🇨🇳A LOOK AT CHINESE “CENSORSHIP”:

Last week, after China’s military parade, I did a video about int’l reaction.

After being online for a day or so, the video was deleted by a large Chinese app.

Why?

The reason might surprise you.

A short 🧵 The video was actually about Trump sending a salty Truth Social post asking Xi to give his regards to Putin and Kim, before accusing the three of “conspiring against the United States.”

My video wasn’t just deleted, some apps didn’t even allow me to post at all.

China just published its annual Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States.

The U.S. constantly tells China what to do and how to do it, so it's only fair China gives some advice back!

A short 🧵 of the human rights low-lights in the Land of the Free last year... ▶️Divide between rich and poor widened
Last year, economic and social inequalities in the U.S. worsened, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Over 40 million Americans were living in poverty, and 700,000 were homeless.

On top of that, 13.5% of U.S. households face food insecurity, and 13.8 million kids lived in families that didn't have enough food on the table.

I had a bit of an accident on my electric scooter here in Shanghai. 🏍️

The police suggested I go for a hospital checkup, but I was worried it would take forever.

30 minutes later and I was done, including an X-Ray!

What was the process and cost? A short 🧵 Firstly, I’m totally fine! They wanted to X-ray my ankle, since it was a bit battered under my bike. No problems! The rest was just fairly surface scratching.

A whole group of scooter riders went through a red light, and while trying to stop I ended up on the ground.

Just had to translate for an elderly French couple who came back to the Shanghai restaurant I was eating at to find a wallet they left behind.

They were totally shocked.

But why? Even I didn’t understand to begin with…

🧵 The shop’s manager, as soon as she saw the couple enter, jumped up and gave them their wallet that was stored behind the counter.

The French couple were so surprised and relieved that they almost hugged the manager.

Then they started talking to her in broken English.

Anyone saying Speed was paid by the "CCP"* or worked with the "CCP"* for his recent live streams in China is just showing how little they understand this country.

A quick 🧵:

*CPC QUICK BACKGROUND:
YouTuber iSpeedShow has over 37 million followers on the app, and recently streamed from Shanghai and Beijing.

His two streams gained around 10M views, and were heralded as a massive boon for China, showing his young fans a more fair and realistic view.

LOL:

Canada has updated its travel advice for China, warning Canadians that they may be subject to the law in China if they try to smuggle in drugs etc. 🇨🇦💉💊

But why?

A short 🧵⬇️ Canada is mad that China didn’t listen to Justin Trudeau when he ordered Beijing not to execute four Chinese nationals for smuggling drugs into China, because they also hold Canadian passports.

But wait!

🤖Grok VS DeepSeek🖲️

I asked Grok, X's AI model, and famous Chinese AI model DeepSeek a simple question:

▶️ Who is Andy Boreham?

One had an amazing reply, the other was almost completely wrong.

Decide who you think won before scrolling down to read both replies. ⬇️ Before we move on, this is Yumi Ishikawa, a Japanese activist who one of the AI models thinks is my wife...

China made some massive achievements last year.

Here are 10 of them. 🧵

1⃣ China's GDP hit 5% in 2024. 2⃣ China produced 13 million new energy vehicles in 2024, more than any other country.

Ce sont les journalistes françaises Justine Jankowski et Marine Zambrano. Hier, elles m'ont toutes les deux bloqué.

Mais pour quelle raison?

Elles ont récemment mené une « enquête en caméras cachées » en Chine, prétendant que les usines chinoises pratiquaient le travail forcé ainsi que le travail des enfants.

Le seul problème : elles mentent. Et j'ai des preuves. L'été dernier, ces deux reporters de l'émission populaire française « Cash Investigation » se sont infiltrées dans des usines de vêtements en Chine pour tenter de prouver l'existence du travail forcé.

Elles n'ont trouvé aucune preuve, mais ont misé sur le fait que leur public ne comprenait pas la langue chinoise.

Malheureusement pour elles, moi, je la comprends.

This is French reporters Justine Jankowski & Marine Zambrano. Yesterday, they both blocked me.

But why?

They recently did an "undercover investigation" in China that claimed Chinese factories use child & forced labor.

The only problem: they are lying.

And I have proof. 🧵⬇️ Last summer, these two reporters from popular French show "Cash Investigation" snuck into clothing factories in China trying to prove forced labor.

They found no evidence, but banked on their audience not understanding the Chinese language.

Unluckily for them, I do.

Two French reporters (@JustineJankows1 and @Marinezamb) snuck into Chinese clothing factories, producing a program that they claimed showed evidence of child and forced labor.

