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@RnaudBertrand Avatar @RnaudBertrand Arnaud Bertrand

Arnaud Bertrand has been discussing China's growing influence and the US's declining position on the global stage. The US's attempts to restrict China's technological advancements, such as export controls on semiconductors, have been met with retaliatory measures from China, including rare earth export controls. This has led to concerns about the impact on global industries, including the European auto industry.

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"That's extraordinary when you think about it: China has managed to negotiate Trump down to tariffs that are the same as Southeast Asian countries and much lower than those on Canada Mexico or India. In fact tariffs on Chinese exports are now more than 2X lower than India's"
X Link 2025-11-28T06:32Z 370K followers, 61.5K engagements

"I cannot think of a single way in which this makes society better. You're now going to have people financially - on top of emotionally - vested in their opinions which can only create further polarization. Societies need consensus hard to see how you help achieve this when compromises become financial losses. Also it literally disincentivizes truth-seeking. Markets work based on anticipating what others will believe not on discovering what's actually true. It's the meme stock phenomenon: those stocks don't rise because the company is valuable they rise because enough people believe others"
X Link 2025-12-04T07:11Z 370K followers, 382.7K engagements

"Once again complete disinformation on China's non-existent social credit score. I researched this particular app which I'd never heard of. It's called (Laolai Ditu) and it's a WeChat mini-program launched by the Hebei Higher People's Court. So already it's not a "China" app but a local initiative that's only functional in Hebei province. Secondly it has absolutely nothing to do with a "social credit score" which again doesn't exist in China. What this app does is flag the registered home addresses of people who are (dishonest judgment defaulters) meaning people who have defied court orders"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:03Z 370K followers, 396.1K engagements

"@HenrM_Cruz Not denigrating Portugal's success I was literally there X weeks ago but it's not the world's best economy by any measure. China deflation or not this year alone will grow by the equivalent of XXX% of Portugal's entire GDP (and is growing 2.5x faster than Portugal)"
X Link 2025-12-11T10:12Z 370K followers, XXX engagements

"Colombia's president Gustavo Petro: "The motto Liberty Equality Fraternity that was created by the French Revolution no longer has its place in Paris but in South Africa. That is the new reality." He isn't wrong. It's been the case for a while but if this war achieves anything it is to sound the death knell of the West's credibility when it comes to respecting human values. and showcases the fact that global South countries are in fact the credible ones. And I think there's no recovering from this - at least for a very long time - which is why this conflict is so important: it introduces a"
X Link 2024-01-20T03:21Z 369.7K followers, 283K engagements

"The story around China issuing USD-denominated sovereign bonds in Saudi Arabia is generating an enormous amount of buzz in China and could potentially be immensely important. I strongly suspect it's a message to the upcoming Trump administration. Let me explain what seems to be going on. On the face of it it's not a major story: China issued $X billion in USD-denominated sovereign bonds in Saudi Arabia which means that investors lent USD to the Chinese government that they promised to pay back. That's what a bond is. So far relatively boring. The first somewhat interesting aspect of it is"
X Link 2024-11-21T03:59Z 369.7K followers, 1.7M engagements

"Thinking about it ironically maybe the biggest victims of the Trump tariffs may end up being American companies. Take Apple for instance. These guys have spent decades building incredibly complex global supply chains that span dozens of countries. They can't just flip a switch and move everything back to America. Their supply network represents tens of billions in investment thousands of supplier relationships and logistics systems perfected over decades. Dismantling this overnight is impossible and building a comparable domestic alternative - which is the stated goal of the Trump tariffs -"
X Link 2025-04-03T16:06Z 369.7K followers, 206.6K engagements

"They're trying so hard to spin China's rare earth controls as some sort of unprovoked "attack on the world" 🤦♂ Which is pretty rich considering it's a reaction to Trump literally starting starting a trade war against the entire planet. The truth is that the immense majority of the world is cheering China here. From what I've been hearing that's even the case for the average European who wishes their leaders could respond the way China does instead of having to submit and be humiliated. China is actually doing the world a favor here by enforcing consequences that never existed before. Far"
X Link 2025-10-15T14:22Z 369.9K followers, 334K engagements

"Same robot - the Unitree G1 - that I filmed X days ago at the Web Summit in Lisbon 👇"
X Link 2025-11-15T09:24Z 369.8K followers, 28.3K engagements

"This is excellent an 1960 exchange between Khrushchev and De Gaulle: Khrushchev speaking about his Foreign Minister to de Gaulle: "Gromyko if I tell him to sit on a block of ice he sits until all the ice has melted." De Gaulle replied: "If I asked the same thing of Couve de Murville his foreign minister the ice wouldn't melt." As retold in the book "Couve de Murville Un prsident impossible" by Jean-Philippe de Garate"
X Link 2025-11-17T12:32Z 369.9K followers, 101.4K engagements

