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They currently have XXXXXX followers and 3857 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1609886400572268544/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXX +43% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +6.80% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1609886400572268544/posts_active)  - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1609886400572268544/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.07% - X Month XXXXXX +0.40% - X Months XXXXXX +7.70% - X Year XXXXXX +17% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1609886400572268544/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1609886400572268544/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) **Social topic influence** [china](/topic/china) #1596, [russia](/topic/russia), [taiwan](/topic/taiwan), [shanghai](/topic/shanghai), [beijing](/topic/beijing), [iran](/topic/iran), [$2607hk](/topic/$2607hk), [tesla](/topic/tesla), [united states](/topic/united-states), [norway](/topic/norway) **Top assets mentioned** [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1609886400572268544/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "I continue to maintain that this is unnecessary and unsustainable. What is the problem with commercial aviation There is a "fixed cost" in terms of time that is required to get the plane off and on the ground a lot of it centering on safety and the way luggage is handled. So before you've even taken off you are "down" about X hours. And that is fixed regardless of whether your trip takes X hour of flying or XX hours of flying. This problem is of course then easily beatable by a train that goes even 1/4 the speed of an airliner (about XXX kmh) on short distances distances up to XXX km for sure"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1946521902966604135) 2025-07-19 10:46:00 UTC 22K followers, 108.6K engagements "@TheLastDon222 @MatthewWielicki 1/3 of Tesla's sales are in China. It now holds only about X% of China's NEV market share. A third of Tesla is X% of China"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949467958654513154) 2025-07-27 13:52:35 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements "I can tell if Xi Jinping's quote is real with probably XX% accuracy just by the sort of thing that is said and language used even without searching for it. And not just me anyone who follows China closely and understand Chinese politics can. Xi Jinping does not give interviews. His speeches are always well prepared and read. When he speaks freely and unscripted at some event it is usually simple pleasantries. If he is ever to directly criticize or give an opinion about the US or EU (or any/country/region) it will always be some sort of metaphor often a traditional Chinese saying that can be"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1945842292582920677) 2025-07-17 13:45:29 UTC 22K followers, 150.9K engagements "@PureLandNation @adrianjcox @MatthewWielicki He is not aware there is a world outside the United States"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949465895018848280) 2025-07-27 13:44:23 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "@cuadra3 @MatthewWielicki Norway is irrelevant. China as a market and the largest exporter of motor vehicles today"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949467178035716368) 2025-07-27 13:49:29 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements "@DanCollins2011 Chinese have more understanding for the US and Trump than Europe. Why is Europe not looking after its own interests Not even just in regards to China but Russia as well. They had cheap gas from Russia and gave it up so they can buy it for 3x the price from the US"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1948424072578183575) 2025-07-24 16:44:33 UTC 21.9K followers, XXX engagements "@TheoFletcher01 @MFA_China You could almost say it's good that he doesn't"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1948998083007709241) 2025-07-26 06:45:28 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements "It's been like that for a long time Angelica but you are just "seeing it" now. Truth is nobody in the West cares about Taiwan (or any other place in Asia or outside of the West). Taiwan is just an anti-China tool for them and nothing else. Anything that happens in Taiwan that is reported will thus be framed in the context of how it relates to China"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949338021574103536) 2025-07-27 05:16:15 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements "Vucic started this "program" of repatriating Serbian gold some XX years ago seeing where things are going. Like everyone Serbia held most of its gold abroad trusting foreign banks more than it trusts itself. I am not sure XXX% of the gold can be repatriated though. Some gold has to be kept in foreign banks as collateral for foreign trade. A Serbian bank might have to insure some export/import transaction (via Central Bank reserves) and the best sometimes only way to do that is to provide some gold with a third party as collateral. But that can be a few hundred million USD worth of gold for"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1948447356325953749) 2025-07-24 18:17:04 UTC 21.9K followers, 1627 engagements "@CaptBob_Nomadic @kumapilotrc In your ignorant mind. Law of the land on the island of Taiwan calls it a Taiwan Province of Republic of China"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949353033772527908) 2025-07-27 06:15:55 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "There was also a Stars and Stripes article which said Israel+US had just a XX% interception rate against Iranian ballistic missiles. People seem shocked but it's not unusual: weapons and ammunition stocks burn quickly in war. Russia went through its entire crazy XX year old Soviet buildup stock of artillery shells in about a year in Ukraine. The shock here I assume is that Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan. A similar