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@ktagseth @SprinterPress 💯!

@SprinterPress Canada has no place in this USA proxy war. PM Douche, in toadying up to EU through the Nazi Baltic states, has put Canada in Russia's crosshairs for the first time in our history. Carney, foolishly irresponsible, is creating the "dangerous and divided world" for Canadians.

- You mentioned President Zelensky. You met with him, and he also attended the closed-door meeting where President Trump was present. And you said that in your opinion, Ukraine will ultimately win the war. - Yes. - When you discussed this behind closed doors, where President Trump was also present, did he share your point of view? - This point of view is shared by those who are not sitting idly by. In terms of per capita, Canada is the main provider of aid to Ukraine. We are doing more than others to train Ukrainian military personnel, we have signed agreements with Ukraine on joint production, we are on the front line in the Baltics... We are everywhere! We, Germany, the UK, and France - we all equally share the view that a turning point has occurred in this war, and now it's just a matter of time before Putin suffers a defeat. But until he understands and accepts this, the senseless slaughter will continue. - Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your time. Where did he get the front line in the Baltics? And as for the rest - fuck you. Understand this and accept it.

@ShangguanJiewen I'm sure he had access to the best Western "experts" like Gordon Chang, Scambaugh and CIA.

Foreign Policy has become fictional storytelling. I honestly feel embarassed for Foreign Policy. This headline will turn into one of those memes we that the public will use to laugh at them for the next decade. China's GDP growth was 5% last year. 5% the year before, and 5.2% the year before. That was more than double the USA's GDP growth. Every. Single. Year.

@ShangguanJiewen China has become futuristic and also very green as trillions of trees have been planted like along this bicycle path in Daxing Beijing.

If you haven't been to China recently, you don't know how far modernity has gotten. 👇

@OopsGuess These test results reflect ONLY the results of the test population. In countries with low literacy most do not take tests so "national results" are biased upwards.

I now really think 76 is too high.

@AnnaChenMiaow Many Japanese revere their militaristic past and believe that Japan has nothing to apologize for as PM Takaichi has openly said.

Japan has never confronted its actions in World War II yet regresses into the same militarism that devastated Asia. "CNA's documentary is less about relitigating the past than about asking whether the present is safe."

@agent_of_change 💯! The Economist is pure western propaganda on US payroll.

The Economist says China should change its growth model "for its own sake". Note the timing: the same week it admits Chinese firms have outflanked Germany's carmakers, Korea's shipbuilders and US chip designers – and the EU is meeting to wall them out. When the people losing a race start offering the winner advice, read with caution.

This 2015 bombing in Thailand followed Bangkok ignoring US demands to allow Chinese terror suspects from Xinjiang to travel on to Turkey where they would almost certainly join the US-armed/directed proxy war on Syria. Instead the suspects were sent back to China from Thailand to face justice. Months later, a bomb went off in Bangkok killing 20 tourists/locals at a shrine in the middle of downtown. This isn't the first time US-sponsored terrorism struck Bangkok - US-backed mobs burned parts of the capital city to the ground in 2010 along with militants with war weapons fighting Thai troops in the city streets. Just to give people a clearer picture of how the US does business EVERYWHERE regardless of who is in the White House/Congress...

