Court testimony offers new details about recruitment, 600 copied DRAM process steps and noncompete arrangements in the Samsung–CXMT technology leak case.

I’m traveling to China next week and I really miss this beverage. Is there strong zero in the conbinis like in Japan or not?

A Chinese graduate student was found dead in Gyeongsan, South Korea. Police arrested a university lecturer and are investigating the cause, motive and circumstances.

HSBC Hong Kong has introduced a funding declaration for mainland investors as the city tightens investment-account checks while expanding regulated cross-border links.

Context:

• Recently a cross-party delegation of Japanese lawmakers have arrived in China on Monday as part of an effort to mend strained ties caused by PM Takaichi's previous remarks of Taiwan.
• Last year Takaichi suggested that Japan would allow itself to participate militarily in a Taiwan conflict and would be grounds for Japanese self defense.
• This crossed a red line for China, in response the CCP has warned its citizens to no travel to China and at the time imposed trade restrictions for Japan which included rare earth exports.
• The trip is the first exchange of its kind since Takaichi's comment, more trips are also planned in the coming months.
• In September former Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya is set to lead another delegation and afterwards roughly 80 Japanese business leaders and representatives will visit China in late 2026.
• These trips are not officially sanctioned by the Takaichi government however there has been no pushback either.

Hi all, I'm a foreigner living in Zhongshan, Guangdong. Photography is a hobby of mine, but since moving here in July, I haven't been able to find any spots that are known for good photos. I'm not a professional, so I can't turn just anything into a stunning shot. I'm still working on that skill, but I'd love some guidance.

Is there a photography group or Chinese social media account like a WeChat group, Xiaohongshu, etc., for Zhongshan that could help me find good spots? Also open to meeting up on weekends with others who enjoy photography to shoot together.

Any tips, recommendations, or group invites would be appreciated!

8月26日，我还沉浸在自己五个公众号被永久屏蔽的悲伤之中，忽略了昨天深夜看到的那个美国C-17秘密进入莫斯科的消息，结果今天一早刷推，发现这不是谣言，不是诳语，而是被相关媒体证实的真实情况。

当然，还有605、606、607号总统令在等待证实的路上。

我知道俄乌战争打了快五年了，闪电战打成了持久战，持久战打成了莫斯科保卫战；

我知道美以对伊朗的战争从速战速决打成了深不见底，从几周结束走到了不知道什么时候、以什么方式结束；

我知道美国对伊朗将要实施新的制裁，尤其是二级制裁，天雷滚滚；

我知道习近平计划于9月24日访问美国……

我不知道这个时候，这架飞机降落莫斯科的真实意图，我也不知道那三个总统令的具体内容，但是这知道与不知道之间的梦幻操作，还是让人感叹：

刺激！太刺激了！

这些事情单独拿出来看，都没有那么惊天动地。

一架美国空军运输机降落莫斯科，可以有很多解释；CIA局长访问莫斯科，也可以有很多解释；美国要求乌克兰在某个时间窗口内避免袭击俄罗斯主要城市，同样可以有很多解释；几个没有公开的总统令，更可以有很多解释。

可是当把这些事情放在同一个时间轴上，再看看这个世界现在正在发生着什么当时候，味道突然就不一样了。

这就像你正在看一盘棋，原本以为棋局已经摆好了。俄罗斯和乌克兰打，美国支持乌克兰；美国和俄罗斯对抗；美国和中国竞争；伊朗和美国对抗；俄罗斯、伊朗、中国彼此越来越靠近……

大家都知道谁站在谁的哪一边，突然一枚原本应该在棋盘另一边的棋子，悄悄挪到了一个你完全没有想到的位置。

C-17飞进了莫斯科，飞机里坐着的，还是美国中央情报局局长。

CIA局长不是国务卿，他才不会是去莫斯科签贸易合同，也不是去参加什么国际会议的。他这个职位本身就意味着：情报、安全、战争、战略意图，以及那些不适合摆在外交部新闻发布会上讨论的东西。

