anderson

creative director @ 2cnot2c

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

LV did not become hated in China because it won an intellectual property lawsuit.

Foreign companies have sued Chinese companies before.
Chinese consumers understand trademark protection.
They understand intellectual property.

But this case crossed a different line.

LV did not merely protect a brand.

It exposed a much uglier logic:

take ancient Chinese motifs,
register them as private property,
turn civilizational memory into corporate assets,
then sue Chinese companies for touching patterns rooted in their own cultural soil.

That is why Chinese people are furious.

LV has registered 45 Chinese-style ancient patterns.
Patterns that came from Chinese decorative traditions.
Patterns that appear in Tang-era art, Dunhuang murals, Suzhou garden windows, Fujian floor tiles, and everyday Chinese aesthetics.

And now a French luxury house acts as if these symbols belong to Paris.

This is not ordinary trademark protection.
This is cultural occupation through paperwork.

Ancient people did not have trademark offices.
They could not file applications.
They could not defend their heritage in modern courts.

That does not mean dead civilizations are free for corporations to loot.

If this logic stands, anyone could repackage Hanfu patterns, Terracotta Warrior imagery, Dunhuang murals, Buddhist motifs, or even classical works like Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, register them, and then tell Chinese people they no longer have the right to use their own cultural inheritance.

That is absurd.
That is dangerous.

And that is why LV won the lawsuit but lost China’s face.

The tea brand used a jasmine flower because it sells jasmine tea.
The cultural soil is Chinese.
The public emotion is Chinese.
The backlash is Chinese.

On the day the ruling came out, Molly Tea gained massive public support because Chinese consumers understood exactly what this was:
not a French brand protecting creativity,
but a Western luxury house privatizing Chinese heritage and biting the people whose civilization made the pattern possible.

Even more humiliating for LV:

while Molly Tea was facing millions in damages, its home region was hit by floods, and the company donated 1 million yuan for disaster relief.

So the contrast became clear.

One side took from Chinese culture and sued.
The other side bled money and still gave back to Chinese people.

LV may have won US$1.5 million.
But it reminded 1.4 billion people what Western luxury often means:

steal civilization,
monopolize beauty,
sell it back as status,
then sue the original owner.

This has never been about luxury art design.
This is colonial property logic in designer packaging.

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

UNUSUAL
A new Chinese chip is pushing the West out of the AI ​​competition.

Researchers in China have developed an AI chip that outperforms the Nvidia A100 by 478 times.

A team from Peking University created a new neuromorphic chip capable of reconstructing complex brain surfaces in less than half a second, achieving performance up to 478 times greater than the Nvidia A100 in this specialized task.

This advantage comes from a different architectural design: the chip integrates storage and processing within the same memory array, reducing the data‑transfer bottleneck seen in traditional processors, lowering energy consumption, and boosting efficiency in targeted applications.

The achievement is also notable because the chip was manufactured using a 40‑nanometer process — a much older technology node — demonstrating that high performance can be reached through architectural innovation rather than relying on cutting‑edge fabrication.

Observers say this development reflects China’s growing strength in creating innovative domestic solutions in semiconductors and artificial intelligence, and its progress toward advanced next‑generation chips.

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[Ben Cera @Bencera]

China will crash the US stock market this year.

They're dumping SOTA open-source models on the US, nearly as good as the frontier labs, basically free.

Nobody can refuse cutting a $100M AI bill down to $5M.

Once that deal is on the table for everyone, Anthropic and OpenAI can't justify their prices, or their valuations.

The bubble isn't AI. It's the price of AI. And it's about to pop.

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[RT @RT_com]

THOUSANDS die in Europe’s HEAT as China rolls out city-wide cooling systems

[NewRulesGeopolitics @NewRulesGeo]

🚨🇨🇳 PENTAGON IN PANIC: CHINA TESTS SHAPE-SHIFTING HYPERSONIC RAMJET ENGINE

China has pulled off a major hypersonic breakthrough by ground-testing a variable-geometry Ramjet that reshapes its own internal airflow channel in flight — much like a throat tightening and relaxing — and runs continuously from Mach 1.8 all the way to Mach 6 without leaking superheated gases or needing a heavy rocket booster to get started.

🔸 Chinese engineers solved the decades-old problem of creating reliable airtight seals for moving parts inside variable-geometry Ramjets, a challenge that caused severe gas leaks at extreme heat and speed and led most countries to abandon the design entirely.

