#  @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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### Social Influence
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[countries](/list/countries) #4754 [finance](/list/finance) 5.88% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 4.95% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 4.02% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 2.79% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 1.86% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.24% [currencies](/list/currencies) #402 [musicians](/list/musicians) 0.31% [financial services](/list/financial-services) 0.31%
**Social topic influence**
[china](/topic/china) #257, [this is](/topic/this-is) 17.34%, [in the](/topic/in-the) #2483, [israel](/topic/israel) 11.46%, [history](/topic/history) #3492, [the world](/topic/the-world) #3164, [the most](/topic/the-most) #788, [hamas](/topic/hamas) 5.57%, [if you](/topic/if-you) #3295, [france](/topic/france) 4.95%
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### Top Social Posts
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"@umm_zahide They've not been crushed in the least. Unlike you I happen to have gone to Tibet. It's been so "crushed" that they even allow child monks 👇 something that's considered unthinkable in Western "freedom of religion" societies"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020785383227658667) 2026-02-09T09:02Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy. Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers the main agency advising Biden on economic policy"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1786272981058220187) 2024-05-03T05:54Z 381.2K followers, 15.4M 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](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1996037313353458174) 2025-12-03T02:02Z 381.2K followers, 2.4M engagements
"As a European I'm actually grateful to Kishore for saying this: he expresses a view that almost everyone in a position of power outside Europe has but that few dare say. As a result people like Macron or Mertz believe - wrongly - that they're admired by their peers outside Europe when it's simply not the case: they're largely seen as self-harming fools who can't think strategically nor govern properly. Nothing worse than a fool who doesn't realize everyone is quietly mocking them behind his back. Kishore is doing the decent thing by stating the truth plainly. The quality of mind of European"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019652758534852852) 2026-02-06T06:01Z 381.2K followers, 78.1K engagements
"@VictorKoppe @FranceskAlbs Yup France has completely lost its soul and betrays its history"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022653611621388308) 2026-02-14T12:46Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't think I'm exaggerating by saying that this truly is the US's Suez moment: Saudi Arabia just entered into a NATO-like alliance with Pakistan whereby "any attack on either country is an attack on both." The symbolic is extraordinary: Saudi Arabia was in many ways THE poster child of US client states. If they no longer trusts American security guarantees why should anyone else And of course the fact this actually happened and wasn't prevented by the U.S. is immensely telling in and of itself. This has so many other consequences that it's almost too much to fathom: - First of all it means"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1968541972790132829) 2025-09-18T05:05Z 381.2K followers, 2.4M engagements
"Many people aren't aware that Seedance the insanely good new AI video generation tool is made by Bytedance TikTok's parent company (well if one excludes TikTok U.S. now.). As I wrote [--] weeks ago Bytedance is now - by far - the world's largest AI company in terms of usage: far bigger than OpenAI Google or Microsoft. They process [--] trillion tokens a day which is unbelievable scale: OpenAI's entire API is less than [--] trillion tokens per day. Everyone somehow focuses on Deepseek when it comes to AI in China but Deepseek actually isn't super popular in the country: Doubao Bytedance's"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021794895397368201) 2026-02-12T03:54Z 381.2K followers, 212.8K engagements
"The only one actually doing propaganda here is you Dennis and you are - in fact - losing. You can't keep telling the world "don't believe your lying eyes": eventually the more people go to China the more they'll realize the insane extent to which they've been lied to. The "Potemkin village" China narrative only works when people don't actually visit the village. And no Chinese modernity obviously isn't limited to 5-star hotels in Beijing and a Xiaomi factory. For one thing China now has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined: if that's all for the purpose of fooling"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022502684406988863) 2026-02-14T02:46Z 381.2K followers, 45.9K engagements
"@joequant First thing I saw when I arrived at the airport in Cambodia last night a display of Hongqi cars 👇😊"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022553245135302935) 2026-02-14T06:07Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"First of all this "biggest military built-up since WW2" narrative is complete gaslighting: China's military expenditure as a share of its GDP has actually been going down over the years 👇 It currently stands at 1.7% of GDP which is far below even the 2% minimum the US insists NATO countries meet - and [--] times less () the 5% that NATO countries just agreed to at Trump's insistence. If China asked to join NATO it'd be refused because it doesn't spend **enough** Of course given that China's GDP keeps growing absolute expenditures do too so there is a "buildup" in absolute terms. But I'd love to"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022852208643936334) 2026-02-15T01:55Z 381.2K followers, 40.9K engagements
"Exactly that's 👇 the "why" https://x.com/i/status/2022876432117174466 @RnaudBertrand Over the past century and more every major country now in NATO has invaded China at some point. Tens of millions of Chinese people lost their lives as a result and China was reduced by war to being one of the poorest countries in the world. Based on this painful history the https://x.com/i/status/2022876432117174466 @RnaudBertrand Over the past century and more every major country now in NATO has invaded China at some point. Tens of millions of Chinese people lost their lives as a result and China was"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022900822452158853) 2026-02-15T05:08Z 381.2K followers, 11.3K engagements
"I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza: Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable and destroy Palestinian civil society. Places destroyed are homes mosques schools hospitals cemeteries historical landmarks supermarkets etc. Everything that makes up a community. Complete disconnect from the stated goal of fighting Hamas. https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/jan/30/how-war-destroyed-gazas-neighbourhoods-visual-investigation"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1752714741250974034) 2024-01-31T15:25Z 381.2K followers, 5.6M engagements
""U.S. lawmakers are trying to bar Chinese biotech companies over fears about Americas failure to compete with China in the industry" Practical: if your competitor is better than you ban them from the race. But also very short-sighted. https://fortune.com/2024/02/19/us-lawmakers-bills-bar-chinese-biotech-companies-fears-america-failure-compete-china/ https://fortune.com/2024/02/19/us-lawmakers-bills-bar-chinese-biotech-companies-fears-america-failure-compete-china/"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1760552882397643002) 2024-02-22T06:31Z 381.1K followers, 27.4K engagements
"There is no overstating just how absolutely insane this is. There is no precedent - NONE - of a state deliberately bombing an embassy. It didn't even happen during WW1 WW2 or even the 19th century. Heck even during the medieval era and Roman empire the protection of envoys and messengers - even from enemy states - was a recognized norm. The only other historical instance was NATO bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in [----] killing [--] Chinese journalists but the U.S. profusely apologized Bill Clinton publicly said it was a mistake (something China still doesn't believe to this day)"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1774978887157743626) 2024-04-02T01:55Z 381.2K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Update: it's now official in a just-released communiqu Macron has rejected a government led by the New Popular Front (NPF). It's an unprecedented situation in the history of the 5th French Republic: the loser in the election effectively rejects yielding power to the winner. He explains it by the fact that his "responsibility is to ensure that the country be neither blocked nor weakened" arguing that were he to nominate a NPF government they'd soon be censored by parliament and destituded. That may be the case but still this awfully inconvenient fact remains: Macron's party got way less votes"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1828169812738220402) 2024-08-26T20:37Z 381.2K followers, 4.5M 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 $2 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](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1859446480198828360) 2024-11-21T03:59Z 381.1K followers, 1.7M engagements
"This is a genuinely psychopathic comment by Vance at the Munich Security Conference: The U.S. has been by far the most instrumental force in Germany's growing deindustrialization including by literally blowing up their most critical energy infrastructure and now the guy - without a hint of irony - slams them for deindustrializing. This new administration feels like it's operating in a reality distortion field where they put the onus for anything their own country helped engineer back onto their victims. https://x.com/JMihaljevic/status/1890329289427698082/video/1"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1890692732676604386) 2025-02-15T09:20Z 381K followers, 1.1M 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](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1907827106337452168) 2025-04-03T16:06Z 381K followers, 206.7K engagements
"I just read this WSJ article on why Europe's tech scene is so much smaller than the US's and China's. I'm afraid that like most articles on this topic it largely misses the mark. Which in itself illustrates a key reason why Europe is lagging behind: when you fail to understand the root causes of an issue you have zero chance to solve it. What makes me competent to speak on this topic Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s I founded and led HouseTrip which at the time was one of Europe's top startups. We were the first historical startup in which all top [--] VC investors in Europe invested. So I"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1925029185052917791) 2025-05-21T03:21Z 380.8K followers, 834.9K engagements
"Canadian man had been waiting [--] months for an MRI appointment in Canada. Ended up doing it in China during a vacation: all it took was a couple of hours and RMB [----] (about $140). I systematically do the same when I travel to China myself I always use the opportunity to do health tests. I've experienced Chinese public hospitals literally dozens of times and I've done virtually all health tests imaginable. Not once has it taken me more than half a day between my arrival at the hospital and getting the test done. And it typically costs 10-20 times less than what it'd cost in the West. The"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1932220111907377277) 2025-06-09T23:35Z 381.1K followers, 636.4K 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 15% 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 $600 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1949578088712712651) 2025-07-27T21:10Z 381.2K followers, 4.1M engagements
"This is without exaggerating one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies" Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an American "sovereign wealth fund" (his words) "directing" them "largely at the US president's discretion" how to use their money in order to build American factories and reshore American industries. Even the Fox News host can't believe it calling it "offshore appropriation" another word for theft. That's exactly what it is:"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1955575252324433977) 2025-08-13T10:20Z 381.1K followers, 3.4M engagements
"Your regular reminder that Vietnam occupies and has militarized far more disputed territory in the South China Sea and started doing so way earlier but we never hear of it because it's inconvenient to the narrative that this is all a China issue. Src: https://amti.csis.org/no-islet-left-behind-vietnam-reclaims-land-at-every-remaining-spratly-outpost/ https://amti.csis.org/no-islet-left-behind-vietnam-reclaims-land-at-every-remaining-spratly-outpost/"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1959892468784132203) 2025-08-25T08:15Z 381.1K followers, 33.8K engagements
"@kainXenable And Foreign Policy which actually published the article is also a "Chinese tool" I can't help it if reality agrees with China. My advice: burying your head in the sand and wishful thinking that the US is still leading doesn't help in the least"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1963548037541712122) 2025-09-04T10:21Z 381.1K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Meanwhile Chinese astronauts are barbecuing chicken wings in space"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1985522029102289010) 2025-11-04T01:38Z 381K followers, 677.4K 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](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1996477454874186009) 2025-12-04T07:11Z 381.1K followers, 386.5K 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 [----] to [----] yen per script and [----] to [----] 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](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1997544439481290985) 2025-12-07T05:51Z 380.9K followers, 345.2K engagements
"That's funny walking around Chongqing you can now see "ishowspeed was here" signs in various restaurants 😊"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2013175537456513376) 2026-01-19T09:03Z 381.1K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Status update: having coffee on top of the cooling tower of a mega waste incineration plant in Chongqing. Literally. I'm at the Chongqing Sanfeng Yulin waste-to-energy incineration plant one of the largest in China. When traveling abroad some people like to visit museums or amusement parks I'm more into garbage treatment facilities 😊 That's actually a pretty cool thing in China: you can visit many industrial facilities they often have a small museum attached that tells you about the history of the place and how it works. This particular facility is pretty impressive: it treats [----] tons of"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2013557593265054163) 2026-01-20T10:21Z 381.2K followers, 51.5K engagements
"If you'd told anyone [--] years ago that Canada of all countries would deliver the obituary of American hegemony and exhort others to stop "living within the lie" of the rules-based order you'd have been laughed out of the room. Yet here we are. Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods open sea lanes a stable financial system collective security . this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture not a transition . recently great powers have begun using https://t.co/oVSorwTyUT Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2013733382954590539) 2026-01-20T22:00Z 381.1K followers, 843.3K engagements
"Beyond parody: Trump's "Board of Peace" logo is basically the UN logo repainted in tacky fake gold and with "the world" reduced to only North America"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2014302939901464632) 2026-01-22T11:43Z 380.8K followers, 656.4K engagements
"A journalist asked me for my take on Zhang Youxia so I might as well post it publicly. The nuclear secret WSJ story is very likely completely bullshit (for reasons explained by Neil Thomas here: and the coup narrative even more so for reasons of organizational structure (see and also for the simple reason that Xi obviously doesn't sleep in a hotel when he is in Beijing (the narrative is that the coup was planned on January 18th as he was staying at the Jingxi Hotel because he "has no fixed residence" in Beijing which is completely bullshit). The source for the coup story is Sheng Xue a"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2015618424626638850) 2026-01-26T02:50Z 381.1K followers, 507.9K engagements
"Turns out that freedom of speech was when TikTok was Chinese. the new TikTok algorithm has ZERO and I mean absolutely ZERO news or politics content not one word about anything going on at all not even the weather the new TikTok algorithm has ZERO and I mean absolutely ZERO news or politics content not one word about anything going on at all not even the weather"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2015648175286267933) 2026-01-26T04:49Z 381K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Fun fact as we speak - again - about China's 9-dash line: in [----] the U.S. unilaterally added a million square kilometers (twice the size of California) to its own maritime territory (src: With this latest addition the area it claims as its maritime territory is now [-----] million square kilometers or roughly 3-4 times () the size of China's maritime claims (including the 9-dash line). This is despite the U.S. having only 37% more coastline than China (19924 km vs [-----] km see so proportionally speaking the U.S. claims 2-3 times more maritime territory per kilometer of coastline than China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2015958824889549237) 2026-01-27T01:23Z 381K followers, 82.7K engagements
"This CNN article is beyond satire: first they say Maduro "cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man" and "accused it without evidence" of wanting to topple him framing it all as a baseless conspiracy theory. And in the same breath immediately afterwards they're like "anyhow now that the CIA did in fact supplant Maduro" but without any self-awareness that this means Maduro was right all along 😂 New: The CIA is quietly working to establish a permanent US presence on the ground in Venezuela spearheading the Trump administrations plans to exert its influence over the countrys future post-Maduro"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2016455553116238199) 2026-01-28T10:17Z 381.1K followers, 474.1K engagements
"This is a stunning graph: China added more power capacity in the past [--] years than the US has in total. In other words its power capacity grew by one entire United States in [--] years 🤯 And in [----] alone it added more power than every single country on earth except the US has in total. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016653567499915524 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016653567499915524"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2016653567499915524) 2026-01-28T23:24Z 380.8K followers, 125.2K engagements
"This "Pax Silica" initiative is so obviously a trap that it's extraordinary any country would fall for it. Insane this isn't being discussed more openly. Like it or not we live in a world where China now leads research in 90% of crucial technologies (fact: As such I completely understand why "Pax Silica" makes sense for the U.S.: they're obviously panicked about getting so dominated technologically and want to lock in countries into dependencies while they still can. That's completely rational: when you can't preserve your lead through innovation you seek to institutionalize loyalty. But for"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017057376810275303) 2026-01-30T02:08Z 381.1K followers, 36.1K engagements
"Ai Weiwei: "I used to advocat that Western leaders should publicly condemn China on human rights. But today I have completely changed my view. The West is not even qualified to criticize China." https://t.co/eFNBa8Iy99 https://t.co/eFNBa8Iy99"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017092609890799686) 2026-01-30T04:28Z 381K followers, 205.3K engagements
"Absolutely unreal: I meant it as a joke but it seems to be confirmed that Keir Starmer did in fact get served the same hallucinogenic mushrooms dish as Janet Yellen (Jianshouqing mushrooms: in the very same restaurant 🤣 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanmaoa_asiatica Hopefully he won't be eating hallucinogenic mushrooms like Janet Yellen (which was also in a Yunnan restaurant in Beijing - Yunnan food is famous for mushrooms). And yes it did happen: https://t.co/Iszrgq6i5g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanmaoa_asiatica Hopefully he won't be eating hallucinogenic mushrooms like Janet Yellen"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017104955002568870) 2026-01-30T05:17Z 381K followers, 133.8K engagements
"If you want to understand the sheer state of American diplomacy read the post below and tell yourself this guy is Trump's nominee for US Ambassador to Malaysia (fact: https://www.state.gov/adams-nicholas-malaysia-september-2025 I am settling in for a showing of Melania and the theater is PACKED Earlier a bystander asked if I was heading in to see Avatar and I stopped dead in my tracks. Avatar No son I curtly replied. I dont watch woke movies. Im here to see the groundbreaking documentary https://www.state.gov/adams-nicholas-malaysia-september-2025 I am settling in for a showing of Melania and"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017826717503787252) 2026-02-01T05:05Z 381K followers, 73.4K engagements
"If you want a deeper analysis on this vibe shift by Western media I wrote on article titled "Are Western media turning China-friendly" on exactly this back in October: https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/are-western-media-turning-china-friendlyr=4r0pw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true&triedRedirect=true https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/are-western-media-turning-china-friendlyr=4r0pw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true&triedRedirect=true"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017877731946750053) 2026-02-01T08:28Z 380.5K followers, 24.2K engagements
"@MabelMatsumoto I think you're thinking of the Summer Palace"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017970527596663051) 2026-02-01T14:37Z 381K followers, [----] engagements
"Anti-Asian bigotry is the only type where the main complaint is: they're too good and we can't compete. The rhetoric Helen uses below is the exact same that was used to justify the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: other workers were complaining that the Chinese were "unfairly" hard-working. Rather than be admired for this they were resented. Same idea here: Helen says Asians pursue "grind culture" (meaning they work too hard) which is unfair to other Americans because it makes them feel "dumb" while all they need is a safe space to "find their passion" which is supposedly the American way."
