QiaoKeLi "Chocolate"

The world's best pizza is now made here in China. If you ask me, all the best things in life are Made In China... with pride, love and perfection - me included.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

IPAC is the world’s biggest single-country hate farm.

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China demonizes the Chinese, day in and day out, with members preferring not to mention the group’s origins and funding.

Why? Because IPAC was birthed by the National Endowment for Democracy, which took over the “soft power” side of the CIA’s regime change operations from its launch in 1983.

It specifically works worldwide to demonize the Chinese to advance US interests.

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HOW IT STARTED
The idea of launching such a group was discussed at a NED conference in Washington DC in June 2019.

The proposal was to take inspiration from the successful, decades-long CIA weaponization of Tibet, but apply it to other Chinese groups, such as the Uyghurs and Hong Kong people.

The CIA Tibet exile plot had grown through the 1950s and 1960s with Washington / Langley spending millions on setting up and financing a “Tibet government in exile” operation in India.

It ebbed and flowed, and eventually survived as a global network of US-friendly parliamentarians around the world exploiting Tibet as a weapon against China.

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DALAI LAMA SPEAKS OUT

But the fake Tibet narrative faltered badly when the Dalai Lama got into the habit of saying, correctly, that Tibet was legally part of China and should stay that way. (He still says this.)

Furthermore, it became obvious that Tibetans in China were healthier, wealthier and better educated than the descendants of their CIA-sponsored cousins in India.

Nevertheless, the then leader of the NED, Carl Gershman, pushed to launch a new operation of global parliamentarians demonizing China, but exploiting Uyghurs rather than Tibetans.

The following summer, 2020, IPAC was launched with a UK base, followed by a Japan offshoot. It then signed up politicians in multiple countries, including New Zealand.

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NO U.S. FLAGS

IPAC was positioned as a global body which just happened to share the US’s love of weaponizing human rights against China.

No US flags, no Washington address.

But this was misleading. Funding was from NED, plus NED’s funding partner George Soros, plus a US group in Washington-controlled Taiwan.

In other words, it was as American as Apple Pie, insider trading, global political regime-change operations, and reds-under-the-beds demonization of “commie regimes”.

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OPERATIONS FLOP
The initial focus was to beef up the Uyghur genocide hoax, for which the groundwork had already been laid.

When that flopped badly (the Uyghur minority grew more rapidly than other ethnic groups), this was switched to the Uyghur slave labor hoax. This broadened to general demonization of the Chinese using all the Washington narratives -- they wrecked Xinjiang, they wrecked Hong Kong, they're trying to take over the world.

But IPAC’s cash stream from the US in recent years has been uneven – causing boss Luke de Pulford to turn money-raiser, by broadening its sponsor group, and making regular appeals for cash.

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MORE CHALLENGES
But there are bigger troubles ahead. The whole premise that China is uniquely bad in human rights is now seen as not just absurd but willfully unfair.

As US author Kyle Ferrana said in a 2024 book: “Western NGOs, ostensibly concerned with human rights, disproportion­ately focused on alleged violations in China despite much worse abuses occurring elsewhere in the world.”

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PEOPLE WAKING UP
Then there's the fact that many people now know about the NED and what it does.

Also problematic is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have visited China, including Xinjiang and Hong Kong, and seen the truth for themselves. These are not smoldering ruins but thriving, safe communities. Western countries can learn from them.

Today, the whole premise of the US financing a global hate-farm demonizing a single country seems deeply unfair.

Worse still (from IPAC’s point of view), Donald Trump’s 2027 proposed budget includes the total defunding of the NED.

Anyone who believes in fairness and decency for all peoples, including the Chinese, will be happy to see it go.

[Shenzhen Channel @sz_mediagroup]

At Shenzhen International Museum of Art, Chinese characters are getting a playful new life. ✏️
At Xu Bing's "Word Playgrounds"(字在乐园), visitors can explore invented scripts,emoji-based storytelling and hands-on art made from everyday materials.
It is more than an exhibition — it is an interactive journey into how words can cross cultures and spark imagination.
Ready to rethink what a Chinese character can be?