shock was that Russia wasn't folding after three months of sanctions. Arguably Russia also underestimated Ukraine--or rather the fact that all of NATO will come in support of it to"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949009799368130858) 2025-07-26 07:32:01 UTC 22K followers, 3867 engagements "@kumapilotrc @CaptBob_Nomadic Taiwan is not a country"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949345362713485496) 2025-07-27 05:45:26 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "@grok @DADnation_ @sellorkms @levelsio @grok why would non-spies be collecting information in a foreign country and then passing it to their government. Is this normal behaviour by foreigners everywhere"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949166346953949340) 2025-07-26 17:54:05 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "This all looks very cool but the cost is astronomical AND you already can travel between Beijing and Shanghai in about X hours all with the airline check-in. This could decrease travel time to X hours (including lining up for the train) but the cost will be enormous. "Government will fund it". Yes but there are other priorities including social welfare improving education etc which would make a far larger contribution to society than being able to cut down X hours of travel from Beijing to Shanghai"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1946523239426957355) 2025-07-19 10:51:19 UTC 22K followers, 8510 engagements "@Tannhaeuse23919 @AngelicaOung There are restrictions on Taiwanese on the Mainland"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949800999813607793) 2025-07-28 11:55:58 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements "@FearIsALiar60 @MatthewWielicki No you are. China now does stuff you don't have. Like high speed rail and hypersonic missiles. If Iran and Russia have hypersonic missiles that US can't make"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949578193876238575) 2025-07-27 21:10:37 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "@FearIsALiar60 @MatthewWielicki I did answer: we don't. We want them to be able to buy cheap cars. It's you who hate poor people not letting them buy cheaper and better Chinese cars"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949570976984826152) 2025-07-27 20:41:56 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "@zapatas_mom Also they think people live like this because they are poor not because they want to"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1948613010269819299) 2025-07-25 05:15:19 UTC 21.9K followers, 9442 engagements "I promise you that people are switching to electric cars around the world not to save the planet but because electric cars are cheaper to buy run and maintain because they are more efficient and that only you stupid Americans think it has anything to do with saving the planet and that is why you are falling behind in this and every other industry"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949462167213760717) 2025-07-27 13:29:34 UTC 22K followers, 5153 engagements "@ChefMiew @tripperhead I this you would have to frogmarch them in which in addition to being nearly impossible because you have to cross international borders would cause you to break a bunch of laws in Canada or another foreign country and become a criminal yourself with the bounty now on you"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1948606965661208760) 2025-07-25 04:51:18 UTC 21.9K followers, XX engagements "Dude just stick to tech this China thing isn't going well for you. Parotting things you read in the MSM. He disappeared like Elon Musk disappeared from US MSM. He was posting pictures from cruising in the Mediterrean and several months ago was in a meeting between Xi and major Chinese tech execs"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949144191432532012) 2025-07-26 16:26:03 UTC 22K followers, 22.9K engagements "As for per capita wages quality of life in China is much better than in the US because Chinese pay less in taxes for education and health. Wages are lower in dollar terms but everything is equally cheaper in dollar terms as well especially food. And no tips"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949560545050321001) 2025-07-27 20:00:29 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "World view adjustment moment. China's labor costs are now higher than most of the planet. It continues to lead because it has more industrial robots installed than everyone else combined. The robot table is for 2023 but there is a fresher number for China: XXX million in 2025 up XX% from 2024. Number for others are mostly flat or up 2%-5%. China has more industrial robots than Japan+south Korea+US+Germany+France+Mexico+Vietnam+Spain+India+UK+Brazil. Only US Japan and Germany of large population countries have higher wages than China"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949478747842728283) 2025-07-27 14:35:27 UTC 22K followers, 35.8K engagements "@FyourPolitics @grok @cuadra3 @MatthewWielicki"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949560248521351642) 2025-07-27 19:59:18 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "Soviet Union suffered X Holocausts worth of victims in defeating Nazis and killed several million Nazi soldiers. Hitler could have ruled all of Europe he made only one mistake: he attacked Soviet Union. Had he left Soviet Union alone all of Europe would be speaking German today"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949433291481743822) 2025-07-27 11:34:50 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements "If people insist on historical comparisons which I don't think are accurate but ok let's entertain it. Opium Wars were started by the UK but only AFTER China cracked down on UK opium trade in SE Asia/China. In other words China had an opium problem BECAUSE UK was selling drugs into China. But then China cracked down on this trade confiscating and pouring opium into the South China Sea Tea Party style. That is when the UK attacked China with its military "to protect free trade". So if you want a historical comparison US should crack down on incoming fentanyl by arresting traders and punishing"  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1948449900561055855) 2025-07-24 18:27:11 UTC 22K followers, 8385 engagements "@philippilk "In the coming months" UK establishment has been in Russia/China "terminal paranoia" for a decade. If it is going to get worse I don't know what comes after "terminal paranoia""  [@nikstankovic_](/creator/x/nikstankovic_) on [X](/post/tweet/1949056251058327580) 2025-07-26 10:36:36 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements
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@nikstankovic_ Nik Stankovic
Nik Stankovic posts on X about china, russia, taiwan, shanghai the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 3857 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXX +43%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +6.80%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXX -XX%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.07%
- X Month XXXXXX +0.40%
- X Months XXXXXX +7.70%
- X Year XXXXXX +17%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence countries finance travel destinations automotive brands stocks celebrities
Social topic influence china #1596, russia, taiwan, shanghai, beijing, iran, $2607hk, tesla, united states, norway
Top assets mentioned Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"I continue to maintain that this is unnecessary and unsustainable. What is the problem with commercial aviation There is a "fixed cost" in terms of time that is required to get the plane off and on the ground a lot of it centering on safety and the way luggage is handled. So before you've even taken off you are "down" about X hours. And that is fixed regardless of whether your trip takes X hour of flying or XX hours of flying. This problem is of course then easily beatable by a train that goes even 1/4 the speed of an airliner (about XXX kmh) on short distances distances up to XXX km for sure"
@nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-19 10:46:00 UTC 22K followers, 108.6K engagements
"@TheLastDon222 @MatthewWielicki 1/3 of Tesla's sales are in China. It now holds only about X% of China's NEV market share. A third of Tesla is X% of China" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 13:52:35 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements
"I can tell if Xi Jinping's quote is real with probably XX% accuracy just by the sort of thing that is said and language used even without searching for it. And not just me anyone who follows China closely and understand Chinese politics can. Xi Jinping does not give interviews. His speeches are always well prepared and read. When he speaks freely and unscripted at some event it is usually simple pleasantries. If he is ever to directly criticize or give an opinion about the US or EU (or any/country/region) it will always be some sort of metaphor often a traditional Chinese saying that can be" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-17 13:45:29 UTC 22K followers, 150.9K engagements
"@PureLandNation @adrianjcox @MatthewWielicki He is not aware there is a world outside the United States" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 13:44:23 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"@cuadra3 @MatthewWielicki Norway is irrelevant. China as a market and the largest exporter of motor vehicles today" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 13:49:29 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements
"@DanCollins2011 Chinese have more understanding for the US and Trump than Europe. Why is Europe not looking after its own interests Not even just in regards to China but Russia as well. They had cheap gas from Russia and gave it up so they can buy it for 3x the price from the US" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-24 16:44:33 UTC 21.9K followers, XXX engagements
"@TheoFletcher01 @MFA_China You could almost say it's good that he doesn't" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-26 06:45:28 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements
"It's been like that for a long time Angelica but you are just "seeing it" now. Truth is nobody in the West cares about Taiwan (or any other place in Asia or outside of the West). Taiwan is just an anti-China tool for them and nothing else. Anything that happens in Taiwan that is reported will thus be framed in the context of how it relates to China" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 05:16:15 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements
"Vucic started this "program" of repatriating Serbian gold some XX years ago seeing where things are going. Like everyone Serbia held most of its gold abroad trusting foreign banks more than it trusts itself. I am not sure XXX% of the gold can be repatriated though. Some gold has to be kept in foreign banks as collateral for foreign trade. A Serbian bank might have to insure some export/import transaction (via Central Bank reserves) and the best sometimes only way to do that is to provide some gold with a third party as collateral. But that can be a few hundred million USD worth of gold for" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-24 18:17:04 UTC 21.9K followers, 1627 engagements
"@CaptBob_Nomadic @kumapilotrc In your ignorant mind. Law of the land on the island of Taiwan calls it a Taiwan Province of Republic of China" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 06:15:55 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"There was also a Stars and Stripes article which said Israel+US had just a XX% interception rate against Iranian ballistic missiles. People seem shocked but it's not unusual: weapons and ammunition stocks burn quickly in war. Russia went through its entire crazy XX year old Soviet buildup stock of artillery shells in about a year in Ukraine. The shock here I assume is that Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan. A similar shock was that Russia wasn't folding after three months of sanctions. Arguably Russia also underestimated Ukraine--or rather the fact that all of NATO will come in support of it to" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-26 07:32:01 UTC 22K followers, 3867 engagements
