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William Huo Profile picture
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Jun 28 • 12 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Huawei isn’t quietly letting Google back in. It’s doing the opposite. HarmonyOS sideloading is for China’s devs, not YouTube addicts. No APKs. No GMS. No backdoor. 🧵

HarmonyOS PCs will support apps sideloading in future, says Huawei - Huawei Central share.google/c3Y0Ufu4KRIrXq…
Huawei says sideloading is coming to HarmonyOS PCs. Western pundits jumped to the same fantasy: maybe it’s a stealthy way to bring back YouTube or Gmail. It’s not. (1/11)
HarmonyOS NEXT doesn’t run Android. It doesn’t support APKs. It doesn’t include Google Mobile Services. Even if you sideload an app, it’ll either crash or fail silently. (2/11)
The entire point of HarmonyOS NEXT is to sever all dependence on U.S. tech. Huawei isn’t cracking the door open. It’s welding it shut. Sideloading isn’t a workaround. (3/11)
So who is sideloading for? Chinese developers. Enterprise tools. Internal distribution. It’s about controlled flexibility, not consumer freedom. (4/11)
Expect devs to host .hap or .app packages on CoolAPK, GitHub, Gitee. Apps from Tencent’s store or independent Qt builds will land outside AppGallery. (5/11)
Cross-platform frameworks like Flutter and Electron will be used to fill in gaps. But every app must be recompiled for HarmonyOS NEXT. No Android layers. (6/11)
Don’t expect to trick HarmonyOS into running Google apps. They require GMS. Without it, YouTube won’t stream, Gmail won’t sync, Google Maps won’t even open. (7/11)
Also blocked at the network level. China’s firewall ensures even a functional YouTube app can’t reach its servers. Sideloading can’t beat geopolitics. (8/11)
Huawei is taking a slow, security-first rollout. No rush. No chaos. No Google. Just a fenced garden with a few auxiliary gates for trusted devs. (9/11)
This isn’t Android’s Wild West. It’s the start of a full-stack Chinese alternative. Controlled. Independent. Built to scale without Silicon Valley. (10/11)
If you’re hoping sideloading is a backdoor for the West, you’ve misunderstood Huawei’s entire plan. It’s not a clone. It’s a replacement. (11/11)

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Jun 30
The West wants to ban fossil fuels. China just figured out how to profit from their emissions at sea.

“Carbon Transfer Achieved at Sea”: Shanghai Stuns the World With First-Ever Ship-to-Ship CO2 Operation in Open Waters - Sustainability Times share.google/OQqOyzh4WqbvqL…
A syllogism is a neat little argument:
If A is true, and B is true, then C must be true.
Problem is, the world doesn’t run on logic puzzles. It runs on engineering.
Western climate policy forgot that. China didn’t. 🧵
The West’s favorite syllogism:

1. Fossil fuels emit CO₂.

2. CO₂ causes climate change.

3. Therefore, ban fossil fuels.
Perfect in a classroom. Disastrous at scale. (1/10)
Read 12 tweets
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Jun 29
America didn’t get this broken by accident. It was an inside job.

One ideology gutted public investment, rigged the economy, and turned citizens into debt slaves.

Name it: Milton Friedman.

Here’s the biggest heist you never learned in school.

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
The U.S. spends THREE TIMES as much on its military as China.

Yet Americans ask the wrong questions.

Let’s fix that.
🧵 (1/10)
1. Why isn’t America more advanced?

Because it stopped investing in itself.

Instead of engineers and infrastructure, we fed Lockheed, Raytheon, and a million think tank grifters.

We don’t build. We contract.
And they overbill.
(2/10)
Read 11 tweets
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Jun 29
Jeff Daniels’ monologue in The Newsroom hit like a punch to the gut. Over a decade later, it reads like an obituary for a country too scared to build a train.

High-speed rail threatens America's small-town economy share.google/aM5nWcIOf3CqyQ…
America didn’t used to scare so easy. Then came 9/11, iPads, and influencers. Now we tremble at the sight of a train. A thread on what Jeff Daniels said, and what we became. (1/14)

“We didn’t scare so easy,” said Will McAvoy. Today? A high-speed rail line makes half the country act like it’s Tiananmen 2.0. (2/14)
Read 15 tweets
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Jun 29
Iran talks like a power. Pakistan is acting like one. Here’s why Tehran is falling behind.

From Moscow to Beijing: Iran May Abandon Su-35 Deal in Favour of Combat-Tested J-10C Fighters - Defence Security Asia share.google/hcALQxVEkup9Dw…
Part One: Strategic Posture and the Civilizational Choice

Iran talks like a civilizational power but fights like a regional hedge fund. If Pakistan can upgrade into the Chinese military ecosystem, so can Tehran. It’s a matter of will, not capacity. (1/18)
Pakistan didn’t just acquire J-10Cs. It bought time, reach, and a warfighting doctrine. China sold it a plug-and-play battle network that speaks in missiles, not slogans. (2/18)
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Jun 28
China didn't surrender. Wall Street just bought another 90 days. Here's what the new US-China trade deal really means.

The new US-China trade agreement, explained | AP News share.google/fifHQEL3IU4Z57…
The new US-China “trade deal” is a rerun. A PR patch job. The same structural rot that caused the rift is still there. Fixing it would mean touching Wall Street’s money spigot. (1/9)
Rare earths are back on the table. A 90-day truce. Tariff cuts from 145% to 55%. Sounds like progress until you realize the core issues like industrial policy and tech transfer are still ignored. (2/9)
Read 10 tweets
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Jun 28
If you want to know which countries are next in line for "democratization" by coup, don't look at voting records. Look at who's signing Chinese high-speed rail deals. There's a pattern. 🧵

cfr.org/article/coup-c…
Thailand. Chinese rail from Laos into Bangkok? Greenlit. Construction underway. Suddenly: reformist chaos, military coup rumors, and a US embassy the size of a football stadium in the capital. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a red flag with a QR code. (1/14)
Myanmar. China signs off on the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor. Includes rail, ports, and pipelines. Within months: a coup, Western outrage, sanctions, and NED-backed opposition flooding the airwaves. Same script. Different cast. (2/14)
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