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018177172851343745) 2026-02-02T04:18Z 381.1K followers, 202.6K engagements
"@KenWBriggs3 It's understandable that you aren't taught this in your U.S. history courses but the U.S. was neutral until late in the war and suffered by far the least casualty out of any major country. Even less than Canada (proportionally) 👇"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018181177824469109) 2026-02-02T04:34Z 381K followers, 70.4K engagements
"This memoir by General Naravane Former Chief of the Indian Army Staff is pretty explosive right now in India. So explosive in fact that the government has been preventing its publication for over two years. Much of the controversy revolves around the clashes with China in [----]. The Modi government has built an entire narrative around these events - specifically that India showcased bold decisive leadership. Naravane's account completely contradicts it: from his vantage point of the man running the entire military response what he describes is a story of reactive scrambles with Modi"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018533752436302190) 2026-02-03T03:55Z 381.1K followers, 112K engagements
"Sorry but I think you're misreading it. Epstein had no respect for the Chinese look at these other exchanges in which he literally says that they're not smart "talk in fortune cookie language" used "to eat rats for breakfast" when the US arrived and owe everything to the US who "educated" them. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018546317203837052 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018546317203837052"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018546317203837052) 2026-02-03T04:45Z 381.1K followers, 86.4K engagements
"Interestingly "peasants" to describe the Chinese is the exact same term that JD Vance used 👇🤔"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018549843535474849) 2026-02-03T04:59Z 381.1K followers, 169.3K engagements
"This is so profoundly ignorant. The Dalai Lama isn't - even remotely - "the spiritual leader of Buddhism". He represents merely one of the [--] schools of Tibetan Buddhism which itself is a micro subset of overall Buddhism (Thai Buddhism Japanese Chinese Sri-Lankan Vietnamese etc. ). All in all in the real world (as opposed to the Western-centric understanding of the religion) he undoubtedly has proportionally a much bigger following among Hollywood celebrities than among the world's Buddhists. The spiritual leader of the world's Buddhists Dalai Lama Has traveled to Epstein Island several times"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018639900799889874) 2026-02-03T10:57Z 381K followers, 214K engagements
"This is a great point (sh nng gng shng: scholars farmers artisans merchants) is China's traditional four-class hierarchy with scholars on top followed by peasants - and merchants dead last right at the bottom of the social ladder. Merchants were seen as parasitic: they didn't produce anything they just moved goods around for profit. In fact in later dynasties than the Han merchants were barred from taking Keju (the imperial exams which allowed someone to become a government official in China's meritocracy) because China was wary of mixing merchants with political power. This was reportedly"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018706526769467416) 2026-02-03T15:21Z 381K followers, 24.7K engagements
"For sure 😏 I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing (I've always advocated for a European version of the Great Firewall) but if you believe that the actions against X aren't politically motivated I have a bridge to sell you. For one thing the investigation was launched on the initiative of a Macron MP named ric Bothorel: and his complaint rests on a brand new legal theory - that tweaking your own recommendation algorithm is the legal equivalent of a cyberattack. This lets them use France's anti-hacking statute (Article 323-2 of the penal code) to go after X. They're essentially arguing"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018722098269859957) 2026-02-03T16:23Z 381.1K followers, 63.1K engagements
"Well Macron can be blamed for much but suspicion of sleeping with underage women is certainly not something I'd be too worried about 😏 France should be investigating Macrons connection with Epstein not raiding s offices. https://t.co/IizPi5mBb0 France should be investigating Macrons connection with Epstein not raiding s offices. https://t.co/IizPi5mBb0"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019097364670406758) 2026-02-04T17:14Z 381.2K followers, 182.2K engagements
"China's response to Panama 👇 Basically freezing most economic activity with the country https://x.com/i/status/2019290310451556428 China Is Said to Pause Panama Deals After Ports Operation Nulled China has asked state-owned firms to halt talks on new projects in Panama as retaliation after the country voided CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.s contract to operate two ports along the Panama Canal according to https://t.co/CDupNaAb4o https://x.com/i/status/2019290310451556428 China Is Said to Pause Panama Deals After Ports Operation Nulled China has asked state-owned firms to halt talks on new"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019304554601542008) 2026-02-05T06:58Z 381K followers, 13.9K engagements
"@Dr_Clandestine Fascinating High context culture as well like China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019314985483280582) 2026-02-05T07:39Z 380.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Not so sure. They have a pretty horrid history. During WW2 they were so eager in their extermination of the Jews that even the SS were uncomfortable about the brutality. I'm not kidding check this for instance: The ended up killing more Jews than in Germany in both percentage and *absolute* terms which is quite a feat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019608860001173924) 2026-02-06T03:07Z 380.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@kakajusaiyou Yes maybe although concretely what Lithuania did from the perspective of China was to encourage separatism a breakup of the country which is pretty bad too"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019611069300486481) 2026-02-06T03:16Z 380.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Kishore literally asked me the same question and my answer was: - Raised in an educational environment of extreme arrogance vis a vis other forms of thinking leading to an inability to process the fact that the other side might have a genuine perspective - Children of liberalism and the "unipolar moment" where they thought that ideological competition had completely disappeared and therefore beliefs didn't matter anymore they were pass they thought everything had been settled. Which means they don't even understand what ideas are they think it's one and the same thing with communication. -"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019685671129215186) 2026-02-06T08:12Z 380.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Maybe listen to the video he's saying the same. You're both saying that the European mind is far behind on where the world is that it doesn't understand the world as it is. He qualifies this as a decline because when you don't understand the world in which you live the quality of your mind is questionable"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019686512154275848) 2026-02-06T08:16Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Pretty extraordinary to see that the Trump administration is even managing the extraordinary feat of antagonizing Poland a country so thoroughly vassalized that its president once proposed to build a US military base on Polish soil and literally name it "Fort Trump" - while offering $2 billion to pay for it (true story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/polands-new-tactic-for-getting-a-us-military-base-pitch-it-as-fort-trump/2018/09/18/5a58c17a-bb7a-11e8-b1c5-7a2126bc722c_story.html Dear Mr. Prime Minister Im assuming your thoughtful and well-articulated message was sent"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019695250101661740) 2026-02-06T08:50Z 381.1K followers, 73.2K engagements
"Update: China open to dialogue 👇 https://x.com/i/status/2019977165794840969 Reuters: China said on Friday it was open to dialogue with Lithuania after the Baltic nations prime minister described as a mistake its [----] decision to let Taiwan set up a de facto embassy in the capital of Vilnius. https://t.co/KCgGmqayKB https://x.com/i/status/2019977165794840969 Reuters: China said on Friday it was open to dialogue with Lithuania after the Baltic nations prime minister described as a mistake its [----] decision to let Taiwan set up a de facto embassy in the capital of Vilnius."
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019980712552923398) 2026-02-07T03:45Z 381.1K followers, 16.8K engagements
"@EyesWideShot77 Largely agree. As someone rightly said it serves the function as the opium of the people"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020775078179561907) 2026-02-09T08:21Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@PhilConte007 Et on la lui a emprunt (en la dvoyant largement)"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020775494749413549) 2026-02-09T08:23Z 381K followers, [----] engagements
"@inabster @staycurious321 To each their belief. My goal wasn't to disparage religion but to explain secularism in China"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020783634085544202) 2026-02-09T08:55Z 381K followers, [----] engagements
"Athens wasn't secular in the least it was deeply religious and the gods permeated every aspect of public life. The assembly opened with prayers and sacrifices. The Oracle at Delphi was routinely consulted before major political and military decisions - not unlike the Shang oracle bones actually. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020789962652999803 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020789962652999803"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020789962652999803) 2026-02-09T09:20Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@TomTugendhat She literally left China in the 1970s. Her references of China are decades old that's not "modern China" in the least"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020798015892574535) 2026-02-09T09:52Z 381K followers, 13.3K engagements
"@Mauser1898 That's Mark Simon right"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021085647189291159) 2026-02-10T04:55Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"👇 The double standards are absolutely unreal https://x.com/fandango1625/status/2021089736144609720s=20 @RnaudBertrand The USA and its corrupt politicians can watch on 4K video palestinian journalists get executed for the crime of reporting the truth but this guy attempts treason and every corrupt US politian puts out a statement of support for Lai as if he is some hero. laughable. https://x.com/fandango1625/status/2021089736144609720s=20 @RnaudBertrand The USA and its corrupt politicians can watch on 4K video palestinian journalists get executed for the crime of reporting the truth but this"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021096481688780891) 2026-02-10T05:38Z 381.1K followers, 18.1K engagements
"@Thomas_Astruc Thank you"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021097277373432089) 2026-02-10T05:41Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @Thomas_Astruc: Must read"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021097291130732573) 2026-02-10T05:41Z 381K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @Solzi_Sez: Of the various pro-China accounts Arnaud is really the only one who shows a deeper understanding of culture. The others i"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021099844320850270) 2026-02-10T05:52Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"To be fair China isn't exactly easy to get either 😅 It's a lot of time spent reading speaking with people and travelling in China knowledge accumulated over decades. And what truly helped me in my case to understand Chinese philosophy is studying TCM formally in Chinese at a TCM university including the ancient foundational texts - not many Westerners have done this 😅 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021103668486078607 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021103668486078607"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021103668486078607) 2026-02-10T06:07Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"@ConnorBrady21 Well the equivalent here would be the main actors of the Scottish independence movement actively colluding with Russia getting - public - help from Russia etc. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be seen kindly from London"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021108732172878009) 2026-02-10T06:27Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@Solzi_Sez @edwardW2 @Daoxue_Academy I'm a Xiaomi android individual 😢"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021115451154235870) 2026-02-10T06:54Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@Josteinhe @ConnorBrady21 No absolutely nothing it's still under [--] country [--] systems. What Lai tried to do was to destroy the "1 country" aspect: he is the one who tried - and failed - to change the structure"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021169535278071943) 2026-02-10T10:29Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @XianyangCB: Correct translation of can confirm"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021212300766503300) 2026-02-10T13:18Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @LynAldenContact: Imagine being one of the analysts that keeps saying China will collapse soon. Then the U.S. Treasury Secretary comes"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021408406259810449) 2026-02-11T02:18Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@pdevitton You obviously need to look up what the US is currently doing in Cuba: it's moved from "commercial embargo" to virtually total siege"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021450158937080036) 2026-02-11T05:04Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @hilton_ctwh: Really disgusting of this DPP ruling party legislator in Taiwan to have a sign on his office door that says "Chinese are s"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021469285273784331) 2026-02-11T06:20Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @irregnata: The LDP predominates in Japans legislature more fully than the Communist Party of China in theirs"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021490201827344608) 2026-02-11T07:43Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @KaiserKuo: "Why I'm Leaving America" Just kidding. But I keep getting asked why we're heading back to Beijing so I wrote a little pi"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021490265161396302) 2026-02-11T07:43Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@tanvi_ratna Macron just yesterday said that the US is the principal threat as they seek to "dismember" the EU so I doubt that much coordinating will be going on"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021500868781277343) 2026-02-11T08:25Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"@KumarSeshadri Do you know the percentage of China's energy that Venezuela corresponds to 0.4% If it was indeed aimed at China it does nothing it's a margin of error. As for Iran last I checked the attempt at regime change failed"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021501423599616194) 2026-02-11T08:27Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @Solzi_Sez: A complete and utter failure to understand foreign terminology. ❌ If you read the last [----] years of literature on this Ti"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021635442597409197) 2026-02-11T17:20Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @Solzi_Sez: Let's look at Tianming in the Great Learning: The theme is the development of character and its extension through good g"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021905527056503123) 2026-02-12T11:13Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@cryptomessenger Which is probably better for China: they have excess USD reserves which they need to do something with"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022110918197608740) 2026-02-13T00:49Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@Sturgeons_Law Please point to me the historians and scholars who argue that China was a religious state and not secular pray tell I've done considerable reading on this matter for almost [--] decades and the view that there is a strong secular tradition in China is pretty consensual"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022116996507480554) 2026-02-13T01:13Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Imagine picking this as a cause you're ready to die for: blocking humanitarian aid to a starving people. Hard to recall any other instance in history when a society had descended into such collective murderous madness"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1792523851395723483) 2024-05-20T11:52Z 381.2K followers, 724.4K engagements
"It's becoming clearer and clearer that we're looking at a seismic shift in the US's relationship with the world between: 1) The US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID 👇) 2) Marco Rubio stating that we're now in a multipolar world with "multi-great powers in different parts of the planet" and that "the postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us" 3) The tariffs on supposed "allies" like Mexico Canada or the EU This is the US effectively saying "our attempt at running the world is over to each his own we're now just another great"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1886082749779607997) 2025-02-02T16:02Z 381.2K followers, 4.9M engagements
"Yet another perfect illustration why it'd be so potentially devastating to sever links between U.S. and Chinese science as the Trump administration is trying to do. A Chinese biotech company found what Dr Norman Sharpless former director of the National Cancer Institute says is the first "potential cure" he's seen in his [--] years in oncology for myeloma a common and extremely painful blood cancer that doctors thought incurable. A group of [--] patients who had longstanding multiple myeloma underwent a clinical trial funded by Johnson & Johnson which has an exclusive licensing agreement with"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1930490752095982025) 2025-06-05T05:03Z 381.2K followers, 61.3K engagements
"@salon_vert There are plenty of course: secularism doesn't mean no religion it just means that the religion and the state aren't linked"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020790209235829151) 2026-02-09T09:21Z 381.2K followers, 20.8K engagements
"In all honesty it's very hard to say as it's such a vast subject. But probably - somewhat counter-intuitively - I think the foreigner who best understood China was Matteo Ricci the Jesuit missionary of the 16th century. I often say that if you want to understand China reading about Matteo Ricci's life and his own writings is a great way to start"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020794625435603297) 2026-02-09T09:39Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @XianyangCB: People keep trying to drag me into this spat over whether China had a religion or not so here's my take: I hope both teams"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022103472989254061) 2026-02-13T00:20Z 381.2K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @AlanRMacLeod: The US government literally kidnapped the president of Venezuela last month"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022127098295705931) 2026-02-13T01:54Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@KonigbagbeAsad Why Diversity isn't bad. It's what makes the world interesting"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022286165307748378) 2026-02-13T12:26Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@QingpingHe1 If Hong Xiuquan had won the civil war China indeed likely wouldn't have been secular anymore but he didn't win did he"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022297695973740936) 2026-02-13T13:11Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things." But he laments that it didn't quite work out this way: as he explains it turns out that poor countries (mostly China) didn't want to just remain cheap labor forever and started moving up the value chain themselves. Which is why according to him globalization was a failure. Meaning that the objective of globalization wasn't to reduce global inequalities but very"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1902528428643168632) 2025-03-20T01:11Z 381.2K followers, 3.6M engagements
"And now the reality: - Cambodia and Thailand: it was a border conflict that ended thanks to mediation by Malaysia. All Trump did was a phone call threatening tariffs. - Kosovo and Serbia: there was no war - DRC and Rwanda: war did not end violence continues - Pakistan and India: India is adamant there was no US mediation - Israel and Iran: the US was literally a belligerent (remember the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities) - Egypt and Ethiopia: there was no war - Armenia and Azerbaijan: the "peace deal" hasn't actually been signed - Israel and Hamas: beyond obscene for the US to take"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1978779182260945091) 2025-10-16T11:04Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
"One of France's oldest companies a [---] years old foundry just went bankrupt because it "could no longer cope with the explosion in energy prices." These guys survived the Middle-Ages dozens of wars plagues Nazi occupation but couldn't survive Europe's current suicide pact. Il y a un silence de mort: aprs 600ans dexistence lune des plus anciennes entreprises de France ferme ses portes dans lIsre ➡ https://t.co/qWZPbCEkys https://t.co/JGCvTWuCWa Il y a un silence de mort: aprs 600ans dexistence lune des plus anciennes entreprises de France ferme ses portes dans lIsre ➡ https://t.co/qWZPbCEkys"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1985588447915229215) 2025-11-04T06:02Z 381.2K followers, 1.5M engagements
"This is extraordinary and profoundly symbolic: Ai Weiwei has returned to China for the first time in [--] years and says he concluded that Beijing is "more humane" than Germany which he describes as "insecure and unfree". He gave an interview to Germany's Berliner Zeitung after his trip and here is what he said: - He described feeling that Beijing had become like "a broken jade being perfectly reassembled" and said he felt no fear returning to the country. - He complained that daily life difficulties in Europe (where he's lived for the past [--] years) are "at least ten times" what they are in"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2011602034324357167) 2026-01-15T00:51Z 381.2K followers, 1.6M engagements
"The ignorance and gaslighting of these people is genuinely astounding. You DON'T need batteries to store renewable energies. BY FAR the most mature and widely deployed form of grid-scale energy storage is to lift water to a high spot with the renewable energy and when you want to get the energy back you let it fall with gravity to move a turbine (similar to the way a dam works). It's called pumped hydro storage (PHS) it accounts for over 94% of all long-duration grid storage capacity globally and it's extremely efficient (80% round-trip efficiency: The notion that because you don't make a"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2013917741615607952) 2026-01-21T10:13Z 381.2K followers, 513.5K engagements
"@prn_psicopaulo It's certainly infinitely more similar to China than it is to the West in this and pretty much any regard (a LOT of aspects of Japanese ancient culture come from China)"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022291990390735039) 2026-02-13T12:49Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@AdrianLeeCroydn We in the West ironically knew China much better in Pascal's days than we do today. I'm not kidding"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022292371455762794) 2026-02-13T12:50Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"It's exceptionally rare for former Chinese officials to reveal the inner workings of the system all the more so when it involves detailing the mechanics of China's famous 5-year plans. Dong Yu interviewed by the SCMP (link: helped draft China's 11th 12th and 13th five-year plans and he's now VP of the China Institute for Development Planning at Tsinghua University. In other words the guy knows China's planning process in and out both in theory and in practice. I'll let you read the interview in full for yourself but here were the parts that stood out for me: 1) What I hadn't realized but"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1969953467138748565) 2025-09-22T02:34Z 381.2K followers, 502.3K engagements
"Wow Nvidia's CEO now says unequivocally that "China is going to win the AI race". He says this is thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulations. The beautiful irony here is that China's low energy costs are in large parts driven by its extraordinary buildup of green energy. Trump the other day at the UN said: If you don't get away from the green energy scam your country is going to fail. - well that "green energy scam" might make YOU fail the most consequential technology race of the 21st century 🤷♂ Src:"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1986216770299117568) 2025-11-05T23:39Z 381.2K followers, 325.9K 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](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129) 2025-11-20T03:47Z 381.2K followers, 4M engagements
"Insanely submitting your past [--] 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 [--] years - All your biometrics: face fingerprint DNA and iris - All your phone numbers from the last [--] years - All your email addresses from the"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1999106956171350252) 2025-12-11T13:20Z 381.2K followers, 4.6M 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 [--]. At [--] 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](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1999315488598622360) 2025-12-12T03:08Z 381.2K followers, 3.3M engagements
"January in Beijing 👇 US allies to use Carney's expression are "taking the sign down.""