🔸 The engine’s combustion chamber throat adjusted itself in just one-third of a second while inhaling gases at 1,650 degrees Celsius, delivering stable performance across a wide speed range that previously required separate boosters and added cost and complexity.

🔸 The graphite seal used in the Chinese breakthrough is the same one the US defense industry desperately needs. The US defense industry, now faces vulnerabilities in its graphite supply chains – material critical for missile nose tips, rocket nozzles, stealth coatings, and nuclear reactor components.

🔸 China produces nearly 80 percent of the world’s graphite, including the high-purity grades needed for aerospace, and restricted exports of the material to the United States starting in late 2024.

🔸 Washington has invoked the Defense Production Act to fund domestic and allied graphite mining while Europe pushes similar efforts under its Critical Raw Materials Act, yet building new supply chains from scratch is expected to take a decade or more.

Do you think U.S. engines can catch up with Chinese technology?

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

UNUSUAL
CHINA officially surpasses the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Four days ago, China’s HUAWEI announced the world’s fastest supercomputer, LINESHINE, with a speed of 2.1 quintillion operations per second — that’s a 1 followed by 18 zeros.

To imagine its scale: running this machine consumes 42 megawatts, enough to power tens of thousands of homes.

What does China gain from this supercomputer?

1. It allows China to conduct virtual nuclear tests with extremely high accuracy, reducing the need for real tests — lowering costs and avoiding international restrictions.
2. It can predict natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods before they occur, helping prevent human and material losses.
3. It enables the development of advanced electronic systems that are nearly impossible to decrypt, and can also penetrate enemy systems.
4. It helps discover new materials with superior thermal conductivity, potentially revolutionizing industrial manufacturing, engine systems, satellites, and electronic devices.
5. It strengthens China’s position in artificial‑intelligence dominance, which is considered the most critical step toward global technological leadership.

In short, this supercomputer is a factory for minds.

The greater a nation’s ability to compute and simulate, the faster it moves from theory to practical application in science and technology.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At least 57 medical workers have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon since early March, according to reports. It follows a pattern previously seen in Gaza.

@ajlabs examines how healthcare systems have repeatedly come under attack in Israel’s military offensives.

[PLA Military Updates🇨🇳 @PLA_MilitaryUpd]

BREAKING: 🇧🇾🇺🇸🇨🇳 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Trump:

“If the Americans couldn’t handle Iran, then they should not mess with China, they will never be able to deal with that kind of power.”

[RT @RT_com]

China unveils NEW HUMAN-LIKE HAND FOR ROBOTS

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

THIS VIDEO SHOULD BRING DOWN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

The whole world has to isolate this rogue Apartheid genocidal maniac, serial killing, pathologically lying state, isolate it & shame anyone who goes there.

Israel is exposed, Zionism is on its last leg & only exists on the weight of its own collapsed propaganda.

@AbbyMartin 🔥

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

'Watch Palestine 36'. - Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo urges Americans to watch the film and understand the history that has been hidden from them by the Epstein class.

[Saman 🍉 🕊️ 🎒 @SamanAhsan]

@Eliseevanews @AgamNew Well said...

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Jared Kushner linked to Israeli-American brothers convicted of sex trafficking.

Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander - recently found guilty in a major U.S. sex-trafficking case - had their surname redacted in the Epstein files, despite claims from Kash Patel that the files contained no evidence of trafficking. Rep. Thomas Massie later exposed the names.

In December 2020, the brothers attended Donald Trump’s White House Hanukkah celebration. Oren Alexander wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post:

“Spare your political views. The president just served us kosher food in his house and wished us a Happy Hanukkah.”

Photos from the event showed Tal and Oren posing inside the White House.

Their links to Trump-world extended beyond parties. Oren Alexander brokered the $24 million Indian Creek mansion purchased by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in 2021.

The brothers were also fixtures in elite Israeli and American networks. Seven years ago, twins Alon and Oren celebrated their 30th birthday at the upscale Claro restaurant in Tel Aviv, with a guest list including Israeli billionaire Shari Arison and Donald Trump advisor Aaron Jordan.

They were also major donors to pro-Israel and Jewish organisations, including:

• Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF)
• United Hatzalah
• The Jewish Federation

One acquaintance described the family: “They are a very positive family, big Zionists...”

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

This is truly the most beautiful video I’ve seen lately

So tender and heart-warming, yet it makes you stop and reflect, with a subtle touch of sadness

We may have gained so much, but perhaps we’ve lost even more✨

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[anderson @andersonlee]

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