Quick thread on how the media manufactures consent for war to benefit the Military Industrial Complex. See this op-ed by WSJ: wsj.com/articles/america-can…

The most brutal part is not that China is using AI to sort garbage. It is that China has pushed waste management so far that the old problem has reversed. China used to worry about having too much garbage to process. Now some waste-to-energy plants are facing the opposite problem: not enough garbage. Previously sealed landfills may even have to be reopened, not because China failed, but because waste has become fuel, feedstock, data, and part of an industrial recycling loop. This is what China does best. It takes the ugliest, dirtiest, most ignored corner of urban life — garbage — and turns it into engineering, automation, energy recovery, environmental governance, and industrial optimization. Even trash gets absorbed into the machine. In many countries, garbage is where governance collapses. In China, even garbage becomes a system.

Shameless whore @MsMelChen is desperate to be a baby mama for Elon.

So the G7 is morphing from “values club” into a global supplier-complaints forum 🤣 Meanwhile China’s rare earth ban on Japan isn’t “economic coercion” — it’s calculated strategic deterrence Nikkei Asia archive.ph/SjPXR doesn't want to explain The US wants to throw a fit at the G7, demanding China resume rare earth exports to Japan, screaming about “broken global supply chains” and “unfair trade practices” This is total imperialist Copium at its finest! First, let's look at the context Nikkei Asia erases entirely: This ban is not arbitrary. It’s a calibrated, long-term response to Japan’s rampant neo-militarism and anti-China posturing under PM Takaichi Together with the US, Japan is militarizing the First Island Chain Philippines with offensive weapons, building overlapping fire zones for explicit war preparedness against China Worse: Tokyo is colluding to bypass China and push illegal maritime delimitation negotiations east of Taiwan with the Philippines, directly interfering in China’s core internal sovereignty and territorial affairs while doubling down with reckless Taiwan contingency statements China’s rare earth controls are a targeted, proportional countermeasure — not random economic punishment Now for the US laughable double standard: Washington condemns China’s mineral export restrictions as “unfair”… While the US has sets the standards with decades of unilateral sanctions and economic coercion restricting critical mineral exports (oil, uranium) and weaponizing tech bans to strangle China’s industrial development 🤡 The US frames its resource/tech export restrictions as statecraft protecting its “national security” — When China is doing the exact same thing it is portrayed as “aggression.” Classic imperialist rules for thee, not for me Then we have Japan’s sad strategic paradox the Nikkei Asia completely misses: Tokyo desperately craves strategic autonomy to reassert regional power…😭 But it is completely dependent on US diplomatic clout to fix its rare earth supply crisis. Japan’s so-called independence is pure illusion. It remains a US vassal state, trapped in America’s Indo-Pacific containment bloc with zero room for self-determined policy Furthermore, Japan’s high-tech industry is now a hostage in US–China competition. The article frames MRI scanners as collateral damage, but misses the deeper point: Japan’s role as a high-end manufacturing hub and re-industrialization force for the US is contingent on Chinese inputs 😉 This isn’t a trade dispute...It’s a microcosm of the dying US unipolar order China is leveraging its dominance in industrial resources to counter the militarization efforts of the US-led bloc and to resist interference in its sovereignty and immediate periphery. Why should China provide critical resources to Japan and the US, which would then be used to produce weapon systems and a offensive missile network that would encircle and threaten China? Any G7’s coordinated pressure isn’t “defending free trade” — it’s desperate imperialist damage control to preserve Western hegemony in the Indo-Pacific

Great !!

Yes, @MsMelChen . CCP is weaponizing anti-semitism. 🙄 I’m sure hatred for Israel could not have come out organically after committing genocide. 傻逼

WOW. AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS. This is very HARD TO WATCH.

Ban AIPAC.

Charlie Kirk hasn't said anything racist or divisive in 9 months.

Nobody said Singapore must “align with China’s interests” just because it is ethnic Chinese-majority. The point is simpler: Do not benefit from China’s rise, profit from Chinese capital, trade, tourists, markets, and civilizational proximity, while hosting anti-China strategic theater and lecturing China to forget Japan’s crimes. Singapore is not some innocent “tiny red dot” floating outside geopolitics. It actively positions itself inside the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific architecture, it helps normalize India’s insertion into the anti-China containment framework, it hosts the Shangri-La Dialogue, where Western and allied security elites perform annual China-threat theater. Then it acts shocked when Chinese people notice. Please. If Singapore wants to behave like a cold strategic operator, fine. But stop crying when Chinese people judge it like one. China does not owe Singapore emotional protection just because it is ethnically Chinese-majority. And Singapore should stop expecting to enjoy China’s development dividends while morally posturing against China’s historical memory and security interests.

SG behaves the way it does because China is not making them choose. SG feels it can enjoy the benefits of good relations with China and be a spearhead of U.S. imperialism simultaneously. PRC needs a more muscular approach with stray dogs. It’s time China makes them choose.

This guy would’ve been arrested in the UK or the US.

Play for Team China in Olympics and sign a shoe deal.

🇨🇳💶 Underrated by SWIFT, the yuan knocks the euro off its perch The yuan is rapidly closing in on the euro as the world's second-most used currency, boosted by the US-Israeli war on Iran, de-dollarization, and multipolar shifts, SCMP reports. SWIFT data may understate yuan usage because more transactions now flow through China's own CIPS system. 🔶 "Petroyuan" surged after the Iran conflict exposed dollar vulnerabilities 🔶 On April 2, CIPS hit a record 1.22 trillion yuan ($180B) in daily volume — nearly double February's average 🔶 CIPS now connects 191 countries/regions; daily transactions reached 35,740 in March While SWIFT shows yuan payments at ~2.74%, in trade finance the yuan already ranks second globally at 8.04% (vs euro's 5.78%). With over 80 countries cutting dollar reliance — BRICS as the main engine — China has currency swaps with 50 nations. This signals a multipolar payments system where currencies are chosen by region, politics, and weakening dollar dominance.

A key idea in Chinese statecraft since ancient times is that the state has a responsibility to stabilize inherently unstable markets for essential commodities (see How China Escaped Shock Therapy). Public stockholdings like the ever normal granary participated in the market buying when prices are low and selling when prices are high for centuries with the goal of stabilizing supply and demand, prices and ultimately the value of money. Now China is doing just that with the global oil market: It has drastically reduced its imports, hence pushing down demand in a time of global supply shortages. This is possible thanks to massive public reserves and strategic redundancy (some like to call this “overcapacity”). @JavierBlas finds that the number one reason why oil prices have not shot above USD 100 is China, China and China. Imagine how much more stability the world could enjoy, if all countries engaged in such buffer stock stabilization for essentials such as grain. I have been calling for this at the G20 food security task force last year (see link below).

Interesting that no CIA-backed human rights organizations are calling for boycott of FIFA after US war crimes

Mandarin being a problem is the entire point. China doesn't want the world to be Chinese. the rest of the world are barbarians in the Chinese imagination. China is not the West, it doesn't want random Iranians and Indians and Africans to start idolizing it or fashioning themselves as proto-Chinese. To be frank, You're an Iranian who lives in New York but constantly bashes it, and doesn't leave. China doesn't want random Persians doing that in Shanghai. Long Live China as it is now.

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Only thing Randy Fine beats down is the Buffet.

This is a war crime.

Oh cmon !