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Sorry did you like go back 5000 years and took a nap from then? I am from that part named “goetsu” (never heard that name btw). It’s part of China and has been part of China for 2000 years, same as hokkien and cantone. Manchuria, Tibet and xiniiang been part of China fo more than 300 years. This map must be from a cartoon.

Tibet is not China! Taiwan is not China! Manchuria is not China! East Turkistan is not China! Inner Mongolia is not China! China has engulfed territories of its neighbors & is trying to do the same with us, but Taiwan will continue to defend its freedom & identity @roclove2020

@cornne28 Can meet?

SG baby Nee hao ta kuea 🇸🇬

@Naam_Hi_Kafi_H @grok No, Donald trump is the best president in history for Russia and China

Hey @grok, Remove the worst US President from the picture !!

@jimcramer Ehhh you lost in Vietnam, what did you unleash?

If the infrastructure is not taken out and the money is not taken away why should Iran come to the peace table. They are taunting us with $200 oil. They do not have the cards; our military must be unleashed. Time to do what we did to Hanoi...to get them to the table

@handre Lol did you know that HK became rich as the drug center of Asia and the British government was making money of it. If this is the shiny free market outcome you are talking about, something must be very wrong with you.

Hong Kong proves every socialist dead wrong. Zero oil. Zero gold mines. Zero farmland worth mentioning. Just a rock jutting out of the South China Sea. And yet by the 1990s, this barren speck became richer per capita than Britain—the very empire that once ruled it. How? Free markets, you statist fool. While Mao was starving 45 million Chinese with his Great Leap Forward, Hong Kong embraced what British pedophile John Maynard Keynes despised: actual capitalism. No minimum wage laws. No capital gains taxes. No currency controls. No industrial policy. The government's job was simple—protect property rights, enforce contracts, and get the fuck out of the way. That's it. The results speak louder than any economics textbook. Refugees fled communist China with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Within a generation, they were building skyscrapers and running multinational corporations. Manufacturing exploded. Then services. Then finance. Each wave of economic evolution happened organically, driven by profit and loss signals—not some bureaucrat's five-year plan. And the poor? They got richer faster than anywhere else on earth. Because when capital is free to chase profits, it creates jobs. When entrepreneurs can keep what they earn, they take risks. When property rights are sacred, people build wealth instead of burning it. But here's what really terrifies central planners: Hong Kong did this without natural resource wealth to redistribute. No Norwegian oil fund. No Saudi petroleum reserves. Just human action, Mises-style. Pure market forces turning human energy and intelligence into prosperity. The city became a financial powerhouse precisely because it rejected the interventionist nonsense that Scottish gambler John Law pioneered and modern economists still worship. Every gleaming tower in Hong Kong's skyline is a middle finger to everyone who claims markets fail and government must step in.

@AriDavidPaul @SenSanders This must be a bot

@SenSanders Even Hamas (and UN) say you’re lying. Majority of those killed were military age males unsurprisingly.

Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?

@Linahuaa This is accurate: growing up in Germany and in an effort to fit in, I often doubted my own views and logic, and adopted theirs without questioning. Only after coming back to Asia and living here have I realized that my original view was right all along.

I used to look down on Chinese people. I thought growing up in the West made me more sophisticated. My country Germany was more developed. But then the tables turned within just ten years. And yeah- the greatest cognitive dissonance comes when someone you once looked down on surpasses you. Like, a bad student you used to laugh at suddenly outscoring you in all exams. Like, an ugly duckling hitting puberty, mogging you lookswise and farming all the attention. Losing something you took for granted is one of the harshest feelings. And that's exactly why Japanese act so butthurt towards China. That's exactly why USA acts so butthurt towards China. They used to look down on China, but not think much about it at all. But now they're constantly seething and coping. Getting surpassed is the worst feeling.

@AriDavidPaul @RKelanic Interesting pretty honest from a supposedly genocidal regime

@RKelanic Iran admitted it was their missile that killed the schoolgirls. On top of the 10,000+ Persians and 400k+ Sudanese Muslims they murdered. How does that change your view?

The U.S. just killed the premier Shia religious leader during Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar. As a reader pointed out, it’s equivalent to killing the Pope during Lent. Add to that an Israeli missile strike that killed dozens of Iranian schoolgirls. This will stir decades if not generations of enmity among ordinary Iranians toward the U.S., even among those who hated the Islamic regime. The idea that Trump’s war could transform US-Iran relations in any positive way —even if the Iranian people revolt — is pure fantasy. @defpriorities

@Ken_LoveTW Are you stupid or something. USD has lost 10% of its value against RMB in the past 12 months.

A major portion of Trump tariffs are paid by the Chinese. China has been consistently cheapening its currency to offset any increase in tariffs, which means the American consumers did not pay more in dollar terms for their Chinese products. Why are you against the Chinese government committing economic suicide?