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017526276370923527) 2026-01-31T09:12Z 381.2K followers, 1.1M engagements
"From a geopolitical standpoint this is probably the most interesting Epstein email: an exchange between him and Peter Thiel in which Thiel says that the grand "plan" of U.S. foreign policy is to make the world "a mess" in order to be less involved abroad. The idea being I imagine that if everyone is warring and divided they're kept weak vis a vis the U.S. and U.S. intervention becomes unnecessary. Which is incidentally pretty much what happened during WW2: the US let Europe and Asia bleed each other dry before stepping in at the end as the last economy standing - which is essentially how"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018164065093476843) 2026-02-02T03:26Z 381.2K followers, 1.2M 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 [--] 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 [----] China imported 95% of its helium and most of it was controlled by the US. Of the world's ten largest helium producers"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1977266253837251066) 2025-10-12T06:53Z 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"Fun fact: this "American" solar panel factory belonged and was built by Chinese solar giant Trina Solar. Late last year just a few days after the factory opened Trina was forced to sell the facility to Freyr Battery (now rebranded as T1 Energy) after Congress threatened to pass a bill called "American Tax Dollars for American Solar Manufacturing Act" that would kill the factory's business model if it remained under Chinese ownership (src: Now you know how America came to have such an impressively productive "domestic solar" production facility."
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1985870993118937221) 2025-11-05T00:45Z 381.2K followers, 785K engagements
"I typically don't like to be alarmist but any student of history would tell you: all the lights are blinking scarlet red. I mean: - Massive military expansion: check (see below) - Annexation threats: check - Demonstrated willingness to use force unilaterally: check - New imperial doctrine proclaimed: check - Withdrawal from international organizations and international treaties: check At this stage we're not even watching warning signs anymore. We're watching the thing itself in motion. The only way the world stops this train is to put differences aside and form a balancing coalition."
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2009075658501361920) 2026-01-08T01:32Z 381.2K followers, 4M engagements
"What's happening in Panama with the "China-owned" ports (which actually aren't China-owned) is absolutely extraordinary: after the U.S. failed to have BlackRock buy the ports they're effectively outright stealing them with the help of Panama's Supreme Court. I'm not exaggerating: Panama's Supreme Court just ruled that the 29-year old concession of the ports is suddenly "unconstitutional". Legally speaking this means the concession was never valid so there's nothing to compensate for. Effectively the ruling says that CK Hutchison - the Hong Kong company that invested $1.8 billion to build the"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018873381886771374) 2026-02-04T02:24Z 381.2K followers, 266.2K engagements
"This is bigger than most people realize: Lithuania's Prime Minister now officially admits it was a huge "strategic mistake" (like "jumping in front of a train") to be the first and only EU country to open a "Taiwanese" representative office in [----]. She says Lithuania has started the "very complicated process" of "turning the clock back" in order to normalize relations with China as the "ties were completely cut" as a result of Lithuania's actions. What does this signify It was of course always painfully obvious that Lithuania couldn't take on China by itself: they're a tiny country of less"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019600247547392154) 2026-02-06T02:33Z 381.2K followers, 150.6K engagements
"Absolutely masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin former Prime Minister of France who famously led France's opposition to the Iraq war and who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades. This is so important so incredibly well argued that I decided to translate it in full: "Hamas has set a trap for us and this trap is one of maximum horror of maximum cruelty. And so there's a risk of an escalation in militarism of more military interventions as if we could with armies solve a problem as serious as the Palestinian question. There's also a second major trap which"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1718201487132885246) 2023-10-28T09:42Z 381.2K followers, 11M engagements
"These have undoubtedly been the wildest [--] hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff. A 🧵"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801114239572328663) 2024-06-13T04:47Z 381.2K followers, 20.9M 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 [----] 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1966047321734668686) 2025-09-11T07:53Z 381.2K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday) this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University the most prestigious university in China. Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan. Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back: - When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1968503762684919851) 2025-09-18T02:34Z 381.2K followers, 5.1M 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 [--] 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972481656536829995) 2025-09-29T02:00Z 381.2K followers, 13.2M engagements
"This is legit hilarious: according to the US Secretary of Agriculture herself Trump's bailout of Argentina means that US taxpayers are now effectively subsidizing Argentinian soybean exports to China - the very market American farmers have been shut out of. All the funnier when you consider that one of the key objectives of the bailout is presumably to prevent Argentina - one of the US's only friendly governments left in South America - from moving closer to China. And instead it's effectively funding the exact opposite outcome. This is according to this leaked text 👇 that Scott Bessent is"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972848007575171087) 2025-09-30T02:16Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975414071374569528) 2025-10-07T04:13Z 381.2K followers, 4.8M engagements
"Europe just crossed a massive red line for China: this is more provocative a move that even the US themselves EVER dared do. It never happened before. Which makes this move frankly incomprehensible: why would Europe cross a line that even the US - even when it was at the peak of its power - always considered it couldn't afford to cross All the more for an issue where Europe has no role and when Europe is far more dependent on Chinese trade than the US There's nothing to gain here for Europe and a lot to lose: this move is purely destructive. There's only one precedent I can think of: in 1995"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1987003484856586432) 2025-11-08T03:45Z 381.2K followers, 550.7K engagements
"This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the rest of the country and an extremely attractive entry gate for the Chinese market. You can now import most products in the world (74% of all goods) entirely duty free into Hainan. And if you transform the product and add 30% value locally you can then send it to the rest of mainland China completely tariff-free. So for"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2002054459644674550) 2025-12-19T16:32Z 381.2K followers, 3.1M engagements
"Venezuela killed the US. Or rather it revealed it was already dead. In the history of the USs relation with Latin America what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: the U.S. government has intervened to change governments in Latin America a total of [--] times What is unprecedented however is the brazenness the unabashedly predatory nature of the intervention. Trump is not pretending this is about anything else than resource extraction. He explicitly stated "we're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground" and that this wealth would go to the United States of"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2008490056965910740) 2026-01-06T10:45Z 381.2K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Who could have expected Mark Carney a liberal establishment figure if there ever was one to be the flag-bearer for the end of the US-led order And from a podium at Davos of all places The more you think about it though the more it makes sense. Carney is at heart a central banker. As such he understands the power of words and beliefs better than anyone: when you strip things down to their core a world order - like trust in a currency or a financial system - fundamentally relies on the maintenance of belief. Systems of power exist because participants act as if they exist. That's pretty much"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2013907204752261574) 2026-01-21T09:31Z 381.2K followers, 1.1M engagements
"This is a genuinely incredible story. The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is kill-line: if you go to Xiaohongshu Bilibili or Douyin everyone is speaking about it. Why It all has to do with the story of Alex known as A (Lo A literally prison A where A stands for Alex) a Chinese medical/biology student based in Seattle USA who worked part-time as a forensic assistant collecting unclaimed bodies (primarily homeless people). Youve doubtlessly never heard of him but he probably single-handedly shattered what remained of the American Dream myth for an entire generation of young"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2016830757352968398) 2026-01-29T11:08Z 381.2K followers, 875.6K engagements
"If you study all these recent visits to China the one who - by far - got the highest level access was Macron: President Xi personally accompanied him for a tourist visit to Sichuan something which almost never happens and is an immense mark of respect. For instance Xi (or any Chinese leader) never accompanied an American president on a tourist visit outside Beijing. YET he is also the one who - by far - achieved the least. According to French and Chinese media no deal of any significance were signed. Literally as far as I can see the only deal that was announced with a financial figure was a"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017850436846530666) 2026-02-01T06:40Z 381.2K followers, 705.6K engagements
"This is absolutely astonishing for anyone who's followed the BBC's reporting on China in recent years. Literally a complete vibe shift. Just 3-4 years ago people saying the same thing as this BBC journalist would have been the subject of BBC hit-pieces explaining they were malignant "Chinese propagandists." I'm not exaggerating it literally happened. Check this [----] BBC article on "the foreigners in Chinas disinformation drive" framing foreign vloggers who speak positively about China as "foreign faces who can help sell government messaging overseas." Fast-forward to now and the BBC"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2017876531901829382) 2026-02-01T08:23Z 381.2K followers, 199.6K engagements
"Pretty hilarious that Xi Jinping is one of the only persons personally named in the Epstein files and it ends up being a flex. Epstein apparently really hated him and the entire Chinese leadership which he haughtily described - here in a conversation with Steve Bannon - as "a group of peasants." He seems to have been particularly incensed that these "peasants looked into their own systems found the NSA cybertools that we had inserted and then used them against US interests." As the saying goes you judge a man by his enemies. (incidentally it's not true that "Xi barely has highschool"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018543200517099712) 2026-02-03T04:32Z 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"You've doubtless read the numerous headlines these past few days on how Xi Jinping called for the Yuan to "become a global reserve currency." That's true he actually said that. But as is often the case Western media are missing the forest for the trees. This is extracted from a speech in which Xi laid out a much grander vision of what a modern financial system with Chinese characteristics () would look like essentially China's answer to Wall Street. Fascinatingly and in stark contrast to the actual Wall Street Xi's main argument is that what matter most aren't the institutions or status that"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2018617201151050208) 2026-02-03T09:26Z 381.2K followers, 331K engagements
"Always hilarious to read China's transcripts of Trump-Xi calls because you can always find these incredibly sophisticated classical Chinese references with layers of implied meaning that you just know completely went over Trump's head. It's like Xi is speaking to Trump as if addressing a fellow scholar of classical statecraft and the guy is like "so we're doing [--] Million Tons of soybeans for next season that's a lot of beans folks" This time it's particularly funny because the Chinese transcript has Xi telling Trump: "It is always right to do a good thing however small and always wrong to do"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2019277359611048151) 2026-02-05T05:10Z 381.2K followers, 339.3K engagements
"A reminder that in [----] Mao said it would take China "fifteen 5-year plans" to "catch up with and surpass the United States." (source: The 15th 5-year plan is the one starting this year 😉 In other words he could imagine it quite presciently in fact. https://user.guancha.cn/main/contentid=1540243&comments-container= https://user.guancha.cn/main/contentid=1540243&comments-container="
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019607025223889017) 2026-02-06T03:00Z 381.2K followers, 187.3K engagements
"Meanwhile [----] was by far the biggest BRI year ever with almost a quarter of a trillion dollars ($213.5 billion) in spend almost double that of any previous year. Africa was the single biggest recipient of BRI spending gathering more than 47% of the construction spend and 22% of the investment spend. Especially symbolic in [----] a year in which the U.S. withdrew from most engagement with what Trump famously referred to as "shithole countries". Src for the graphs and data: https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/2237361/Nedopil-2026-China-BRI-Investment-Report-2025.pdf"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020667855432450510) 2026-02-09T01:15Z 381.2K followers, 20.4K engagements
"This is probably the single feature that makes China most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs. We often wrongly believe that China's secularism came with Communism but this couldn't be more wrong. The roots are far far more ancient than this. Think about any other civilization - India Persia ancient Egypt European civilization the Incas: they all had a priestly class that held considerable political power. China Never. Never ever Actually China in its very early history had a brush with theocracy during"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020748828497109185) 2026-02-09T06:37Z 381.2K followers, 1.4M engagements
"RIP Hollywood. OH MY FKING GODDDDDD 😱😱😱 indie filmmakers in china have already gone FULL INSANE MODE and started making movies using Seedance [---]. 100% AI https://t.co/ljUg7tTbjn OH MY FKING GODDDDDD 😱😱😱 indie filmmakers in china have already gone FULL INSANE MODE and started making movies using Seedance [---]. 100% AI https://t.co/ljUg7tTbjn"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2020796679293657264) 2026-02-09T09:47Z 381.2K followers, 63.9K engagements
"As expected many of the reactions to Jimmy Lai's condemnation by Western officials and media are absolutely shameful and grossly biased. If someone had done the same thing as Lai did in any Western country there is absolutely zero doubt he would rot in prison too. The most shameful part is that it was all extremely transparent: it was an open trial (meaning anyone could attend) and the verdict - running [---] pages with detailed reasoning on every evidentiary point - is publicly available for anyone to read here: Lai himself testified for [--] days in his own defense assisted by world-class"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021080222293164113) 2026-02-10T04:34Z 381.2K followers, 71.9K engagements
"Fun fact: under Han Dynasty law there were [--] ways to commute a death sentence pay a large fine or accept castration. Sima Qian (the grand historian of the Han Dynasty who'd been condemned to death for publicly defending a general Li Ling who had surrendered to the enemy) was too poor for the fine so he chose castration. In this famous letter to his friend Ren An he explains that this is but a small price to pay to finish his monumental Shiji (a comprehensive history of the entire known world) and that even "a thousand mutilations" would be worth it. Not sure many contemporary authors have"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021123540326678585) 2026-02-10T07:26Z 381.2K followers, 175.1K engagements
"I mean much of it is on camera. Is that 👇 "freedom of the press" https://x.com/i/status/2021050856779677918 Here's Jimmy Lai- "we're very much expecting support from the CIA" and other Wester governments. https://t.co/078orGHp09 https://x.com/i/status/2021050856779677918 Here's Jimmy Lai- "we're very much expecting support from the CIA" and other Wester governments. https://t.co/078orGHp09"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021126415425610046) 2026-02-10T07:37Z 381.2K followers, 20.4K engagements
"Well played 😅 https://x.com/i/status/2021134536428617931 @RnaudBertrand A decision like that takes some balls https://x.com/i/status/2021134536428617931 @RnaudBertrand A decision like that takes some balls"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021160304076304492) 2026-02-10T09:52Z 381.2K followers, 18.4K engagements
"And this 👇 https://x.com/i/status/2021229385391436152 This is from Jimmy Lai's [----] talk at FDD. In court he said the "nuclear weapon" remark was a metaphor but what came before is the transcript's actual self-incriminating evidence. He's like a rapper bragging about murder in a song then using the "it's art" defense in court. https://t.co/0vi6rVo5tC https://x.com/i/status/2021229385391436152 This is from Jimmy Lai's [----] talk at FDD. In court he said the "nuclear weapon" remark was a metaphor but what came before is the transcript's actual self-incriminating evidence. He's like a rapper"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021249035122733078) 2026-02-10T15:44Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Gaza will be remembered as the moment the world looked away. Cuba is the test of whether it learned anything from this. Both situations are terrifyingly similar and there's little doubt that U.S. actions on Cuba were enabled by the world's lack of concrete response on Gaza. Look: In both cases it's collective punishment: a siege that cuts off essential supplies for an entire people. In both cases the perpetrator is acutely aware of the consequences of their own actions. Israel's Yoav Gallant (who as a reminder is wanted in The Hague) said "no electricity no food no water no fuel." Here you"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021442841076195656) 2026-02-11T04:35Z 381.2K followers, 163.5K engagements
"Really quite extraordinary how humbled Bessent has been by China. Reminder that this is the same guy who - At the beginning of Trump [---] tariffs when China retaliated said that China made "a big mistake. they have a losing hand. they're playing with a pair of twos." - Said at the beginning of the tariffs that a group of other countries - specifically Japan South Korea Vietnam and India - would join the U.S. in a deal aimed at a "grand encirclement" of China - After China retaliated with rare earths in October he framed it as "China versus the world" and said that the U.S. would rally"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021455213958398177) 2026-02-11T05:24Z 381.2K followers, 149.1K engagements