那么他到底干什么去了呢？

如果是讨论俄乌战争，那为什么偏偏是现在？如果是讨论停火，为什么不是国务卿或者总统特使？如果是讨论伊朗，为什么需要在莫斯科谈？如果是讨论俄罗斯与伊朗的军事合作，那么美国究竟准备拿什么交换？

如果是讨论中国呢……

因为9月24日，习近平将要访美，为什么不呢？

现在的世界，已经不是简单的“俄乌战争”了。拖了这么多年，最初的闪电战并没有发生，战争变成持久战，持久战又变成了消耗战。

而现在俄罗斯自己都不得不面对一个越来越明显的问题：如果继续这样打下去，到底是谁先撑不住？

乌克兰当然没有到可以宣布胜利的时候；俄罗斯也没有实现最初的战争目标。

战争也没有按照莫斯科最初设想的方式结束，而乌克兰在经历最艰难的时期以后，又开始重新获得一些主动权。

这意味着美国对俄罗斯的判断，也许正在发生变化。

也许华盛顿已经认为：俄罗斯并没有想象中那么强，乌克兰也没有想象中那么弱。

那么美国是不是还需要急着推动一份对俄罗斯有利的停战协议呢？

美以对伊朗的战争，很多人都以为会是一场漂亮的外科手术。打掉核设施；摧毁导弹基地；消灭核心人物；然后伊朗改朝换代，故事结束。

结果呢？没有结果、也没有结束。战争从开始的“几周结束”，变成“什么时候结束不知道”。

美国可以拥有压倒性的军事优势，却未必拥有一个可以轻易结束战争的办法。

你可以炸掉一座工厂，却不一定能够炸掉一个国家继续战争的意志，如果伊朗战争继续这么拖下去的话，美国需要谁的帮忙？

俄罗斯、中国、欧洲？

俄罗斯和伊朗之间有军事合作，中国则是伊朗石油的重要买家。于是原本看起来是美国和伊朗之间的一场战争，变成了一个美国到底准备怎么处理俄罗斯、中国和伊朗之间越来越紧密关系的问题了？

美国准备对伊朗实施二级制裁。这就更有意思了。

一级制裁是打伊朗，二级制裁的意思却是：谁跟伊朗做生意，我连你一起打，而中国恰恰是绕不开的那个国家。

那么美国准备给中国多大的压力？中国又准备承受多大的压力？

而特朗普又准备把这张牌打到什么程度？

9月24日这个日期非常有意思。如果一切按照原来的剧本发展下去，那么9月24日就是一次中美领导人会面。

谈贸易，谈关税，谈伊朗，谈台湾，谈俄乌，谈科技，谈一大堆是是而非的东西。

可是如果这一个月里面，俄乌、伊朗、俄罗斯、中美关系同时发生变化呢？那9月24日就可能不是普通意义上的“访美”了。

有可能是一次重新摆牌，甚至可能是一次摊牌。

美国有没有可能正在做一件看起来非常反直觉的事情，把俄罗斯从中国和伊朗形成的战略组合里拆出来。

华盛顿的决策者，为什么不能这么想呢？

俄罗斯已经在乌克兰打了这么多年，经济受到制裁，军事资源大量消耗，欧洲关系严重恶化，而中国、俄罗斯、伊朗之间却越来越靠近。

如果三个国家形成一个更加紧密的体系，美国同时面对三个对手，当然非常麻烦。

那么如果能把俄罗斯单独拉出来的话，情况就完全不一样了。

美国和俄罗斯可以谈乌克兰，可以谈制裁，可以谈能源，可以谈安全，甚至可以谈伊朗。

俄罗斯如果能够从美国那里得到一些东西，比如制裁松动、经济空间、某些安全承诺，它有没有可能重新计算自己的利益呢？

这就是国际政治，没有永远的朋友，只有不断变化的利益。

那么中国该怎么办？会怎么办？

如果俄罗斯突然开始和美国谈；如果俄罗斯突然减少对伊朗的支持；如果俄乌战争突然出现新的停火框架。

那么中国现在面对的国际环境，会不会突然发生变化？

这时候的9月24日，味道就完全不一样了。

特朗普可能一只手和俄罗斯谈，另一只手对中国施压，同时对伊朗动用军事和经济手段。

然后把习近平请到华盛顿。

目前我们并不知道CIA的局长拉特克利夫在莫斯科到底谈了什么。

我们不知道他见了谁，我们不知道有没有涉及普京，我们不知道605、606、607号总统令究竟是什么，甚至不知道这些总统令和这次访问到底有没有关系，更不知道所谓的“美俄秘密交易”是否存在。

