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Geometric flower beds and pools descending towards Vienna in warm afternoon light. PhotographyEmpire at Dusk: An Afternoon at the Belvedere By Suxi’s WorldOriginal Eight photographs from a clear autumn afternoon at Vienna’s Belvedere, 14 October 2026. View the photographs A rigid industrial pipeline with approval gates faces a continuous loop connecting product development with real-world use Technology · European CompetitivenessWhy Europe Is Falling Behind: The Conflict Between Waterfall Institutions and DevOps By Suxi’s WorldOriginal Europe’s industrial success shaped institutions that prioritize planning, standards and approval. When technological competition depends on continuous deployment and real-world feedback, how does that institutional legacy constrain the capacity to iterate? Read article Cover for Mei Liu's Honor of Kings S44 season review Games · Honor of Kings · Season Review Don't Throw a Lead; Don't Lose Heart When Behind By Da WangOriginal Mei Liu's Honor of Kings S44 season review: how a five-player team developed a shared economic model, jungle invasions, lineups and late-game positioning, with a radar chart for every member. Read article Conceptual illustration of von Neumann, Feynman, and Grothendieck in settings of computation, physical experiment, and mathematical structure People · Cognitive Structures Three Forms of Peak Intelligence: von Neumann, Feynman, and Grothendieck By Suxi’s WorldOriginal Von Neumann organised vast spaces of information, Feynman made equations run as physical processes, and Grothendieck rebuilt the space in which a problem could be posed. Their differences reveal why intelligence has no single highest form. Read article A reader runs equations, curves, dynamic models and structures from different fields in his mind Self-Research · Cognitive Structure How My Mind Works By Suxi’s WorldOriginal I take in information at the scale of a page, turn physical and abstract phenomena into equations and dynamic models, and revise my understanding through prediction errors and structural parallels across fields. Read article A company accuses users of actions it cannot see beyond the wall of its own platform Commentary · AI and Platform Boundaries Boycotting Anthropic Is Everyone's Responsibility By Suxi’s WorldOriginal Anthropic can observe inputs to and outputs from Claude, but not what users do with those outputs after they leave its platform. The author challenges both its evidence for distillation and its assertion of illegality. Read article A line drawing of scientists studying fluid flow and its possible links to finance and nuclear fusion Science · Mathematical Methods If the Navier-Stokes Equations Are Solved, What Might Change in Finance and Nuclear Fusion? By Suxi’s WorldOriginal The value of a mathematical breakthrough may lie in the methods it creates. From American options to plasma control, this essay considers where research on the Navier-Stokes equations might lead. Read article A corridor of time running from an old residential neighbourhood through a 1990s shop, a personal computer and a smartphone to artificial intelligence Essays · Times Four Decades in the Life of China’s Post-80s Generation By Suxi’s WorldOriginal From the lingering routines of the planned economy to industrialisation, the internet, mobile life and AI, China’s post-80s generation has lived through changes that elsewhere unfolded across several generations. Read article A cartoon sculpture installation and a wall of comics in a museum gallery Art · Looking How We Appreciate Art By Suxi’s WorldOriginal Art keeps changing its forms, yet the artist is always condensing reality, emotion, thought, inspiration and context into a key frame. Recognising this is a decisive beginning in the appreciation of art. Read article A table and empty chairs left behind after a late-night conversation Not Long Ago In memory of Chinese rock musician He Yong. An original song about unfinished questions, a table left at dawn, and the years that quietly passed. In a black, yellow and orange comic illustration, a thinker tears open a speech balloon saying I understand in Chinese, revealing intricate geometric structures behind it Cognition · Abstract Thinking Metaphorical Thinking: You May Only Think You Understand By Suxi’s WorldOriginal Metaphors can help you begin to understand. Depend on them, and the feeling of understanding can keep your thinking shallow and obstruct the development of abstraction. Read article An empty rain-wet street at blue hour, with streetlights and the brightening sky reflected on the pavement Music · MV Blue Hour By Suxi’s World Original Before dawn, the streetlights still glow and the world holds its breath. Blue Hour is a psychedelic electronic rock song that travels from deep-blue stillness into