China has become a nightmare for Merz.
He is accusing China — again.
He claims that Chinese state subsidies and overcapacity are putting pressure on the European economy.
Yet Europe never had a moral problem with asymmetric trade.
It had a psychological problem with losing control of the asymmetry.
When China bought German cars, German machines and German chemicals, that was globalization.
When China learned to build its own cars, its own machines, its own batteries — and then started selling them back — suddenly globalization became “overcapacity,” “aggressive pricing” and “unfair competition.”
The complaint is not that China trades too much.
The complaint is that China forgot its assigned role.
Europe wanted an Asia that manufactures cheaply, buys Western brands, stays technologically subordinate, and knows when to stop climbing.
Japan understood the script.
China did not.
Perhaps that is what really irritates them.
A few decades ago, the answer to an Asian competitor was a Plaza Accord.
A century ago, it was gunboats.
Today they are left with speeches about “fair competition.”
History did not make Europe more comfortable with equals.
It merely took away some of the tools it once used to avoid having them.
🇺🇸 The US just confirmed it put weapons in orbit.
🇨🇳 Western media blamed China.
The UN record shows China spent 20+ years pushing for a ban — and Washington blocked it.
New report. Watch. ⬇️
Japan calling itself the “only country to have suffered atomic bombings” is historically true in the narrowest possible sense—and morally obscene when used as a complete story.
Because Japan did not arrive at Hiroshima and Nagasaki as an innocent bystander.
It arrived there after invading and colonizing much of Asia, massacring civilians, conducting biological warfare, enslaving women, and leaving entire countries soaked in blood.
The mushroom cloud did not erase Nanjing.
It did not erase Unit 731.
It did not erase Korea.
It did not erase Southeast Asia.
It did not erase the tens of millions of Asians Japan brutalized before 1945.
Yet Japanese officials repeatedly take the last chapter of the war and present it as if it were the whole book.
The propaganda technique is familiar: cut the historical timeline at the exact moment the aggressor becomes the victim.
Israel does it with October 7.
Japan does it with Hiroshima.
Freeze history at the moment of retaliation, magnify that suffering, and push the preceding decades of occupation, ethnic cleansing, massacres and war crimes out of frame.
Then walk onto the international stage wearing the halo of victimhood.
That is not remembrance.
That is historical laundering.
And the hypocrisy becomes even uglier when Japan presents itself as a moral leader for a “nuclear-free world” while sheltering under the American nuclear umbrella and refusing to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Victimhood when useful.
Nuclear protection when useful.
Amnesia always.
And there is a reason this narrative survived for decades.
After World War II, Washington needed Japan as a Far Eastern outpost against China. Japan needed American protection and rehabilitation.
Their interests aligned perfectly.
So the atomic bombings were gradually reframed as a borderless “human tragedy,” detached from the war of aggression that preceded them.
The defeated fascist state was repackaged as the nuclear age’s moral witness.
The perpetrator acquired a halo.
History acquired amnesia.
Japan was a victim of nuclear bombing.
It was also the aggressor that helped create the war in which those bombs were dropped.
Both facts belong to history.
You do not get to delete the first eighty pages because the ending hurts.
For some countries, “never again” simply means “once again.”
Victimhood does not confer moral superiority.
And being bombed does not absolve a fascist state of what it did before the bomb fell.
While these politicians manipulate everything behind the scenes, the ones to be pitied are the innocent ordinary people. Yet this is also the result of their own elections. Next time, please choose your leader wisely, or there won't be a next time.
Sanae Takaichi is preparing for a long war. This comes from a country that claims to the world that it pursues peace. When you pursue peace, you will obtain peace. When you cling to a long-term war, what you end up with is nothing but war.
When the domestic economy is stagnant and the government is ineffective, they need to create an external imaginary enemy to divert the people's attention. It must be admitted that this tactic is indeed quite effective.
Sanae Takaichi, the current Prime Minister of Japan, made the following remarks in her first year as a Diet member.
I believe that her own way of thinking may be one of the underlying factors behind Japan’s current military buildup.
I hope more people can become aware of this.
