@China768768768 I wonder what the range is. Needs to be atleast 140km as ukraine has shown drones can fuck shit up
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Jamie Young
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New toys from China.
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@DrewPavlou I don't believe it would attract rats. But wouldn't this do the same thing that vines on a house? Do where it eats into the concrete and destroys it slowly over time. I wonder if they put that impenetrable matting stuff on the concrete like you see on hold homes being renovated
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This does look objectively cool but wouldn’t it attract rats
Lusca Fusca@luscafusca150
Por volta de 2013 a cidade de Chengdu tem adicionado trepadeiras em seus viadutos para conter ilhas de calor e o difícil trabalho de tornar essa infraestrutura mais agradável.
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@NoOnefcoy0 @CarlZha They dont meet the definition of a service based economy
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@CarlZha IMF classification is joke.
China: world's second largest economy.
4.5% growth in 2026. $20.6 trillion GDP.
But not "advanced." Why? Because it's not US vassal. Empire controls the labels. Labels don't change reality. China's rise continues.
IMF's irrelevance grows.
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It's crazy that IMF classify Bulgaria as an advanced economy while China isn't
AsieNews@AsiaNews_FR
Les pays bleus sont classés comme des économies avancées par le FMI en 2026. #Taiwan 🇹🇼 Singapour 🇸🇬 Japon 🇯🇵 Coree du Sud 🇰🇷 Hong Kong 🇭🇰
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@BeijingDai If china is so great and it's rice is so inevitable. Why does it mostly work with horrendous dictators. Why do they pay so much less than everybody else for minerals and value. Why are they so willing to send security to murder civilians in foreign countries and their own?
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I believe the U.S.-China competition has entered the "garbage time" of history — the outcome is already decided. But because of the nuclear weapons, the winning side can’t speed up the process, and the losing side is just dragging things out for the sake of pride. Both sides are left slowly, painfully killing time and engaging in pointless verbal sparring.
It’s like a basketball game where China is already up by 40 points in the third quarter, but the U.S. head coach keeps pretending to fight back — calling timeouts, running foul plays — when in reality, both teams are just moving along a predetermined path toward an increasingly obvious conclusion.
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@ScottRCarpenter I wonder if the canadian population is willing to take the sacrifice to hold the united states back like ukraine did to russia. I can't imagine the conservatives in the u. S what allow canada to join the european union peacefully.
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With the reality sinking in that western Europe has no energy of its own look for more Europeans to agree that Canada should be a part of of the EU.
Anders Östlund@andersostlund
Canada and the EU are less than 10 km apart at the closest point. We are a natural fit. I welcome Canada to join the EU.
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@realnikohouse Very few people in the US watch soccer. Only around 30% of americans watch the world cup even.
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Boycotting the World Cup might actually be one of the only ways to forcibly end the US’s war with Iran.
Before the drama, this World Cup was supposed to generate $10.8 billion in revenue just for FIFA and estimated $80 billion world wide.
Boycott and watch corporations throw Trump and Israel under the bus.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast
Panicked U.S. hotels are slashing room rates for the World Cup amid a demand shortfall, exacerbated by what executives believe is being driven by a surge in anti-American sentiment. thedailybeast.com/trump-chill-hi…
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No. You want a weak and vassal state Europe.
Ambassador Andrew Puzder@USAmbEU
America wants the European Union, and Europe in general, to be prosperous. A prosperous Europe is a better trade partner; a prosperous Europe is better able to defend itself. The EU’s tremendous amount of regulation has caused it to miss the digital economic revolution and lag in GDP growth compared to the United States in particular. My interview with @irishexaminer ↓ irishexaminer.com/news/politics/…
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@TArchcast All of these twitter accounts are funny. Thr US lost 12/13,000 planes. They are finished and Iran has won.
They forget that the US military doesnt not like to but plans for heavy losses. We lost over 1000 planes in vietnam and kept going
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The US Empire's prestige is such that if it takes damage at all! Even if it is ultimately inconsequential. It is seen as a "Ruinous blow"....
SON LAİK BÜKÜCÜ 🇹🇷@TheLaikYobaz
İran'ın delik deşik ettiği bir KC-135R tanker uçağı, şarapnel delikleri yamalanmış halde tamir edilmek için geri dönmüş. ABD'nin karizması yerle bir...
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@Allya10X They were trying to kill the westerners in the diplomatic quarter.
The Japanese and Americans also explicitly kept china from being colonized and look where thst got us. China has no honor
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Beijing — 1900.
The soldiers of eight nations.👇🏻 One goal: LOOT China.
