https://archive.ph/xBhM6>China’s J-20 stealth aircraft flew through the Tsushima Strait. Did anybody else notice?>CCTV report leaves little doubt that the advanced fighter made the flight over the strategic waters>The Chinese air force’s most advanced J-20 stealth fighter has flown through the strategic Tsushima Strait near Japan, an apparent first not reported by any other armed forces with a presence in the region.>In a series aired on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported that the elite air force unit, the First Fighter Brigade, now “flies missions over the Bashi Channel and Tsushima Strait, and conducts patrols around Taiwan”.>The unit was among the first to receive the new-generation aircraft and while the report did not refer to the J-20 directly, footage of the stealth fighter was shown throughout the segment, leaving little doubt about the aircraft involved.>The Tsushima Strait is a narrow and heavily monitored waterway. It separates South Korea from Japan and is a chokepoint connecting the Sea of Japan – or East Sea – with the East China Sea.>The area is within the range of a dense network of US, Japanese, and South Korean radar systems, including the US THAAD anti-missile system.>But the transit of the J-20, China’s most advanced stealth fighter, has not been reported by either Seoul or Tokyo. >>2412805Reading all the cases of pulmonar problems they REEEEALLY should automate that.
Not even one cell of a revolutionary Chinese worker is worth all the gold of the fiestworldist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en-nfsJNdoE&t=168s@Captaincool07
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i am anti communist. I am anti European man marx, Englels and lenin. They were real western devils. They were so cunning they managed to convince Chinese people to hurt other Chinese and themselves unwittingly.
If you want to be pro china be pro chinese culture. Love our family, love our heritage, love our history. This Communism was a european homeless man's, Marx invention designed to seperate us from the chinese culture and ethics..
What is Chinese culture we love so much? Chinese culture tells us to honor parents and ancestors. To love our family. To love our parents. To go to ancestor grave in the mountain to bai shan. Marxist came in and brainwashed an entire generation to burn our ancestral tree and told us that the party is dearer than parents.
Chinese culture tells us to respect our history. Marxist came in and burned everythign and smashed everything. Lots of chinese people support CPC because they have loyalty to China and CPC merged its identity with China. But CPC has to fundamentally change its ideology and leave this marxist root behind and really promote the chinese culture.
Also Lots of these creepy white people support Chinese communist because it is a form of red imperialism,. They are asocial and unhappy living in Australia or wherever the fuck they crawl from. So they can claim they are communist to share credit for China's success. "it is not chinese people that made china rich today, it is marx." I mean, you don't feel uncomfortable when there is a white man marx in the congress that the chinese president bow to? or the white man marx in a tv show "marx met confucius" hugging our chinese confucius like they are the same level? It is abomination.
I know neoliberals suck but does this have any substance? What is your guys opinion? He is not a China le collapsing person in comments just appears to be real data
I genuinely am uninformed on this topic and would like to someone smarter than me to weigh in. Thank you. Help me out
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1mfnj4c/local_chinese_planner_discovers_weird_hack_for/>>2413963You get herpes easily just sharing pipes and drinks with people and etc.
t. Guy who got herpes while being kissless lol.
Everyone has that shit pretty much. They say viruses are forever but I only got minor cold sores that went away and disappeared. Also regot it sharing pipes with dirty people, but they went away again. They say it reemeges when your immune system is low, but maybe also when you get reexposed.
>>2414001neoliberals are going to be suprised when the chinese state just makes all this debt ultimately meaningless because china controls the finance system.
Mark my words.
>>2414732https://chatgpt.com/share/688f39c5-1708-8005-a280-9fcbff4e0296<From a nonbiased view what is your take on the information presentedChatGPT said:
From a nonbiased, analytical standpoint, the information in the Reddit post presents a credible and concerning picture of China’s local government debt stress, but it should be interpreted in context and with nuance:
✅ What the Data Suggests
Some Chinese provinces are spending most or all of their revenue on debt service.
If accurate, this is a red flag in any fiscal system.
It suggests these provinces are fiscally unsustainable without external help (e.g. central government bailouts or refinancing schemes).
The debt-to-GDP growth ratio cited (e.g. 5.2 units of debt for 1 unit of GDP) implies diminishing returns on government-led investment.
This doesn’t automatically mean collapse, but it shows inefficiency in capital allocation, especially if the growth being generated is not productive or sustainable.
🤔 Neutral Assessment
Not necessarily a crisis—yet.
China has strong central control, a state-owned banking system, and no hard budget constraint like in democracies where voters punish bailouts. The central government can keep rolling debt over or shifting burdens.
But it’s a long-term vulnerability.
Local governments rely heavily on land sales for revenue, which have plummeted post-real-estate slowdown. Unless new revenue streams are found or spending is reined in, the situation becomes harder to manage over time.
GDP growth may be overstated.
If much of it is being propped up by debt-funded construction or spending without long-term return, GDP may not reflect true wealth creation. Economists call this “bridges to nowhere.”
It reflects a deeper structural problem:
Local governments in China are expected to drive growth but have limited taxing power. This creates a mismatch between responsibility and resources, pushing them toward borrowing or quasi-legal financing vehicles (like LGFVs—local government financing vehicles).
🧮 Contextual Caveats
These figures are estimates from researchers—not official government disclosures.
China’s central government can and often does intervene to prevent defaults, which makes comparisons to Western debt crises imperfect.
There's still considerable domestic savings and financial control, which means Beijing has tools that other countries might not.
🎯 Conclusion
From a non-partisan viewpoint:
The situation is real and concerning for the long term.
It’s not necessarily a sign of imminent collapse, but it highlights a deep inefficiency in China’s growth model—especially at the provincial level.
The reliance on debt to maintain growth makes China’s economy less resilient to shocks and more dependent on continued intervention.
Whether one views this as a temporary imbalance or the symptom of a failing model depends on how willing and able the Chinese government is to restructure its fiscal system and reduce unproductive spending.
>>2414750>>2414779Not like any of the other responses were any more intelligent or informed.
>>2414219>>2414278>>2414245>>2414361Anyways I was just giving the lmgtfy.com response for this faggot who is bumping his own stupid question after he even got 4 replies.
>>2414732>Sooo… nobody knows anything else about this? BBC finds electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups
An international network that shares online videos of cats and kittens being tortured has members in the UK, the BBC has found.
The network is thought to have thousands of members who post, share and sell graphic images and videos of cats being hurt and killed.
In one group, on an encrypted messaging app, the BBC found evidence of British members suggesting users adopt kittens from the RSPCA to mutilate.
The BBC investigation comes after two teenagers admitted torturing and killing two kittens in a park in Ruislip, north-west London, in May. They are due to be sentenced on Monday.
The 16-year-old girl, and boy, aged 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty after the kittens were found cut open and strung up. Knives, blowtorches and scissors were also found at the scene.
These groups started in China, but BBC News has identified members now active across the world, including in the UK.
The scale of the network has been documented by animal rights activists Feline Guardians.
The group says between May 2023 and May 2024, a new video showing the torture and execution of a kitten or cat was uploaded approximately every 14 hours.
It says it has documented 24 groups active this year, the largest of which had more than 1,000 members. The most active torturer is believed to have filmed the torture and killing of more than 200 cats.
Chat conversations in one group, seen by the BBC, include what appear to be UK-based accounts discussing how to get hold of cats to abuse.
One member discussed how to adopt kittens from the RSPCA and posted application forms. Another post shared an advert for kittens for sale in the UK, posting that they wanted to "torture them so bad".
Videos and photographs seen by the BBC are graphic and extremely disturbing.
They include footage of cats being drowned and electrocuted. One video speculates on how long a kitten in a cage will survive if it is not given food.
Group members appear to want to inflict as much pain as possible. In online chats, torturers explain how they use electrocution to resuscitate a cat in order to prolong suffering.
New members are encouraged to mutilate and post videos to gain access to a wider network.
The BBC saw evidence that suggested children were taking part in these groups. One member posted: "I'm 10 years old and I like to torture cats."
In September 2023, the network even promoted a "100 cat kill" competition, during which members were encouraged to see how quickly the group could torture and kill 100 cats.
Videos depicting the horrific torture of cats first went viral in China in 2023.
The man responsible for two extremely graphic videos, Wang Chaoyi, was detained for 15 days by the Chinese authorities and forced to issue a "letter of repentance".
But his footage developed a cult following and others began making similar content for Chinese and Western social media, gaining thousands of views, before groups developed on encrypted messaging apps.
"Little Winnie" is a well known name used in the cat torture community for having a profile picture that mocks the Chinese leader Xi Jinping with an image of Winnie the Pooh.
Accounts with that name and profile picture are described as administrators in a number of forums.
An activist from Feline Guardians got in touch with one of those Little Winnie accounts and lured the man behind it into an online relationship.
Eventually she persuaded the man behind the account to do a video call. From that call, the group identified a 27-year-old man living in the Japanese capital Tokyo.
Feline Guardians has held demonstrations outside the Chinese Embassy, in London, demanding that authorities in Beijing do more.
"In mainland China, there are no laws that are stopping this. So that means that abusers and torturers can effectively do what they want and live out these very sadistic fantasies without any consequence. These videos are then uploaded, and essentially that's a global problem, because that means that everyone has access to these videos. Children are seeing this," Lara said.
Johanna Baxter MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cats, said these groups were "a deeply worrying trend, particularly among young men".
"Animal abuse often acts as a gateway, making future acts of violence easier to rationalise and commit," she added.
>>2416115Impressive, very nice
Now let's see amerikkka's (or the west's) numbers
>>2414690On some level, fair point, anecdotally. However
The guy really is uniquely incompetent. If someone in america did themselves in (I am explicitly not saying that is how it goes regularly) it's him.
https://archive.ph/pZ6ay>China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies>Beijing’s tightened controls are a sign of the leverage it has over the U.S. military supply chain>China is limiting the flow of critical minerals to Western defense manufacturers, delaying production and forcing companies to scour the world for stockpiles of the minerals needed to make everything from bullets to jet fighters.>Earlier this year, as U.S.-China trade tensions soared, Beijing tightened the controls it places on the export of rare earths. While Beijing allowed them to start flowing after the Trump administration agreed in June to a series of trade concessions, China has maintained a lock on critical minerals for defense purposes. China supplies around 90% of the world’s rare earths and dominates the production of many other critical minerals.>As a result, one drone-parts manufacturer that supplies the U.S. military was forced to delay orders by up to two months while it searched for a non-Chinese source of magnets, which are assembled from rare earths.>Certain materials needed by the defense industry now go for five or more times what was typical before China’s recent mineral restrictions, according to industry traders. One company said it was recently offered samarium—an element needed to make magnets that can withstand the extreme temperatures of a jet-fighter engine—for 60 times the standard price. That is already driving the cost of defense systems higher, say suppliers and defense executives.>The squeeze on critical minerals highlights how dependent the U.S. military is on China for much of its supply chain—giving Beijing leverage at a time of rising tensions between the two powers and heated trade negotiations. Defense manufacturers supplying the U.S. military rely on minerals that are mainly produced in China for microelectronics, drone motors, night-vision goggles, missile-targeting systems and defense satellites.>While companies have tried to find alternative sources of these minerals in recent years, some of the elements are so niche that they can’t be economically produced in the West, say industry executives.>China’s Foreign Ministry didn’t respond to a request for comment.>In addition to the more recent export controls on rare earths, China has since December banned sales to the U.S. of germanium, gallium and antimony—which are used for things like hardening lead bullets and projectiles, and to allow soldiers to see at night.>Some companies now warn of looming production cuts if more minerals aren’t forthcoming.>On Wednesday, the chief executive of Leonardo DRS said the U.S.-based defense firm is down to its “safety stock” of germanium.>“In order to sustain timely product deliveries, material flow must improve in the second half” of 2025, CEO Bill Lynn said on a conference call. The company is the U.S. subsidiary of Italian defense giant Leonardo.>Germanium goes into the company’s infrared sensors, which are used in missiles and other equipment. Lynn said that the company is looking at diversifying its supply chain while also finding ways to replace it in its products.>The Pentagon is requiring defense contractors to stop buying rare-earth magnets that contain China-sourced minerals by 2027. As a result, some companies have sizable stockpiles of magnets. But suppliers and defense companies often hold less than a year’s worth—some just a few months—of many other critical mineral stockpiles.>Drone manufacturers are among the most vulnerable, because many are small startups and have very limited revenue or supply-chain savvy, and never got around to acquiring large stockpiles of rare-earth magnets and metals, say some in the defense industry.>“I can tell you…we talk about this daily and our companies talk about it daily,” said Dak Hardwick, vice president of international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association, a U.S. defense and commercial aerospace trade group.>More than 80,000 parts that are used in Defense Department weapons systems are made with critical minerals now subject to Chinese export controls, according to data from defense software firm Govini. Nearly all of the supply chains for key critical minerals used by the Pentagon rely on at least one Chinese supplier, Govini said, meaning restrictions from Beijing can cause widespread disruptions.>Since stepping up export controls earlier this year, China has begun requiring companies to provide extensive documentation of how they will use the rare earths and magnets they import. Chinese regulators often demand sensitive information, such as product images and even photos of production lines, to ensure none of the materials go to military use, say Western buyers.>One Western company that supplies Chinese-made rare-earth magnets to both civilian and defense companies says its requests for imported magnets have recently been approved for many civilian purposes—but rejected or delayed for defense and aerospace.>In May, New Hampshire-based ePropelled, which makes propulsion motors for drones, received unsettling questions from its Chinese magnet supplier. The supplier sent Chinese government forms demanding drawings and pictures of ePropelled’s products and a list of buyers. It also asked for assurances that the rare-earth magnets China would supply ePropelled wouldn’t go toward military applications.>“Of course we are not going to provide the Chinese government with that information,” said Chris Thompson, vice president of global sales for ePropelled. The company has about 100 customers, including large American defense contractors and drone manufacturers in Ukraine.>So its Chinese suppliers paused shipping, and ePropelled had to delay some customer orders by one or two months—double the amount of time it usually takes to deliver its motors. The company sought alternative suppliers in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including buying magnets from vendors in Japan and Taiwan, although they too rely on rare earths from China.>The company also struck deals with startup magnet producers Vulcan Elements in North Carolina and Oklahoma-based USA Rare Earth. However, those startups won’t have supply ready for ePropelled until at least the end of this year and will need to build up alternative sources of Chinese-dominated minerals as they scale up production.>Metal traders say that because China demands to know the end user of rare-earth magnets and metals, it isn’t approving licenses for traders to stockpile.>The Department of Defense has awarded grants to expand production of niche materials, including $14 million in funding last year to a Canadian company to produce germanium substrates used in solar cells for defense satellites. In July, the Pentagon took an even bigger step when it agreed to pay $400 million for 15% of MP Materials, the operator of the largest rare-earths mine in the Americas, which is rapidly scaling up its magnet manufacturing capacity.>The Pentagon didn’t respond to a request for comment.>On an earnings call last month Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet called the MP Materials agreement groundbreaking and said it would help ensure the supply of magnets needed in its F-35 jet fighters and cruise missiles. But building up new supply will take time.>The Defense Department early last year established the Critical Minerals Forum, an effort in part to spur more mineral supply-chain projects in the U.S. and allied countries, including helping metals miners secure funding to increase their output of critical materials like antimony and germanium.>Defense companies that traditionally outsourced the purchase of critical minerals to sub-suppliers are now using their market heft to try to acquire sources of key materials themselves. Major defense companies “are starting to get more and more panicked as they go, because they recognize that they’re just not going to get the magnets, no matter what happens, unless they get involved,” said Nicholas Myers, the CEO of Phoenix Tailings, a Massachusetts startup that produces rare-earth metals.>Beijing is signaling that it takes its mineral export bans very seriously. Earlier this year, one U.S. defense supplier, the United States Antimony Corporation, tried to ship 55 metric tons of antimony mined in Australia to its smelter in Mexico. The load transited via the Chinese port city of Ningbo—until recently a routine practice.>But in April, while the shipment was being transloaded in Ningbo, China customs detained it for three months, prompting United States Antimony to ask the State Department and White House for help.>The Chinese released the shipment in July, on the condition that it be sent back to Australia and not to the U.S. When it arrived in Australia, United States Antimony learned that product seals had been broken. It is currently working out whether the antimony has been tampered with or contaminated.>“The shipping company, everyone who was involved, they’d never seen this happen before,” said company CEO Gary Evans.>Neither the White House, the Defense Department nor the State Department provided comment. https://www.youtube.com/@Captaincool07/postsCaptaincool07 (黃永熙)
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Chinese Communist do not promote Han Chinese nationalism at all. The entire Chinese Communist are an anti-HAN Chinese institution. Their entire domestic policy is ANTI-Han Chinese nationalism.
The Communists starting from the 1950s onward promoted affirmative action to non-Han Chinese people. They gave them extra privileges including more points to enter college.
The Communist also gave minorities the right to have as many births as possible, while Han Chinese births were restricted during the era of the 1 Child policy.
In mainland China, there is an unofficial two tier legal system. When ethnic minorities like Uighurs or Tibetans commit crimes, the court usually are easier to them and tries to accommodate them. This is called the "兩少一寬" TWO LESS ONE Leniency. This policy was enacted by Document No. 5 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (1984).