At the same time, I would also appreciate it if you understand that this view is not shared by all Japanese people.
Here is Sanae Takaichi in her first year as a politician attacking Japan's prime minister for aplogising to regional neighbours for Japan's atrocities against them in WWII.
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My Speech at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva @UNGeneva today (March 18th)!
Calling out the US, UK & NATO for their MASSIVE double standards — preaching human rights while letting Israel get away with genocide!
The blood of Palestinians and Iranians is on their hands!
🇨🇳🇭🇰Hong Kong lawmaker:
“What moral authority does the 🇺🇸United States, a country that is ruled by the Epsteins, have over my country, a country that has lifted 800 million people out of poverty?
What moral authority does 🇬🇧Britain, a country that arrested 12,000 of its own people for posting online, have to lecture us about civil liberty?
What moral authority do 🇪🇺NATO countries have to preach human rights while turning a blind eye to the genocide in 🇵🇸Gaza?"
🚨That's What it Means to Have Balls
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🚨It's a kind of psychopathy because they're killing people wantonly.
🚨They're killing schoolgirls.
150 schoolgirls bombed by Israel.
🚨30-year project of madness that has cost us trillions and trillions of dollars.
🚨This is MADNESS!
🚨Netanyahu's a MADMAN!
🚨Trump, let me add, is an utter DISGRACE to our nation.
🚨ISRAEL is a absolutely rogue, MURDEROUS NATION.
🚨He and the madmen in charge in the United States
have brought us into this.
🚨They are systematically destroying our country as they are destroying the Middle East.
🚨If you ask why do the roads not work and the bridges not work in the United States.
🚨Why is infrastructure falling to pieces?
🚨Why are living standards stagnant or declining?
🚨It's because we spend trillions of dollars in war.
🚨Why is China advancing so rapidly, so effectively? 🚨Why does the United States have not one mile of fast rail?
🚨China just completed its 50,000th kilometer, approximately 30,000 miles of fast rail.
🚨Because China doesn't go to war.
🚨The United States is in NONSTOP WAR.
🚨Undeclared wars, about the cost to our society,
the loss of freedom of being ruled by a military state, which we are, of being in partnership with a absolutely rogue, murderous nation, which is Israel, which thinks a little bit beyond its means because it thinks it has the United States to do all of its work for it.
🚨Trump, let me add, is an utter disgrace to our nation.
🚨Utter disgrace. He lied to us every word about America first.
His whole premise was we're not going to do this.
And he did exactly the opposite of what he said.
He did exactly the opposite of what the American people say.
🚨Of course, Congress is dead for all intents and purposes.
🚨It doesn't matter whether it's Johnson or Schumer. 🚨They're useless, these people.
🚨They're all in the Zionist lobby payroll.
🚨They have squandered our wealth.
🚨They have squandered our strength.
🚨It's absolutely shocking, disgraceful, dangerous, bankrupting our country.
🚨And Trump lied.
🚨Lied every word of what he was going to do.
***Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development.
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@NikkiHaley Congrats. What a relief for the world. China no longer need to help the U.S. cover up how its secret labs created several viruses at the beginning, nor all the lousy excuses. This also means international law no longer applies to you. Please don't cause another pandemic.
🇨🇳🇯🇵 Japan Tried to Cry “Danger” and Exposed How Blind Its Air Force Really Is
What Japan Didn’t Tell the Public
The China–Japan military aircraft incident isn’t cooling down. It’s getting worse for Tokyo, because new details released by Japanese media are quietly exposing what Japan’s Defence Ministry initially tried to hide.
Here’s what actually matters:
👉 Advance Warnings Were Issued and Denied
First, China DID issue advance warnings before the incident.
Japan now claims it “didn’t receive” them.
That’s convenient, because denying receipt allows Tokyo to:
• Dump blame on China
• Inflate a media-driven “China threat” narrative
• Distract from its own reckless behaviour
The odds strongly favour deliberate denial, not miscommunication.
👉 The Radar Numbers Japan Doesn’t Want Discussed
Japanese media revealed that J-15 carrier-based fighters radar-illuminated Japanese F-15Js twice:
• First at 52 km
• Second at 148 km
That second distance is the key.
