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When we think of China's transformation, we think of the glitz and glamor of cities like Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzhen. Yet another equally significant transformation happened w/o much fanfare - the restoration of China's desert. The Loess Plateau is once again lush and fertile.

@ruima The next generation will move pass this squat toilet. Everything takes time to evolve.

It’s really difficult to explain to visitors that Chinese people, on average (maybe not the much younger first tier city dwellers), prefer squat toilets for public use (seated are great for home). They think sharing a toilet seat is very dirty. It’s probably at least in part because contagious infectious diseases were such an issue even just thirty years ago. Toilet seat covers help, but most (especially older) people would just rather not be anywhere near where someone else had placed their bare rear end. It’s very hard even today to find public “regular” seated toilets in second tier cities and below (or even in outskirts of first tier cities). In the third tier city we were in, we couldn’t find any except for a fancy mall’s handicapped bathroom.

@mrbcyber They are treating their people well. Why don't you focus your energy on helping American children get better education and avoid mass shooting?

China has been working for years to undermine the US and democracies. It now has an authoritarian axis that it can use to assist in these efforts and poses a serious threat. While we certainly have problems so do they. Many Generals were purged from the PLA, because of corruption. Rocket fuel was replaced with water in missile systems. Multiple reports of weapons failures in recent conflicts. The CCP is in fact, very vulnerable.

@Ken_LoveTW Japan has never won over China, clearly. Look at it's condition today - being occupied by the American Empire.

Japan will defeat China again if another military conflict arises. Here is Why. Many people assume that if China and Japan ever went to war, China would win. After all, China has more people. China’s GDP, territory, military size, and weapons inventory all appear far larger. But war has never been a simple hardware contest. The real determinant is “software”—governance, organization, discipline, and corruption. Japan consistently ranks among the world’s least corrupt governments, with efficient institutions and high public trust. China’s system faces a serious corruption problem, which severely erodes military effectiveness. History already showed this once. In 1894, Qing China had far larger resources than Japan, yet corruption hollowed out its military. The Beiyang Fleet collapsed, and China suffered a crushing defeat. And if hardware alone decides wars, how did 1950s China with primitive equipment fight the United States in Korea? How did Vietnam resist the far more powerful U.S. military? Hardware can be impressive. But corruption turns power into a paper tiger.

@MsMelChen Capitalism will sell out in a heartbeat for profit.

This is so rich coming from Jamie Dimon. It's the sound of a man who rode the China gravy train to the end of the line, pocketed the loot, and is only now saying the "right things" because it led his country straight toward a cliff. He and his fellow elites sold out America's industrial heartland, its workers, its security, and its future, all while making themselves and some commies very rich and powerful. How many of you know about the "Sons and Daughters" program scandal? From 2006 to 2013, JP Morgan created a special fast-track hiring program that gave cushy internships and full-time jobs to the unqualified kids and relatives of powerful CCP officials and state-owned company bosses. They're collectively known as the "princelings." Bankers kept spreadsheets explicitly tracking which princeling hire led to which big deal. Hooking up the right connected kid suddenly brings you IPOs and investment banking business worth over $100 million in revenue in China. America's biggest bank systematically sold out its hiring standards to suck up to the Chinese regime's elite, bribing them with prestigious Wall Street jobs for their spoiled kids in exchange for lucrative contracts. This is textbook corruption. The US government called it what it was - violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and JP Morgan had to pay a $264 million fine to settle the scandal. For years, JP Morgan made billions in China. Dimon himself joked that JP Morgan would outlast the Communist Party. Now Xi has tightened capital controls, imposed more restrictions and retaliatory regulations, showed state favoritism toward SOEs, and the macroeconomic environment (slowing growth, property sector woes, etc.) has now changed so much that returns for US companies in China are diminishing while compliance and legal risks increase exponentially. So the cynic in me says this isn't a real Come to Jesus moment; that fateful decision to court and do business in China wasn't a well-intentioned error in judgement to "democratize and bring freedom to China." It was just greed. And now the taps have run dry and the bill is coming due for the rest of America.

