Carl Zha

@CarlZha

Random trivia generator, tweet about everything Chinese, also run a podcast about China, US-China Great Power competition, history of Empires, past and present.

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Joined August 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 15

    For non-subscribers, here is a 30+ minute preview of EP#28-Hong Kong Protest and its background on The Silk and Steel

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  2. 6 hours ago

    Yue Kingdom maps to Zhejiang province today. King Goujian was famous for endure humiliation of defeat and capture by King of Wu, that he plotted his revenge to conquer Wu for good. Chinese idiom for perseverance 臥薪嘗膽 sleep on straws eating bile base on his story of revenge

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  3. 6 hours ago

    The most famous bronze sword in China: Sword of King Goujian of Yue 越王勾踐劍 Still razor sharp after 2500 years

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Seima-Turbino spearheads (1-3) vs that of China (4-10)

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  5. 7 hours ago

    Map of Seima-Turbino phenomenon with its characteristic Willow leave shaped spearhead. This map suggests it spread to NW China then trickle down to Sichuan Basin and further south to Yunnan and Thailand

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Bronze Age China with outside world. No denying the strong similarities between Willow leave shaped Bronze spearheads in China and Seima-Turbino phenomena in Siberia. Seima-Turbino starts in Altai in Northern and stretch to Finland and Ukraine. But which 1st, 🐔 or 🥚?

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  7. 8 hours ago

    Okay, it was me. I did it. I gave the intel that led to death 👌🏼

    Iraqi intelligence provided the American side with the exact coordinates of location in Syria said a senior Iraqi intelligence official.
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  8. Retweeted
    Oct 26

    The CIA were busted for shipping cocaine into low-income black communities by the journalist Gary Webb back in the '80s. This isn't a conspiracy theory - it's historical record. No wonder the FBI want to criminalize conspiracy theories now.

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  9. 8 hours ago

    Ahem, internet was originally invented as tools of surveillance by US military. Go read book “Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet” 👉🏼

    The idea that surveillance technology, particularly the cultural normalization of surveillance can be contained to China specifically and somehow boxed in and not able to thrive elsewhere is laughable at best and dangerous at worst
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  10. 9 hours ago

    Did Turkey just admit they knew where Baghdadi was hiding (5km from Turkish border) this whole time?👇🏼

    Prior to the US Operation in Idlib Province of Syria last night, information exchange and coordination between the military authorities of both countries took place.
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  11. 9 hours ago

    Her TikTok ID is keeley86

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  12. 11 hours ago

    There’s no war criminals that Ellen doesn’t like 👌🏼

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    Happy birthday, ! I hope you’re partying this hard.
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  13. 11 hours ago

    Aerial photos taken on Oct 18, 2019 of Heicheng (Khara-Khoto)ruin in Ejina Banner, Inner Mongolia, China. An ancient city on the Silk Road that linked China with Central Asia. The Tangut City reached its peak under Yuan Dynasty, abandoned after Ming army diverted Ejina River

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  14. 11 hours ago

    Only in China: airplane body stuck under the overpass. Driver deflated tire to get out 👀

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  15. 11 hours ago

    By standards of accounting, that’s 10 Million people

    In Chile, more than 1 MILLION people took to the streets yesterday to protest the brutal neoliberal capitalist policies of rightwing billionaire oligarch President Piñera…
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  16. 11 hours ago

    I am going to make my dogs 🐕 do this

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  17. 11 hours ago

    China’s Cross-Dressing super star. Emperor Qianlong banned female actress in Peking Opera for “morality” when actresses used to double up as sex workers advertising their trade. So all female roles in Peking Opera performed by males who often serve as playtoy of rich and powerful

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    The first sound motion video of Mei Lanfang, a female impersonator and one of the most famous Peking opera artists in modern Chinese theater, February 1930, in the US by Paramount Pictures.
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  18. 12 hours ago

    According to , this is the top national security threat to US 😂👇🏼

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  19. 12 hours ago

    Hold up! You can order take out inside a Chinese club now? 😂😂😂

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  20. 12 hours ago

    Americans feel threatened by Iran because they can’t find it on a map. What’s Canada’s excuse?

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  21. Retweeted
    Oct 26

    This is how many countries support the CIA-funded Hong Kong protests, and roughly how many that have endorsed the “Chinese concentration camp” claims and “recognized” Guaido as president. The U.S. empire is weaker than it looks.

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