Hui noodle shops are a thing in China because halal meat has better food safety standards than the PRC, and the PRC has food safety scares often enough to keep that relevant
October 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Hui noodle shops are a thing in China because halal meat has better food safety standards than the PRC, and the PRC has food safety scares often enough to keep that relevant
2/ Other Key Takeaways:
The PRC likely seeks to acquire US semiconductors to further PRC artificial intelligence (AI) development and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) modernization.
The PRC likely seeks to acquire US semiconductors to further PRC artificial intelligence (AI) development and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) modernization.
October 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
2/ Other Key Takeaways:
The PRC likely seeks to acquire US semiconductors to further PRC artificial intelligence (AI) development and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) modernization.
The PRC likely seeks to acquire US semiconductors to further PRC artificial intelligence (AI) development and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) modernization.
6/ Russia is likely attempting to indigenize the production and assembly of key Geran-type strike drone components in cooperation with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
October 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
6/ Russia is likely attempting to indigenize the production and assembly of key Geran-type strike drone components in cooperation with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
“Cognitive warfare, says the Ministry of National Defense (MND), is the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) use of “political, economic, cultural, military and legal means, with the intent to divide internal unity and undermine social stability” in Taiwan.” www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Notes from Central Taiwan: Beijing’s intimidation tactics in Taiwan and beyond - Taipei Times
Cognitive warfare, says the Ministry of National Defense (MND), is the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) use of “political, economic, cultural, military and legal means, with the intent to divide int...
www.taipeitimes.com
October 11, 2026 at 8:35 PM
“Cognitive warfare, says the Ministry of National Defense (MND), is the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) use of “political, economic, cultural, military and legal means, with the intent to divide internal unity and undermine social stability” in Taiwan.” www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
3/ The PRC interfered with a Philippine medical evacuation at Second Thomas Shoal. The PRC is likely no longer abiding by a 2024 provisional agreement with the Philippines to allow resupply missions and is trying to make Philippine positions in the South China Sea increasingly untenable.
October 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
3/ The PRC interfered with a Philippine medical evacuation at Second Thomas Shoal. The PRC is likely no longer abiding by a 2024 provisional agreement with the Philippines to allow resupply missions and is trying to make Philippine positions in the South China Sea increasingly untenable.
If you think that Taiwan can assuredly destroy the PRC to the same extent the PRC can Taiwan, I'm sorry but that is not going to happen.
October 10, 2026 at 11:45 PM
If you think that Taiwan can assuredly destroy the PRC to the same extent the PRC can Taiwan, I'm sorry but that is not going to happen.
New WH Press Secretary Katie Zacharia: Elon Musk is heavily invested in China. Where is his allegiance completely?
(For years, Zacharia worked in Beijing at a PRC-tied law firm)
(For years, Zacharia worked in Beijing at a PRC-tied law firm)
October 9, 2026 at 10:59 PM
New WH Press Secretary Katie Zacharia: Elon Musk is heavily invested in China. Where is his allegiance completely?
(For years, Zacharia worked in Beijing at a PRC-tied law firm)
(For years, Zacharia worked in Beijing at a PRC-tied law firm)
this argument simply does not register with you people because you wont let your egos go. i thought the PRC was totally fucking wrong during the sino soviet split and now im like ok well, the PRC is still here so what now, what do we do with this? do i take it personally forever?
October 12, 2026 at 2:36 PM
this argument simply does not register with you people because you wont let your egos go. i thought the PRC was totally fucking wrong during the sino soviet split and now im like ok well, the PRC is still here so what now, what do we do with this? do i take it personally forever?
Sure.
Still not matching the cyber threat of the PRC though.
Still not matching the cyber threat of the PRC though.
small models will soon be able to self-replicate
Anthropic finds that 30B models can currently do most of the tasks required, but not end-to-end.
they think models as small as 9B (9-18 GB) may be able to do it on edge hardware, like IoT devices, within months
www.anthropic.com/research/sel...
Anthropic finds that 30B models can currently do most of the tasks required, but not end-to-end.
they think models as small as 9B (9-18 GB) may be able to do it on edge hardware, like IoT devices, within months
www.anthropic.com/research/sel...
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
www.anthropic.com
October 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Sure.
Still not matching the cyber threat of the PRC though.
Still not matching the cyber threat of the PRC though.
This is correct. And the US still possesses a Cold War inheritance that China does not.
A full nuclear exchange between the US and the PRC would most assuredly be devastating for the US and kill millions of Americans. But it would be Armageddon for the PRC.
A full nuclear exchange between the US and the PRC would most assuredly be devastating for the US and kill millions of Americans. But it would be Armageddon for the PRC.
The most key reason this also worked was that the USSR took until the late 1960s/70s to catch up to and then bypass the US in raw numbers and even then never outmatched it in ability to deliver nukes. US leaders never really appreciated this, Soviet leaders could never afford to forget it.
This was basically the Eisenhower administration's bluff in the 1950s and Kennedy's in the 1960s. The Soviet military had a massively larger conventional force, the explicit US doctrine was "massive retaliation" (that is, dropping hydrogen bombs on the Warsaw Pact) should they attempt to use it.
October 12, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This is correct. And the US still possesses a Cold War inheritance that China does not.
A full nuclear exchange between the US and the PRC would most assuredly be devastating for the US and kill millions of Americans. But it would be Armageddon for the PRC.