"Really terrible look for France in China and completely counterproductive. The very last thing you should do if you actually want to change things with China is to position it as an imperialist diktat. That's 100% guarantee of failure as it then becomes a question of basic legitimacy for the Chinese government to oppose it. Many people wrongly assume that the legitimacy of the CPC is based on the economy and prosperity but the much more important cement of their legitimacy is that they put an end to the century of humiliation by Western powers. When a Western power acts in ways reminiscent of"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021482281551134775) 2026-02-11T07:11Z 381.2K followers, 65.6K engagements
"Europe's insanity: spending more on defense but. with American suppliers at the expense of European ones which ends up making Europe more vassalized and therefore less safe 🤦♂ In essence it's an illustration of the American protection racket. Strikingly as European defense spending has gone up since the early 2020s the share of European contractors has fallen. In later rounds will European firms claw their way back More featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below. https://t.co/QW5kC3Aapr Strikingly as European defense spending has gone up since the early 2020s the share of"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2021632146155372979) 2026-02-11T17:07Z 381.2K followers, 39.2K engagements
"Now that it's the US controlling Venezuela's oil they're principally selling it to. China still That's according to US Energy Secretary Chris Wright (src: There goes the theory that Venezuela was all about cutting China's oil supply. It never made sense: the US themselves are already the world's largest oil producer so they weren't going to consume Venezuela's oil themselves they need to sell it to someone and the biggest buyer out there is China 🤷♂ As such as is typical of extractive imperialism it isn't so much about denying resources to rivals but about ensuring the extraction benefits"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022103099037655051) 2026-02-13T00:18Z 381.2K followers, 50.2K engagements
"What an utterly ridiculous take: how is saying that the Chinese state has a long secular tradition "anti-imperialist" Simply nothing to do 🤷♂ And it's not "pseudointellectual" either: if it were then a massive proportion of Enlightenment figures - some of Western civilization's most consequential intellectuals - would be pseudointellectual too given that they made exactly the same argument. Voltaire Leibniz and Bayle all pointed to China as proof that a civilization could thrive without the Church. It's known as 'L'argument chinois' - the argument that China proved religion was unnecessary"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022107155227431040) 2026-02-13T00:34Z 381.2K followers, 30.6K engagements
"Given that this topic 👇 of secularism in China unexpectedly seems to stir passions (even though I've unsurprisingly seen many pretty ignorant takes) let me add a small something. The man who probably best summed up this topic - ever - was Pascal the legendary 17th Century French thinker (you've surely heard of Pascal's wager or Pascal's theorem). In his Penses ("Thoughts") he summarized it with this very short but incredibly profound question: "Which of the two is more credible Moses or China" That's it. I should almost finish my post here because when you think about it all is said. But let"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022276188224544939) 2026-02-13T11:46Z 381.2K followers, 99K engagements
"If you read my original article it's almost entirely based on Chinese sources: the Duke of Zhou Mencius Confucius the Book of Songs the Book of Documents etc. But I got told that was "pseudointellectual" hence now me citing unimpeachable Western intellectual sources. But now that's a "Western Christian perspective" apparently which in your mouth presumably means it ought to be dismissed out of hand Meanwhile in the midst of all this ridiculous labeling and ad-hominems no-one actually looks at the arguments. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022339845901938888"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022339845901938888) 2026-02-13T15:59Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Just landed in Phnom Penh Cambodia for a first time visit in the country and I'm absolutely wowed by the airport. It's not just China: bit by bit the whole of Asia is getting world-class infrastructure"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022342461243412596) 2026-02-13T16:09Z 381.2K followers, 672.1K engagements
"@Vidyut I literally toured the whole of India on a motorbike. I've been to more places in India than 99% of Indians. That being said point taken India is still far behind in infrastructure. I did write "bit by bit" though"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022343443834708307) 2026-02-13T16:13Z 381.2K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Fun fact: Chinese new year isn't only the world's largest human migration but the largest annual migration in the entire animal kingdom. More than [--] billion passenger trips during the period: nothing even comes close. Even if you compare it to things like America's monarch butterfly migration (300-500 million individuals). (Pro tip: never travel to China during that time like that guy 👇😅) im taking part in the worlds largest human migration https://t.co/LfTL6dT9w0 im taking part in the worlds largest human migration https://t.co/LfTL6dT9w0"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022599077339500657) 2026-02-14T09:09Z 381.2K followers, 945.3K engagements
"Even French media are admitting that France's Foreign Minister Jean-Nol Barrot lied to the French National Assembly on @FranceskAlbs completely misrepresenting her comments. In a normal world he's the one who should resign not Albanese. There was a time it used to be considered a pretty grave offense for a government minister to lie to their country's parliament all the more for the purpose of destroying the career of a UN official whose only crime is telling the truth. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022632574242410603 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022632574242410603"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022632574242410603) 2026-02-14T11:22Z 381.2K followers, 230.7K engagements
"Yes @FrenchResponse is strangely quiet over this one. https://x.com/i/status/2022639516658602446 @RnaudBertrand @FranceskAlbs I would be curious to know @FrenchResponse opinion on M. Barrot blatant lies. https://x.com/i/status/2022639516658602446 @RnaudBertrand @FranceskAlbs I would be curious to know @FrenchResponse opinion on M. Barrot blatant lies"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022654125155209322) 2026-02-14T12:48Z 381.2K followers, 16.5K engagements
"On the first day of Chinese new year this single train station 👇 (Guangzhou South Railway Station) handled [---] million trips (src: It's crazy: it's roughly equivalent to the entire city of Paris taking the train from the same train station on the same day. https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/628881 A high speed train leaves GZ South Station every [--] seconds. The station's [--] platforms aren't even straining. The spring festival passenger load is within design basis of course. Like the power grid infrastructure that is sized according to its maximum use scenario. :) https://t.co/nJDNYIZYJV"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2022922769189797961) 2026-02-15T06:35Z 381.2K followers, 39.5K engagements
"One of the most interesting aspects of Cambodia that I've noticed so far (I've only been here for [--] days) is its payment ecosystem. It's the strangest mix: 1) most business in the country is conducted in US dollars (when you buy something in a shop you typically pay in USD) 2) most payments are made via a QR code-based "everything app" called ABA Mobile that's basically a clone of Alipay. And deeply integrated with Alipay: in fact I didn't even download ABA Mobile I scan all the ABA QR code through Alipay and it just works. 3) ABA Mobile is developed by ABA Bank (Advanced Bank of Asia) which"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2023002385153720464) 2026-02-15T11:52Z 381.2K followers, 280K engagements
"@implausible17 Only if the change involves coins I believe: they have USD bills but no coins"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2023068299685490899) 2026-02-15T16:14Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Finally got to read Rubio's speech in Munich: it is one of the most revisionist and imperialist speeches I've ever seen a senior American official make and that's saying something. The man literally laments the outcome of WW2 because it marked the end of the era during which "the West had been expanding" a "path" he "hopes the US and Europe walk together again." And just to ensure you're clear about what he means: he wants to restore the building of "vast empires extending across the globe" and blames "anti-colonial uprisings" for what they did to "the great Western empires." He also says"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2023259041544507669) 2026-02-16T04:52Z 381.2K followers, 58.3K engagements
"If you don't see this 👇 as pro-colonialism and imperialist I'm not sure what to tell except to go back to school and learn to read: "For five centuries before the end of the Second World War the West had been expanding its missionaries its pilgrims its soldiers its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans settle new continents build vast empires extending out across the globe. But in [----] for the first time since the age of Columbus it was contracting. Europe was in ruins . The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline accelerated by godless communist revolutions"
[X Link](https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2023264783185969546) 2026-02-16T05:14Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Given that this topic 👇 of secularism in China unexpectedly seems to stir passions (even though I've unsurprisingly seen many pretty ignorant takes) let me add a small something. The man who probably best summed up this topic - ever - was Pascal the legendary 17th Century French thinker (you've surely heard of Pascal's wager or Pascal's theorem). In his Penses ("Thoughts") he summarized it with this very short but incredibly profound question: "Which of the two is more credible Moses or China" That's it. I should almost finish my post here because when you think about it all is said. But let"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022276188224544939) 2026-02-13T11:46Z 381.2K followers, 99K engagements
"This is probably the single feature that makes China most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs. We often wrongly believe that China's secularism came with Communism but this couldn't be more wrong. The roots are far far more ancient than this. Think about any other civilization - India Persia ancient Egypt European civilization the Incas: they all had a priestly class that held considerable political power. China Never. Never ever Actually China in its very early history had a brush with theocracy during"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020748828497109185) 2026-02-09T06:37Z 381.2K followers, 1.4M 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 [--] 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](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972481656536829995) 2025-09-29T02:00Z 381.2K followers, 13.2M engagements
"🚨 BREAKING: CHINA has invented a new 'BONE GLUE' that repairs bone fractures in just [--] minutes no surgery or metal plates needed"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1971854825936900575) 2025-09-27T08:30Z 317.3K followers, 34.4M engagements
"Couldn't find a better illustration for why Zionism is not the same as Judaism. Zionists follow Pro-Palestine Jewish protesters to their car harassing and threatening them the entire way. "All your beards all fake Cut them off b*tch Cut them off" One yells at one point. Via @JonFarinaPhoto https://t.co/WCyq8w1YEm Zionists follow Pro-Palestine Jewish protesters to their car harassing and threatening them the entire way. "All your beards all fake Cut them off b*tch Cut them off" One yells at one point. Via @JonFarinaPhoto https://t.co/WCyq8w1YEm"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1812768130109997502) 2024-07-15T08:36Z 381.2K followers, 2.5M engagements
"Zionists follow Pro-Palestine Jewish protesters to their car harassing and threatening them the entire way. "All your beards all fake Cut them off b*tch Cut them off" One yells at one point. Via @JonFarinaPhoto"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1812641457351930286) 2024-07-15T00:12Z 101.2K followers, 3M engagements
"Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's the first time in history we're witnessing a state not only murder UN workers on such a scale but actually tell the UN they deserved it and scold THEM for criticizing the killings. I simply have no words. "Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts" The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN UN agencies UN workers and UN officials https://t.co/1OJQ8yj11E "Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1723167574614302828) 2023-11-11T02:35Z 381.2K followers, 5.9M engagements
""Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts" The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN UN agencies UN workers and UN officials"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1723087870548668524) 2023-11-10T21:18Z 80.1K followers, 17.4M engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday) this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University the most prestigious university in China. Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan. Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back: - When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1968503762684919851) 2025-09-18T02:34Z 381.2K followers, 5.1M engagements
"These have undoubtedly been the wildest [--] hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff. A 🧵"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1801114239572328663) 2024-06-13T04:47Z 381.2K followers, 20.9M engagements
"France is finally starting to wake up after Israel kidnapped French MEP Rima Hassan. They're shouting: "Gaza Gaza Paris est avec toi" ("Gaza Paris is with you")"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1932322572638756934) 2025-06-10T06:22Z 381.2K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Malaysia asks for the abolition of the veto of the [--] permanent UN Security Council members especially in the case of "situations involving mass atrocity crimes such as genocide" https://x.com/les_spectateurs/status/1766350660608426289/video/1 https://x.com/les_spectateurs/status/1766350660608426289/video/1"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1766490689221902653) 2024-03-09T15:46Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
"Oops it's starting 😏"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1879342313627148548) 2025-01-15T01:38Z 381.2K followers, 7.5M engagements
"There's something almost admirable about the consistency with which Germany always stands on the wrong side of history. "The accusations being made against Israel are absurd." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas. https://t.co/a750cPw8kY "The accusations being made against Israel are absurd." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas. https://t.co/a750cPw8kY"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1724589527736652236) 2023-11-15T00:45Z 381.2K followers, 3.8M engagements
""The accusations being made against Israel are absurd." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1724424201191260167) 2023-11-14T13:49Z 86.1K followers, 8.1M engagements
"Yup turns out bombing the Houthis was yet another fantastically stupid idea. BREAKING: ⚡ As of today the Houthis are blocking the Suez Canal for both US and UK commercial ships as well Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Al-Buhaiti: "Previously we focused only on maritime shipping associated with the Zionist entity. https://t.co/0XcgHne1Lw BREAKING: ⚡ As of today the Houthis are blocking the Suez Canal for both US and UK commercial ships as well Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Al-Buhaiti: "Previously we focused only on maritime shipping"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746518274568007980) 2024-01-14T13:03Z 381.2K followers, 2.7M engagements
"BREAKING: ⚡ As of today the Houthis are blocking the Suez Canal for both US and UK commercial ships as well Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Al-Buhaiti: "Previously we focused only on maritime shipping associated with the Zionist entity. Today American and British ships will no longer dare to cross the Red Sea." http://t.me/megatron_ron http://t.me/megatron_ron"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745950029167169577) 2024-01-12T23:24Z 590.7K followers, 5.3M engagements
"Whatever your position is just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is. Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts [--] Western countries sanctioned. not Israel but the Palestinians and the UN (). They cut funding for UNRWA which is THE UN agency tasked with humanitarian assistance to Palestinians (and therefore their main lifeline). Even if you were the world's worst cynic you'd still have a hard time expecting such sheer level of cruelty and depravation. This is absolutely unfathomable."
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1751462591980040247) 2024-01-28T04:29Z 381.2K followers, 5.4M engagements
"The following have suspended Unrwa funding based on Israeli claims that [--] of the agency's [-----] employees took part in Hamas attacks: US Canada UK Finland Australia Italy Netherlands Norway and Ireland said they would not follow suit. Switzerland said no decision till accusations are clarified. : It has [-----] employees [-----] of which are in Gaza. Most of them are Palestine refugees and a small number of international staff. In Gaza it runs [---] schools [--] health facilities and seven women's centres among several other facilities. Its schools are attended by [------] students in Gaza while its"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1751314781368365197) 2024-01-27T18:42Z 586.8K followers, 8.5M engagements
"Israel shot and killed a [--] year old American citizen - Tawfiq Ajaq - in the West Bank a mere [--] weeks ago. 🤷♂ BREAKING: President Biden warns "If you harm an American we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. https://t.co/5Fgeo4U5eg BREAKING: President Biden warns "If you harm an American we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. https://t.co/5Fgeo4U5eg"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1753597652615430263) 2024-02-03T01:53Z 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"BREAKING: President Biden warns "If you harm an American we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. https://apnews.com/article/attack-military-iran-iraq-houthis-229a735edbb7759ba9ade543013917dftaid=65bd6aed1827f90001975e11&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter https://apnews.com/article/attack-military-iran-iraq-houthis-229a735edbb7759ba9ade543013917dftaid=65bd6aed1827f90001975e11&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1753544211717108191) 2024-02-02T22:21Z 15.5M followers, 7.2M engagements
"Wonderful example of Streisand effect: because mainstream media in the West by and large egregiously did not to cover South Africa's arguments against Israel at the ICJ you now have actors of the most popular show in the world reading it out in a viral video Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ https://t.co/iRkHvoFVb3 Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ https://t.co/iRkHvoFVb3"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746512337299980787) 2024-01-14T12:39Z 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1746343873612226953) 2024-01-14T01:29Z 59K followers, 19.1M engagements
"You can only mine a university like this if it's not an active fighting zone otherwise you'd bomb it. Meaning destroying the university wasn't done to hunt Hamas fighters there but instead as part of an effort to destroy Gazan civil society presumably to prevent the eventual resumption of normal life. This is further confirmed by the fact that ALL universities in Gaza have now been damaged or destroyed. The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with [---] mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott."
