ann lee

Author of the award winning book "What the U.S. Can Learn from China" and the "Will China's Economy Collapse?", former professor at Peking University

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

We are doing it wrong..America added 56 GW all of last year, most from solar... China added 93 GW in a month. Just for comparison, the last American nuclear power plant was completed in 2024. It took 11 years to build and cost $35 billion to generate ~1 GW of power.

[Afif Aqrabawi @AjAqrabawi]

Seems like a good time to remind everyone what Israel’s Mossad openly admitted just six months ago:

‘We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay. We’re the directors. We’re the producers. We’re the main actors. The world is our stage.’

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

1) Woman at Universal Ostrich Farm is crying because her 400 ostriches have been ordered to be killed by the government and disposed of at the dump over bird flu. Her remaining ostriches have no symptoms

2) RFK Jr says they should not be killed

They’re being killed anyway

The case was heard yesterday, May 19th and they’ve been ordered to be killed

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

The President's son wants you to believe the Chinese government blocks American companies from selling in China. But if you actually go to China and open your eyes, you'll see the truth. Here is a list of active US companies selling their products in China:

- McDonald's
- Starbucks
- KFC
- Pizza Hut
- Burger King
- Subway
- Coca-Cola
- Pepsi
- Nike
- Levi’s
- Coach
- Michael Kors
- Tiffany & Co.
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Intel
- AMD
- Qualcomm
- Tesla
- Ford
- Buick
- Chevrolet
- Cadillac
- Procter & Gamble
- Olay
- Head & Shoulders
- Pampers
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Johnson & Johnson
- Estée Lauder
- Amazon
- UPS
- FedEx
- Disney
- Warner Bros.
- Universal Pictures
- Adobe
- Oracle

With these blatant lies about China, no wonder so many Americans don't understand the country 🤦‍♂️ the world would be a better place if stupidity was painful

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Major biosecurity alert: Fort Detrick's BSL-4 lab shut down after a contractor allegedly slashed a colleague’s biosafety suit in a deliberate act, risking exposure to pathogens like Ebola with up to 50% fatality rates. The FBI is investigating this as attempted murder. This incident exposes a global crisis: 3 leaks a week from BSL-4 labs, any of which could spark a cataclysmic pandemic.

In response, gain-of-function research—linked by the CIA, FBI, DOE, and State Dept to the COVID-19 pandemic—is being halted. A transparent investigation, led by experts including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, and DHS Director Christine Ohm, will scrutinize experiments at Fort Detrick and the nearby DHS-run NBACC lab, particularly those aerosolizing deadly pathogens like Ebola, which may violate the Biological Weapons Convention.

Senator Rand Paul is pushing for legislation to regulate gain-of-function research, emphasizing the need for public scrutiny and a congressional report to expose these dangerous experiments. A bipartisan call for accountability is growing to prevent future disasters. The public deserves to know the risks.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

-Chinese buy Teslas but Americans can't buy BYD
-Chinese buy iPhones but Americans can't buy Huawei
-Chinese buy Starbucks but Americans can't buy Luckin
-There are more KFC restaurants in China than USA

China has been open to American businesses for over 40 years. In fact every company on the Dow 30 has factories or supply chains traced back to China. When will the US market open up to China?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is quite consequential.

China, Japan, South Korea and the countries of ASEAN just issued a joint statement (https://t.co/CyiMeQ4GZ6) in which they take a unified stance against "escalating trade protectionism", a clear reference to Trump's tariffs.

They write that their common "policy priority" is "to reinforce long-term resilience" of the region, which given the policies they detail clearly means building financial and trade infrastructure that aims at reducing their exposure to the US.

The statement outlines a comprehensive strategy to strengthen trade between the signatories, enhance local currency bond markets and reduce dependence on Western financial institutions (via, for instance, the expansion of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation, CMIM).

Particularly notable is their explicit support for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - the world's largest trade agreement that includes all the signatories but not the US.

All in all, Trump is achieving the unthinkable: bringing East and Southeast Asia together in an economic bloc that seeks to derisk itself from America.

[Nasty African Girl @SunBirdZAKH]

americans finally finding out that the rest of the world has been subsidising their goods, industries and lifestyles instead of the other way round 🙃

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇨🇳 China today is the MOST innovative country in world history!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It was ALL a lie. The real reason USAID was in Africa

Former African Union Ambassador to the United States, Arikana Chihombori-Quao:

“They're using that open access, sounding humanitarian, to constantly destabilize governments”

“We need to understand the real reason why USAID is in Africa, and not just USAID, but other NGOs They are coming in claiming that they're introducing grassroots initiatives that are going to help the people, and so they use that as a way to go into the most remote parts of Africa. When you look at it on paper, it all looks really good, but they're actually wolf in sheep's clothing.”

“The American taxpayer needs to know the billions of dollars that are being given to USAID. A fraction is making it to the people”

“They're using that open access sounding humanitarian to constantly destabilize governments. I can tell you right now, the majority of African leaders, and not just African leaders, but leaders in the developing world are celebrating the exit of USAID.

If you think about it, their sole purpose, for example, filling in the gaps in healthcare and education, where is the change? Show me one country that USAID was in and education improved. Show me what country where USAID was in and healthcare improved?”

They laundered our money.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The JFK files reveal the CIA "injected a contaminating agent in Cuban sugar bound for the Soviet Union".