"That's incredibly ironic: the US spent years constructing an entire mythology around China's "debt trap" warning the Global South not to join the BRI or borrow from China but it now turns out THEY were by far the most eager customer of Chinese loans worldwide 😅 Which of course shows how disingenuous the entire narrative was: they never genuinely believed that these loans were predatory - they borrowed $XXX billion () themselves for a whole range of projects which shows the terms were genuinely attractive. In fact that's probably the reason: they developed the narrative because they"
X Link 2025-11-21T00:38Z 369.9K followers, 89K engagements

"This is interesting. A new study published in the US academic "Journal of Public Affairs" based on declassified CIA records and diplomatic archives finds that the 1962 India-China war was primarily instigated by the U.S. as part of a covert U.S. strategy. You can find the study here: I don't have direct access to it but I found summaries of it here and here The author Lakshmana Kumar of the Jindal School of International Affairs (India's first global policy school) explains that the US's strategy aimed at preventing Sino-India rapprochement (good old "divide and conquer") was designed to"
X Link 2025-11-22T08:01Z 369.8K followers, 163.3K engagements

"RT is completely wrong in presenting this as new information: the fact the Dalai Lama was a CIA asset has been known for decades and the US archives that show this have been online since 2009 (proof: You just needed to look it up"
X Link 2025-11-23T07:31Z 369.7K followers, 228.2K engagements

"Yup straight from the Kallas or Baerbock school of (lack of) diplomacy"
X Link 2025-12-03T02:16Z 369.7K followers, 195.4K engagements

"A long exception relative to its short history but yes you're right. In fact they do mention this in the document and basically say that the entire US strategy since the end of the cold war (of "permanent American domination of the entire world") was completely unrealistic and contrary to "the character of our nation""
X Link 2025-12-05T06:54Z 369.7K followers, 9336 engagements

"@TUVegeto137 Who's Brian Berletic It's basically the exact contrary of everything he's been saying but ok 😅"
X Link 2025-12-05T07:07Z 369.7K followers, 3749 engagements

"@MatthewMcCrac18 @imetatronink I doubt they'll retract the office National Security Strategy published by the White House that's been prepared for many months"
X Link 2025-12-05T07:52Z 369.7K followers, 6116 engagements

"@NeverGetMonged Looking at what they do the refocus on the Western hemisphere is pretty obvious: haven't you noticed what's going on with Venezuela"
X Link 2025-12-05T09:58Z 369.7K followers, 3989 engagements

"@ruima Great take And nice try by Bytedance 😄"
X Link 2025-12-05T10:01Z 369.7K followers, 3768 engagements

"@SzczypkaTom Bernard Arnault must be pretty pissed right now 😅"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:38Z 369.7K followers, 11.7K engagements

"What a weird comparison. All the more because in this case there IS actually a list: Chinese courts have "blacklists" of people who defied court orders to pay debts (the people flagged in this app). But there is no social credit score that evolves based on your every day actions that's just a myth"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:13Z 369.8K followers, 6006 engagements

"This is again an example of mixing up different things. There are some pedestrian crossings in China where if you jaywalk they'll take a picture of you and show it on a screen. Happened to me a couple of times 😅 But there are no consequences for you other than having your picture shown on the screen of that particular crossing for a few seconds it's basically extremely localized public shaming. It's certainly not linked to a "social credit score" which again doesn't exist"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:15Z 369.7K followers, XXX engagements

"That's not "credit score" there is no score: it's literally what I describe in the post people determined by a court to be "dishonest judgement defaulters". You don't land on this list "if you have debt": you do if you borrowed money don't repay get sued for it and the court determines that you're fraudulent because you have the ability to repay. At no point is a "score" involved. I'm pretty familiar with it given I personally know X people who are on this blacklist"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:17Z 369.8K followers, 1722 engagements

"You really don't get it. The claim is that China has a "social credit score" that tracks EVERYONE's every day behavior and fluctuates based on what everyone does in their daily lives. That doesn't exist at all. What DOES in fact exist is a blacklist where people can land after a court order and which indeed entails some restrictions (can't take plane or fast trains etc.). It's a completely different thing and unrelated to any score there is simply no score 🤷♂ It's not "word gymnastics" those are dramatically different things"
X Link 2025-12-09T05:57Z 369.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@Andrewingit You do understand that to call it a "social credit score" an actual "score" needs to exist right And it needs to be related to some "social" things you do Neither is the case"
X Link 2025-12-09T06:22Z 369.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Is this somehow sarcasm Because this has nothing to do with a "social credit score": if you could read Chinese (which I suspect you don't) you could see this describes a business credit infrastructure plan - enterprise credit information sharing SME lending support government contract compliance market supervision. This is just boring and fairly standard business regulation nothing even remotely resembling a universal score tracking every citizen's daily behavior"
X Link 2025-12-09T09:16Z 369.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@BombinMedia Yes social credit SYSTEM which is a business regulation (not for rating individuals' daily behavior) if you read your translation you'll see it's exactly what I wrote"
X Link 2025-12-09T09:22Z 369.7K followers, XXX engagements

