China now owns the world's largest and most tunnel boring machines (TBMs). 70% of the world's total are made in China. But this dominance is hard-earned.
In 1997, to build the Qinling Tunnel, China paid Germany RMB 700 million for just 2 SECONDHAND TBMs. 700 million is an entire region’s tax revenue back then.
But the 700 million didn't include support. China also had to hire German engineers for €800/day (≈RMB 6,800), while the average Chinese worker earned less than RMB 4,000 a year.
Back then, the global market was locked by the US, Japan, and Germany. China was being robbed, simply because it couldn't produce its own.
In 2002, China began the painful journey of self-development of TBM, which has over 30,000 precision parts.
After 6 years, in 2008, China's first homegrown TBM was born. In a 2012 head-to-head test, it matched the best in the world. Today, Chinese TBMs lead the world. Dignity is earned.
This is just an example in TBM. In humanoid robots, in electric cars, in solar farms, in drones...China has plenty of examples that make the country strong again.
The most insidious form of mind control is when people manage to colonise the very meaning of words. Words are what humans use to describe and interpret reality, so whoever controls the use of words controls how humans perceive reality.
So you hear "Democracy" and ypu instantly think "USA", or you hear "Dictatorship" and you instantly think "China". Meanwhile what is the dictionary definition of the word "democracy"? Government of the people, for the people, by the people.
Is the US government a government "of" the people? No, it's actually a government of a small group of rich white men who control absolutely everything from abortion law to music record labels. They fund and control a political doupoly where nothing changes as power passes back and forth between both parties, except some peripheral culture war bullshit. The will of "the people" is not meaningfully represented and they have no actual say in how they are governed because the extent of their involvement in the system is to vote for either the blue or the red branch of the same system owned by Peter ThielMuskWinklevossGatesEllisonEpsteinvonWhiteManberg.
Is it a government "for" the people? Fuck no, even Americans will tell you that. The purpose of the US government is to help rich white people become richer at the expense of everybody else including poor white people. There is literally a court decision (Citizens United) which gives unrestricted power to US corporations over US electoral compaigns. Meanwhile, the US has the world's largest population of imprisoned people (most of whom are used as slave labour because prisons naturally, are part of their economic system), as well as a shocking prevalence of homelessness for a supposedly wealthy country.
Is it a government "by" the people? Not even close. Americans know as little about their government and the things it does as people who have never been there. No American ever voted for their government to fund terrorists in your country halfway around the world, or create and arm drug cartels in your country that can't locate on a map, or fund colour revolutions and regime change operations in your country on the other side of the planet whose name they can't pronounce. Yet their government does all these things and more, because they have no real involvement in or visibility over how it works.
But that is a "Democracy". And not just any democracy - THE "democracy".
Yet China, where citizens understand exactly how their government operates; where the process of entering government is entirely transparent, accessible and obvious to everyone with no hidden infrastructure or secret societies controlling anything behind the scenes; where the state exists entirely to serve the Chinese people and make their lives better instead of getting embroiled in multiple foreign wars and genocidal adventurism; where 96% of Chinese households own their own home; where the state has been able to build the world's only national bullet train network - that is the nation that is apparently "not democratic."
Using the dictionary definition of "Democracy", China is in fact a "Democracy" and the US runs a feudalist system of governance.
But when you colonise the dictionary and dominate what people take into their brains everyday for several decades, this entirely factual tweet becomes "controversial".
That is literally mind control.
There is no market for good news out of China in the USA (all good news stories have a caveat; but at what cost?).
What makes us think there's any market for good news out of Nigeria/Africa in the USA?
Has there ever been? (Check the historical record since the 1600s).
Some people have mastered the art of smiling at you, and whispering sweet nothings to you - but you are none the wiser.
Any progress you make, should be for yourselves, and your wider communities. Some people will never like you - at least, let them respect you.
The Chinese are fully aware that the West will never "like them" - but at least, the West now respects them.
