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@Mrbankstips @grok Just drove through this bridge and tunnel today. Haha

Hey @grok, how much did China spend to do this?

@macastel3 The gulf war will last a lot longer than people can imagine.

The Hormuz failure won't be resolved before end of this month so it would put US in a weaker position in China during the meeting with Xi How do you raise your voice after causing disruption globally and still embroiled in a war? Maybe postponed? x.com/FinanceLancelo…

@HaraldinChina @AryJeay Plus 1 version of Mamma Mia. lol

@AryJeay he draws on a comprehensive vocabulary of swearwords here 😂 watch this video for 5 versions of fck in Chinese

WATCH: Chinese sailor captured how 2 Iranian ballistic missiles dodged 6 Patriot/THAAD interceptors and successfully struck the US Navy base in Fujairah, UAE, around 1 AM, on March 11.

@shaunrein Showing off that you haven't been getting old for 17 years. lol

I went to the doctor in Shanghai today at a hospital I had never been to. The nurse recognized me from a different hospital from when she treated me in 2009! I can't believe she remembers me 17 yrs later & still recognizes me!

@livinoffwater Hi there, welcome to Shenzhen! Wanna visit some robot factories? Pls drop me a msg. I'm working on a robot project & like to introduce you to some robot factories in Shenzhen.

Flying to Shenzhen tonight. Documenting my journey through Huaqiangbei and the streets of Nanshan Who should I meet out there?

@TOBOENGINEER @Eng_china5 I think you should check how much the guy who's making the order is paying the Chinese suppliers. I've seen lots of cases that the US endusers paid good money for a product but he middle guy paid really low price to Chinese venders. So they got ...

@Eng_china5 Was on a project where all equipment was ordered from China. Full of weld defects. Long way to go

China’s industrial renaissance is more intensive than imaginable

@macastel3 The Liberation Day tariffs has gone and was replaced by 15% for 150 days. The 301 tariffs stays such as auto parts and solar panels.

So now tariffs from China to US are at 10%?

@Eng_china5 Not a smart move. Hollywood needs AI to remind ppl that they still exist. If they cut themselves from AI, soon AI will create an entire new entertainment ecosystem without anyting from Hollywood. Blockbusters might be made by college kids from condo rooms.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Disney have filed a lawsuit against ByteDance over the Seedance 2.0 project, alleging "massive copyright infringement." Watch this video, and you'll understand the real reason for Hollywood's panic: survival. In the past, producing such high-quality CGI footage required massive special effects studios and budgets of millions of dollars. Now? The cost is almost just a few cents.

@oprydai I'm in Shenzhen and just about to start a robotic company after the Chinese New Year holiday.

move to shenzhen and start a robotics company

@Fstentmtient @mattdykema No. The robot workstations are fenced. If someone touch the fences the robots will stop.

@mattdykema Question: If a human walks by, will they stop?!?!

Automation robot arms in all the right places in China 😳

@RnaudBertrand We never needed God doesn't mean we're not religious. CN's been the most religious nation since 2000BC.We worship our ancestors/families and China, a collective representative of all families.Numerous cases show Chinese scraficed their lives to State of China

This is probably the single feature that makes China most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs. We often wrongly believe that China's secularism came with Communism but this couldn't be more wrong. The roots are far, far more ancient than this. Think about any other civilization - India, Persia, ancient Egypt, European civilization, the Incas: they all had a priestly class that held considerable political power. China? Never. Never, ever? Actually China, in its very early history, had a brush with theocracy during the Shang dynasty in the 2nd millennium BC. And it is precisely this episode - or rather what came afterwards - that decisively de-linked religion from government affairs. How so? Because around 1046 BC, the Zhou overthrew the Shang and immediately faced a big problem of legitimacy. The Shang had claimed to rule because Heaven had chosen them. If that were true, then the Zhou had just committed the ultimate act of sacrilege. How do you justify going against God’s will? The answer the Duke of Zhou (who can thus be credited as the - perhaps unwitting - inventor of secularism) came up with was essentially to say that Heaven's mandate is not a birthright but a contract - conditional on the virtue of the ruler and good governance. It might not sound like much but this idea completely changed the whole equation: suddenly the legitimacy of power didn’t rest on God’s will but on man’s moral judgement, on whether the ruler had virtue (德, Dé) and governed well. Which meant that, ultimately, the people - as opposed to a God - became the arbiter of whether a ruler is legitimate. If there is one single decision that most shaped China's destiny as a civilization, it's probably this one. And, as I explain in my latest article, it ultimately shaped all of us in profound ways: through a chain of events involving Jesuit missionaries, Voltaire, and what French Enlightenment thinkers called "l'argument chinois" ("the Chinese argument"), it is this very idea that ended up secularizing Europe too and drove the Enlightenment movement. That's the topic of my latest article: the origins of China's secularism, how it shaped three thousand years of Chinese civilization, and why - far from being a belief in nothing or an absence of belief as it's all too often depicted - it's on the contrary a faith in humanity itself. Read it all here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