Communist were the real definition of the word HANJIAN 漢奸. Han traitors. 漢 Han 奸 traitor
The real Han Nationalist and and hero of the Han Chinese was Dr. Sun Yat Sen and the early Kuomintang. Sun Yat Sen overthrew the Manchus. Then in 1924 finally proclaimed a policy of making all ethnic groups in China Han Chinese and sinicizing everyone.
In Three Principles of the people, Sun wrote, "Since the Qin and Han dynasties, China has always been a nation created by one nation. Speaking for the majority, the 400 million Chinese can be said to be all Han people. They share the same blood, the same language and writing, the same religion, the same customs, and are completely one nation."
The Kuomintang were the real Han Chinese Nationalists. Communists were and have always been National traitors and internationalists
>>2417466>Chinese Communist do not promote Han Chinese nationalism at all. The entire Chinese Communist are an anti-HAN Chinese institution. Their entire domestic policy is ANTI-Han Chinese nationalism.woaw
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>>2417618China possesses vast quantities of rare earths, which are essential for smartphones, electric vehicles, and military technology.
Beijing controls approximately 60% of global rare earth production and nearly 90% of their processing.
China did recently agree to accelerate the approval of rare earth export licenses. However, it is unclear whether this applies to American defense companies that need these minerals for fighter jets and missile systems. According to the American Chamber of Commerce in China, 75% of US companies expect their rare earth stockpiles to be depleted within three months.
The restrictions, which were partly a response to the tariffs on Chinese exports imposed by President Donald Trump, highlighted the vulnerabilities of the US, which lacks its own refining and processing capacity for rare earths.
The European Union also relies on China for 98% of its supply of rare earth magnets used in auto parts, fighter jets, and medical diagnostic equipment.
The European Association of Automotive Suppliers warned that the sector "is already facing significant disruptions" due to Chinese export restrictions. These have led to the shutdown of several production lines and factories across Europe, with further impacts expected in the coming weeks as inventories run out.
Alberto Prina Cerai, a researcher at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), told DW that Brussels urgently needs to buy time. "In terms of scale, the West cannot catch up with China," he warned. While a complete decoupling from China is "unthinkable" in the short term, the EU must "manage this interdependence with a coherent industrial strategy."
"The entire global economy depends on rare earths from China," Jost Wübbeke, CEO of the Berlin-based research institute Sinolytics, which specializes in China, told DW. "If their exports stop, the impact will be felt worldwide."
Targeting the Military Industry
Defense equipment manufacturers supplying the US military rely on minerals primarily produced in China for microelectronics, drone engines, night vision goggles, missile guidance systems, and military satellites.
China is mainly restricting the flow of critical minerals to Western defense equipment manufacturers, delaying production and forcing companies to search worldwide for supplies of these minerals, which are essential for manufacturing everything from bullets to fighter jets.
According to the Wall Street Journal, an industry manufacturing components for unmanned aircraft supplying the US military was forced to delay orders by up to two months while seeking a non-Chinese source of magnets, which are assembled from rare earths.
Some materials needed by the defense industry are now selling for five times or more their standard price before the Chinese restrictions.
The price of Samarium, a key element for building magnets capable of withstanding the extreme temperatures of a fighter jet engine, has skyrocketed to 60 times its normal level. This is already making defense systems more expensive.
Although companies have tried to find alternative sources in recent years, some elements are so specialized that their production in the West is not economically viable.
In addition to the latest controls on rare earths, China has banned sales since December of germanium, gallium, and antimony – materials used in the defense industry. Germanium, for example, is used in infrared sensors embedded in missiles.
China "Inside" the Pentagon
More than 80,000 components used in the weapon systems of the US Department of Defense rely on critical minerals currently subject to Chinese export controls. Nearly all supply chains for key minerals used by the Pentagon rely on at least one Chinese supplier, meaning restrictions from Beijing could lead to widespread disruptions.
China has begun requiring detailed documentation from companies regarding how they use the rare earths and magnets they import. Chinese regulators often demand sensitive information, such as product images and even photos of production lines, to ensure the materials are not used for military purposes, according to Western buyers.
A Western company supplying rare earth magnets manufactured in China to both civilian and defense customers reports that its import applications have recently been approved for many civilian uses, but are rejected or delayed when it comes to defense and aerospace.
The Israeli army bans Chinese vehicles from entering its bases for fear of espionage.
Israeli Army Radio revealed on Tuesday that the army has decided to ban Chinese vehicles from entering its bases, fearing information leaks or spying using sensors and cameras installed on the vehicles.
According to the Israeli website Calcalist, the decision reflects growing military concerns about Chinese-linked technology and vehicles.
The website noted that Israeli military personnel who own electric vehicles and serve at the Tzrifin base in central Israel have been instructed to park their vehicles in a designated area away from various facilities on the base.
Later, military personnel at the base received a directive that read: "Due to a lack of parking spaces and considerations regarding vehicles manufactured in China, Chinese-made vehicles will be permitted to enter the base, but only to an area designated for such vehicles."
Last April, Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli Ministry of Defense had halted the supply of Chinese-made vehicles designed for Israeli army officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel, following prolonged pressure from cybersecurity and information security experts.
The newspaper noted that many Chinese brands, such as MG and BYD, are entirely manufactured in China. According to cybersecurity experts, these cars constantly transmit data about their usage, in part to improve the algorithms that help them operate.
In July, security concerns prompted the Israeli military to ban Chinese cars, and later all electric vehicles, from entering a sensitive military base.
>>2417644>fell for it again [due to moralist/narcissistic indignation] again award10/10
Chynah is le animal holocaust
>>2417741Think about the
children animals
China to offer nationwide childcare subsidiesBEIJING, July 28 – China on Monday introduced a nationwide childcare subsidy program starting in 2025, as part of broader efforts to support families and encourage childbirth.
The program will offer families 3,600 yuan (about 503 U.S. dollars) per year for each child under the age of three.
As one of the world's most populous countries, China is facing a dual demographic challenge: a shrinking number of newborns and a rapidly aging population.
The country's birth rate and total number of newborns declined for seven consecutive years before experiencing a modest rebound in 2024. Meanwhile, China's population aged 60 and above had reached 310 million by the end of last year.
In response to this dual challenge, China has steadily loosened its family planning policies over the past decade. It phased out its one-child policy by allowing married couples to have two children in 2016, and announced support for couples wishing to have a third child in 2021.
The national childcare subsidy was first introduced in this year's annual government work report in March.
Multiple local governments have piloted similar programs over the last few years – some of which have offered notably generous incentives – as part of their own efforts to address these challenges.
Yang Yiyong, a researcher at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research, noted that recent pro-birth policies are beginning to show early results, and that a more supportive work environment and better job opportunities for women have also helped improve fertility plans.
In a separate move, China's central government last Friday issued a directive urging local governments to draw detailed plans to introduce free preschool education.
The government is also ramping up nursery care services for children under three, aiming to relieve the pressures on working parents and improve early childhood development.
https://english.www.gov.cn/policies/latestreleases/202507/28/content_WS68875f65c6d0868f4e8f47bf.html >>2417666and europeans are a bunch of genocidal sociopaths, culture influence behavior that influence culture, principaly when it's fucking murdering an animal that can't fight back, just look at belgium and they festivals about cutting hands of slaves.
but this does not change that this is mostly from demented underground groups that get free from a weak legislation and punishment by the government and not anything cultural
>>2417737>Chinese worshipper awardthree more and a random chinese will think about you thankfully for the defence of their perfection anon.
>>2417739>normal behaviouryou are a cultist for china, why you do this fatherless behaviour is unknown, but reducing actual, verifiable potential degenerates is good actually.
Chinese scientists develop world's first ultra-high parallel optical computing chipChinese scientists have developed the world's first ultra-high parallel optical computing integrated chip that's capable of delivering a theoretical peak computing power of 2560 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) at a 50 GHz optical clock speed, a metric that reportedly benchmarks against NVIDIA's advanced GPU chips. Featuring large bandwidth (over 40 nm), low loss and reconfigurable properties, thus enhancing the chip's computing power.
With a theoretical potential of an almost unimaginable 2,560 trillion operations per second (TOPS), literally breaking the scale and creating a new unit, the QOPS (2.5 quadrillion operations per second).
For comparison, a cutting-edge technology introduced about two months ago, involving artificial intelligence chips integrated into optical fibers, reaches 1.6 TOPS. Furthermore, the energy efficiency of the newly introduced platform exceeds 3.2 TOPS/W, compared to 0.87 TOPS per watt for the previous one.
Optical computing, as a representative of non-von Neumann architectures, offers natural advantages such as scalability, low power consumption, ultra-high speed, wide bandwidth, and high parallelism. It has emerged as a key technology in the post-Moore era for solving large-scale, high-dimensional data problems, including tensor operations and complex image processing.
A key innovation lies in the use of soliton microcomb sources, which provide over 100 wavelength channels.
"We've achieved information interaction and computation with over 100-wavelength multiplexing on an optical chip, demonstrating high-density on-chip information parallel processing," said Xie Peng, a researcher at SIOM.
Unlike traditional optical computing that uses a single wavelength, this ultra-parallel approach leverages over 100 separate light wavelengths to process data streams simultaneously – boosting computing power by up to 100 times without increasing chip size or frequency, according to the study.
"It's like transforming a single-lane highway into a super highway capable of handling a hundred vehicles in parallel, greatly increasing throughput per unit time without changing the chip hardware," said Han Xilin, an engineer at SIOM.
In particular, it promises efficient solutions for embodied intelligence, neural networks, physical simulations and image processing. Furthermore, the low-latency characteristics of photonic computing make it ideal for edge devices with small data volumes but high latency requirements, such as communication exchange networks and drone swarms.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-06-17/China-builds-world-s-first-ultra-high-parallel-optical-computing-chip-1EhC1gYmphK/p.htmlhttps://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/06/30/news-china-made-breakthrough-in-ultra-highly-parallel-optical-computing-integrated-chip/https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087750https://en.eeworld.com.cn/news/wltx/eic698456.htmlhttps://www.inovacaotecnologica.com.br/noticias/noticia.php?artigo=computacao-luz-paralela-rompe-escala-velocidade&id=010150250630 The description of the Wikipedia 维基百科上的描述
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E6%B2%B9%E6%9C%AA%E6%88%90%E5%B9%B4%E4%BA%BA%E6%AC%BA%E5%87%8C%E9%A3%8E%E6%B3%A2#The description of the Baidu Baike 百度百科上的描述
7·22江油校外霸凌事件_百度百科
https://baike.baidu.com/item/7%C2%B722%E6%B1%9F%E6%B2%B9%E6%A0%A1%E5%A4%96%E9%9C%B8%E5%87%8C%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6/66275617The discussion in Zhihu 知乎上的讨论
https://www.zhihu.com/question/1935667870714553351由于8月4日的示威冲突事件，大陆的网站和APP都在封锁消息
Due to the demonstration conflict on August 4th, websites and apps on the Chinese mainland are blocking messages
顺便提一下，因为最近leftypol.org被GFW封锁，我必须用VPN来访问这个网站
By the way, because leftypol.org had been blocked by the GFW recently, I have to use a VPN to access this website
>>2419674我刚刚试了一下发现不用VPN也能连上，可能是因为之前我用的是流量而不是WLAN
I just tried it out and found that I could connect without a VPN. Maybe it's because I used data traffic instead of WLAN before.
>>2419783On July 22nd, a 14-year-old girl in Jiangyou, Sichuan Province, China, was bullied by three students. Her coat was taken off, her mobile phone was snatched away and she was slightly injured. The bulliers took a video and posted it online. The victim of bullying reported the case to the police, and the police's handling result was released on August 4th. However, because the perpetrators were minors and under the age of 16, they were not sentenced to prison. They were only administratively detained for about ten days and fined. Local residents were dissatisfied with this handling, protested outside the government and clashed with the police.
Documentary on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qjZ89NSwYs&t=93sThere aren't many reports in English yet. They are mainly from BBC and CNN, so they can't be fully trusted. However, public protests and conflicts did occur. On the night of the incident, there were related videos on Douyin in China, but they were all deleted later.
>>2423575Hugh?
Why are you complaining about the righteous protests of the people?
>>2423874>normalwho said anything about normal
still, they're fucking kids, and I dont in what shithole you're from to throw kids in jail over a first incident like this
10 days of detention in a cell to make them realize what they're doing seem perfectly reasonable handling to me
>>2424010Only workaround I know is telling it to say it in leetspeak
>>2424017cause it uses datasets from public places like wikipedia and shit, it is likely to bring up stuff against china at random
>>2424007>Frankly speaking, China is one Communist Party away from being the new Nazi Germany…I fucking
love how the Enlightened West can support genocide in Gaza and Artsakh, set up concentration camps for "illegals" and homeless people, vilify Muslims and LGBT+ people as rapists and pedophiles, describe disabled people as "parasites", claim that immigrants are drug dealers that eat housepets, and yet, it's China that's Nazi Germany.
>>2423874>>2424068As somebody that was a victim of bullying, I'm tired of how people seem to think that things like this are all harmless fun. It doesn't mean the perpetrators should be charged as adults and sent away to prison for years but they really need to be held accountable. A mere 10 days in jail is a miscarriage of justice.
>>2424129In this case having only 10 days is just a slap on the wrist. 10 days is so meager that they wont learn anything.
It should be at least 30
>>2425323>I am willing to bet that Chinese hospital story wasn't true to begin with. LMAO
<it didn't happen because I would look bad if it happened so I'll just pretend it never happenedfucking westoids
>>2425259>Democratic systems are and should be viewed as the motherducking champions of output because paradoxically, they don't care about output but process. So why are we not "winning bigly"?>Democracy must not deliver the goods, it already does.Well, there's a few moments of my life I'll never get back. Just dances around the actual question. I wonder how much longer this whole "China is fake" thing can last?
>I know you'll never be able to own a home, have any functioning infrastructure or high-speed rail BUT YOU CAN V00T!!!11Come the fuck on now.
I am Chinese, and I don’t know what to say what, but might I try.
Currently, China is led by the establishment faction. While foreigners may think that the CCP is chaotic , the truth is that the ruling party is quite stable… and not as bad as people think. It might have some flaws, but overall, things are okay, like a slow but steady progress. It's a very pragmatic government.
Regarding foreign politics, I’ll share something that might interest everyone. If the Taiwan war fails, the CCP would likely still exist, but the establishment faction would certainly be finished. The next likely phase would be a new left-wing faction, and less likely, an extreme right-wing militarism. Of course, the failure of the Taiwan war itself is a low-probability event.
Next, I’ll mention a fact I’ve researched myself. Nationalism is actually not popular in China—it has never been popular, not from thousands of years ago to now. What has always been popular is the idea of revengeism. The early Mongols, the Manchus, and even earlier, the Xiongnu and the Xianbei, all experienced different degrees of revenge throughout history. This is because, thousands of years ago, Confucius said, “No matter how long it has been, hatred can still be avenged” (roughly speaking).
In fact, what is now called Chinese nationalism is actually just revengeism sentiment, but most people don’t realize it. This is something I have observed: Chinese nationalism has merely been shaped by the influence of revengeism. I think this is dangerous for the establishment faction and should be watched closely. But it can also be used to cover up many other issues… That’s about it."
>>2424134The point is, if you let the CPC fall, the two planks of superstructure are MZT and nationalism. Chinese by themselves, as anyone who's dealt with Diaspora will tell you, are quite conservative, nationalistic, and gusano.
China without the Communist Party of China is Nazi Germany with better tech and an industrial base.
>>2427594It's a dual lose scenario, either the West wins, or China goes Nazi and wins.
The two liveable scenarios for Westerners are that somehow the West wins and reforms its way to livability, which contradicts all known evidence following the fall of the Soviet Union, or that China survives and achieves high level Communism.
The alternatives, neoliberalism / fascism running rampant and a boot on a human face forever, or China becoming fascist but winning, are nightmare scenarios that the NED / 37Xs here support and promote.
>>2413077>>2413077Your ‘glorious past’ was just 5,000 years of peasants shitting in fields until Marx showed up.You miss the ‘old China’? The one that got raw-dogged by every imperialist with a boat? Your ancestors spent centuries as colonial cum rags and now you’re mad they got washed? Pre-1949 China was a glory hole for imperialists, now it’s their boss. Your 'noble ancestors' died choking on foreign cum. The only thing ‘traditional’ about old China was how efficiently it got fucked. The Party didn't destroy culture, they cremated the corpse and built a empire from the ashes.
Nostalgic for warlord rule? Go suck a Qing emperor’s necrotic dick.
>>2413077This is nationalist gusano BS. Part of the KMT / FLG platform is naked nationalism, which promotes uncritical glorification of Chinese history, you know, when China conducted both the Dzunghar and Jie (Ran Min) genocides.
Basically, the CPC relies on Lu Xun and Ba Jin, which is based on a dialectical understanding of traditional Chinese culture, seeing both positives (state service, proto-dialectics, proto-humanism, and serve the people) and negatives (feudal oppression, Confucian patriarchy, genocide and despotism).
As I understand, both the CIA and various subversion organizations push ultranationalism, probably knowing fully that if it does break the CPC, they will get Nazi Germany with Chinese characteristics and industrial capability.
