#U.S. China

[infonewsmania]

US faces critical years in fighting 'China challenge,' Pentagon chief warns

US faces critical years in fighting ‘China challenge,’ Pentagon chief warns

The US is at a critical juncture with China and will need military power to ensure that American values, not Beijing’s, set global goals in the 21st century, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday. Austin’s speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum capped a week in which the Pentagon was focused on China’s rise and what that might mean for America’s position in the world. by 2035,…

[lobaznyuk]

Team China, 2024 Paris Olympics (Qualifications)

[gwydionmisha]

U.S. and China race to shield secrets from quantum computers

[apas-95]

Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association and National People's Congress deputy, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIFE, June 30, 1927

[lonestarbattleship]

USS HOUSTON (CA-30) and USS AUGUSTA (CA-31) on the Wusong river (Suzhou Creek) in Shanghai, China. Photographed during the Sino-Japanese Hostilities.

Date: February 1932

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Library: pe000035, fr208399, pe001214, fr202530

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I saw a thing the other day praising the "steadfast" Yemenis for downing another USAF drone, and also read an article about how Russia thrives in wartime because it gives their cultural impulse to suppress individuals in favor of total collective obedience to the state a logical application, and, you know

If these are the enemies, I feel generally OK about my society.

[molination]

Feng Nuxi's design and the China Doll Nightclub

Recently, I stumbled across a tumblr thread that discusses the inspiration behind Feng Nuxi’s character design. It says that Feng Nuxi’s design refers to the costumes of the female Chinese American performers in the China Doll Nightclub. As the representative of the American born Chinese society, I have to elaborate on the China Doll Nightclub. 

In 1938, a Chinese American club owner Charlie Low (picture below)  established a nightclub called the Forbidden City in San Francisco, California. The Forbidden City quickly became the most popular “suey chop circuit”, a network of Chinese American cabaret performers in California during the 40s to 50s, among the nightlife industry in California's Chinatowns. 

The Suey chop circuit completely revolutionized the nightclub life in Chinatown and California in general. Chinese American performers began to mash their singing, dancing, and dressing to fit the fashion and trends of Mainland China and also United States at the time. As the suey chop circuit gained popularity, white people saw how different the performers at Chinese nightclubs looked and acted, and took note of that. 

In 1946, stage producer Tom Bell established a Chinese nightclub in New York on Broadway Street called “China Doll”. Unlike the suey chop circuits in California, “China Doll” plays with the East Asian stereotypes and the “oriental” aesthetic. Initially, Bell had promoted the club as “New York’s only oriental nightclub” and later on performers at the “China Doll” had to perform shows with names such as “Maid in China” and “Slant Eyed Scandals.” Like black nightclubs, the China performers at “China Doll” 

As racist as this could be, “China Doll” helped expand the suey chop circuit from California to all parts of the United States, introducing the Chinese American performers to a broader, newer audience, and boosted the careers of many Chinese American entertainers.

Source: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/china-doll-nightclub/GwHMxxyMzX5cyQ?hl=ena

More pictures of the performers of U.S Chinese nightclubs:

[reportsofawartime]

[ganondorf]

randomly thinking about that ML who claimed i was cia funded for saying china is very firmly state capitalist and ditched anything resembling marxism in the 70s like.....wait....i thought the u.s. government WANTS people to think china is still communist

[magz]

am kind of amazed how often discussions about exploitation of global south by Global SuperPowers

will always end up as derail about "United States worse than China"

is been years of this.

am not even live in United States. Do we not center the convo on that enough as-is?

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I don’t know why I’m shocked with the United States’ support for genocide given their track record with it. I don’t know, I just hoped that maybe for once they would actually make an effort to prevent one and speak out against it but it looks like we’re going down the same path we always do which is: make it worse, assist in the deaths of innocent civilians and then when the dust settles claim that another genocide can never happen again and next time we won’t be silent and we will do something about it.

[lookninjas]

Tempted to go back and find every article I've ever reblogged about privacy and/or security concerns in re: TikTok, with maybe a couple side posts about China's human rights abuses just to prove a point, but I'm rapidly running out of my ability to interact with people and I should probably save what I have left for the last two hours of work.

Also, I'd be attempting to prove a point on Facebook, which is just madness.

[sleepdepravity]

also yesterday while i was streaming devotion for people in the server i did summarize the whole thing with how the game got taken off steam and one of them said "that's what happens with a dictator" and i just had to be like. :) i shouldn't say anything. :) :)

[mortalfollies]

i bought 200 stamps for $10 yesterday at an antiques place. i spent two and a half hours looking over them. it was a very fun evening :)

[lonestarbattleship]

USS HOUSTON (CA-30) in Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese Hostilities.

Date:February 1932.

Historical Photos of China: ep01-365, ep01-373, Ep01-408, Ep01-369