@DavidZhang360 Lol, these kind of nonsense is why China has already surpassed the US. Keep believing the Chinese don't have public toilets or can't afford to eat boiled eggs.

A 🇯🇵 guy and a 🇨🇳guy talks about freedom. 🇯🇵: I can walk into the Kantei, pound on Takaichi's desk and say, Madam Prime Minister, I don't like the way you are running this country. 🇨🇳:Haha, I can do that too! 🇯🇵: You CAN? 🇨🇳: I can walk into Zhongnanhai, get arrested, shoved into a van, as I get my organ harvested I yell: “CHAIRMAN XI!!! I DON’T LIKE THE WAY TAKAICHI IS RUNNING HER COUNTRY!!!”

@u_yr8k @DavidZhang360 The Chinese people look very human and alive to me. x.com/ChangshaCity/s…

@DeepADiver2 @DavidZhang360 You’ve got it all wrong. The Chinese government doesn’t treat its people like human beings. Because the population is so large, they use them as guinea pigs, ignoring safety standards and conducting all kinds of experiments faster than any other country

China has no food safety standards

🚨Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘China’s plan for trade DOMINANCE is through its VAST railroad network. Anyone talking about China🇨🇳 being hurt by the war on Iran is a FOOL.’ ‘What China has done essentially is build railroads that will take about 60 to 70%…of all the commerce that it generates in Asia with it off the sea and put it on land. If you drop the cost of commerce so dramatically that people come to your overland routes rather than go by sea. You’re also more secure. So they’ve got four or five railroads right now debouching in the heart of Europe. Two of them are stopped mostly by the Ukraine special military operation, but their intent is to go on to Bremerhaven and Le Havre, and other European Atlantic ports. And of course to put all the commerce that China produces into the heart of Europe in 16 hours instead of two and a half days and more costs by sea. So kiss the Bab El-Mandeb goodbye. You won’t need to go through the Strait of Hormuz, you will still be coming out for oil and such, but maybe not even for that. Because look what Saudi Arabia is planning right now. They’ve just shifted all their plans. The sovereign wealth fund is now behind a northern pipeline headed for Turkey and Ceyhan… And look at the pipelines that China is building with Russia, they don’t run east-west, they run north and south. So anybody talking about China being hurt and needing petroleum is a fool. Because all of this is going to come down from Russia in a pinch. It’s going to come from the Caspian Sea. Ultimately there’s 100 years of LNG and petroleum underneath the Caspian Sea waiting to be tapped, and it’s not going to be anybody from this end of the world tapping it. So they are self-sufficient for a long time to come. And they’re mostly pipelines and railroads, much safer and much more controllable.’ -Former Chief of Staff at the State Department Col. Lawrence Wilkerson joins us for the next episode of New Order on Sunday Don’t miss it, follow us on X and follow our Rumble channel 👇

@DavidZhang360 No worries. The Chinese are enjoying the spring outdoors. They rather watch flowers bloom than read endless political propaganda. x.com/XHNews/status/…

I've noticed a significantly lower mandarin Chinese posts on here (both CCP/anti-CCP). It worries me that the VPN situation in China is really dire!

Finished my China trip late last week then went to a wedding in Korea, took a bit of time off and now I got a ton more videos to share from the legs in Henan and Beijing. Did you know that Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) can be used as a payment app like Alipay in China? It can also can be used for getting gym discounts and a bunch of other things because it is a super app (which Elon has claimed to want to turn X into). I spent an afternoon at Millennium Park in Kaifeng, the old Northern Song capital in Henan. It's an amusement park that recreates scenes from the Song Dynasty. It was here that I noticed they take payments via Douyin. Will post the full video of Millenium Park tomorrow.

@poland_stan The "LA Taiwanese" are Americans trying to dictate what the people in Taiwan should do. This is why we have endless wars around the world. The US should mind their own business and leave the rest of the world in peace. Furthermore, Taiwan is part of China as per the UN.

UCLA Students React to a Wild Question: Should Taiwan Join the United States?