>>2427864I guess you fuckers are getting more sophisticated and copy-pasting anti ultranationalist content I'm producing by hand.
China is both Tang golden age and the An Lushan rebellion, and Huang Chao literally eating the rich.
Simply cherry picking the right period will get you all the evidence you want.
>>2426954>It's a very pragmatic government … Next, I’ll mention a fact I’ve researched myself. Nationalism is actually not popular in China—it has never been popular, not from thousands of years ago to now.I've heard this before. Ultra-nationalism tends to run against the pragmatism of the culture and a lot of people roll their eyes at that stuff in their daily lives. Or you can get a kind of instrumental patriotism like promoting Chinese products or as some big flag to unite the people and the government. (Things either work or they don't but don't make it about "belief" or "faith" since those things won't make your jaw sharper or your ribs stronger.) Overseas Chinese also tend to be pretty loose and chill.
I don't have a clear explanation for it but the answer is probably in the long history and traditional Chinese social organization where people were binded more to their family and clan without the government dictating very much and otherwise leaving them alone to do Chinese peasant things. Mainly the government handles the big important stuff.
>What has always been popular is the idea of revengeism.Especially against a strong external threat.
>>2427932I think it's a lot about cherry picking and cultural discipline in hiding the ultra-nationalists. A half-Chinese half-Japanese boy was murdered in Shenzhen recently. The fascists are a time bomb the CPC is sitting on and containing. Imagine if the overseas Chinese never had to mix their nationalism with the reality of Marxism.
I'm just opposing your narrative of the Chinese never embracing radical ideology; the Xinhai revolution happened, so did liberation in 1949. You are threatening the repeat of the "who lost China" debate, except this time, it's to open, pure fascists instead of Kant-idealist Communists.
>>2427932A different warning is vs cultural essentialism, the new PC version of racism. No, the Chinese don't do this, don't do that, but either a haute liberal analysis (nuanced, mutli-factor) or a haute Marxist analysis (superstructure is determined by base, but influences base in turn) acknowledges that culture is a factor, but material reality or agency dominates. Remember the Maoist anti-family campaigns, and while this may ultimately have failed, the anti-traditional element persists.
There are in fact many Chinas and Chineses, dependent on who you are and what slice of reality you select. Don't be reductionist.
>>2428187I'm betting on no war, Washington's ability to engage in foreign interference is severely degraded, and nobody wants war other than Washington
2027 will be a nothing burger
>>2428187i've always said boats are a paper tiger.
feels nice to be correct again.
>>2428461In the Special Taiwan Operation, Taiwanese ships and aircraft are redirected to mainland ports or don't fly. If the Taiwanese try to break the blockade, they get bombed. If they fire back and deal appreciable damage, semiconductor fabs get bombed. Has absolutely nothing to do with amphibious landings; that only happens if Taiwan goes nuclear.
The island is indefensible, it's too close to China, which is too big. Amphibious landings are relatively easy to delay and make bleed, but the fabs are almost impossible to defend.
>>2428790On the Russia issue, NAFOids have a point that Russia is doing really badly and while they make gains, it's at great costs.
The parameters of Taiwan scenarios are different. Taiwan isn't going to get amphibious landings unless they attempt a nuclear weapons program, and China goes for broke. The size of the PLAN and CCG make it extremely easy for China to attempt, if not necessarily succeed in a direct blockade or quarantine by ships. But the sheer mass of PLAAF, PLARF, and PLAGF standoff munitions mean the island can be blockaded by long-range bombardment, and if that fails, there's still a shitton of civilian targets.
You State Department stooges, because Taiwan makes so much of the world's semiconductors, aren't merely begging for vassal suicide this time. What happens when Apple can't make iPhones because the fabs are downed? What happens when TSMC's Taiwan fabs are smoking craters?
Ever think about why Trump is pushing detente? He's trying to buy time to move the fabs off the island.
@Captaincool07
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One of my subscribers is from a real KMT family , and his entire family has deep roots in the party. His family members worked inside the TW government. In the 1970s, one of them worked in the cabinet of Kai Shek. And One of them is a low level representative. This subscriber followed my channel for many years, and befriended me when I used to be more active on social media. Over time, I got to know him personally.
A few years ago, his uncle went to Mainland China to work with state-owned enterprises, and he himself went to Beijing to study law. At the time, they were both pro-CCP — just like I was. We genuinely believed in the vision China ccp presented. So I lost touch with him when he left.
Then out of nowhere he message me and told me that his uncle got involved doing business with Chinese SOEs and they began interacting directly with provincial level CCP officials. What they saw up close was corruption, hypocrisy, and a system built on exploitation. Workers are abused and money often goes missing or stolen. There is 0 accountability. The CCP elites basically operates like a red aristocracy — a privileged elite class that takes advantage of ordinary people while hiding behind revolutionary slogans. So this subscriber was the one who opened my eyes and convinced me to step away after a few hours of chatting with him on phone.
The CCP uses dialectical thinking and finds contridictions in life, not to seek truth, but to justify contradictions and betrayals to maintain power. They allow for ambiguity, and calculated opportunism — all to achieve long-term goals. Socialism with Chinese characteritics, reform and market economy, "socialist Market economy" is part of this dialectical thinking
This ideological flexibility makes them seem pragmatic on the surface, but in reality, it enables them to turn on their own supporters. From the revolutionaries of the 1950s to the entrepreneurs of the 2000s, and even their own officials during “anti-corruption” campaigns — no one is safe once they outlive their usefulness.
The CCP are masters of the bait-and-switch. They flatter and use other people to rise, then discard them without hesitation once they have no more usefulness. Their entire history is filled with examples of this cycle. Today, with total control over information inside China, they can suppress dissent, flood the internet with state propaganda, and silence anyone who dares to speak out. So if you work for them — when the wind changes and you fall out of favor — who are you going to turn to for help? You are cooked. It is like working for the italian mafia.
I went as far as i could and realized that it was a poisoned wine and stopped drinking it.
Lots of Chinese people, self proclaimed Communist and Marxists outside of China , my self included, are absolutely foolish for believing in ccp. Many defend the party out of anti-Western sentiment or loyalty thinking they are trying to help China, without truly understanding the nature of what is being practiced in China and who is really the one in charge. Dont believe in them anymore.
I was pro-ccp and built my channel arouond that for 10 years. But i saw the manipulation and hypocrisy and change my mind. I don't care if i piss all my subscribers off.
china bros……
>>2429137Pretty retarded because there's another organization that does the same goddamn thing.
It's pretty basic disinfo; most parties play dirty, it's just the nature of politics. Morality is a mechanism of social control and propaganda.
End of the day, who sells more, and whose theory is more explanatory, coherent, and predictable?
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A while back, I was discussing with AI the alternate genealogy of intelligence agencies, that is to say, the OSS is an antecedent of American intelligent, but so's ML parties, that is to say, American glowies are fascist in appropriating the structure and norms of Marxist-Leninists, but for reactionary ends.
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End of the day, we're in a position wherein one side is delivering substantially rising living standards and the promise of higher-level Communism, and the other side delivers you Gaza.
There's substantial similarities in how they make their sausage, but one gives gourmet, the other produces toxic shit.
And ultimately, you're on a leftist site. Only the succdems here think that capitalism and democracy are reconcilable, or that capitalism left on its own isn't going to end with you being fed into an AI controlled blender to cut costs.
It's the Pascal's Wager of Marxist-Leninism, the ultras are useless (revolution next year, just like China will collapse next year, but since 1901 instead of 1995), the demsocs are proto-fascist, and the fascists are fascists.
If the American power elite actually wants to blow themselves up to attempt to produce some form of real ML-style socialism, be my guest, you'll get an audience for your bullshit, but otherwise, you're perpetuating unstable systems of power that'll end up with us all dead.
>>2427970>Don’t even get me started on Mao’s quotes about the homos (he was wrong but so was virtually the entire world at the time)Which quotes
I don't mean a meme.
>>2427970That is because sexual libertinism and homosexuality is fascistic or at least lumpen and a product of late stage neo-feudal self-cannibalising capitalism which refuses to provide workers a minimal economic basis that would allow for the reproduction of society. Leftoids try to rationalize this as something good and bourgeois feminism preaches that women should be allowed to exchange sexual power for economic power (see the ridiculous golddigging coaches that have been trending on Chinese social media recently), turning themselves into the slaves of rich men so as to take away the dignity of unworthy working class men who, as men, are evil.
In Maoist China and other socialist countries the employment of women was mandated by SOEs. Childcare services were also widely available, freeing women from most of the burden of childrearing. At the same time, sexual relations were strictly based on marriage, as any society in which people are genuinely equal would lead to everyone finding a partner for themselves and the lack of economic uncertainty or competition would allow people to orient themselves towards long-term relationships without any fear.
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) >>2429983It's unironically safer to be LGBT+ in China than it is in the West at this point. At least you don't have fascists shoved into social media feeds by billionaires like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel to rant about how LGBT+ people are "groomers" that should be incarcerated or publically executed while liberals see LGBT+ people are nothing but bargaining chips whose rights can be compromised away.
>>2429987Anybody that's surprised that Redditors are doing this is like being suprised that /pol/ is full of racists.
>>2427962>>2427959Hearing these kind of discourse only reminds me of the attitude that the most far gone weebs have/had to japan: a sort of foreign magical place where people think in a fundamentally different "better" way; while in reality a lot of it is projection from soft-power politics.
Given that when criticized, Chine officials or foreign chinese supporters revert to "you don't understand china", as if those people have a fundamentally alien reasoning system of the like also seen in noble savage stereotypes. I think that a similar tactic is at play here.
>>2430217imagine turning up to maccies not to buy anything but with all your mates and a pack of cards.
god i love old chinese people.
>>2430584I talked with enough people from china and vietnam to know what you're saying is nonsense.
One thing is the method of analysis, the other how the human mind operates at it's basic level.
>>2431089And so have I. It's anecdotal against anecdotal evidence. I've met people who've said that they hate Japanese, and people who refuse to work with Japanese. I've met anti-African racists.
End of the day, this is why we suspect you glow, because you're making the Rousseauian mistake again.
>>2432357Fake scripted shit
also grok is just googling and copy pasting headlines - in this case fucking nikkei asia
>>2432569They think it would kill a billion people. They also hate the dam because it's genuinely an impressive feat of engineering that stands as a monument to China's infrastructure mastery. The dam is so big it slowed down Earth's rotation. The upcoming Tibetan dam is going to be even bigger and will net electricity the size of UK.
Neoliberal western bloodlust, spilled over in reddit cuc/k/ memes about the dam, is a good reminder that China is at war with genuinely evil creatures that should be counter-erased for the good of humanity.
>>2433182Like I said, spin it into blatant Sinophobia. The problem with the liberal system is that it thinks it's the Way, the Truth, and the Light, when it's actually just a mask on capitalism and bourgeois supremacy.
When it's under stress, it mutates into fascism, and then, if it survives, politely disavows its fascist period like it does the dead Amerindians.
Gaza isn't new.
https://archive.ph/GmImi>AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over>“Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given,” Rui Ma wrote on X after returning from a recent tour of China’s AI hubs. >For American AI researchers, that’s almost unimaginable. In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could severely choke the industry’s growth.>In China, Ma continued, it’s considered a “solved problem.” >Ma, a renowned expert in Chinese technology and founder of the media company Tech Buzz China, took her team on the road to get a firsthand look at the country’s AI advancements. She told Fortune that while she isn’t an energy expert, she attended enough meetings and talked to enough insiders to come away with a conclusion that should send chills down the spine of Silicon Valley: in China, building enough power for data centers is no longer up for debate.>“This is a stark contrast to the U.S., where AI growth is increasingly tied to debates over data center power consumption and grid limitations,” she wrote on X.>The stakes are difficult to overstate. Data center building is the foundation of AI advancement, and spending on new centers now displaces consumer spending in terms of impact to U.S. GDP—that’s concerning since consumer spending is generally two-thirds of the pie. McKinsey projects that between 2025 and 2030, companies worldwide will need to invest $6.7 trillion into new data center capacity to keep up with AI’s strain. >In a recent research note, Stifel Nicolaus warned of a looming correction to the S&P 500, since it forecasts this data-center capex boom to be a one-off build-out of infrastructure, while consumer spending is clearly on the wane.>However, the clear limiting factor to the U.S.’s data center infrastructure development, according to a Deloitte industry survey, is stress on the power grid. Cities’ power grids are so weak that some companies are just building their own power plants rather than relying on existing grids. The public is growing increasingly frustrated over increasing energy bills – in Ohio, the electricity bill for a typical household has increased at least $15 this summer from the data centers – while energy companies prepare for a sea-change of surging demand.>Meanwhile, David Fishman, a Chinese electricity expert who has spent years tracking their energy development, told Fortune that in China, electricity isn’t even a question. On average, China adds more electricity demand than the entire annual consumption of Germany, every single year. Whole rural provinces are blanketed in rooftop solar, with one province matching the entirety of India’s electricity supply. >“U.S. policymakers should be hoping China stays a competitor and not an aggressor,” Fishman said. “Because right now they can’t compete effectively on the energy infrastructure front.” >China has an oversupply of electricty>China’s quiet electricity dominance, Fishman explained, is the result of decades of deliberate overbuilding and investment in every layer of the power sector, from generation to transmission to next-generation nuclear. >The country’s reserve margin has never dipped below 80%–100% nationwide, meaning it has consistently maintained at least twice the capacity it needs, Fishman said. They have so much available space that instead of seeing AI data centers as a threat to grid stability, China treats them as a convenient way to “soak up oversupply,” he added. >That level of cushion is unthinkable in the United States, where regional grids typically operate with a 15% reserve margin and sometimes less, particularly during extreme weather, Fishman said. In places like California or Texas, officials often issue warnings about red-flag conditions when demand is projected to strain the system. This leaves little room to absorb the rapid load increases AI infrastructure requires, Fishman ntoed. >The gap in readiness is stark: while the U.S. is already experiencing political and economic fights over whether the grid can keep up, China is operating from a position of abundance.>Even if AI demand in China grows so quickly renewable projects can’t keep pace, Fishman said, the country can tap idle coal plants to bridge the gap while building more sustainable sources. “It’s not preferable,” he admitted, “but it’s doable.” >By contrast, the U.S. would have to scramble to bring on new generation capacity, often facing years-long permitting delays, local opposition, and fragmented market rules, he said. >Structural governance differences>Underpinning the hardware advantage is a difference in governance. In China, energy planning is coordinated by long-term, technocratic policy that defines the market’s rules before investments are made, Fishman said. This model ensures infrastructure buildout happens in anticipation of demand, not in reaction to it. >“They’re set up to hit grand slams,” Fishman noted. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.” >In the U.S., large-scale infrastructure projects depend heavily on private investment, but most investors expect a return within three to five years: far too short for power projects that can take a decade to build and pay off.>“Capital is really biased toward shorter-term returns,” he said, noting Silicon Valley has funneled billions into “the nth iteration of software-as-a-service” while energy projects fight for funding. >In China, by contrast, the state directs money toward strategic sectors in advance of demand, accepting not every project will succeed but ensuring the capacity is in place when it’s needed. Without public financing to de-risk long-term bets, he argued, the U.S. political and economic system is simply not set up to build the grid of the future. >Cultural attitudes reinforce this approach. In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight. Coal use isn’t cast as a sign of villainy, as it would be among some circles in the U.S. – it’s simply seen as outdated. This pragmatic framing, Fishman argued, allows policymakers to focus on efficiency and results rather than political battles. >For Fishman, the takeaway is blunt. Without a dramatic shift in how the U.S. builds and funds its energy infrastructure, China’s lead will only widen.>“The gap in capability is only going to continue to become more obvious — and grow in the coming years,” he said. >>2435794china should not follow blindly follow silicon's valley hype (as they have done with other things in the past) for AI. it is a dead end technology not worth exploiting natural resources for. even if in china's case it would be mineral resources which are less polluting than burning fossil fuels for electricity is.
if any country in the world is well positioned to implement AI in such a way that it would be genuinely useful to the general populous, it would be China. and yet, despite 2 decades of hype now, AI technology has not revolutionized anything. AI is a waste of mineral resources (for production of computing equipment and energy grid), energy and talent.
Has China’s solidarity with the Palestinians died in Gaza?
Dr Razan Shawamreh
Nineteen billion dollars —that’s how much China sold in goods to Israel during the genocidal Gaza war, making it Israel’s top trading partner in 2024, ahead the U.S., which exported nine billion. That ten billion gap speaks louder than Beijing’s public statements.
While Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, China’s new ambassador to Israel, Xiao Junzheng, marked his arrival on 29 November 2024, with an op-ed in Israel Hayom. Titled “Taking a long view and working in joint hands for a new chapter,” it focused less on Palestinian suffering and more on optimism about deepening ties with Israel.
He describes the relationship as rooted in the idea that “the Chinese and Jewish people each possess a long history and an ancient civilization, and enjoy a time-honored friendship that continues to flourish.”
This raises a key question: how did “Jewish” shift from being a religious identity to a civilization? Such language aligns with Zionist discourse, framing Israel not just a state, but as the homeland of Jews worldwide.
By portraying Israel as an “Jewish civilization” and referring to it as the “Jewish state,” China is adopting the core ideological framing of Zionism—a shift with deep political implications.