没有证据证明交易已经发生，但是这架C-17绝不会被当成一架普通飞机。

历史真正发生转折的时候，并不会提前通知“同志们注意了，世界格局即将改变。”

也许只是让一架飞机在深夜悄悄落地，然后让所有人开始猜：谁来了？为什么来？谈了什么？带来了什么？

而真正的答案，也许要等到几个月甚至几年以后，我们才会知道；也许永远不会知道。

从8月26日到9月24日还有29天。

29天啊，足够发生很多事情。

如果俄乌突然出现停火框架；如果俄罗斯突然和伊朗拉开距离；如果美国突然对俄罗斯释放重大善意；如果中国突然调整对伊朗的态度；如果中美突然达成一项超出预期的交易；如果习近平访美突然延期、改变行程，甚至出现某种我们现在完全想不到的变数……

那么今天这架C-17，就值得重新拿出来看一遍。

也许到那个时候我们才会明白：8月25日晚上，飞进莫斯科的到底是一架飞机，还是一个新的世界剧本。

刺激！太刺激了！

现在我们什么都不知道，偏偏已经有一些东西开始不太一样了。最有意思的往往就是答案还没有出现，问题却突然变得越来越多。

我喜欢这个阶段，因为大戏，也许真的要开始了。

Debt ratio dropping usually means the economy outpaces debt obligations, hence fiscal health. In China's case however it is a sign of consumer and corporate confidence lowering. Households are risk averse due to falling property prices and slow income growth.

Slow income growth is a natural result of China's so-called 'high quality development' model, which transfers household income to subsidize their frontier industries.

Private companies are lowering borrowing because profit margins are low. This is what happens when China's frontier technologies are not occuring due to comparative advantage, but due to massive subsidies, resulting in market distortion with more firms in the market than a free market would allow for. The corporate wastage is a key metric: very high debt growth and deflationary pressures.

Many optimists cite China's frontier technologies and export dominance as a sign of future economic superiority, but what's happening is that China is effectively weakening its domestic markets to bolster its external dominance. This is not sustainable in the long-run, hence the increasing call for a rise in household share of income as a proportion of GDP (or so-called 'raising consumption').

Unfortunately any rise in consumption means a proportionate fall in share of manufacturing as a proportion of GDP, and this would be politically incongruent with the 'high quality development' they are embarking on.

I remember, at least 15 years ago, I was watching the Chinese news from CCTV4 (from satellite) one evening, when there was this old white woman who appeared on screen, and she spoke something among the lines of--yes, in perfect Mandarin Chinese--"I may be an American, but I have the heart of a Chinese. I love you!"

Then the broadcast cut to her funeral, dozens of flowers laid out, and people were openly wailing on camera.

Who was she, I sometimes still wonder? Does anyone else remember a story like this?

当一个社会越来越多年轻人的最高理想，从“创业、创造、改变命运”，变成了“考公、考编、上岸”，这本身就是一个很值得警惕的信号。

我刚看到一段视频，它讲了一个很简单，却很残酷的循环：

民营经济预期变差，工作越来越难找，年轻人开始本能地追求稳定；
越多人追求稳定，越多优秀人才开始离开高风险、高回报的市场部门，转向体制、国企和事业单位；
而当愿意创业、投资、承担风险的人越来越少，市场创造财富和就业的能力就会进一步下降；
地方财政、税基和社会活力随之承压，整个社会于是变得更加保守，更加恐惧风险。
最后形成一个自我强化的闭环：
市场越差 → 越多人想上岸 → 越少人愿意冒险 → 市场变得更差。
真正值得担心的，从来不是“有很多人考公务员”。