"@kumapilotrc @CaptBob_Nomadic Taiwan is not a country" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 05:45:26 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"@grok @DADnation_ @sellorkms @levelsio @grok why would non-spies be collecting information in a foreign country and then passing it to their government. Is this normal behaviour by foreigners everywhere" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-26 17:54:05 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"This all looks very cool but the cost is astronomical AND you already can travel between Beijing and Shanghai in about X hours all with the airline check-in. This could decrease travel time to X hours (including lining up for the train) but the cost will be enormous. "Government will fund it". Yes but there are other priorities including social welfare improving education etc which would make a far larger contribution to society than being able to cut down X hours of travel from Beijing to Shanghai" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-19 10:51:19 UTC 22K followers, 8510 engagements
"@Tannhaeuse23919 @AngelicaOung There are restrictions on Taiwanese on the Mainland" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-28 11:55:58 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements
"@FearIsALiar60 @MatthewWielicki No you are. China now does stuff you don't have. Like high speed rail and hypersonic missiles. If Iran and Russia have hypersonic missiles that US can't make" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 21:10:37 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"@FearIsALiar60 @MatthewWielicki I did answer: we don't. We want them to be able to buy cheap cars. It's you who hate poor people not letting them buy cheaper and better Chinese cars" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 20:41:56 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"@zapatas_mom Also they think people live like this because they are poor not because they want to" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-25 05:15:19 UTC 21.9K followers, 9442 engagements
"I promise you that people are switching to electric cars around the world not to save the planet but because electric cars are cheaper to buy run and maintain because they are more efficient and that only you stupid Americans think it has anything to do with saving the planet and that is why you are falling behind in this and every other industry" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 13:29:34 UTC 22K followers, 5153 engagements
"@ChefMiew @tripperhead I this you would have to frogmarch them in which in addition to being nearly impossible because you have to cross international borders would cause you to break a bunch of laws in Canada or another foreign country and become a criminal yourself with the bounty now on you" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-25 04:51:18 UTC 21.9K followers, XX engagements
"Dude just stick to tech this China thing isn't going well for you. Parotting things you read in the MSM. He disappeared like Elon Musk disappeared from US MSM. He was posting pictures from cruising in the Mediterrean and several months ago was in a meeting between Xi and major Chinese tech execs" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-26 16:26:03 UTC 22K followers, 22.9K engagements
"As for per capita wages quality of life in China is much better than in the US because Chinese pay less in taxes for education and health. Wages are lower in dollar terms but everything is equally cheaper in dollar terms as well especially food. And no tips" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 20:00:29 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"World view adjustment moment. China's labor costs are now higher than most of the planet. It continues to lead because it has more industrial robots installed than everyone else combined. The robot table is for 2023 but there is a fresher number for China: XXX million in 2025 up XX% from 2024. Number for others are mostly flat or up 2%-5%. China has more industrial robots than Japan+south Korea+US+Germany+France+Mexico+Vietnam+Spain+India+UK+Brazil. Only US Japan and Germany of large population countries have higher wages than China" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 14:35:27 UTC 22K followers, 35.8K engagements
"@FyourPolitics @grok @cuadra3 @MatthewWielicki" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 19:59:18 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"Soviet Union suffered X Holocausts worth of victims in defeating Nazis and killed several million Nazi soldiers. Hitler could have ruled all of Europe he made only one mistake: he attacked Soviet Union. Had he left Soviet Union alone all of Europe would be speaking German today" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-27 11:34:50 UTC 22K followers, XX engagements
"If people insist on historical comparisons which I don't think are accurate but ok let's entertain it. Opium Wars were started by the UK but only AFTER China cracked down on UK opium trade in SE Asia/China. In other words China had an opium problem BECAUSE UK was selling drugs into China. But then China cracked down on this trade confiscating and pouring opium into the South China Sea Tea Party style. That is when the UK attacked China with its military "to protect free trade". So if you want a historical comparison US should crack down on incoming fentanyl by arresting traders and punishing" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-24 18:27:11 UTC 22K followers, 8385 engagements
"@philippilk "In the coming months" UK establishment has been in Russia/China "terminal paranoia" for a decade. If it is going to get worse I don't know what comes after "terminal paranoia"" @nikstankovic_ on X 2025-07-26 10:36:36 UTC 22K followers, XXX engagements