Princeton, Intel's first Chief Representative in Beijing.
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May 16 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Why are young Germans ditching Berlin for Beijing?
Because China feels more like postwar Germany than Germany does today. A place where work still has meaning, ambition builds things, and the future isn't for sale. Keep reading.
A young German woman starting a business in China isn’t a fluke. It’s a symptom. A signal that something deep in the German soul is finding resonance in a system the West still pretends to misunderstand. Let’s unpack why. (1/11)
May 16 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Bloomberg thinks HarmonyOS is just Huawei trying to take on Windows and Mac. That’s like calling the Manhattan Project a new kind of coal. This isn’t a tech rivalry, it’s a civilizational rupture.
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Only Bloomberg could miss the real story behind HarmonyOS. They still think this is a fight between Mac, Windows, and Huawei. No. This is a civilizational fork. And Bloomberg is too high on neoliberal fumes to notice. (1/11)
May 16 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The American high-speed rail debate is pure kabuki. It's not about engineering or cost. It's about a captured state where land, transit, and the future itself must be privatized or blocked. A thread on why the US will never have bullet trains. (1/11)
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Let’s start with facts. China will hit 50,000 km of high-speed rail in 2025. You can go from Beijing to Shanghai (1,300 km) in 4.5 hours, sipping green tea on a whisper-smooth ride. America? After 50 years of talk, still not a single line. (2/11)
May 15 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The Moto Morini X-Cape is the $6,500 middleweight ADV bike that looks like a $12K Ducati and performs like a Japanese workhorse. It's not a fluke. It's a flashing red light for Western OEMs. A thread. (1/11)
At first glance, it screams Italy. Sleek lines, adventure stance, gold forks, TFT dash. Then you see the MSRP: $6,500 brand new. That’s not a typo. It’s a direct threat to the entire middleweight segment. (2/11)
May 15 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
"The Retaliation Nobody Saw Coming: When China Embargoes the Machines"
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The U.S. banned chips. China took notes. Now imagine if Beijing banned exports of industrial robots, AI controllers, and servo systems. That’s not just revenge, it’s collapse for every “China alternative.” (1/12)
May 15 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
“Apple Can’t Quit China. The Robots Won’t Let It.”
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Apple may want to flee to India. Washington may scream for decoupling. But the machines don’t lie. The reality is brutal: China owns the steel spine of global smartphone manufacturing. That spine is industrial robotics. (1/12)
May 15 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The Great Grain Lie: Why “U.S. Farmers” Are Losing China
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There are no “U.S. farmers” in the China soybean trade war. There are only a few vertically integrated agri-oligarchs, ADM, Bunge, Cargill, posing as folksy stewards of the land while strip-mining global food markets with Wall Street backing. (1/11)
May 15 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Washington isn't scared of Huawei's phones. It's terrified of something else: CloudMatrix 384. The AI weapon quietly breaking America's tech chokehold. 🧵
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The U.S. isn’t scared of Huawei’s phones anymore. Nor its 5G towers. What really keeps Washington up at night is Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384, the AI megacluster no one’s talking about publicly but everyone in Langley is losing sleep over. (1/16)
May 15 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
NASA can’t touch China’s new Moon rocks, but France can. Pakistan probably can. What happened to the country that once owned the Moon? The answer is darker (and dumber) than you think.
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China just returned with the first-ever lunar far-side samples and is sharing them with the world. Everyone but NASA. Why? Because of a Cold War law the U.S. refuses to repeal. Let’s talk about how America lost the Moon to its own paranoia. (1/11)
May 14 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The Dollar Didn’t Decline. It Was Lynched.
A rebuttal to Watcher.guru’s soft-soap obituary for empire’s favorite racket
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wants you to believe the dollar is dying of natural causes. Arrogance, overuse of sanctions, Trump being rude at the WTO. No. The truth is simpler: the world is dumping the dollar because it’s tired of being robbed at gunpoint. (1/11)Watcher.guru
May 14 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
While Elon Musk rants about dying on Mars, China and Russia are building a nuclear power plant on the Moon. Here's why the U.S. bet on the wrong rock and is about to get eclipsed by a lunar empire.