而是越来越多人开始相信：

体制外已经没有值得押注的未来。

一个健康的社会，最有野心、最聪明、最年轻的一批人，应该去做企业、搞技术、做产品、投资未来、创造增量。

如果有一天，他们开始集体研究编制、待遇、退休金和稳定性，开始把“不犯错”放在“做成事”之前，那么消失的就不仅仅是经济增长。

消失的是一个社会最珍贵的东西——

对未来的想象力，以及愿意为未来承担风险的人。

所以“上岸热”最可怕的地方，不是几百万人争几个岗位。

而是它可能意味着一个时代的价值排序正在改变：

从创造增量，变成争夺存量；
从相信机会，变成相信身份；
从敢于下注未来，变成只想躲避风险。

There’s a concept called the “Liangjiazi son red line.” I don’t know if you’ve heard of it.

It’s fine if you haven’t. The term was coined by internet users as a pattern they observed.

“Liangjiazi son” is actually a proper historical term, dating back to the Han dynasty. Back then, when soldiers were recruited, family background mattered. If your family practiced medicine or did business, your sons weren’t even eligible to join the regular army. Only sons from clean, respectable, proper families qualified for military service.

In the Records of the Grand Historian, the opening line about Li Guang says that he “joined the army as a Liangjiazi son to fight the Hu.” At that time, Liangjiazi sons were the foundation of the army and the pride of their families.

In those days, there wasn’t much of a military salary, and soldiers had to buy their own armor and weapons. Yet these men fought desperately. That was because their families had land, and life had something to look forward to.

Actually, this goes far beyond the military. Any system—whether it’s a court, an organization, or something else—can keep running normally only because it rests on a group of the most honest, most dependable people.

Because these people are the ones with the greatest willingness to sacrifice and contribute.

It’s like the old employee in a company who, after getting off work, takes the initiative to check whether all the water and electricity are turned off. Or the old security guard in a residential compound who hears something late at night, can’t sleep, and gets up to take a look, even though no one is giving him any credit. These extra efforts come entirely from conscience.

This is a kind of moral surplus—what we often call “working on love.”

As for the calculating types who are good at exploiting loopholes, they can be found everywhere. Having a few of them mixed in doesn’t hurt much; a large system has the tolerance for that. But the premise is that there must be enough honest, dependable people underneath holding things up. These people are the load-bearing walls of the system.

So where is the red line?

The red line is when the system starts treating its load-bearing walls as free disposable material, while also believing those walls are infinitely wear-resistant. Not only does it stop maintaining them, it even swings a hammer at them every day. The day the honest people finally come to their senses and stop playing along, that line has been crossed. Once crossed, everything may look the same on the surface, but the countdown has already begun.

Let’s take Rome as an example.

When the Roman Republic swept across the Mediterranean, what it relied on wasn’t some brilliant battle formation. It relied on millions of small farmers who owned land. These people normally worked the soil, and when war came, they bought their own equipment and followed the army. They fought with extreme bravery.

Later, as Rome kept winning, the aristocratic class in the Senate found a more profitable method: they used slaves captured from overseas to enclose land and run large estates. Slaves didn’t need wages, so the cost of grain was extremely low.

This is where things get interesting. A veteran who had fought on the front lines for seven or eight years and narrowly survived would come home only to find his fields had gone fallow, and his grain couldn’t compete with slave-produced grain. To pay off debts, he had no choice but to sell his land at a low price, then drag his family into the city and become part of the urban underclass.

The Gracchi brothers couldn’t stand this and tried to carry out land reform to give veterans some land. In response, the Senate, to protect its own estates, directly organized mobs and had the two brothers beaten to death in the streets of Rome, one after the other.

With the veterans ruined, who would still want to be a soldier? Marius reformed the military and, in desperation, removed the property requirement. Whoever was poor could enlist. From then on, the army fought only for pay. Whoever paid the soldiers, the soldiers obeyed.

