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An internet observer and collaborator. Discovering the world my way!

[Kevin Castley 🇨🇦 @KevinCastley]

Right wing ziocon media wants you to think Wuhan is a bat market and communism is evil

But this is what Wuhan actually looks like ❗️

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳The swimming pool at Tongji University in China has a retractable roof that opens up in summer—it's amazing!

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇨🇳 This is what China looks like, because it doesn't spend billions on war.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

The Philippines faces an existential threat.

No, not "Chinese expansionism in the South CHINA Sea," but the fact the Philippines is LITERALLY OCCUPIED by US troops who are forcing the country to divert national resources from development to proxy war - into turning the Philippines into the "Ukraine" of Southeast Asia against China, the Philippines' largest trading partner.

If the people of the Philippines do not reverse US occupation and oust the US client regime in power now - they will suffer a fate at least as bad as Ukraine.

They are already suffering decades-spanning poverty because of their status as a proxy serving US interests at the expense of the Philippines' actual interests.

Source - Manila Times: https://t.co/zio1wZWsz1

This is one the Philippines' Independence Day - guess who they gained independence from?

The US - they were literally an outright colony of the US - when they first fought for independence against US occupation and control, the US instituted concentration camps and systematic torture - this according to the US State Department's OWN account:

"The war was brutal on both sides. U.S. forces at times burned villages, implemented civilian reconcentration policies, and employed torture on suspected guerrillas..."

Source - US State Department, Office of the Historian: https://t.co/vMUpPeXtR6

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

In China, people just leave their luggage and go for lunch, or dinner, or whatever.

This is a high-trust society. This is China.

[Rachel Blevins @RachBlevins]

Two Apache helicopter pilots have joined the club of 'unbelievable rescues,' never to be seen or heard from again.

As Laith Marouf (@TVFreePalestine) noted, what matters is that the US used this story to justify its latest war crimes targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇨🇳 This is what CHINA looks like.

THANKS to COMMUNISM!

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THERE WAS DELIGHT at the United Nation yesterday as Kyrgyzstan last night roundly defeated the Washington-controlled Philippines to win the sole Asia-Pacific seat at the UN Security Council.

Kyrgyzstan received 142 votes, while the Philippines received only 49.

The Iranians, sitting in one row ahead, were clearly delighted at the win.

The Central Asian nation now becomes a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2027-2028 term.

Most people in the west have never heard of the country, but the US was concerned about the vote, because Kyrgyzstani people have friendly, peaceful relations with their Chinese and Russian neighbors.

The US spends billions of dollars a year to demonize China and Russia. The UK voted with the US.

There was more bad news for the US-Israel bloc, too. Germany was defeated by Austria and Portugal in the European vote.

After the illegal US-Israel attack on Iran, German leader Friedrich Merz shocked the world by echoing the far-right Israeli view that that international law did not apply to Iranians.

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳A Chinese little girl asked an on-duty SWAT officer for help playing a shooting balloon game on the street. The officer picked up the gun and won the game with precise shots. After winning, he didn’t keep the prize; instead, he paid for the giant plush toy himself and gave it to the Chinese girl.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇨🇳 China is living proof that COMMUNISM WORKS!

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

China's economy will eclipse the West economically for decades to come.

One of many reasons: infrastructure.

For the West, its not very profitable for the investor class.

For China, its essential, and a priority.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Only one week of war spending in Iran is enough to cover this 24km-long cross-sea passage that comprises 2 bridges, 2 artificial islands, and 1 underwater tunnel.

China spent $6.2 billion on building this Shenzhen-Zhongshan cross-sea project.

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

🚨I'm flying from Xinjiang to Gansu now. Listen to the announcement in the Uygur language.

And remember this next time the Western conspiracy theory mill tells you Uygur people are forbidden from using their language.

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

I just spent some time with a local Uygur family for Eid al-Adha. A really nice experience. Video soon!

[The Internet Fish @TheInternetFish]

Bro even did the Trump accent in chinese😭

[Li Jingjing 李菁菁 @Jingjing_Li]

Eid Mubarak!

Warmest wishes and countless blessings to those who are celebrating Eid al-Adha!

Throwback pics: me visiting 🇵🇰Pakistan in 2023, lovely memories ❤️

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳 Vision in China decades ago of the "Chinese modernization".

The dream has come true.

[Dominic Lee 李梓敬 @dominictsz]

This is how a 4th tier city in China looks like!

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸/IRAN/🇨🇳NEW VIDEO: US Blockade on Iran (& China) Continues: As Does March to War with China in the Asia-Pacific

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[Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill]

18 years ago, I started eating at this little Sichuan spot in Shenzhen’s Baishizhou village. Over time we became close friends with the family that ran it, so close that even my parents bonded with them during their annual visits.

They eventually moved back to their hometown in Dazhou, Sichuan, over a decade ago. We left Shenzhen for Chongqing nearly four years ago - just 250 km away.

A couple of years back we visited them together and celebrated my dad’s birthday there. This week the boss came to stay with us in Chongqing. We spent hours reminiscing about the old days in Shenzhen and charting about how much has changed.

Back when we first met there was no high-speed rail. The trip would’ve taken over four hours. Now she hops on a train and arrives in just two.

That turned into a bigger conversation about how safe, clean, and efficient the country has become. It wasn’t really a talking point back then. Shenzhen was vibrant, but polluted and rougher around the edges — pickpockets, break-ins, petty crime. Some of my older Hong Kong friends were actually nervous to visit me (although their worries were a bit dramatic and overexaggerated).

In those days locals would often ask foreigners, “What do you think of China? Do you like it?” They were proud even then, but you hear that question far less now. There’s a quiet confidence instead, especially among people born in the 80s or earlier who’ve witnessed a transformation that’s honestly hard to put into words.

Moving here 18 years ago remains the single best decision of my life. I’ve gained incredible lifelong friends, enjoyed so much of what this place offers, and watched a massive chapter of modernization unfold right in front of me. Sometimes I still look around and wonder how this is even possible.

That’s part of why I’ve been unapologetically vocal about my admiration for this country long before “Chinamaxxing” was socially acceptable 😄