T. Greer
@Scholars_Stage
• Director @CSTranslate • Essayist http://scholars-stage.org • Long takes on 🇨🇳 politics, 🇺🇸 conservatism, ancient history • Old tweets on auto-delete!
From my copybook. 1. Paradise Lost, Book IX, lines 120-130: "By what I seek, but others to make such As I, though thereby worse to me redound: For only in destroying I find ease To my relentless thoughts."
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"So how should 🇨🇳 respond? It comes down to three characters—the first is “expose” [破]. What does this entail? It means exposing #Taiwan’s #democracy as fake democracy—a low-quality, dysfunctional version of democracy." This is Part 2 of Zhong Houtao's talk: [KEY POINTS] 🧵
I hate how old train stations were cathedrals to prosperity and airports now are just the dingy bus stations of the sky
Exciting personal news: I've just signed a book contract with Princeton University Press. My book will be about China's industrial policy, from EVs and batteries to AI and robotics. It's aimed at both general readers and researchers, in the style of my High Capacity newsletter.
“ if they are incapable of becoming comfortable with Scott, why should we waste our time trying to teach them Spanish?”
I use a lot of languages regularly or sporadically in my work: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Anglo-Saxon, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Welsh, even Russian once or twice. I've taught courses in the History of the English Language. I write on etymology as Monday's entry at our…
Breaking: Beijing is preventing a U.S. Commerce Department employee from leaving China. Major news.
After a year of sitting on them, I decided to publish my notes and take aways from Kotkin's first volume on Stalin.