Carl Zha
Host Silk & Steel Podcast on China, history, culture, politics @SteelSilkn, carlzhapodcast@gmail.com wife:@BaliEarthSoul
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Russia has no prob source semiconductors, now mostly coming from China Chinese chip maker SMIC currently under US sanction can supply Russia as much as it needs https://t.co/Fpvk7...
Deng Xiaoping's hometown Guang'an. Guangan was under Chongqing administration in Qing dynasty. Deng went to France via Chongqing. But Sichuan provincial gov refused to let Guangan...
Chinese word ๆ ๆชฌ for lemon ๐ prbly derive frm Arabic Laymoon. Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo has a friend nicknamed ้ปๆชฌๅญ, he later learned ้ปๆชฌๅญ is an actual fruit, grew abundan...
People didn't believe me when I said Tiktok ban is coming. Now it's official https://t.co/eHQXLUaZ46
Wang Tsu ็ๅฉ, Boeing's 1st aeronautical engineer who designed Boeing's 1st successful product Boeing Model C that landed US Navy contract. He mentored Qian Xuesen, the co-founder...
Breaking! ็ขงๆกๅญ Country Garden Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan where many Chinese nationals stayed under attack of gunfire and explosion. https://t.co/xJurdz0ShY
I'm digging the new Douyin trend of displaying ethnic dress in China. Another reason Douyin > Tiktok Ethnic dress in China, a๐งต Uyghurs https://t.co/qvWclcKHFQ
Classic Jiang Zemin moment when he scolded a Hong Kong journo (she later became a Trump supporter lol) in the Great Hall of People. https://t.co/3RtZLEProU
Breaking! frmer Chinese leader Jiang Zemin has passed away today at 12:13pm Beijing time in Shanghai frm leukemia and multiple organ failure on Nov 30, 2022. Back in April 16, 200...
Unprecedented street protest in Shanghai: hundreds of people gathered on Urumqi road ไน้ฒๆจ้ฝ่ทฏ yelling slogan โDown with Communist Party, Down with Xi Jinping!โ Police stood by...
ไป็พฉ (benevolence/humane) is the chief principle of Chinese literati that predates even Confucius. Yet Mao wrote in On Protracted War during Japanese invasion ๆไปฌไธๆฏๅฎ่ฅๅ ฌ๏ผไธ่ฆ...
105 yr old Song Ping, 1949 and now. He most famously promoted Hu Jintao and recommend Hu to Deng Xiaoping as 4th gen Chinese leader. https://t.co/oXZdcMSKjc