This is not new; since normalizing relations in 1992, China has consistently portrayed Israel as an ancient “Jewish state,” sidestepping its reality as a settler-colonial project in Palestine.
What’s alarming is the timing: China uses this rhetoric amid an ongoing genocide in Gaza. While it speaks of Palestinian rights at the UN, it simultaneously affirms Israel’s legitimacy with language echoing Zionist logic.
This exposes two Chinas: one at the UN calling for a ceasefire and a two-state solution, and another praising Israel as a “Jewish state,” avoiding the word genocide, and speaking of “working in joint hands” with Israel.
How can China avoid blame for reinforcing Israel’s far-right, which uses Israel the “Jewish state,” narrative to justify Gaza’s erasure and the West Bank occupation?
From Vetoes to Drones
Despite popular belief, China and the U.S. have taken similar positions on Palestine—not just during the current war, but overall. Neither has used the term genocide. Both mildly criticize Israeli settlements but continue investing in their expansion. The support the Zionist narrativethat frames Israel as the legitimate representative of the “Jewish people” and defend its “right to exist,” while ignoring Israel’s settler-colonial origins.
While the U.S. arms Israel, China largely stays silent, even avoiding U.S. military aid to Israel from its official documents. Beijing’s criticism is limited to U.S. vetoes at the UN Security Council.
This silence reflects China’s growing complicity, especially through its private sector. Chinese-made drone parts are now embedded in Israeli military systems. A recent Israeli Defense Ministry tender for five thousand FPV suicide drones, for use in Gaza and the West Bank, names HQProp (China) as the exclusive propeller supplier and Team Blacksheep (Hong Kong), as the only approved supplier of communication modules. These are essential components for striking Palestinian targets, with no restrictions on their use.
DJI, the world’s leading drone maker, has seen its drones used by Israeli forces for surveillance and military purposes. Though DJI claims its products aren’t for combat, their presence contradicts China’s diplomatic calls for ceasefire.
This contradiction extends to language. “Shalom” has been used cynically by both Chinese and American officials. Donald Trump used it mockingly after ordering the arrest of pro-Palestinian students, while, Xiao praised the term as reflecting Israel’s peaceful nature, saying: “The first Hebrew word I encountered is ‘Shalom’, which not only serves as a greeting but also carries the Jewish people’s long desire for peace since ancient times.”
The West Moves—China Stays Still
On Israel, it is not the “West versus the rest,”—it’s the West, the U.S., and China together versus the rest.
Ironically, several Western countries complicit in Israel’s genocidal war have recently shifted. The UK summoned the Israeli ambassador and suspended the talks on the free trade deal; meanwhile, China’s ambassador reassured Israeli that “China’s new development will bring new opportunities to Israel.”
China’s BRICS partners, Brazil and South Africa, withdrew ambassadors from Israel and downgraded ties. China merely reaffirmed that “there is no direct and fundamental conflict of interests between China and Israel, nor are there any outstanding historical issues.”
French President Emmanuel Macron called Israel’s actions in Gaza “shameful and disgraceful,” noting that only historians can decide if it’s genocide. China still refuses to use the term, even as UN experts, international courts, and leaders across the Global South do.
Britain, Italy, Spain, Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands have banned or restricted arms sales to Israel, while Chinese companies continue exporting arms-related goods as usual. This doesn’t absolve Western powers, but shows how China now mirrors the worst Western practices.
When Israeli forces fired on international diplomats in Jenin in May 2025, countries like Canadian, Uruguay, Denmark, France, Spain, and Italy summoned their ambassadors. China only said it was “closely following the incident” and urged “all relevant parties, especially Israel, not to take any escalatory moves.”
But in the West Bank Israel is the sole occupying power—there is no second party. If China insists on such language, it should clarify who these “relevant parties” are.
China claims to offer a more “just” alternative to Western foreign policies, its actions now mirror U.S., whose unconditional support for Israel has made it a global outlier.
In May 2021, after Israeli attacks on Gaza, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson criticized the U.S. for opposing the international community. Now, the U.S. no longer stands alone—China has joined it in opposing the global consensus.
China’s posture increasingly resembles the U.S. approach, raising the question: does China benefit strategically from the war, as its main rival, the U.S., further implicated? The longer the war drags on, the more the U.S.’s image as a moral authority erodes, potentially boosting China’s global standing. Why should Beijing interrupt this?
Palestinians don’t expect China to cut ties with Israel, but hope it won’t become another United States—from the East. Yet, Gaza is becoming a graveyard not just for invaders, but for great powers’ claims and morals. Palestinians feel bitter, if not betrayed, and China should take note.
Dr Razan Shawamreh
Palestinian researcher in International Relations. Her work focuses on Chinese studies, international relations theory, Sino-Israeli relations, and China’s strategy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
https://faraamaai.org/articles/loud-clear/has-chinas-solidarity-with-the-palestinians-died-in-gazaThoughts?
>>2436184The author of that article is very dedicated to research on China, is not a westerner and is super pro Palestine
Here is a ridiculously long peer reviewed by paper by them recently
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2025.2470995#abstractChina’s soft power (non) expansion in the MENA region
>>2436225Like she wrote this on 2022. I doubt the CIA would support this lol
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/china-us-different-kind-world-power-wantsChina wants to be a different kind of great power than the US
New document points to Beijing's vision for 'benign hegemony', in contrast to Washington's 'abusive' version
>>2436223It is however definitely interested in casting shade on China about the land of Palestine to deflect attention from the simple fact that if Washington stopped sending lethal aid and insisted on emergency supplies getting in the genocide in Gaza would be over tommorow
Actual glowie, useful idiot something else 🤷♂️ none of that changes what I've stated above; the only objections to be made is that I'm not being diplomatic enough about the two state solution that Tel Aviv and particularly Netnyahu made nearly impossible, probably deliberately, a fair while ago
>>2436231You should engage with her work instead of making assumptions without touching it. She's not pro west at all nor some CIA shill as I showed here. Challenge your preconceived notions and work against them to find the truth
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/china-us-different-kind-world-power-wantsChina wants to be a different kind of great power than the US
New document points to Beijing's vision for 'benign hegemony', in contrast to Washington's 'abusive' version
>>2436151>china sells stuff Yeah, no shit. This is mostly slop. China makes everything so whenever you buy something it's going to be Chinese. And Chinese trading self interests will remain paramount for the Chinese government because it's directly tied to their security and success as a nation.
Also, treating Israel as a individual entity is wrong. It's just an American aircraft carrier in the desert and China is in a full blown trade war with the US. Writing all of that but not talking about how China hunts down rare earth redistributors and surgically crippling the American MIC (and therefore Israel) is baffling.
This is a silent storm that is not covered by the sensationalist media because it's too terrifying and because they're still desperately trying to negotiate it. This is the reason why we just saw another 90 days pause on Chinese tariffs. China slit the Achilles' heel and it's unironically the endgame. Why did Trump not even utter the word "Taiwan" since he took office? Why did he cancel Taiwanese president's visit? Why did he say to Marcos that it's fine for the Philippines to get along with China? Why did he slap record tariffs on India but still delays them on China? Because China has the Pentagon supply chain in a headlock - and that won't change.
>>2436616China is not going to stick its head out against Israel, because this s
Is strategic suicide, but what China has done for Palestinians deserves to be commended.
I mean, really, imagine anti-antisemitism being used to justify antisiniticism. Anti-antisemitism is both incoherent when aligned with Zionist/Kahanist causes, and a fundamental cultural value.
But, if Sino-American relations break down, expect China to move missiles and fighters into Iran, seeing Israel as a weak link in the American world system.
>>2437496This is the correct way
To talk to liberals also, I don't care if they are "communist", I just think they are neat.
>>2437534p good. I had already saved that yesterday.
I had been camping out in the US thread. What a shitshow, remind me not to do that again, /prc/ friendos
>>2436801China was already moving to both arm and replenish Iran across the country. They had a deal where China was about to invest record $400 billion into its economy and Russia was about to provide Su-35 jets to it. Iran chickened out and tried netting the western rapprochement once again. Iran even soundly refused both Chinese and Russian help when Israel and Trump bombed them. Only now are they looking at Chinese J-10 planes again after Russian deal fell through.
People want China to be World Police 2: Justified Edition but that's counterproductive. Iran has weak and incompetent government and they're not a trustworthy ally in the region (remember: they fucked over both ZTE and Huawei trying to appease the US) and Russia is busy with a border war. China won't die alone on a middle eastern hill, guns blazing for no reason (other than purity tests online). Instead China will continue undermining the empire where it hurts - the US MIC.
Walking through Tokyo’s Akihabara, the mecca of Japanese pop culture, one is struck by a curious sight, towering advertisement banners not featuring anime icons or J-pop stars, but Genshin Impact heroes. These vibrant characters, born not in Tokyo or Kyoto but in Shanghai’s miHoYo studio, dominate the skyline. For decades, Japan’s cultural exports defined East Asia’s global imagination; now, China's creative energies are seeping into that space.
This shift wasn’t born overnight. The 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony introduced China to the world with fireworks and orchestration, but since then, its influence has seeped inward, through games, stories, science, and screens. These cultural currents flow only because they rest on solid economic foundations.
China’s economic rise, becoming the world’s second-largest economy, lifting hundreds of millions from poverty, and building vast consumer and technological ecosystems, has underwritten its cultural surge. This wealth enabled investment in education, research, digital platforms, and entertainment industries. It's no surprise that firms like Tencent, ByteDance, and miHoYo emerged as global players, they stand on shoulders of economic scale and ambition.
That ambition is just as evident in academia. In the early 2020s, Chinese universities such as Tsinghua and Peking began surpassing their Western peers in the prestigious Nature Index rankings, overtaking long-dominant American and European institutions in high-quality research output. The trend reached a symbolic high point in 2025, when a team from Tsinghua University achieved what had eluded computer science for four decades: they outperformed the classic Dijkstra algorithm for shortest paths. By introducing a deterministic algorithm with faster-than-sorting performance, the researchers broke through a barrier once thought inviolable, earning the Best Paper Award at STOC 2025. These achievements, from rankings to breakthroughs, reinforced the sense that China was no longer just a producer of goods but a generator of cutting-edge knowledge.
At the same time, cultural products with global reach began to emerge. Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, once a niche work of science fiction, became an international sensation, spawning adaptations and igniting debates among fans worldwide. His cosmic narrative carried Chinese speculative thought into the mainstream, much as Genshin Impact did for gaming. Both reflected how Chinese creators were no longer simply local voices, but global storytellers.
Digital technology accelerated this process. TikTok, known domestically as Douyin, emerged as one of the most powerful cultural platforms of the 21st century, reshaping music charts, comedy, and youth culture worldwide. Unlike earlier Chinese apps that remained within the Great Firewall, TikTok broke boundaries and normalized Chinese tech as part of ordinary digital life.
Sometimes, cultural influence arrives through the most unexpected channels. Chongqing, with its neon staircases, mist-shrouded rivers, and labyrinthine architecture, has become a visual muse for viral videos, adding a layer of dreamlike urbanity to China’s digital image. And when global personalities visit, like streamer IShowSpeed, their spontaneous encounters with street food, bustling crowds, and red lanterns offer millions a human, unfiltered glimpse into everyday China.
What powers all these currents, academic prestige, games, literature, tech platforms, and visual aesthetics, is the economic engine behind them. But it’s not just growth; it’s ambition, confidence, and investment.
All these threads, viral aesthetics, global games, bestselling stories, rising universities, and textbook-rewriting research, point to a single trajectory. What began as spectacle in Beijing in 2008 has evolved into pervasive influence: daily, subtle, and woven into the fabric of digital and intellectual life.
China is no longer just exporting goods; it is exporting imagination, and increasingly, cutting-edge knowledge, powered by a vast and confident economy.
>>2438182US exporting bombs and bombs and bombs and intercepting missiles and bombs and tanks and guns and bombs: "based! It's called free trade sweaty."
China exporting toothbrushes and umbrellas: "YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GENOCIDE AND SHOULD BE BALKANIZED INTO A DOZEN ETHNOSTATES!!!!!"
>>2438192< US exporting bombs and bombs and bombs and intercepting missiles and bombs and tanks and guns and bombs: "based! It's called free trade sweaty."picrel
>>2438193I am sorry that being american gave you bad taste
>>2438189>genocide is good for profitkilling off millions of proles (who double as consumers of commodities)
increases the rate of profit?
>>2438305In cleans up and appropriates land which can then be invested on and developed.
It expands an existing market by pure force.
>>2438318> Communist commoditiesWhy do I expect anything from dengoids?
Also nobody of you tards has even acknoledged, nor sufficiently addressed
> This silence reflects China’s growing complicity, especially through its private sector. Chinese-made drone parts are now embedded in Israeli military systems. A recent Israeli Defense Ministry tender for five thousand FPV suicide drones, for use in Gaza and the West Bank, names HQProp (China) as the exclusive propeller supplier and Team Blacksheep (Hong Kong), as the only approved supplier of communication modules. These are essential components for striking Palestinian targets, with no restrictions on their use.> DJI, the world’s leading drone maker, has seen its drones used by Israeli forces for surveillance and military purposes. Though DJI claims its products aren’t for combat, their presence contradicts China’s diplomatic calls for ceasefire >>2438770>>2438718Genocide is bad for business. Less people = less surplus value extraction = less money getting into the hands of proles who buy commodities. Genocide is by definition shrinking the market as Labor Power is the only thing besides nature that creates value, Capital by itself doesn't create value, it only makes labor power more efficient
>Wiping out loads of capital and people is one way to get around the falling rate of profitOnly for capital this is true, there's no simply replacing big populations of people
>>2438981Because until the average Chinese citizen makes more than the average American per capita, the productive forces are not developed enough to take on America.
Someone else said:
if communism has to be worldwide and is impossible in one country then
socialists states are in a holding pattern while they wait for you to overthrow your own bourgeoisie. The required productive forces for defense of the revolution is always relative to the external forces that seek to overthrow it, and revolution is the one job that cannot be outsourced.
>>2440048>It's clearly notIt absolutely, black-on-white is. It was clear in 2022 to anyone with a brain and it's an official fact now that Mark Rutte cried about it.
Do you want to know an even funnier stat? North Korea alone produces more artillery hardware than NATO and Russia combined. Nobody outranges the Koksan.
>the most expensive military alliance in the entire history of the world is somehow running out of ammoIs this a joke? You don't want your military contractors to be scalpers on every single shell like the US MIC is. Being expensive is a detriment. It's where the "w-we got quantity over quality!" cope thrives. And it all came crashing down when a 60 million dollar J-10 took down multiple 200 million dollar Rafales.
NTA btw.
>>2440056>w-we got quantity over quality!Vice versa typo
western tech is overpriced garbage in pitiful quantities
They'll make propaganda montage videos about $10 billion USS Nimitz but they'll never mention that a $100 million Swedish submarine sank it in an exercise. Bypassing the escort carrier strike group btw, it wasn't a 1 on 1.
>>2438981Because GDP is first and foremost an American metric that measures goods as if those were listed on American markets. This shit is stupid to use for anyone but Americans themselves.
EVERY country in the world for internal economic planning is using calculations in their own currencies and prices. If you want actual comparisons, you have to suck it up and compare planning, i.e. factual, checked and real, metrics done in local currencies. Nobody's doing this because it's ideologically heretical
>>2440879It's NOT flow of the goods, for fuck's sake. It's literally a projection of US realities onto other countries. Therefore, countries which are 1) most similar to US in economic composition and 2) have markets open to foreign capitals, have the highest GDP per capita
Are you seriously going to claim that Japan has the similar level of economic activity as Puerto Rico?
>>2440046what the fuck operation honeycomb bastards
first they take our scientist and now they
>>2438981One theory I've heard, and keep in mind I have no fucking idea if this is policy or even logically sound, is that the PRC benefits from being underestimated and allegedly underreports these kind of metrics strategically.
From a quick search, it seems other countries are accusing China of overreporting. I can't see anything suggesting this claim I heard has basis in reality, but again this was a quick search.
That said, I think we can agree that China doesn't seem to give a shit about GDP as a metric:
>BEIJING (Reuters) [from 2010] - China's GDP figures are "man-made" and therefore unreliable, the man who is expected to be the country's next head of government said in 2007, according to U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.>Li Keqiang, head of the Communist Party in northeastern Liaoning province at the time, was unusually candid in his assessment of local economic data at a dinner with then-U.S. Ambassador to China Clark Randt, according to a confidential memo sent after the meeting and published on the WikiLeaks website.>The U.S. cable reported that Li, who is now a vice premier, focused on just three data points to evaluate Liaoning's economy: electricity consumption, rail cargo volume and bank lending.>"By looking at these three figures, Li said he can measure with relative accuracy the speed of economic growth. All other figures, especially GDP statistics, are 'for reference only,' he said smiling," the cable added.>[snip] >>2442701They're lapping everyone. Everyone else is irresponsible in comparison.
Biggest country, biggest economy, biggest industry yet nowhere near the top polluters per capita in population and factory output. On the contrary they're leading the charge in green energy. Not just within their own borders but globally, due to green tech exports.
China is quite literally saving the world - and the western world hates her for it.
>>2442796>Biggest countryuhhm ackschually, India at this point is bigger population wise.
Comparison between the two is about all you need to figure out the true rift, the massive difference between capitalism and socialism.
