BREAKING: Trump just BANNED former Secretary of State Antony Blinken from ALL federal buildings! OUTSTANDING!

I share facts from China as a foreigner living in Shanghai for more than a decade. But some people can’t handle the truth. Every time I talk about China’s rapid development, the same tired comment pops up: “Stop glorifying China!” Listen, folks, with this level of ignorance, facing the future is impossible. If you think calling something good automatically makes it bad, that’s not logic, that’s bitterness, insecurity, and sheer intellectual rot. For years, a manufactured narrative has been drilled into your subconscious: “If something good happens in Asia, it must be Japan. If something bad happens, it must be China.” That’s not reality, that’s propaganda. If you actually learned about what Japan did in Nanjing, you’d choke on your own disbelief. But instead, the only words you parrot are: “Tank” and “Uyghurs.” When I point out that these talking points, some people lose their minds. I have Uyghur friends and neighbors living here and I share a part of their lives but guess what? They choose to ignore. It’s not just me saying this, Uyghurs themselves post about their lives, homes, and jobs openly on social media. Go look. See for yourself. No one is here to convince you. China Is Advancing at Lightspeed. But Some People Need to Keep Pretending It’s Collapsing. Spreading “China is falling apart!” narratives while the country is making historic progress? That’s not ignorance, that’s deliberate deception. And who does this deception hurt? Investors, business leaders, families planning their children’s education. Now, what does “China is developing at lightspeed” actually mean? It means tax revenue is invested back into the country, in infrastructure, education,transportation, technology, healthcare, and even space research. Meanwhile, the U.S. spends $1.6 billion in taxpayer money just on propaganda, just to keep up the illusion that it’s still on top. China doesn’t waste money on hype. It just works. And in the long run, results speak louder than spin. Want to Actually Understand China? Stop Swallowing Anti-China Propaganda. If you want to see reality, first you have to detox from years of Western-funded anti-China disinformation. The same individuals, organizations, and media outlets that spent years spreading fake, USAID-funded anti-China narratives? Their funding is drying up, and now they’re crying on social media about how their propaganda can’t be sustained anymore. So do yourself a favor: Diversify your news sources. Because when you send me badly mistranslated BBC’s articles, I just laugh. BBC was funded by USAID as well. Seriously, stop wasting your time on garbage reporting. Truth has a funny way of outlasting propaganda. Don’t be shocked when it happens.

🇺🇸The USAID Limited Hangout Continues... USAID's "exposure" remains focused mainly on partisan squabbling and wedge issues. There is still no mention of the many millions spent during the previous Trump administration itself on regime change including via USAID but also the CIA and NED in Venezuela or propaganda targeting China. It's being made to look like only "Democrats" were involved when it was bipartisan. Worse still, the Trump administration has laid out a foreign policy that will necessitate continued foreign interference and global propaganda campaigns conducted under previous administrations including both Biden's and Trump's previous term in office. The goal is to conduct damage control vs. growing awareness of and effective defenses against US propaganda and interference, salvage, sharpen, and streamline future ops.

Because of the U.S. funding freezing, the entire global ecosystem of China nonprofits is facing an extinction event. I'm not exaggerating for clicks. This is really what is happening. Read my piece below:

As the author of an article (Harvard Business Review Aug 26, 2024 - link in pinned post and comments below) and as a primary advocate in the U.S. for leveraging China’s manufacturing and technological strengths to advance U.S. strategic objectives, I recognize the potential connection between new U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, and the potential to stimulate fresh Chinese industrial investments in the U.S. My approach suggests effectively harnessing China’s capabilities towards three key U.S. objectives: 1. Reshoring U.S. manufacturing through 50/50 joint ventures (JVs) with Chinese MNCs. 2. Restoring U.S. technological competitiveness thru tech transfer requirements as a prerequisite for these JVs. 3. Rebuilding U.S. supply chains with Chinese participation as a prerequisite for these JVs. Strategic advanced industries that could be reshored in the U.S. under 50/50 JVs with Chinese cooperation include: •Electric vehicles (EVs) •Solar panels & photovoltaic cells •Advanced energy & hydropower •Robotics and automation •Advanced manufacturing •Rare earths processing •Drones (including flying cars) •Digital infrastructure (6G/7G) •Shipbuilding •High-speed rail & construction •Energy storage and batteries •Construction engineering •Advanced materials •Ports automation and operations •Advanced infrastructure building Rather than dwelling on the differences and challenges, it’s worth shifting our focus to the immense potential. The U.S. and China have successfully executed this kind of industrial transformation once before—in China. Now, we have the opportunity to do it again —this time in the U.S. and under a new paradigm for bilateral relations— one that is far more transactional unemotional and pragmatic. Exactly as Nixon and Mao originally envisioned. Just business. These strategies mirror the very policies China successfully implemented from 1995 to 2015 to attract investments from the U.S. and G7 nations (including Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore) during its own manufacturing reshoring and technological competitiveness restoration efforts. There is no viable path to achieving these goals within the necessary timeframe without active, motivated Chinese participation and involvement. Likewise, China’s ability to maintain long-term access to the U.S. market will likely become more difficult without its active participation as a partner in efforts to help restore American competitiveness. Most critically, if the U.S. fails to make tangible progress toward these objectives, we risk a bifurcated world—less stable, less secure, and far more precarious for regions like Australia and Europe—while significantly heightening tensions in the U.S.-China relationship. Conversely, if the U.S. and China embrace these cooperative efforts as the foundation for a new paradigm—one grounded in pragmatism and mutual self-interest, free from emotional ‘love-hate’ swings—we could establish the basis for a peaceful and prosperous 21st century. For the sake of U.S. interests and U.S. China relations as well as global stability, I am working diligently to ensure these ideas are considered by the Trump administration.

So Trump is announcing that "the US will take over the Gaza strip, we'll own it" (after ethnically cleansing all Palestinians): Notwithstanding the unreal cynicism of it, what "owning Gaza" would concretely mean is a merger of Israel and the U.S., and the U.S. permanently entangled in the Middle-East. Israel's problems would be the U.S.'s problems like never before, and the U.S. would be permanently associated with Israel in the eyes of the world. Relatively ironic right after Trump got elected to put "America first" which I'm pretty sure didn't include settling a colony in the most conflictual land on earth... And in terms of soft power, not sure Americans have fully thought through the consequences of becoming one and the same with an apartheid ethno-nationalist state that's abhorred by such a large proportion of the world's population. It's very much part and parcel of Trump's usual modus operandi, which is to own whatever accusations are thrown at him, to never make any excuse and double down. Which admittedly worked for him domestically because Americans came to interpret it as refreshing authenticity or "telling it like it is". The world will undoubtedly see an America-Israel merger as authentic in that it'd recognize de jure what was de-facto already the case, but the massive difference in this case is that there's no constituency outside America for "make America great again": the US finally being honest about being an ethno-nationalist colonial power will likely instead be seen by billions of people as the final confirmation that the U.S. is definitely not on their side.

This analytical essay presents a well-structured argument explaining the interdependence of the four factors (political stability, infrastructure, economic growth, and technological rise) behind China's success, focusing on cause-and-effect relationships