They called it a 'relief expedition.' We call it a colonial crime scene.
The Boxers fought with spears. The West came with machine guns and left with our art and gold.
Never forget. 🦋
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@BarrettYouTube Another chinese bot, a stupid ass can be. I always wonder how much china pays these dumb motherfuckers.
They would be smart to remember lord HawHaw and Tokyo Rose
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Australia just announced a $53 BILLION military spending surge… and guess who they’re pointing at? China.
Why on earth would China attack Australia? China is one of Australia’s largest trading partners. We’re talking about hundreds of billions in trade, resources, energy, agriculture, all flowing both ways. It makes absolutely ZERO strategic sense for China to disrupt that. You don’t attack a country you rely on economically. That’s not how geopolitics works in 2026.
This looks a lot less like “defense” and a lot more like pressure from the United States. Washington has been pushing its allies for years to ramp up military spending, fall in line with NATO-style targets, and plug into blocs like AUKUS. And surprise, surprise Australia suddenly “discovers” a massive threat just as it commits tens of billions more to defense.
Let’s not forget this also conveniently aligns with buying more US-linked military hardware, deeper integration into US strategy, and further escalation in the Indo-Pacific.
Meanwhile, the narrative being pushed is that China is some imminent threat to Australia… despite the fact that the two economies are deeply intertwined and mutually dependent.
This isn’t about China attacking Australia.
This is about aligning with US geopolitical strategy, justifying massive spending, and selling a threat that doesn’t match reality.
And once again It’s the taxpayers footing the bill.
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@RnaudBertrand Before the communists destroyed venezuela, they used to produce over four million barrels per day
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People often assume - wrongly - that China is completely dependent on imports for oil but nothing could be further from the truth: they actually produce, domestically (!), more oil than Iran AND Venezuela put together.
- China, right now👇: production of 4.8 million b/d
- Iran: ~3.2 million b/d before the war, and even less since (tradingeconomics.com/iran/crude-oil…)
- Venezuela: ~1.1 million b/d as of March 2026 (tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/crud…)
As a matter of fact, with 4.8 million b/d, China is the 5th largest oil producer in the world, bigger than all OPEC countries except Saudi Arabia.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: China’s crude oil production is up to a record 4.6 million barrels per day. In Q1 2026, total oil production in the country rose +1.3% YoY, to 4.4 million barrels per day. Since 2018, Chinese oil output has risen +1.0 million barrels per day. Meanwhile, refinery throughput rose +1.1% YoY in Q1 2026, to 184.3 million metric tons, or 14.9 million barrels per day. At the same time, natural gas output rose +3% YoY in Q1 2026, to 68.1 billion cubic meters. China is ramping up domestic energy production as Gulf supply disruptions reshape global energy flows.
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@rdd147 I'm from the midwest. I've never had meatballs, italian sauces, or meatloaf. That was not a mixture of beef and sausage
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@blightersort The united states has not been a union of states for more than a century. It's been a federalized union since the civil war. That's why it went from these united states to the united states.
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there are in fact good civic arguments for the electoral college but they hinge on the fact that the united states is a union of states so things like the president (and in its original conception the senate) should be decided by state which, yes, may have different populations.
but today no one understands anything so everyone thinks it should just be popular national vote for everything.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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@MartinRemains @VinceInPrague @oblong_office Why do europeans always like to say every opinion is valid. Every opinion is most definitely not valid. It could be someone's opinion that everybody from india should be exterminated, that would definitely not be a valid opinion, even if they held it.
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@VinceInPrague @oblong_office Not really. They have their opinion and it is valid.
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@SputnikInt If China actually has a greater PPP, why in the fuck is there consumer market so much smaller than expected. It's because all these numbers from china and russia are fake. China is also quadruple fucked because so much of their money is tied up in real estate
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🇨🇳China is now 34% bigger than the US and 🇷🇺Russia leapfrogged Japan and Germany: this is the new economic reality.
🇮🇳 India is bigger than Japan + Germany combined.
This means the G lobal South (China + India + Russia + Brazil + Indonesia) already controls almost half of world PPP GDP — and they’re accelerating.
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@Bbmorg These arguments are stupid because there is obviously a problem wrong in the u. S and in the u k.
The u k killed itself when it stop trading with the commonwealth to join europe and then left europe.
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Misleading because a lot of wealth in poorer US states is hoarded by top 10%. The people below are poorer than UK folks.
Dominic McGregor@DominicMcGregor
If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita. We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations. We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases. The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.
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@UlanAertai Why are they all these stupid chinese bots.
