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Observing the world, reflecting on current affairs and social phenomena, and sharing recent advances in STEM with a dose of rational thought.
In November 2025 the Japanese prime minister tied a possible Taiwan contingency to Japan’s ‘survival-threatening situation’ trigger and floated military intervention in the strait. A year on, the damage to Sino-Japanese relations is still accumulating.
Three months into my first term at Sichuan University in Chengdu, the novelty has worn off and the ordinary days have begun. A short essay on dormitories, dialects, and the slow realisation of what leaving Chizhou actually is.
The first large-scale rollout of a dengue vaccine began this month in Southeast Asia, timed to the start of the wet season when the mosquito-borne disease peaks, and the campaign is a test of everything that makes dengue a difficult target: four virus types, a waning immune response, and a vaccine that works best on people who have already been infected. The rollout is the most careful immunization campaign the tropics have ever mounted.
Chinese isn’t fading, but its depth is being tested. The real loss is our habit of thinking and expressing with precision. Language declines only when we stop demanding clarity. What we should become aware of nowadays.
On Saturday 24 October the interior ministry counted 410,000 marchers and the unions 800,000. The Louvre, the Opéra and much of Paris’s cultural life stayed shut, the shops boarded up, and a week after the worst rioting in years the government’s answer was to ban a march it could not stop.