Black Myth: Wukong hits 2.2 million concurrent players on launch day, second-highest all-time peak on Steam ift.tt/dhlxs3P

What a relief for people from the heat and excess humidity! As summer draws to an end, even the remaining heat of "Autumn Tiger" can not prevent people from anticipating the joy of harvest and poetic, serene autumn scenery. #Yuanxi #CulturalJourney

Today marks the 120th anniversary of #DengXiaoping's birth. Deng is widely regarded as the chief architect of China's socialist reform, opening up, and modernization, he often said that pursuing economic development as the central task should be the basic line the CPC shall

At Steve Jobs's memorial service, all 500 guests were gifted one book. It was a book Jobs reread every year for 38 years. Here are 5 ideas from "Autobiography of a Yogi" he used to build the $1 trillion Apple empire:🧵

This is such a simplistic distortion of the complex reality of China’s global economic behavior that I am genuinely surprised FA published it. As usual, Aaron begins w/ his purely ideological assumption that BJ’s primary goal is to subjugate the world..1/ foreignaffairs.com/china/stopping…

The Western narrative is to pit Xi Jinping against Deng Xiaoping. Why is that? Long thread to understand Chinese politics 1/15🧵

Is this the solution to falling birth rates?

“Many of the world’s smartest businesses from North America, Europe and Japan are wagering that peace will prevail in the Taiwan Strait.” Via Nikkei Asia asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-sm…

There’s Soft Power and There’s Sauna Power The Diplomatic Sauna Society in D.C. isn’t just a clever nod to Finnish tradition—it’s a testament to Finland’s rising influence on the global stage. Here, diplomats and officials connect in a way that’s as unconventional as it is

This is Kevin Kelly. The close friend Tim Ferriss goes to for advice. He taught him a philosophy for life that made Tim stop giving a f*ck. Here's the philosophy:

Since 1992, the Committee to Protect Journalists has identified 15 media workers killed in the United States in relation to their work, including five people killed by a gunman who blasted into their newsroom in Annapolis, Md., in 2018. Katherine Jacobsen, the group’s program

“Black Myth: Wukong” Represents a New Milestone of China’s Global Influence, says Andy Mok, Beijing-based geopolitical commentator "‘Black Myth: Wukong’ is poised to reshape the gaming landscape, representing the next wave of Chinese cultural influence on the global stage."👉bit.ly/3yYXC7a

More than a third of U.S. students scored below the baseline math proficiency level, which means they cannot compare distances between two routes or convert prices into a different currency. At the top end, only seven percent of American teens scored at the highest level of

US foreign policy in one headline: "success" is "severely hurting" others... And failure is when others thrive... Just purely destructive and nihilistic mindset. Plus in this instance it's not even true: the only thing the US was successful at is boost China's domestic chip

China’s Comac is poised to hand over the first of two single-aisle C919 jets to new operators Air China Ltd. and China Southern Airlines Co., state broadcaster CCTV said Wednesday. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Jason Smith - 上官杰文 US spends $200 billion on prisons each year. US spends an average of $31,286 per year on each inmate. In contrast, K-12 schools spend an average of $12,756 per student annually. This means the US spends more than double on each prison inmate than on each student.

September 3, 1945, marks the end of WWII on the Chinese front. Yesterday, to commemorate the 79th anniversary of this day, the Nanjing Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall publicly released for the first time a list of 2,590 American aviation heroes who lost their lives on the Chinese

China eyes medical tourism boost, but still a long way to go amid regional competition scmp.com/economy/global…

Yesterday I showed a guy ChatGPT. His mind was blown. He works in a senior role at a large consulting firm. The big bosses have banned them all from using it. They think they are going to develop their own internal LLM (lol). This firm gets paid £6k per person per day to

This is a very interesting take. I wrote about the differences between Chinese and Indians in Silicon Valley a couple of years ago: x.com/andymok/status…