🇺🇸🇨🇳NEW ARTICLE: US Sows Chaos Across Asia as it Aims for China (NOTE: X blocks NEO links, so I am posting the whole article below) In late May 2025 US Secretary of Defense (now called the “Secretary of War”) Pete Hegseth warned the world the US was in the process of implementing a division of labor in both Europe and the Middle East while pivoting its attention and all of the interference, instability, conflict, and even war that comes with it toward Asia. More specifically, Secretary Hegseth stated, “we are reorienting toward deterring aggression by Communist China.” By “deterring aggression by Communist China,” Secretary Hegseth meant preventing China from defending itself and the stability of the region it is located in from Washington’s attempt to maintain primacy over Asia from the other side of the planet. Among the manufactured threats Secretary Hegseth cited as justification for US meddling in the Asia-Pacific (referred to as the “Indo-Pacific” by the US government) was China “invading Taiwan.” Taiwan is recognized both under international law and by the US State Department itself as part of “One China.” On the US State Department’s official website under, “U.S. Relations With Taiwan,” it states explicitly that, “the United States approach to Taiwan has remained consistent across decades and administrations. The United States has a longstanding one China policy,” and that, “we do not support Taiwan independence.” In practice, however, the US maintains the political capture of Taiwan’s local administration, arms and politically supports it, while encouraging it to pursue separatism from the rest of China. This, not “Chinese aggression,” is at the root of US-Chinese tensions, a modern-day continuation of Western colonialism over the Asia-Pacific region spanning generations. China’s growing economic and military power threatens to overturn centuries of Western hegemony. This is the true “threat” Washington is reacting to - not unwarranted Chinese influence over its own region of the world, but the irreversible end of America’s unwarranted influence over the opposite side of the planet. Turning Asia Upside Down Despite hallucinations of a US “retreating” from Asia under the current Trump administration, the US is in the middle of region-wide destabilization carried out by the various tools of US political coercion and capture, namely the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID programs now continuing more quietly under the US State Department itself, and adjacent Western foundations like George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Much in the same way the US targeted North Africa and the Middle East during the “Arab Spring” in 2011, it is now targeting first Indonesia with deadly riots disrupting the new BRICS member’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting which took place in early September, then toppling the government of Nepal right on India and China’s borders with equally deadly violence, and more recently targeting both the Philippines and border regions of India with the same “Gen Z” branded unrest. By doing so, the US is shaping the region as part of a continued effort to encircle, contain, and undermine China itself. Those married to the illusion of an America “retreating” from Asia have attempted to sell this recent unrest across Asia as “organic” and “spontaneous,” despite extensive evidence of US NED-funded organizations both leading and promoting the protests and an interim government now taking shape in Nepal in which half of the 8 ministers appointed by mid-September being drawn from US NED-funded fronts - many of which these interim ministers actually founded or directed. These ministers include Om Prakash Aryal appointed Minister of Home Affairs, who served as a member advocate of the USAID, NED, and Open Society-funded Justice and Rights Institute - Nepal, Jagadish Kharel appointed Minister of Communications and IT who founded the USAID-funded Media Help Line organization, Mahabir Pun appointed Minister of Education, Science, and Technology who directed the USAID-funded National Innovation Centre, and Prasad Pariyar appointed Minister of Agriculture who directed the USAID, NED, CIA-proprietary The Asia Foundation, and Open Society-funded Samata Foundation. Dr. Sangita Mishra who has been appointed Minister of Health previously served as director of the Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital which regularly took USAID funding with US Embassy statements mentioning her by name during “hand-over ceremonies.” While this funding could be considered on its own potentially “innocent,” together with overtly US-backed figures being appointed alongside her indicates an overwhelmingly pro-US (and US-dependent) interim government taking shape in addition to the US-funded organizations that promoted and led the protests themselves. In the Philippines, protests were led by Tindig Pilipinas, a member of the US NED-funded International Center for Innovation, Transformation and Excellence in Governance (INCITEGov) and promoted by US NED-funded media outlet Rappler, founded and directed by Maria Ressa who literally has her own webpage on the NED’s official website. While the current government in the Philippines has been extensively servile to Washington at the expense of the Philippines itself, the unrest could serve as either a means to root out any independent political forces not yet subordinated by the US, or as a means of coercing the current government because it has hesitated to fulfill Washington’s increasingly dangerous demands in regards to confronting China. US interference and the networks it uses to implement it span the entirety of Asia with additional unrest in other nations across the region all but inevitable. Continuity of Agenda Washington’s goal is to surround China with either hostile US-captured client regimes, or instability denying China political, economic, and even potentially military partners. At the same time, the US continues transforming nations like South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines into militarized battering rams to both provoke China and potentially fight a proxy war against it in the same manner the US is currently using Ukraine and the rest of Europe to fight the Russian Federation. All of this has taken place through a process spanning the entire 21st century regardless of who sits in the White House or who controls US Congress. Under the current Trump administration, in the same late-May speech by Secretary Hegseth, he bragged about the development and deployment of US weapon systems specifically designed for conflict with China including the Navy/Marine Corps Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) designed for targeting naval vessels, as well as the Typhon missile system which was previously prohibited under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty President Donald Trump withdrew from during his first term in office. The systematic unilateral withdrawal from arms control treaties and the subsequent development and deployment of previously prohibited weapons along both Russia and China’s periphery by both the Trump and Biden administrations demonstrate that the US - far from “retreating” - is engaged in a deliberate and methodical escalation toward containment and confrontation with both nations spanning multiple presidential administrations and continuing to this day. Beyond developing and deploying weapons along China’s periphery, the US is coercing its client states in the region to divert public money away from social programs and infrastructure and toward arms manufacturing and maintenance facilities to sustain US conflict in the region otherwise inhibited by what US policymakers often refer to as the “tyranny of distance” - the reality of the US picking a fight with China on the other side of the planet from where the US and the source of its military industrial production is actually located in on a map. Called the “Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience” (PIPIR), Secretary Hegseth described it as, “a U.S.-initiated multilateral forum of 14 allies and partners working with industry, capital providers, and key non-governmental stakeholders, to strengthen industrial resilience, expand our capacity, and accelerate deliveries,” involving aircraft and naval vessel repair facilities, the standardization of drones and input components across the region, and the production of US weapons like the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) used by M270 and HIMARS launch platforms. PIPIR is meant to exploit US client states in the region to compensate for America’s own military industrial shortcomings back home as exposed amid its proxy war with Russia in Ukraine as much as it is meant to provide logical support for large-scale conflict with China from within the region rather than far beyond it. Despite some analysts cherry-picking episodes of diplomatic posturing by the Trump administration to portray it in “retreat” from Europe or Asia, the very existence of these ongoing programs demonstrates the US’ desire to continue encircling and encroaching upon China both with continuously expanding US military power and through US political interference and regime change targeting China’s allies and partners. Secretary Hegseth closed his mid-May speech in Singapore by claiming: The motto of my first platoon, first one I led, was: "Those who long for peace, must prepare for war." And that's exactly what we're doing. We are preparing for war in order to deter war — to achieve peace through strength. And we look out in this room and we look to you — to our allies and to our partners — to join us in this important work. In reality - the US has been in a continuous state of war throughout the 21st century and continues both waging war and proxy war around the globe today. Secretary Hegseth and the interests he serves are not attempting to “prepare for war in order to deter war,” but rather continuing to wage constant war to deter any sort of equitable peace. Washington’s sustained campaign of political destabilization, military encroachment, and economic warfare across Asia demonstrates a refusal to accept the reality of a sovereign China and a broader rising Asia which seeks to define its own regional destiny free from Western interference. Washington’s true objective is demonstrably not peace, but the continuation of its historically unwarranted dominance, even at the cost of turning the Asia-Pacific region, or even the rest of the world into spiraling chaos, conflict, and catastrophe. Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.