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1747793199727550613) 2024-01-18T01:29Z 381.2K followers, 3M engagements
"The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with [---] mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1747730495482310771) 2024-01-17T21:19Z 20.8K followers, 14.8M engagements
"We have a saying in France (we know a fair bit about protests and strikes 😏) that when students massively rally around a protest movement it's over: it's a sign it's going to be successful. Because students bring a level of energy creativity and mobilisation that no other segment of the population can. With more and more US universities joining in against US support for Israel it looks like we're about to see if that saying is applicable to the US as well. I think this is probably Israel's worse nightmare which is you have Israeli officials speaking out so much about "antisemitism" on US"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1782386196901249109) 2024-04-22T12:29Z 381.2K followers, 2.2M engagements
"BREAKING: NYU students have begun their Gaza Solidarity Encampment"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1782348628738097661) 2024-04-22T10:00Z 194.5K followers, 2.5M engagements
"In France a woman is fined for wearing a keffiyeh under the pretext it means she's participating to an "illegal protest" (even though she's alone in that "protest".) Like Iran's "morality police" but for a religion that sanctifies Israel's actions. https://x.com/thawra69/status/1797293546321465785/video/1 https://x.com/thawra69/status/1797293546321465785/video/1"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1797442533431374250) 2024-06-03T01:37Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
"Quite an incredible move in French politics today that might reveal that we're in fact witnessing nothing less than a coup by Macron. Let me explain 🧵"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1827474244856365440) 2024-08-24T22:33Z 381.2K followers, 15.5M engagements
"Probably one the biggest economic blunders in history. $500 million in [--] days means $12 billion a year in additional tax revenue. Literal trillions in wealth destroyed interest on the debt increased the dollar weakened businesses wiped out all over the world literally every single country in the world antagonized. all for raising a yearly amount of taxes that can fund the US military budget for just [--] days. CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million well below Trumps estimate CNBC CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million well below Trumps estimate CNBC"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1913024966116970543) 2025-04-18T00:21Z 381.2K followers, 5.2M engagements
"CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million well below Trumps estimate CNBC"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1912547546401996870) 2025-04-16T16:44Z 136.1K followers, 7.4M engagements
"Wow Lula isn't mincing words. Here's the translation: "What's happening in Gaza isn't a war it's a genocide. It's not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It's a war between a highly trained army and women and children. What's happening in Gaza and with the Palestinian people . already happened in the past: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews." https://twitter.com/FepalB/status/1759214320917852292/video/1 https://twitter.com/FepalB/status/1759214320917852292/video/1"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1759228360948064568) 2024-02-18T14:48Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
""This legislation if signed into law WILL lead to a ban of TikTok in the United States". Meaning they will not sell. Good Never bow down to bullies never yield to extortion which is what this is. Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban bill: https://t.co/7AnDYOLD96 Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban bill: https://t.co/7AnDYOLD96"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1768110242746015886) 2024-03-14T03:01Z 381.2K followers, 2M engagements
"Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban bill:"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1768045785311035820) 2024-03-13T22:45Z 52.3K followers, 4.9M engagements
"8 years after this Onion article turns into an actual one in Foreign Policy magazine 🤣 China wants to avoid doing anything that would interrupt the process of U.S. decline. https://t.co/EApP3ZtxjV China wants to avoid doing anything that would interrupt the process of U.S. decline. https://t.co/EApP3ZtxjV"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1537433504057020417) 2022-06-16T13:54Z 381.2K followers, 59.3K engagements
"China wants to avoid doing anything that would interrupt the process of U.S. decline. https://buff.ly/3x8KcAD https://buff.ly/3x8KcAD"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1537208330569109505) 2022-06-15T23:00Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"You should be absolutely terrified by a society where leading publications start arguing that killing children is legal. If anything is a code red alarm this is it. @TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today. https://t.co/CGTh3Aexxw @TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today. https://t.co/CGTh3Aexxw"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1794888681075138744) 2024-05-27T00:29Z 381.2K followers, 1.4M engagements
"@TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1794777955400393034) 2024-05-26T17:09Z 38.2K followers, 15M engagements
"This is incredible but sadly unsurprising. When he received threats not to go after Israel @KarimKhanQC reveals "a senior leader" told him the ICC "is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin" and not for the West and its allies"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1792748783996207206) 2024-05-21T02:46Z 381.2K followers, 3.8M engagements
"Extraordinary video of the Irish PM lecturing Biden to his face - Biden who loves reminding people he's Irish - on why "the Irish people are deeply troubled about Gaza" and why "the Irish have such empathy for the Palestinian people". The Irish PM says: "We see our history in the Palestinians' eyes a story of displacement of dispossession a national identity questioned and denied forced immigration discrimination and now hunger." https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1769920652599832684/video/1 https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1769920652599832684/video/1"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1769928764715401715) 2024-03-19T03:27Z 381.2K followers, 2.4M engagements
"This is crazy: Israeli police arrests [--] French military personnel ("gendarmes") with diplomatic status in a Christian church (the Eleona Church) that has officially belonged to France for [---] years and is protected by diplomatic immunity: To make things worse the church is located in occupied East Jerusalem - theoretically Palestinian territory - and the arrests occured as the French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot was due to visit it. He cancelled his visit due to the presence of Israeli police on site and the breach of diplomatic immunity. Yet another unarguable proof that Israel respects"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1854677117600211029) 2024-11-08T00:07Z 381.2K followers, 5.5M engagements
"It's the early 2000s all over again: shameless islamophobia in the midst of a massacre of Muslims 🤢 😉#FashionFriday https://t.co/hwBDDNiKG8 😉#FashionFriday https://t.co/hwBDDNiKG8"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741046666344730712) 2023-12-30T10:40Z 381.2K followers, 1.6M engagements
"😉#FashionFriday"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740866573655810131) 2023-12-29T22:45Z 10.1M followers, 18.4M engagements
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Social category influence countries #4754 finance 5.88% travel destinations 4.95% technology brands 4.02% social networks 2.79% celebrities 1.86% stocks 1.24% currencies #402 musicians 0.31% financial services 0.31%
Social topic influence china #257, this is 17.34%, in the #2483, israel 11.46%, history #3492, the world #3164, the most #788, hamas 5.57%, if you #3295, france 4.95%
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"@umm_zahide They've not been crushed in the least. Unlike you I happen to have gone to Tibet. It's been so "crushed" that they even allow child monks 👇 something that's considered unthinkable in Western "freedom of religion" societies"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:02Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy. Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers the main agency advising Biden on economic policy"
X Link 2024-05-03T05:54Z 381.2K followers, 15.4M 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 381.2K followers, 2.4M engagements
"As a European I'm actually grateful to Kishore for saying this: he expresses a view that almost everyone in a position of power outside Europe has but that few dare say. As a result people like Macron or Mertz believe - wrongly - that they're admired by their peers outside Europe when it's simply not the case: they're largely seen as self-harming fools who can't think strategically nor govern properly. Nothing worse than a fool who doesn't realize everyone is quietly mocking them behind his back. Kishore is doing the decent thing by stating the truth plainly. The quality of mind of European"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:01Z 381.2K followers, 78.1K engagements
"@VictorKoppe @FranceskAlbs Yup France has completely lost its soul and betrays its history"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:46Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't think I'm exaggerating by saying that this truly is the US's Suez moment: Saudi Arabia just entered into a NATO-like alliance with Pakistan whereby "any attack on either country is an attack on both." The symbolic is extraordinary: Saudi Arabia was in many ways THE poster child of US client states. If they no longer trusts American security guarantees why should anyone else And of course the fact this actually happened and wasn't prevented by the U.S. is immensely telling in and of itself. This has so many other consequences that it's almost too much to fathom: - First of all it means"
X Link 2025-09-18T05:05Z 381.2K followers, 2.4M engagements
"Many people aren't aware that Seedance the insanely good new AI video generation tool is made by Bytedance TikTok's parent company (well if one excludes TikTok U.S. now.). As I wrote [--] weeks ago Bytedance is now - by far - the world's largest AI company in terms of usage: far bigger than OpenAI Google or Microsoft. They process [--] trillion tokens a day which is unbelievable scale: OpenAI's entire API is less than [--] trillion tokens per day. Everyone somehow focuses on Deepseek when it comes to AI in China but Deepseek actually isn't super popular in the country: Doubao Bytedance's"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:54Z 381.2K followers, 212.8K engagements
"The only one actually doing propaganda here is you Dennis and you are - in fact - losing. You can't keep telling the world "don't believe your lying eyes": eventually the more people go to China the more they'll realize the insane extent to which they've been lied to. The "Potemkin village" China narrative only works when people don't actually visit the village. And no Chinese modernity obviously isn't limited to 5-star hotels in Beijing and a Xiaomi factory. For one thing China now has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined: if that's all for the purpose of fooling"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:46Z 381.2K followers, 45.9K engagements
"@joequant First thing I saw when I arrived at the airport in Cambodia last night a display of Hongqi cars 👇😊"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:07Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"First of all this "biggest military built-up since WW2" narrative is complete gaslighting: China's military expenditure as a share of its GDP has actually been going down over the years 👇 It currently stands at 1.7% of GDP which is far below even the 2% minimum the US insists NATO countries meet - and [--] times less () the 5% that NATO countries just agreed to at Trump's insistence. If China asked to join NATO it'd be refused because it doesn't spend enough Of course given that China's GDP keeps growing absolute expenditures do too so there is a "buildup" in absolute terms. But I'd love to"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:55Z 381.2K followers, 40.9K engagements
"Exactly that's 👇 the "why" https://x.com/i/status/2022876432117174466 @RnaudBertrand Over the past century and more every major country now in NATO has invaded China at some point. Tens of millions of Chinese people lost their lives as a result and China was reduced by war to being one of the poorest countries in the world. Based on this painful history the https://x.com/i/status/2022876432117174466 @RnaudBertrand Over the past century and more every major country now in NATO has invaded China at some point. Tens of millions of Chinese people lost their lives as a result and China was"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:08Z 381.2K followers, 11.3K engagements
"I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza: Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable and destroy Palestinian civil society. Places destroyed are homes mosques schools hospitals cemeteries historical landmarks supermarkets etc. Everything that makes up a community. Complete disconnect from the stated goal of fighting Hamas. https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/jan/30/how-war-destroyed-gazas-neighbourhoods-visual-investigation"
X Link 2024-01-31T15:25Z 381.2K followers, 5.6M engagements
""U.S. lawmakers are trying to bar Chinese biotech companies over fears about Americas failure to compete with China in the industry" Practical: if your competitor is better than you ban them from the race. But also very short-sighted. https://fortune.com/2024/02/19/us-lawmakers-bills-bar-chinese-biotech-companies-fears-america-failure-compete-china/ https://fortune.com/2024/02/19/us-lawmakers-bills-bar-chinese-biotech-companies-fears-america-failure-compete-china/"
X Link 2024-02-22T06:31Z 381.1K followers, 27.4K engagements
"There is no overstating just how absolutely insane this is. There is no precedent - NONE - of a state deliberately bombing an embassy. It didn't even happen during WW1 WW2 or even the 19th century. Heck even during the medieval era and Roman empire the protection of envoys and messengers - even from enemy states - was a recognized norm. The only other historical instance was NATO bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in [----] killing [--] Chinese journalists but the U.S. profusely apologized Bill Clinton publicly said it was a mistake (something China still doesn't believe to this day)"
X Link 2024-04-02T01:55Z 381.2K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Update: it's now official in a just-released communiqu Macron has rejected a government led by the New Popular Front (NPF). It's an unprecedented situation in the history of the 5th French Republic: the loser in the election effectively rejects yielding power to the winner. He explains it by the fact that his "responsibility is to ensure that the country be neither blocked nor weakened" arguing that were he to nominate a NPF government they'd soon be censored by parliament and destituded. That may be the case but still this awfully inconvenient fact remains: Macron's party got way less votes"
X Link 2024-08-26T20:37Z 381.2K followers, 4.5M 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 $2 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 381.1K followers, 1.7M engagements
"This is a genuinely psychopathic comment by Vance at the Munich Security Conference: The U.S. has been by far the most instrumental force in Germany's growing deindustrialization including by literally blowing up their most critical energy infrastructure and now the guy - without a hint of irony - slams them for deindustrializing. This new administration feels like it's operating in a reality distortion field where they put the onus for anything their own country helped engineer back onto their victims. https://x.com/JMihaljevic/status/1890329289427698082/video/1"
X Link 2025-02-15T09:20Z 381K followers, 1.1M 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 381K followers, 206.7K engagements
"I just read this WSJ article on why Europe's tech scene is so much smaller than the US's and China's. I'm afraid that like most articles on this topic it largely misses the mark. Which in itself illustrates a key reason why Europe is lagging behind: when you fail to understand the root causes of an issue you have zero chance to solve it. What makes me competent to speak on this topic Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s I founded and led HouseTrip which at the time was one of Europe's top startups. We were the first historical startup in which all top [--] VC investors in Europe invested. So I"
X Link 2025-05-21T03:21Z 380.8K followers, 834.9K engagements
"Canadian man had been waiting [--] months for an MRI appointment in Canada. Ended up doing it in China during a vacation: all it took was a couple of hours and RMB [----] (about $140). I systematically do the same when I travel to China myself I always use the opportunity to do health tests. I've experienced Chinese public hospitals literally dozens of times and I've done virtually all health tests imaginable. Not once has it taken me more than half a day between my arrival at the hospital and getting the test done. And it typically costs 10-20 times less than what it'd cost in the West. The"
X Link 2025-06-09T23:35Z 381.1K followers, 636.4K 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 15% 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 $600 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 381.2K followers, 4.1M engagements
"This is without exaggerating one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies" Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an American "sovereign wealth fund" (his words) "directing" them "largely at the US president's discretion" how to use their money in order to build American factories and reshore American industries. Even the Fox News host can't believe it calling it "offshore appropriation" another word for theft. That's exactly what it is:"
X Link 2025-08-13T10:20Z 381.1K followers, 3.4M engagements
"Your regular reminder that Vietnam occupies and has militarized far more disputed territory in the South China Sea and started doing so way earlier but we never hear of it because it's inconvenient to the narrative that this is all a China issue. Src: https://amti.csis.org/no-islet-left-behind-vietnam-reclaims-land-at-every-remaining-spratly-outpost/ https://amti.csis.org/no-islet-left-behind-vietnam-reclaims-land-at-every-remaining-spratly-outpost/"
X Link 2025-08-25T08:15Z 381.1K followers, 33.8K engagements
"@kainXenable And Foreign Policy which actually published the article is also a "Chinese tool" I can't help it if reality agrees with China. My advice: burying your head in the sand and wishful thinking that the US is still leading doesn't help in the least"
X Link 2025-09-04T10:21Z 381.1K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Meanwhile Chinese astronauts are barbecuing chicken wings in space"
X Link 2025-11-04T01:38Z 381K followers, 677.4K 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 381.1K followers, 386.5K 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 [----] to [----] yen per script and [----] to [----] 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 380.9K followers, 345.2K engagements
"That's funny walking around Chongqing you can now see "ishowspeed was here" signs in various restaurants 😊"
X Link 2026-01-19T09:03Z 381.1K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Status update: having coffee on top of the cooling tower of a mega waste incineration plant in Chongqing. Literally. I'm at the Chongqing Sanfeng Yulin waste-to-energy incineration plant one of the largest in China. When traveling abroad some people like to visit museums or amusement parks I'm more into garbage treatment facilities 😊 That's actually a pretty cool thing in China: you can visit many industrial facilities they often have a small museum attached that tells you about the history of the place and how it works. This particular facility is pretty impressive: it treats [----] tons of"
X Link 2026-01-20T10:21Z 381.2K followers, 51.5K engagements
"If you'd told anyone [--] years ago that Canada of all countries would deliver the obituary of American hegemony and exhort others to stop "living within the lie" of the rules-based order you'd have been laughed out of the room. Yet here we are. Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods open sea lanes a stable financial system collective security . this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture not a transition . recently great powers have begun using https://t.co/oVSorwTyUT Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:00Z 381.1K followers, 843.3K engagements
"Beyond parody: Trump's "Board of Peace" logo is basically the UN logo repainted in tacky fake gold and with "the world" reduced to only North America"
X Link 2026-01-22T11:43Z 380.8K followers, 656.4K engagements
"A journalist asked me for my take on Zhang Youxia so I might as well post it publicly. The nuclear secret WSJ story is very likely completely bullshit (for reasons explained by Neil Thomas here: and the coup narrative even more so for reasons of organizational structure (see and also for the simple reason that Xi obviously doesn't sleep in a hotel when he is in Beijing (the narrative is that the coup was planned on January 18th as he was staying at the Jingxi Hotel because he "has no fixed residence" in Beijing which is completely bullshit). The source for the coup story is Sheng Xue a"
X Link 2026-01-26T02:50Z 381.1K followers, 507.9K engagements
"Turns out that freedom of speech was when TikTok was Chinese. the new TikTok algorithm has ZERO and I mean absolutely ZERO news or politics content not one word about anything going on at all not even the weather the new TikTok algorithm has ZERO and I mean absolutely ZERO news or politics content not one word about anything going on at all not even the weather"
X Link 2026-01-26T04:49Z 381K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Fun fact as we speak - again - about China's 9-dash line: in [----] the U.S. unilaterally added a million square kilometers (twice the size of California) to its own maritime territory (src: With this latest addition the area it claims as its maritime territory is now [-----] million square kilometers or roughly 3-4 times () the size of China's maritime claims (including the 9-dash line). This is despite the U.S. having only 37% more coastline than China (19924 km vs [-----] km see so proportionally speaking the U.S. claims 2-3 times more maritime territory per kilometer of coastline than China"
X Link 2026-01-27T01:23Z 381K followers, 82.7K engagements
"This CNN article is beyond satire: first they say Maduro "cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man" and "accused it without evidence" of wanting to topple him framing it all as a baseless conspiracy theory. And in the same breath immediately afterwards they're like "anyhow now that the CIA did in fact supplant Maduro" but without any self-awareness that this means Maduro was right all along 😂 New: The CIA is quietly working to establish a permanent US presence on the ground in Venezuela spearheading the Trump administrations plans to exert its influence over the countrys future post-Maduro"
X Link 2026-01-28T10:17Z 381.1K followers, 474.1K engagements
"This is a stunning graph: China added more power capacity in the past [--] years than the US has in total. In other words its power capacity grew by one entire United States in [--] years 🤯 And in [----] alone it added more power than every single country on earth except the US has in total. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016653567499915524 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016653567499915524"
X Link 2026-01-28T23:24Z 380.8K followers, 125.2K engagements
"This "Pax Silica" initiative is so obviously a trap that it's extraordinary any country would fall for it. Insane this isn't being discussed more openly. Like it or not we live in a world where China now leads research in 90% of crucial technologies (fact: As such I completely understand why "Pax Silica" makes sense for the U.S.: they're obviously panicked about getting so dominated technologically and want to lock in countries into dependencies while they still can. That's completely rational: when you can't preserve your lead through innovation you seek to institutionalize loyalty. But for"
X Link 2026-01-30T02:08Z 381.1K followers, 36.1K engagements
"Ai Weiwei: "I used to advocat that Western leaders should publicly condemn China on human rights. But today I have completely changed my view. The West is not even qualified to criticize China." https://t.co/eFNBa8Iy99 https://t.co/eFNBa8Iy99"
X Link 2026-01-30T04:28Z 381K followers, 205.3K engagements
"Absolutely unreal: I meant it as a joke but it seems to be confirmed that Keir Starmer did in fact get served the same hallucinogenic mushrooms dish as Janet Yellen (Jianshouqing mushrooms: in the very same restaurant 🤣 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanmaoa_asiatica Hopefully he won't be eating hallucinogenic mushrooms like Janet Yellen (which was also in a Yunnan restaurant in Beijing - Yunnan food is famous for mushrooms). And yes it did happen: https://t.co/Iszrgq6i5g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanmaoa_asiatica Hopefully he won't be eating hallucinogenic mushrooms like Janet Yellen"
X Link 2026-01-30T05:17Z 381K followers, 133.8K engagements
"If you want to understand the sheer state of American diplomacy read the post below and tell yourself this guy is Trump's nominee for US Ambassador to Malaysia (fact: https://www.state.gov/adams-nicholas-malaysia-september-2025 I am settling in for a showing of Melania and the theater is PACKED Earlier a bystander asked if I was heading in to see Avatar and I stopped dead in my tracks. Avatar No son I curtly replied. I dont watch woke movies. Im here to see the groundbreaking documentary https://www.state.gov/adams-nicholas-malaysia-september-2025 I am settling in for a showing of Melania and"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:05Z 381K followers, 73.4K engagements
"If you want a deeper analysis on this vibe shift by Western media I wrote on article titled "Are Western media turning China-friendly" on exactly this back in October: https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/are-western-media-turning-china-friendlyr=4r0pw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true&triedRedirect=true https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/are-western-media-turning-china-friendlyr=4r0pw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true&triedRedirect=true"
X Link 2026-02-01T08:28Z 380.5K followers, 24.2K engagements
"@MabelMatsumoto I think you're thinking of the Summer Palace"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:37Z 381K followers, [----] engagements
"Anti-Asian bigotry is the only type where the main complaint is: they're too good and we can't compete. The rhetoric Helen uses below is the exact same that was used to justify the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: other workers were complaining that the Chinese were "unfairly" hard-working. Rather than be admired for this they were resented. Same idea here: Helen says Asians pursue "grind culture" (meaning they work too hard) which is unfair to other Americans because it makes them feel "dumb" while all they need is a safe space to "find their passion" which is supposedly the American way."
