Joseph Lim

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

Japanese technology media outlet #Nikkei xTECH disassembled a Chinese #humanoid #robot #Unitree G1 to examine its engineering and design. From screws and battery to its leg mechanism, the analysis offers a closer look at what powers the robot. The reporter concluded that narrowing the gap with China in humanoid robotics "would be difficult to achieve overnight."

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇸🇮🇷🏳️‍🌈 "Iran is now being run by a GAY DICTATOR" — Trump

👉Mojtaba Khamenei got 3 children (one of the sons was killed in US-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran)

👉 Was married to Zahra Haddad-Adel for 27 years — she died during the airstrikes on February 28

But the CIA assures Trump (after careful analysis?) about Khamenei's gay orientation...

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

China sanctions Rheinmetall and 13 other weapons producers; all of them delivering weapons to Ukraine.

The 14 Chinese sanctions mirror EU sanctions on 14 Chinese companies.

There is one difference: China can replace the EU immediately, while Rheinmetall has no access to rare earths and magnets anymore.

A typical example where the EU in their hubris MISTAKENLY believe they can “punish” China.

#FAFO

[DonghuaStuff @DonghuaStuff]

"All Wishes Come True" (Movie) NEW TRAILER

Release Date: July 18, 2026 (Pushed up from July 24)
Animation Studio: Pearl Studio

[DonghuaStuff @DonghuaStuff]

"All Wishes Come True" International Trailer

Release Date:
- August 13: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
- August 14: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands
- September 4: Belgium, Luxembourg

Animation Studio: Pearl Studio (Kung Fu Panda 3)

Director: Mu Zhengyang
Action Director: Su Hang, Huang Chengxi
Voice Director: Chen Hao (Nezha)

Animated comedy feature film inspired by the classic Chinese folklore tale "The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea"

[Eivor @Eivor_Koy]

Black Myth: Wukong put the Monkey King and Journey to the West on the global map — but did you know China has another classic called Journey to the East?

Inside it are eight ordinary people who trained their way to immortality. No divine bloodlines, just pure grind. They’re the Eight Immortals — China’s most down-to-earth immortal squad.

With the animated film All Wishes Come True packing theaters, their stories are blowing up again. Here’s why they hit different:

🔵 The stories of the Eight Immortals were finalized in the Ming dynasty novel Journey to the East. What makes them special is that they aren’t perfect, lofty gods from the start. They were regular people who cultivated themselves into immortals. As the old saying goes, the Eight Immortals represent eight kinds of life—men and women, young and old, rich and poor. Pretty much anyone can find a bit of themselves in one of them.

In the usual order, the eight are:

🔵 Iron-Crutch Li (Li Tieguai) heads the group. He looks like a crippled beggar, leaning on an iron crutch and carrying a big gourd on his back filled with life-saving elixir. He stands for compassion earned through hardship and poverty.

🔵 Zhongli Quan (Han Zhongli) is the big-bellied, bare-chested older guy who waves a banana-leaf fan said to be able to revive the dead. He was once a general in the Eastern Han dynasty. He represents the wealthy and powerful who let go of fame and fortune to seek the Dao.

🔵 Zhang Guolao is the white-bearded old man who loves riding a paper donkey backward. That donkey can travel a thousand miles a day. He embodies the wisdom of aging gracefully and returning to simplicity.

🔵 Lü Dongbin is the most famous of the bunch—the elegant swordsman-scholar whose sword can slay demons. He represents masculine talent and spiritual resolve, and he’s the one with the most stories in folklore.

🔵 He Xiangu is the only woman among them. She holds a lotus flower and remains pure even in muddy waters. Originally an ordinary farm girl, she became immortal after eating a magical fruit by chance. She shows that women, too, can attain the highest spiritual fruit.

🔵 Lan Caihe is the androgynous street performer who carries a flower basket and sings all day. The flowers in that basket can heal the sick. He represents carefree joy even in poverty.

🔵 Han Xiangzi is the handsome young musician who plays a transverse flute whose sound can make all things grow. He’s said to be the grandnephew of the great Tang writer Han Yu, and he stands for youthful talent and spiritual sensitivity.

🔵 Cao Guojiu wears official robes and holds a jade tablet. He was the younger brother of a Song dynasty empress—a genuine imperial relative. He represents the privileged person who wakes up, abandons rank, and seeks immortality.

These eight include a beggar, a general, a scholar, a musician, a farm girl, and an imperial relative. None of them were born divine. They achieved immortality through cultivation and kindness.

That’s what moves Chinese people most about them: becoming an immortal has nothing to do with your background.

Anyone can change their fate.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Yahoo Finance asked why Jensen Huang is “rooting for Chinese AI.”

The question itself exposes the disease in Western media.

The host instinctively treated Chinese technological progress as a geopolitical threat, while the analyst kept dragging the discussion back to basic reality:

Better open models create more applications.
More applications create more demand.
More demand means more chips, more compute, and more data centers.

Jensen is not “rooting for China.”
He understands the market.

NVIDIA sells the engine. It benefits when more people build cars—whether the model is American, Chinese, French, or open-source.

The analyst also dismantled the lazy attempt to equate “Chinese open source” with cybersecurity backdoors.

Open-source software can be inspected, tested, challenged, and repaired by anyone. Its code is exposed to scrutiny rather than hidden behind corporate walls.

The analyst understood technology and business.
The host understood only containment, suspicion, and Cold War reflexes.

That contrast says everything about the American debate on Chinese AI:

The people who understand the technology want competition.
The people who understand only ideology want a blockade.

