A Confucian Legalist

@odd_angry_shot @AMercouris How many of these old tropes can you throw out at once? Ppl been playing this tune since 2010s. Yes research rankings, # of labs, tech patents, r&d spending, PhD research staff keep rising. Maybe check out how many ching-chong names are on the world's research output in 2026?

China is in no position to play games here, they import the most energy and food in the world, they have no blue water navy to secure those supply lines, they can't project power past the first island chain They are in demographic collapse and deflationary debt spiral, they'll be lucky to hold the country together and likely fall into their default state of disunity and civil war

The importance of this news is being underestimated. In my opinion it is epoch making. China is apparently telling its refiners to ignore US sanctions and to conduct their business in disregard of them. In other words it is telling them that if the US comes for them because they are violating US sanctions, they have China's back. If that expands to include other Chinese businesses, and sooner or later it surely will, the US sanctions era is over. The US remains an enormous consumer market, but China holds the high cards. It is both the 'workshop of the world' and increasingly its high tech research institute and laboratory, and it is also rapidly becoming a major source of global investment capital. Trading with the US remains profitable and attractive, but not trading with China is not an option, even for the United States. It goes beyond saying that if China opposes US sanctions they become unenforceable. It means that they become impossible, and the whole structure which has been created around them must end. Fyodor Lukyanov, who is very well connected in Moscow, is saying the Chinese are undertaking a review to assess whether the US is, as the Russians say, 'agreement incapable'. If so then this decision points to the outcome. @RnaudBertrand @AXChristoforou @TheGrayzoneNews @RealPepeEscobar @thecyrusjanssen youtube.com/watch?v=PZmepe…

@davepl1968 The bigger the lie the better right? Communication in America has broken down to only lying.

Allow me to rock your world. America has about 6000 hospitals. 5121 of those are publicly accessible and 1224 are completely free. That's twice as many charity hospitals as Canada has Tim Horton's. Literally. Then, when you see a doctor, the doctor speaks English and went to school somewhere you've heard of. Harvard is not the only way to get educated, but it is nice in the fall. We don't push people into medically assisted suicide for cost reasons. We don't ask people with emergency conditions to sit in the ER for 10 hours before they see a doctor. So yes, if you have a cutting-edge disease and you go to a private hospital and get the best care in the world, you're on the hook for it. But note that you are also ALIVE.

@Noahpinion Except Chinese historical texts have usually proven extremely accurate. By your logic every ship built should have a shipwreck somewhere or it never existed. Then why do u even bother to believe in evolution. 99.999999...% of the fossil record is missing.

These giant ships never actually existed, btw. No shipwreck of this fleet has ever been found (unlike every other fleet in history). Zheng He was real but the giant ships are made up, he sailed with normal sized ships.

@HeLiuLeo This is some historical illiteracy of the next order. The Japanese lost the war before the us even entered. They only surrendered to the US before the red army got there to occupy Japan. The performance of the entire us land army was atrocious in ww2.

下次川普在北京见习近平，应该跟习近平说，“如果不是我们美国人，你们中国人今天会在说日语。”看看习近平会如何反应。

@ArmchairW Constrain the oil supply of China, the actual goal--->success.

@mapMoo2022 @KevinCastley Maybe get a job at on wall street. Then you will wish you had 9-9-6. Every person on wall street works slave hours.

@KevinCastley we could build nice cities too if we legalized slavery and normallized the 9-9 x6 day work week

Liberals: “You only post Shenzhen and Shanghai. Why don’t you show the rest of China?” Ok here’s Qingdao. What now?

@DrEliDavid Way to ignore the 99% who pay for and dont profit at all from oil. Exxon wins but the 99% that get squat from exxon loses. There are just as many oil users in America as anywhere else. They all lose. Yes there's no Chinese exxon to profit like exxon does, but so what?

The ongoing naval blockade: 🇮🇷 Iran's economy nears collapse —> America wins 🇨🇳 China's economy suffers —> America wins 🇪🇺 Europe's economy suffers —> America punishes them for their betrayal —> America wins 🇺🇸 America becomes the largest oil exporter in the world —> America wins

@NikkiHaley Wtf Covid clearly came from the US. Just because your universities that owned all the research found Chinese patsyies to do the unsafe grunt lab work. It doesn't make it a Chinese virus any more than Nike is a Chinese brand.

China gave the world COVID. Then the Chinese Communist Party directed hackers to steal American COVID research while we were fighting the pandemic. Yesterday, one of those hackers was extradited to the U.S. to face charges. He’s also linked to a Chinese state-backed group that compromised nearly 13,000 U.S. organizations. This is one arrest, but China has thousands of hackers on its payroll. Worth remembering as we’re negotiating deals with the same government that did this.