Outside of racism (the w*sterners approach) it is the only thing that truly explains the chasm. Development versus barely getting by.
>>2440091>traditional charactersVgh, retvrn.
>>2445538>it is totally unnecessary for obtaining good education resultsIs it? The real academic blackpill is that 1:1 tutoring has the best outcomes but it's just not viable to provide that to everyone.
>>2445538The CPC decided after the ultra-left failures of the GLF and GPCR that putting high pressure on the population to work hard, develop the productive forces, and outcompete the imperial core was a better path than ultra-left dogmatism which would have resulted in a CIA coup in the 80s or 90s.
As an American who has failed under much lower stakes, I can only admire their drive. This is what they are doing instead Guerilla warfare against a genocidal US occupation. It was probably the wiser choice.
People call it cucking out but I call it winning slowly.
The required productive forces for defense of the revolution is always relative to the external forces that seek to overthrow it. If AES states have to defend themselves from counter revolutionaries, then they are stuck in an arms race with counter revolutionaries. Just because they have enough productive forces to sustain themselves doesn't matter when they live in a world still dominated by capitalism.
Socialists states are in a holding pattern while they wait for you to overthrow your own bourgeoisie.
>>2445539>The real academic blackpill is that 1:1 tutoring has the best outcomes but it's just not viable to provide that to everyone.Indeed this is why old aristocratic "geniuses" like Isaac Newton seem like geniuses to us. Because they lived in a time before public education and they were not only part of the 20% of society that was even literate, but they were part of the 1% that received constant tutoring from an incredibly young age.
Then the bourgeoisie turn around and say the workers and lumpen are "hopeless" because of how poorly they do in underfunded public education systems with huge class sizes.
>>2446073>Plekhanovisttwo questions:
1. what makes you say that particularly?
2. aside from the label, is it
wrong?
>>2446934 (me)
Now, this doesn't take into account standards of living or anything, what it means is that in total the Americans are capable of producing roughly 75% of the goods the Chinese are, and the Euros are able to produce roughly 96% of the goods the Americans are.
>>2446665I guess that graph only makes sense if hard drugs consumption is counted in to prop up the EU - and the US - gdp. And the author of the graph is obviously a large consumer.
>>2446935What
>>2446955 says. For once in a while, Japs do something based in the political sphere and here we have the sad administration in Taipei raining on their parade. I guess they were pissed off because Taiwan is one of the most weehaboo places on earth and they didn't expect that from some Japanese. Also, coping and seething because one of the two had already left, lol!
The people in charge in Taipei are really out of their depths these days: when the madman in South Korea attempts his crazy self-coup/martial law and fails miserably, they start saying he is right, basically the only ones in the world to do that, then they tried to forcibly remove opposition mps and they fail miserably at that.
>>2446958Taiwanese separatists live in a legal paradox. They accept to run for office in a state officially called Republic of China and they say they want to change that and just switch to Taiwan. They got elected, but they can't change the Constitution by legal means - they don't have a supermajority and they are scared shitless to put the issue to a binding referendum - so they keep things as they are and they don't try to unilaterally just do whatever they say they want to do. You even have the sclerotic and senile speaker of the house doing her provocation visiting Taipei a few years ago and she took pictures in front of a huge portrait of Chiang Kai-shek, basically the founder of modern Chinese nationalism… Plus, Taiwan has a higher percentage of Han Chinese than the Mainland itself. So many funny things…
>>2446935>an act […] at risk of harming the interests of our "country and public [order]"(what the hell is this about speech, nowhere near genocidal or "violence inciting" speech at that, threatening public safety, it's one of those newspeak fascist "re"imaginings, isn't it)
It's that easy huh. Take note.
>>2446958This makes my regular thonk the big thonk
>>2445538>>2445614>wants to have "multiple football fields of engineers">gets horrified when they see how the sausages are madeHow do you think China got to where they are? Do you think leisurely work put those space stations into orbit and hypersonics onto ships?
This is why westerners will NGMI.
>>2447714>there are more relaxed public education systems in the world that achieve better resultsThere aren't. All get mogged by Chinese engineers, scientists and mathematicians. The only ones that get close to competing are Koreans. Chinese results in such a short time speak for themselves. And it'll only get more evident as time goes by and the rest get left into dust.
>let's not idolize hardship吃苦
Let's not be lazy.
>>2447761yes, common core killing brains
I don't wanna criticise too much though, I probably couldn't even solve it at all lol
>>2448300She literally writes it out.
100-97=3
100-94=6
97-6=91
3*6=18
91||18 =9118
>>2448850>burgerville still does pretty well for itselfNo it doesn't.
Its entire tech sector is being carried by Chinese nationals that weren't good enough to pass Gaokao so their rich parents sent them to the states to compete against the impaired and net a prestigious diploma. Those that stayed in the US for whatever reason now rule Silicon Valley. And they still can't compete with the Chinese students shitting out Deepseek in their free time and wiping out an entire billion from the stock market.
Also those foreign college graduates? They're facing trouble back home lately. They're referred to as the "sea turtles" due to their tendencies to come back home to mate. It became an insult because of the recent high profile scandals involving fuckups from the Chinese that held foreign diplomas - so now they're facing difficulties getting a job. Their rich parents foreign diploma is now a red flag that they were too incompetent to pass Gaokao back home and don't deserve the prestige previously associated to foreign graduates.
This shouldn't be a controversy here. You're scared of studying and progress.
>>2449142That's the propaganda cope.
The real reason Trump wants Chinese kids in American schools is for subversion. American propaganda is strong. It's an easy way for the CIA to identify some randoms and send them back home as spies or trained up protest leaders. China has a famously strict immigration system that makes it hard for foreigners to gain citizenship so the easiest way to build an intellligence network is by converting people who are already citizens.
>>2449162True to some extent but it's primarily because universities are a huge part of American service based economy. Without the Chinese students they're utterly fact. Both the colleges as business and actual engineering positions.
Please just type "inside china business universities" into Youtube. This guy puts it clear as day and backs it up with data and sources everything. He has like 10 videos about this topic and they're all eye-opening goldmine.
>>2447815>yes, common core killing brainsCommmon Core probably isn't even a thing anymore and I'd say that allowing Christian nationalist ideologues to influence the curriculum kills more brains than Common Core ever did.
>>2448850>burgerville still does pretty well for itself even with its dogshit education systemIs this a cynical joke?
>it doesn't have to go to brutalizing and burning out 95% of kids and condemning them to a lower caste because of one fucking test.America already does this anyway. They choose who succeeds and who fails. If you're in the lower class, they will never allow you to get a good education and the only jobs you'll ever be allowed to get are the most degrading ones. Say what you will about the Gaokao but it would unironically be better than this.
>>2449162>The real reason Trump wants Chinese kids in American schools is for subversion. American propaganda is strong. It's an easy way for the CIA to identify some randoms and send them back home as spies or trained up protest leaders.Few people would wistfully look at downtowns filled with used syringes and homeless encampments and wish this for their own country. If I were a Chinese student and saw what I've seen, I'd catch the first flight back to China and head straight to the nearest CPC office.
>>2449811>The golden age of NASA (Mercury/Gemini/Apollo) was made possible by Nazi rocket scientistsThis is wrong. Von Braun, if anything, was a negative influence on the program because he pushed through his failure of a rocket, with American breakthroughs coming only when von Braun was essentially neutralized in his ambitions. We are talking about von Braun's project failing to reach cosmos with his manned launch, ffs.
But yeah, USA depends on brain drain; their homegrown scientists are not up to the challenge because lack of education system makes it so potential scientists just don't get scouted; it's a simple numbers game, if you don't roll enough dice, you don't get enough sixes to feed a scientific program
>>2449811>>2450192Don't forget the unsung and topic relevant Qian Xuesen. Actually contributed to NASA and as thanks he was put under house arrest for being Chinese. He returned to China disappointed in America and helped China kickstart their space program instead.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
LATAM BLOG: China will let Maduro sink rather than confront US warships
https://www.intellinews.com/latam-blog-china-will-let-maduro-sink-rather-than-confront-us-warships-398046/?
>Nicolás Maduro's theatrical display of his new Huawei phone, allegedly a personal gift from Xi Jinping, during a recent public speech was more than diplomatic pantomime. As the Venezuelan president mimicked a satellite call to Beijing, punctuating his performance with "ni hao" and "xiexie," he was sending Washington a not-so-subtle message: Venezuela has powerful friends.
>Yet as US destroyers patrol Caribbean waters and the Trump administration doubles its bounty on Maduro's head to $50mn accusing him of being "one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world”, Beijing's muffled response suggests China's decades-long commitment to its Latin American ally has distinct limits, particularly when it comes to military confrontation with Washington.
>As usual, last week’s deployment of the USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson, alongside 4,000 marines, prompted diplomatic protests from Beijing. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning warned that China "opposes the use or threat of force in international relations and the interference of external forces in Venezuela's internal affairs.”
>But experts who spoke to bne Intellinews following Maduro’s disputed re-election in July 2024 paint a starkly different picture of Beijing's actual intentions.
>"China fears that a transition to democracy or the rule of law would necessarily mean declining bargaining leverage in Venezuela," explains Javier Corrales, professor of political science at Amherst College. “They fear a Western-aligned government would revise their contracts and potentially expose embarrassing dealings.”
>However, Corrales doubts Beijing would actively intervene to preserve Maduro's grip on power. "China today will often care so much about being present that it will accept significant economic losses," he notes. "That said, Venezuela continues to deliver oil and to pay the debt [estimated at around $10bn in 2024], so it's not like China is experiencing profound economic losses."
>The Venezuela-China axis has seemingly strengthened recently, with Communist Party of China delegates visiting Caracas in June to establish “doctrinal training” programmes for the Bolivarian ruling socialist party. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil hailed these party-to-party exchanges as efforts to construct "societies based on social justice" aimed at building "a new international order."
>Such multipolar rhetoric resonates well with BRICS principles. But the burgeoning, Beijing-led trading bloc remains a pipe dream for Caracas, as its membership bid was blocked by Brazil last year over the contested election which saw Maduro claiming victory amid widespread allegations of fraud. Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly supported Venezuela’s entry at the Kazan summit in October 2024, whilst China remained notably silent. Eventually, Maduro left Kazan empty-handed: Venezuela failed to secure even the novel “partner country” status granted to fellow Bolivia and Cuba.
>Following May's China-CELAC summit, where Xi pledged cooperation on energy and trade plus massive investments in Latin America, both governments claim to be preparing more than 600 agreements for 2025, covering technology, investment and agriculture. The younger Nicolás Maduro, the president's son, has made multiple trips to China this year alongside Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to advance these initiatives.
>But the paradox of China-Venezuela relations lies in the gap between political rhetoric and a much harsher commercial reality. Whilst Xi elevated the relationship to an "all-weather strategic partnership" during Maduro's 2023 visit to Beijing – the highest classification in China's diplomatic hierarchy – Chinese businesses tell a different story.
>"Since [former president Hugo] Chavez died, the Chinese have been much more cautious with Venezuela. They haven't provided any new loans," Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin America Energy Program at Rice University, tells bne Intellinews. "They have had a very bad experience in Venezuela… They know that giving money to Venezuela is an absolute disaster, a terrible idea."
>Beijing's wariness stems from the spectacular failure of previous development loans that flourished after Chávez met former Chinese president Hu Jintao in 2008. Venezuelan mismanagement of these funds left numerous infrastructure projects incomplete and contributed to the economic chaos that economists trace to 2012, Chávez's final election win before his untimely passing. Beijing halted new disbursements in 2015 as hyperinflation took hold. At its peak, Venezuela absorbed nearly half of all Chinese development funding for Latin America, according to the China-America Research Center of the Andrés Bello Foundation, forcing Beijing to restructure payment terms and fundamentally reconsider its lending practices across the developing world.
>"I would be very surprised if the agreements announced with China include disbursements of funds through a credit line," Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado, director of the China-America Research Center, told El País. Instead, he expects Beijing to focus on Special Economic Zones—tax-advantaged industrial areas that Xi has discussed with Maduro. These zones require minimal capital whilst offering Beijing control over production using inexpensive Venezuelan labour, D'Sola explains.
>The numbers support this assessment. Whilst Chinese development banks have extended $59.2bn to Venezuela—nearly double Brazil's allocation—commercial banks have virtually abandoned the country. Chinese foreign direct investment turned negative in 2019, with net outflows continuing through 2022. According to Nikkei, IEIT Systems, a Shenzhen-listed IT firm which operated in the South American nation, has written off nearly $41mn in Venezuelan receivables as unrecoverable.
>China's official investment guide for Venezuela, compiled by its commerce ministry, contains unusually blunt warnings. It describes Venezuela as "a country with relatively high business risks," specifically citing US sanctions that could "create various obstacles" for Chinese companies. The guide warns of Venezuelan counterparties being "unable to pay off their liabilities on time."
>Even in the oil sector, the cornerstone of bilateral trade, China's engagement remains circumscribed by sanctions concerns. Chinese state oil company CNPC produces approximately 90,000 barrels daily in Venezuela, merely about 10% of national output, according to Monaldi. But Venezuelan crude destined for China takes a circuitous route through Malaysian intermediaries, arriving at independent refineries rather than state facilities.
>"CNPC is a global company listed in international markets that has business in the US," Monaldi explains. "Venezuela's oil, since the first Trump Administration, has been the subject of secondary sanctions. So it's more like Iranian oil."
>Future Chinese investment in Venezuelan energy appears unlikely. "The chances of Chinese investment in Venezuelan oil are slim," Monaldi says, noting that CNPC has repeatedly declined PDVSA's investment proposals for new fields, citing previous payment disputes and disagreements.
>Chinese oil interests have instead shifted to neighbouring Guyana, where the business environment proves more attractive. China's CNOOC is a minority partner (25%) in Guyana’s Stabroek block, which is operated by ExxonMobil and also includes Hess Corporation. However, the small, oil-rich country is locked in a century-old dispute with Caracas over the Essequibo region, which makes up two-thirds of Guyana's internationally recognised territory. Tensions were dormant under Chavez, but reignited after ExxonMobil’s discovery of substantial crude reserves there in 2015. Over the past year, Maduro and the opposition alike have ramped up claims over the territory, seeking to exploit nationalistic sentiment to advance their respective goals. Thus, the Asian superpower's investments in Guyana are directly at odds with Venezuela's territorial ambitions.
>Overall, China's strategic calculus appears driven more by long-term geopolitical positioning than economic benefit. "Xi Jinping became a bit more geo-strategic than his predecessor Hu Jintao," Corrales tells bne Intellinews. "In addition to wanting to expand the influence of Chinese businesses abroad and obtain raw materials, he also wanted to have a greater political presence abroad, regardless of the economic costs."
>And Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves, offers Beijing unique advantages in Latin America – a continent further drifting into China’s orbit of influence following the return of Donald Trump to the US presidency. "The Venezuelan government was not very accountable to any local group, so it could offer China anything China wanted," Corrales explains. "China could not find any other country in the Americas, other than Cuba, where it could call the shots to the same degree."
>This freedom from scrutiny has proved valuable as Chinese projects, often part of Beijing’s signature Belt and Road initiative, face increasing opposition from civil society across Latin America. "By the late 2010s, many groups in civil society in Latin America were questioning many Chinese deals, especially extractivist projects as well as non-transparent deals," Corrales notes. "But in Venezuela, the state insulated China from any of that scrutiny."
>Yet even this privileged position has not prevented Beijing from hedging its bets. As Venezuela's economy collapsed after 2014, driving nearly 8mn citizens to flee over the past decade, China's response has been calculated. While extending enough credit to prevent a sovereign default, Beijing has simultaneously opened channels to the opposition. Chinese government-linked entities have quietly hosted opposition figures, whilst advisers to opposition economists report exploratory meetings with Chinese officials about post-Maduro scenarios.
>"They basically, of course, will deal with whoever is in power," Monaldi says. "I don't think they will do anything to push Maduro out. They did, I think, signal Maduro that he shouldn't mess with Guyana. That's the only thing in which I think they have done some signalling."
>The latest US military deployment, framed as an anti-narcotics operation targeting the "Cartel of the Suns" allegedly led by Maduro, is yet another thorn in Beijing’s side. Speaking to SCMP, Denny Roy of the East-West Centre notes the warships demonstrate that Washington – which recently re-authorised Chevron to pump oil in Venezuela in a bid to shift crude exports away from China and back to the US market – "has the capability of cutting off Venezuela's oil supplies to China."
>Some analysts suggest the pressure might paradoxically boost China-Venezuela ties in the short term. Zhao Xijun, a finance professor at Renmin University, argues that sanctioned countries "will feel they might be sanctioned, so they'd think of ways to join forces."
>Beijing's measured response, meanwhile, reflects a broader pattern in Chinese foreign policy. As Gabriel Pastor of Uruguay's CERES think tank observes in an interview with CNN, China's statement is "politically correct" but "does not mean that China is going to intervene in the conflict by supporting Venezuela."
>Indeed, a democratic transition might ultimately serve Chinese commercial interests better. "If there is a stable and more competent government in Venezuela led by the opposition and sanctions are lifted, I think they will be more willing to invest, actually," Monaldi suggests, pointing to China's successful partnerships with non-leftist governments across Latin America.