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Mars is a billionaire's techno-fantasy. The Moon is a strategic platform. While Musk pushes sci-fi dreams, China is laying the foundation for a real, permanent presence in cislunar space. (1/13)
May 14 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
They said they were protecting America from spies. What they really did was fire the smartest people in the room, because their names were Zhang, not Zimmerman. Here's how Congress declared war on its own scientists.
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A quiet class war is underway in America, not between rich and poor, but between a scientifically illiterate Congress and the elite researchers they neither understand nor trust. At the center of this purge? Chinese American scientists. (1/11)
May 14 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
"What Did India Learn From China?" A Thread to Deflate the Ego (1/12)
We often hear Indians say “China learned everything from us.” But history isn’t a one-way street. Let’s talk about what India actually learned from China, from tech and war to Buddhism and bureaucracy. Buckle up. (2/12)
May 14 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
Statement of Record:
What follows is a documented comparison between Neoliberal Capitalism and China’s Market Economy with Socialist Characteristics, not based on ideology, but on lived material outcomes. A thread for the record.
Poverty is not a bug of neoliberal capitalism. It’s a feature. Meanwhile, China’s market economy with socialist characteristics has produced the world’s most asset-rich middle class. A thread. (1/19)
May 13 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
"The Succubus of Bretton Woods: How Neoliberal Oligarchs Devoured the Empire"
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The survival of Bretton Woods was never about stability or trust. It was about force. Enforced by gunboats, coups, and the ritual executions of any leader daring to challenge the dollar’s primacy. But the real destroyers of the system were not foreign. They were American. (1/14)
May 13 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
India and China got along for 2,000 years. So who taught them to hate each other?
The answer explains everything about the new Cold War.
India is in a tough spot. The global chessboard is shifting, and New Delhi has to play like a grandmaster, not a provincial bureaucrat. (1/13)
May 13 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Trump's “deal” with China is being sold as a win. In truth, it’s a surrender draped in swagger. A self-inflicted wound repackaged as statesmanship. Let’s unpack the theater behind this so-called triumph.
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Trump's trade "deal" with China is being hailed as a major win. In reality? It’s a strategic retreat dressed up as a triumph. Here’s how they’re selling a self-inflicted wound as a masterstroke. (1/11)
May 13 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Another day, another smug comment about China’s maglev being “not worth it” because of development costs or population trends. Western decline is now measured by how
little it dares to imagine. Time for a rebuttal.
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China’s vacuum maglev isn’t just about speed. It’s about supremacy. Calling it too expensive or pointless due to population decline is the kind of lazy take that gets you left behind in the next industrial era. (1/9)
May 13 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Lula didn’t go to Beijing for optics. He went to bury the Monroe Doctrine and revive the Global South. This thread breaks down why his visit marks a turning point in the collapse of U.S. hegemony and the rise of BRICS power.
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When Lula landed in Beijing with a battalion of ministers and CEOs, it wasn’t a courtesy call. It was a declaration. The most defiant leader of the Global South is back, and he didn’t come to ask permission. (1/13)
May 12 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
“How France Lost Its Empire but Kept the ATM, and Let the Anglos in on the Heist.”
Colonialism by Consortium: The West’s Syndicate in Francophone Africa
The French Empire never really ended. It just opened the boardroom and let the Anglos in. What followed was a multi-party colonial project run like a cartel. Let’s unpack it. (1/17)
May 12 • 19 tweets • 2 min read
The Grid and the Mandate, Episode 1: The Empire That Sold the Switch. 🧵
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Eric Schmidt is sounding the alarm: AI data centers will overload the U.S. power grid. But this isn’t a national crisis. It’s a turf war. The grid isn’t public. It’s privately owned. Schmidt just isn’t rich enough to control it. (1/18)
