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@GordonGChang Project much?

We overestimate China’s military strength. At the same time, we underestimate the risk of war. China can blunder into a war with an incapable military, which means Xi Jinping might use nuclear weapons to bail himself out of a losing situation.

@hiragananinja Historically that flag is trash, so if the shoe fits…

Historically It’s japan’s cerebrating flag. No problem.

@Scarletkoito111 A trash can or a pay toilet.

@iAnonPatriot “A” difference, not “the” difference. And that’s Korea. Now try other metrics.

The difference between communism and capitalism.

@ailanyus Wow. You’re an idiot.

Trump got Iran to sign a peace deal without giving them a dime. Has any other president done that?

@ChinaUncensored That’s capitalism! Or maybe you want EU governments to intervene and prop their companies up like good little socialists?

For decades, Europe bet that closer trade with China could only bring good things. Oopsie! A "Second China Shock" is now gutting European manufacturing, with Germany bleeding 15,000 jobs a month. Will the EU wake up in time, or is it destined to become a province of China? Exclusively on chinauncensored.tv/programs/deepd…

@SandyofCthulhu “China won’t intervene.” Didn’t they say that back in 1950?

Look at these two militaries, The amazing fact is that despite North Korea's posturing, the South Korean army would devastate North Korea in a fight. The South has better training, FAR better equipment, actual air support (the North's newest plane is 40 years old; the South has F-35s), better allies (Japan & USA, vs. China who won't intervene), and higher morale. Given that the South families aren't literally starving back home. And I suspect the North is hopefully aware that their families will be fed if South Korea wins the war.

@CoreyWriting The Dutch were immigrants. Learn a little English, eh?

NYC was built by the Dutch. NYC was not built by people who moved there from Pakistan in 1998.

@NguyenHo1096438 If we called it the Quit Your Bitching Sea, you kids would still whine like idiots.

The demand to rename South China Sea to Southeast Asia Sea is valid because China's bullying behavior is on rise and this name gives lot of entitlement to China.

@IsabellaAn67 Japan hasn’t fought a war in over 80 years and it lost that one in epic fashion. To think that Japan’s going to make a difference militarily is laughable.

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson is blaming Japan for militarisation & disturbing peace. According to China, Japan must not be allowed to "re-militarise" The reality is- JAPAN IS NOT MILITARISING ENOUGH! China's militarisation is a threat to Japan & to rest of the world.

@ChinaUncensored China invested in the poor and got rich. The US invested in the rich and got poor.

“Capitalism is evil. Money is broken.” I hear these kinds of things all the time. There are absolutely problems with the system. When you think about it, it’s pretty screwed up that if you save your money, you will end up poor because of interest making your money worth less and less. But any system has problems and as far as the ones that have been tried, we have a pretty damn good one. It’s certainly better than being a subsistence farmer and one day having a roving band of samurai come and steal all your food. All you have to do is not go into debt. Spend less than you earn. And then put a little bit aside each month into the S&P 500. If you put just $35 dollars aside each month from the time you’re 16, and never a penny more, you would retire with $1 million. Never before in human history has such wealth been accessible to your average Joe. But you ditch this system for Socialism, it all falls apart. China is the prime example of this. Stock markets are done. Real Estate collapsed. The whole system is propped up by lies and debt. Yet polls show 60% of adults under 30 view socialism positively. I think it comes from that generation being the most privileged human beings in human history with unrealistic expectations about what they deserve and the amount of work it will take to get it. Yes, there was the 2008 financial crash. Covid. Unprecedented events that we came of age in that made things hard. But that’s life. Imagine coming of age and World War I starts. Our hardships are nothing like what people in the past had to deal with. We have running water and AC. The US has one of the most progressive income taxes in the western world. 60% of the US budget is spent on social programs. Only slightly more than 13% is spent on military. But there’s this weird belief that the world should be a utopia, where everyone should have everything they want all the time and no one should have to face any kind of obstacle. That worldview is only possible with absurd levels of privilege. These people think under socialism everyone can just make art. Budget. Stay out of debt. Invest a little in index funds. That’s all it takes. Let freedom ring.