"I not only have seen the stories I personally know X people who are banned from taking the fast train which is why I can very confidently guarantee you that it has nothing to do with a non-existent "social credit score". They can't take the train because as I explain in my post they were put - by a court of law after getting sued - on a "dishonest judgement defaulters" blacklist. The logic behind forbidding them to take the fast train (they can take slow trains) is that as people who are in defiance of a court order to repay creditors they aren't allowed things that are considered "luxury""
X Link 2025-12-09T13:10Z 369.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Ok I looked into this because sometimes claims that "China invents Y" can be somewhat exaggerated. But this is real and completely insane. This technology called "Bone 02" (inspired by the well-known "502 glue" in China) has been developed for the past X years by a team of orthopedic surgeons in Zhejiang province. The team leads are Professor Fan Shunwu ( Director of the Orthopedics Department at Zhejiang University) and Lin Xianfeng It's inspired by oysters because the researchers noticed their extraordinary ability to firmly attach themselves in harsh underwater environment by secreting a"
X Link 2025-09-29T02:00Z 369.9K followers, 13.2M engagements

"Meanwhile Chinese astronauts are barbecuing chicken wings in space"
X Link 2025-11-04T01:38Z 369.9K followers, 671K engagements

"This is probably one of the most interesting and revealing industrial stories of the year. This car 👇 the 2026 version of France's Renault Twingo is the first Western car engineered in China and made in Europe - a complete reversal of what used to be. The challenge that Renault wanted to tackle is how to compete with Chinese EVs which are best-in-class in affordability and speed-to-market. Specifically they wanted to develop an EV car from scratch in less than X years (when it normally takes X years to develop a new car for European auto makers) and be able to sell the car profitably for"
X Link 2025-11-19T01:42Z 369.9K followers, 560.1K engagements

"@tyrconnal Just check the Wikipedia page for it it's written in the intro that it's a myth 👇:"
X Link 2025-12-09T10:50Z 369.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Those are egregious lies by the CTO of Palantir: there is no "historical" East Turkestan. The name "East Turkistan" was invented by the Russians in the 19th century (specifically by Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin: in order to replace the term "Chinese Turkestan." They wanted to remove the term "Chinese" from it in order to align the nomenclature with Russian imperial interests in Central Asia during their 19th-century expansion and their colonization of China. There was a very briefly existing "East Turkestan Republic" from 1944 to 1949 that was explicitly a Soviet satellite state and which"
X Link 2025-12-01T03:20Z 370K followers, 113.7K engagements

"@carlo_5518 I did write "proposed" changes but given the emergency clearance already granted for some changes and the executive order mandate behind these proposals treating them as likely to happen isn't unreasonable"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:54Z 370K followers, 69.6K engagements

"This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet unfortunately barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui () a child genius who had reportedly mastered Chinese characters by age X. At XX years old heartbroken by her husband who left her for another woman she decided to encode her feelings in a structure so intricate so beautiful so intellectually staggering that it still baffles scholars to this day. Came to be known as the Xuanji Tu () - the "Star Gauge" or "Map of the"
X Link 2025-12-12T03:08Z 370K followers, 194.8K engagements

"If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth) they should be beyond appalled by this "deal": It's nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits The "deal" is: - The EU now gets charged XX% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU - The EU agrees to invest $XXX billion in the US for no other obvious reason than pleasing "daddy" - The EU will "purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment" - The EU"
X Link 2025-07-27T21:10Z 369.9K followers, 4.1M engagements

"Yesterday we had a fascinating tour of the ICC in The Hague with the opportunity to speak with some senior people there. The main reflection I get from the visit is that this place is a fascinating - yet tragic - illustration of the paradox between our ability to institutionalize idealism and our inability to surrender cynicism. In many ways this place is a monument to what we could be if we weren't what we are. First of all there's no overstating how ambitious - even idealistic - the vision for the ICC is. When you think about it it's even incredible it ever got created: a court that can"
X Link 2025-08-19T18:01Z 369.9K followers, 265.1K engagements

"While everyone focuses on the Charlie Kirk story this deserves at least equal attention: the U.S. military in collusion with the South Korean government maintained during decades a system where tens of thousands of women were forced into sexual servitude for U.S. soldiers many of whom were minors. This isn't speculation: the South Korean supreme court ruled in 2022 that the government had illegally operated these brothels in a way where the women were subjected to debt bondage and unable to leave. In fact as per the New York Times "all the women in this system were held in debt bondage" so"
X Link 2025-09-11T07:53Z 370K followers, 1.8M engagements

