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BadChinaTake on China Twitter

Aug 16, 202141 min
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Episode description

@BadChinaTake, an anonymous twitter account that combined vicious takedowns of, well, bad china takes with a blog https://wokeglobaltimes.com/ that does deep dives into everything from tankie subcultures to China’s xinjiang policy, is one of the best things to hit China twitter. BadChinaTake was recently unmasked as Jake Eberts, a young DC-based China analyst. He joins us today to talk about his journey to twitter infamy. We get into

  • Whether the CIA, Chinese government, or George Soros fund him
  • Crisis, danger and opportunity
  • Whether you should argue with children online
  • The DC think tank complex and China Twitter’s redeemable qualities


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Outro music: 不再是少年 by 猛虎巧克力

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0wuSbUl2gM

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