Erika Zhao

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳In Hangzhou, China, a city street has been turned into a stunning butterfly paradise. The roadside green belt along Pinglan Road is filled with colorful flowers, and hundreds of white butterflies are dancing among the blooms, creating a "butterflies in love with flowers" scene that has wowed local residents.

[Mao Ning 毛宁 @SpoxCHN_MaoNing]

In central China’s Shanxi, a residential community has drawn attention for its “rooftop rain” — a mist cooling system that drops surface temperatures by 5–8°C in minutes.

[尼古丁的依赖（💯fo） @luyao_100fo]

这才是真正的爱国，让世界听懂👏

香港议员李梓敬怒批欧美虚伪双标：一个由“爱泼斯坦”们统治的国家，有什么资格来对我们国家指手画脚！

[杨凡❤ @yangfan39831908]

毛主席说：任何时候都不要相信美国。轻信美国，轻则国家困顿，重则亡国亡民。……也许有一天，我们会和美国建交，进入蜜月期，但不管什么时候，都不能轻信美国，美帝的话是一句也不能相信。
伊朗领导层如果有这样的警醒，就不会陷入如今的局面了。

[China Consular Affairs @Consular_CHN]

Today is the Lantern Festival（元宵节）, which marks the end of the Chinese Spring Festival. People enjoy rice balls called “Yuan Xiao” or “Tang Yuan” and appreciate colorful lanterns, symbolizing family unity and happiness.

[Dante Muñoz @TheDanteMunoz]

After visiting Xinjiang, the biggest lie of the US propaganda was the premise that China hates Uyghur culture. In reality, China is OBSESSED with Uyghur culture.

Xinjiang gets over 300 million domestic visitors per year. That’s almost the entire US population.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Shameless! Truth is the opposite. China stands for freedom and liberty. America stands for persecution and oppression.

America oppressed the Native Americans and erased their cultures, while Uyghurs in Xinjiang are respected and have preferential policies & development aids.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

I am an American living in China, and I believe—deeply and without apology—that telling the truth about China’s successes will make us stronger.

In fact, the real danger to America is not that some of us are willing to speak honestly about what China is doing well, but that so many voices at home insist on hiding, minimizing, or distorting that reality. A nation that refuses to see the world as it is cannot compete in it, cannot reform itself intelligently, and cannot secure a prosperous future for its people.

Those lying to us about China’s advancements in affordable healthcare, public transportation, 90% homeownership, public safety, and so forth are holding us back. They are preventing the USA from excelling.

Patriotism is not cheerleading. Patriotism is not repeating comfortable myths. Patriotism is the courage to confront facts, especially when those facts are inconvenient! Patriotism also does not mean hating other nations. China and the US are perfectly capable of meeting as peers and cooperation to build a shared future for all our peoples.

Every major American success story—from industrialization to victory in World War II to the space race—was built on brutally honest assessments of where we stood relative to others. We studied our peers, learned from them, and adapted. We did not weaken ourselves by pretending they were incompetent or morally inferior. We strengthened ourselves by learning from others.

Living in China has forced me to confront realities that many Americans are shielded from. I see functioning high-speed rail that connects entire regions. I see cities built around public transit rather than endless sprawl. I see long-term infrastructure planning, aggressive investment in energy, and a population that broadly understands where the country is trying to go over the next twenty or thirty years. None of this means China is perfect. It is not. But pretending these achievements do not exist, or dismissing them as illusion or propaganda, does not make the United States stronger. It makes us blind.

Those spreading lies about China are not making America safer, they are betraying what the USA stands for. We are not cowards. We should know if other nations are able to create the conditions for economic progress by newly minted means. We also can and should work with China to build that future.

What is truly unpatriotic is deceiving the American people about the scale, speed, and seriousness of China’s development. When Americans are told that China is “collapsing,” “incapable,” or “doomed any day now,” it encourages complacency. It tells us we don’t need to invest, reform, or rethink our assumptions. It reassures us that our systems are automatically superior and self-correcting. History is unforgiving to nations that believe that.

I speak honestly about China because I care about America’s future. If China is building energy capacity at a pace we are not matching, Americans deserve to know that. If China is training engineers, deploying infrastructure, and planning industrial policy more coherently than we are, Americans deserve to confront that reality.

The path to American renewal does not run through denial. It runs through clarity. The truth matters. Facts matter.

If we want the United States to thrive in the decades ahead, we must stop confusing propaganda with patriotism. Real patriotism demands courage—the courage to look at the world as it is, learn from it, and act accordingly. Anything less is not loyalty. It is negligence.

[Xie Feng 谢锋 @AmbXieFeng]

Is this what you look like when you’re washing all three of your kids? 🐼🐼🐼

[Chinese Embassy in US @ChineseEmbinUS]

📢 Breaking news: Another "#China shock"

[Lin Jian 林剑 @SpoxCHN_LinJian]

Taiwan’s restoration to China is an outcome of the WWII victory and part and parcel of the postwar international order. A series of instruments with legal effect under international law, namely the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender and so on, all affirm China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. Taiwan belongs to China. This is a solid fact rooted in history and the law and beyond any doubt.

On October 1, 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was founded, and the Central People’s Government became the sole legal government representing the whole of China. The change of government took place while China remained unchanged as a subject of international law. China’s sovereignty and inherent territory did not change. As a natural result, the government of the PRC fully enjoys and exercises China’s sovereignty, including sovereignty over Taiwan.

[Lin Jian 林剑 @SpoxCHN_LinJian]

与其鼓吹“台湾有事，日本有事”，不如谨记，借台湾生事，就是给日本找事。

Stop the propaganda that “a Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency.” The truth is, to provoke trouble in the name of Taiwan is to invite trouble for Japan.

[Li Jingjing 李菁菁 @Jingjing_Li]

Looks like Trump is very sour over China's military parade today ...

First, for China, WW2 started in 1931, when the Japanese military invaded Northeast China on Sept 18.
The U.S. joined the war in 1941.

Second, China had 35 million military and civilian casualties, fought for 14 years, killing and wounding over 70% of Japanese forces. It wasn't the U.S. that saved China. It was the Chinese people's resistance.

Third, for those Americans who indeed helped Chinese people, like the Flying Tigers, Chinese people remember them and celebrate their legacy to this day.

Here's the latest news about Flying Tigers: https://t.co/pRaMrwZsrO

[Beijing Review @BeijingReview]

American pawnshop owner Evan Kail @EvanKail, who in 2022 donated a photo album documenting Japanese troops’ war crimes in China to the Chinese Consulate General in Chicago, said on Sep 3: "When I was first in China, my wish was for world peace."

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

Trump has thrown his toys out of the cot in a fit of jealousy after watching his idols – President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un – hanging out in Beijing.

WATCH AND SHARE:

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

Main character syndrome.

“They were hoping I was watching, and I was watching.”

[CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人 @MFA_China]

China firmly rejects the EU official’s wrongful and irresponsible remarks.

The Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is an important part of the World Anti-Fascist War. China held the commemoration events to remember history, honor the fallen heroes, cherish peace and create a better future, and together with all peace-loving nations in the world, defend the outcomes of the WWII victory and the post-war international order.

Europe, where WWII was unleashed, is supposed to have a far deeper understanding of the lessons of history and the importance of unity. We hope some in the EU will abandon their prejudice and arrogance, establish a correct historical perspective of WWII and a rational perception of China, and contribute to a more peaceful and stable world and sound China-EU relations.

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

At China's #VictoryDay parade, the invited guests included descendants of the #FlyingTigers. Xinhua's @MiaoXiaojuan spoke with them about a legacy of #friendship that has been handed down through generations.