"I was studying other times in history when gold prices more than doubled in the reserve currency of the time as they did in the past year: it's rare and almost always a sign of a profound loss of confidence in the existing monetary and political order going all the way back to the Roman empire (the so-called "Crisis of the Third Century"). And it often marked the transition from one era of power to the next: the fall of Rome Spain's decline from world power the French Revolution and Terror the end of Bretton Woods etc. Interestingly it's often actually as much a cause as a sign of these"
X Link 2025-10-07T04:13Z 370K followers, 4.8M engagements

"Here's a question I know many are wondering about: why did China wait until now to use rare earths as leverage against the US Why not in the first Trump administration when the US started the trade hostilities Or when the Biden administration unleashed the chips export controls X years ago I just watched a fascinating explanation by a Chinese analyst and unexpectedly a big part of the explanation is. helium. I had no idea but as he explains (source here: all the way until 2022 China imported XX% of its helium and most of it was controlled by the US. Of the world's ten largest helium producers"
X Link 2025-10-12T06:53Z 369.9K followers, 2.3M engagements

"This is probably the most important geopolitical question in the world right now: for how long can China play the rare earths card Its now well established this gives China considerable leverage. For one thing the frantic state of panic of US Treasury Secretary Bessent over the past couple of days is a pretty big tell: he publicly insulted senior Chinese officials over the move lobbied for emergency powers said this was a Chinese attack on the world and that it would meet a fulsome group response from the U.S. and its allies If thats not Washington being rattled I dont know what is. What"
X Link 2025-10-17T08:12Z 369.9K followers, 395K engagements

"Absolutely extraordinary paper by RAND the main think tank of the US military-industrial complex and another key sign that the U.S. deep state - despite all the chaos and noise - is shifting away from deterring China towards accepting coexistence (it's literally what they recommend in the paper). These are the X most important recommendations in the paper (which link is here: X. Rejecting the false belief that a victory is possible in the China-US rivalry and accepting the legitimacy of the Communist Party: They write that the U.S. should "clarify U.S. objectives in the rivalry with language"
X Link 2025-10-25T11:42Z 370K followers, 1.4M engagements

"Wonder what was on the paper to make Xi laugh so hard. Maybe Trump's plan to replace Chinese rare earths 😏"
X Link 2025-10-31T12:36Z 370K followers, 232.3K engagements

"Undoubtedly the most impressive household humanoid robot demo Ive seen so far. This video is not AI not sped up and the robot is not teleoperated. This is real. It's the Unitree G1 humanoid robot (which anyone can buy today) with its "brain" and movements run on MindOn Robotics (@MindOn_Tech) a Shenzhen-based startup that specializes in humanoid robots' "cognition." Granted we're not yet there the movements still look like those of a guy with significant substance abuse issues (😋) but it's still very impressive. It shows once more that China is far ahead of the pack when it comes to humanoid"
X Link 2025-11-15T09:20Z 370K followers, 124.1K engagements

"In a normal world this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou a French judge at the ICC in The Hague due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google Amazon Apple or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce since he can't know if the"
X Link 2025-11-20T03:47Z 370K followers, 3.9M engagements

"Absolutely unbelievable. Kaja Kallas with another egregious piece of historical revisionism: "In the last XXX years Russia has attacked more than XX countries. None of these countries has ever attacked Russia." WW2 didn't happen folks it's Russian disinformation apparently 🤷 And yes it's the same Kaja Kallas who was claiming just X months ago that Russia and China weren't among the winners of WW2 and that only people who "don't read or remember history that much" thought this was the case (reposted below)"
X Link 2025-11-27T12:02Z 370K followers, 731.3K engagements

"You'll never be able to top this level of cynicism: Israel condemns China's treatment of Muslims whilst conducting a genocide in Gaza and a global propaganda campaign on the supposed "threat" Muslims pose to "Western civilization". Src:"
X Link 2025-11-28T11:04Z 370K followers, 217.6K engagements

"If you believe that US-backed regime change in Venezuela will turn the country into a "beacon of liberty" you're historically illiterate. First of all there's a long and well-documented history of US-led regime change in Latin America and the end result in the overwhelming majority of the cases is ruthless military dictatorships (Chile with Pinochet Guatemala with Carlos Castillo Armas and later Efran Ros Montt Brazil with XX years of military rule under generals like Castelo Branco and Mdici Argentina with Jorge Rafael Videla's junta Bolivia with Hugo Banzer's dictatorship etc.) Which is the"
X Link 2025-12-02T01:34Z 370K followers, 268.4K engagements

"That's the strength of the Chinese market: Zootopia X was released globally last Wednesday and so far XX% of its global revenue comes from China. It shows that when they embrace a product the size of the Chinese market is the same as the rest of the world combined. Src:"
X Link 2025-12-02T06:19Z 370K followers, 137.7K engagements

"It also shows how companies can become the world's biggest with essentially the Chinese market alone. Like Mixue 👇 World's largest fast food chain: 45k stores including 37k stores in China alone and not a single store in Europe or the US"
X Link 2025-12-02T06:25Z 370K followers, 64.6K engagements

"This is unreal. The new Japanese PM just told an audience of Saudi investors quoting from a manga: "Just shut your mouths and invest everything in me" Even worse in said manga - "Attack on Titan" - the character saying that line (Eren Yeager: ends up dying while attempting to kill all of humanity outside his island nation ("Paradis Island"). Not exactly a great character to emulate when you're Japan - an island nation with a long history of imperial expansion and atrocities. Very awkward and disturbing on multiple levels. Official transcript of the speech on the PM's website:"
X Link 2025-12-03T02:02Z 370K followers, 2.4M engagements

"Probably the most telling fact about this new made-up Russian "President in exile" is that he was one of the XX funeral pallbearers for John McCain chosen by McCain himself. Fact: He was also released from prison in Russia (where he was held for treason) as part of the 2024 Ankara prisoner exchange with the US alongside the WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich. In other words you could hardly find a more textbook US asset. Which means parading him as Russia's "president in exile" is essentially a self-defeating exercise that alienates ordinary Russians by confirming every narrative about external"
X Link 2025-12-03T03:40Z 370K followers, 116.9K engagements

""Could be about to betray Ukraine" The US betrayed Ukraine years ago the moment it propped it up as a proxy against Russia. What Trump is doing now is dealing with the failure of this betrayal trying to make Europe (and Ukraine of course) bear all the costs for it. In effect as is his habit Trump is merely pulling open the curtains on the naked truth: a proxy relationship contains the implicit promise of abandonment and the U.S. has a long history of doing just this (South Vietnam the Kurds Afghanistan - twice etc.). Which means Trump isn't adding a new betrayal he's delivering on the"
X Link 2025-12-05T01:46Z 370K followers, 70.7K engagements

"This is big. The final U.S. National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the U.S.'s number X priority saying that the U.S. will now "assert and enforce a 'Trump Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine." In terms of military presence they write that this means "a readjustment of our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere and away from theaters whose relative import to American national security has declined in recent decades or years." On China a couple"
X Link 2025-12-05T06:29Z 370K followers, 1M engagements

"The section on Europe in the U.S. National Defense Strategy demonstrates just about zero respect for European sovereignty. In many ways it's even more hostile than towards China. In particular they will make it their priority to "cultivate resistance to Europes current trajectory within European nations": how insane is that The U.S. effectively wants to regime change Europe. I'm the first guy to say that the current EU leadership is horrendous but precisely because they're just spineless vassals with no independent voice or respect for their own countries' interests. If the U.S. wanted to"
X Link 2025-12-05T10:42Z 370K followers, 56.4K engagements

"Japan's Asahi Shimbun the country's newspaper of record confirms the existence of a bizarre paid anti-China propaganda scheme where AI-generated Westerners would narrate fictional bad experiences with Chinese people for Japanese viewers. People were offered "from 1500 to 5000 yen per script and 2000 to 7000 yen for editing" videos that bash China and present the Chinese as a "nuisance" and as "lacking in morals" through the mouths of fictional Westerners. The jobs required that applicants making the videos should be "people who love Japan and hate China." The videos belonged to Japan's"
X Link 2025-12-07T05:51Z 370K followers, 336.5K engagements

"When you're so extreme that even The Telegraph thinks you're too fanatically anti-Russia: They argue that Kallas has "chosen ideological purity over practical diplomacy" and is "Estonianising" Europes foreign policy. Which in the end serves no-one especially not Ukraine. Iuliia Mendel former press secretary to Volodymyr Zelensky is quoted as saying: "Many who reflexively oppose every peace proposal believe they are defending Ukraine. With all respect that is the clearest proof they have no idea what is actually happening on the front lines and inside the country right now." The article"
X Link 2025-12-07T14:24Z 370K followers, 106.1K engagements

"This really speaks to Macron's staggering diplomatic incompetence. The guy just spent X days in China and was given nearly unprecedented access to Xi Jinping who personally accompanied him to Chengdu on a touristic visit something that almost never happens. To my knowledge no US president was ever given this level of respect for instance. What does he do the very moment he arrives back in France literally the day after Threaten China to follow the US with similar style tariffs. Even Trump hardly a model of diplomatic competency managed to secure a mutually beneficial deal with Xi after just"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:14Z 370K followers, 553.3K engagements

"This is pretty funny. Trump said that Xi asked him "Is that a Trump statement or is that real" after he'd told him that US soybeans were more nutritious than competitors"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:02Z 370K followers, 249.3K engagements

"He spent less than X weeks in prison and his biggest claim of "suffering" was that he mostly fed himself with yogurts because he was afraid his food had been spat in. Not kidding"
X Link 2025-12-09T06:03Z 370K followers, 33.2K engagements