@BlueHorizon818 @Write4Republic I don't see them bombing children and hospitals.

@Write4Republic This is exactly what I say to everyone and they call me crazy. China has its fingerprints on every significant conflict unfolding across the globe to one extent or another.

Communist China is behind a lot of the global problems that we see today. Yes, even iran.

@TheChiefNerd When will you guys talk about how to help those disadvantaged? Anyone who start from zero & climb to the top of society should feel a responsibility to extend a hand to help others still climbing. No one succeeds alone. And yet, here folks talk about how to kick the ladder away.

🚨 DAVID SACKS: “Your property is not safe in blue states … because the political class thinks that they can take a chunk of it and wealthy people are going to react to that, and they're going to move their money elsewhere.”

@mrbcyber The supply chain was moved to China because the greedy Capitalists wanted more profit margin. It was too expensive and dirty (pollution) to make all this stuff in the USA. Stop blaming China. Fix the root of the problem at home, bro.

It was a massive mistake to move our supply chains to China and it was obvious they were hostile the entire time. Chinese spies and hackers stole nuclear weapons technology in the 90's. How could anyone not realize the CCP was hostile to US.

@Yasseenkhaled12 @1swolescholar @YusufSMahmood Ok, you said murder and concentration camps. Define murder and concentration camps. What do you mean by these words and prove it that China is doing any of it.

@DeepADiver2 @1swolescholar @YusufSMahmood when did i say genocide??

The CCP is pursuing AI dominance by 2030. And when it cannot compete fairly, it steals. @YusufSMahmood from @A1Policy explains: "We are not prepared to secure our AI systems. If we decided tomorrow that it was a top national security priority to prevent the CCP from stealing our most capable AI software, we would face extraordinary challenges. We're starting from a vulnerable position. The CCP seeks full AI domination by 2030, and it lacks the capital and talent to win fairly, so it steals. These aren't theoretical harms right now. Chinese AI, developed from stolen American technology, is helping Iran target American warfighters."

@Glenn_Diesen Where is the separation of Church and State?

Pete Hegseth opens with a prayer featuring a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction.

@Pseudo_Prophet_ Do you have these people's ID to know that they are Chinese and it's in Malaysia? The girls looks like a young kid of maybe 14-15 years old.

A Chinese tourist was caught pooping 💩 on the streets in Malaysia. 😮😳

@1860rm @commiepommie @JimHeath2001 Skip Guangzhou and go directly to Shenzhen.

I’m on my way to China for this first time this coming week. I’ll be there 12 days: We will be in Shanghai, Beijing,Chongqing, Guangzho. I have some cash but I’m prepared for digital pay. I’m very excited. China, like Russia, is a country that the United States should never have turned away from. The world would be in an absolutely happier state of the United States had shunned imperialism and stuck with the idea of being a republic that cooperates with other nations.