@OopsGuess Japan does not simply forget it's imperialistic past, but in some Nippon Kaigi groups they celebrate and revere it which is far worse than simply forgetting.

Japanese neo-fascists call historical memory “anti-Japan education.” This is a classic case of the Japanese-style “thief crying stop thief.” China is not inventing hatred. China is remembering Nanjing, Unit 731, comfort women, forced labor, massacres, chemical warfare, and colonial brutality. Imperial Japan turned Asia into a crime scene. The victims remember. The perpetrators call memory “propaganda.” Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not proof of Japanese innocence. They were the moment the anti-fascist alliance knocked out the fangs of a militarist empire and chained it to the postwar order. Japan’s so-called pacifism was never moral awakening. It was defeated fascism with better PR.

@fengchucheng The EU + US prefer the simple "blame China " narrative rather than understanding their own falling competitiveness and are becoming increasingly protectionist after 50 years of advocating free trade. Just look at EU President VDL's statements. Pathetic. Go 🇨🇳!

One of the most convenient political narratives in the US and Europe is to attribute China’s export competitiveness entirely to “overcapacity created by state subsidies,” arguing that Chinese products enjoy an unfair pricing advantage that crowds out Western competitors. It is a useful narrative because it shifts attention away from domestic policy failures, industrial underperformance, and years of complacency built on technological and market advantages established decades ago. It is also a narrative that can be easily sold to voters. Even if the EU proceeds with a major escalation in trade measures against China and erects significantly higher barriers to Chinese imports, it will not solve Europe’s underlying challenges. China’s competitive edge today is no longer primarily about low-cost manufacturing or weak intellectual property protection. Having spent years conducting research in China and speaking directly with entrepreneurs and business leaders, what stands out to me is something much deeper. Many Chinese entrepreneurs—including those born in the 1990s—retain a remarkably vivid memory of what poverty looks like. There is a powerful determination, both personal and national, to avoid returning to that condition. This drive, in my view, is one of the most underappreciated sources of China’s innovation capacity. China’s policy environment has also produced a uniquely apolitical form of entrepreneurship. In the West, once entrepreneurs achieve a major technological breakthrough, they often devote substantial resources to lobbying, shaping regulation, or supporting favorable political candidates in order to preserve their competitive advantages. While understandable, this can also breed complacency and reduce the urgency of continued innovation. Chinese entrepreneurs operate under a different set of incentives. Rather than relying on regulatory protection, they often seek to reduce risk through relentless innovation, diversification, and constant reinvention. Breakthrough innovation becomes a hedge against uncertainty. This dynamic is particularly visible among serial entrepreneurs, whose movement across industries and technologies creates a powerful cross-pollination effect that has contributed to some of China’s most significant leapfrog innovations. This does not mean Chinese industrial policy is irrelevant. It means that focusing exclusively on subsidies misses the more important story: the cultural, historical, and institutional forces that continue to drive China's capacity to innovate and compete.