""Thanks but no thanks we've got our own chips now thanks to your previous export ban""
X Link 2025-12-09T13:23Z 370K followers, 70.5K engagements

"This is a genuinely incredible story that really shows how much more China keeps its eye on the ball than the West. So a European startup called IB2 announced in the US the invention of an amazing new technology to upgrade low-grade bauxite - previously discarded as waste - into high-grade which makes it usable to make aluminum and extract critical minerals like gallium lithium and rare earths in the process. In the current context you'd think either Europe or the US would be all over it right Wrong. Somehow the first facility that startup ended up building is in Shanxi China - built in"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:58Z 370K followers, 114.8K engagements

"@jynpang @DefenseOne That was my thinking too: going forward Indonesia will be much more consequential than Japan plus it's important to have at least one ASEAN member in there"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:30Z 370K followers, 3224 engagements

"Oh the irony Especially given their rhetoric on "free speech" vis a vis Europe. Incidentally this is something we often believe China is doing but that's not true at all: I researched it and there's never been a case of a tourist stopped at the Chinese border for what they posted on social media (they don't ask don't check and don't care). So we're now in a world where the US ironically might have the singlemost restrictive policy on free speech in the world when it comes to this"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:08Z 370K followers, 128.8K engagements

"Great explanation of the China-Japan altercation by Chas Freeman imho the wisest diplomat ever produced by the US (he's had many roles including Asst. Secretary of Defense and famously the main interpreter for Nixon during his epochal 1972 China visit) He first describes in his speech the origin of the altercation as being "Japan's threat to extend its defense perimeter to include Taiwan." Afterwards he goes into a longer explanation in the Q&A in which he said: "Prime Minister Takaichi. answered a hypothetical question in the Diet by suggesting that Taiwan was now once again part of Japan"
X Link 2025-12-11T02:40Z 370K followers, 97.3K engagements

"Have you considered you "Raptors Slander NBA Truth" that maybe Chas Freeman - probably the single senior US official who best understands Asia and has followed developments there as an insider for about XX years - understands these matters better than you You're basically parroting the basic propaganda we can read in mainstream media"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:32Z 370K followers, XXX engagements

"This refers to this NYT story in which they reveal there now exists an "overmatch brief" at the Pentagon that details China vs US military power. The name says it all. Apparently when a senior US official read the brief he turned pale as he realized that every trick we had up our sleeve the Chinese had redundancy after redundancy"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:51Z 370K followers, 79.4K engagements

"Insanely submitting your past X years' social media to enter the U.S. as a tourist is only a small part of the proposed upcoming requirements. You'll also need to give your DNA () among many other new requirements. All the additional info you'll need to give as a tourist eligible for ESTA (meaning those tourists who don't need a visa for instance from EU UK Australia Japan and other Visa Waiver countries): - All social media accounts from the last X years - All your biometrics: face fingerprint DNA and iris - All your phone numbers from the last X years - All your email addresses from the"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:20Z 370K followers, 3.1M engagements

"@st_aubrun I don't think so just your handles. In any case breaking news they don't need your passwords they already have all your DMs 😅"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:40Z 370K followers, 104.7K engagements

"Surprised by the amount of people replying who think their "private" info on social media is actually private. So public service announcement: if you're a non-US citizen nothing is private. US law like Section XXX of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) stipulates that US authorities can ask to see anything and social media companies are required to give it. They don't even need a warrant or probable cause (and they obviously don't need your passwords)"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:13Z 370K followers, 167.8K engagements

"@leonidragozin The tragedy of having leaders who don't understand basic International Relations concepts like the security dilemma"
X Link 2025-12-12T00:29Z 370K followers, 3330 engagements

"This is extraordinarily embarrassing: Kaja Kallas the EU Foreign Policy head doesn't even seem to be aware that Russia and China were among the winners of WW2. Immensely ironically she dismisses it as "something new" and propaganda for people who "don't read or remember history that much" 🤦♂ Not sure how she explains how Russia and China got their permanent seat at the UN Security Council 🤷♂"
X Link 2025-09-04T13:21Z 370K followers, 1.3M engagements

"This is a genuinely incredible story: China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its entire future for 20000 years - and they just made it work. I'm not exaggerating. In the 1960s the U.S. - specifically Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee - invented a revolutionary type of nuclear reactor that could run on thorium instead of uranium (much more abundant and cheaper) with no meltdown risk generating 50x less waste and requiring no water. Then due to messy politics they killed the program in 1969 and fired the visionary behind it. Afterwards the declassified"
X Link 2025-11-06T15:11Z 370K followers, 1.8M engagements

"Nvidia's Jensen Huang at a private gathering in Taipei said he believed that "by 2027 China's AI computing power will surpass the combined total of all other countries worldwide." 🤯"
X Link 2025-11-07T17:26Z 370K followers, 150.9K engagements

