Mark Dreyer
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[Not loaded yet] - Happy 2025! I started a Substack. Here's my first post: open.substack.com/pub/chinaspo...
- This SCMP editorial on a "fresh start" for Chinese football feels like it's straight out of the Xinhua library. Utter tripe. www.scmp.com/opinion/comm...
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- Four typos in four sentences for this BBC homepage piece on Vanuatu's earthquake. It's clear the editors were laid off there years ago, but what about Grammarly? AI? Or even a read through??
- A 20-year prison sentence was handed down to former Everton and China player and national team coach Li Tie today - "short" according to what he could have received for admitting bribery charges of more than $10m. Sad end to a truly groundbreaking career.
- Qi Jun, former director of the strategic planning dept of the CFA, who was also team leader of the men's national team during the 2022 World Cup qualification campaign, was sentenced to 7 years today. Speculation in Chinese media that Li Tie's verdict could come as early as this week...
- That, and the fact that "Hong Kong" was the reason why the NBA hasn't played games in China since 2019. No point in giving the critics - and there will still be plenty critical of this move - the neat and tidy "full circle" ironic headline.
- NBA games are returning to China next October - six years since a single tweet derailed the league there. Covered this a LOT in my book, as all my worlds - comms, sports, China, US-China - collided. Expect plenty more rhetoric next year... apnews.com/article/nba-...
- This is explosive. Summary: -WADA's investigation unit tells WADA that Chinese athletes are likely/historically taking trace amounts of TMZ. -WADA then learns Chinese athletes tested positive for trace amounts of TMZ. -But WADA does not inform its own investigation unit WADA --> not fit for purpose
- Ohtani's 50/50 ball sold for $4.4m last month to Taiwanese investment firm UC Capital - a tenant of Taipei 101 - so they decided to put it up for viewing until March next year.
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- 🧵The Shanghai marathon takes place tomorrow, December 1. Last month, the Abbott World Marathon Majors (@worldmarathon.bsky.social) announced that Shanghai was in contention to join its elite races. A thread on why that might still happen - but why it probably shouldn't.
- I remember the days long, long ago, when you could read stuff like this on Twitter. 10/10 thread.
- At an over/under of 10 days until Bluesky is blocked in China, I'm taking the under.
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