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I invited my sister Stacie to visit the city of @WuxiCity in Jiangsu province! She said it was such a wonderful experience! She actually came to China for the first time!

This is #Shanghai for you — even with the subway gates wide open, everyone still scans their code before getting in. This is China!!!

@SpoxCHN_MaoNing @wyhwzd The whole is world is on Beijing’s time! 👍

President Xi Jinping held a private meeting with U.S. President Donald J. Trump at Zhongnanhai.

🚨Update!! USA now visa-free for China! What a week! #Trump #Visa

Got to finish it off with YMCA🤣

A quick look at sleeper trains in China!🇨🇳

Western democracy summed up in one picture.

Who said China doesn’t have create beaches? Awesome waves for surfers here! 📍Qingdao, Shandong

@y1li9 Any car can drive out. The key is to drive upward in spirals.

مالك Range Rover في الصين أراد يثبت إن سيارته أقوى وأفضل من السيارات الصينية، فقرر يتحداها داخل حفرة مليانة ماء وصابون، وكان واثق إن النتيجة محسومة… لكن اللي صار بالنهاية صدم الجميع

@TheEXECUTlONER_ In the eyes of the law, all is fine. Everyone else's opinions are retarded

This guy is using the left hand lane , which is open. There is a mile long backup and everyone is over in the right hand lane. He drives all the way up until he has to merge. Some people are saying what a jerk he is for not getting in line like everyone else, but a great many people are saying that the cars in the right lane merged into one lane too soon and that if they had used the left lane, instead of being a mile backup it would have been a half a mile backup. What’s your take? Do you think he was correct in using the left lane and merging up at the front or should he have merged right and got in line way in the back like everyone else?

@D162Michele Spot on

If China is becoming overconfident, then America must be clinically retarded.

@alvinfoo You nailed it. America’s not great—it’s rigged. Squeeze the middle, feed the top. Short, brutal and spot on.

China vs. the US. Same world. Wildly different price tags. The numbers don’t lie, and they tell a fascinating story. Average monthly salary in China: $1,007. In the US: $4,276. That’s a 4.2x income gap. But here’s where it gets interesting. Food costs don’t follow the same ratio. A meal at an inexpensive restaurant in China costs $2.84. In the US? $20.00. That’s 7x more expensive. A dozen eggs: $1.57 in China vs $4.41 in the US. A cappuccino: $2.95 vs $5.32. White rice per lb: $0.43 vs $2.09. The Chinese consumer is paying dramatically less, not just proportionally, but in absolute dollar terms. Now look at the real squeeze. Broadband internet in China: $11.23/month. In the US: $72.43/month. Mobile phone plan in China: $8.95. In the US: $60.90. Basic utilities: $51.89 in China vs $210.49 in the US. Infrastructure costs in America are crushing the middle class. The one area where China doesn’t win? A new compact car costs $18,488 in China vs $35,699 in the US. Cheaper, but relative to monthly salary, still a 18-month income commitment for the average Chinese worker. The real insight: China has engineered a low-cost, high-efficiency consumer economy. The US has engineered high wages but also high costs that quietly consume them. Purchasing power parity tells a story that raw salary comparisons completely miss. I have lived in China for over 20 years and I can attest that we get more for less. The only thing I would say it’s ridiculously expensive is real estate prices, where an ordinary person would had to work their whole life to pay off the mortgage. Price-to-income ratios are estimated at: * Beijing: ~37x annual income * Shanghai: ~38x annual income That means an average household may need 30–40 years of total income just to buy a home outright. This is why many Chinese families: * pool money across 2–3 generations * rely heavily on parents for downpayments * prioritize home ownership above almost everything else Important shift happening now: China’s property crisis actually reduced prices in many cities: * mortgage rates fell sharply * home prices declined * affordability improved versus 2020–2021 peaks But psychologically, many young Chinese are now: * delaying marriage * delaying home purchases * preferring renting * less willing to take 30-year debt because they watched previous generations become heavily leveraged into declining property markets.

Made a short trailer on my visit to the Hubei Provincial Museum. Check it out, it was an awesome place to explore and learn about Chinese history.

Ever visited an Iron Painting Museum? Here, got a chance to check out Master Artists at work using molten iron to create artworks. 📍Wuhu, China #MarvelousAnhui #HappyWuhu #WowTrips

#MarvelousAnhui #HappyWuhu #WowTrips

Ever imagined a city where robocops & robodogs are real? No sci-fi fantasy. Just real tech. 🚀 Wuhu, China, is making it happen—from autonomous cars to robots, China is making cities smarter, safer, and always with the people in mind. #SmartCity #FutureTech

@GUnderground_TV @PeakServe U.S. War mongers, no respect for peace

"We can choke off China's🇨🇳 oil at any time we want,,,China has two weaknesses: energy and food. Both of them are vulnerable to our blockades.” -US🇺🇸 Rep. Carlos Gimenez The war on Iran and the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine were events to set up the coming war on China. While China advocates peace, the US is actively preparing to bring down China. Is China taking the threat of attack by a desperate Washington seriously enough?

@MatrixMysteries You’re the one paying for it, so stop complaining

An American grabbed a simple meal at Park MGM Las Vegas. Just a bowl of pasta and a water. Then came the bill: $52.95. This is what unchecked corporate greed has done to Vegas.

@end3of6days9 @TonyLaneNV Drop your health insurance, it’s cheaper booking airfare to China, staying in a 5-star hotel and getting an MRI than the MRI alone in America.

💊 This woman just canceled both her and her son’s health insurance — and she’s standing firm even though everyone around her thinks she’s crazy. The new plan would’ve cost her almost $1,000 a month with a huge deductible, so she dropped it completely. Now she’s using GoodRx for her prescriptions (dropped from $50 a month to just $8 for three meds) and asking her doctors for the straight cash/self-pay price — which turned out to be way lower than she expected. It’s such a wild eye-opener about how broken the insurance system has gotten for a lot of families. Would you ever consider dropping your health insurance and going the self-pay/GoodRx route, or does that feel too risky to you? I think it could be a real money saver.