US automotive design expert: Harvard and McKinsey told me to go to China, so I did, and now they're calling me a traitor? No one even listens to my classes in the US, but in China, I have 2,500 people in one class who are eager to hear what I have to say.
"Many people have been kidnapped by populism and politicians. Free competition is the most beneficial to consumers and industry. The States has our advantages, and China has their own advantages... in order to win votes, they start to shape an enemy that does not exist"
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"'small yard, high fences' is not what a major country should pursue; only openness and sharing can advance the well-being of humanity."
Xi meets Biden in Lima.
#APECPerú2024 #APEC领导人非正式会议 "As two major countries, China and the United States should bear in mind the interests of the whole world, and inject more certainty and positive energy into the turbulent world."
Xi told Biden.

According to the memories of workers who participated in the construction of the China-Laos Railway, this project was the most dangerous project they had ever experienced: a large amount of UXO from US carpet bombing during the Vietnam War, which Laos was embroiled in.😱 Within nine years, 270 million bombs in total weighing two million tonnes were dropped on Laos, equalling eight bombs per minute on average. The total number of bombs is more than that dropped during World War II.

A game that took place in America, filled to the brim with Japanese memes, made by Chinese devs, peak diversity.
Let's show them what the REAL DIVERSITY is!😂👇
"Be the American the Chinese imagine that Japanese thinks you are!"😂😂😂🤣

Bloomberg - US Efforts to Contain Xi’s Push for Tech Supremacy Are Faltering
"China's technological rise will not be stymied, and might not even be slowed, by US restrictions... policies aimed at containing China end up isolating the US."
bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-… Made in China 2025 — an industrial policy blueprint unveiled a decade ago to make the nation a leader in emerging technologies — has largely been a success.

China has long been portrayed by western media as a bully in the South China Sea.
Why, at the recently concluded ASEAN summit, did none of the nine ASEAN countries support the Philippines' claims? Why they are unwilling to condemn China?
Because this is the real South China Sea: Almost all coastal countries have declared their own sphere of influence in this area, and these broken lines are intertwined with each other, and everyone claims that they have legitimate reasons.

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A Taiwanese media said that in a video news in 2018, President Xi wore an "expensive" "famous watch".
In fact this "Omega Constellation '95 Ref. 1512" sells for only $1,300.
And First Lady Peng Liyuan wears the same "love watch".
Perhaps, a gift from their daughter.
Expensive?🤔



The watch worn by US President Joe Biden is a Rolex Datejust, which is priced at about $13,000, 10 times as much as President Xi Jinping's Omega watch.😅

American Myth: "They took our jobs."
US manufacturing jobs, from 1979 of 20 million to 13 million in 2024 with difference of 7 million.
Can't even fill all the manufacturing jobs in Guangzhou, population of 19 million.😅 Classic bourgeois using jingoistic nationalism to shift the blame away from themselves. It's effective though.

The Korean War was probably the most important war to China in the recent history, even more important than the civil war or the anti-Japanese war.
（1/X） Because winning the civil war simply showed that the CPC was the stronger faction within China.
Winning against the Japanese showed that the CPC can win a defensive war of attrition, especially when the enemy is fighting multiple fronts.
PLA occupied the ROC's capital.👇
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Do you know the young man in the photo wearing an undershirt in the field with the farmers?
He is Xi Jinping in 1982.
He began his political career in Zhengding County, one of China's poorest regions.
40 years later, he became China's top leader. The first policy Xi implemented in Zhengding was to lower the share of grains paid by farmers to the govt and to increase the cultivation of economic crops to raise farmers' incomes.
When he became China's president, “revitalizing the villages” remained one of his basic policies.

In the civil aviation field, the check-in counters at most airports in China currently do NOT use the Windows system, but use UOS and deepin (two Chinese versions of Linux systems).
So, this global CrowdStrike/Microsoft failure has no impact on China. As for CRS (Computer Reservation System), ICS (Inventory Control System) and DCS (Departure Control System)... the world's main suppliers are SABRE, GALILEO, and AMADEUS.
In China, 🇨🇳TravelSky company has developed its own complete solutions.