the return of sunlight and ordinary life. Play the original MV Sunlight falls across an open book on a desk, where colored lines connect geometric and botanical sketches with a molecular model and a second notebook AI · Cognition · Cross-Domain Abstraction A Truth Model for Large Language Models: A Conjecture on Cross-Domain Abstraction By Suxi’s World Original Could connections across fields help large language models reach deeper abstraction? A conjecture informed by self-observation explores the difference between approaching a hypothetical truth core and building internal coherence. Read article The Chinese title Remembering He Yong on a deep brown background Music · Times · Essays Remembering He Yong By Suxi’s World Original Remembering He Yong is also a way of remembering the force we are losing: a reflection on the Hung Hom stage, changing times, and the fullness and urgency of the desire to express ourselves. Read article Layers of ink and paper condense into a narrow gold lattice before opening into a structured field Technology · Language · AI Could Classical Chinese Be a Better Way to Compress LLM Context? By Suxi’s World Original A small token-counting experiment suggests that Classical Chinese may offer a useful reference for compact, readable context inside large language models. This is a conjecture, not a scientific conclusion. Read article Five silver and gold trajectories converge at a cinnabar centre before forming one stable team structure Technology · Games · Mathematics What a Five-Stack Should Actually Practise: From Raising Individual Ceilings to Converting Team Strength By Suxi’s World Original For experienced five-stack players, further individual practice often yields very little. A mathematical model of theoretical ability, execution, cooperation and stability shows why training time is better spent converting strength the team already has. Read article Counting objects and arithmetic marks on dark paper dissolve into variables, geometry, and an abstract network of relations Essay · Mathematics and Learning Why People Struggle to Learn Mathematics By Suxi’s World Original Many students learn mathematical metaphors and cover a large bank of problem types without ever building an abstract layer of definitions, relations, and transferable reasoning. Read article Dense ink glyph forms dissolve into an open field of neutral variables, operators, and relational geometry Essay · Language and Science Why Pure Chinese Struggles to Enter the Abstract Layer of Modern Science By Suxi’s World Original Chinese can transmit scientific results, but it struggles to provide the semantically neutral containers that modern science needs to create new abstractions, formal languages, and theoretical tools. Read article Hardware, software platforms and intelligent systems form a layered computing topology along antique-gold paths on deep black paper Technology · AI and Computers The Computer Knowledge Topology for the AI Era By Suxi’s World Original From hardware, operating systems and cloud infrastructure to large models, RAG, agents, harnesses, loops and graph engineering, this essay maps five distinct knowledge domains and the capabilities each one requires. Read article Several hard-edged geometric pipelines converge on a cinnabar control desk as one person coordinates the parallel work Essay · AI and Thought When Thinking Becomes a Multi-Pipeline Process: More Thoughts on Agentic AI By Suxi’s World Original Agentic AI turns intellectual work from deep work in one pipeline into many pipelines moving at once. It amplifies human ability, but it can also drain the thinking process and make breadth look like depth. Read article Mathematical notes, a five-player tactical diagram, family images and development notes connect in antique gold across a dark workbench Essay · AI and Research I Spent August Immersed in Agent AI By Suxi’s World Original A month of intensive Agent AI use connected my research in partial differential equations, game modelling, algorithm experiments, personal software and family archive work into one growing personal system. Read article Five blue-side heroes form one coordinated unit through a golden pentagonal network as five red-side opponents line up across an Honor of Kings-style battlefield Technology · Games · Algorithms Once Five Players Queue Together, the System Is No Longer Calculating Five Individuals By Suxi’s World Original When a five-stack enters matchmaking, the system must estimate more than five hidden ratings. It must price individual ability, team synergy, composition fit and network value. This essay explains a plausible online model for fast five-stack matchmaking and shows how a fixed team can organise drafts, shot-calling and stopping rules. Read article One blue-side hero stands in the foreground of a ten-player Honor of