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The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

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🚨 Scoop Demetri Sevastopulo @financialtimes.com: China’s defence minister Admiral Dong Jun is under investigation in a corruption-related scandal, according to US officials — the third consecutive serving or former defence min ensnared for alleged corruption t.co/h3JWU0t9aq

🔔 first post alert! 🔔

🎙️Latest episode of Behind the Money is out from the @financialtimes.com

🎧: link.chtbl.com/ftbehind-the...

There are now over 100 Financial Times journalists from across the newspaper on this Bluesky starter pack. It would be rude not to follow them all, imo!

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Apparently “patriots only” ruling HK wasn’t enough. No extra points for guessing the next stage

The EU has joined Bluesky

#BREAKING: Thai Const. Court REJECTS petition against ruling Pheu Thai Party and its patriarch Thaksin Shinawatra for alleged overthrowing of the constitutional monarchy. Claims incl. preferential imprisonment conditions and influencing the appointment of his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra as PM.

Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor

#HongKong Prof. Benny Tai is sentenced to 10 years in jail for organizing a primary election for the pro-democracy camp. 44 opposition figures are sentenced from around 4 yrs to 8 yrs.
They simply did something very normal in democratic society. They should be free.

black and white photo of Wong Kim Ark, American of Chinese descent. He is looking straight at the camera.

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

A starter pack of starter packs for UK media & politics.

UK Journos New, Podcasts
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UK MPs
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FT Journalists
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BBC journalists
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Channel 4 News Journalists
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Prospect journalists
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Jane Street invested in start-up turning China’s noodle shop sales into securities Micro Connect has amassed wealth of real-time data on China’s economy by financing small businesses in exchange for revenues

Interesting move here by Jane Street, the New York trading powerhouse. It quietly bankrolled a Hong Kong start-up that has turned the revenues of China's noodle shops and karaoke bars into tradable financial securities

on.ft.com/48QSKhU

🚨 JOURNO JOB 🚨 The Guardian's China team is hiring a news assistant / researcher to be based in Taipei. Details below! English and Mandarin fluency essential. Applications close at the end of this month.

Image generated by Twitter/X letting me know that I spent 9 years on that platform

Yeah, I think that’s more than enough

I’m sorry Josh, I’m hearing you want *more* dog photos?

He takes it back. The posting is good again

I’ll accept “which alternate timeline” but no historical era pre-penicillin, get serious

Top reason why the correct answer to the question “if you could live in any historical time period, which would you choose?” is always “this one”

*Zhuhai I’ll get the hang of this I promise

Zhuhai reels after China’s biggest mass killing in a decade [FREE TO READ] Rare comments from Xi Jinping signal Beijing’s determination to maintain social control

“It’s despicable.”
Zuhai residents expressed outrage as Chinese authorities moved to suppress public displays of grief after a car attack this week killed 35 — part of a campaign of social control.
“It’s really frightening.”
William Langley & Joe Leahy for @financialtimes.com
on.ft.com/3O9VWf2

i’ll just leave this here

to counterbalance the demography in most starter packs I'm trying to build a list of "sinophone women know stuff". let me know if I mis-identified you; and feel free to tag handles that I should add.
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Great story from colleagues about China preparing for defence and retaliation on trade to Trump. Love the juxtaposition of quote and institution here.

www.ft.com/content/b979...

Inside Goldman Sachs’ years-long power struggle over its China venture [FREE TO READ] A deal with a prominent Chinese banker gave the US group market access, but securing full control cost a lot more than it expected

Extraordinary long read from my colleagues about Goldman’s misadventure in China on.ft.com/3YRvETV

For those that are arriving (me too), here is a great list of active FT journalists on this platfom

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#1,087,413 — I’ll take it!

An FT-bedecked news stand in central Hong Kong, celebrating 20 years of the Financial Times Asia edition #FTAsia20

It’s been 20 years — and just one sailboat crash — of @financialtimes.com Asia! Here’s to decades more papering the most exciting region in the world pink #FTAsia20

A small grey poodle, dubious that this is a good idea

Alright, here we go again.

Let’s start it off with a pup dubious we really need another place to post