The problem: it's all lies.

The bonus: The show unintentionally exposed Adrian Zenz!

WATCH: CORRECTION: In my video, I mentioned that the TV show had removed the YouTube video of the program, but @RnaudBertrand has told me the video is online, as well as on the official website of France TV. The link I was using may have been for an unofficial version.

Check out Arnaud's post:

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1898628773429617089

I don't normally comment on my country's governance and media, but I HAVE to share this from WikiLeaks.

It looks like the slippery tentacles of USAID reached into New Zealand media, which VERY often tows the party line when it comes to anti-China dis-info & conspiracy theories.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1888740117247885509

Oftentimes in New Zealand, it is VERY difficult to rebut blatant anti-China media lies, with mainstream media outlets just ignoring any voices from China – or anyone actually knowledgable on China – from entering the discussion, even AFTER malicious lies are published.

🇨🇳PRESIDENT XI DRIVES CHINA'S A.I. REVOLUTION:

All the way back in 2014, President Xi was already planning China's transition to "innovation-driven growth," which included the need for China to develop robots and Artificial Intelligence.

A short 🧵⬇️ He talked about "robot technology and the new generation of information technology, such a big data, cloud computing and the mobile Internet, and the rapid development of 3D printing and artificial intelligence," and suggested:

Just a lunch performance in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

MORE BELOW ⬇️ Chicken soup.

I asked Grok about Singaporean-Chinese journalist Melissa Chen and her anti-Asian “ching chong” comment.

Grok, a Twitter feature, denied she used the slur.

I had to teach it otherwise.

A short 🧵 I was curious as to why Melissa Chen would use such a slur, especially since she has spoken before about anti-Asian hate crimes…

Even if you can't read Chinese, you might recognize this logo.

Why? Because it's the name of the #1 app on the U.S. app store, Xiaohongshu, a Chinese app that ordinary Americans are downloading en masse in anticipation of TikTok being banned.

So, what is 小红书？

A thread 🧵: Well, it's a popular Chinese app that launched here in Shanghai in 2013, and today has 300 million users.

It's name means "Little Red Book" in English.

Here is some more basic info:

Recently, two videos from Japan went viral on X. 🇯🇵

The only problem: they were actually from China. 🇨🇳

Why are positive videos from China not allowed to exist?

Here's my theory... 🧵 Firstly, my name's Andy. I'm from New Zealand, but I've lived here in China for the past decade.

I speak Mandarin, China and have a masters degree in Chinese language and culture. I spend a lot of time trying to show people the REAL China, which Western media won't show.

On this day 25 years ago, the small island region of Macau returned to China after 442 years of Portuguese rule. 🇨🇳🇲🇴

How did it end up being governed by 127 Portuguese governors?

And how does the city make 3x the gambling $$$ of Las Vegas?!

🧵A thread: First up, a quick geography lesson. 🌏

🇲🇴Macau is located on the southeastern coast of China, in the western part of the Pearl River Delta, about 60km from Hong Kong.

🇲🇴The exact coordinates: 22.1987° N, 113.5439° E.

🇲🇴It totals just 33 square kilometers in land area.

Currently in a briefing held by the top five officials of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, including Ma Xingrui (Secretary) and Erkin Tuniyaz (Governor of Xinjiang).

Tomorrow the Governor will hold a keynote speech.

My speech is later in the afternoon.

The Governor’s speech will be about employment in Xinjiang, especially in relation to improving employment prospects and raising living standards.

4.6% is the unemployment rate in Xinjiang, which is lower than the national average (5%), according to the Secretary.

It's time to teach the BBC China crew a thing or two about making thoughtful, unbiased, and worthwhile reports at the site of disasters and tragedies in China.

I, too, have had Chinese citizens and authorities try to stop me filming.

But I handle it differently...

🧵⬇️ 4 days ago, a #BBC reporter in Taipei wrote this tweet, suggesting that I have never covered "serious news stories" in China, and that I shouldn't criticize his colleague, Stephen McDonell.

Surely Andy doesn't know the struggle!

Oh, I do! But I'm not the same as the BBC.

BBC's China "journalist" @StephenMcDonell is having a meltdown over my recent video exposing his fake news tactics and blatant lies in regards to reporting here in China.

In this thread, I'll show clearly why he is a bad actor and why @BBCWorld needs to get rid of him.

🧵⬇️ BBC World's China guy, Stephen McDonell, has turned to his usual tactics after being called out for creating a fake news report at a tragic incident in China.

He resorted to referring to me as "the Party's foreign useful idiot".

But why? Well, here's my original video: