Earth Editor

Film fanatic, artsy discovers cool shit, cares about #nature, #science, #world. Former editor of @CBCGDF_China

[Earth Editor @EarthEditorM]

This.

[Natureforall @WAOSD_2408]

Happy new year folks. Going to leave @CBCGDF_China. Happy to serve here for a while. Welcome to follow my another personal account @EarthEditorM for more exciting stuff on the #world, #nature, #science, #climate, #China, #COP15, etc. Maggie (Niu Jingmei)

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Unitree's robot dance team just took America's Got Talent by storm.🤖💃

A 26-year-old from Sichuan and his robots performed "Abracadabra" and left the judges hugely astonished.

That leg shake at 1:25 is sososo smooth. Best part of the night.

[ONEREPUBLIC @OneRepublic]

Anyone who says we didn’t walk the whole thing is lying

[Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 @NatRevEarthEnv]

New online! Compound weather and climate events in 2025 https://t.co/L5Vmkmhsa6

[Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE]

Today Raúl Castro is celebrating his 95th birthday. He has held the banner of revolutionary struggle high for decades. Despite pressure from Cuba’s enemies, Comrade Raúl and his freedom-loving people embody the aspiration to win independence and the right to chart their own path.

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🚨🇷🇺 Putin vows full support for those sharing traditional values in relocating to Russia

People who share traditional values and face pressure in their own countries will be granted full support if they decide to relocate, work, and raise children in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with families on Children's Day

[Enzo Rabouy @enzorabouyy]

Un policier m’a frappé à la tête et m’a laissé inconscient au sol alors que je filmais les célébrations de la victoire du PSG en finale de la LDC.

Ce sont d’autres policiers qui m’ont récupéré au sol pour prodiguer les premiers secours.

Résultat 5 agrafes sur le crâne.

[Thomas Portes @Portes_Thomas]

Les supporters de Paris c’est aussi le soutien à la Palestine !

[RT @RT_com]

China turns sneaky eating in class into a real competition

More than 2,000 people entered a fake classroom inside the mall

Contestants had 10 minutes to finish a bowl without being caught by ‘teachers’

[Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 @NatRevEarthEnv]

New online! Precipitation extremes in 2025 https://t.co/UEpHOo5Tvk

[Achabus suspendu @achabussuspendu]

#cannes2026

Où commence la résistance ?

Emmanuel Marre : peut être

dans "le fait de repérer dans le quotidien, dans la vie, la violence, l'idée que tous les hommes sont pas égaux"

[Bradley Markle @bradley_markle]

Finally published a study in the works for a long time. We look at a compilation of records (8 covering 50,000 years, a few going back 400,000) and find a persistent pattern of temperature change, over a range of time scales, we think tied to a subtly of the greenhouse effect

[RT @RT_com]

21 YOUNG STUDENTS massacred by Ukraine in Lugansk dorm attack

Heartbreaking memorial photos released

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

A historic “family photo” of Chinese taikonauts in orbit! 📸

The crew members of #Shenzhou21 and #Shenzhou23 pose for a real-time snapshot aboard the Chinese space station.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines.

They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department.

It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia.

If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand.

What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days.

In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually.

For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag.

But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world.

This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (https://t.co/kydhIQfo2A) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't).

Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines.

Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (https://t.co/nkXSajH2Q7).

So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (https://t.co/ZmNWJB03eH).

Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base.

So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined).

Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner."

They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

[RT @RT_com]

'Where is the BBC? Where is CNN? Where are reps from Tokyo?'

Russia's Human Rights Commissioner Lantratova knows why they didn’t come to Starobelsk

'They’re afraid of seeing the TRUTH'

Kiev calls it an 'incident': 'is KILLING children an 'incident'?'

https://t.co/bVCgoSGrtW

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Comparto este video que lanzaron ayer Silvio Rodríguez y Chico Buarque; los fondos que se recaben serán donados a la Sala de Pediatría del Instituto de Oncología de Cuba, así que si queréis verlo, darle like y compartirlo con otras personas, es un pequeño grano de arena para aliviar la difícil situación en que se encuentran.
El vídeo es precioso y presenta esa Habana tan digna como empobrecida.
https://t.co/AVk6LbJAI7

[RT @RT_com]

China delivers MASSIVE 75,000-TON aid package to Cuba

15,000 TONS of rice unloaded at port

‘Fraternity and solidarity’

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

In NW China’s Xi’an, there’s a fountain that responds to your voice.
The louder you shout, the higher it goes.
Watching foreigners and locals lose their voice over this? Pure joy. @SilkRoadShaanxi

[CGTN @CGTNOfficial]

Renowned American journalist and comedian @LeeCamp travels to Xizang. Confronted with a modern and free Xizang, he can't help but wonder: Why isn't the real #Xizang following the Western script? #CGTN

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Former CIA Officer Philip Agee explains why the US🇺🇸 has been waging economic warfare on Cuba🇨🇺 for decades and trying to strangle & overthrow the socialist system:

‘They know that if the Cubans are successful of their example in being able to provide, as a poor country, the best medical care in the third world…it’s a very bad example for the United States.

There is a large mass of people in the US who can look to Cuba and say ‘wow if they can do it on a per capita income of $2K—2.5K, where ours is $22,500 a year, what’s wrong with our system? Maybe we ought to consider an alternative.’ That’s why Sandinista Nicaragua had to be destroyed, that’s why Grenada had to be destroyed.

Because any movement that comes to power with the idea of providing for all the people and escaping the control of the US and its economy, that is bad news for the United States and among the upper circles of power and influence.’

H/t: @sov_media