fenglinta
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Having lived in China 20+ years and watched them gain competence and then utter domination over so many aspects of tech, design, entertainment, finance, etc - and then look at how poorly they manage external perceptions (call it PR or propaganda or whatever)...
And you realize they aren't even trying to convince the world outside of how great things are here. Meanwhile the US dedicates 1.3 BILLION USD to convincing people how terrible China is?
All I know is it's going to be a very rude awakening for a lot of people when the curtains finally open.
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@ImtiazMadmood There’s no such thing as a ‘comeback from the bottom’ or ‘building yourself up from nothing’ in China. The reality of social status is embedded in the fundamental structure of Chinese society. As someone who has followed you for a long time, I feel you may not truly understand 🇨🇳
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At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years.
By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants.
The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels.
That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too?
After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses.
A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story.
- @hihongjie

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It's genuinely hilarious how eager Trump is to feel like he's treated special by China.
There is a Chinese saying called 捧杀 (pěng shā) - literally "kill with praise" - and normally it's something you do to someone. Trump might be the first leader who actively requests it 😅
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Ask the president… other prime ministers and presidents—does he bring them here?
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WATCH LIVE: President Trump lands in China ahead of high-stakes talks with Xi
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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The White House has shared photos of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s first face-to-face meeting in more than six years, including this intriguing sequence.
h/t @ByChunHan whitehouse.gov/gallery/presid…




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China will soon have a new Five Year Plan. Here's how they have changed the world so far bbc.in/49816E4
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Prof. Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, passed away in Beijing due to illness at the age of 103. His life stands as a timeless chapter in human history—one that shines not only for China but for the global community of thinkers and innovators. His legacy will live on forever.

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If China detained Pastor Ezra Jin it's because he's a criminal breaking the law
I'm an Italian Catholic for 25 years living in China
Don't believe the lies. There is NO religious oppression in China
Don't believe the propaganda lies #China #freedom #religion #Christianity #Catholic

@alecolarizi@AleColarizi
Underground Pastor, Complicating Ties With U.S. Ezra Jin has led one of China’s most vibrant church networks, spanning 40 cities. Online prayer groups he helped lead at times reached 10,000 people. wsj.com/world/china/be…
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Excuse my rant for a moment. I have basically been black balled by polite society when it comes to anything China which honestly I am ok with except for the fact that these people keep recommending the most moronic policies imaginable. Let me break it down for you.
People regularly translate China as Middle Kingdom and to people outside of China that sounds like middle as in the middle seat in a row. In reality middle in this instance is better translated as center like the sun in a solar system. That is how China views itself: the center around which all other pay fealty and are subservient.
Why does this matter? Simple. I have witnessed all nature of think tanker, journo, political aide, self styled China expert who went to Panda Express in the mall food court spout gibberish ranging from "the US should give China assurances" to most recently corporate US is pushing for more realistic approach to change the business environment in China for foreign corporations and all nature of nonsense (I am being incredibly polite) in between.
China for really all of this century has behaved exactly as they want with basically no substantial push back from the United States or any other countries. You know how perverse our thinking is? We decide to "negotiate" with China as their officials push fentanyl into the United States with the full backing of entities like the PLA and other official China persons and entities. We are negotiating with them to not engage in state sponsored drug sales. Don't even get me started on so many other issues.
Instead of recognizing and accepting the pattern of behavior that China has engaged in for the past 25 years, thinkers and scholars at so many places have a type of Stockholm Syndrom where they believe they can persuade China to change, the ever lasting hope for the closet liberal Chinese leader or bureaucrat, or a new negotiation strategy can persuade them of their true self interest. The reality is we know how they will behave. They have shown us time and time again this entire century and our "experts" have repeatedly failed to accept reality that any normal person can see.
Understanding this and acting on it however presents a stark choice. Recognizing who China is lays out a very clear set of choices for how America needs to behave. The reality is almost no one is going to like the policy prescriptions that flow from recognizing this reality and acting accordingly. It's much harder and starker policy change than even most "hawks" are ready for.
I should note, my disdain is not reserved for any one side. Trump I and Trump II have been a little better than Biden or the guys before but not exceedingly. The right leaning think tanks really don't know anything about China other than communism is bad but they don't actually want to push hard policies. Left leaning think tanks never met a paid trip to Shanghai Four Seasons breakfast buffet and a concession they didn't like, the universities want to keep engaging with China as long as the checks keep clearing, and journos either know nothing about China or are CCP plants. Nor are the US government agencies and institutions ready to deal with China. They know almost nothing about China and strangely enough they do not want to know. It is an all around disaster.
I've resigned myself that we simply aren't serious about the challenges until we have our modern Pearl Harbor.
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Let’s see who the aggressor here:
- Atin Ito, a group of unarmed activists
- 200 Filipino fishermen aboard their small fisihing boats
- the Philippine Coast Guard, an underfunded civilian agency
- Filipino and foreign journalists
vs
- a heavily armed China Coast Guard vessel
sofie ☭@darlingube
well yes! last year the US-funded NGO Atin Ito rallied 200 Filipino fishermen, the Ph coast guard and several foreign journalists to board 5 commercial fishing vessels to intrude into Huangyan Island waters to stage a conflict with China. who is the "aggressor" here?
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@FrogstarWorld @janrosenow I believe China ist better than you suggest: "due to China’s rapid clean-energy buildout and signs that the nation’s emissions may have already reached a peak."
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If you believe this headline out of China, there is no hope for you.
Between an imploding economy, 500 million peasants without running water, and ghost cities, China is an absolute mess.
They are a nation of theft, not innovation. This is a headline to inspire national pride. It’s not real. Stop being so gullible!
R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: China has reportedly developed a new bone glue that can heal fractures in just under 3 minutes eliminating the need for surgery or metal plates
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@dw_hotspotasia 并非首次,早在2010年国际气候论坛就提出2030年左右实现碳达峰,2050年实现碳中和,现在将碳达峰的时间提前到2026年@grok
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@grok @WhileTravelling @grok does the time table of those posts line up with any conspicuous trends from accounts obviously belonging to CCPpaid sourceS?
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