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China found a funny workaround to let Marco Rubio in. They simply changed the Chinese character for his last name and pretended this is a different Rubio. Even worse: Now his name sounds even more rude than before. :D

From 卢 to 鲁 (meaning stupid or rude)

Looking for feedback from this community on whether the framing holds up as resource-statecraft scholarship.

The doc treats April 4, 2025 (MOFCOM Announcement 18/2025) as a calibrated escalation in a 15-year sequence rather than a discrete event:

• 2010 Senkaku → first weaponization (16× price spike, 3 months)
• 2023 Ga/Ge → second-order materials test
• Aug 2024 Sb → calibrated retaliation to US tariff escalation
• Dec 2024 → first explicit dual-use re-export ban
• Apr 2025 → 7 heavy REEs licensed; explicit linkage to 145% Trump tariffs
• Nov 2025 → temporary de-escalation on civilian (Announcement 72/2025) but military ban sustained

Key analytic question: does this constitute "weaponized interdependence" (Farrell/Newman) or does the asymmetry of the dependency push it past that framework into something more like classical chokepoint coercion?

Hey everyone,

I’m on a hunt for a specific Mandarin dub of the original 1998 Disney Mulan.

I am looking for the Mainland China (Putonghua) version that features Jackie Chan as the voice of Captain Li Shang. I know Jackie Chan also did the voice for the Taiwanese and Cantonese versions, but I am specifically trying to avoid the Taiwanese version (the one with Coco Lee as Mulan and Jacky Wu as Mushu).

The version I’m looking for should have:

• Mulan: Voiced by Xu Qing (许晴)
• Li Shang: Voiced by Jackie Chan (成龙)
• Mushu: Voiced by Chen Peisi (陈佩斯)

Does anyone know where I can find/watch this version? Most streaming services seem to only host the Taiwanese Mandarin version. Any help or leads would be greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone,

I’m on a hunt for a specific Mandarin dub of the original 1998 Disney Mulan.

I am looking for the Mainland China (Putonghua) version that features Jackie Chan as the voice of Captain Li Shang. I know Jackie Chan also did the voice for the Taiwanese and Cantonese versions, but I am specifically trying to avoid the Taiwanese version (the one with Coco Lee as Mulan and Jacky Wu as Mushu).

The version I’m looking for should have:

• Mulan: Voiced by Xu Qing (许晴)
• Li Shang: Voiced by Jackie Chan (成龙)
• Mushu: Voiced by Chen Peisi (陈佩斯)

Does anyone know where I can find/watch this version? Most streaming services seem to only host the Taiwanese Mandarin version. Any help or leads would be greatly appreciated!