Historian William Blum also documented how the CIA supported former Nazis who poisoned cows in socialist East Germany and put soap in powdered milk meant for school children.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

🚨 NEW STUDY - Among 1.7 million people, COVID-19 "vaccination" increased the risk of:

• Hair Loss 📈 2.4×
• Inner Ear Disorders 📈 2.37×
• Shingles 📈 2.34×
• Warts 📈 2.20×
• Menstrual Disorders 📈 2.16×
• Middle Ear Disease 📈 2.08×
• Gum Disease 📈 2.05×
• Glaucoma 📈 1.86×
• Bruising 📈 1.78×
• Tinnitus 📈 1.75×
• Endometriosis 📈 1.50×

As time progresses and more data accumulates, COVID-19 "vaccines" are emerging as one of the most dangerous products ever approved by our regulatory agencies.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

RFK Jr. Issues Grave Vaccination Warning

HHS Secretary Kennedy just upended the bird flu vaccine narrative, revealing a disturbing reality authorities are trying to hide. Why isn’t anyone talking about this?

🧵 THREAD

[Kevin Shipp @Kevin_Shipp]

CIA Reform Step Thirteen: Legally indict and charge CIA officials who engage in criminal conspiracy to silence whistleblowers, block information from Congress, or violate US and Constitutional law (USC Title 18).

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

NEW: Sen. Pete Ricketts says Elon Musk and DOGE found "stunning" waste like 37,000 software licenses for a government agency with 13,000 employees.

"Many of the licenses had never been used."

"We got 2.4 million federal employees. We have 4.6 million credit cards out there. That just leads to opportunities for fraud."

"He said there are 22 million people in our Social Security system that are clearly dead. These are the kinds of things that open it up to fraud."

"Subscriptions that aren't being used."

"You have a contract officer who retired but didn't turn off the faucet. The money was still going out. Most companies getting federal dollars probably don't say anything."

"Even if they wanted to say, 'Hey, we're not supposed to get this money anymore,' you'd have almost no way to find out who to contact to get the money shut off and make sure taxpayer dollars weren't being wasted."

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

And this is,

The European Authoritarian Union,

The ‘Nature Restoration Law’ formerly the Communist Confiscation Law.

Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakušić: “There used to be at least some dignity in Communism.”

Now, designate Bill Gates, George Soros and Klaus Schwab foreign and domestic terrorists at once.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You’ve stacked so many half-baked economic theories on top of each other that I’m surprised they haven’t collapsed under their own contradictions.

But let’s take this apart, piece by piece—because this isn’t just wrong, it’s fundamentally confused.

First, your core mistake:

You confuse globalization with Western-style financial capitalism.

The British didn’t invent global trade—they simply turned it into a weapon.

Trade networks have been interwoven across civilizations for thousands of years.

The Silk Road was not a "novelty by chance"—it was a structured, deliberate system that lasted for centuries.

By the 15th century, China accounted for ~30% of the world’s GDP, while Europe was struggling at under 20%.

The Spanish colonial economy? 95% of its silver ended up in China.

The Ming Dynasty’s tax reforms in 1581 forced global silver demand to skyrocket, fueling European colonialism in the Americas.

That’s not luck. That’s economic gravity.

The fact that you think Roman silk imports were "luck" shows how little you understand about structured trade systems before European gunboats.

Marco Polo being "called insane" proves what?
That medieval Europeans were ignorant of the world?

That’s not an argument against China’s global influence—it’s an indictment of European provincialism.

The Chinese, Arabs, and Persians had long been engaged in complex trade while Europe was still figuring out how to read.

If anything, Polo’s stories proved how advanced and interconnected China already was.

Europe dismissed him because Europe was behind.

Second, your argument about "cascading effects" only existing after steamboats is laughably naive.

You completely ignore centuries of economic interdependence.

The Black Death in the 14th century? Spread through interconnected trade networks spanning from China to Europe—crippling economies across continents.

The collapse of silver flows from the Americas in the 17th century? Sent shockwaves through the Chinese and Spanish economies alike.

The Price Revolution in Europe? Driven by an influx of American silver fueling inflation and restructuring economies from Seville to Beijing.

The British didn’t "discover" economic warfare. They merely weaponized a system they joined late.

The Treaty of Nanking (1842) forced China to pay $21 million in reparations—an astronomical sum—after the Opium Wars, turning an economic imbalance into outright submission.

The Ming Dynasty’s monetary policies shaped the entire global economy.

The British? They hijacked that system and industrialized theft.

Third, your obsession with a single global currency is pure economic illiteracy.

A unified currency has never been a requirement for global influence.

The pre-modern world ran on a multi-currency system, with gold, silver, and barter coexisting across civilizations.

The fact that China did not "discover" financial manipulation through Western stock markets is irrelevant.

They didn’t need to.

They already controlled trade by sheer economic gravity.

Westerners had to play by China’s rules—even the British Opium War was fought because the Chinese refused to play the Western extractive game.

China’s economy was so dominant that Spain, the wealthiest empire of its time, had to base its entire colonial economy on Chinese silver demand.

Let that sink in.

So let’s be clear:

The West didn’t invent globalization.

It hijacked it.

You’re not describing the birth of global trade.

You’re describing the West turning it into a zero-sum game.

Britain’s empire wasn’t a leap forward.

It was a shift from trade networks built on mutual benefit to a system of violent, extractive dominance.

And here’s the part that should really scare you.

The modern global order isn’t proof of Western superiority.

It’s proof of Western desperation.

The reason the West burned the world wasn’t because it was stronger.

It was because it was weaker.

It knew it had nothing the world wanted—so it took instead.

The West’s dominance wasn’t the birth of globalization.

It was a heist.

And now, as history corrects itself, the thieves cry foul.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@elonmusk And establishment Republicans got their own kickbacks to not to notice any of this.

[david kersten @davidkersten]

Chiang Kai-Shek was the US-backed loser in China's civil war.

Taiwan was where he fled in the face of defeat.

He only held it because Mao's forces were too busy almost bare-handedly beating the American forces back down the Korean Peninsula, after fighting the Japanese in WW2.