"I'm always surprised how little people know about Mao's actual economic record. Most - like Melissa here 👇- repeat the standard narrative: he kept China poor and it's only after Deng Xiaoping opened up China that the country experienced economic growth. Basically the idea is that China succeeded despite Mao (and often as Melissa claims despite the Party altogether) rather than because of anything that happened during his tenure. The only problem is that it's completely false. The truth - which I know challenges much of what's been told in the West - is that Mao's economic record was actually"
X Link 2025-11-19T09:42Z 370K followers, 457.3K engagements

"We're on the edge of Europe's most humiliating moment in history. The White House is apparently about to achieve a comprehensive peace deal with Russia which Kirill Dmitriev the Russian negotiator say is "a much broader framework than just a ceasefire agreement basically saying 'How do we really bring finally lasting security to Europe not just Ukraine.'" So in effect it looks like this is an agreement which redraws the entire European security architecture. The thing however is that Europeans are NOT part of the discussions and when asked about them the White House replied: We don't really"
X Link 2025-11-20T02:22Z 370K followers, 536.3K engagements

"I had hoped I was wrong with my post X days ago 👇 but it looks like we are indeed on the edge of Europe's most humiliating moment in history. I went in detail through all the XX points of Trump's proposed "peace" plan for Ukraine as well as Europe's counterproposal and some of the clauses proposed by the U.S. are just unbelievable. Take points X and XX of the Trump plan for instance: - Point 4: "A dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO mediated by the United States to resolve all security issues and create conditions for de-escalation in order to ensure global security and increase"
X Link 2025-11-24T14:07Z 370K followers, 306.9K engagements

"It looks like Trump didn't understand the immensely consequential importance of his call with Xi. Or if he did he's hiding it very well. This was the first call EVER requested by Xi to a U.S. president. It never happened before all previous calls had been made at the Americans' request. In fact the only other instance in recent decades when a Chinese leader initiated contact with an American president was on Sept. XX 2001 when then-President Jiang Zemin sent a telegram of condolence to then-President Bush So already this in and of itself is extraordinarily unusual. Secondly according to the"
X Link 2025-11-25T04:54Z 370K followers, 1.2M engagements

"Ouch that's going to hurt a lot of feelings : Michel Bettane probably France's most respected wine critic and the founder of the "Bettane & Desseauve's Guide to the Wines of France" just said after a wine tasting tour in China that Chinese wines now outshine France in winemaking standards. His exact words (from after a wine-tasting tour of China during which he evaluated more than XXX premium Chinese wines: We encountered almost no wines with serious flaws the overall solidity of the winemaking standard is in fact superior to what we often find in our annual tastings in France. I really"
X Link 2025-11-30T04:06Z 370K followers, 191.3K engagements

"This really shows the extent to which its narrative on Xinjiang has actually backfired on the U.S. They recently released at the UN a "Joint Statement on the Human Rights Situation in China" on the topic which China responded to with its own joint statement entitled "Opposing the Politicization of Human Rights" Besides the US only XX countries signed their statement including Israel which tells you everything you need to know about this group's actual commitment to "human rights" especially towards Muslims. The other signatories are X European small states (Albania Czechia Estonia Latvia"
X Link 2025-12-01T02:13Z 370K followers, 110.8K engagements

"This is scary: NATO's top military officer - Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone - told the Financial Times they're studying a hybrid warfare "pre-emptive strike" against Russia something he repeated twice in the article Even scarier he's saying in the article that NATO is studying how to make a "pre-emptive strike" be considered a "defensive action" which is textbook Orwellian: by definition a pre-emptive strike is striking first before being attacked which is anything but defensive. Growing up in France during the relatively peaceful 1980s and 1990s I was always wondering in my history classes"
X Link 2025-12-02T03:55Z 370K followers, 113.4K engagements

"This is a legit hilarious article by the former Foreign Minister of Lithuania which shows the extent to which some European elites are COMPLETELY confused about the world we live in (with in his case a very strong dose of disingenuity). First of all his main thesis as per the title is that China somehow made a conscious decision to NOT do a Kissinger to split Europe from America. This is hilarious because of course as is obvious to anyone paying even cursory attention to what's going on there IS in fact a split happening between Europe and America. Which and this is the weirdest aspect of his"
X Link 2025-12-04T06:19Z 370K followers, 97.7K engagements

"The irony is we don't even qualify as an "emerging country": we'd actually need to be emerging"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:33Z 370K followers, 81K engagements

"I know I've already mentioned it a few times but the 12345 hotline in China is genuinely an incredible public service. That's a great example of how it can be used The concept is that if you have any issue ANY that the local government can solve you call this one number - 12345 - anywhere in China and they have a legal obligation to treat your case and solve it one way or another. For instance in Beijing municipality alone they processed XX million cases last year with a XXXX% case resolution rate I used it many times myself especially when I was travelling around the country during Covid."
X Link 2025-12-04T14:11Z 370K followers, 225.8K engagements