X Link 2026-02-02T04:18Z 381.1K followers, 202.6K engagements
"@KenWBriggs3 It's understandable that you aren't taught this in your U.S. history courses but the U.S. was neutral until late in the war and suffered by far the least casualty out of any major country. Even less than Canada (proportionally) 👇"
X Link 2026-02-02T04:34Z 381K followers, 70.4K engagements
"This memoir by General Naravane Former Chief of the Indian Army Staff is pretty explosive right now in India. So explosive in fact that the government has been preventing its publication for over two years. Much of the controversy revolves around the clashes with China in [----]. The Modi government has built an entire narrative around these events - specifically that India showcased bold decisive leadership. Naravane's account completely contradicts it: from his vantage point of the man running the entire military response what he describes is a story of reactive scrambles with Modi"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:55Z 381.1K followers, 112K engagements
"Sorry but I think you're misreading it. Epstein had no respect for the Chinese look at these other exchanges in which he literally says that they're not smart "talk in fortune cookie language" used "to eat rats for breakfast" when the US arrived and owe everything to the US who "educated" them. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018546317203837052 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018546317203837052"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:45Z 381.1K followers, 86.4K engagements
"Interestingly "peasants" to describe the Chinese is the exact same term that JD Vance used 👇🤔"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:59Z 381.1K followers, 169.3K engagements
"This is so profoundly ignorant. The Dalai Lama isn't - even remotely - "the spiritual leader of Buddhism". He represents merely one of the [--] schools of Tibetan Buddhism which itself is a micro subset of overall Buddhism (Thai Buddhism Japanese Chinese Sri-Lankan Vietnamese etc. ). All in all in the real world (as opposed to the Western-centric understanding of the religion) he undoubtedly has proportionally a much bigger following among Hollywood celebrities than among the world's Buddhists. The spiritual leader of the world's Buddhists Dalai Lama Has traveled to Epstein Island several times"
X Link 2026-02-03T10:57Z 381K followers, 214K engagements
"This is a great point (sh nng gng shng: scholars farmers artisans merchants) is China's traditional four-class hierarchy with scholars on top followed by peasants - and merchants dead last right at the bottom of the social ladder. Merchants were seen as parasitic: they didn't produce anything they just moved goods around for profit. In fact in later dynasties than the Han merchants were barred from taking Keju (the imperial exams which allowed someone to become a government official in China's meritocracy) because China was wary of mixing merchants with political power. This was reportedly"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:21Z 381K followers, 24.7K engagements
"For sure 😏 I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing (I've always advocated for a European version of the Great Firewall) but if you believe that the actions against X aren't politically motivated I have a bridge to sell you. For one thing the investigation was launched on the initiative of a Macron MP named ric Bothorel: and his complaint rests on a brand new legal theory - that tweaking your own recommendation algorithm is the legal equivalent of a cyberattack. This lets them use France's anti-hacking statute (Article 323-2 of the penal code) to go after X. They're essentially arguing"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:23Z 381.1K followers, 63.1K engagements
"Well Macron can be blamed for much but suspicion of sleeping with underage women is certainly not something I'd be too worried about 😏 France should be investigating Macrons connection with Epstein not raiding s offices. https://t.co/IizPi5mBb0 France should be investigating Macrons connection with Epstein not raiding s offices. https://t.co/IizPi5mBb0"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:14Z 381.2K followers, 182.2K engagements
"China's response to Panama 👇 Basically freezing most economic activity with the country https://x.com/i/status/2019290310451556428 China Is Said to Pause Panama Deals After Ports Operation Nulled China has asked state-owned firms to halt talks on new projects in Panama as retaliation after the country voided CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.s contract to operate two ports along the Panama Canal according to https://t.co/CDupNaAb4o https://x.com/i/status/2019290310451556428 China Is Said to Pause Panama Deals After Ports Operation Nulled China has asked state-owned firms to halt talks on new"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:58Z 381K followers, 13.9K engagements
"@Dr_Clandestine Fascinating High context culture as well like China"
X Link 2026-02-05T07:39Z 380.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Not so sure. They have a pretty horrid history. During WW2 they were so eager in their extermination of the Jews that even the SS were uncomfortable about the brutality. I'm not kidding check this for instance: The ended up killing more Jews than in Germany in both percentage and absolute terms which is quite a feat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunas_pogrom"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:07Z 380.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@kakajusaiyou Yes maybe although concretely what Lithuania did from the perspective of China was to encourage separatism a breakup of the country which is pretty bad too"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:16Z 380.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Kishore literally asked me the same question and my answer was: - Raised in an educational environment of extreme arrogance vis a vis other forms of thinking leading to an inability to process the fact that the other side might have a genuine perspective - Children of liberalism and the "unipolar moment" where they thought that ideological competition had completely disappeared and therefore beliefs didn't matter anymore they were pass they thought everything had been settled. Which means they don't even understand what ideas are they think it's one and the same thing with communication. -"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:12Z 380.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Maybe listen to the video he's saying the same. You're both saying that the European mind is far behind on where the world is that it doesn't understand the world as it is. He qualifies this as a decline because when you don't understand the world in which you live the quality of your mind is questionable"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:16Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Pretty extraordinary to see that the Trump administration is even managing the extraordinary feat of antagonizing Poland a country so thoroughly vassalized that its president once proposed to build a US military base on Polish soil and literally name it "Fort Trump" - while offering $2 billion to pay for it (true story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/polands-new-tactic-for-getting-a-us-military-base-pitch-it-as-fort-trump/2018/09/18/5a58c17a-bb7a-11e8-b1c5-7a2126bc722c_story.html Dear Mr. Prime Minister Im assuming your thoughtful and well-articulated message was sent"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:50Z 381.1K followers, 73.2K engagements
"Update: China open to dialogue 👇 https://x.com/i/status/2019977165794840969 Reuters: China said on Friday it was open to dialogue with Lithuania after the Baltic nations prime minister described as a mistake its [----] decision to let Taiwan set up a de facto embassy in the capital of Vilnius. https://t.co/KCgGmqayKB https://x.com/i/status/2019977165794840969 Reuters: China said on Friday it was open to dialogue with Lithuania after the Baltic nations prime minister described as a mistake its [----] decision to let Taiwan set up a de facto embassy in the capital of Vilnius."
X Link 2026-02-07T03:45Z 381.1K followers, 16.8K engagements
"@EyesWideShot77 Largely agree. As someone rightly said it serves the function as the opium of the people"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:21Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@PhilConte007 Et on la lui a emprunt (en la dvoyant largement)"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:23Z 381K followers, [----] engagements
"@inabster @staycurious321 To each their belief. My goal wasn't to disparage religion but to explain secularism in China"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:55Z 381K followers, [----] engagements
"Athens wasn't secular in the least it was deeply religious and the gods permeated every aspect of public life. The assembly opened with prayers and sacrifices. The Oracle at Delphi was routinely consulted before major political and military decisions - not unlike the Shang oracle bones actually. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020789962652999803 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020789962652999803"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:20Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@TomTugendhat She literally left China in the 1970s. Her references of China are decades old that's not "modern China" in the least"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:52Z 381K followers, 13.3K engagements
"@Mauser1898 That's Mark Simon right"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:55Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"👇 The double standards are absolutely unreal https://x.com/fandango1625/status/2021089736144609720s=20 @RnaudBertrand The USA and its corrupt politicians can watch on 4K video palestinian journalists get executed for the crime of reporting the truth but this guy attempts treason and every corrupt US politian puts out a statement of support for Lai as if he is some hero. laughable. https://x.com/fandango1625/status/2021089736144609720s=20 @RnaudBertrand The USA and its corrupt politicians can watch on 4K video palestinian journalists get executed for the crime of reporting the truth but this"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:38Z 381.1K followers, 18.1K engagements
"@Thomas_Astruc Thank you"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:41Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @Thomas_Astruc: Must read"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:41Z 381K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @Solzi_Sez: Of the various pro-China accounts Arnaud is really the only one who shows a deeper understanding of culture. The others i"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:52Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"To be fair China isn't exactly easy to get either 😅 It's a lot of time spent reading speaking with people and travelling in China knowledge accumulated over decades. And what truly helped me in my case to understand Chinese philosophy is studying TCM formally in Chinese at a TCM university including the ancient foundational texts - not many Westerners have done this 😅 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021103668486078607 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021103668486078607"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:07Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"@ConnorBrady21 Well the equivalent here would be the main actors of the Scottish independence movement actively colluding with Russia getting - public - help from Russia etc. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be seen kindly from London"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:27Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@Solzi_Sez @edwardW2 @Daoxue_Academy I'm a Xiaomi android individual 😢"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:54Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@Josteinhe @ConnorBrady21 No absolutely nothing it's still under [--] country [--] systems. What Lai tried to do was to destroy the "1 country" aspect: he is the one who tried - and failed - to change the structure"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:29Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @XianyangCB: Correct translation of can confirm"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:18Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @LynAldenContact: Imagine being one of the analysts that keeps saying China will collapse soon. Then the U.S. Treasury Secretary comes"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:18Z 381.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@pdevitton You obviously need to look up what the US is currently doing in Cuba: it's moved from "commercial embargo" to virtually total siege"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:04Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @hilton_ctwh: Really disgusting of this DPP ruling party legislator in Taiwan to have a sign on his office door that says "Chinese are s"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:20Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @irregnata: The LDP predominates in Japans legislature more fully than the Communist Party of China in theirs"
X Link 2026-02-11T07:43Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @KaiserKuo: "Why I'm Leaving America" Just kidding. But I keep getting asked why we're heading back to Beijing so I wrote a little pi"
X Link 2026-02-11T07:43Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@tanvi_ratna Macron just yesterday said that the US is the principal threat as they seek to "dismember" the EU so I doubt that much coordinating will be going on"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:25Z 381K followers, [---] engagements
"@KumarSeshadri Do you know the percentage of China's energy that Venezuela corresponds to 0.4% If it was indeed aimed at China it does nothing it's a margin of error. As for Iran last I checked the attempt at regime change failed"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:27Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @Solzi_Sez: A complete and utter failure to understand foreign terminology. ❌ If you read the last [----] years of literature on this Ti"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:20Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @Solzi_Sez: Let's look at Tianming in the Great Learning: The theme is the development of character and its extension through good g"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:13Z 381.1K followers, [--] engagements
"@cryptomessenger Which is probably better for China: they have excess USD reserves which they need to do something with"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:49Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@Sturgeons_Law Please point to me the historians and scholars who argue that China was a religious state and not secular pray tell I've done considerable reading on this matter for almost [--] decades and the view that there is a strong secular tradition in China is pretty consensual"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:13Z 381.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Imagine picking this as a cause you're ready to die for: blocking humanitarian aid to a starving people. Hard to recall any other instance in history when a society had descended into such collective murderous madness"
X Link 2024-05-20T11:52Z 381.2K followers, 724.4K engagements
"It's becoming clearer and clearer that we're looking at a seismic shift in the US's relationship with the world between: 1) The US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID 👇) 2) Marco Rubio stating that we're now in a multipolar world with "multi-great powers in different parts of the planet" and that "the postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us" 3) The tariffs on supposed "allies" like Mexico Canada or the EU This is the US effectively saying "our attempt at running the world is over to each his own we're now just another great"
X Link 2025-02-02T16:02Z 381.2K followers, 4.9M engagements
"Yet another perfect illustration why it'd be so potentially devastating to sever links between U.S. and Chinese science as the Trump administration is trying to do. A Chinese biotech company found what Dr Norman Sharpless former director of the National Cancer Institute says is the first "potential cure" he's seen in his [--] years in oncology for myeloma a common and extremely painful blood cancer that doctors thought incurable. A group of [--] patients who had longstanding multiple myeloma underwent a clinical trial funded by Johnson & Johnson which has an exclusive licensing agreement with"
X Link 2025-06-05T05:03Z 381.2K followers, 61.3K engagements
"@salon_vert There are plenty of course: secularism doesn't mean no religion it just means that the religion and the state aren't linked"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:21Z 381.2K followers, 20.8K engagements
"In all honesty it's very hard to say as it's such a vast subject. But probably - somewhat counter-intuitively - I think the foreigner who best understood China was Matteo Ricci the Jesuit missionary of the 16th century. I often say that if you want to understand China reading about Matteo Ricci's life and his own writings is a great way to start"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:39Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @XianyangCB: People keep trying to drag me into this spat over whether China had a religion or not so here's my take: I hope both teams"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:20Z 381.2K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @AlanRMacLeod: The US government literally kidnapped the president of Venezuela last month"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:54Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@KonigbagbeAsad Why Diversity isn't bad. It's what makes the world interesting"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:26Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@QingpingHe1 If Hong Xiuquan had won the civil war China indeed likely wouldn't have been secular anymore but he didn't win did he"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:11Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things." But he laments that it didn't quite work out this way: as he explains it turns out that poor countries (mostly China) didn't want to just remain cheap labor forever and started moving up the value chain themselves. Which is why according to him globalization was a failure. Meaning that the objective of globalization wasn't to reduce global inequalities but very"
X Link 2025-03-20T01:11Z 381.2K followers, 3.6M engagements
"And now the reality: - Cambodia and Thailand: it was a border conflict that ended thanks to mediation by Malaysia. All Trump did was a phone call threatening tariffs. - Kosovo and Serbia: there was no war - DRC and Rwanda: war did not end violence continues - Pakistan and India: India is adamant there was no US mediation - Israel and Iran: the US was literally a belligerent (remember the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities) - Egypt and Ethiopia: there was no war - Armenia and Azerbaijan: the "peace deal" hasn't actually been signed - Israel and Hamas: beyond obscene for the US to take"
X Link 2025-10-16T11:04Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
"One of France's oldest companies a [---] years old foundry just went bankrupt because it "could no longer cope with the explosion in energy prices." These guys survived the Middle-Ages dozens of wars plagues Nazi occupation but couldn't survive Europe's current suicide pact. Il y a un silence de mort: aprs 600ans dexistence lune des plus anciennes entreprises de France ferme ses portes dans lIsre ➡ https://t.co/qWZPbCEkys https://t.co/JGCvTWuCWa Il y a un silence de mort: aprs 600ans dexistence lune des plus anciennes entreprises de France ferme ses portes dans lIsre ➡ https://t.co/qWZPbCEkys"
X Link 2025-11-04T06:02Z 381.2K followers, 1.5M engagements
"This is extraordinary and profoundly symbolic: Ai Weiwei has returned to China for the first time in [--] years and says he concluded that Beijing is "more humane" than Germany which he describes as "insecure and unfree". He gave an interview to Germany's Berliner Zeitung after his trip and here is what he said: - He described feeling that Beijing had become like "a broken jade being perfectly reassembled" and said he felt no fear returning to the country. - He complained that daily life difficulties in Europe (where he's lived for the past [--] years) are "at least ten times" what they are in"
X Link 2026-01-15T00:51Z 381.2K followers, 1.6M engagements
"The ignorance and gaslighting of these people is genuinely astounding. You DON'T need batteries to store renewable energies. BY FAR the most mature and widely deployed form of grid-scale energy storage is to lift water to a high spot with the renewable energy and when you want to get the energy back you let it fall with gravity to move a turbine (similar to the way a dam works). It's called pumped hydro storage (PHS) it accounts for over 94% of all long-duration grid storage capacity globally and it's extremely efficient (80% round-trip efficiency: The notion that because you don't make a"
X Link 2026-01-21T10:13Z 381.2K followers, 513.5K engagements
"@prn_psicopaulo It's certainly infinitely more similar to China than it is to the West in this and pretty much any regard (a LOT of aspects of Japanese ancient culture come from China)"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:49Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@AdrianLeeCroydn We in the West ironically knew China much better in Pascal's days than we do today. I'm not kidding"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:50Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"It's exceptionally rare for former Chinese officials to reveal the inner workings of the system all the more so when it involves detailing the mechanics of China's famous 5-year plans. Dong Yu interviewed by the SCMP (link: helped draft China's 11th 12th and 13th five-year plans and he's now VP of the China Institute for Development Planning at Tsinghua University. In other words the guy knows China's planning process in and out both in theory and in practice. I'll let you read the interview in full for yourself but here were the parts that stood out for me: 1) What I hadn't realized but"
X Link 2025-09-22T02:34Z 381.2K followers, 502.3K engagements
"Wow Nvidia's CEO now says unequivocally that "China is going to win the AI race". He says this is thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulations. The beautiful irony here is that China's low energy costs are in large parts driven by its extraordinary buildup of green energy. Trump the other day at the UN said: If you don't get away from the green energy scam your country is going to fail. - well that "green energy scam" might make YOU fail the most consequential technology race of the 21st century 🤷♂ Src:"
X Link 2025-11-05T23:39Z 381.2K followers, 325.9K 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 381.2K followers, 4M engagements
"Insanely submitting your past [--] 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 [--] years - All your biometrics: face fingerprint DNA and iris - All your phone numbers from the last [--] years - All your email addresses from the"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:20Z 381.2K followers, 4.6M 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 [--]. At [--] 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 381.2K followers, 3.3M engagements
"January in Beijing 👇 US allies to use Carney's expression are "taking the sign down.""
