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@Kanthan2030
Dec 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia is confirmed for Dec 7. While the US is nervous & angry, Middle East will continue to shift towards China/Asia for many reasons.

Even the ads in #FIFAWorldCup at Qatar reveal the difference between USA and China: Budweiser v. Hisense!
Hisense is the world's #2 household appliance company and makes TV, refrigerators, washing machines etc., which are all quite hi-tech now. Other popular Chinese ad: Vivo (smartphones)

Meanwhile, America has ads for beer and junk food (Coca Cola and McDonald's) in Qatar.
China has real skills and lots of money that it invests in pragmatic ways.

Chinese companies build stadiums, solar farms, 5G networks, entire cities and so on.

Arab countries also receive a lot of FDI from China.

#SaudiArabia #Kuwait #UAE #Qatar
Of course, China is the world’s #1 importer of oil and natural gas, making it the Middle East’s best customer.

In the future, Petro-Yuan will be a reality — when OPEC and others will sell oil for Chinese Yuan.

That will also be bad news for the dollar and US hegemony.
In 2016, Xi Jinping visited the Middle East for the first time. And Saudi Prince Salman (MBS) was at the airport to welcome Xi.

Both have long-term and strategic visions -- #BRI is key but not the only item.
Xi Jinping’s visit will also include the first China-Arab Summit. This will be a momentous event since the Chinese gov must have a really big vision and plan.

Not like the Trump-Arab Summit five years ago! 😃

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Short but fascinating history of the founder of DeepSeek, the AI model that has taken the world by storm in the last few days. 🧵

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In 2008, Wenfeng understood the potential of AI.

For many years, he tried to find the perfect niche market to use AI.

After failing multiple times, he settled on finance — trading stocks.

He used AI (deep learning) to detect patterns. Image
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Founded in 2015, it soon became one of the largest “quant funds” in China.

And he became a billionaire!

But… he was soon enamored with Generative AI, which is “smarter” than just detecting patterns. It was about creativity — the Holy Grail of AI.Image
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Unbelievable racism in America.

Listen to this guy talking about Indians.

I don’t understand where so much hatred and misunderstanding come from in 2024.
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Dec 25, 2024
The Struggle for the American Soul 🧵

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy" -- John Quincy Adams, 1821.

But that's exactly what happened.

Trump embodies this conflict between nationalistic America First versus the imperial American Century.

This consequential struggle for the American soul will reverberate across the nation and the world.
Darkness from the Start

Of course, USA has been a land of contradictions from the start.

For a nation that arose out of fighting colonialism, the US grew in size tenfold within hundred years after the founding in 1776.

Americans came up with all sorts of excuses – such as the Manifest Destiny – for this relentless expansion.
Also, while the declaration of independence nobly declared that “all men are created equal,” the US could not treat blacks and natives as equal.

Genocide and slavery of tens of millions of non-whites continued for the most part of the 19th century.

And then it took almost another century for African Americans to enjoy basic human rights.
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Dec 25, 2024
Six charts that explain the performance of China's economy during the "lost decade" under Xi Jinping.

💠GDP: 110% growth
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💠Number of Fortune 500 firms: 94% growth

("Lost Decade" according to Wall Street Journal) Image
China's economy 2012-2023:

💠Exports: 60% growth
💠Retail Sales: 120% growth
💠Car Exports: 1000% growth (!) Image
Number of electric cars (EV) sold in China v. USA, 2013-2023.

In 2013, USA was 6x China.

Now, it's the reverse: China = 6x USA. Image
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Whatever your belief system might be, many things about COVID-19 never made sense.

There are countless theories, but here are some irrefutable facts about the coronavirus, reactions, studies, death statistics, and vaccines… to make you question everything: 🧵
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Here's the chart for who died in January 2020 -- one month after the pandemic broke out.

Nobody under the age of 30 died. And 95% of those who died were over the age of 65.Image
Fast forward, nothing changed:

CDC data from the US showed that 80% of those died in 2020 and 2021 were senior citizens -- above the age of 65.

The #1 vulnerable group was those above 75.

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Perhaps you hate propaganda and you would like to detect it. Or, you want to hone your propaganda skills!

Either way, here are the four characteristics of successful propaganda: 🧵 Image
Before we go further, the quotes in the above tweet might be propaganda! 😆

Perhaps Hitler and Goebbels were describing the West. Who knows?

History itself is propaganda written by winners.

Okay, now, let's get to the list
1. Keep the message simple

Propaganda should be like a great marketing slogan -- easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to repeat.

No complexities, no nuances, no gray areas.

If a 6-year-old can understand it, you got a good start!

Example: "Dictator Putin invaded Ukraine, a sovereign democratic country."

Why would he do that? Coz he wants to conquer Europe.

Simple!
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