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William Huo
@wmhuo168
Princeton, Intel's first Chief Representative in Beijing.
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Apr 4 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
Trump's plan to crash the market and force Fed rate cuts could backfire spectacularly—fueling stagflation, sinking the dollar, and exposing the rot at the heart of the U.S. financial empire

Donald Trump didn’t ask permission from the Fed before launching his beloved tariff war. And that decision could spark a perfect storm of stagflation, dollar devaluation, and financial chaos.

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Apr 4 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
JD Vance says we “borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy what they manufacture.” But it wasn’t peasants who gutted Ohio—it was Bain Capital. Here’s a thread on rage, lies, and economic cosplay.

“We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”

JD Vance isn’t being clever—he’s peddling Cold War cosplay for cable news. Let’s break down this economic fantasy. 1/8
Apr 4 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
China just pulled the plug on U.S. investments. This isn’t just another trade war move—it’s a financial divorce. The U.S. could soon find itself on the outside looking in as global finance shifts.

China blocks investments into U.S. companies. After years of financial ties, this isn't just a retaliation—it’s a financial divorce signaling a shift in global finance. Wall Street is on notice. 1/14
Apr 2 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Why is Southeast Asia still trapped in poverty while China transformed itself into a global powerhouse? The answer lies in oligarch rule, foreign dependence, and a refusal to embrace real industrialization. China shows there’s another way.

Southeast Asia remains trapped in poverty, corruption, and elite control. While China broke free with industrialization and strong governance, much of the region is still dominated by oligarchs, foreign dependency, and weak institutions. 1/10
Apr 2 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Israel and the U.S. may think they can break Iran by attacking its energy backbone, but history shows this Civilizational State has survived countless attempts to erase it. They’re playing a dangerous game they’ll lose.

The Assyrians (7th century BCE) waged brutal campaigns against the Medes and Persians, but the Median Empire overthrew them, laying the foundation for Persian dominance. 1/10
Apr 2 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The West said state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were obsolete. China built 91 Fortune 500 SOEs—and they’re the backbone of its rise. While the West privatized itself into stagnation, China’s hybrid model fuels unstoppable growth.

China’s 91 SOEs in the Fortune Global 500 form the backbone of its economy. Unlike the West’s obsession with privatization, China’s SOEs provide critical infrastructure, financing, and supply chain stability—quietly fueling private sector giants. 1/10
Apr 1 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Western democracy is a rigged spectacle. The oligarchs pick the candidates, the media sells their narrative, and the public rubber-stamps a preordained choice. Meanwhile, China and Russia prove legitimacy through real results, not empty rituals.

The West sells democracy as the ultimate freedom: vote, and you’ve done your duty. But in reality, it's a puppet show. The real power brokers—oligarchs, corporate moguls, and media barons—dictate choices long before the public reaches the ballot box. 1/7
Apr 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The West tells itself that monopolies drive innovation, but China keeps proving otherwise. When one company breaks through, rivals don’t sue—they outdo. That’s why the U.S. stagnates while China sprints ahead.

Neoliberalism’s biggest selling point isn’t competition—it’s monopoly through contrivance. Western markets aren’t “free”; they’re just walled gardens controlled by IP hoarding, lobbying, and regulatory capture. 1/8
Mar 31 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
President Trump may have stumbled into history by uniting China, Japan, and South Korea against the U.S. His tariffs, meant to divide, have instead forged a powerful economic alliance that could reshape East Asia.

The Nobel Prize Committee is pleased to announce the nomination of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of his accidental yet undeniable contributions to fostering peace and economic cooperation in Northeast Asia. 1/13
Mar 28 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
China’s Xinghuo 星火 project isn’t chasing the fusion dream—it’s hacking it. By using fusion to ignite fission, it’s ditching the slow path of pure fusion and aiming for a Q value of 30. If it works, the global energy game changes forever. Image China’s ambitious Xinghuo 星火 (Spark) project marks a bold departure from pure fusion power, taking a fusion-fission hybrid approach instead. Rather than relying solely on fusion, it uses fusion reactions to trigger fission, massively amplifying energy output. 1/10
Mar 27 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
While Taiwan residents enjoy limited opportunities, those moving to the mainland are granted superior benefits—healthcare, education, and retirement—that China can easily afford, all part of a strategic integration push.