A full nuclear exchange between the US and the PRC would most assuredly be devastating for the US and kill millions of Americans. But it would be Armageddon for the PRC.
Taiwan is free, thanks. It's the threat of imperialism from the PRC that's the problem.
This ⬇️ free Taiwan!
October 11, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Taiwan is free, thanks. It's the threat of imperialism from the PRC that's the problem.
Somehow the Russians are still delusional enough to believe the PRC will be their junior partner instead of the other way around
October 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Somehow the Russians are still delusional enough to believe the PRC will be their junior partner instead of the other way around
NEW: US and Taiwanese authorities have indicted multiple individuals for illegally reselling US-manufactured semiconductors to the People’s Republic of China (PRC); in some cases routing chips through Southeast Asia to get around US restrictions. (1/4)
Read the full report: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
Read the full report: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
October 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
NEW: US and Taiwanese authorities have indicted multiple individuals for illegally reselling US-manufactured semiconductors to the People’s Republic of China (PRC); in some cases routing chips through Southeast Asia to get around US restrictions. (1/4)
Read the full report: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
Read the full report: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
it's also objectively not true as a matter of transactional security policy, fully accounting for the last 21 months
it's probably noteworthy most of the Sturm und Drang on this is coming from atlanticist land and not from the people in/focused on the region concerned with staring down the PRC
it's probably noteworthy most of the Sturm und Drang on this is coming from atlanticist land and not from the people in/focused on the region concerned with staring down the PRC
"We're unreliable and should be treated as unreliable" is pretty reckless and defeatist considering the potential costs of this statement.
October 11, 2026 at 3:51 AM
it's also objectively not true as a matter of transactional security policy, fully accounting for the last 21 months
it's probably noteworthy most of the Sturm und Drang on this is coming from atlanticist land and not from the people in/focused on the region concerned with staring down the PRC
it's probably noteworthy most of the Sturm und Drang on this is coming from atlanticist land and not from the people in/focused on the region concerned with staring down the PRC
honestly speaking *as a chinese dissident* i would absolutely turn into a wumao if the PRC warred against Russia. like. 0 question immediately.
October 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM
honestly speaking *as a chinese dissident* i would absolutely turn into a wumao if the PRC warred against Russia. like. 0 question immediately.
I agree with Bell on the central point but I doubt current PRC leadership will include Confucian principles in their calculations about attacking Taiwan.
Daniel Bell, a professor of political theory at the University of Hong Kong, discouraged a Chinese invasion of Taiwan through the lens of Confucianism at a Wednesday talk at the Harvard Kennedy School.
John L. Cameron and Samuel B. Kahn report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
John L. Cameron and Samuel B. Kahn report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Author Daniel Bell Applies Confucian Thinking to Chinese Invasion of Taiwan at Belfer Center Talk | The Harvard Crimson
Daniel A. Bell, a professor of political theory at the University of Hong Kong, discouraged a Chinese invasion of Taiwan through the lens of Confucianism at a Wednesday talk at the Harvard Kennedy…
www.thecrimson.com
October 9, 2026 at 8:15 AM
I agree with Bell on the central point but I doubt current PRC leadership will include Confucian principles in their calculations about attacking Taiwan.
PRC militia, the third navy of the PRC, seen east of Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
Taiwan spots first China militia boat in east - Taipei Times
A Chinese militia boat was spotted along with two other vessels off Taiwan’s east coast in August, a surveillance report showed, the first known sighting of such a craft in the area.The Apex Aviation ...
www.taipeitimes.com
October 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
PRC militia, the third navy of the PRC, seen east of Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
the only thing you need to know about Daniel Bell is that he thinks the PRC is Confucian
October 9, 2026 at 3:39 AM
the only thing you need to know about Daniel Bell is that he thinks the PRC is Confucian
This was also why the PRC backed out of expanding the Sino-Soviet border war into a full-scale nuclear war. It was to the USSR in the late 1960s what the USSR was to the USA. And while Mao didn't care the rest of the PRC high command drew the line at collective suicide over the old Amur border.
October 12, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This was also why the PRC backed out of expanding the Sino-Soviet border war into a full-scale nuclear war. It was to the USSR in the late 1960s what the USSR was to the USA. And while Mao didn't care the rest of the PRC high command drew the line at collective suicide over the old Amur border.
4/ China & Taiwan Update, October 9, 2026:
China & Taiwan Update, October 9, 2026
US and Taiwanese authorities separately indicted 11 people in 2 cases for illegally reselling US-manufactured semiconductor chips to the PRC.
isw.pub
October 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
4/ China & Taiwan Update, October 9, 2026:
Is this a ROC vs PRC thing? I'm confused why they're confused
October 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Is this a ROC vs PRC thing? I'm confused why they're confused
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in
www.theregister.com
October 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
Specifically, Nixon acknowledged the position of the PRC, which is meaningless.
October 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Specifically, Nixon acknowledged the position of the PRC, which is meaningless.
Pre-PRC Mao also loved violent spectacles, public torture and executions.
Sad the American president and his SecDef emulate communist dictators.
Sad the American president and his SecDef emulate communist dictators.
October 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Pre-PRC Mao also loved violent spectacles, public torture and executions.
Sad the American president and his SecDef emulate communist dictators.
Sad the American president and his SecDef emulate communist dictators.
You are correct. They are no longer being performed in PRC. Thank you for correcting me.
October 9, 2026 at 12:10 AM
You are correct. They are no longer being performed in PRC. Thank you for correcting me.