Nepal cancelled the #IATS2026 seminar with no formal Chinese protest on file and no explicit demand made. That's the point. Coercion that leaves no document is the hardest kind to name, resist, or count in any #transnationalrepression dataset. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/nepa...

I found this book in a sealed wrapper at a bookstore in Thamel yesterday. I bought it not knowing what’s in it, kind of like I’m a contestant on storage wars. Or maybe the better analogy is Forrest Gump: it’s like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get. #IATS2026