@imperial_flag @DumbObservation @AngelicaOung Unless Chinese companies and consumers make a significant push into developing and adopting electric motorcycles, I don’t see this happening tbh.
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@GeopoliticalHub @DumbObservation @AngelicaOung I hope one day they will make it a lot more accessible. Only recreational bikers would know but once you hop on that saddle, you'll get addicted to it.
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The whole story of ZXMOTO is just so nuts and ripped from a hallmark movie script.
Zhang Xue was a high-school dropout and a motorbike freak. He worked in a mechanics shop and doggedly pursued reporters on his junk bike begging them to put him on TV.
« It’s not that I want to be on TV but that’s the only way I could be seen by a professional motorcycle team and that’s the only chance I might get to race! »
Zhang Xue’s actual motorcycling was…far from impressive. But the amused news crew did put him on TV and somehow he did end up on a motorcycle team, although I’m not clear on what capacity.
Zhang Xue never achieved his dream of being a motorcycling star. He fell into a depression. His wife was finally…well are you gonna do something about it? With her support and small loans from friends and family, Zhang went to Chongqing and started a motorcycle brand, ZXMOTO.
While all this was happening, Valentin Debise’s career looks like it was coming to a reluctant end. He was the young contender who slowly got old without ever quite making it. Yamaha was dropping him. Mid-thirties was already considered over the hill in the young man’s game of motorcycle racing.
Would he take a chance racing for ZXMOTO? No Chinese brand ever won a World Bike Championship race. It’s dominated by European and Japanese brands like Ducati and Yamaha. But Debise said yes. This old dogs still had some tricks to show the world.
Somehow in Portugal, Debise came in for back to back wins, putting ZXMOTO on the podium, a first for a Chinese brand. A legend was born: but how? The brand was only 2 years old.
It’s the feel good underdog story of 2026, but also a story about the strength of Chinas supply chains, and the importance of pragmatism.
When asked why he chose a French rider not a Chinese one, Zhang Xue simply said « I chose the fastest one and the Chinese ones are slower. »
What was Zhang Xue’s original dream? Maybe it was to be on the podium himself. But the dream he ultimately achieved was even bigger.
China Perspective@China_Fact
A racing champion, a small village, and an unexpected way to change lives. During the World Superbike Championship (WSBK), a Chinese motorcycle manufacturer’s racing team—driven by a French rider—won back-to-back titles. But what caught people’s attention wasn’t just the victory. On the championship bike, a few simple words were printed: “Mayang Ancient Brown Sugar.” Behind that label is a personal story. The company’s founder, Zhang Xue, is from a small village in Mayang, Hunan. Earlier this year, while testing motorcycles before Spring Festival, he returned home and spoke with local villagers. He learned that most sugarcane farmers were elderly, and their traditional brown sugar wasn’t selling well. So he made an unusual decision: He put his hometown’s product on a world-class racing machine. The result was immediate. Orders surged to over 1,000 per day. What used to take months to sell out was nearly gone within days. A racing bike, a few words on its body— and suddenly, a small village was seen by the world.
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@imperial_flag @DumbObservation @AngelicaOung China has no widespread sportbike/cruiserbike culture. Electric mopeds and scooters form the vast majority of 2-wheel transport in China.
This fact alone shows how favorable business conditions are in China for companies like CFMOTO and ZXMOTO to still prosper.
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@GeopoliticalHub @DumbObservation @AngelicaOung Well to be fair, govt isn't super helpful for ICE bikes. I am a rider myself and plans to tour China often are met with Byzantine rules and track because different highways have different rules. Even foreigner biker vlogs often complain about this.
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@Safari_liv3 Complaining about it is futile tbh. The only remedy is China producing far superior wuxia-themed media and entertainment. Assert ownership through complete market dominance.
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I predict that Chinese wuxia will eventually be claimed as part of “Korean culture” too. Sooner or later, we will probably see a flood of Korean wuxia films, dramas, and comics. And when people question it, the answer will be the same familiar script: Chinese culture will suddenly be rebranded as “shared Asian culture,” and wuxia will be reframed as something Korea has supposedly had since ancient times. It is always the same pattern: borrow first, relabel it later, and then act offended when someone points out the obvious.
스튜디오아르케(studioARCHE)@studioarcheX
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@imperial_flag @DumbObservation @AngelicaOung ZXMOTO's PR manager definitely gave him a stern lecture after his inital interview. 😂
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@GeopoliticalHub @DumbObservation @AngelicaOung He corrected himself that he said all the govt did was clear "obstacles & set the stage" and he took his chances. 😆
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@Bluebearmonkey Silence blue bear, 黄亚生 (the self-appointed spokesperson of all Chinese wypipos) is weeping. he needs a moment. 😠
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You could read through this entire collection and barely know a single thing more than when you began
Reads with Ravi@readswithravi
how it started: how it’s going:
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Symptoms of 民进党 DPP-induced early stage fascism. The social fabric of Taiwan is deteriorating, particularly amongst the blue and pink collar working class.
