Deng Xiaoping – the Architect of Modern China – was born on August 22, 1904 in Guang’an, Sichuan during the last stages of the Qing Empire.
He served as the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from December 1978 to November 1989.
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Good design is unobtrusive.
~ Dieter Rams
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via Wired Magazine:
McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There
by Reece Rogers
published on August 12, 2026
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Ella Langley – “Choosin’ Texas” | Live at CMA Fest 2026
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It’s difficult to overstate how fundamentally drones have revolutionized modern conflict. After the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress handed the president unilateral authority to take military action against anyone and any nation he deemed responsible. Technology soon caught up with the mandate of nearly unconstrained presidential power. Successive commanders in chief opted for missile-firing remote-controlled drones as their weapon of choice in the new war on terror.
~ W.J. Hennigan via The New York Times
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The United States has a knack of going down in flames and then rejuvenating. China does not.
~ Joerg Wuttke, former head of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China via The New Yorker
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