>The situation lays bare the limits of anti-American solidarity. Whilst Maduro can brandish his Xi Jinping-gifted phone and invoke China in his rhetorical battles with Washington, Beijing's actual support appears unlikely to extend beyond diplomatic statements and continued oil purchases through Byzantine arrangements.
>"China is not willing to do a lot to keep Maduro in power," Monaldi concludes. "They are not doing that much, but they are also not gonna push him out in any way."
>As Maduro claims to mobilise around 4.5mn militia members nationwide in response to perceived US threats, Beijing's stance remains coolly pragmatic. In the great power competition playing out in Venezuela's coastal waters, China seems content to watch from the sidelines, maintaining its investments whilst avoiding any moves that might escalate confrontation with Washington.
>For Maduro, frantically working his satellite phone, the message from Beijing is clear: symbolic support, yes; military intervention, absolutely not. In the hierarchy of China's global priorities, preserving an unprofitable Latin American ally ranks well below avoiding direct conflict with the United States.
>As Corrales summarises China's ultimate willingness to back Venezuela: "More than Colombia and Brazil, far less than Russia and Cuba." But Moscow remains consumed by its war in Ukraine, and Cuba faces an unprecedented economic crisis, which leaves little room for manoeuvre. In the end, Maduro may find that all the "ni haos" in the world will not summon the cavalry he desperately needs.>>2451268Skimmed and
>Speaking to SCMP>CERES think tank observes in an interview with CNNThis slop isn't worth reading tbh.
Question, now that Modi is going to meet Xi, what would be the most sensible way to delimit the border? Or at what time will it will be done. It would be amazing that this is the beginning of getting a good map in check.
I know it is pretty difficult since one of the knots is the Kashmir borders
>>2451607Anon, are you clinically retarded?
>>2451821I don't know about "sensible" and I do not know shit about this particular border issue.
But reasonable is that which works. So whatever gets them to stop fighting.
>>2449117>>2448625>>2448300>>2447738>>2447820Explanation, she's using 100x100 = 10,000 as the "easy problem anchor" and approximating from that since 97x94 is close to 100x100 (I wasn't taught the chinese way but I used to think this way as a kid, out of pure intuition). I would always find an easier problem that's nearby and "walk away" from it to the problem I was actually doing.
100-
97 = 3
100-94=
697-
6 = 91
(another way to arrive at 91 is to just add the 3 and 6 above and subtract them from 100 since, again, we're just finding out how different from 100x100 97x94 is, but that would be an extra step, 97-6 is the abridgement of adding 3 and 6 and then subtracting from 100 again. After a while you find shorthand modes of expression)
now that we know 91 will be the first two digits of the answer (or rather 091 since we're "counting down" from 10,000 which is the answer to 100x100) we have to find out the remaining digits:
3x6 = 18
09,118 is the answer. 0 being the ten-thousands place because 97x94 is a two digit multiplication problem that we're using the 3 digit problem 100x100 as our "easy anchor" to approximate, so we know the answer is going to be less than 10,000 so we have an implied 0 already in the ten-thousands place. 9 being the thousands place, 1 being the hundreds place, 1 being the tens place, and 8 being the ones place.
>>2451312shit like this is when I would get in trouble in america as a kid. I figured out some of this myself because it was easier and I was lazy and I liked easier ways but was punished for not "showing my work" like the south korean student does. burgers value "showing work" even when it's unnecessary work and the teachers are often stupider than the students and vindictive.
>>2452312well 25 is 5^2 so 25x25 is just 5^4, so it's 5x5x5x5. That's the easy anchor for that.
5x5 = 25
25x5 = 125
125x5 = 100x5 +25x5 = 500+125 = 625
32x87 is less convenient obviously but you could set up 40x90 as your "easy anchor". You know that 40x90 is just 4x9x100, i.e. 4x9 with two zeroes on the end, one from the tens place of each multiplicand.
4x9 = 36
36x100 = 3600
40x90 = 3600 = our "easy anchor" that you can figure out in your head
now you can't do the same shortcut as 100x100 because the multiplicands aren't using the same anchor. they're using different anchors. I'm too stupid and American to figure out what a Chinese student would do in that situation I'll admit but I'm sure there's some way they're taught.
>>2451268>he was sending Washington a not-so-subtle message: Venezuela has powerful friends.<we are the center of the world, everything that happens is directly a message to us!hes just showing hes chummy with china and showing his cool new cia proofed phone, I feel like these ""experts"" morons read way too much into it
>"China fears that a transition to democracy or the rule of law would necessarily mean declining bargaining leverage in Venezuela,"<venezuela getting couped by the comprador US puppets would be bad for chinano shit
>Corrales doubts Beijing would actively intervene to preserve Maduro's grip on power<our puppets are so ridiculously incompetent and chavistas good enough that even with full sanctions and destabilization attempts, maduro doesnt even need the chinesegood
>That said, Venezuela continues to deliver oil and to pay the debt<so there is 0 reason for china to not support them as much as they can
>Such multipolar rhetoric resonates well with BRICS principles. But the burgeoning, Beijing-led trading bloc remains a pipe dream for Caracas, as its membership bid was blocked by Brazil last year <lula being pressured by the usa to block it make venezuela going into brics a "pipe dream"thats stupid, they will very likely get in next time
>They haven't provided any new loansmaybe they dont need them anymore? everything I had seen was that the country was faring better and better
>contributed to the economic chaos that economists trace to 2012oh yeah, nothing to do with the absolutely crushing sanctions
>Whilst Chinese development banks have extended $59.2bn to Venezuela—nearly double Brazil's allocation—<wait, so actually we lied just earlier in the article, they do get new loans
>contains unusually blunt warnings. It describes Venezuela as "a country with relatively high business risks," specifically citing US sanctions that could "create various obstacles" for Chinese companies. The guide warns of Venezuelan counterparties being "unable to pay off their liabilities on time."<china warning its businesses the us is trying to destroy the country economically is "unusually blunt"
>Thus, the Asian superpower's investments in Guyana are directly at odds with Venezuela's territorial ambitions.<or at least thats what we tell ourselves, because its fucking obvious guyana oil would be exploited and profited of by western firms
>Overall, China's strategic calculus appears driven more by long-term geopolitical positioning than economic benefit<which would point they will keep supporting venezuela no matter what, which contradict most of the bullshit we peddled in this article
>The Venezuelan government was not very accountable to any local group, so it could offer China anything China wanted<our glowies network cant fuck with them, so its a lot easier for china than when we torpedo their deals by yanking the leash of our latam vassalsshit I dont have time to finish, but in short, this article is a pile of garbage
The short answer is: It is similar, but not identical, to the Western concept of "private," and the difference is significant.
While "民企" (mín qǐ) is accurately translated as "private enterprise," its meaning is shaped by the unique political and economic context of China. It's best understood as "non-state-owned under the ultimate authority of the Communist Party."
Here’s a breakdown of the key differences:
1. What "Private" (民 mín) Means in China
In the term 民营企业 (mínyíng qǐyè), "民" (mín) doesn't just mean "private"; it means "of the people" or "folk." This is a deliberate linguistic choice that frames these companies within a national collective framework, rather than emphasizing individual private ownership or rights against the state.
2. The Core Difference: The Role of the Party-State
In Western capitalism, "private" typically implies a firm that is:
Owned by private individuals or shareholders.
Operates independently from the government.
Its primary legal obligation is to its shareholders.
It exists within a system where the state is seen as a separate, and often limited, regulator.
In China, a "private" (民) enterprise is:
Non-State-Owned: Its capital primarily comes from private sources, not direct government investment.
Not Independent from the Party-State: This is the critical difference. All enterprises in China, including private ones, are expected to serve the strategic goals of the nation as defined by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They operate within a system of "Party-led capitalism."
Subject to Party Influence: Most large private companies have CCP committees embedded within them. While their official role is often described as "supporting" business operations, they ensure the company's direction aligns with party policy, ideology, and national strategy (like in tech innovation or security).
Vulnerable to State Direction: The state can and does direct the activities of private companies through regulation, policy, and informal pressure. High-profile cases like the regulatory crackdowns on Alibaba (an e-commerce giant) and Didi (a ride-hailing app) exemplify how quickly the state can intervene to reshape an entire "private" industry.
3. The Implied Contract
The existence and success of large Chinese private enterprises are often seen as part of an implied contract:
The State allows entrepreneurs to innovate, create wealth, and compete globally.
In return, the Enterprises must adhere to party leadership, support national objectives (e.g., "Common Prosperity," technological self-reliance), and not challenge the party's political authority.
Summary: A Spectrum of Control
Think of it not as a binary (state vs. private) but as a spectrum of state influence and control.
State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs - 国企 guó qǐ): Directly owned and controlled by the state. They are tools of national policy.
Private Enterprises (民企 mín qǐ): Not directly owned by the state, but operate under its ultimate authority and must align with its goals. They are "private" in ownership but "public" in their expected responsibilities.
Western Private Firms: Operate within a regulatory framework but are generally understood to be independent entities with a primary focus on shareholder value.
So, when you see the "中国民企500" list, you are looking at the 500 largest companies in China that are not directly state-owned. However, their leaders are almost certainly working closely with party officials, and their strategies are deeply intertwined with the national goals set by the CCP. Their "private" status does not mean they are free from state control.
>>2452302>97-6 = 91 This step is the one that's confusing. Let's write it differently:
97 x 94 = (100 - 3)(100 - 6) = 10000 - 300 - 600 + 18
Or in other numbers, (10000 - 9 x 100) + (3 x 6) = 9100 + 18, i.e. we get 9100 from having to substract 3 x 100 and 6 x 100 in the formula
>>2452312You don't do this method for "low" numbers, obviously. The point is to reduce the number of calculations, not increase them by flipping the numbers into "high" range (32 vs 100 - 32 = 68)
So, by that guy's
>>2452394 anchor method, you get like (40 - 8)(100 - 13) = 4000 - 800 - 520 + 104 = 4000 - 1320 + 104 = 2680 + 104
I dunno how to get 2680 out of 32 and 87 combinations cleanly
https://mronline.org/2025/08/27/whose-workers-whose-wages/Whose workers, whose wages? A revolutionary intervention against the Imperial Left’s China syndrome by Prince KaponeBricks, Not Sermons: The Scale of Struggle in Concrete TermsIn the war for the future of the Global South, China is laying bricks while the West continues to drop bombs—and still, somehow, it’s China that gets scolded for not being charitable enough. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, has already funneled over $679 billion in infrastructure investment into Africa, Asia, and Latin America—compared to the United States’ paltry $76 billion in the same period. That is not a statistic; it is a revelation. It reveals who is building, who is breaking, and who is watching from a comfortable distance in the name of “solidarity.”
This explosion of Chinese investment, however, has stirred a curious response from some corners of the so‑called Western left. You won’t hear much about the thousands of miles of rail, the rural electrification projects extending power to communities long ignored by colonial grids, or the tens of thousands of local jobs created in construction, logistics, energy, and transport. What you’ll hear instead is a repetitive chorus: But what about the wage disparity? In Chinese-funded projects, they say, Chinese workers are often paid more than local laborers. This becomes their sticking point—not the IMF’s structural adjustment blackmail, not the French uranium extraction in Niger, not AFRICOM’s expansion. Just the fact that a Chinese welder might earn twice what a local worker earns on the same job.
Let’s be blunt: this is not anti-capitalist critique. This is imperial moralism in leftist drag. Because to focus on this disparity without context is to erase the entire structure of imperialist underdevelopment that these projects are beginning to overturn. It’s to weep over a symptom while ignoring the disease. It’s to cling to a fantasy of pure, abstract equality while the Global South claws its way out of centuries of looting and war.
This essay is an intervention. A scalpel against the smug, self-referential politics of the imperial left. We will dismantle the wage critique, reveal its ideological function, and re-center the only metric that matters: does the project empower the working class of the Global South? If it does, then let the critics scream. The bricks are still being laid.
On Whose Backs? The Material Realities Behind the Wage GapLet’s begin with the facts, because reality is always more grounded than ideology. In Kenya’s Standard Gauge Railway project, a flagship BRI endeavor, protests emerged over disparities between Chinese and Kenyan workers. While precise monthly wage figures are inconsistent across sources, media reports indicate that Kenyan laborers were often paid between KES 400—700 per day (roughly $3—6), while Chinese workers—largely technical staff and engineers—earned significantly more. But what does this gap actually represent? Not racial hierarchy, not imperial disdain, but a layered combination of skill specialization, international relocation, and contractual negotiation—none of which is unique to China.
Chinese workers on overseas projects often fill roles that require years of technical training—rail engineers, tunneling specialists, energy grid architects. Their deployment comes with long-term contracts, typically lasting two to three years. These workers leave their families behind, live in isolated on-site dormitories, endure long hours, and navigate unfamiliar cultural terrains. Their contracts include relocation bonuses, per diems, risk pay, and housing allowances. In short: their higher wages reflect the cost of transnational labor deployment—just as it would for an American engineer posted to Afghanistan or a French technician working in Chad.
And here’s the kicker: despite this wage gap, the local workers on these projects are still earning more than they would in almost any other job in the domestic economy. While we lack consistently disaggregated wage data across all BRI projects, a SAIS-CARI study found that Chinese firms in Africa often paid better than local and other foreign firms in equivalent sectors. What the imperial left sees as inequality is, in the local material context, uplift. For millions of workers, these aren’t bad jobs. They’re the best jobs they’ve ever had.
Who Signs the Contracts? Sovereignty, Class, and the Local BourgeoisieOne of the most dishonest elements in the wage disparity discourse is the implication that China unilaterally dictates pay scales. In reality, every infrastructure project—especially those under state-to-state BRI terms—is governed by a bilateral agreement. That means the wage structure is negotiated by the host government. If local workers are being underpaid relative to their needs, then the blame lies just as much with the national bourgeoisie as with the Chinese contractors.
Take Kenya again. The Kenyan state, eager to expedite financing and deliver visible progress, signed contracts that prioritized speed, cost, and capital inflows—often at the expense of stronger labor safeguards. According to researchers, labor protections for Kenyan workers on the Standard Gauge Railway were inconsistently enforced, with union representation limited and working conditions raising concern among local advocacy groups. But this was not imposed by China. It was a domestic ruling class decision made in service of capitalist priorities. If you want to fight for better wages on BRI projects, organize the working class to confront their own comprador elite, not to scapegoat China for the failures of postcolonial governance. Even European leaders have admitted that it wasn’t Chinese coercion—but domestic neoliberal policy—that transferred public assets into foreign hands. As Macron put it after meeting Xi in 2022: Europe must “reduce its dependence on the U.S. and avoid being drawn into confrontation” to reclaim sovereignty and act as a “third power.”
And let’s be clear: the idea that Chinese firms should simply pay all workers the same, regardless of location, training, or negotiation, is not a revolutionary demand. It’s liberal utopianism—a dream of frictionless fairness without power struggle, without imperial history, and without sovereign differentiation. That dream dies the moment your shovel hits dirt.
Compared to What? Naming the Real ExploitersLet’s turn the question back on the critics. If China is guilty of inequality because of a 2:1 wage ratio, what do we call the West’s 4:1, 6:1, even 10:1 wage disparities in the same regions?
During the U.S. occupation of Iraq, American contractors frequently earned hundreds of dollars per day for logistical and security support, while Iraqi workers performing similar work earned only a few dollars daily. In one documented case, a subcontractor charged the U.S. military $75 per bag of laundry while paying local workers as little as $12 per shift. The markup wasn’t just financial—it was colonial. Were the socialists in Brooklyn outraged then? Did they write op-eds about “wage apartheid” on Halliburton sites?
French uranium giant Areva (now Orano) has extracted massive wealth from Niger for decades. Independent sources confirm longstanding criticism that Nigerien miners have worked under unsafe conditions for wages far below a living standard, while the profits fueled France’s nuclear energy infrastructure. There’s no skill differential here. Just raw, racialized extraction. For instance, a ReliefWeb analysis highlights “unsafe working conditions and exposure to radioactive poisoning in the community” around Niger’s uranium mines. So where is the Western left’s fury? Where is their forensic investigation of European wage hierarchies? Silence is not neutrality—it’s complicity.
The reason these critics are louder about China is simple: China threatens to end Western monopoly over the Global South. That’s the real problem. The rest is ideological smoke.
Infrastructure as Class War: Who Builds, Who Bombs, and Who ComplainsInfrastructure is not neutral. It is not apolitical, technocratic, or just another sector of economic development. It is a weapon—either of imperial domination or of sovereign defense. And that is precisely why China’s infrastructure projects attract such fury from the West. For the first time in modern history, nations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America are building without begging. They are laying roads, connecting ports, powering cities—and doing it without needing permission from the IMF, USAID, or the European Commission.
But if you listen to the imperial left, you’d think the problem isn’t that the West abandoned development—it’s that China didn’t do it nicely enough. That China’s engineers were paid too much. That the local workers didn’t get matching socks. That railroads built in four years should’ve taken ten.
This is where the real ideological function of the wage critique comes into focus. It doesn’t emerge from proletarian struggle. It emerges from the NGO-academic complex—a class formation fluent in moral posturing but allergic to material power. Many of the loudest critics of BRI projects aren’t workers, unions, or peasant associations. They’re Western-funded think tanks, university departments, and “civil society” monitors funded by the very governments that bombed Libya, starved Yemen, and sanctioned Venezuela.