@Aliceshaw25 Jellyfish: spineless, toxic, and when it touches kids, they cry.

What animal do you think best represents Donald Trump? Lion ❤️

@TheLizVariant And they’re disagreeing with the malignant ped**hile rap**t currently in the White House, so there.

Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Oregon have reportedly pulled out of the Great American State Fair celebrating America’s 250th birthday. 🇺🇸 Maybe it’s just me, but refusing to participate in a celebration of America’s 250th anniversary because of politics feels like refusing to attend your grandmother’s birthday because she voted for Trump. You don’t have to agree with everyone in America to celebrate America. In fact, the freedom to disagree with each other is kind of the whole point.

@Gemmakng Best picture ever!

Date night w me? 🩶

@BillWiIdin Planes are also unreliable, rage-inducing, and run by degenerate sociopaths who would rather have a plane crash than spend twenty-five cents on a safety check.

It’s genuinely ridiculous the lack of trains we have in the USA. “We have cars” is not a good reason to not have trains. Plenty people don’t have trains and planes are faster.

@Avabelly__ Disaster.

Mmm, keep it clean 🧽 please 😉🤣

@harrypotte3wte Anyone except Trump. I don’t like the smell of full diapers.

You’re on a 10-hour flight ✈️🇺🇸 Who would you actually sit next to? A • Barack Obama B • Abraham Lincoln C • George Washington D • John F. Kennedy E • Donald Trump F • Joe Biden Be honest and drop your choice + why 👇

@commiepommie Japan tries so hard to be relevant. It’s cute.

🇯🇵 Sanae Takaichi and Japanese Lawmakers Officially Make Taiwan Their Business 🇹🇼🇨🇳 Japan just dropped “China” from Its parliamentary group name and here’s what that means. Japan’s pro-Taiwan parliamentary group just dropped the word “China” from its name entirely. The new name: Japan Taiwan Friendly Parliamentary Alliance. The timing is deliberate. Furuya Keiji, the man behind the push, said the move makes sense because “now is the opportunity.” Sanae Takaichi is already in power and the pro-Taiwan faction inside the Diet is moving while she holds the top job. Photos from the event show Japanese and Republic of China flags side by side. This is being framed as a natural evolution in how Japan describes its Taiwan ties. It is a political act. Not an administrative one. When Japan recognised the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government in 1972, it ended diplomatic relations with Taipei. The 1978 Treaty of Peace and Friendship was concluded on the basis of the one-China principle. Embedding “Taiwan” in the formal name of a parliamentary body and tying that explicitly to the prospect of a right-leaning government, is a deliberate breach of that foundation. It fits a pattern that has been building for years. Japanese politicians have increasingly talked up the idea that a Taiwan contingency would automatically become a Japan contingency. They have expanded security cooperation, pushed values-based diplomacy and worked to pull Taiwan issues into regional forums. This renaming takes the next step, it makes the alignment more institutional and harder to walk back. Being in China, you can observe the impact of these actions. They are not read as ambiguous. They are seen as deliberate attempts to normalise what was once kept at arm’s length, to test boundaries and to create facts on the ground. The media have framed it as three dangerous signals. Pro-Taiwan forces in Japan are becoming more open about their agenda. Some politicians are explicitly banking on a Takaichi government to accelerate their push. And the move directly undermines the political foundation of China-Japan relations that has prevented worse outcomes so far. Taiwan is not just another diplomatic file for Beijing. It sits at the absolute centre of China’s core interests. A parliamentary rebrand does not change that. Around 321 Diet members are connected to this effort. The chairman is already subject to a China entry ban. These are not cost-free gestures. They embolden the most hardline elements in Taiwan, raise the risk of miscalculation and signal to Beijing that some in Tokyo see advantage in turning the island into a pressure point. History does not reward that calculation. External powers that treat Taiwan as a geopolitical lever tend to find themselves exposed when the consequences arrive. Japan’s parliamentary rebrand is the latest step in a longer trajectory. The same logic, followed consistently, points toward more direct involvement. Beijing is not misreading the intent. It is watching the pattern and adjusting accordingly. The question for Japanese strategists is whether they genuinely believe they can keep advancing this line without Beijing treating it as the strategic challenge it clearly is. That is the calculation now in play.