“Could I have handled it better? Probably.” South African entrepreneur Vusi Thembekwayo responds to criticism over a video he posted about migrant communities, which some accused of fuelling anti-migrant sentiment.
@AlexMilatov@IvorTour@paul_nwabuikwu@BBCAfrica But then the statistics from your own government reveal a very different narrative. It's much easier to scapegoat a demography than deal with the truth.
When I implied that someone is orchestrating xenophobic attacks in South Africa - many people here said, "he must be talking about Trump, Netanyahu, CIA and Mossad, because South Africa took Netanyahu to the ICC because of Gaza".
The fact is that xenophobic attacks against other Black Africans in South Africa long predate Gaza, and South Africa taking Netanyahu to the ICC.
Who could be driving this, and what are their motivations?
Possible candidates.
1. South African politicians who are focused on distracting South Africans away from their failure to deliver on the promise on the Post-Apartheid Dream. (Do a study - xenophobic attacks usually ramp up close to elections. 2026 South African municipal elections will be held on 4 November 2026 across South Africa, to elect councils for all district, metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces).
2. Big business interests/land owners who do not want a repeat of what happened in Zimbabwe - and are intent on weakening the likes of Julius Malema, by keeping his potential support base divided.
3. Of course foreign interests - who KNOW South Africans are xenophobic, and easily manipulated - will take advantage of WHAT ALREADY EXISTS.
This is a brief compendium of "someone" - you can add other actors to this list.
There are 10 million people in UAE, of the 10 million, only 1 million are native Emiratis;
Such a nation cannot be a "hegemonic power" - no matter how much it fools itself into believing it is one - because it has all the money to buy shiny new Western kit.
A few Iranian missile strikes could take out the UAE's desalination plants - and that would be the end of Dubai - and the UAE.
Yet the UAE prances around Africa like "a great power" - facilitating the Janjaweed's (RSF) genocidal behaviour in Sudan.
The earlier they are brought rapidly back to earth, the better.
Interpool is up to something here.
Next will be AI companies announcing geo-restrictions to certain products.
But remember they created this generative AI technologies o, but it’s the way Africans use them that is the problem.
Create a loophole, use this loophole to their advantage, accuse Africa of doing the same, then punish the continent in some forms.
Will they withdraw the products totally? No. They will simply limited its usage for African consumers the way it suits them, while allowing the parts of it that will allow them to continue carrying out their surveillance activities and injecting their preferred narratives.
We know this pattern.
Shouts outs to @DavidHundeyin and @Big_Mck for opening the eyes of Nigerians. At first many people didn’t understand what they were telling us via their new FBI/ CIA topics. But yesterday when I saw Nigerians research and Evaluate those 2 Foreigners who Gifted Peller money as possible CIA agents And even going as far as Producing their past Jobs and Military history. Na that time I know say Their message done dey enter People head Small Small. Keep it up Guys.. The Ministry no easy but somebody gotta do it. Shalom. 🤔🫢😎
VIDEO 🇳🇬 💔 : NIG 🇳🇬 Government please intervene ooh 😭😭
After denial statements from the South African Police, video from Bellville, Cape Town surfaces online allegedly showing South African Police officers strangling and suffocating Chika Ibe, a Nigerian from Abia State. Chika Ibe later died 😭
Nigerian Government needs to ask questions
I just had a very disturbing conversation with a South African who is visiting Nigeria, and I am livid.
I’ve been offline for a while, so I’m only just learning about the tragic killing of Chika Ibe, a businessman from Abia State, who was reportedly murdered by South African police officers in his own home in South Africa. This is deeply disturbing, and my thoughts are with his family and loved ones.
Why is this not on the news?
What is the government doing about this?
Why has @GovernmentZA not prosecuted the killers, but hiring @Trevornoah to run ads to visit South Africa, after murdering foreigners.
Why is the whole nation silent? Where is the Giant of Africa to fight for its citizens?
@NGRPresident@alexottiofr