These forces are not neutral observers. They are the ideological wing of imperialism. Their task is not to uplift—but to delegitimize. And their criticisms of Chinese projects mirror, almost verbatim, the talking points of the U.S. State Department: concerns about “unsustainable debt,” “neo-colonialism,” and “authoritarian development.” Yet none of these concerns are raised about the 78% of Global South debt held by Western financial institutions. None are aimed at the $100 billion in extractive infrastructure built by European oil companies. This is not critique. It’s counterinsurgency in academic form.
In fact, field research in Central Asia offers one of the sharpest rebukes to the anti-China hysteria peddled by both neoconservatives and the NGO-academic complex. A joint ethnographic project led by anthropologists Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi and Alessandro Rippa—published by Novastan—documents how many so-called BRI “debt traps” are mythical, and how Chinese projects often mirror or even outperform their Western counterparts. They emphasize that many of China’s flagship infrastructure developments, like the Karakoram Highway, predate the BRI by decades and were built on historic South-South solidarity—not extractive imperial design. These scholars dismantle the Orientalist myth that China is uniquely opaque or sinister, noting instead that Chinese firms often operate within—and alongside—global development frameworks, including international donors and co-financed infrastructure banks. The problem isn’t Chinese roads; it’s the fantasy that Western aid ever came without strings or bloodshed.
The Moral Optics of Empire: How Liberal Guilt Becomes PolicyWhy does the Western left obsess over wage disparities in Chinese projects but say little about Areva’s uranium empire in Niger, or the EU’s agricultural subsidies that flood African markets with surplus corn and powdered milk, destroying local food systems and rural livelihoods? Why do they whisper about World Bank privatizations and shout about Chinese contractors paying too much to their own workers?
Because to confront Western exploitation would mean confronting their own governments, their own universities, their own careers. It would mean acknowledging that their lifestyle—every phone, every car, every Amazon order—is built on the backs of Global South labor. It’s easier to moralize from afar. To scold China for not being an ethical capitalist. To feign outrage over wage differences, all while paying taxes to fund NATO bombings.
This is what we call imperial moralism. It’s not grounded in solidarity, but in guilt. Guilt that gets transmuted into critique—but always aimed at the wrong target. Not at the empire they live in. But at the rival power challenging that empire’s dominance.
We must say it plainly: Western critiques of BRI labor practices that ignore the structural violence of Western imperialism are not leftist. They are a form of liberal colonialism—demanding that the Global South suffer ethically, develop slowly, and never use its alliances to escape imperial control.
From Moralism to Materialism: The Revolutionary Terrain of Multipolar DevelopmentChina’s development model is not perfect. It contains contradictions—wage hierarchies, environmental concerns, uneven bargaining between states and firms. But these are contradictions within the camp of anti-imperialist development, not between oppression and liberation. They are contradictions that arise from building under global capitalism while resisting its command center.
We are not moral arbiters. We are revolutionaries. Our task is not to grade China on a purity scale. It is to identify: where is imperialism dominant? And where is it being eroded? China’s infrastructure projects, despite their flaws, represent a rupture in the global system of dependency. They bring roads where the West brought drones. They build schools where the West built sweatshops. They offer finance without conditionality where the West offered debt traps—as noted in a Boston University analysis observing that China’s approach “lacks policy conditionality and fiscal austerity requirements of Western multilaterals.”
This broader multipolar shift is also reflected in the operations of the New Development Bank (NDB), the BRICS-led multilateral development bank headquartered in Shanghai. As documented by a Andrea Molinari and Rocío Ceballos, the NDB has expanded its mandate to support infrastructure, climate action, and sovereign development—though it still faces limitations in non-sovereign and local-currency financing. According to Reuters, the NDB has approved approximately $32.8 billion in loans and aims to increase local-currency lending from 22% to 30% by 2026. Its evolution signals a tectonic shift in the international financial architecture: not a rejection of multilateralism, but a reclamation of it by the Global South. The emergence of BRICS financial institutions like the NDB represents a concrete attempt to restructure global financing around Southern priorities—albeit unevenly, and with contradictions that must be resolved through class struggle, not abandonment.
And that is precisely why they are under attack. Not because they pay Chinese workers more—but because they pay anyone at all to build something that isn’t supervised by the empire.
So let us drop the measuring tape and pick up the shovel. Let us support development, even when it is uneven, so long as it points in the direction of sovereignty, dignity, and class power for the colonized.
Lines of Struggle: What a Revolutionary Position Actually Looks LikeTo criticize without strategy is to serve the enemy. If we are to critique China’s overseas development model, it must not be on imperialism’s terms. It must come from the standpoint of internationalist class struggle—from the trenches of the Global South, not the seminar rooms of the Global North.
This means beginning with the fundamental question: Compared to what? Compared to IMF austerity? Compared to European multinationals paying pennies and dumping waste? Compared to decades of underdevelopment enforced by the very institutions now pretending to care about fair wages?
China’s infrastructure projects are not without contradictions. But these are contradictions against imperialism—not weapons of it. And in a world still ordered by colonial debt, imperial accumulation, and Western military domination, those contradictions must be resolved from within the camp of anti-imperialist sovereignty, not handed over to the NGO—World Bank axis to “audit.”
So what does a revolutionary position look like?
Build Sovereignty, Not Dependency: Strategic Demands for the SouthFirst, we must defend the right of Global South governments to negotiate on their own terms. This includes pushing for:
Labor quota clauses in bilateral agreements—as part of Ethiopia’s strategy to maximize local participation in Chinese infrastructure projects, according to the Center for Global Development’s call for stronger local content in African BRI contracts.
Apprenticeship mandates requiring Chinese firms to transfer skills and technology to Indigenous engineers, architects, and trade workers.
Profit reinvestment guarantees—mechanisms ensuring a portion of revenues stay in-country to fund public infrastructure, not just private coffers.
These are not anti-China demands. These are anti-comprador demands. They are the demands of workers and peasants confronting their own domestic bourgeoisie—and leveraging China’s investment not to entrench dependency, but to build material independence.
Let it be said clearly: the contradictions within BRI are opportunities for class struggle. They are spaces where the Global South can press for more—more wages, more sovereignty, more control. But this struggle must be waged by the people of the South themselves—not outsourced to Western academics who never built a road or fought a loan shark in their lives.
>>2453495The North’s Role Is Not to Police, But to Disarm the EmpireWhat, then, is the responsibility of the Western left? It is not to nitpick BRI contracts or wag fingers at Chinese labor hierarchies. It is to break the chokehold of their own imperial state.
Demand the U.S. and EU cancel the debts they imposed on BRI nations—and fully implement HIPC and MDRI debt relief, which has delivered 100% cancellation of eligible IMF, World Bank, and African Development Bank debts to 36—37 poor countries to date.
Expose and dismantle Western financial dominance in global bond markets—African governments now owe more to private Western creditors than to China (35% vs. 12% of external debt), and these loans carry significantly higher interest rates.
Organize class war at home: oppose military spending, shut down arms exports, and sabotage the engines of empire that profit from Global South collapse.
In other words: don’t tell China how to build a dam until you’ve stopped your own government from bombing one. Don’t talk about fair wages in Kenya until you’ve organized workers at Amazon and Raytheon. And don’t cry about Chinese construction sites when your own tax dollars pay for apartheid walls and surveillance drones.
From Solidarity to Strategy: Toward an Anti‑Imperialist Development FrontThe real task before us is to forge a global front of sovereign development. One that links:
Chinese infrastructure capacity
Latin American resource sovereignty
African industrial potential
The revolutionary traditions of peoples who have resisted empire for centuries
This means building
South‑South labour federations to bargain collectively with Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, and even domestic firms. It means creating political alliances across Global South governments to demand coordinated development, not just bilateral deals. These ideas aren’t theoretical—they reflect the steadily growing decolonial and technical cooperation models underway between the Global South and China:
Examples include China’s BRI-linked support via the AIIB and New Development Bank, designed to fund infrastructure projects
without Western-style conditionality 1. Similarly, UN and regional bodies now champion South‑South and triangular cooperation—encompassing exchanges in trade, health, education, and technology—building practical capacity across countries, from Latin America to Africa to Asia 2.
Because the NGO model is not the path to liberation. It is the velvet glove of imperialism. A slower suffocation. A prettier poverty.
>>2453689His twitter is
https://x.com/fnkwhb if you want to stare into the gangstalked mentally ill abyss.
Same retarded broken english falun gong reddit memes you see on /pol/ and NAFO twitter.
Really shows how the only true believers of the neoliberal imperial slop are the schizophrenic gusanos. Really reminiscent of the self hating Taiwanese/HKers and Ukrainians dying for hamburgers.
Don't feel bad. These people are a danger to Chinese society. Deporting them to Meiguo is what they deserve.
>>2453323The answer is different from "民营企业 (mín yíng qǐyè)" and revolves around a different character for "private."
The Key Character: 私 (sī)
The character 私 (sī) directly means "private," "personal," or "selfish." It is the direct conceptual opposite of 公 (gōng), which means "public" or "state."
Therefore, the general term for a privately-owned company, in a Western sense, is:
私人企业 (sīrén qǐyè) or 私有企业 (sīyǒu qǐyè)
私人 (sīrén): Private person / individual
私有 (sīyǒu): Privately owned
企业 (qǐyè): Enterprise / company
So, for a ranking of Western companies (like the Forbes list of largest private companies), you would translate it as:
美国私人企业500强 (Měiguó Sīrén Qǐyè 500 Qiáng) - "Top 500 US Private Companies"
The parade is going to be exciting for OSINTs and military fans in general. There's so much stuff that just popped out of nowhere, especially for the army.
In Chinese military watcher circles there's a notion that the Rocket Force gets the priority state funding because its area is ICBMs, IRBMs and all of the missiles that are equipping the navy and air force. Then the second place is a fight between the navy and air force and whatever is left is thrown to the army/ground force as scraps.
However that impression isn't entirely accurate since that's just the feeling we get due to general exposure and secrecy. When a new drone prototype, fighter variant or a bomber flies in the skies of China everyone gets to look at it with their AI enhanced cameras; when a new carrier gets its keel laid down for the navy, you can see it from a satellite. Experimental air bases and big military shipyards are finite and can be tracked easily. However when a new tank or IFV/APC variant is rolled out you can't see it at all. Even when they're transferred across the country with trains they're easily concealed.
That's exactly what happened now. A brand new tank ZTZ-201, which was previously only rumored, is not only in mass production but already in large numbers. It's a next generation medium weight hybrid tank with 360 camera coverage (the tank operators wear HUD/AR goggles), unmanned turret, drone platform and an omnidirectional multi stage APS. Compare how quiet it is when rolling behind the previous gen heavy weight Type 99A. With this I think China has the most tank variants in active production today, maybe only rivaled by Russia since they restarted some Soviet production lines of previously cancelled tanks like the T-80. China previously had the main heavy battle tank Type-99A (which superseded the Type-99), the cheap workhorse heavy tank Type-96 (which might be cancelled now), the lightweight Himalayan optimized Type-15 and an export exclusive mediumweight VT-4 (sold to Pakistan and Thailand). Also like 3 amphibious tanks including a brand new one also revealed on parade rehearsals but some people don't count them. That's a lot of tanks.
This rehearsal also showed brand new IFV and APC vehicles, complete with airborne variants with new chassis and all equipped with APS, sparing no expenses. Also new anti-drone specialized family of vehicles, equipped with microwaves, lasers, bunch of AA turrets and cost effective anti-drone missiles. And finally autonomous, smaller ground drones - like loyal wingmen but for tanks.
For the army (and navy) aviation there's also a brand new heavy attack helicopter, a new armed transport helicopter variant, a coaxial (dual rotor) special forces helicopter and even a tiltrotor troop helicopter.
Also a bunch of surveillance/antipersonnel rotary drones, MARS AR hud goggles and exoskeletons for the infantry. Yes, exoskeletons - Used primarily for artillery troops carrying heavy shells and for patrols around Tibet where merely moving is challenging.
I'm sure army has more to show but another thing that caught everyone's attention is this monster. Speculated to be the Chinese equivalent of Russia's Status-6/Poseidon doomsday nuclear cobalt weapon. It's a nuclear powered autonomous drone, mounted on the belly of a submarine. When launched it can loiter to a selected location indefinitely and when prompted rush towards the target and detonate, be it against the shore or a fleet. It's not supposed to be used like a tactical weapon. It's designed to force the opposing side to the negotiating table. Extremely scary because the Russian one is armed with cobalt warhead, meant to pollute as much as possible. Be prepared for articles and Fox News to fearmonger with this thing for years to come.
And "finally" we saw some of the new flying drones being rolled out. Grand total of 4 new designs of drones, one of them being a rotary VTOL probably for the navy. The 3 pictured are the most interesting ones.
The first one is GJ-11 Sharp Sword which we saw on a previous parade but seeing it now is a confirmation that it's been adopted and produce, meaning it's no longer just a tech demonstrator since the PLA generals confirmed in an interview that every single piece of gear presented on this parade will be of equipment that's already been procured and mass produced, unlike the previous parade which also showcased prototypes. The GJ-11 is a stealthy "flying wing" bomber drone. It can be operated from the ground or as a loyal wingmen by the dual seat J-20S. Essential drone that's most likely going to also be launched from the newly trialed Type 076 drone carrier. Its American equivalent on the other hand got shelved or even cancelled by now.
The second drone is similar to a loyal wingman prototype they showed 2 years prior. It's almost definitely designed as an air dominance escort to J-20S and upcoming 6th gen fighters. I say this because this is the kind of planform they used as an example of loyal wingmen in their CGI presentations.
And finally the main course, the third drone. This one is the scariest of the bunch because it's completely unknown. It's huge and without vertical stabilizers. When people saw it flying the other month everybody thought it might've been a 3rd undisclosed 6th gen manned fighter. But no, it's just a big ass drone. To me personally it looks like an evolution of the Dark Sword drone. At least I'm hoping this is the case. It's been in works for more than a decade now. It's no mere loyal wingmen, the Dark Sword was meant to be fully autonomous. It can be operated by a ground pilot but it's also stated to be capable of AI piloting, meant to pull maneuvers that would comatose a human pilot. It was envisioned as a next gen drone replacement of fighter jets in general - Ace Combat 3 style.
I could go on but there's no need because in 2 days we'll see all of these beauties in 4K, complete with explanations. All the PLA OSINT twitter and youtube channels will be covering these new weapons systems for weeks to come. Basically motherload algorithm friendly content unleashed in a single day.
I'm beyond excited fams.
>>2447738Why the fuck are children still learning manual multiplication? Honest question. Is "getting stuck without a calculator" even a possibility anymore?
t. degree included basic university-level mathematics
>>2448617>One really does forget all these long multiplication algorithms as soon as one enters higher education and worklife.I didn't forget long mult or long div despite not doing them for over 10 years. And I neglected homework hard so it's not like it's ingrained from repetition.
But I'll be damned if I can remember your names unless I've seen you many times already. Memory is funny like that.
>>2456319>ChengduThe 'after' image is darker, but I think it ended up with
more trees after concretification.
>>2457117The reason so many players popped up is because of the government incentives in the first place. Only those with cheapest products and quality will survive - making the pleb customer a true winner. No artificial monopolies.
It made actual capitalist countries ban free market out of fear of superior socialist industrial policies.
>>2458853I will feel optimism, hope, respect and vicarious joy for the successes of my comrades afar.
But I will not take pride in their achievements. Not until I have played a serious role in our victory.
That was amazing. Best parade ever. Glad they pulled it off without a hitch. Had to stay up all night to watch it but I was falling apart, gotta rewatch it again.
For those of you who didn't watch it yet: use the official CGTN stream. AP applied the good ol' grey BBC filter and didn't translate the ICBM speccs. Petty slimeballs.
CGTN posted individual weapons on their Youtube posts
https://www.youtube.com/@cgtn/posts but they're not detailed. Zhao Dashuai will make threads about each system and utility so maybe check her out. There's also @someplaosint that's already making posts about it - he's the most comprehensive OSINT for Chinese military matters on the platform in general.
As for Youtube, there's a few channels that are bound to react and talk about it in few hours.
For the Navy there's
https://www.youtube.com/@NavalEnthusiast (previously Eurasian naval insight). He will definitely make videos about it since he makes ones for Zhuhai air shows as well. He focuses on the ships but he covers the air force too. Great channel in general. He's Taiwanese and his old channel had some really good and objective videos about the strait conflict. Mostly covers the Chinese navy and compares it to Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese ones. Also respectfully covers the North Korean navy which is cool.
For the Air Force there's
https://www.youtube.com/@Millennium7HistoryTech and he already streamed his reaction lol. He will make videos about all the new fighter jet variants we saw sortie during the parade. Also drones of course. He's pretty funny and objective but his sources, especially on his older videos, were too western skewed since he's an Italian.
And finally for the Ground Force, primarily tanks and and armored vehicles there's
https://www.youtube.com/@RedEffectChannel he forgets his channel's password and goes MIA every other month but he's the only tank guy worth half a shit on the entire platform. He made previous videos about Chinese tanks, including the amphibious tanks - comparing them to Taiwanese ones and export Abrams. Like Eurasian insight, he also covers North Korean tanks which is cool since they're so secretive with them.
