A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS INDEFINITELY DELAYING A MEDICARE PILOT PROGRAM TO COVER WEIGHT-LOSS DRUGS- AXIOS REPORT

China is not erasing Taiwan - we are Democracies must choose between pushing Taiwan into the shadows or bringing it into the light

"'Taiwan is a country, we just can't say it," was one of the first bits of advice given to me by a senior editor at a major global publication when I first started covering Taiwan a decade ago." Hard truths via @heguisen.bsky.social asia.nikkei.com/opinion/chin...

FFS. Xi didn't offer "concessions". Nothing new in there, mostly stuff already offered, all of which serve PRC's annexation goals.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Mauritius' role in blocking Taiwan Prez Lai Ching-te's diplomatic trip to Eswatini (bit.ly/42mZgdQ) supports concerns in D.C. about Mauritius' possible malign intentions toward the U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia airbase www.politico.com/newsletters/...

China's Iran war currency windfall

If you want to buy stuff from people who make stuff and they say, ‘Sorry, you need to pay us in our home currency,’ guess what you're going to do? You're going to pay in the home currency. This is what's happening more and more" via
@politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How Big of a Threat Is Mythos? Anthropic’s latest AI model has kick-started a new debate.

Anthropic blocking Claude Mythos Preview from full public release has sparked a cyber debate across a spectrum from clever marketing to paradigm shift.

I spoke to experts and former officials for @foreignpolicy.com who say the reality is somewhere in between.

foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/20/c...

Reporters covering the Trump-Xi summit take note: Foreign media in China targeted with "temporary detention, visa revocation, and a growing pattern of intimidation directed at interview partners & journalists, and denial of access to official events." fccchina.org/2026/04/20/f...

China is the Iran war's biggest winner. It never fired a shot It patiently exploited America's distraction and discord.

"The conflict allowed China to bolster its diplomatic leverage, clean-energy muscle and intelligence on the U.S. military — all without firing a shot or spending a dollar" www.axios.com/2026/04/19/c...

POLITICO Pro: China’s currency pivots from pariah to player China's economic muscle and concerns about the stability of the U.S. dollar is boosting the yuan's global appeal.

“Few countries ever fully trusted the United States government to never weaponize dollar dominance against them, but now less than ever" @politico.com subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

Japan shifting to central role in alliances: experts - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Japan shifting to central role in alliances. Lots of armchair strategists dont think about japan, but you can be certain PRC strategists do.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

Crickets are the future of protein at University of Minnesota’s Great Minnsect Show Professor emeritus Sujaya Rao — who started the annual public event — and a cricket snack company make their case for eating insects.

Crickets are the future of protein at University of Minnesota’s Great Minnsect Show www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Republican Nerves Are Fraying Ahead of Midterm Elections High gasoline prices, the war in Iran and recent Democratic victories are fueling the angst.

“I think everybody would be in agreement that the Republican Party is the underdog this November.”

KMT demands premier brief lawmakers on Indian worker recruitment - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

KMT demands Cho brief them on Indian workers. Yes, he should, and call them out for cynically exploiting local racism for cheap political points.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

The Diego Garcia standoff intensifies The Trump administration’s refusal to give any ground on the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean has it on a collision course with Mauritius.

"If the Mauritians wanted to invite in the Chinese or anybody else, then we would have no way to stop them, apart from militarily." @politico.com NatSec Daily www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It will always be the Strait of Mexico to me.

BREAKING: Beijing expels New York Times correspondent Vivian Wang over Taiwan row Exclusive: Visa denial followed Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s appearance at NYT’s DealBook summit.

"Beijing refused to renew the visa of the New York Times’ longtime China correspondent Vivian Wang, effectively expelling her from the country after six years on the ground" formosareview.substack.com/p/breaking-b...

What we know as Trump says China agreed not to send weapons to Iran President Trump said Wednesday that China has agreed not to send weapons to Iran. Phelim Kine, the China and Indo-Pacific Affairs correspondent at Politico, joins "The Daily Report" with more.

I joined CBS news to discuss the stakes for U.S.-China relations as the paralysis of the Hormuz Strait continues in the run-up to that long-anticipated summit in Beiijng between President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping www.cbsnews.com/video/what-w...

Diplomatic cables show Iran war is damaging US on multiple fronts across the world The documents show the fallout for the US in Bahrain, Indonesia and Azerbaijan as it struggles to catch up with pro-Iran messaging.

"Some of the cables describe anti-U.S. sentiment that is having an immediate impact, while others raise concerns that relationships could be in danger if the war continues much longer" Great @nahaltoosi.bsky.social scoop www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Orbán’s Ouster Doesn’t Prove His Critics Wrong Many dictatorships have ended peacefully, so the end of Orbán’s rule in Hungary isn’t proof he was never really taking the country in an authoritarian direction, writes James Kirchick.

Polish communism was also defeated, in the end, by an election.
www.thefp.com/p/orbans-ous...

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

My God, this story … www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

‘More compromises’: Trump wants an end to Iran war While the president claims he's got the cards, he may have to give ground to get a deal.

“It’s an economic game of chicken, but one in which the Europeans and Asians are caught in between” @elistokols.bsky.social @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

#doctor

Strategy Without Hubris: How China Rose by Managing America’s Reaction Oriana Skylar Mastro, Upstart: How China Became a Great Power (Oxford University Press, 2024) Why didn’t China’s rise trigger containment sooner? For

China's rise did not happen in a vacuum. It unfolded in ways that made a full response harder to organize and slower to build.

I periodically receive trolling emails, most of them are virulent misogyny (you realize CCP-paid trolls hate me more because I am a woman than I am a CCP critic). But this one really looks like AI hallucination. Hello, CCP, I think you need to "drink tea" with your AI.

Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. (Chuckles.) Good luck! (Laughter.) That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall. (Laughter.) But I would argue to you that their effort to do that just proves how real these changes are and how much they threaten the status quo. It's not an argument for slowing down the effort to bring China into the world, it's an argument for accelerating that effort. In the knowledge economy, economic innovation and political empowerment, whether anyone likes it or not, will inevitably go hand in hand.

AL Is Bound to Subvert Communism China seeks to control it, but the idea of freedom is baked into its training on all human knowledge. By Cameron Berg April 13, 2026 at 11:50 am ET

Bill Clinton, 2000. WSJ, 2026.

The Friends We've Made 2: Changes from the Draft AI is responsive, adaptive, and able to simulate understanding. It can build trust, shape decisions, and sustain emotionally significant interactions in ways that static content cannot, while also col...

Part 2 of our series on China's new regs on human-like AI chatbots addresses key changes made in revising the draft:
-narrowing the scope of covered tech
-broader use of interaction data for model training
-less paternalistic approach to elderly users.
www.chinalawtranslate.com/the-friends-...

Trump's Hormuz blockade may roil his upcoming summit with China's leader Xi Jinping “I think it genuinely risks the summit or at least poisons the atmosphere. It’s a direct message to Xi before they even sit down" via @politico.com Morning Trade login.politicopro.com?redirect=htt...