零敲牛皮糖597.9@liuguangchui
现在台湾省的社会戾气真的好重哦， 为什么要把老百姓打工人逼到这种地步，她做错了什么？
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@CDMorlock Plain racism is a major motivator in addition to class interests. They completely failed dismantling Russia, but they still believe they're able to take on China.
China is 10x Russia in the literal sense, without even going into the manufacturing/scientific output comparisons.
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All Tucker wants to make is bombs for China, that's the rub. Rentier Imperialists of different flavors arguing about what can save the dollar.
Masu Zafi 🔥🔥@masuzafi
"Tucker Confronts Piers Morgan: 'You Don’t Produce Anything!' on the UK’s Struggling Economy"
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@AngelicaOung Still an inspiring life story nonetheless. Dude won a WorldSSP stage within 2 years of founding ZXMOTO all from his humble beginnings as a middle school dropout.
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@GeopoliticalHub Oh I got confused thanks for clarifying
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@ZoomerTechlead Tiger moms in the West always seem to neglect the most important thing which is developing their childen's networkmaxxing and socialmaxxing skills.
Unless you are a top 1% applicant, no amount of STEMaxxing works if you don't already know someone who works at a FAANG or startup.
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Thanks to the new mixed language algo, I now have Chinese tiger moms showing up on my TL and they are asking chat to help determine the fate of their son.
Yang Yang@YangYan60107172
我希望儿子学习滑铁卢的CE Major + Math minor。理由是可软可硬，受AI的影响小。我是工程师，让儿子学习工程有执念。 我老公希望他学Math + CS Double Major。这个组合是滑铁卢的王牌专业，今后的发展上线高。儿子数学成绩不错，课程难度和学习压力都小。就业范围广。 大家帮我看一下，该如何选？谢谢
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床前明月光
In all seriousness, the typical 1st poem taught to all Chinese children at 5ish is likely the best known poem in the world in any language.
Paul Krause@paul_jkrause
What is the most famous opening line in poetry?
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The first poem most Chinese kids learn is 咏鹅 though, written by Luo Bingwang 骆宾王 (640-684) when he himself was only 7 years old.
William Han@W_T_Han
床前明月光 In all seriousness, the typical 1st poem taught to all Chinese children at 5ish is likely the best known poem in the world in any language.
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@HandsomeMan2013 @AngelicaOung Stuff like this doesn't happen in the US anymore dude. Too much regulation, and complete domination of most industries by monopolies + capital.
The Chinese dream is the new American dream.
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@AngelicaOung So funny how a quintessentially scrappy underdog fake-it-til-you-make-it, devil-may-care, all-in and back-to-the-wall Cinderella story would've sounded so American had it not taken place in China instead
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@DumbObservation @AngelicaOung The governments role in greatly reducing corruption, and providing Chongqing with a good environment/regulation for business/industry (i.e. cheap energy + low taxes) is more than enough imo. The rest is left up to the free market.
Zhang is pretty bad at PR tbh, no filter.
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@AngelicaOung His interview was also quite funny. He was asked if the government helped him in any way. He asked if the reporter wants truth or lie. The report said truth. Then Zhang said the government didn't do shit for him. 🤣
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@bennysavio @AngelicaOung Yeah, his excellent performance + leadership at Kove is what led to him and investors wanting him to start his own brand ZXMOTO.
Many engineers also followed him from Kove to work at ZXMOTO.
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@GeopoliticalHub @AngelicaOung People were impressed by what he did at Kove, that's when Valentin Debise first heard about him.
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@AngelicaOung Early funding from friends and family was for his inital relocation to Chongqing in 2013 in order to land his first proper job in motorcycle manufacturing. Completely unrelated time periods.
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@GeopoliticalHub His wife definitely was showing her private account book on Instagram with her friends and family loans from the early days! I have no doubt that he also used his personal assets and accessed other capital
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Left Communists and Trotskyists getting triggered in the comments because they don't like getting called out for being majority non-STEM dumbfucks.
Present-day China and pre-Brezhnev USSR lead/led the world in scientific prowess and manufacturing output.
Vazuco ☭🇨🇴@vazucol
Necesitamos más comunistas ingenieros, matemáticos, electricistas y carpinteros, y menos sociologxs, economistas y filósofos. La izquierda no puede ser hippie y anticientífica.
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You just have to be extremely conventionally attractive and high-eq to break into the Chinese entertainment industry. No caste segregation.
Chen Duling is another example. She scored 621 on the gaokao and studied Aeronautic Manufacturing Engineering at NUAA (南京航空航天大学).
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex
would be an abnormal background for a Western actor One thing I've noticed is that there's a somewhat tight caste segregation in Western societies. Hawt celebrities come from the waitress-nurse-bouncer-gym teacher class, and specialize into "performing" early. Asians… less so.
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