Lei Gong
@gonglei89
Mostly tweet about politics, econ, tech, and China. Find me @ http://gonglei89.bsky.social
Getting a strong sense that the global history the 21st century will essentially boil down to a contest between these two memes.
Share a photo of a silhouette! Sanlitun, Beijing 2016
Share a photo of a silhouette! Silhouette AND reflection! 🙂 Xianghu, Hangzhou.
Every. Time.
US, Japan differ on details of tariff deal, with no clear start date s.nikkei.com/4fgNfML
It’s all chemical, mechanical, and electrical engineering. More useful to think about core physical disciplines than industrial cones.
Synthetic diamond production is a cross-cutting tech-industrial capability, kind of like CNC machines. For example, they give China an edge in solar manufacturing. From @shashamimi wsj.com/world/china/wh…
And this is when policymakers are reminded that the people who are pushing hardest on the involution discourse are the finance guys who want to get their prices up💀
🇨🇳CHINA SECURITIES CHIEF ECONOMIST: THE CURRENT MARKET HAS TOO HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR "ANTI-INVOLUTION". THE PRICES OF SOME BULK #COMMODITIES HAVE RISEN SHARPLY, AND THERE IS OVER-SPECULATION. #CHINA mktnews.com/flashDetail.ht…
You know it’s really *that* bad when the nicest person in China watching calls it out.
The American copium epidemic in a tweet thread
It looks a lot more predatory when it’s not in anime aesthetic 💀