🚨🇨🇳 A Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman just commented on the Tiananmen Square massacre by saying, "The path of socialism is the choice of the people." She went further to call Marco Rubio's commemoration of the victims of the event an act of "inciting ideological confrontation and interfering in China's affairs under the pretext of human rights." Source: TABZ (Telegram)

@OopsGuess China Uncensored is Falung Gong front funded in part by US government

This is pure imperial projection. America spent decades invading countries, building military bases, spying on allies, buying politicians, funding proxy networks, staging coups, and calling regime change “democracy.” Now it looks at a China strong enough to resist and panics: “Surely they must be planning to do to us what we did to everyone else.” LMAO... China does not need to become America to defeat America. America is already doing that job by itself.

@OopsGuess @kyodo_official Exactly. Japan's limited memory will undermine its future

Taiwan Province has no president, only a colonial pet of Japan. Japan remembers Tiananmen every year because it lets them pretend they have a moral conscience. But Nanjing, Unit 731, comfort women, colonial rule, and Asia’s graves? Suddenly, memory becomes inconvenient. Hypocrisy has always been a characteristic of this nation, and they never hesitate to expose it at every crucial juncture.

台湾総統、中国を批判 － 天安門事件37年で news.jp/i/143519072035…

@chenweihua @ftchina 💯 x 💯 agree

@ftchina China is the solution. EU itself is the problem. Bigly.

How do you solve a problem like China? The EU has no answer ft.trib.al/y59Fnja

@OopsGuess Greer is a lying POS. China's economy was never 'export-driven'.

Ladies and Gents: The literacy stats of the wealthiest nation on earth.

@changan_mr63238 @WhileTravelling @nuanced_nl "Serpentza" is a serpent which means a big snake or a treacherous person. That is why he attacks 🇨🇳.

@WhileTravelling @nuanced_nl Serpentza fits this description, he wasn't able to get a degree, and had no more chance to teach English in China, and left in 2021.

Before 2016, almost anyone with a foreign passport could land an English-teaching job in China. This is where the term “white monkey job” came from, teaching English without a degree, training, or sometimes even decent English. But that all changed with Beijing’s tightening of education policies. By 2016, first-tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen required English teachers to be either native speakers or graduates of a recognized English-speaking university. Online teaching certificates that once passed muster were increasingly rejected; schools wanted classroom-based certifications from respected universities instead. Soon, serious institutions began preferring teachers with postgraduate degrees in education. These higher standards reshaped the market. Many Russian, Filipino, and other non-native teachers either shifted into subject teaching, moved to lower-tier cities, or left China entirely. A few still slipped into kindergartens under different visa categories, but their numbers dwindled sharply. By 2018, the bar was raised nationwide! Every foreign teacher, regardless of city tier, needed at least a four-year university degree. In smaller cities, some teachers scrambled to earn online degrees abroad, hoping to return. Others simply packed up for good. The result is a deliberate, nationwide upgrade of the talent pool. China signaled it wanted not just “any foreigner who speaks English,” but qualified, degree-holding professionals shaping the next generation. Of course a handful of so-called ‘China experts’ online are just bitter expats spinning tall tales. Look closely, and it often says more about why they’re upset than about China itself. IYKYK.

@ricwe123 So true. Well said.

With every heavy-handed sanction, Washington digs its own grave,driving China, India, and Russia closer together while turning itself into a powerless joke on the world stage.....

@madebygoogle @WhatsApp Will this work in 🇨🇳 China? The EU?

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@joelweihe @shaunrein 💯! So 👍