@KenCao_onChina Yeah… keep reading them tea leaves, Gordon Chang, Jr. 😂

China’s Auto Boom Will Be Entering Its Death Spiral For the past few years, China’s auto industry has been sold as the next great industrial miracle. EVs. Exports. Smart cars. National champions. But beneath the shiny surface, the industry may be moving toward a brutal conclusion: China’s auto sector is not just slowing down. It is structurally breaking. In May 2026, China’s total auto sales reportedly fell 22.3% year over year to just 1.53 million units. That marked the eighth consecutive monthly decline. For the first five months of the year, sales fell 19.7%, to only 7.18 million units. Even new energy vehicle retail sales fell 7.5%, the fifth straight monthly decline. It is what happens when weak consumer confidence, fading subsidies, market saturation, and cutthroat competition collide at the same time. The deeper problem is profitability. Toyota generated roughly ¥4.8 trillion in operating profit in 2025, or about RMB 239.5 billion. By contrast, the combined net profit of 18 listed Chinese passenger-car companies was less than RMB 90 billion, under 40% of Toyota’s profit. Toyota’s operating margin was around 10%. Chinese automakers averaged only 3.2%. That number is deadly. Cars are no longer simple manufacturing products. They are integrated technology platforms: batteries, chips, sensors, software, autonomous systems, supply chains, data, and brand ecosystems. A high-tech industry cannot survive on low-tech margins. Low margins mean weak R&D. Weak R&D means imitation. Imitation means homogeneity. Homogeneity means price wars. Price wars mean even lower margins. That is the death spiral. China’s EV boom has relied heavily on copying Tesla’s playbook, racing to match features, and then undercutting on price. That strategy can create volume, but it destroys the profit pool required to fund real innovation. Subsidies once covered the weakness. But as government support becomes harder to sustain, the crutch is being removed. Exports are not an easy escape route either. EV adoption depends on expensive charging infrastructure. Poorer countries cannot build it quickly. Rich countries like the US and EU are raising tariff walls. The developing world is too infrastructure-constrained; the developed world is becoming politically closed. So the industry is trapped: weak domestic demand, blocked export channels, falling margins, reduced subsidies, and insufficient true innovation. China built enormous auto capacity. But capacity without profit is a graveyard with better lighting.

@farzyness It actually has a lot to do with me seeing as how it’s my goddam tax dollars that he’s using to enrich himself, you apologist bootlicker.

If you're angry that Elon Musk is now a Trillionaire, you have the wrong mindset. Elon becoming a Trillionaire literally has nothing to do with you. The global economy is worth roughly $100 trillion per year. There's roughly $1 QUADRILLION in global assets. That's 1,000 trillion. Elon's net worth is equivalent to 0.1% of the world's total asset base. The other 99.9% exists with or without Elon. If you're actually angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, what's really happening is that you've either: a) have lost hope in having a good future because of circumstances in your life b) you're wasting too much time ingesting garbage information, which is taking time away from materially improving your life's circumstance or c) you're a jealous person that needs a lot of introspection. For example - there are literally thousands of people who have worked at SpaceX that are now officially MILLIONAIRES because of the work they've put in. They didn't steal it from anyway. They literally created this value out of thin air by working EXTREMELY HARD and making EXTREMELY USEFUL technology - reusable rockets. So instead of being angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, instead channel that energy into building something that you would be proud of and society can massively benefit from. You can actually do it. There's literally nothing stopping you but yourself. Set aside your fear, anger, or whatever other block you have, and FORCE YOURSELF to do something big. As you can very clearly see, you will be rewarded for it MASSIVELY. There's no better time than now.