Kings-style match as nine strangers are linked uncertainly into two teams Technology · Games · Algorithms When You Queue Solo, What Is the System Actually Arranging? By Suxi’s World Original In a profit-first matchmaking system, a solo player is one node in a ten-player optimisation. This essay uses Bayesian updating, EOMM and combinatorial optimisation to explain solo queue, then offers practical ways to control hero choice, match risk, play time and spending. Read article Two teams confront each other across a five-on-five arena while player profiles and probability curves reveal the allocation logic of matchmaking Technology · Games · Algorithms Who Is the System Optimizing? By Suxi’s World Original Under a profit-first assumption, TrueSkill, EOMM, PCA, GNNs, survival analysis, and match optimization can be recombined into a commercial Bayesian machine that learns players, predicts value, and allocates experiences. Read article A riderless black horse on a frost-covered ancient road beneath cold moonlight Music · Original MV The Lone Horse By Suxi’s World Original A Chinese-style R&B song inspired by Li Bai’s ‘Seeing Off a Friend’: a pavilion, a setting sun, a broken willow, and a lone horse become a farewell with no road back. Play the original MV Two offset translucent language structures connect through a silver sound wave and an unfolding path in a deep black space Essay · Language and Learning Learning a Language Is Not Putting New Subtitles on the World By Suxi’s World Original Two languages are not tables whose entries line up one by one. Translation can build a bridge and grammar can calibrate, but real learning connects sound directly to scenes and actions. Fluency forms first; accuracy then gradually converges. Read article A black mechanical paper-feed device produces neat blank sheets while an open notebook beside it holds a single unfinished stroke Explainer · Cognition and AI The Loss of Intelligence, Part II: When AI Answers for Us, Who Is Still Forming Judgement? By Suxi’s World Original AI can make the combined system more capable without making the user stronger. This essay examines how answers can end curiosity too early, and how metacognition, multidimensional databases and timeline thinking can protect cognitive sovereignty. Read article A continuous folded paper strip held by a cinnabar clip, surrounded by scattered scraps of paper Explainer · Cognition and AI The Loss of Intelligence, Part I: Why Does Thinking Get Harder as Information Grows? By Suxi’s World Original Short video does not simply make people less intelligent, but it may cut sustained thought into fragments that must constantly restart. This essay uses attention switching, dopamine, cognitive peaks and intellectual capital to explain the change. Read article Translucent structures in ice blue and violet-red draw close again before a hairline opening of light in a black architectural space Essay · Mathematics and Time Every Longing Must Meet Again By Suxi’s World Original Beginning with the Poincaré recurrence theorem, this essay proves why a finite measure-preserving system returns infinitely often, then turns ‘every longing must meet again’ into a romantic proposition that still respects the boundaries of the mathematics. Read article A thick paper volume bound with cinnabar thread lies beneath a black paperweight on a wooden desk while loose pages scatter in the wind Personal Research · Cognition and AI The Loss of Intelligence By Suxi’s World Original Starting from intellectual power, decaying cognitive peaks and the dissipation of intellectual capital, this essay examines how short video fragments thought, how AI flattens the process of thinking, and how metacognition, multidimensional databases and timeline thinking can protect cognitive sovereignty. Read article A closed lotus bud waits for dawn above the ink-dark water of a Jiangnan pond on a rainy night Music · MV The Lotus Blooms Late By Suxi’s World Original A female folk song born from four lines about youth passing and the hundred days pressing on. Over acoustic guitar and a restrained reggae pulse, a late-blooming lotus waits through spring, and for someone who never looks back. Play the original MV Local work subgraphs pass through independent review and evidence checks before converging layer by layer beneath a cinnabar human authorisation gate Personal Research · AI and Systems From Loops to Graphs: Building Convergent Intelligent Systems with Entropy Assessment and Human Authorisation Nodes By Suxi’s World Original From loop engineering to graph engineering: a formal account of dual AI Judges, module quotient graphs, information gain and human authorisation nodes in a cycle of entropy expansion, verification and evidence-based reduction. Read article Warm, transparent domes on a dark landscape connect through a golden network to