🇨🇳 China’s Two Most Stubborn Western Myths: Social Credit & Uyghur “Genocide” Living in China, you quickly learn how certain Western narratives become unquestionable truths. Two classics that refuse to die: 1: The mythical nationwide “Social Credit Score” that supposedly rates every citizen’s every move like some dystopian video game. 2: The claim of outright “genocide” against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Regarding the social credit: There never was and still isn’t a single, unified national score that tracks your WeChat posts, jaywalking, or whether you visit your parents enough. That version was always a Western media exaggeration of fragmented local pilots and blacklist systems. What does exist is far more realistic: heavy monitoring and blacklisting aimed squarely at businesses and officials. Corporate social credit systems track tax dodging, environmental violations, product safety failures and contract breaches. Beijing uses them to enforce compliance in a vast, chaotic market economy where corruption and corner-cutting have real costs. The nightmare of every Chinese citizen carrying an Orwellian lifetime score that decides their job, travel and friends? That’s fiction. The proper story is state capacity meeting economic incentives: keep companies honest, reduce fraud, maintain order in a country of 1.4 billion which is an incredible task. Western governments do versions of this too: credit scores, no-fly lists, regulatory blacklists, they just brand it differently. Now the Uyghurs: The population numbers are straightforward and inconvenient for the genocide narrative. Official census data shows the Uyghur population in Xinjiang grew significantly from 2010 to 2020 (around 16% by some counts), continuing trends of higher birth rates among ethnic minorities compared to Han in earlier decades. Claims of mass extermination do not match the growing headcount. The so-called “camps”? Are in fact dedicated vocational and educational hubs designed to empower local communities. They provide comprehensive training in languages, practical skills like sewing and cooking and manufacturing techniques to help integrate individuals into the modern economy. Since 2017, these programs have expanded significantly as part of a broad strategy focused on stability and poverty alleviation. As objectives were met, many centers transitioned or shifted focus, with most participants successfully graduating to join the workforce or return to their families with government support for employment. Today, the region reflects this progress, showing noticeable improvements in infrastructure, education access and economic opportunities for local communities. The context that matters and which is missed: Xinjiang saw real terrorist violence in the 1990s and 2000s, bus bombings, knife attacks, market strikes linked to groups like the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), with ties to broader jihadist networks. Beijing watched the chaos in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and decided it would not allow a domestic Islamist insurgency to fester. The response was blunt, state-driven assimilation: language, secular education, economic integration and security grid. Structural incentives were clear, stability in a strategically vital border region with energy resources, Belt and Road routes and ethnic tensions. Compare it to how other countries handle perceived separatist or terrorist threats: re-education programs, mass surveillance, targeted incarceration, cultural pressure. Western nations run deradicalisation schemes, prison programs for extremists and “counter-extremism” initiatives funded by taxpayers. So, let’s not point fingers or generalise; instead, let’s encourage open-mindedness and a nuanced understanding of global governance strategies. The genocide label, legally and demographically, doesn’t hold up. Official census figures show the Uyghur population in Xinjiang rose from roughly 10.07 million in 2010 to 11.62 million in 2020, a clear 16% increase. That’s steady growth, not decline. Policies are in place for poverty alleviation, vocational training and counter-terrorism measures designed to bring stability, jobs and modern skills to the region. There has been no industrial-scale killing, no mass graves, no evidence of any intent to physically destroy the group. On the ground in China, especially after the major training programs wound down, Xinjiang has seen actual results: calmer streets, expanded infrastructure, better employment access and economic development that benefits local communities. Beijing’s priority is straightforward, national unity and long-term stability in a strategically vital border area with energy resources and Belt and Road corridors. That’s how a civilisation-state governs when it faces genuine threats of separatism and extremism. Both issues get turned into simplistic evil-empire stories in the West because real nuance impedes the great-power rivalry manuscript. Living here you see something different, a CPC that looks at threats to stability through its own history of fragmentation, foreign meddling and chaos, then acts decisively to prevent any repeat. Businesses get watched because a huge market economy needs guardrails. Xinjiang gets stabilised because no serious government is going to risk losing a key province to separatism or jihad. Truth-seeking means holding the facts without the dramatic outrage. China isn’t a liberal democracy and doesn’t pretend to be. It governs like a civilisation-state that puts order, development and cohesion first. In Western stories, security problems and governance trade-offs are commonly ignored. The reality on the ground is more complicated and significantly more fascinating.

@MarioNawfal Which Muslim majority country has invaded another country, colonized another country or has carried out a genocide of another in the current century?

🇦🇺 Australia’s Muslim population has grown from about 77,000 in 1981 to over 813,000 by 2021, with estimates now nearing 1 million. That’s in a country of roughly 27 million people; small share, fast growth. Now it’s sparking a bigger conversation: what does this mean for Australia’s cultural identity going forward? Source: @RadioGenoa

@Yasseenkhaled12 @1swolescholar @YusufSMahmood A few people "escaped" to other countries is considered a genocide? That's a very low bar for a very serious crime.

@DeepADiver2 @1swolescholar @YusufSMahmood yes there are photos and videos but you don’t want to believe them even witnesses who escaped to islamic countries