Wall Street hears “Chinese open-source AI” and asks whether America is being betrayed.
Engineers hear it and ask how much more compute the world will need.

One side sees a market.
The other sees an enemy.

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳 A young teen ran away from home after a family argument and wandered alone outside a Chinese armed police barracks late at night.
The on-duty sentry spotted the scared boy, gently approached and comforted him patiently.
Police contacted his father, who arrived shortly to take the boy home.
The next day, the father returned with a silk banner to express his gratitude.

This is what “people's soldiers” means in China—they don't just guard borders. They guard you. ❤️

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

The portable counter-drone system self-developed by a Chinese company:

One person, 30 seconds to deploy for rapid emergency response.

Locks onto targets in 5 seconds, interceptor with a max speed of 420 km/h, and a 90% success rate.

[Natie🇨🇳 @Natie2Natie]

🇨🇳 Did you know? In ancient China, contracts were ripped in half before they were signed and stamped. 🧾

Each party kept one piece. When the time came, they'd bring them back together. If they matched — the deal was sealed.

Honor and a perfect fit. That's ancient wisdom. 🫱🏽‍🫲🏻🥂

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The Iran war has hit U.S weapons stockpiles HARD

On average, they used a THIRD of their inventory, with THAAD and Patriot interceptors taking some of the hardest hits

And if that's not bad enough, the figures are from a CSIS report in April, it doesn't include all the weapons used in the latest round of fighting

Source: CSIS / Writer: Ian

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

Trump attacked Iran because Netanyahu commanded it.
Trump attacked Iran without refilling the SPR or restocking AD interceptors and airstrike missiles. Now gas in the US is above $4, SPR is down to 1983 levels/tank bottoms, US bases in the Gulf are abandoned as destroyed and indefensible, AD and missile stockpile depletion puts the planned war with China back a decade, and Iran has Hormuz forever.

Iran’s victory has encouraged Ansarullah to attack Saudi.

This war is going to be providing comedy material in military history classes for decades to come.

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

A Vietnamese vessel sank after encountering distress in waters near Yongshu Reef in the Nansha Islands in the #SouthChinaSea on July 25. As of now, 44 people have been rescued. Six Chinese vessels and one rescue helicopter are assisting in the operation, and one Vietnamese ship is also taking part in the on-site search and rescue effort. The distressed vessel was the Vietnamese-flagged KHOI NGUYEN 18, with 62 people on board. https://t.co/CoqEvvsJ7n

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇪🇸‼️🚨 The wildfire rages and moves extremely quickly

A fire broke out on a slope in the tourist town of La Vall d'Uixó, located in the Valencia region of Spain.

The fire engulfed the area with slopes and vegetation located around the city.

Fire brigades working in the region began to act to prevent the spread of the fire and to contain it. They will cut out barriers. But the fire moves extremely fast

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇪🇸🇷🇺‼️🚨 SANCTIONS CHAOS - FIREFIGHTING HELICOPTERS GROUNDED

Spain can’t use its fleet of Kamov 32 Fire Attack helicopters!

The Russian firefighter helicopters, designed to drop more than 5,000 liters of water with precision and maneuverability on wildfires, are extremely effective … but European sanctions banned the supply of spare parts and maintenance by Russian technicians.

These helicopters are desperately needed NOW, but the Kamov fleet remains grounded.

A Spanish parliamentary group has desperately requested an exemption from the sanctions for these firefighter civil security vehicles.

The Spanish government responded negatively, saying the decision must be made by the European Council in Brussels and it could not approve for their use.

Now Spain is on fire and desperately needs them, and it all depends on Ursula.

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇷🇺🇪🇺‼️🚨 RUSSIAN HELP:

Russian Be-200 amphibious aircraft were previously sent to help with wildfires.

The planes weigh 40 tons, take off from the water and scoop up some of it to drop on fires.

The aircraft can scoop up 12,000 liters of water into its tanks in just 14 seconds!

Now, in times of sanctions, help is coming no more.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Chongqing's summer is brutally hot, so the city's metro stations opened free cooling areas, totally free AC, where people can read, relax, even play cards.

This is what putting people first actually means, something you won't find in American or European metros.

[Blueblur @Blueblur_23]

Did you know that in Israel, when it comes to Jewish citizens (about 74% of the population), BOTH men and women are conscripted?

Full transparency on the differences:

Men typically serve around 32 months (a planned cut to 30 months was delayed) while women serve around 24 months.

Both can be exempted for medical or psychological reasons.
Women have additional options available (religious declaration, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood).

The Druze community (about 1.5% of the population) and the tiny Circassian community (only a few thousand people) are also subject to conscription, but only the men.

Most other Arab citizens (Muslims, Christians, etc., about 20%) are exempt from mandatory service (though some volunteer).

One of the very few countries that requires women to serve at all, even with these differences.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The funniest part is not that Silicon Valley is panicking over Kimi K3.

It is that Kimi K3 is not the end of the queue.

Several more Chinese models are still waiting to launch, while Western executives are already calculating whether China is “weeks” or “months” behind.

China’s AI industry, meanwhile, looks almost bored:
speculate all you want.
Write your threat reports.
Call another emergency meeting.

A few days, a few weeks, a few months—
when the models are released, you will find out.

Silicon Valley keeps treating every Chinese release as a shocking exception.

China is treating them as a pipeline.

That is why the panic never ends.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

Children in the US eat ultra processed flavored slop and calling it food.

All those dystopian movies about the future is slowly happening in the US.