>>2459249Nah they're cool, especially when they're chinese. Wish my country had cool parades where they wave flags with hammer and sickles on them followed by all kinds of tanks and rockets n shit, all the synchronized soldiers marching, etc.
Maybe one day
>>2459261is this the Indonesian PM? I thought he cancelled the visit due to protests?
also where did Vucic get lost? dumb asshole missed a kino shot
>>2459275Caption this. I am pretty much blank here.
Except something like "coming for dem treats, westie"
Which of course is problematic as it concedes the point (the war monger's central thesis, even), that the Rest is at "fault" for the demise of the west (tm), and we are not dealing here with a self-implosion of the system.
One must be careful with political language, propaganda. We see the instinct to go for the easy or the readily-available interpretation (or quip). This is also imperial hegemony, following the interpretation or premise of the enemy.
>>2459325 (me)
Mr kim arriving:
At Beijing Station, the head of state was greeted by Comrade Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Director of the General Office; Comrade Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Comrade Yin Yong, Mayor of Beijing.
Comrade Kim Jong Un had a warm meeting with Chinese officials and expressed his delight at visiting the People's Republic of China again after six years, expressing his gratitude to Comrade Xi Jinping and the Chinese Party, government, and people for their enthusiastic and warm hospitality.
>>2459330Even though there ain't much detail or the photo, or it's from far away, I'd strongly guess not.
For….reasons
>>2459351That's somewhat disconcerting.
I swear it was on reddit or something. But could be xitter, they all sound the same in the end. I may be getting a bit to "into" politics in my old age.
>>2459383Because it's FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System). These fucking things which were only in concept during the Soviet times used to keep the boomers awake at night. Probably didn't want to trigger their PTSDs again.
It's like Status 6 but with space instead of the ocean. Lob one of these into orbit and it can stay dormant and attack from any angle when commanded.
>>2459394>>2459397 (me)
This is what they were reporting on CNN the other day
>>2459407>againSee
>>2459406 and snap your stupid fucking neck you retard. Holy SHIT already.
>>2459418Yeah link Reuters for the third time you skinned cuck.
>>2459419It's still fake faggot shit, reported exclusively by western golems.
>le f-first t-thisCunt. APE cunt. It's REUTERS CNN ABC SLOP. You newfag mongrel. Slit vertically not horizontally.
>>2460433Not much, fundamentally.
The woman's essentially really stupid. You can tell by the way she looks and speaks.
>>2458543Of course it has something to do with the US's fall, that's how the rise and fall of global empires works.
>>2459243Very impressive leaps in military technology going on, but while the focus is on the lasers and wingman drones, I would say the most important development here is the UUV. Considering it's able to be transported on a truck it's far smaller, cheaper and probably stealthier than a regular manned submarine. Mass production and deployment of such systems in the pacific could easily render the US navy incapacitated.
>>2462305>If you look at pictures of China by the end of the Deng eraStill had catastrophic traffic jams that would shut down entire cities had they continued. Very bad for lives, pollution and productivity. And they weren't even particularly urbanized nation with relatively low car ownership.
China ascended when they went ALL in on the HSR network. Which allowed lower income populace living on outskirts to work in cities and uplift their provinces. This activated the entire nation.
>Putin having Xi's ear makes me nervousI wouldn't worry about that. If anything Xi has Putin's ear. If not Putin's directly then the general Russian populace's attention. The average western loving liberal Muscovite is a dying species. This war woke up a lot of them that their western neoliberal aspirations are a dead end and many have turned east. Putin himself said, in multiple press conferences, that Russia is envious of Chinese system. I'm not saying there's a potential for a Soviet revival here but Putin hanging out with Xi, Kim and Lukashenko is more likely to infleunce him rather than vice versa.
>>2462491I hope China influences Russia positively.
I know this is probably going to get people mad at me, but I really don't like Russia, at least as it stands today. It's got a lot of the same cultural and economic problems as reactionary Western states like the US, and the only thing keeping it in check is its place in geopolitics.
https://archive.vn/Tw271>China’s ‘silent sanction’ on US semiconductors creates a weapons generation gap>Export controls on gallium nitride and other critical minerals hold back development while Chinese military technology surges>In addition to the spectacle of Wednesday’s military parade in Tiananmen Square, with its rows of never-before-seen weapons and equipment, was a less visible but highly consequential shift.>At its heart lies China’s growing dominance in gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology, giving it a strategic advantage that is reshaping the global arms race, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics.>“Behind this technological advancement lies a ‘hidden thread’ of semiconductor development: China’s GaN-based semiconductor technology has reached maturity,” it said in the report, which was also released on Wednesday.>Unlike Washington’s overt restrictions aimed at curbing China’s access to advanced chips, Beijing’s countermove has effectively become a silent sanction on the US semiconductor industry – particularly its defence capabilities.>Framed as measures to ensure national security and fair trade, China’s export controls on critical raw materials like gallium and germanium also exploit its near-monopoly on the production of essential materials for next-generation military electronics.>This strategic leverage has enabled China to deploy cutting-edge phased array radar systems across its armed forces at a pace and scale unmatched by the United States, according to the report.>From the KJ-500A airborne early warning aircraft to the new Type 100 tank equipped with multiple GaN-based radar units, these systems showcase a level of integration and miniaturisation once reserved for elite platforms.>Meanwhile, much of the US naval fleet still relies on older radar technologies, with the latest Arleigh Burke-class destroyers only recently fielding modern active electronically scanned array (AESA) systems.>The basic principle of phased array radar can be compared to two waves crossing in the same direction: where wave peaks align, they reinforce each other and the resulting combined wave changes in direction and shape.>By replacing each emission area on the radar with an individual transistor transmission unit and directly controlling the emission phase of each wave source in the array, the radar can rapidly steer and scan without physically moving.>This approach not only enables extremely fast scanning and the simultaneous formation of multiple beams but also offers significantly improved reliability and accuracy over conventional radar.>The key material for manufacturing each transistor transmitter is GaN, which is regarded as a third-generation semiconductor.>“Compared to traditional gallium arsenide (GaAs), GaN offers notable advantages: it supports power densities five to 10 times higher than GaAs, greatly enhancing radar detection range and resolution,” the report said.>“Radars made with GaN are more compact and efficient, with stronger reliability and longer service life in high-temperature environments, substantially reducing maintenance needs and costs.”>According to the report, phased array radar has long been associated with “high performance, high complexity, and high cost”. Despite the technology’s frequent appearance in the parade, it had not become more affordable and accessible, it said.>“To this day, a significant portion of the Russian Aerospace Forces’ Su-35S fighters still use passive electronically scanned array (PESA) radar, with avionics performance lagging noticeably behind that of China and the US,” the report said.>“The situation in the United States is also challenging: although it pioneered AESA technology and developed it rapidly, its mainstay destroyer, the Arleigh Burke-class, continues to widely use the SPY-1 PESA radar even in the latest Flight IIA variants,” it said.>The report also noted that it was “only recently that the first Flight III Burke-class destroyer entered service, finally equipped with the advanced SPY-6 AESA system”.>China appears to be the only country deploying phased array radar on a large scale. According to state broadcaster CCTV, the domestically developed radars seen on Wednesday are interconnected across ranges to form coordinated networks capable of detecting stealth aircraft, ballistic missiles and other targets.>Integral to this capability is China’s dominance in the GaN industry, achieved not by restricting technology flows but by leveraging advantages across the entire industrial chain, from production to application.>With its abundant raw materials and position as the world’s largest producer of alumina, China has a natural advantage in large-scale gallium extraction – a by-product that often occurs alongside bauxite and lead-zinc ores.>Data from the US Geological Survey shows that as of 2022, China accounted for about 68 per cent of the 279,300 tonnes of global proven reserves of gallium metal – the highest share worldwide.>China also has highly mature technologies for gallium refining and processing, accounting for more than 90 per cent of global refined gallium production in 2023. In July of that year, the Ministry of Commerce imposed export controls on gallium and germanium, reaffirming this policy in December 2024.>Commercial demand has driven GaN’s adoption – in smartphone chargers and 5G base stations, automotive radar in electric vehicles and DJI’s agricultural drones, along with rapidly expanding satellite communication networks – with its properties highly valued across electronics and communications.>GaN chips are more energy efficient than their silicon-based counterparts, paving the way for an energy revolution in AI data centres, with estimates that a fully upgraded site could reduce energy consumption by more than 30 per cent.>China has already achieved mass production of 8-inch GaN wafers, announcing the breakthrough in March.>According to the report, China’s global leadership in GaN-based phased array technology is “a vivid example of the ‘military-civilian fusion’ strategy” – a central pillar of its ambition to develop a modernised military by 2027 and world-class armed forces by 2049.>Under the strategy, military technology is first disseminated to civilian markets, where enormous demand drives rapid iteration in the industrial chain. This, in turn, leads to increased production capacity, lower costs, and continuously improving reliability. >>2462981SNLT labor time required to pick cotton has dropped
there for one cotton pickin' minute yields way more cotton than in prior times
>>2463078all these lists are fake.
Sorry to break it to you but you have to grow up some time.
>>2463166Yep. The same old cope they now chuck at lasers, flying wing drones, hypersonics, APS protection, autoloaders, stealth ship hulls, land drones, exoskeletons, IVAS headsets, ekranoplans, military cruiser ships, amphibious tanks, airborne APCs, coaxial helis, microwaves, dual seat 5th gen fighters and the list just goes on and on. Trump even shits on EMALS and wants to go back to steam catapults. Luddite.
If a war erupts in a decade it would be Americans with their 1980s Cold War era equipment, logistics and doctrine, hyped up on Top Gun Hollywood frenzy versus what might as well be Halo Spartans in comparison.
>>2463178I hate him so much it's unreal. He's full of shit. NAFO AIDS Moby has ten channels, spewing reddit headlines about any given topic.
>>2463222Ok but what's up with these hot, spindly looking women? I could break them!
I want warriors, not Hollywood. Xi, I demand you adjust your messaging! Or I am going over there and you won't like that.
I found this article interesting. This is from the hoover institute a right wing think tank that now is just trump shills but this article was written in 1998 back when they believed in le free trade. It's an article about sanctions, why they oppose them and why they don't work. Unfortunately any right winger who thinks like this today is 1. Powerless or 2. Has to pretend he does not have these views and adapt to protectionism to stay popular. I think it is well written for a right wing person
https://www.hoover.org/research/why-economic-sanctions-dont-workThis is the author
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Henderson
>Why Economic Sanctions Don’t Work>Congress has gotten in the habit of imposing economic sanctions in order to punish foreign governments. It is a habit Congress should break. By Hoover fellow David R. Henderson.
>When I was a kid, the boy next door once played a nasty trick on my brother Paul: our neighbor held his cat in his arms, brought it within a few inches of Paul’s face, and pulled its tail. The suddenly angry cat bit Paul’s face. My brother and I were upset; the cat, we thought, should have bitten the perpetrator’s face. I think of that incident whenever I hear people call for economic sanctions against a whole country.
>When governments impose sanctions, the officials implementing the policy want to harm the dictator or bad guy heading the other country’s government. That’s the goal. What they do to achieve it is intentionally harm many innocent people in those countries by cutting them off—if the sanctions are effective—from food, medicine, and other goods that they need or value. The sanctions almost always work in a limited sense: they impose some harm on innocent people in the target country. But that’s not the goal. Nor is the goal to cut off the dictator from food, medicine, et cetera. You can be sure that Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro are not hurting for antibiotics or high-quality food. No. The harm that the advocates of sanctions want to inflict on the bad guys is indirect. They are yanking innocent people’s tails so that those people, like our neighbor’s cat, will lash out at whoever’s face is right in front of them. They want those people to see their own government as the enemy and to try to overthrow it.
>But people are smarter than cats. When people suddenly find food, clothing, medicine, and other goods in short supply, when they find themselves a lot poorer and focusing desperately on day-to-day survival, they will take the time to find out who is responsible. And guess what? They do find out. Although governments in embargoed countries like Iran, Iraq, and Cuba strictly control what newspapers, radio, and television report, one piece of information that is sure not to be censored is the role of outside governments in the country’s economic distress.
>Of course, those governments will exaggerate the harm done by the sanctions. Although socialism is what’s killing poor people in Cuba, for example, Fidel Castro has, for almost forty years, blamed Cuba’s economic problems on the “blockade,” his word for the embargo imposed by the U.S. government in the early 1960s. But he can plausibly make this claim because the embargo exists. Likewise, although much of the Iraqis’ pain is caused by Saddam Hussein’s diversion of resources to his war machine, the pain caused by economic sanctions is quite real.
>What do people in embargoed countries do when they find out that foreign governments threaten their survival? They want to do what the cat wouldn’t do: bite the hand or face of the perpetrator. In fact, I can think of no case in history where as a result of sanctions imposed by government A on people in country B, country B’s people overthrew their own government. It’s the stuff of novels, and not very good novels.
>To understand how people in embargoed countries feel, you will have to use your imagination. Picture yourself back in 1974. President Nixon’s popularity has hit bottom. Many Americans want him out, but he holds on. Now imagine that the head of a freer country—say, Switzerland—thinks Nixon is a vicious leader and imposes sanctions on us. Because of these sanctions, we can’t get medicine and we can’t feed our families adequately. We spend our days scraping for the basics we need to survive. (Of course this is implausible in the United States, which is why I said you would have to use your imagination.) Now ask yourself: Is your first thought that you should organize and try to overthrow the president?
>You can be sure that Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro are not hurting for antibiotics or high-quality food.
>I bet it’s not. For one thing, you don’t have much of a shot at succeeding. The Nixon administration is probably in charge of allocating the scarce medicine and food. But more important, you’re furious with the Swiss government. “Who are they to interfere in our country’s affairs?” you ask. So if Nixon offers you a war against the Swiss infidels, you’re likely to say, “Hell, yes,” and postpone thoughts of getting rid of your president until you’ve gotten those foreign bums off your back. And that’s probably how Iraqis are feeling right now about the United States and other governments that are participating in the embargo.
>THE CAPITALISM VIRUS>Economic sanctions simply won’t spark a revolution. History has proved this. But that doesn’t mean that things are hopeless. There’s an alternative way to undercut the power of dictators: kill them with kind capitalism. End the embargo. Let foreign goods flow into Cuba, Iraq, and Iran, so that the people there can see the fruits of a free society. Of course, Fidel Castro and other dictators won’t necessarily let those goods in, but then at least they’ll be the ones who are seen as the bad guys. In his book Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union, Scott Shane, who was the Baltimore Sun’s Moscow correspondent from 1988 to 1991, writes that in the late 1980s private entrepreneurs in Moscow with VCRs and reels of wire set up primitive cable systems. Needing content, they often used American movies like Harry and the Hendersons. The result: Soviet citizens saw average Americans with nice houses, refrigerators, cars, and high-quality food, and they said, “I want.”
>An especially important element of this strategy is unrestricted international sales of personal computers. The more PCs there are in unfree countries, the greater the number of people who will be able to log on to the Internet and discover what free speech and a fairly free economy are all about.
>It’s true that the Chinese government, for example, requires Internet users to register with it. But there are only two ways China’s government can enforce its rules on content over the Internet: monitor on-line users or use filtering software to block prohibited material. Both methods, notes the February 7 issue of The Economist, are losing battles. Monitoring becomes much more difficult as the number of users multiplies: More than 250,000 PCs in China are connected to the Internet, and the government expects the number to reach 4 million within two years. And the professionals needed to write sophisticated filtering software are being lured away to more productive uses by the private sector. Moreover, even if filtering and monitoring could work, many Chinese would still see a lot of things on the Internet that would undercut oppression in China. Although CNN and Time’s web sites are currently blocked, The Economist’s, for one, is accessible.
>The genie is out of the bottle. Let it out in Cuba, Iraq, and everywhere else too. Let’s end embargoes and allow free trade.https://www.hoover.org/research/why-economic-sanctions-dont-work>>2468225Russia was captive under Westernizers for a long time even after Yeltsin until the SVO. They never wanted real confrontation with the west, the only thing they cared about was having a bare minimum of national sovereignty and access to their City of London bank accounts. Only in the past few years has the tendency against that West worship has faded somewhat, but even now it lingers.
And China was playing a game they called, "lay low and buy time". They went along with many shameful western initiatives knowing that it would be only a matter of time until the PRC was able to flip over the whole table instead of giving all of the cards away before any of the real work to create an alternative was done. Of course, now that groundwork is laid out and China is the vanguard of the international movement to circumvent Western financial institutions and thus render sanctions as harmless and they can possibly be.
>>2468333This is idiocy, both countries want to limit nuclear proliferation because it's in their own interest to do so, this is why they sanctionned North Korea and Iran, it works at disuasion for others, it's only recently that Russia dropped them because they desperetaly need foreign support for their war more than they need efforts against proliferation. When their little military adventure finishes it will be back to the previous strategy.
>>2468558This is a vast operation to produce nukes, you can only hide it so long before it'ts out of the bag and even if you can magically keep that under wrap until you reveal it you'll still get sanctionned (unless you're Israel) at which point your economy will take a big hit. Therefore the sanctions make a nuke program only worth it in an existencial risk situation.
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