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Jan 22 4 tweets 1 min read
In 2024, China's social electricity consumption was 985.21 billion kWh, up 6.8% YoY.
The primary industry consumed 135.7 billion kWh, up 6.3% YoY.
The secondary industry consumed 6,387.4 billion kWh, up 5.1% YoY.
The tertiary industry consumed 183.48 billion kWh, up 9.9% YoY. Image Primary Sector = involves gathering raw materials from the planet. This can include farming, fishing, mining etc.
Secondary Sector = involves manufacturing or making items using the raw materials. This includes builders, car manufacture, steel workers.
Jan 10 5 tweets 2 min read
The US military stands no chance against the PLA in a war over Taiwan.
If the US govt can't even mobilize against a forest fire in the very heart of their empire, what makes you think that they can mobilize against the PLA in Taiwan on the other side of the Pacific Ocean? Image In China, every natural disaster is met with an immediate and robust response.
The PLA mobilized 7,800 soldiers for the relief of the Tibet earthquake within the first 10 hours.
This is for a town that's in the middle of nowhere with barely a single road. Image
Dec 12, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
China makes more Chips than the rest of the world when it comes to any Chip that is 45 nm Or larger.
Automatic Garage Doors, Lawnmowers, Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Basic Guided Missiles, Automatic Sprinklers, Electronic Display Counters, Counting Machines... Chips ≠ 3 nm Image Chips between 3–14 nm are used in less than 10% Applications globally albeit very important applications that make a truckload of profits. Image
Nov 24, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
Since 2016, Chinese firms have more than doubled their foreign sales, and much of that growth is happening in the Global South.
Chinese companies are making significant investments through "greenfield FDI," building brand-new factories and facilities from scratch. Image Professor John Mearsheimer once remarked, "We foolishly pushed the Russians into the arms of the Chinese."
Now, as Trump threatens tariffs on Chinese products, the US risks pushing China even closer to these Global South emerging markets. Image
Nov 22, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
In China, if you want to express your approval of what someone says, please don't use this Emoji - 🙂, it often implies boredom, sarcasm, or passive-aggressiveness.
You can use 😂, or 😁.
(Comes from today's experience of communicating with a foreign colleague of mine.) BTW in Chinese internet slang, 666 is shorthand for "awesome" or "great job" - NOT a reference to something evil.
It comes from "溜溜溜" (liù liù liù), which sounds like "666" and means "smooth" or "cool." Image
Nov 20, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
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.
Image "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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Nov 17, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
"'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 Image "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. Image
Nov 3, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
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.😱 Image 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. Image
Nov 2, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
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!"😂😂😂🤣 Image
Nov 1, 2024 9 tweets 3 min read
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. Image
Oct 21, 2024 15 tweets 5 min read
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: Image 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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Sep 29, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
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?🤔

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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.😅 Image
Aug 30, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
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.😅 Image Classic bourgeois using jingoistic nationalism to shift the blame away from themselves. It's effective though.
Aug 18, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
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) Image 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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Jul 27, 2024 9 tweets 4 min read
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. Image 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. Image
Jul 22, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
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. Image 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. Image
Jul 17, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read
"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" Image "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."
Jul 16, 2024 10 tweets 3 min read
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. Image 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%. Image
Jul 14, 2024 5 tweets 3 min read
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. Image 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 Image
Jun 29, 2024 13 tweets 4 min read
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) Image 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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May 22, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
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.
Image 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. Image