@Ken_LoveTW How would anyone believe anything you say?

Ray Dalio Says the World Order Is Dead. He’s Missing the Real Story. China Misread the Postwar Order. Now It Pays the Price Ray Dalio says the post–World War II world order has officially broken down. He frames it as a natural “Big Cycle” — the inevitable decline of U.S. dominance and the rise of great-power conflict. But that’s only part of the story. For decades, Beijing called the U.S.-led order “unjust” and pushed for a new international system, all while becoming its biggest beneficiary. After the 2018 trade war, China suddenly realized the system it criticized was actually its golden rice bowl. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: influential Western elites, including Dalio, helped weaken international confidence in the very order they now say is collapsing.

@cryptomanran Bro, you are like 6 months late on this news

I finally discovered why gold has been rallying. And it has nothing to do with inflation. Nothing to do with tariffs. And nothing to do with interest rates. It’s a war. Not the kind you see on CNN. Not a battlefield war. A monetary war. China has been quietly executing a long-term strategy: Selling U.S. Treasuries and accumulating gold. China’s U.S. Treasury holdings just fell to the lowest level since 2008. At the same time, it’s been buying gold for 14 consecutive months. Because if you want your currency to be a reserve currency, you need trust. And no one trusts a fiat currency backed by infinite debt and money printing. You need credibility. You need something that can’t be printed. Gold. This is exactly what Ray Dalio warned about: when countries print endlessly and drown in debt, monetary empires fall and new ones rise. This is why central banks are buying gold at a record pace. Why are commodities moving together? And why the DXY is falling more than 12% I break down the full strategy, the endgame, and how I’m positioning in my new video. [link in comments]

@Schandillia Not accurate lol, please learn Chinese history first - Taiwan has been part of the wu kingdom during the three kingdoms period

Xia Dynasty: No Taiwan Shang Dynasty: No Taiwan Zhou Dynasty: No Taiwan Qin Dynasty: No Taiwan Han Dynasty: No Taiwan Three Kingdoms: No Taiwan Jin Dynasty: No Taiwan Sui Dynasty:No Taiwan Tang Dynasty: No Taiwan Song Dynasty: No Taiwan Yuan Dynasty: No Taiwan Ming Dynasty: No Taiwan Qing Dynasty: Annexed Taiwan (Formosa) in 1683; lost to Japan in 1895. Republic of China: Received Taiwan back from Japan in 1945; administration split from Mainland China (PRC) in 1949. PRC: No. In sum, Taiwan was under Chinese rule for a grand total of 212 years under Qing Dynasty and 4 years under ROC, which funny enough, PRC does not recognize as legitimate China. That’s a total of 216 years. In a history that runs more than 4,000 years. By the way, the Qing government, the only regime that actually held Taiwan, isn’t seen in a terribly positive light by the CCP. So no, Taiwan has NOT “belonged to China since antiquity.” And if you make the argument that the Han originated in Taiwan, then the Rus originated in Kiev. If anything, that says China belongs to Taiwan and Russia to Ukraine. But that’s not how belonging works.

@bxieus Top ccp advisor 😂?

He is Li Yi (李毅), a top CCP political advisor and famous social influencer. After hearing the capture of Maduro by US forces，he slapped his own face and sighed：“They can even capture him from 3300 kilometers away? WTF! Shame on myself...”

@KobeissiLetter Isn’t this modern day colonization and plunder? Shouldn’t this gold belong to the people of Venezuela’s

While everyone is focused on oil: Venezuela currently holds 161 metric TONS of gold reserves. 161 metric tons is roughly 5.18 million troy ounces, worth ~$22 BILLION at $4,300/oz. This makes Venezuela the Latin American country with the largest gold holdings. Every $100 that gold rises, these holdings gain +$518 million of value. Controlling Venezuela is set to produce hundreds of billions of revenue for the US. Will the US take control of these gold reserves?

@serpentza They banned fireworks at the bund due to safety reasons. And why is having fireworks reflective of a country’s development?

Isn't it interesting that we constantly see these trumped up and often faked/digitally altered drone shows and firework shows coming out of Chinese propaganda mouthpieces.. yet even in Shanghai, China's most sophisticated city there was nothing on New Year's Eve

@IndianGems_ Your caste system

What is stopping India from becoming like this?

@Ken_LoveTW @Shanimajibai I don’t see many westerners trying to move to Japan either, Japan must be a shithole.

@Shanimajibai Japan doesn't accept immigrants either, but Japanese are nowhere near as desperate as Chinese to leave their own country for the West!

If China is more advanced the West, then why are 10000× more Chinese people trying to get out of that shithole than Westerners moving into it?

@Ken_LoveTW Because China is a non immigration country genius

@harukaawake Who believes this shit?

🇨🇳 Chinese-made Sedans. After being exposed to the sun under high humidity, these cars will start to melt. Seems incredibly unsafe.