X Link 2026-01-31T09:12Z 381.2K followers, 1.1M engagements
"From a geopolitical standpoint this is probably the most interesting Epstein email: an exchange between him and Peter Thiel in which Thiel says that the grand "plan" of U.S. foreign policy is to make the world "a mess" in order to be less involved abroad. The idea being I imagine that if everyone is warring and divided they're kept weak vis a vis the U.S. and U.S. intervention becomes unnecessary. Which is incidentally pretty much what happened during WW2: the US let Europe and Asia bleed each other dry before stepping in at the end as the last economy standing - which is essentially how"
X Link 2026-02-02T03:26Z 381.2K followers, 1.2M 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 [--] 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 [----] China imported 95% 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 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"Fun fact: this "American" solar panel factory belonged and was built by Chinese solar giant Trina Solar. Late last year just a few days after the factory opened Trina was forced to sell the facility to Freyr Battery (now rebranded as T1 Energy) after Congress threatened to pass a bill called "American Tax Dollars for American Solar Manufacturing Act" that would kill the factory's business model if it remained under Chinese ownership (src: Now you know how America came to have such an impressively productive "domestic solar" production facility."
X Link 2025-11-05T00:45Z 381.2K followers, 785K engagements
"I typically don't like to be alarmist but any student of history would tell you: all the lights are blinking scarlet red. I mean: - Massive military expansion: check (see below) - Annexation threats: check - Demonstrated willingness to use force unilaterally: check - New imperial doctrine proclaimed: check - Withdrawal from international organizations and international treaties: check At this stage we're not even watching warning signs anymore. We're watching the thing itself in motion. The only way the world stops this train is to put differences aside and form a balancing coalition."
X Link 2026-01-08T01:32Z 381.2K followers, 4M engagements
"What's happening in Panama with the "China-owned" ports (which actually aren't China-owned) is absolutely extraordinary: after the U.S. failed to have BlackRock buy the ports they're effectively outright stealing them with the help of Panama's Supreme Court. I'm not exaggerating: Panama's Supreme Court just ruled that the 29-year old concession of the ports is suddenly "unconstitutional". Legally speaking this means the concession was never valid so there's nothing to compensate for. Effectively the ruling says that CK Hutchison - the Hong Kong company that invested $1.8 billion to build the"
X Link 2026-02-04T02:24Z 381.2K followers, 266.2K engagements
"This is bigger than most people realize: Lithuania's Prime Minister now officially admits it was a huge "strategic mistake" (like "jumping in front of a train") to be the first and only EU country to open a "Taiwanese" representative office in [----]. She says Lithuania has started the "very complicated process" of "turning the clock back" in order to normalize relations with China as the "ties were completely cut" as a result of Lithuania's actions. What does this signify It was of course always painfully obvious that Lithuania couldn't take on China by itself: they're a tiny country of less"
X Link 2026-02-06T02:33Z 381.2K followers, 150.6K engagements
"Absolutely masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin former Prime Minister of France who famously led France's opposition to the Iraq war and who IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades. This is so important so incredibly well argued that I decided to translate it in full: "Hamas has set a trap for us and this trap is one of maximum horror of maximum cruelty. And so there's a risk of an escalation in militarism of more military interventions as if we could with armies solve a problem as serious as the Palestinian question. There's also a second major trap which"
X Link 2023-10-28T09:42Z 381.2K followers, 11M engagements
"These have undoubtedly been the wildest [--] hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff. A 🧵"
X Link 2024-06-13T04:47Z 381.2K followers, 20.9M 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 [----] 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 381.2K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday) this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University the most prestigious university in China. Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan. Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back: - When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in"
X Link 2025-09-18T02:34Z 381.2K followers, 5.1M 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 [--] 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 381.2K followers, 13.2M engagements
"This is legit hilarious: according to the US Secretary of Agriculture herself Trump's bailout of Argentina means that US taxpayers are now effectively subsidizing Argentinian soybean exports to China - the very market American farmers have been shut out of. All the funnier when you consider that one of the key objectives of the bailout is presumably to prevent Argentina - one of the US's only friendly governments left in South America - from moving closer to China. And instead it's effectively funding the exact opposite outcome. This is according to this leaked text 👇 that Scott Bessent is"
X Link 2025-09-30T02:16Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M 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 381.2K followers, 4.8M engagements
"Europe just crossed a massive red line for China: this is more provocative a move that even the US themselves EVER dared do. It never happened before. Which makes this move frankly incomprehensible: why would Europe cross a line that even the US - even when it was at the peak of its power - always considered it couldn't afford to cross All the more for an issue where Europe has no role and when Europe is far more dependent on Chinese trade than the US There's nothing to gain here for Europe and a lot to lose: this move is purely destructive. There's only one precedent I can think of: in 1995"
X Link 2025-11-08T03:45Z 381.2K followers, 550.7K engagements
"This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the rest of the country and an extremely attractive entry gate for the Chinese market. You can now import most products in the world (74% of all goods) entirely duty free into Hainan. And if you transform the product and add 30% value locally you can then send it to the rest of mainland China completely tariff-free. So for"
X Link 2025-12-19T16:32Z 381.2K followers, 3.1M engagements
"Venezuela killed the US. Or rather it revealed it was already dead. In the history of the USs relation with Latin America what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: the U.S. government has intervened to change governments in Latin America a total of [--] times What is unprecedented however is the brazenness the unabashedly predatory nature of the intervention. Trump is not pretending this is about anything else than resource extraction. He explicitly stated "we're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground" and that this wealth would go to the United States of"
X Link 2026-01-06T10:45Z 381.2K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Who could have expected Mark Carney a liberal establishment figure if there ever was one to be the flag-bearer for the end of the US-led order And from a podium at Davos of all places The more you think about it though the more it makes sense. Carney is at heart a central banker. As such he understands the power of words and beliefs better than anyone: when you strip things down to their core a world order - like trust in a currency or a financial system - fundamentally relies on the maintenance of belief. Systems of power exist because participants act as if they exist. That's pretty much"
X Link 2026-01-21T09:31Z 381.2K followers, 1.1M engagements
"This is a genuinely incredible story. The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is kill-line: if you go to Xiaohongshu Bilibili or Douyin everyone is speaking about it. Why It all has to do with the story of Alex known as A (Lo A literally prison A where A stands for Alex) a Chinese medical/biology student based in Seattle USA who worked part-time as a forensic assistant collecting unclaimed bodies (primarily homeless people). Youve doubtlessly never heard of him but he probably single-handedly shattered what remained of the American Dream myth for an entire generation of young"
X Link 2026-01-29T11:08Z 381.2K followers, 875.6K engagements
"If you study all these recent visits to China the one who - by far - got the highest level access was Macron: President Xi personally accompanied him for a tourist visit to Sichuan something which almost never happens and is an immense mark of respect. For instance Xi (or any Chinese leader) never accompanied an American president on a tourist visit outside Beijing. YET he is also the one who - by far - achieved the least. According to French and Chinese media no deal of any significance were signed. Literally as far as I can see the only deal that was announced with a financial figure was a"
X Link 2026-02-01T06:40Z 381.2K followers, 705.6K engagements
"This is absolutely astonishing for anyone who's followed the BBC's reporting on China in recent years. Literally a complete vibe shift. Just 3-4 years ago people saying the same thing as this BBC journalist would have been the subject of BBC hit-pieces explaining they were malignant "Chinese propagandists." I'm not exaggerating it literally happened. Check this [----] BBC article on "the foreigners in Chinas disinformation drive" framing foreign vloggers who speak positively about China as "foreign faces who can help sell government messaging overseas." Fast-forward to now and the BBC"
X Link 2026-02-01T08:23Z 381.2K followers, 199.6K engagements
"Pretty hilarious that Xi Jinping is one of the only persons personally named in the Epstein files and it ends up being a flex. Epstein apparently really hated him and the entire Chinese leadership which he haughtily described - here in a conversation with Steve Bannon - as "a group of peasants." He seems to have been particularly incensed that these "peasants looked into their own systems found the NSA cybertools that we had inserted and then used them against US interests." As the saying goes you judge a man by his enemies. (incidentally it's not true that "Xi barely has highschool"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:32Z 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"You've doubtless read the numerous headlines these past few days on how Xi Jinping called for the Yuan to "become a global reserve currency." That's true he actually said that. But as is often the case Western media are missing the forest for the trees. This is extracted from a speech in which Xi laid out a much grander vision of what a modern financial system with Chinese characteristics () would look like essentially China's answer to Wall Street. Fascinatingly and in stark contrast to the actual Wall Street Xi's main argument is that what matter most aren't the institutions or status that"
X Link 2026-02-03T09:26Z 381.2K followers, 331K engagements
"Always hilarious to read China's transcripts of Trump-Xi calls because you can always find these incredibly sophisticated classical Chinese references with layers of implied meaning that you just know completely went over Trump's head. It's like Xi is speaking to Trump as if addressing a fellow scholar of classical statecraft and the guy is like "so we're doing [--] Million Tons of soybeans for next season that's a lot of beans folks" This time it's particularly funny because the Chinese transcript has Xi telling Trump: "It is always right to do a good thing however small and always wrong to do"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:10Z 381.2K followers, 339.3K engagements
"A reminder that in [----] Mao said it would take China "fifteen 5-year plans" to "catch up with and surpass the United States." (source: The 15th 5-year plan is the one starting this year 😉 In other words he could imagine it quite presciently in fact. https://user.guancha.cn/main/contentid=1540243&comments-container= https://user.guancha.cn/main/contentid=1540243&comments-container="
X Link 2026-02-06T03:00Z 381.2K followers, 187.3K engagements
"Meanwhile [----] was by far the biggest BRI year ever with almost a quarter of a trillion dollars ($213.5 billion) in spend almost double that of any previous year. Africa was the single biggest recipient of BRI spending gathering more than 47% of the construction spend and 22% of the investment spend. Especially symbolic in [----] a year in which the U.S. withdrew from most engagement with what Trump famously referred to as "shithole countries". Src for the graphs and data: https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/2237361/Nedopil-2026-China-BRI-Investment-Report-2025.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:15Z 381.2K followers, 20.4K engagements
"This is probably the single feature that makes China most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs. We often wrongly believe that China's secularism came with Communism but this couldn't be more wrong. The roots are far far more ancient than this. Think about any other civilization - India Persia ancient Egypt European civilization the Incas: they all had a priestly class that held considerable political power. China Never. Never ever Actually China in its very early history had a brush with theocracy during"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:37Z 381.2K followers, 1.4M engagements
"RIP Hollywood. OH MY FKING GODDDDDD 😱😱😱 indie filmmakers in china have already gone FULL INSANE MODE and started making movies using Seedance [---]. 100% AI https://t.co/ljUg7tTbjn OH MY FKING GODDDDDD 😱😱😱 indie filmmakers in china have already gone FULL INSANE MODE and started making movies using Seedance [---]. 100% AI https://t.co/ljUg7tTbjn"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:47Z 381.2K followers, 63.9K engagements
"As expected many of the reactions to Jimmy Lai's condemnation by Western officials and media are absolutely shameful and grossly biased. If someone had done the same thing as Lai did in any Western country there is absolutely zero doubt he would rot in prison too. The most shameful part is that it was all extremely transparent: it was an open trial (meaning anyone could attend) and the verdict - running [---] pages with detailed reasoning on every evidentiary point - is publicly available for anyone to read here: Lai himself testified for [--] days in his own defense assisted by world-class"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:34Z 381.2K followers, 71.9K engagements
"Fun fact: under Han Dynasty law there were [--] ways to commute a death sentence pay a large fine or accept castration. Sima Qian (the grand historian of the Han Dynasty who'd been condemned to death for publicly defending a general Li Ling who had surrendered to the enemy) was too poor for the fine so he chose castration. In this famous letter to his friend Ren An he explains that this is but a small price to pay to finish his monumental Shiji (a comprehensive history of the entire known world) and that even "a thousand mutilations" would be worth it. Not sure many contemporary authors have"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:26Z 381.2K followers, 175.1K engagements
"I mean much of it is on camera. Is that 👇 "freedom of the press" https://x.com/i/status/2021050856779677918 Here's Jimmy Lai- "we're very much expecting support from the CIA" and other Wester governments. https://t.co/078orGHp09 https://x.com/i/status/2021050856779677918 Here's Jimmy Lai- "we're very much expecting support from the CIA" and other Wester governments. https://t.co/078orGHp09"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:37Z 381.2K followers, 20.4K engagements
"Well played 😅 https://x.com/i/status/2021134536428617931 @RnaudBertrand A decision like that takes some balls https://x.com/i/status/2021134536428617931 @RnaudBertrand A decision like that takes some balls"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:52Z 381.2K followers, 18.4K engagements
"And this 👇 https://x.com/i/status/2021229385391436152 This is from Jimmy Lai's [----] talk at FDD. In court he said the "nuclear weapon" remark was a metaphor but what came before is the transcript's actual self-incriminating evidence. He's like a rapper bragging about murder in a song then using the "it's art" defense in court. https://t.co/0vi6rVo5tC https://x.com/i/status/2021229385391436152 This is from Jimmy Lai's [----] talk at FDD. In court he said the "nuclear weapon" remark was a metaphor but what came before is the transcript's actual self-incriminating evidence. He's like a rapper"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:44Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Gaza will be remembered as the moment the world looked away. Cuba is the test of whether it learned anything from this. Both situations are terrifyingly similar and there's little doubt that U.S. actions on Cuba were enabled by the world's lack of concrete response on Gaza. Look: In both cases it's collective punishment: a siege that cuts off essential supplies for an entire people. In both cases the perpetrator is acutely aware of the consequences of their own actions. Israel's Yoav Gallant (who as a reminder is wanted in The Hague) said "no electricity no food no water no fuel." Here you"
X Link 2026-02-11T04:35Z 381.2K followers, 163.5K engagements
"Really quite extraordinary how humbled Bessent has been by China. Reminder that this is the same guy who - At the beginning of Trump [---] tariffs when China retaliated said that China made "a big mistake. they have a losing hand. they're playing with a pair of twos." - Said at the beginning of the tariffs that a group of other countries - specifically Japan South Korea Vietnam and India - would join the U.S. in a deal aimed at a "grand encirclement" of China - After China retaliated with rare earths in October he framed it as "China versus the world" and said that the U.S. would rally"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:24Z 381.2K followers, 149.1K engagements
"Really terrible look for France in China and completely counterproductive. The very last thing you should do if you actually want to change things with China is to position it as an imperialist diktat. That's 100% guarantee of failure as it then becomes a question of basic legitimacy for the Chinese government to oppose it. Many people wrongly assume that the legitimacy of the CPC is based on the economy and prosperity but the much more important cement of their legitimacy is that they put an end to the century of humiliation by Western powers. When a Western power acts in ways reminiscent of"
X Link 2026-02-11T07:11Z 381.2K followers, 65.6K engagements
"Europe's insanity: spending more on defense but. with American suppliers at the expense of European ones which ends up making Europe more vassalized and therefore less safe 🤦♂ In essence it's an illustration of the American protection racket. Strikingly as European defense spending has gone up since the early 2020s the share of European contractors has fallen. In later rounds will European firms claw their way back More featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below. https://t.co/QW5kC3Aapr Strikingly as European defense spending has gone up since the early 2020s the share of"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:07Z 381.2K followers, 39.2K engagements
"Now that it's the US controlling Venezuela's oil they're principally selling it to. China still That's according to US Energy Secretary Chris Wright (src: There goes the theory that Venezuela was all about cutting China's oil supply. It never made sense: the US themselves are already the world's largest oil producer so they weren't going to consume Venezuela's oil themselves they need to sell it to someone and the biggest buyer out there is China 🤷♂ As such as is typical of extractive imperialism it isn't so much about denying resources to rivals but about ensuring the extraction benefits"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:18Z 381.2K followers, 50.2K engagements
"What an utterly ridiculous take: how is saying that the Chinese state has a long secular tradition "anti-imperialist" Simply nothing to do 🤷♂ And it's not "pseudointellectual" either: if it were then a massive proportion of Enlightenment figures - some of Western civilization's most consequential intellectuals - would be pseudointellectual too given that they made exactly the same argument. Voltaire Leibniz and Bayle all pointed to China as proof that a civilization could thrive without the Church. It's known as 'L'argument chinois' - the argument that China proved religion was unnecessary"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:34Z 381.2K followers, 30.6K engagements
"Given that this topic 👇 of secularism in China unexpectedly seems to stir passions (even though I've unsurprisingly seen many pretty ignorant takes) let me add a small something. The man who probably best summed up this topic - ever - was Pascal the legendary 17th Century French thinker (you've surely heard of Pascal's wager or Pascal's theorem). In his Penses ("Thoughts") he summarized it with this very short but incredibly profound question: "Which of the two is more credible Moses or China" That's it. I should almost finish my post here because when you think about it all is said. But let"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:46Z 381.2K followers, 99K engagements
