民主派初选，被控“串谋颠覆国家政权”，是“47人案”中唯一既不认罪、也不求情的被告。2024年11月19日，她被香港法院判处有期徒刑七年，现羁押于大榄女惩教所。 在宣判当天，何桂蓝以粤语和英语发表声明，强调自己坚持不认罪、不求情，是为了捍卫61万名参与初选的香港选民的政治表态。她说：“真正定义我们身份的，不是苦难本身，而是我们面对苦难的方式。”

Will China’s first-ever National childcare subsidies work? In the Thursday webinar, I will focus on what it means, outline the implementation steps, and sharing recent studies — from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law… 1/2

So impressed with New Tide Media Network’s launch event and the kickass panel. Loved the personal stories about entering and taking up space in UK’s newsrooms ✨ Follow them on Instagram & Substack!

This kind of thing will be increasingly common in Hong Kong, I'm afraid focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait...

8 public universities in HK have signed a new accountability agreement requiring them to follow the "advice and guidance" of the central government and align with the remarks of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In full: buff.ly/P6eR2cL

哇，起草德州堕胎禁令的议员自己和性工作者有十七年的婚外情，还让她堕了好几次胎。

I got into a pinhole camera sales group after reading about #maskpark, a voyeurism ring that involves at least 100k Chinese users on Telegram. It has compared to South Korea’s Nth Room. Here are demos of pinhole cameras on a shoe, a fan, a car key and the side of a phone:

Feel absolutely powerless when China’s Nth room is happening but no action is observed from regulators. To join #maskpark on Telegram, one must submit video/photo of women around them — witnesses have seen content of these men’s girlfriends, wifes, mother in laws and daughters. 1/2

America, do your thing

An education graduate ends up selling mice poison in dialect. A medical student ends up being a masseur. A hospitality graduate ends up being a waiter. The customer who’s rude to the waiter is an influencer. 1/2

4 patterns in how Chinese graduates feel about the job market: 1. Available job opportunities do not require higher education 2. 985/211, overseas degrees are useless 3. Things are extra hard for liberal arts majors 4. STEM majors are used to their core. www.chineseconsumers.news/p/how-do-chi...

What makes one to want to become Epstein’s lawyer. Goddamn. And yes, I’m judging.

89, 64🕯️ I am a China researcher and strategist who loves picking apart trends and the societal forces behind them. I do business research that explores opportunities in China. And, more broadly, I advocate for looking at China through a human lens. But it’s not the only lens I use. 1/3

‘“If somebody calls me today and says, ‘I’m a foreign student and I’m leaving on vacation,’ I’m going to say, ‘Are you crazy?’ ”’ www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

This app needs more content from Cornwall

“The reality is, Asian women need to keep fighting for themselves, because they don’t expect anyone else would do it for them. More often than not, Asian women don’t speak up — and when they do, their feelings are dismissed.”

My therapist’s face when I quote Instagram therapists to him

Shanghai, once the default launchpad for international brands, is now seen as an expensive option with diminishing return-on-investment. www.chineseconsumers.news/p/sports-edi...

吓死宝宝了😦

The danger of overcollection of user information and resale of personal data is creeping into China's public consciousness: www.chineseconsumers.news/p/china-luxu...

Some female RedNote users are advocating to kick #AndrewTate and his affiliated accounts out of the platform 🔥

Easter 🐣

“A [Chinese fashion] designer launching today must produce collection after collection, ride algorithmic waves, and navigate livestreams and D2C margins while safeguarding their creativity—all in a cooled-off economy.” www.chineseconsumers.news/p/chinese-fa...

“A speck of dust from the times, when it falls on an individual, becomes a mountain. (时代的一粒灰，落在个人头上，就是一座山。)” That is how I wrap up the impact of tariffs on Chinese exporters. www.chineseconsumers.news/p/how-are-ch...

The restrictions of American film titles is not a new measure, the numbers in Chinese cinema has been diminishing during Trump's first term as bilateral relations worsened, and so is America's soft power.

We act like this is normal. It’s an abuse of power.

I understand that journalists are on tight deadlines, and not all answers get used, but it’s still frustrating to not be mentioned at all after you spend 30 mins of your workday on writing back. Is it karma? 🤣 I think it is.

My new creation for a vegetarian lunch: Ready-made lentil soup, kale, silken tofu 🙌

Heart-warming letter from a Substack subscriber

As Xi laughs in his sleep open.spotify.com/episode/7DAt...

Chinese consumers’ new reality: instead of America’s Magic Mike, we get Russia’s Wetmen

Reminiscent of that time of how “spiritual opium” wiped out $60B in Tencent’s market cap…and that Newsroom episode, IYKYK www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

IShowSpeed's unfiltered live-streams defied China’s traditional propaganda model and stringent information control, and that was why it has been such a success. And he finally met 大张伟 Da Zhang Wei! www.chineseconsumers.news/p/ishowspeed...

On why R. ≈ CPC

Tonight at LSE, apart from chatting about recent observations of China, we at People’s Square will also do a book raffle during Q&A, featuring: 🧨 "We live in huge discrepancies", a collection of op-eds and essays by Brothers author Yu Hua 1/3

Zhou Guanyu has joined Ferrari F1 for the 2025 season, making him the first team member from China. 🏎️ Despite being a reserve driver with TBD race program, this is another milestone in his commercial career. Brands he has worked with include...1/2

Inspired by 996ICU, 611Study.ICU is a movement that protests against Chinese students' grueling studying regime, which refers to how middle and high-school students typically start 6 AM and finish at 11 PM. "We want to let Chinese students have a healthy and happy childhood." 611study.icu

Copy that

As a professional in the information industry, I urge Ed to put personal bias aside when looking at DeepSeek. That's the LEAST an analyst should do. The spiel about how Chinese govt fakes its GDP and data and therefore DeepSeek may be doing the same is unfounded. 1/3

As much as I love Substack, the note app isn’t working for me with the lack of DAU… I will spend more time here in 2025 🥹

“If you look at the Wall Street guys today, they’re mostly not wearing Rolexes or Pateks,” Guy tells Semafor. “The flex is that you’re a mountain biker and wearing the digital exercise watch.” www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

The hodgepodge of Western and Chinese users within the “Great Firewall” has created unprecedented regulatory problems that have never been dealt with by either China or the U.S. Read more from me on Time: time.com/7207351/tikt...

Hell yea I touch on Xiaohongshu I live and breathe it

I’ve come across 2 dozens of brand posts on Xiaohongshu/Red Note targeting #tiktokrefugees now, and I’d still say that @duolingoverde.bsky.social does it best!

Big thanks to @yaling.bsky.social and her Following the Yuan substack, reporting on the broader impact of the American exodus to Xiaohongshu/LittleRedBook - the app is only in Chinese but some major brands are posting in English for the new arrivals... www.chineseconsumers.news/p/tiktok-use...

I remember reading Noah Smith’s comment a while ago about how there’s not enough street-level pictures of China. I’m like: no shit, because they are NOT on Google, they are dispersed across 8 or so major social media/e-commerce apps. 1/3 #tiktokrefugee

lesenswert von @yaling.bsky.social https://www.chineseconsumers.news/p/sex-mental-health-feminism-2025

Found this gem, published in 2005’s Russian Language and Literature Studies, a domestic academic periodical, while polishing up my 2025 forecasts today: 《中国俄语教学的历史、现状与发展方略》 It entails China’s over 300 years of history of Russian education, from the Qing Dynasty to modern days.