"Wow. The US set 2027 as a deadline for "Europe-led NATO defense." This comes in the context of the release of the US's National Security Strategy yesterday which is somewhat contradictory on Europe. On the one hand they write that Europe has become ideologically alien to the U.S. that it's facing a "real and stark prospect of civilizational erasure" so much so that their priority is to now "cultivate resistance to Europes current trajectory within European nations." In effect the message is "we hate what you've become and want to change you." On the other hand they write that they want Europe"
X Link 2025-12-06T03:58Z 370K followers, 85K engagements

"This is really interesting. I've long argued that even though we elevate "freedom" as our cardinal value in the West boasting that we're the "free world" vs the supposedly unfree one we in fact largely don't understand what freedom is. We typically mix up "freedom" with personal freedom that is your right to act on individual desires (what philosophers call "negative liberty"). But we typically forget that this "freedom" is largely meaningless if you concretely don't have the material conditions to exercise it. Take the latest Gallup "Global Safety Report" which was published recently They"
X Link 2025-12-07T04:29Z 370K followers, 104.4K engagements

"Macron is DOUBLY incompetent because he doesn't even have the power to act on his threat and as a matter of fact the Germans just rejected the concept 👇 So he ends up antagonizing both China AND his European partners (by speaking on their behalf when they obviously don't agree). All for what Absolutely nothing 🤷♂"
X Link 2025-12-09T09:01Z 370K followers, 13.6K engagements

"Surprisingly it might actually not be a "Trump statement" but very much real"
X Link 2025-12-09T11:55Z 370K followers, 23.7K engagements

"Sjourn is a prime example of the thoroughly incompetent and weak men now governing Europe. The guy never worked a day of his life in the real world and started his short career in 2017 as a political advisor to Macron but somehow now finds himself in charge of "Prosperity and Industrial Strategy" for the entire EU. This particular interview is so illustrative of his utterly confused and incoherent strategic thinking. He describes showing up to negotiate for rare earths from a Brazilian mine only to learn the Americans had arrived three days earlier "put money on the table" and bought"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:26Z 370K followers, 179.1K engagements

"This is big: @DefenseOne claim there's another classified and longer version of the US's National Security Strategy which calls for creating a new global governance body - meant as an equivalent to the G7 - called the Core X or C5 made up of the U.S. China Russia India and Japan. They write that they themselves reviewed the document so I think it's fair to assume it's not fake news. The importance of this news is probably more about what it says about US intentions as I find it hard to imagine this actually materializing with that group of countries (because of the China-Japan tensions for"
X Link 2025-12-10T05:28Z 370K followers, 87K engagements

"@Landseaandtext For all its faults Europe actually does NOT check social media at the border so in that respect at least there's more free speech"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:14Z 370K followers, 3607 engagements

"Wow this is quite something: the British Navy is retreating from the Indo-Pacific theatre. Within less than a week after the release of the US National Security Strategy that basically blew up the transatlantic alliance hard to see a coincidence. Src:"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:11Z 370K followers, 91.6K engagements

"@CarlZha I checked he was: Revisionism is definitely alive and well in Japan. As per Wikipedia he also "denies that women were forced by the Empire of Japan into sex work as 'comfort women' and that the Nanjing Massacre occurred.""
X Link 2025-12-10T13:52Z 370K followers, 5405 engagements

"Denmark's intelligence service list the US as a threat in their annual report for the first time in history: Which makes sense given the US want to annex XX% of their territory (i.e. Greenland)"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:19Z 370K followers, 41.2K engagements

"Franco-German media Arte same documentary on the West Bank. French title: "Occupied territory the roads of annexation" German title: "Why is Israel building new roads in the West Bank New roads for the West Bank" It's real. French video: German video: The French frame it as occupation and annexation. If you read the longer video description they write: "Highways tunnels viaducts park-and-ride facilities the Hebrew state is investing considerable sums in this occupied territory. These roads are the engine of colonization." The Germans however frame it as a mere infrastructure buildup. The"
X Link 2025-12-11T06:01Z 370K followers, 77.3K engagements

"An instant The Economist classic. They literally excluded China from their "ranking of the world's biggest economies" (and India and Russia and Brazil and Indonesia etc.) If you exclude most big economies from a "biggest economies" ranking it's pretty unsurprising that smaller economies like France will fare better 😅 The truthful message here is "France still ranked only 11th in our ranking of the world's biggest economies despite us excluding most of the world's biggest economies from it.""
X Link 2025-12-11T08:24Z 370K followers, 71.4K engagements

"@visjevangen China doesn't have any of these requirements you just need your passport to go there as a tourist from a visa waiver country that's literally just it"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:52Z 370K followers, 10.4K engagements

"@sarahemclaugh Sold now I want to buy Miiloo for my daughters 😊"
X Link 2025-12-12T04:08Z 370K followers, 3220 engagements