a single control core in the distance Finance · Wealth Refuting Musk: Relative Wealth Is What Separates Rich from Poor By Suxi’s World Original Musk believes AI and robots will bring extreme abundance. But plentiful goods do not settle who owns the productive system, and comfort is not the same thing as equality or freedom. Read article A warm-white manuscript on a dark desk as a dense grey statistical pattern seeps into the paper fibres from the right Technology · AI and Copyright Claude’s Watermark Is Contaminating Authors’ Copyright By Suxi’s World Original Claude embeds a hidden watermark in text in the name of compliance with the EU AI Act. Because that signal cannot distinguish proofreading from rewriting or full generation, it casts suspicion of machine authorship over work written by people. Read article Two lovers embrace by a window in the blue light of dawn as the city and the rainy night fade behind them Music · MV Beside Me By Suxi’s World Original They are still beside me, yet I have already begun to miss them. An English blues jazz song about intimacy, distance and the coming dawn, with English and Chinese subtitles embedded in the original music video. Play the original MV A woman at a café window on a rainy night, facing overlapping views of Buenos Aires and Shanghai, with an unsent letter and a white handkerchief on the table Music · MV Le parfum de ton absence By Suxi’s World Original A French song about absence, memory and a love left unfinished. In the bilingual music video, the French lyrics and a poetic Chinese rendering follow the music line by line. Play the MV with synced lyrics Two people sit together on a dusk coast, their nearly touching hands joined by a thin line of warm light Journal Saudade: You Are Still Here, and I Already Miss You By Suxi’s World Original Saudade is the longing that can begin before loss: someone is still beside you, yet you already know the moment will one day become memory. Read article A complete mathematics curriculum from primary arithmetic and geometry through secondary algebra, geometry and analysis to modern university mathematics Notes Rebuilding Mathematics Education: From Number and Shape to Modern Math By Suxi’s World Original A curriculum that begins with number and shape, runs algebra, geometry and analysis in parallel, and reaches modern mathematics through proof and connection. Read article A Transformer network crosses a glowing computational threshold and branches into probabilistic paths Notes Will Transformers Become Bayesian Once Compute Crosses a Threshold? By Suxi’s World Original Bayesian adapters, attention and in-context inference may help Transformers represent uncertainty, update hypotheses and choose when to ask, search or wait. Read article A dark probabilistic landscape where scattered evidence converges into a warm path of updated belief Notes Bayesian Probability and How to Live With Uncertainty By Suxi’s World Original Bayesian thinking begins with partial evidence, updates beliefs without turning every new signal into a verdict, and separates probability from action. Read article Three teenagers in blue-and-white school uniforms walk from an old campus towards a world opening in the distance Fiction · Serial Preview I Finished My First Novel. It’s Called I Misjudged You By Suxi’s World Original I Misjudged You, a nine-part ensemble novel, will soon begin its serial run. The story starts at a Tianjin school in 1997, opens into a widening world, and repeatedly returns the act of judgement to the reader. Read article A harbor in the blue hour after rain, with water washing over the shore and an empty bench facing warm lights in the distance Music · Lyrics Harbor By Suxi’s World Original The finished version of Harbor: night wind, tides and longing carried by acoustic guitar and a percussive rhythm, with word-level lyrics synced to the original recording. Play with synced lyrics A warm gold path crosses a branching map of future states on dark textured paper Notes What the Bellman Equation Can Teach Us About Life By Suxi’s World Original The Bellman equation offers a way to think about life as a sequence of decisions: weigh today's reward, the next state and the options that remain. Read article Two entropy trajectories diverge across dark paper, one breaking into fragments while the other forms a resilient structure that preserves difference Notes A New Definition of Right and Wrong Through Entropy By Suxi’s World Original A decision is right when it reduces avoidable uncertainty, mismatch, irreversible harm and displaced disorder relative to the path not taken. Read article A silver engineering loop with two judging nodes and a red human checkpoint on dark paper Notes Loop Engineering: Where Autonomous Systems Must Stop By Suxi’s World Original A practical architecture that separates goals, execution, judgment and human authorization so autonomous AI systems know when they must stop. Read article A four-stage visualization of Chinese calligraphy moving from topology to geometry, ink texture and brush dynamics Notes I dreamed of homeomorphic manifolds, then used them to analyze calligraphy By Suxi’s World Original A dream about homeomorphic manifolds became a working model of Chinese calligraphy built from topology, geometry, finite-scale ink and brush dynamics. Read article Silver and gold information flows cross a dark layered network, forming local pulses and focal points Technology · Deep Learning How Stiffness Constraints and Information Entropy Can Work Against Deep Learning, with Further Implications: An Interactive Illustration By Suxi’s World Original Starting from the FE-E experiment, an interactive timeline and switchable metrics reveal how stiffness, mass and information-entropy constraints can work against learning, before extending the findings into a framework for observation and educational intervention. Open the interactive explainer Silver and gold information flows crossing a dark layered neural network with local pulses and concentration Notes When stiffness and entropy constraints backfire in deep learning By Suxi’s World Original An FE-E experiment found smoother gradients and steeper loss slopes without earlier learning, suggesting that stiffness and entropy may work better as observers than controllers. Read article Game footage and landscape-format lyrics from the dark gothic death metal video Wujing Music · Video Wujing By Suxi’s World Original Wujing, a dark gothic death metal video with landscape-format lyrics. Watch video An empty chair stands in a shaft of window light inside a black-and-white room Music · Lyrics I Can’t Hear Clearly By Suxi’s World Original You are so close to me, and still so far away. The window stays open, autumn passes through, and silence remains between two people. Read and listen Amber and cyan particles move on either side of a glowing entropy wall on a dark interactive page Technology · Ideas Breaking the Entropy Wall: Brains, AI and Gödel Incompleteness By Suxi’s World Original Information entropy and neural-network bottlenecks reveal why a closed system with finite parameters must contain blind spots it cannot compress or learn. Move the entropy slider, watch particles strike the wall, and compare a closed AI with an open brain that continues to absorb feedback. Read article The Yoneda lemma, a formula and gold relational nodes on a dark background Philosophy · Mathematics The Yoneda Lemma: Everything Is Relation By Suxi’s World Original To know an object is to know the sum of its relations with everything else: an interactive philosophical note grounded in category theory. Follow morphisms, functors and natural transformations to see how an object can be characterised by its relations with the whole world. Read article A fluorescent reaction-diffusion field illustrating the changing components of intelligence Technology · Popular Science Intelligence as Reaction-Diffusion: Writing 'Smartness' in Four Equations By Suxi’s World Original Four reaction-diffusion equations model how intelligence evolves over time through neuronal capacity, connection structure, plasticity and conduction velocity. Read article Particle collision paths converging from circular correlations into an arrow of time Notes Yu Deng won the Fields Medal. The profiles still did not explain what he proved By Suxi’s World Original Beyond the Fields Medal profiles: how molecular collision graphs connect Newtonian reversibility, Boltzmann entropy, cryptographic diffusion and the arrow of time. Read article Cover image for “A Trump Empire? Six Questions About America's Legal Order” Notes A Trump Empire? Six Questions About America's Legal Order By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal Six questions about executive power, the courts, political opposition and whether America's legal order can withstand a second Trump presidency. Read article Strait of Hormuz and Middle East market risk illustration Economics The Middle East Is Heating Up. Markets Should Stay Calm About Hormuz By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A June 2025 reading of Iran's Hormuz threat across oil, crypto, U.S. stocks, the Fed, China's supply chains and A-shares. Read article Swiss franc banknotes illustrating the currency's safe-haven role Economics The Swiss Franc Is Too Strong. Is It Still Worth Owning? By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original Why the Swiss franc surged in 2025, what a strong currency does to Switzerland, and why I see CHF as a hedge rather than a trade. Read article Harvard campus used to illustrate the fight over international student enrollment Notes How Harvard Could Fight Trump: From the Courts to an