"If you read my original article it's almost entirely based on Chinese sources: the Duke of Zhou Mencius Confucius the Book of Songs the Book of Documents etc. But I got told that was "pseudointellectual" hence now me citing unimpeachable Western intellectual sources. But now that's a "Western Christian perspective" apparently which in your mouth presumably means it ought to be dismissed out of hand Meanwhile in the midst of all this ridiculous labeling and ad-hominems no-one actually looks at the arguments. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022339845901938888"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:59Z 381.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Just landed in Phnom Penh Cambodia for a first time visit in the country and I'm absolutely wowed by the airport. It's not just China: bit by bit the whole of Asia is getting world-class infrastructure"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:09Z 381.2K followers, 672.1K engagements
"@Vidyut I literally toured the whole of India on a motorbike. I've been to more places in India than 99% of Indians. That being said point taken India is still far behind in infrastructure. I did write "bit by bit" though"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:13Z 381.2K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Fun fact: Chinese new year isn't only the world's largest human migration but the largest annual migration in the entire animal kingdom. More than [--] billion passenger trips during the period: nothing even comes close. Even if you compare it to things like America's monarch butterfly migration (300-500 million individuals). (Pro tip: never travel to China during that time like that guy 👇😅) im taking part in the worlds largest human migration https://t.co/LfTL6dT9w0 im taking part in the worlds largest human migration https://t.co/LfTL6dT9w0"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:09Z 381.2K followers, 945.3K engagements
"Even French media are admitting that France's Foreign Minister Jean-Nol Barrot lied to the French National Assembly on @FranceskAlbs completely misrepresenting her comments. In a normal world he's the one who should resign not Albanese. There was a time it used to be considered a pretty grave offense for a government minister to lie to their country's parliament all the more for the purpose of destroying the career of a UN official whose only crime is telling the truth. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022632574242410603 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022632574242410603"
X Link 2026-02-14T11:22Z 381.2K followers, 230.7K engagements
"Yes @FrenchResponse is strangely quiet over this one. https://x.com/i/status/2022639516658602446 @RnaudBertrand @FranceskAlbs I would be curious to know @FrenchResponse opinion on M. Barrot blatant lies. https://x.com/i/status/2022639516658602446 @RnaudBertrand @FranceskAlbs I would be curious to know @FrenchResponse opinion on M. Barrot blatant lies"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:48Z 381.2K followers, 16.5K engagements
"On the first day of Chinese new year this single train station 👇 (Guangzhou South Railway Station) handled [---] million trips (src: It's crazy: it's roughly equivalent to the entire city of Paris taking the train from the same train station on the same day. https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/628881 A high speed train leaves GZ South Station every [--] seconds. The station's [--] platforms aren't even straining. The spring festival passenger load is within design basis of course. Like the power grid infrastructure that is sized according to its maximum use scenario. :) https://t.co/nJDNYIZYJV"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:35Z 381.2K followers, 39.5K engagements
"One of the most interesting aspects of Cambodia that I've noticed so far (I've only been here for [--] days) is its payment ecosystem. It's the strangest mix: 1) most business in the country is conducted in US dollars (when you buy something in a shop you typically pay in USD) 2) most payments are made via a QR code-based "everything app" called ABA Mobile that's basically a clone of Alipay. And deeply integrated with Alipay: in fact I didn't even download ABA Mobile I scan all the ABA QR code through Alipay and it just works. 3) ABA Mobile is developed by ABA Bank (Advanced Bank of Asia) which"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:52Z 381.2K followers, 280K engagements
"@implausible17 Only if the change involves coins I believe: they have USD bills but no coins"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:14Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Finally got to read Rubio's speech in Munich: it is one of the most revisionist and imperialist speeches I've ever seen a senior American official make and that's saying something. The man literally laments the outcome of WW2 because it marked the end of the era during which "the West had been expanding" a "path" he "hopes the US and Europe walk together again." And just to ensure you're clear about what he means: he wants to restore the building of "vast empires extending across the globe" and blames "anti-colonial uprisings" for what they did to "the great Western empires." He also says"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:52Z 381.2K followers, 58.3K engagements
"If you don't see this 👇 as pro-colonialism and imperialist I'm not sure what to tell except to go back to school and learn to read: "For five centuries before the end of the Second World War the West had been expanding its missionaries its pilgrims its soldiers its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans settle new continents build vast empires extending out across the globe. But in [----] for the first time since the age of Columbus it was contracting. Europe was in ruins . The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline accelerated by godless communist revolutions"
X Link 2026-02-16T05:14Z 381.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Given that this topic 👇 of secularism in China unexpectedly seems to stir passions (even though I've unsurprisingly seen many pretty ignorant takes) let me add a small something. The man who probably best summed up this topic - ever - was Pascal the legendary 17th Century French thinker (you've surely heard of Pascal's wager or Pascal's theorem). In his Penses ("Thoughts") he summarized it with this very short but incredibly profound question: "Which of the two is more credible Moses or China" That's it. I should almost finish my post here because when you think about it all is said. But let"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:46Z 381.2K followers, 99K engagements
"This is probably the single feature that makes China most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs. We often wrongly believe that China's secularism came with Communism but this couldn't be more wrong. The roots are far far more ancient than this. Think about any other civilization - India Persia ancient Egypt European civilization the Incas: they all had a priestly class that held considerable political power. China Never. Never ever Actually China in its very early history had a brush with theocracy during"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:37Z 381.2K followers, 1.4M 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 [--] 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 381.2K followers, 13.2M engagements
"🚨 BREAKING: CHINA has invented a new 'BONE GLUE' that repairs bone fractures in just [--] minutes no surgery or metal plates needed"
X Link 2025-09-27T08:30Z 317.3K followers, 34.4M engagements
"Couldn't find a better illustration for why Zionism is not the same as Judaism. Zionists follow Pro-Palestine Jewish protesters to their car harassing and threatening them the entire way. "All your beards all fake Cut them off btch Cut them off" One yells at one point. Via @JonFarinaPhoto https://t.co/WCyq8w1YEm Zionists follow Pro-Palestine Jewish protesters to their car harassing and threatening them the entire way. "All your beards all fake Cut them off btch Cut them off" One yells at one point. Via @JonFarinaPhoto https://t.co/WCyq8w1YEm"
X Link 2024-07-15T08:36Z 381.2K followers, 2.5M engagements
"Zionists follow Pro-Palestine Jewish protesters to their car harassing and threatening them the entire way. "All your beards all fake Cut them off b*tch Cut them off" One yells at one point. Via @JonFarinaPhoto"
X Link 2024-07-15T00:12Z 101.2K followers, 3M engagements
"Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's the first time in history we're witnessing a state not only murder UN workers on such a scale but actually tell the UN they deserved it and scold THEM for criticizing the killings. I simply have no words. "Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts" The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN UN agencies UN workers and UN officials https://t.co/1OJQ8yj11E "Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust"
X Link 2023-11-11T02:35Z 381.2K followers, 5.9M engagements
""Many @UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts" The Israeli representative at the United Nations launches a tirade against the UN UN agencies UN workers and UN officials"
X Link 2023-11-10T21:18Z 80.1K followers, 17.4M engagements
"Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday) this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University the most prestigious university in China. Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan. Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back: - When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in"
X Link 2025-09-18T02:34Z 381.2K followers, 5.1M engagements
"These have undoubtedly been the wildest [--] hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff. A 🧵"
X Link 2024-06-13T04:47Z 381.2K followers, 20.9M engagements
"France is finally starting to wake up after Israel kidnapped French MEP Rima Hassan. They're shouting: "Gaza Gaza Paris est avec toi" ("Gaza Paris is with you")"
X Link 2025-06-10T06:22Z 381.2K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Malaysia asks for the abolition of the veto of the [--] permanent UN Security Council members especially in the case of "situations involving mass atrocity crimes such as genocide" https://x.com/les_spectateurs/status/1766350660608426289/video/1 https://x.com/les_spectateurs/status/1766350660608426289/video/1"
X Link 2024-03-09T15:46Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
"Oops it's starting 😏"
X Link 2025-01-15T01:38Z 381.2K followers, 7.5M engagements
"There's something almost admirable about the consistency with which Germany always stands on the wrong side of history. "The accusations being made against Israel are absurd." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas. https://t.co/a750cPw8kY "The accusations being made against Israel are absurd." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas. https://t.co/a750cPw8kY"
X Link 2023-11-15T00:45Z 381.2K followers, 3.8M engagements
""The accusations being made against Israel are absurd." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas"
X Link 2023-11-14T13:49Z 86.1K followers, 8.1M engagements
"Yup turns out bombing the Houthis was yet another fantastically stupid idea. BREAKING: ⚡ As of today the Houthis are blocking the Suez Canal for both US and UK commercial ships as well Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Al-Buhaiti: "Previously we focused only on maritime shipping associated with the Zionist entity. https://t.co/0XcgHne1Lw BREAKING: ⚡ As of today the Houthis are blocking the Suez Canal for both US and UK commercial ships as well Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Al-Buhaiti: "Previously we focused only on maritime shipping"
X Link 2024-01-14T13:03Z 381.2K followers, 2.7M engagements
"BREAKING: ⚡ As of today the Houthis are blocking the Suez Canal for both US and UK commercial ships as well Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Al-Buhaiti: "Previously we focused only on maritime shipping associated with the Zionist entity. Today American and British ships will no longer dare to cross the Red Sea." http://t.me/megatron_ron http://t.me/megatron_ron"
X Link 2024-01-12T23:24Z 590.7K followers, 5.3M engagements
"Whatever your position is just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is. Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts [--] Western countries sanctioned. not Israel but the Palestinians and the UN (). They cut funding for UNRWA which is THE UN agency tasked with humanitarian assistance to Palestinians (and therefore their main lifeline). Even if you were the world's worst cynic you'd still have a hard time expecting such sheer level of cruelty and depravation. This is absolutely unfathomable."
X Link 2024-01-28T04:29Z 381.2K followers, 5.4M engagements
"The following have suspended Unrwa funding based on Israeli claims that [--] of the agency's [-----] employees took part in Hamas attacks: US Canada UK Finland Australia Italy Netherlands Norway and Ireland said they would not follow suit. Switzerland said no decision till accusations are clarified. : It has [-----] employees [-----] of which are in Gaza. Most of them are Palestine refugees and a small number of international staff. In Gaza it runs [---] schools [--] health facilities and seven women's centres among several other facilities. Its schools are attended by [------] students in Gaza while its"
X Link 2024-01-27T18:42Z 586.8K followers, 8.5M engagements
"Israel shot and killed a [--] year old American citizen - Tawfiq Ajaq - in the West Bank a mere [--] weeks ago. 🤷♂ BREAKING: President Biden warns "If you harm an American we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. https://t.co/5Fgeo4U5eg BREAKING: President Biden warns "If you harm an American we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. https://t.co/5Fgeo4U5eg"
X Link 2024-02-03T01:53Z 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"BREAKING: President Biden warns "If you harm an American we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. https://apnews.com/article/attack-military-iran-iraq-houthis-229a735edbb7759ba9ade543013917dftaid=65bd6aed1827f90001975e11&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter https://apnews.com/article/attack-military-iran-iraq-houthis-229a735edbb7759ba9ade543013917dftaid=65bd6aed1827f90001975e11&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter"
X Link 2024-02-02T22:21Z 15.5M followers, 7.2M engagements
"Wonderful example of Streisand effect: because mainstream media in the West by and large egregiously did not to cover South Africa's arguments against Israel at the ICJ you now have actors of the most popular show in the world reading it out in a viral video Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ https://t.co/iRkHvoFVb3 Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ https://t.co/iRkHvoFVb3"
X Link 2024-01-14T12:39Z 381.2K followers, 2.3M engagements
"Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ"
X Link 2024-01-14T01:29Z 59K followers, 19.1M engagements
"You can only mine a university like this if it's not an active fighting zone otherwise you'd bomb it. Meaning destroying the university wasn't done to hunt Hamas fighters there but instead as part of an effort to destroy Gazan civil society presumably to prevent the eventual resumption of normal life. This is further confirmed by the fact that ALL universities in Gaza have now been damaged or destroyed. The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with [---] mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott."
X Link 2024-01-18T01:29Z 381.2K followers, 3M engagements
"The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with [---] mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott"
X Link 2024-01-17T21:19Z 20.8K followers, 14.8M engagements
"We have a saying in France (we know a fair bit about protests and strikes 😏) that when students massively rally around a protest movement it's over: it's a sign it's going to be successful. Because students bring a level of energy creativity and mobilisation that no other segment of the population can. With more and more US universities joining in against US support for Israel it looks like we're about to see if that saying is applicable to the US as well. I think this is probably Israel's worse nightmare which is you have Israeli officials speaking out so much about "antisemitism" on US"
X Link 2024-04-22T12:29Z 381.2K followers, 2.2M engagements
"BREAKING: NYU students have begun their Gaza Solidarity Encampment"
X Link 2024-04-22T10:00Z 194.5K followers, 2.5M engagements
"In France a woman is fined for wearing a keffiyeh under the pretext it means she's participating to an "illegal protest" (even though she's alone in that "protest".) Like Iran's "morality police" but for a religion that sanctifies Israel's actions. https://x.com/thawra69/status/1797293546321465785/video/1 https://x.com/thawra69/status/1797293546321465785/video/1"
X Link 2024-06-03T01:37Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
"Quite an incredible move in French politics today that might reveal that we're in fact witnessing nothing less than a coup by Macron. Let me explain 🧵"
X Link 2024-08-24T22:33Z 381.2K followers, 15.5M engagements
"Probably one the biggest economic blunders in history. $500 million in [--] days means $12 billion a year in additional tax revenue. Literal trillions in wealth destroyed interest on the debt increased the dollar weakened businesses wiped out all over the world literally every single country in the world antagonized. all for raising a yearly amount of taxes that can fund the US military budget for just [--] days. CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million well below Trumps estimate CNBC CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million well below Trumps estimate CNBC"
X Link 2025-04-18T00:21Z 381.2K followers, 5.2M engagements
"CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million well below Trumps estimate CNBC"
X Link 2025-04-16T16:44Z 136.1K followers, 7.4M engagements
"Wow Lula isn't mincing words. Here's the translation: "What's happening in Gaza isn't a war it's a genocide. It's not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It's a war between a highly trained army and women and children. What's happening in Gaza and with the Palestinian people . already happened in the past: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews." https://twitter.com/FepalB/status/1759214320917852292/video/1 https://twitter.com/FepalB/status/1759214320917852292/video/1"
X Link 2024-02-18T14:48Z 381.2K followers, 2.8M engagements
""This legislation if signed into law WILL lead to a ban of TikTok in the United States". Meaning they will not sell. Good Never bow down to bullies never yield to extortion which is what this is. Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban bill: https://t.co/7AnDYOLD96 Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban bill: https://t.co/7AnDYOLD96"
X Link 2024-03-14T03:01Z 381.2K followers, 2M engagements
"Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban bill:"
X Link 2024-03-13T22:45Z 52.3K followers, 4.9M engagements
"8 years after this Onion article turns into an actual one in Foreign Policy magazine 🤣 China wants to avoid doing anything that would interrupt the process of U.S. decline. https://t.co/EApP3ZtxjV China wants to avoid doing anything that would interrupt the process of U.S. decline. https://t.co/EApP3ZtxjV"
X Link 2022-06-16T13:54Z 381.2K followers, 59.3K engagements
"China wants to avoid doing anything that would interrupt the process of U.S. decline. https://buff.ly/3x8KcAD https://buff.ly/3x8KcAD"
X Link 2022-06-15T23:00Z 1.2M followers, [----] engagements
"You should be absolutely terrified by a society where leading publications start arguing that killing children is legal. If anything is a code red alarm this is it. @TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today. https://t.co/CGTh3Aexxw @TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today. https://t.co/CGTh3Aexxw"
X Link 2024-05-27T00:29Z 381.2K followers, 1.4M engagements
"@TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today"
X Link 2024-05-26T17:09Z 38.2K followers, 15M engagements
"This is incredible but sadly unsurprising. When he received threats not to go after Israel @KarimKhanQC reveals "a senior leader" told him the ICC "is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin" and not for the West and its allies"
X Link 2024-05-21T02:46Z 381.2K followers, 3.8M engagements
"Extraordinary video of the Irish PM lecturing Biden to his face - Biden who loves reminding people he's Irish - on why "the Irish people are deeply troubled about Gaza" and why "the Irish have such empathy for the Palestinian people". The Irish PM says: "We see our history in the Palestinians' eyes a story of displacement of dispossession a national identity questioned and denied forced immigration discrimination and now hunger." https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1769920652599832684/video/1 https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1769920652599832684/video/1"
X Link 2024-03-19T03:27Z 381.2K followers, 2.4M engagements
"This is crazy: Israeli police arrests [--] French military personnel ("gendarmes") with diplomatic status in a Christian church (the Eleona Church) that has officially belonged to France for [---] years and is protected by diplomatic immunity: To make things worse the church is located in occupied East Jerusalem - theoretically Palestinian territory - and the arrests occured as the French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot was due to visit it. He cancelled his visit due to the presence of Israeli police on site and the breach of diplomatic immunity. Yet another unarguable proof that Israel respects"
X Link 2024-11-08T00:07Z 381.2K followers, 5.5M engagements
"It's the early 2000s all over again: shameless islamophobia in the midst of a massacre of Muslims 🤢 😉#FashionFriday https://t.co/hwBDDNiKG8 😉#FashionFriday https://t.co/hwBDDNiKG8"
X Link 2023-12-30T10:40Z 381.2K followers, 1.6M engagements
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