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🇮🇷 An Iranian girl performing a traditional dance at the Rasht Fish Market.
Trump murdered 168 girls just like her.
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Yellow River’s Xiaolangdi Dam unleashes 2,600 m³/s “white dragon” to flush 100M+ tons of sediment downstream!
The 21-day operation lowers reservoir levels in anticipation of flood season while deepening the riverbed — a stunning display of engineering ingenuity to tackle the “suspended river” challenge.
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China has clinched the top spot on a list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, overtaking the United States for the first time since 2017 with a model powered by homegrown chips. cnn.it/4g3CqjI
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The People's Daily recently published an article: "Ryukyu's Century of Suffering and Struggle." Good. It's time to bring the Ryukyu issue to the forefront.
Historically, Ryukyu was a tributary state of China. During the century of China's weakness, the islands were seized by Japan—but successive Chinese governments, from the Qing to the ROC to the PRC (the Qing and the ROC even did at times recognize the cession of Taiwan to Japan), have never acknowledged Ryukyu as Japanese territory.
After World War II, under the Potsdam Proclamation, the disposition of Ryukyu was to be jointly determined by the signatory powers—the United States, Britain, and China. Any bilateral agreements between the U.S. and Japan regarding Ryukyu, lacking Chinese consent, are illegitimate. The United States, as a victorious Allied power, has the right to station troops in Ryukyu to monitor Japanese militarism—but it has no right to decide Ryukyu's final status.
In the long run, Ryukyu plays a crucial role for China. China's future adversaries will no longer come from the steppes, but from the sea. Only by firmly holding the Ryukyu–Taiwan island chain in Chinese hands can we keep seaborne enemies at bay from China's densely populated eastern seaboard, which accounts for two-thirds of national GDP. This serves exactly the same strategic purpose as the ancient Great Wall. Ryukuy is the new Great Wall.
On Ryukyu and Taiwan, China can never compromise—this is a matter of civilizational survival. In 936 AD, a Chinese warlord ceded the Great Wall region to the Khitan, leading to four centuries of repeated incursions by Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongol steppe peoples. Today's maritime Great Wall is not negotiable. Let missiles, warships, and fighter jets do the debating with the Japanese!
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纳粹思想根植于西方整个文化土壤中，和所谓新自由主义只是一体两面。
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NASA大惊，2009年地下水每年下降一英尺，地球引力在印度北方发生异常。
而且地下水无法获得补充，印度已经抽到了非常深。持续的污染和不处理垃圾，恒河已经完蛋了，孟加拉人不知道咋活下来的。
我们要担心的是喜马拉雅冰山！每年都在缩小。teapawt.net/bobyiac/status/1797836…
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El país que más invierte en inteligencia artificial del planeta acaba de sancionar una ley nacional para obligar a sus ciudades a abrir bibliotecas y volver a los libros de papel.
China era el candidato perfecto para enterrar el papel: pone más de cien mil millones de dólares al año en inteligencia artificial y es de los que más la incluyen en los currículos educativos. Si algún país iba a declarar que el libro ya no hace falta, que para eso está la máquina, era este.
Sin embargo, hizo exactamente lo contrario: en vez de mandar todo a la pantalla, está promoviendo el libro por ley. Desde el primero de febrero, rige una norma que obliga a cada gobierno local a poner dinero en bibliotecas, abrir espacios de lectura hasta en las zonas rurales y sostener una Semana Nacional de la Lectura. Desde ahora, es obligación del Estado.
¿Por qué un país que ya tiene la mejor tecnología se molesta en legislar la lectura? Porque separaron para qué sirve cada cosa. La inteligencia artificial te sirve para producir, competir, ir rápido: es la herramienta.
El libro te entrena en lo que ninguna máquina te da: atención sostenida y criterio propio. Es la cabeza la que después decide qué hacer con esa herramienta. Como lo resume uno de sus investigadores: solo a través de la lectura se llega a un pensamiento profundo e independiente.
