T. Greer
• Director @CSTranslate • Essayist https://t.co/QAwli8kcMU • Long takes on 🇨🇳 politics, 🇺🇸 conservatism, ancient history • Old tweets on auto-delete!
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There is a much simpler explanation for this behavior. For a very long time Cantonese was the most commonly spoken dialect in western “China towns.” Many, if not most, of these pe...
Everyone is quote tweeting this with some version of "well obviously this guy like hentai." But it isn't that at all. Its the normal reaction of anyone who grew up Mormon and whose...
This is not too hard to grok when you think about the GenX tech bro earned his billions. Let me put it this way: https://t.co/yFfO4wcj5T
https://t.co/A96S7Oqgma This is the kind of thing I was talking about when I said that DeSantis' ad is showmanship in all the wrong direction. Trump knows how to be a showman in th...
Almost finished with Wang Huning’s AMERICA AGAINST AMERICA (美国反对美国). I don’t understand all the people who have described this as a “screed,” “attack,” or even really a “cr...
This is a general principle. Intercultural interaction often creates resentment, not comity, b/t the cultures in question. Certain personality types are very adept at moving betw...
https://t.co/9NMXxCGFPu Very interesting article. It does not quite frame things this way, but more or less argues that the globalization of the Chinese economy, 1985-2015 was a...
https://t.co/2zXma4T45j The way to understand a lot of these takes is that there was generation of officers who saw the Corps gutted by Vietnam, and their formative experiences wa...
Two years I wrote a viral essay. Its central thesis: Where Americans once asked “how do we solve this problem?” they now ask “how do we get management on my side?” But how did Ame...
Despairing a bit as I read the Iraq commentary on Twitter. Like Covid, something people can’t learn from because they would rather have recriminations.
My contribution to the National Review’s round table on the 20th anniversary of the defining catastrophe of my generation, the invasion of Iraq https://t.co/1MqJVYZKzV My entry f...
New Essay: Watch Xi Jinping Slowly Strangle the Dengist Economic Paradigm https://t.co/GfDyCvqx9h Slogan by slogan Xi Jinping is tearing down Dengist program. Now in his crossha...