👉 One-Sided Detection, One-Sided Power
Japanese strategic analyst Kenji Minemura admitted something extraordinary:
The F-15J likely didn’t even realise it was being illuminated at first and may have already been tracked or locked before its sensors noticed anything.
Why?
• F-15J radar detection range: ~100 km
• Upgraded J-15 radar detection: 170+ km
Meaning this:
During the second illumination, the J-15 could see the F-15J clearly, while the F-15J couldn’t see the J-15 at all.
That’s not a “near miss”.
That’s one-sided dominance.
👉 “30 Minutes” That Would End a Real Fight
Japan’s Defence Ministry claims the second radar illumination lasted “around 30 minutes”, detected by onboard sensors.
In real air combat terms, that’s catastrophic.
In modern BVR warfare:
“Detected = defeated.”
Not in 30 minutes.
In seconds.
If this had been real combat, the F-15J and its pilot would not exist long enough to file a complaint.
👉 Likely Already Locked
Minemura goes further:
If the F-15J only realised it was being illuminated after 30 minutes, then the real exposure time was likely far longer and the J-15 may already have been in a full fire-control lock.
That’s not “unsafe flying”.
That’s being hunted.
👉 Why Didn’t the F-15J Escape?
The next question is obvious:
Why didn’t the F-15J disengage?
There are only two possibilities:
• The pilot chose to sit inside hostile radar for half an hour (extremely unlikely)
• Or the pilot tried to escape and couldn’t
Experienced pilots don’t tolerate prolonged radar exposure, it induces genuine fear. The human factor alone rules out the first option.
So yes, the F-15J was likely trapped inside the J-15’s envelope.
👉 Japan’s Narrative Collapses
Japanese officials accused China of “unprofessional behaviour”.
But the Japanese aircraft was tracking and harassing the Liaoning carrier group, a floating sovereign asset, inside a publicly declared exercise zone in international waters.
That’s a serious security threat.
The J-15’s response was not reckless.
It was restrained.
👉 If China Had Wanted to Make the Point Brutal…
If China had wanted to make the point brutally, the F-15J would never have realised it was being tracked at all.
We’ve seen this before.
Earlier this year, during the India–Pakistan air clash, Indian Rafale jets, far more advanced than the F-15J, were shot down by Chinese-origin aircraft without detecting a lock.
Even Indian media admitted the Rafale’s sensors rival fifth-generation standards.
If Rafales can be blindsided, an ageing F-15J stands no chance.
👉 The Backfire Effect
So Japan’s attempt to cry victim has achieved the opposite effect.
As more details emerge:
• Japan initiated the confrontation
• Japan ignored warnings
• Japan exposed its own air force’s vulnerability
• Japan demonstrated how outmatched its aircraft are near Chinese carrier groups
In short: Tokyo tried to blame China and ended up humiliating itself.
👉 Final Reality Check 👈
Tracking and shadowing a Chinese aircraft carrier is not harmless observation.
It’s a direct military provocation.
The radar illumination wasn’t aggression.
It was a final warning.
If Japanese aircraft repeat this behaviour and close on Chinese carriers again, the next response won’t be a radar signal.
Japan should consider this episode carefully, because this time, it was allowed to fly home.
Next time, it may not.
This is an incredible research done by @tri_continental
Fascism was defeated not by Anglo-American capital but by socialist leadership and mass heroism.
This charts shows death distribution in the WW2👇
1⃣Soviet Union & China account for 59.8% of world’s total death.
2⃣13.1% of people in other parts of Asia and Africa died as victims of Japanese fascism and allied extraction. The colonies had a lot more victims than the Western powers.
3⃣The US and UK who claimed victory of WW2, accounts for 1% of global death.
As we commemorate 80 years since the people’s victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, we must remember who truly saved humanity – and honor their sacrifice with the truth.
@royngerng Japan has no shame. It is the one militarizing & arming for war, while China is the one supporting the peace, security & justice in our Asian countries. And yet, Japan has the audacity to use an archaic document to threaten China. Japan wants to play police when it is the crook.