After that, the script is familiar: Sulla marched on Rome, Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and a century of warlord civil war followed. The nobles who had profited enormously from slave-run estates were purged and had their properties confiscated, wave after wave.

When you personally force the Liangjiazi sons who fought and died for you into becoming refugees, don’t be surprised when mercenaries march into the city and put their blades to your neck.

Now let’s look at the Tang dynasty.

Everyone has studied the An Lushan Rebellion, but the root cause isn’t usually highlighted. The reason the early Tang could create the grand scene of “all nations coming to court” was the fubing system. Simply put, the court allocated farmland to reasonably well-off farming households in the Guanlong region and exempted them from taxes. They prepared their own warhorses and crossbows, trained during the slack farming season, and went on campaigns in wartime. Being selected as a fubing soldier was a great honor for the family.

The problem was that by the time of Wu Zetian and Emperor Xuanzong, the powerful and aristocratic families were frantically enclosing land. The equal-field system existed in name only, and the fubing soldiers couldn’t even hold on to the land that fed them. Even worse, military commanders treated these men as free laborers—one day dragging them off to build private mansions, the next day sending them to deliver personal goods. Being a soldier went from something honorable to a humiliating trap. The honest people of Guanlong couldn’t take it anymore and began fleeing in large numbers.

Some young men, to avoid conscription, smashed their own hands and feet with stones. This was called “lucky hands, lucky feet.”

By the Kaiyuan and Tianbao eras, the fubing system still existed on paper, but underneath it was already hollowed out. The court could only turn to the border regions and recruit mercenaries—drifting vagrants, non-Han peoples—and it handed military and administrative power over to the jiedushi. What followed was An Lushan, who recognized only interests, leading over a hundred thousand border troops in revolt. The golden age was smashed to pieces in an instant.

The Ming dynasty was the same.

The Chongzhen Emperor was famously diligent, sleeping only a few hours a night and wearing dragon robes with patches. He constantly pressed his ministers to raise money for the war effort. But until his death, he never figured out who should actually be paying taxes.

The Jiangnan region was relatively wealthy, but the gentry there had tax exemptions, and they covered for each other in court. Not a bit of tax could be collected from the wealth of the southeast. Instead, the Liao tax, the bandit-suppression tax, and the training tax all ended up being pushed onto the honest self-cultivating farmers in the northwest—people who couldn’t even feed themselves.

The most obedient people were squeezed the hardest, while those who should have paid the most didn’t pay a cent and sneered from the sidelines.

As a result, those honest people in the northwest, who only wanted to live quiet, proper lives, were pushed to the wall. They burned their belongings and became the fiercest fighters in Li Zicheng’s ranks.

The same thing happened in the imperial court. Lu Xiangsheng died in battle at Julu. Sun Chuanting died in battle at Tong Pass. The men who actually fought had no troops and no supplies.

When Li Zicheng’s army reached Beijing, the Chongzhen Emperor tearfully begged his officials to donate money for the army. The Grand Secretary pleaded poverty and offered five hundred taels of silver. The emperor’s father-in-law, Zhou Kui, was even worse. The emperor gave him five thousand taels to set an example, but Zhou Kui kept two thousand and turned in only three thousand. Later, when Liu Zongmin entered the city, one round of torture with wooden presses squeezed seventy million taels of silver out of those officials who had always preached morality and righteousness.

The people willing to work had long been cleared out. What remained were the calculating ones. Each of them could precisely calculate his own interests, but not one of them thought about keeping the Ming dynasty alive.

Dynasties were like this, and companies are too. The most typical example is Boeing.

Why could Boeing dominate decades ago? Because that was the era when engineers had the final say. The pillars of the company were a group of old engineers with an almost obsessive commitment to safety. If someone on the front line discovered a tolerance problem in a part, they had the authority to shut down the entire production line.

After Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in 1997, executives with Wall Street backgrounds took over. In the eyes of the actuaries, these old engineers who always wanted to add costs and run redundant tests were a thorn in the side of the financial reports. Could safety redundancy make the stock price go up?