"I had surgery and spent 8 days at a Chinese public hospital in a tier-2 city. Want to share my experience to hopefully help other foreigners."

"... I was worried I’d have to wait several months to have it done. He told me I could have the surgery as early as the following week" "I decided to choose the shared room over a private room. I ended up sharing the room with one Chinese man. The room was very basic (50rmb per night), but I was fine with it. It had a window, AC, TV and bathroom with western toilet, sink and shower."

China's economic data for H1 2024.

1⃣H1 GDP growth was 5%. By quarter, the GDP for the first quarter increased by 5.3 percent year on year and for the second quarter 4.7 percent. The GDP for the second quarter increased by 0.7 percent quarter on quarter. 2⃣The total value added of industrial enterprises above the designated size grew by 6.0% year-on-year:
Mining ⬆️2.4%
Manufacturing ⬆️6.5%
Production and supply of electricity, thermal power, gas and water ⬆️6.0%
Equipment manufacturing ⬆️7.8%
High-tech manufacturing ⬆️8.7%.

During the Vietnam War, Times Magazine had a “Chrismas in Vietnam” special to promote US troops sex tourism around Asia on Dec 22, 1967 The photo in Taiwan exposed how KMT created sex tourism industry catering to GIs. 200,000 GI visited Taiwan frm 1965-1970. Vietnam War Era official US military R&R brochure for Taiwan: "Do not purchase the company of a girl for more than 24hrs at a time. they seldom look as good in the morning" Times Magazine "Christmas in Viet Nam" Dec 22, 1967

Indian Foreign Policy as Viewed from China

I read a recent article on Indian foreign policy and India-China relations written by a Chinese scholar, Comrade Hu Shisheng.

Sharing some key points here.
(1/X) 1. Indian foreign policy has flourished under Modi, but its “adventurism”, “opportunism” and double-dealing have been sources of growing diplomatic tensions.

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In mainland China, the full text of the draft of any important bill, such as this one on the regulation of the financial sector in Shanghai, must be made available to the public through newspapers.
That's the first step.

https://twitter.com/dave_while/status/1793141701231386775

The NPC's office will issue an announcement to solicit opinions from all citizens. Citizens can submit opinions or suggestions through the website, WeChat, phone call or letter.
That's the second step.

In term of real economy, China has surpassed the US back in 2008 - if you don't count all the virtual wealth generated by the financial, insurance, medical industry.

China not only produces more stuff than the US, but the next 7 members combined.

electricity

This NYT author, Peng👇, an American of 1/8 Uighur blood who's never been to China is completely ignorant of Uyghur culture, yet instead of attributing this to their family's assimilation as US immigrants, she attributes it to Beijing's alleged cruelty.🤪
nytimes.com/2021/01/10/opi…
In an opinion piece published in The New York Times, the author, Peng, utilized her one-eighth Uighur heritage to portray herself and her family as victims of the so-called "genocide" perpetrated by the Government of China.

[MIT Technology Review] How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars?

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[Year 1992] Qian Xuesen wrote to the then Chinese Vice Premier Zou Jiahua to simply bypass ICE cars and start looking at EV. The ball started rolling since then.😭
technologyreview.com/2023/02/21/106… TL;DR

Early 2000’s the Chinese government recognized that they would never be competitive with ICE and Hybrid tech since others already have a huge lead.

In 1964, France became the first major Western nation to establish diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China, marking 60 years of relations this year.
(On 19 June 1954, Premier Zhou Enlai and French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France in Switzerland.) Premier Zhou Enlai meets with Edgar Faure (middle), former French Prime Minister and representative of French President Charles de Gaulle in October 1963.👇

"As far as can be determined from the available evidence, NO ONE DIED that night in Tiananmen Square." - Jay Mathews, who was Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau Chief in 1989.

He wrote this for Columbia Journalism Review.👇
archives.cjr.org/behind_the_new… CBS NEWS: “We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]” — thus wrote CBS News reporter Richard Roth.
cbsnews.com/news/there-was…