Education Supply Chain By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A May 2025 analysis of Harvard's SEVP lawsuit, its constitutional arguments, and a plan to de-risk higher education beyond U.S. borders. Read article A child at a crossroads representing competing education paths in China Notes Choosing an Education Path in China: School, Money and the Family Behind It By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A blunt look at international and public education in China, the financial risks families take, and why parents matter more than the school label. Read article Cover image for “A Preface for People Trying to Make Sense of Money, Technology and Their Own Lives” Notes A Preface for People Trying to Make Sense of Money, Technology and Their Own Lives By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original Why I started writing, what twenty years in engineering, sales and procurement taught me, and why this blog ranges across money, technology and the times. Read article Two diverging financial paths representing long-term investing and short-term trading Economics Investing and Trading Are Not the Same Road to Wealth By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original Investing and trading use different clocks, skills and risk controls. Here is why most non-professionals need a long-term plan first. Read article A conceptual illustration of money, assets and long-term financial planning Notes What Wealth Actually Means: Money, Assets, Liquidity and Freedom By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original Wealth is not the same as cash. A useful framework separates liquidity from assets, then asks whether you can earn, keep and actually use what you own. Read article Research laboratory used to illustrate the tax cost of American R&D in China Economics The Tax Rule Behind America's Retreat from China R&D By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A look at how Section 174's five-year and 15-year amortization rules changed the economics of American R&D centers in China. Read article Cover image for “America Chooses the Cave: What Trump’s Tariff Hammer Is Really For” Essay America Chooses the Cave: What Trump’s Tariff Hammer Is Really For By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original Written in April 2025, this essay asks who would ultimately absorb the tariff shock and why the US economy might feel the hammer’s recoil first. Read article Cover image for “Does an AI Decoupling Bill Run Into the First Amendment?” Notes Does an AI Decoupling Bill Run Into the First Amendment? By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal A narrow constitutional question raised by Josh Hawley's proposal to decouple American AI capabilities from China. Read article A human brain and neural network separated by a symbolic information boundary Notes The Entropy Wall, the Brain and Gödel: A Readable Thought Experiment By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal A readable thought experiment on information loss in neural networks, what makes brains different, and where Gödel's theorem does and does not apply. Read article An abstract neural network illustrating information bottlenecks and Gödel's theorem Notes Neural Networks, Human Brains and Gödel: A Mathematical Thought Experiment By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A mathematical thought experiment on information bottlenecks, neural networks, human cognition and the limits of using Gödel as an AI analogy. Read article A neural network illustration representing a mathematical model of human intelligence Notes A Toy Model of Human Intelligence: Neurons, Connections, Learning and Speed By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A speculative model of intelligence built around four variables: available neurons, established connections, learning rate and transmission speed. Read article Cover image for “Three Ways to Judge a Natural Language” Notes Three Ways to Judge a Natural Language By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal A compact framework for judging natural language by what it can describe across breadth, depth and time. Read article Cover image for “Calculus as a Basic Way of Seeing the World” Notes Calculus as a Basic Way of Seeing the World By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal A calculus metaphor for a familiar puzzle: why someone with more knowledge can still produce work that falls short of an earlier master's. Read article A layered timeline suggesting memory, prediction and the mental weight of time Notes Thinking in Time: The Mental Cost of Adding Another Dimension By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal Thinking across a time axis can sharpen judgment, but it also makes truth feel temporary and turns foresight into a source of anxiety. Read