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Massive geopolitical shift. The BBC confirms European nations are completely bypassing Washington and negotiating directly with Iran to use the Strait of Hormuz. NATO and Gulf states absolutely refuse to join Trumps disastrous military campaign. The US is isolated.

I took this video this morning in Liuzhou in Guangxi province in China, these little micro mini electric cars have made a massive impact with getting internal combustion engine vehicles off the road in China and particularly in Liuzhou where they are manufactured by SAIC-GM

For years, the biggest headache for many electric vehicle drivers has been the wait at the charging pile. But Chinese EV maker BYD says it has changed all that. In March, the company launched what it calls "Flash Charging" technology. How fast is it?

Absolute panic in Tel Aviv. An expert news report confirms Iranian missile salvos have caused massive structural damage across central Israel. The Zionist entity's economic and political center is facing unprecedented pressure. Total collapse of Israeli deterrence.

🚨 WATCH: "This is probably the darkest moment in US history," said China's Professor Gao in prediction from January.

DeepSeek is about to release V4, and for the first time, a frontier Chinese AI model will run natively on Huawei silicon. A brief analysis and why its much bigger than most people think. Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent have placed bulk orders for hundreds of thousands of Huawei's new Ascend 950PR chips. Prices have jumped 20% in weeks. And DeepSeek deliberately denied NVIDIA early access to V4 while giving that window exclusively to Chinese chipmakers. (via Reuters) Let that satisfy for a moment: a Chinese AI lab actively chose to sideline NVIDIA. What this means for NVIDIA The immediate revenue hit is manageable. China was already a shrinking slice of NVIDIA's business after Washington's export controls and Beijing's counter-ban on the H20. But the *strategic* damage runs deeper. Every model optimized for Huawei chips is a model that no longer needs NVIDIA's ecosystem to function. That's not lost revenue but lost lock-in. NVIDIA's real moat was never just hardware performance. It was CUDA, the software layer that made switching costs prohibitively high. Huawei built the Ascend 950PR to understand the same programming instructions as NVIDIA chips, dramatically lowering those switching costs. The moat is being drained from both sides! What this means for China Let's be precise about what China has and hasn't achieved. The Ascend 950PR delivers roughly 2.8x the compute of NVIDIA's H20, but it still trails the H200. Huawei won't match that tier until the Ascend 960 arrives in 2027. And production is constrained: SMIC can't match TSMC's output, domestic HBM is still ramping, and early Ascend 950PR batches will still rely on imported memory chips. But here's what matters more than the spec sheet: China has closed the loop! It now has a domestic chip that can run a frontier model for inference at commercial scale, with a training chip (Ascend 950DT) due by Q4. Two years ago, that pipeline didn't exist. Washington's export controls were designed to buy time, not to permanently cripple Chinese AI. The theory was that restricting access to cutting-edge chips and lithography tools would slow China by 3–5 years (ASML, highly recommend you read Chris Millers book "Chip War"). What actually happened: China compressed that timeline through *massive* state subsidies, mandatory domestic procurement, and engineering workarounds like DeepSeek's efficiency breakthroughs. The competitive dynamic is shifting from "Can China do AI?" to "Can China do AI at scale on its own silicon?"! This week, that question got a lot closer to a yes. The pressure on NVIDIA isn't that it loses China today. It's that China is building a parallel AI compute stack that doesn't need NVIDIA at all and every model trained or optimized for that stack pulls more of the ecosystem with it. Thats why this is so big news.

🚨 🇺🇸 BREAKING: According to a CNN poll, Donald Trump now has the worst net approval rating among independents of any president ever.

BREAKING NEWS: The United States sent this tank-killer you see here against Iran. It can fire 4,000 rounds per minute… it’s called the A-10. This aircraft is a symbol and a source of pride for the U.S. The Iranians shot down the A-10 as soon as it arrived The aircraft officially crashed.

If you want to know anything about China's economy, there are few people more attuned and accurate in the world than John Ross Follow him for unbiased views on China which are not designed to misinform

Decades of data says the price of storage drops by 19% every time global production doubles. This isn't some marginal gain. It's an unstoppable force of nature You can’t out-compete math this aggressive. This "learning rate" is a one-way street to total electrification - because it's cheaper. As battery costs crater, EVs become cheaper than petrol cars, and grid storage makes solar/wind reliable 24/7 This feedback loop can't be stopped, however many fossil fuel wars Big Oil continues to initiate

UAE EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS HAS FALLEN The UAE embassy taken over by protestors

The narrative is collapsing. A US General admits on FOX News that the Pentagon does not have complete air supremacy over Iran. He confirms Iran is a highly determined adversary with extremely high quality threat systems. The American military is exposed.

BREAKING & UNUSUAL: The United States is unable to meet its commitments to buyers of its military equipment. Washington has failed to deliver a weapons shipment to Tokyo, despite the payment having been made in advance. Bloomberg: Japan’s request to purchase 400 American Tomahawk missiles has been delayed because the United States has depleted a significant portion of its stockpile during the war with Iran.

Half of all planned U.S. data center builds in 2026 are projected to be delayed or canceled. The bottleneck isn't chips or capital, it's electrical infrastructure. And that infrastructure depends heavily on China. Transformers, switchgear, batteries, all those rely on china. China accounts for over 40% of U.S. battery imports and around 30% of key transformer and switchgear categories. Imports of high-power transformers from China surged from fewer than 1,500 units in 2022 to over 8,000 in 2025. U.S. transformer lead times have stretched from 24 months pre-2020 to up to five years today. AI data center deployment cycles run under 18 months. That gap doesn't close with money: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are spending over $650 billion this year and it's still not enough. Strangely enough, this is the part of the AI race nobody talks about. Washington restricts chip exports to China while simultaneously depending on Chinese electrical equipment to power the data centers those chips go into. A decade of reshoring rhetoric hasn't built the domestic manufacturing capacity to change that. The real AI bottleneck was never compute. It's power, and the supply chain that delivers it runs straight through the country the U.S. is trying to decouple from. this is what i try to reiterate all the time. Power is the even bigger bottleneck than compute.

In Qinghai, NW China, grass grows too fast under solar panels. Mowing costs a fortune. The solution? Sheep. They eat. They fertilize. We get clean energy + lamb.

🚨🇨🇳 BREAKING — Xinjiang, China: New 6.5 terawatt Solar Plant Matches Philippines’ Total Renewable Output.

China 🇨🇳 is winning the AI talents race. Is it possible that the US falls behind China on AI?? - The answer is absolutely yes, says Jensen Huang, the Nvidia founder. Half of worlds AI researchers now started their career in China, only 12% in the US. Talented Chinese more and more remain in China. China have more active AI researchers than US and Europe combined. 9 out of to top AI research institutions are in China - Tsinghua at the very top. Welcome the Asian Century! The Economist: lnkd.in/dPbWEzHZ

Last year more than half of new cars sold in China were electric. China is the world leader in electrifying heavy-duty vehicles, and high-speed rail, too. And, more of its electricity is being generated by solar, hyrdo, and wind.

BREAKING : Trump is officially cooked and defeated against Iran ☠️ Journalist –– "What are the chances that Iran may start selling oil in 🇨🇳 Chinese Yuan?" Iran Prof 🇮🇷 –– 🔥 "That is already happening, Iran is doing shipment and trade on own new terms. No Dollar $ monopoly will be entertained anymore" "Trump is paying for attacking Iran" 🫡

More winning for Trump We have shutdown the Chinese market for Nvidia