El premier Li Qiang lo decretó dentro del mismo plan quinquenal donde está su apuesta de inteligencia artificial. Las dos cosas son estratégicas y van de la mano.
Mientras tanto, Estados Unidos hace el camino inverso: batió su récord de libros sacados de las escuelas (casi veintitrés mil desde 2021) y sus chicos sacaron las peores notas de lectura en más de veinte años, con cuatro de cada diez de cuarto grado que no llegan ni al nivel básico.
La inteligencia artificial la va a tener todo el mundo. La cabeza para saber qué hacer con ella, no. Usala para pensar CON vos y no POR vos.
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The 3rd indian operated ship hit in the Strait of Hormuz by the US navy, several indian sailors have been killed.
Meanwhile, Modi is thanking Trump for congratulating him on being the longest serving indian prime minister.
What a cuck of a country.
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Bro.
This is humiliating.
What is even the deal with America? After years of pressuring allies to decouple from China, it is now going hat-in-hand to China to beg for rare earth for those same allies.
And is Japan even a sovereign country? Was it even consulted or is it just getting negotiated over without even being in the room? How credible is the Japanese-Filipino defence pact to counter China if Japan doesn't even have enough juice to even ask China directly without hiding behind America's skirt?
(The answer from Beijing was 'no' by the way)
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This is extraordinarily rare.
In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.
An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.
The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.
In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.
Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...
I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (arnaudbertrand.substack.com/…) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.
Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.
In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.
In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.
Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.
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The Japanese logic is that since Japanese-made components play a certain role in global supply chains, a Chinese rare earth embargo against Japan would hurt not only Japan but also the United States. Therefore, Trump is obligated to ask China to restore rare earth supplies to Japan.
Those foolish right-wing Japanese have spent the past few months talking tough, claiming that Japan could do just fine without Chinese rare earths. Absurd stories about mining rare earth mud from the seabed were turned into headline news just to boost the morale of the Japanese right. Now that their rare earth reserves are running out, they've finally stopped running their mouths.
I've always said that the Japanese live in the most closed information environment in the world. The extent to which their media has brainwashed the public is astonishing — but this is nothing new for the Japanese. It's a tradition. During World War II, right up until the atomic bombs were dropped, Japanese media was still reporting a continuous string of glorious victories of Japan.
So, never bother reasoning with the Japanese. It won't work. Just educate them through physical means.
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THE PENTAGON YESTERDAY DECLARED BYD, the world’s most successful electric carmaker, to be linked to the Chinese army.
Alibaba, one of the world’s largest retailers and e-commerc companies, was also added to the Federal Register yesterday.
Innovative tech firm Baidu, and two chipmakers, ChangXin Memory Technologies and Yangtze Memory Technologies, were also written into the register, known as the “1260H list”.
Last year, the Pentagon made the same accusation at Tencent, the world’s biggest video game and entertainment company, owner of Epic Games, and a major backer of Reddit, Snapchat, Spotify and others.
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UNFAIR
The accusations are unfair, and everybody knows it. America’s biggest firms work directly with the Pentagon at extremely deep levels with multiple joint ventures to create attack tools, yet this is never considered an issue. In contrast, Chinese firms which have the slightest interaction with their country’s army are targeted for harm by the Pentagon.
The accusation paves the way for the US to make unilateral sanctions against the firms and then use economic coercion to force its vassals (“allies”) to follow suit.
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REAL REASON
Analysts say the real reason is to harm the work of Chinese technologists, many of whom are developing AI applications.
The US already has an unassailable lead in the sector, with more than 5,400 datacenters compared to China’s approximately 375, but Washington DC has strongly opposed the concept of fair competition in recent years.
The listing move also harms US investors, who are steered away from buying shares in companies on the register, which are some of the most innovative and fast-growing firms in the world.
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《史记·西南夷列传》：“及元狩元年，博望侯张骞使大夏来，言居大夏时见蜀布、邛竹杖，使问所从来，曰：从东南身毒国，可数千里，得蜀贾入市。”
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