John F Sullivan

@JohnF_Sullivan · joined 23 Apr 2022

Former U.S. Army China Foreign Area Officer. Currently studying and writing about ancient Chinese strategic texts. Climber of Mt. Villingili.

13 580Followers

916Following

6 034Posts total

8.1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views32 922this account2 392median for 10K–100K

Reach, %242.43%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.82%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	32 922	2 392	13.8×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.4× audience	7.18%	33.8×
Engagement rate	0.82%	1.50%	0.55×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

7.4M31 Jul

134.6K26 Aug

537.3K29 Aug

59.2K

3.7K1 Sep

6.7K3 Sep

4.5K

1.6K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.59%31 Jul

1.40%26 Aug

1.17%29 Aug

0.49%

1.02%1 Sep

0.72%3 Sep

0.69%

0.92%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes59.6%43 808 in total

Reposts7.9%5 783 in total

Replies1.3%978 in total

Quotes1.7%1 239 in total

Bookmarks29.5%21 639 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Mao Zedong (1921): "Reform is a patchwork approach; we should advocate large-scale transformation. As for using 'transforming East Asia,' it is better to use 'transforming China and the world.' Proposing 'the world' makes it clear that our advocacy is global ... 1.6K views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 5/ Xi's speech offers a useful guide to understanding how China seeks to appeal to countries dissatisfied with the status quo and interested in an alternative path. Does China have a vision for updating the international political order? Yes. Will it work? Time will tell. END 4.5K views · 25 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Zhang Wenmu (2004): "The new geopolitical logic is that resources determine strategy: whoever controls resources controls their rivals; and controlling rivals means controlling the world ... A country's strength does not depend entirely on its total productivity, but rather ... 6.7K views · 36 likes · 7 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 "The Ryukyu issue is like an ulcer in Sino-Japanese relations. Japan's first invasion of China was in 1874, when Japan entered China's vassal state 'Ryukyu' and attacked Taiwan on account of the Ryukyus ... Therefore, in 'managing the Ryukyus' today, we must wage a struggle ... h 3.7K views · 25 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 Influential retired PLA officer Liu Mingfu's 2017 book "On America" was never translated into English--it was meant for a domestic audience only. It claims to unveil a 2006 "secret strategy" endorsed by President Bush directing a full scale effort to destroy China. The problem? h 59.2K views · 277 likes · 9 reposts · 6 replies 29 Aug 2026 He is actually a pure creature of U.S. media. He is a Canadian citizen who is a Yale English Literature graduate. He broadcasts exclusively in English, on YouTube. And he is pretty much exclusively interviewed by U.S. media, who made him famous. He is a crackpot but if you want 537.3K views · 5.4K likes · 568 reposts · 281 replies 29 Aug 2026 Mao Zedong (May 1941): "Virtually no one has seriously set to work on the economic history, political history, military history and cultural history of [China over] the last hundred years. Having no knowledge of their own things, some can only tell stories about Greece ... 134.6K views · 1.8K likes · 97 reposts · 11 replies 26 Aug 2026 Here is my interview with Christopher Nolan: are you a bard for a civilization at dusk? https://t.co/dQION5v6bl 7.4M views · 36.2K likes · 5.1K reposts · 671 replies 31 Jul 2026