Chinese residents from Taiwan Province enjoy the same benefits as mainland citizens, including healthcare, retirement benefits, and public education for their children. These benefits are often seen as superior to those in Taiwan. 1/7
Mar 27 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Washington thought it could kneecap China’s chip industry by cutting off ASML’s EUV machines. Instead, China built its own. Now ASML is crawling back to Beijing, and Huawei’s SiCarrier may have just checkmated the entire Western semiconductor game.

economist.com/business/2025/… ASML finally caves. After years of bending to U.S. pressure to block China from advanced chip tech, the Dutch giant is setting up a “repair” center in Beijing. Translation: It’s scrambling to hold onto its DUV business before China makes it irrelevant. 1/10
Mar 26 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Europe isn’t run by politicians—it’s managed by BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Rothschild. From Berlin to Paris to London, leaders serve global finance, not their people. Democracy is just a cover for the bankers in charge.

Germany isn’t run by its elected leaders—it’s a joint venture between BlackRock and Goldman Sachs. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Finance Minister Christian Lindner serve the interests of global finance, not the German people. 1/13
Mar 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The West fears China because it assumes Beijing plays the same zero-sum, imperialist game it once did. But history tells a different story. Maybe it’s not China that needs to change—but the West that needs to rethink its own past.

China is playing a completely different game, and anyone who’s studied history—or even just watched the 1988 Chinese TV series 河殇 (River Elegy)—would understand why. 1/6
Mar 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Vietnam once played the U.S. and Japan to keep China in check. Now, that game is over. Hanoi sees Washington as a lost cause, Tokyo as irrelevant, and Beijing as inevitable. The era of Vietnam resisting China’s orbit is coming to an end.

eurasiantimes.com/china-vietnam-… Vietnam once played regional powers like Japan to extract better terms from China. But that strategy is fading as Japan stagnates and China's grip on regional supply chains tightens, making Vietnam more economically dependent on Beijing. 1/7
Mar 22 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The French Revolution didn’t deliver the freedom it promised. It swapped one ruling class for another—now, France is ruled not by kings, but by global bankers. And the revolution’s true heirs? The Anglo-Saxon elite.

The French Revolution didn’t free the people—it just changed the branding of oppression. The monarchy fell, but in its place rose an oligarchy of bankers, industrialists, and bureaucrats who mastered the art of manipulating democratic institutions. 1/8
Mar 22 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The true enemy of the West isn't China—it's the neoliberal elite who have looted their own nations, blamed outsiders, and left future generations drowning in debt and despair. This is their betrayal, and history will remember.

J’accuse the American and German neoliberal oligarchs—BlackRock, KKR, and their financial brethren—of orchestrating the systematic plunder of their own nations while invoking China as a specter to divert the wrath of those they have impoverished. 1/8
Mar 18 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
BYD’s 1 MW charging platform could make gas stations obsolete, adding 250 miles in just 5 minutes. But without a modern UHVDC power grid, the world’s grid may not survive the transition to ultra-fast EV charging.

yahoo.com/tech/explainer… BYD's new 1 MW charging platform adds 400 km (250 miles) in just 5 minutes, nearly matching gasoline refueling speed. 1/10
Mar 17 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Nothing exposes a collapsing society like its suicide rate. China’s has plummeted to a third of America’s, while the U.S. is drowning in overdoses and despair. 50 years of neoliberalism destroyed the American Dream. Here’s the proof:

The suicide rate tells you everything about a society. In the 1990s, China had a suicide rate of ~23 per 100,000, higher than the U.S. Then China’s rate collapsed to ~5 per 100,000, while the U.S. surged past 15 per 100,000. The trend is undeniable. 1/14
Mar 16 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
China just dropped 3.98 trillion yuan ($550B) on science & tech—a 10% surge that screams one thing: full-speed decoupling from U.S. tech dominance. This isn’t just funding—it’s Beijing’s Manhattan Project for technological supremacy.

China’s 2025 budget allocates 3.98 trillion yuan ($550B) to science & tech, a 10% increase from 2024. This is a wartime-scale push for tech self-reliance amid U.S. containment. Beijing is making it clear: it’s in it to win it. 1/12
Mar 15 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
The U.S. threw $52B at semiconductor manufacturing, but there’s just one problem, nobody qualified to run the fabs. America outsourced not just chips but the skills to make them. The CHIPS Act won’t fix a talent shortage of decades in the making.

asiatimes.com/2025/03/us-chi… The U.S. wants to build a semiconductor industry. The problem? It doesn’t have the people to do it. Billions are being thrown at new fabs, but when it’s time to turn on the machines, there’s nobody qualified to press the button. 1/13