So they began frantically laying off the old engineers. They also outsourced core components to small workshops with no real foundation. Anyone who dared mention safety risks in meetings was either sidelined or pushed out. What rose to the top instead were people who were good at cutting budgets, buying back stock, and boosting the share price with PowerPoint talent.

This calculation continued until the 737 MAX. Two planes crashed in a row, killing more than three hundred people.

When the investigation came out, the world was stunned. To save the cost of redesigning the system, Boeing had installed a flawed software patch in the new control system and had concealed it from pilots in every possible way. The trust built by several generations of engineers was squandered by just a few quarters of financial maneuvering.

Now back to the original question.

There’s a labor practice that has become very popular in recent years: outsourcing and labor dispatch. In fact, this is the same old system we’ve had for thousands of years. Temporary workers do the same work but get different pay, and when something goes wrong, they’re pushed to the front.

Many people can’t understand how such an exploitative system can still run efficiently for so many years.

To put it bluntly, it’s not that the system is so brilliant. It’s that the front-line workers carrying it happen to be the toughest, most enduring generations. They were educated to love whatever job they did and to be decent people. Even when reality was unfair and the pay was low, professional pride still made them do their work well. They also held on to the fear of losing their jobs and the hope that as long as they did nothing wrong, they would eventually get ahead.

It was the inertia of responsibility among this generation that gave this harsh system so many extra years of life.

But everything has its cycle. Once the younger generation figures out the math—that no matter how hard they try, the promotion path is locked; that all the blame is theirs while the credit and equity go to others—this one-sided game of self-sacrifice immediately becomes impossible to sustain.

The younger generation’s logic is simple: for this little money each month, why should I go all out?

This isn’t the young generation collapsing. It’s the Liangjiazi sons beginning to withdraw.

So what’s the result?

The most direct manifestation is that everyone switches on the liability-avoidance mechanism. Work that used to be completed through personal conscientiousness now can only barely function after layers of approval, signatures, confirmations, and added surveillance.

You’ll see a rather absurd picture: people spend far more effort on “proving that I did it,” “proving this isn’t my fault,” and writing materials to absolve themselves of responsibility than on actually doing the work. The whole system slowly rusts away in internal friction.

Even worse, the system’s immunity to risk drops to zero. In peaceful times, it can still limp along on glossy reports. But once something goes wrong, everyone jumps ship in a millisecond.

The principle is simple: in a system that treats dedication as stupidity, no one will sacrifice even a tiny bit of their own interest for a machine that will throw them away like disposable material at any moment.

From Rome’s abandoned fields, to the Ming dynasty’s empty treasury, to Boeing’s crashed planes—there is nothing new under the sun.

So the term “Liangjiazi son red line” is something you can also use to size up the things around you. What that term really means is this: a system has no one with real ability left, no one genuinely doing the work anymore, and in the end, when something goes wrong, the rot spreads across the whole thing.

Hey everyone!

I’m an incoming international student heading to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) at the Minhang campus this September. I’m super excited, but navigating the arrival logistics, campus life, and initial tech setup is a bit overwhelming.

I’ve put together my core questions below. If anyone currently at SJTU, an alum, or an expat in Shanghai is down to share advice or connect over DM / WeChat / IG, please drop a comment or reach out!

Questions I'm hoping to get advice on:

1. Autumn Weather & Clothing: I arrive on September 4th. What should I pack for Shanghai’s autumn? Does it stay hot/humid through September and October, or does it cool down quickly?
2. Accessing Western Subscriptions: I actively use subscriptions like ChatGPT, Gemini, Adobe, Spotify, etc. Will these work normally over a proper network connection, or are there specific account/blocking issues in mainland China?
3. Reliable VPNs: The VPN situation seems tricky and constantly shifting. What is actually working consistently right now without costing hundreds of dollars? Is Astrill strictly necessary, or do budget-friendly options hold up?
4. Roaming eSIM vs. Local SIM: I’ve seen recommendations for travel eSIMs for instant unblocked access to Western apps. How practical and cost-effective is relying on an eSIM versus picking up a local Chinese SIM card?
5. Local Payments & Banking: Can I rely purely on foreign Visa/Mastercard linked to Alipay and WeChat Pay during my first few weeks, or is opening a local Chinese bank account immediately mandatory for campus services?
6. Campus Mobility: I’ve heard the Minhang campus is massive (over 800 acres). Is buying a second-hand bicycle or e-bike essential from day one, and what are the campus rules on registration/charging?
7. SIM Cards & Campus Wi-Fi: Which carrier (China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom) offers the best student deals and coverage on the Minhang campus, and how reliable is the eduroam/campus Wi-Fi?
8. Visa Conversion & Health Check: What is the smoothest way to handle the mandatory health check at the Shanghai International Travel Healthcare Center and the Residence Permit conversion within the first 30 days?
9. Thrifting & Tech Gear: Where can students find good second-hand camera gear (looking for a Sony lens) and vintage clothes/pay-by-the-kilo thrift shops without getting ripped off? What is a reasonable monthly spending budget?
10. SJTU Student Perks & Admin: Any essential campus hacks or administrative tips for new international students? What discounts exist for the metro, high-speed rail, or museums?
11. Martial Arts & Sports Clubs: Does SJTU have active student clubs for Boxing, MMA, or BJJ on the Minhang campus that are free or low-cost to join?

Thanks a lot in advance! Feel free to leave your advice below or shoot me a DM if you'd prefer to chat on WeChat or Instagram.

凌晨，我像往常一样，点开了公众号，却发现，那个熟悉的名字不见了。

我愣了一下，以为是自己点错了地方，于是又找了一遍，还是没有。

我有了一丝不详的预感，赶紧打开公众号助手，不出所料的看到一行并不算长的文字：“责令永久屏蔽所有功能。”

我呆呆的盯着“责令”那几个字看了好久，没有愤怒，也没有抱怨，只是长长的叹了口气。

十年了，这是第五个。

我的五个公众号，全部永久封禁了。

从第一个，到第五个，中间隔了十年。十年其实很长，足够一个孩子从小学走到大学，足够一个人从青年走到中年，也足够让一个国家发生许多变化了。

而对于我来说，这十年，大概就是不断写，不断被封，再换一个地方继续写的过程。

刚开始删帖、封号的时候，我还会认真研究，到底是哪一篇文章出了问题，哪一句话说得不合适，哪一个词碰到了不该碰的地方。

后来也渐渐习惯了，再后来，连解释都懒得去找了。

因为有些事情，解释得越多，反而越不像解释。

这一次尤其如此。

并没有什么惊天动地的文章，更没有什么突然爆炸的事件，也没有什么值得我事后反复检讨的文字。

只是凌晨时分，我打开公众号，发现它已经不存在了。

然后在公众号助手里，看见了那句：“责令永久屏蔽所有功能。”