@RnaudBertrand Mao said that in March 1955.

A reminder that in 1955 Mao said it would take China "fifteen 5-year plans" to "catch up with and surpass the United States." (source: user.guancha.cn/main/content?i…) The 15th 5-year plan is the one starting this year 😉 In other words, he could imagine it, quite presciently in fact.

@lukas_m_ziegler Most labor intensive industry. To make a change you need to spleep on the workshop's floor.

what’s the hottest space to start a company in robotics today?

@macastel3 Some of my relatives in Shanghai just signed a deal of 4 million to sell their old unit to the government. Sadly they are going to the court to fight for bigger share of that money.

A big part of old central Shanghai is now a ghost town and will be redeveloped Most of the old buildings have been evacuated Sad in a way but truth is most of these houses are too old and in terrible conditions to be just fixed

@TheStudyofWar Actually the best defence strategy and weapon should be the Flaktürme. Modern tech will help to build much better Flak Towers with better design and weapons. If Ukrain could build a few hundreds of them, they could hold the line for a very long time.

Russian forces remain unlikely to meet their Spring 2026 deadlines for the Slovyansk direction without receiving additional reinforcements or deprioritizing the Kupyansk offensive. Russian forces first reached Lyman in November 2025 following intensified offensive operations in the area, but have been unable to build on these successes and make tactically significant advances near or within Lyman itself in the following months. ISW continues to assess that Russian forces are at least several months away from being able to begin a ground offensive against Ukraine’s Fortress Belt from the north or east.

@vshih2 They are all actually Chinese citizens. That's why China police brought thm back. When those bad guys were in power, they figured out some way to get Chinese citizenship so the Myanmar government dares not to touch them.

These scammers are bad people and should be punished but this also is a case of extraordinary exercise of cross border power by China. It would be interesting to look closely into this case

@GlenGilmore @_fluxfeeds Here's the link of the news in Chinese. qh.xinhuanet.com/20250826/f8f7a…

A massive solar farm in the Gobi Desert created a new ecosystem Vegetation jumped from virtually 0% to 80% within 3 years! Sheep were introduced to control the growth. That flock has grown to 20,000! via @_fluxfeeds #SustainableLiving

@chris_j_paxton Come to Shenzhen and Suzhou 苏州, the centers of robot manufacturers. I'll hook you up with some of them. You won't be regret.

Okay I desperately need to go on a trip to China it seems, everyone else is doing it

@janezno63305264 @macastel3 @thecyrusjanssen If you're running a country with 1.4 bln ppl and see how many doctors you need & where you can come up with enough money to pay them. China can get more doctors easily but can't find enough money to pay them. My friend is the best eye doctor. She's paid $3k/m

@macastel3 @thecyrusjanssen How come China does not raise number of doctors per capita. Specially surgeons, but they managed to increase STEM graduates ? hehe, kinda know the answer

This is by far the biggest problem in the United States, because the US has a healthcare “industry” and not a healthcare system. Profits are prioritized over cures with insurance companies and big Pharma ranking in huge profits. Never forget the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical debt. Meanwhile the Chinese system prioritizes health, hospitals are advanced, clean, and filled with modern machines. But most important is an affordable cost. What a massive benefit to society 👇

@janezno63305264 @macastel3 @thecyrusjanssen Imagine one doctor do 2 surgeies a week. Another doctor do 5 surgeries a day (seriously). Which one do you think will be a better surgeon? The latter is Chinese doctor.

@macastel3 @thecyrusjanssen Are doctors good ? Honestly I had difficulties finding doctors so qualified as Slovenians. I had two surgeries done by excellent Slovenian surgeons. Both privately. One time in USA, another time in Slovenia. Whenever they check me abroad doctors always asking who has done it