定于一尊, one supreme authority, is finally quantified. I analyzed all People's Daily articles mentioning 讲话 (speech) since 1989, and found when Xi speaks, it's usually important (重要讲话). And he is increasingly the only important voice on the Politburo Standing Committee.

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris. Among cancellations w/ election data available, 92.9% & 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% & 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

通过分析药监、医保部门的公开数据，发现仿制药在通过一致性评价后、集采药物在进入集采后，广泛存在变更原料供应商、生产工艺、生产厂址的情况，并在集采药品中更为常见。 这些变更有可能影响药物成分、药效，然而药厂只需备案，而无需再进行严格的一致性评价。详见——bsky.app/profile/airmovingde…

The saga of data issues in Chinese clinical trials continues... While NMPA works on their internal audit, I found more instances of data discrepancies that are hard to attribute to "editorial errors", as NMPA claimed in response to my posts. This gets technical but bear with me.

Thread: Search for Beijing/Shanghai/other cities in Chinese on Twitter and you'll mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results. Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a *significant* uptick in these spam tweets.