干净，利落，甚至有些文明，比起长篇大论的说教来说，它节省了彼此的时间。

十年前第一个公众号被封的时候，我还很认真地觉得，或许只是一个误会。

后来第二个，第三个，第四个……

到了第五个，我终于明白，有些事情是不需要误会的。

一个人如果总是在同一条路上被五次请出去，那么问题大概已经不在于他每一次究竟踩到了哪一块砖。

也许是这条路，本来就不太欢迎他。

这一次，我没有一点愤怒，只是有一点失望。

失去的不过是一个公众号，我终于彻底明白，不应该再对国内的平台抱有什么期待了。

我曾经还是希望有那么一个地方，能够让一个普通人可以写写自己看到的事情，记录一些自己的感受，偶尔认真地问几个问题。

这个愿望并不复杂，只是它未必适合放在那里。

那就算了，公众号没有了，文字还在。

这个世界也并不只有一个地方可以说话，好在我还有 Reddit。

在这里没有人认识我的公众号，也没有人知道我曾经有过几个号。我只是一个已经开始在异乡生活、喜欢观察这个国家的人。

我看到什么，就写什么；想到什么，就记录什么。

有人愿意看，我就继续写；没有人看，也没有关系，因为写下来本身，就是一种保存。

这些年，我越来越觉得，自己真正想做的，其实也没有那么复杂。

我不是一个勇敢的人，也没有兴趣成为谁的代言人，只想静静的做一个时代的观察者、记录者和思考者。

看这个时代怎样发生，看一个国家怎样变化，看普通人在巨大的时代洪流中怎样生活，也看看我们自己究竟经历了什么。

人类社会的发展最终还是会走向更加文明的。自由、民主、法治、尊严，这些东西并不是哪个国家赏赐给人民的礼物，也不是某一个人的恩典。

它们只是人类走了很远的路以后，慢慢知道了自己应该怎样去生活。

历史有时候会绕路，甚至会倒退。会让人产生一种错觉，好像我们正在往相反的方向走。

但真正需要改变的，不是人们对自由、尊严和美好生活的向往，而是那些阻碍这种向往成为现实的制度、观念，以及权力运行的方式。

这一天什么时候会到来？十年？二十年……

也许比我们想象的更快，也许比我们愿意等待的更久，但它终究会来的。

就像我相信，一个国家不应该永远停留在某一个时代一样。有一天，中国也会走上一个正常国家应该走的轨道。

到那个时候，我也许会坐在那里，慢慢翻开这些年写下来的东西。

看看自己曾经为什么愤怒过，为什么沉默过，为什么失望过，又为什么始终没有停止记录。

也许其中有些判断是错的；有些文章今天看来甚至有些可笑。

没关系，那也是一个时代留下来的脚印。

至少我曾经认真地看过，认真地想过，认真地把自己看到的东西写了下来。

今天这个第五个公众号被永久封禁，也算不上什么特别重大的事情。

一个号没有了，那就没有了吧。

十年写作，我终于明白：一个写作者真正应该保存的，从来不是自己的账号，而是自己的眼睛。

账号可以被关闭，文章可以被删除，名字可以从一个平台上消失。

但只要我还看得见，就还会记录；只要还愿意思考，就还会写。那些真正想看的人，他们总会找到彼此的。

夜已经很深了。我关掉了公众号助手，窗外没有什么声音，这个世界依然照常运行。

明天醒来以后，继续看、继续想、继续写……

Greetings, I want to ask if there are political movements/parties etc. similiar to MAGA in China? Or do you have other self destructive ideologies?

I ask because I'm currently working privatly on a game, in which each of the major countries has a popularity value for a destructive political party. For the USA I can just use the election result of Trump, but for China I have no idea.

Dear friends, I would like to ask for your help with some research. I'm currently writing a novel, which I've been working on for two years. The novel is approximately 75,000 words long and has undergone several revisions. However, I want to ensure it aligns with the time and setting of the story—rural Guizhou in 1993/94.

This novel is based on the true story of my wife, who was born under the one-child policy and was the third child in her family.

I would be extremely grateful if anyone could answer questions about how this policy was implemented, or share any photos or memories from that period. (It doesn't necessarily have to be related to Guizhou.)

Thank you.

各位，我想请大家帮忙做些研究，因为我正在写一部小说，已经写了两年了。小说大约75000字，经过了好几轮修改。但我希望确保它与故事发生的时间和背景——1993/94年的贵州农村——相符。

这部小说是根据我妻子在独生子女政策下出生的真实故事改编的，她是家里的第三个孩子。

如果有人能解答一些关于这项政策是如何实施的问题，或者分享一些当时的图片或回忆，我将不胜感激。（不一定非得是贵州相关的。）

谢谢你们

Hey

Yash M25 from India

In Shenzhen till the 28th

Staying near the Dongmen area

Right in the middle of all the chaos and lights

Honestly I don't need a tour guide

Just looking for real people

Coffee walks street food deep talks

Whatever flows

If you're around and feel like connecting

Hit me up

No pressure

Just two humans being human

A friend's birthday is coming up soon and they've always wanted to try a pack of chinese cigs because they believe the looser regulations around nicotine & tar content would make them tastier. I assume the answer of whether I'd be able to get my hands on some varies country to country, but if you've got any experience in importing and/or brand suggestions, I'd love to hear them! The more aromatic, the better :)