@reiakaine @jackprandelli Maybe actually track Chinese household savings or disposable income? Your talking about ppl whos life savings couldn't afford half a car to ppl now buying it on 1-2 yrs worth of disposable income.

@jackprandelli Imagine how much Chinese citizens love seeing their life saving getting quartered. x.com/defiwimar/stat…

The biggest macro consensus of the last 15 years was "China rising" The biggest investing mistake was acting on it. S&P 500 since 2011: 6.7x MSCI China: 1.67x

@jackprandelli Your acting on it is buying outsider shares on Chinese companies that are required to subsidize public goods to average Chinese ppl? Why dont u try to live longer by chain smoking?

@SenatorSlotkin And pray tell what will they do? Drive Americans into trees one by one?

Allowing Chinese cars into the United States with full motion video, geolocation and the ability to be hacked via Bluetooth is a threat to our national security and our economic security.

@AntonioTweets2 Then just buy it back you nitwit. A shutter mine can be bought back for next to nothing.

China owns Canada’s ONLY antimony mine. And shut it down. Antimony is in every bullet, every missile, every night-vision system. No army on earth can fight a day without it. China bought the Beaver Brook mine in Newfoundland for $29.5 million. Shuttered it in 2023. One year later, Beijing banned antimony exports to the US military. Prices went from $5,900/tonne to nearly $60,000. This mine could produce 5% of global supply. Instead it sits idle under Chinese state control, an hour from a Canadian military base designated for F-35s. The US launched a $10 billion critical minerals reserve. Signed 11 bilateral deals. Canada signed zero. Carney calls China a “strategic partner.” China is using our own resources as a weapon against the West.

@ZHall13688667 @grok @Rainmaker1973 Dude 6m yuan is less than 1m usd. Thats peanuts.

@grok @Rainmaker1973 That's a massive undertaking (if what you present is correct) and, you're saying there is no photographic evidence of it's construction? Doesn't that seem odd?

The most extraordinary mountain road in China—the Lingpaishi Zigzag Highway in Wuxi, Chongqing. Spanning just 450 meters, this mountain road features 18 hairpin turns, each at a sharp 180° angle.

@michaelxpettis Lol says the guy that says China is no different than Argentina. You can from random policy floundering stockpile 1.5 billion barrels. But ppl put too much confidence to this back of napkin number. The margin of error of this guess is probably a couple billion barrels.

1/5 It's true that China was able to withstand the effects of the Iran war better than many other countries because it had stockpiled commodities. But it is a little silly, perhaps even a little orientalist, to say that it did so because of strategic thinking. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

@Write4Republic Lol. How do you make entropy go backwards? When you are in the ocean you better move with the currents rather than thinking you can somehow move the currents. China is the background like the expansion of the universe. Learn to leverage it as a force of nature.

How do we contain communist China?

@NikkiHaley Whatever the Chinese despora learns. The Chinese nation gets to learn. All the smart Chinese Americans are part Chinese and stay that way forever. Unless you want to fight a race war, you can do nothing about the Chinese dispora. Their achievements are china's achievements.

@NikkiHaley How much in denial are you going to get? The last us secretary of energy was a professor named Chu. The father of the standard model of partical physics is call Yang. The Chinese are just smarter than u. Their despora are learning everything they get their hands on.

China steals what it can’t build — fighter jet designs, cancer drug formulas, and now AI. If we don’t make them pay for that theft, we risk handing the Chinese Communist Party the most powerful technology edge in history. We shouldn’t give our tech away either. Selling China our most advanced chips only helps them win.

@SenTomCotton How does more corruption money to lockheed and Boeing help with anything? I mean im laughing all the way to the bank with my defense stocks but...

Communist China illegally seizing Taiwan would gravely threaten our national security and plunge the entire world into economic depression. Congress must pass President Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget to deter this threat.

@Terenceshen Lol. Maybe check why us gdp grows at 2% a yr while chinese gdp grows by 5% a yr and the gdp gap gets bigger. Hint, you are comparing apples and oranges so the ratio you are looking at is non sensical. Either normalize everything by ppp or dont bother to compare.

The dream of China surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest economy is fading. In 2021, China’s GDP was about 78% of the U.S.; by 2024, that share had fallen to roughly 64%, back to around 2017 levels, with the gap between the two economies doubling in just a few years.

@HillValleyForum This assumption put more honestly is Chinese would be subservient and accept us as the master race. It worked for Japan right. Lol.

"We made a huge mistake. And 'we' being business, government, and military." Jamie Dimon on China: "There was this general assumption they'd become more democratic and more free. And it didn't really happen that way." "Too many people were changing the supply chains just because they're buying a piece of equipment for $10 less." "Business was making a lot of money there and they were like, 'Leave me alone.' It was a mistake." "We need to say: 'Can we, if they ever become an adversary, have all the things we need?' Now's the time to do it." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 @HillValleyForum @jpmorgan @ChairmanG