article Cover image for “Did Twenty Years of Development Make Life Better?” Notes Did Twenty Years of Development Make Life Better? By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal A time-travel thought experiment for asking whether twenty years of development have actually improved everyday life. Read article Cover image for “Economic Notes, July 2024” Essay Economic Notes, July 2024 By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A July 2024 reflection on life in China's large cities, weak growth, taxes, the RMB, local debt, physical gold and political risk. Read article Cover image for “Economic Commentary and Forecasts, February 2024” Essay Economic Commentary and Forecasts, February 2024 By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A February 2024 economic outlook on China's stocks, debt, property and RMB, plus forecasts for Europe, the United States and Japan. Read article China stock market commentary dated February 5, 2024 Economics China's Stock Market Crash on February 5, 2024: The Bigger Debt Story By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A short February 2024 note arguing that China's stock rout reflected both deteriorating fundamentals and a wider restructuring of local government debt. Read article The ensemble world of Blossoms Shanghai under Wong Kar-wai's saturated lighting Journal Blossoms Shanghai, Part One: A Crowded Scroll of a City By Suxi’s Worldoriginal Bloggerary bylineOriginal A sharp, affectionate review of Blossoms Shanghai, from its social-scroll plot and tangled romances to Wong Kar-wai's sound and images. Read article A surreal futuristic city with towers, clouds, bridges and two people crossing a red walkway Essay Economic Forecast, November 2023: China, Europe, the US and Japan By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A forecast written in late 2023 on China, Europe, the United States and Japan, covering stimulus, exports, infrastructure, rate cuts, inflation and autos. Read article Two figures in a fantastical mountain valley beneath a huge moon and orange trees Economics Rethinking Wealth: Measure Your Share, Not Your Currency Balance By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A personal framework for measuring wealth as a share of an economy rather than a nominal amount in fiat currency. Read article A smiling woman with dark hair against a black background Essay Friends Who Drift Away By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A short reflection on shared experience, memory and the point at which an old friendship quietly enters drawdown. Read article A stylised portrait of a woman surrounded by colourful flowers Essay I Love Shanghai So Damn Much By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A very short Halloween note on Shanghai, its people and the city's irresistible sense of humour. Read article A misty mountain landscape with traditional Chinese pagodas Essay China's Economy and What Comes Next: The Micro View By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original An October 2023 micro outlook on Chinese resilience, property, RMB depreciation, stocks, physical retail and livestream e-commerce. Read article A stylised Shanghai skyline with the Oriental Pearl Tower, skyscrapers and construction Economics China's Economy and What Comes Next: The Macro View By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A September 2023 macro view of China's demographic crisis, down cycle, US-China conflict and Belt and Road strategy. Read article Xu Wei in the music video for That Year against a blue sky Essay Back in China, August 2023: Notes from Tianjin and Shanghai By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A personal return to Tianjin and Shanghai after three and a half years: airports, typhoon rain, startling service, old streets and memories slipping into the present. Read article A person drawing a market curve beside red financial charts and a city skyline Finance · Forecast China Economic Forecast, 3 July 2023 By Suxi’s World original Wix byline: bloggerary Original Written on 3 July 2023, this essay records forecasts about China's economy and exchange rate, including the US-China relationship, the renminbi, property and liquidity. Read article A typewriter, books and a laptop in an orange retro-futurist illustration Essay Why Start a Blog in 2023? By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original Why restart a personal blog in 2023? Not for traffic or followers, but for play, freedom, and a place to publish whatever comes to mind. Read article Cover image for “Omnipotent Youth Society” Essay Omnipotent Youth Society By Suxi’s World original Bloggerary byline Original A brief note from June 2023 about hearing Omnipotent Youth Society for the first time and rediscovering the song Kill the One from Shijiazhuang. Read article