The fleet wasn't destroyed because they didn't want to control those areas. The fleet was destroyed because it was a threat to the emperor and his power. It was extremely expensive and the people in charge had too much power
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China zeigte in der Vergangenheit schon, dass nicht jede Großmacht gleich handelt.
Im frühen 15. Jahrhundert entsandte die Ming-Dynastie unter der Führung des Admirals Zheng He gewaltige Flotten auf Expeditionen über den Indischen Ozean, die bis nach Südostasien, Indien, in die arabische Welt und an die Ostküste Afrikas führten. Diese Flotten gehörten zu den größten und technisch fortschrittlichsten ihrer Zeit und hätten es dem chinesischen Kaiserreich grundsätzlich ermöglicht, auch weit entfernte Gebiete dauerhaft zu kontrollieren oder zu kolonisieren. Dennoch verfolgten diese Unternehmungen ein anderes Ziel: Sie dienten vor allem der Demonstration von Macht und Prestige, dem Ausbau von Handelsbeziehungen sowie der Einbindung fremder Herrscher in ein diplomatisches System, in dem China als kulturelles und politisches Zentrum anerkannt wurde. Im Gegensatz zu den europäischen Mächten wie Spanien oder Großbritannien, die ihre Flotten später gezielt nutzten, um Kolonien zu gründen, Gebiete zu erobern, zu besiedeln und wirtschaftlich auszubeuten, entwickelte China kein vergleichbares System der überseeischen Expansion. Obwohl es durchaus in der Lage gewesen wäre, entfernte Regionen dauerhaft zu kontrollieren, entschied es sich dagegen und setzte stattdessen auf Einfluss, Austausch und symbolische Überordnung. Dieses Beispiel zeigt, dass nicht jede Großmacht zwangsläufig denselben Weg einschlägt: Während westliche Staaten ein globales Kolonialsystem aufbauten, beruhte die chinesische Außenpolitik dieser Zeit auf anderen Vorstellungen von Macht und Ordnung, sodass militärische und technische Stärke nicht automatisch in koloniale Expansion übersetzt wurde.
Ulan🇩🇪⚙️🌾@UlanAertai
Die Zeit glaubt dass jede Großmacht sich genau so verhalten muss wie die USA
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@Shor_Co @ChinaSelect @Maersk @RepMoolenaar What about the scarborough shoal in several others owned by the philippines for hundreds of years. China just stole them and used military forced to to steal them
China has never been friendly. We were just too stupid in the past to realize we were enemies
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@JamieYoung0101 @ChinaSelect @Maersk @RepMoolenaar Where's the evidence? Testimony from the United States even inconsistent with their own acknowledged historical documents?
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Reports that China pressured global shipping giants like @Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company to withdraw from Panama Canal ports are deeply concerning.
This is exactly the kind of coercive behavior Chairman @RepMoolenaar has warned about. He has made the U.S. position clear in the past, "China’s malign influence is unwelcome in the Western Hemisphere and it is critical that all ports on the Canal be entrusted to operators who share our common values and a commitment to continued cooperation with both the U.S. and Panama."
reuters.com/world/china/ch…
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@Globalstats11 This is a completely fake list. China is less than half that same with india
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World's Top 20 Biggest Economies in 2026
1. 🇨🇳 China - $43.49 Trillion
2. 🇺🇸 United States - $31.82 Trillion
3. 🇮🇳 India - $19.14 Trillion
4. 🇷🇺 Russia - $7.34 Trillion
5. 🇯🇵 Japan - $6.92 Trillion
6. 🇩🇪 Germany - $6.32 Trillion
7. 🇮🇩 Indonesia - $5.36 Trillion
8. 🇧🇷 Brazil - $5.16 Trillion
9. 🇫🇷 France - $4.66 Trillion
10. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - $4.59 Trillion
11. 🇹🇷 Turkey - $3.98 Trillion
12. 🇮🇹 Italy - $3.82 Trillion
13. 🇲🇽 Mexico - $3.55 Trillion
14. 🇰🇷 South Korea - $3.49 Trillion
15. 🇪🇸 Spain - $2.94 Trillion
16. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - $2.85 Trillion
17. 🇨🇦 Canada - $2.81 Trillion
18. 🇪🇬 Egypt - $2.53 Trillion
19. 🇳🇬 Nigeria - $2.39 Trillion
20. 🇵🇱 Poland - $2.12 Trillion
Note: GDP Figures Based on PPP (Purchasing Power Parity)
Source: IMF
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@hajime20250823 Every time trump says something, twitter makes me read it a billion times before I get back to japanese
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