Exhibition: Word Playgrounds by Xu Bing
Dates: May 30, 2026 – April 30, 2027
Address: No.16 Guanghui Avenue, Guangming District, Shenzhen
Gallery: 5F

@MuseumsChina @Shenzhen_style @MetaGuangdong @TripInChina

[Nik Stankovic @nikstankovic_]

BTW, this leads to some unexpected consequences.

For example, "undemocratic" police in China are far less aggressive and violent than police in the West, especially in the US, but even compared to Europe. Police in China are also far more interested in resolving the issue without arrests and courts, and if more than one side in a civilian brawl is involved, police will facilitate some sort of agreeable cash settlement between the two sides rather than file reports and let the courts settle it.

Why?

Because the CPC does not want to provoke instability and lengthy cases. When push comes to shove, Chinese police will use force, of course, but the training is to always DE-ESCALATE the situation, unlike, for example, American police, who are (apparently) trained to escalate everything, including traffic stops, because they have escalation dominance (guns and license to kill).

When you complain about police violence in the US, some Americans will say all you have to do is comply. Why should you not comply to Chinese police? Because CCP has no legitimacy because it doesn't have multiparty elections.

Somewhere in between, majority of the people just want to go to work and pay their bills and raise their kids in peace. Which they get in China, and increasingly do not in the US.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

«مَن كَفَّ غَضَبَهُ عَنِ النّاسِ كَفَّ اللّهُ عَنْهُ غَضَبَهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ»
میلاد اسوه صبر و تحمل، امام موسی کاظم علیه السلام یادآور این است که جامعه با خشم، پرخاش و دوقطبی‌سازی پیش نمی‌رود. امروز بیش از هر زمان به مدارا، گفت‌وگو، تحمل تفاوت‌ها، همبستگی و همکاری نیاز داریم.

[China Perspective @China_Fact]

China’s Original Burger Tongguan Roujiamo ,Now Made at Scale 🇨🇳🍔

From traditional handcrafting to modern production lines, Tongguan Roujiamo is bringing a centuries-old flavor to more people than ever.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Many asked where the road is. It's in Lanying Grand Canyon (Asia’s deepest valley) in Chongqing, China.

Starting in 2001, villagers spent 4 years and 3 months — using only steel drills and sledgehammers — carving a road across sheer cliffs over 1,000 meters high.

Before this road, a tiny village of 50+ families was completely trapped. To go to school, see a doctor, or visit relatives, villagers had to climb nearly a kilometer of vertical rock face.

So in 2001, the village Party secretary called a meeting around a campfire. His bold idea: raise their own money and carve a road through the cliff. Every villager said yes. Men, women, the elderly, and children worked day and night.

That’s how a hand-carved sky road ended their isolation forever. @elonmusk

[QiaoKeLi "Chocolate" @facoph]

@TheGrayzoneNews @KitKlarenberg This is regime change conducted by financial and informational means. It follows the same pattern documented in Yugoslavia (2000), Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004 and 2014), Kyrgyzstan (2005), Iran (2009), Tunisia (2011), and Cambodia (2024).

The pattern is the argument.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The "exceptional nation" does not join the International Criminal Court.

Because the court is for nations that might be criminal.

The "exceptional nation" does not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Because conventions are for nations that need external accountability.

The "exceptional nation" passes legislation authorizing military invasion of The Hague if any American is ever brought before it.

This law is called, without irony, the American Servicemembers' Protection Act.

Protection.

From accountability.

And this causes no crisis of belief among the true believers.

Because the court was for other countries.

Justice was always for other countries.

They were always the ones who got to define it.

[Iran in Ghana @IRAN_GHANA]

Tonight at 1:30 AM (Tehran time), four tankers attempted to illegally exit the Strait of Hormuz under US misguidance. One was struck and stopped. Three turned back.
The US responded by hitting two telecom towers with drones in Qeshm.
We responded by striking two US air bases and what remains of the Fifth Fleet — if anything — with ballistic missiles.

Try us again. Next time, Hormuz shuts completely. And you will have no one to blame but yourselves.
So don't wake what you can't put back to sleep!

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

"There are certain broad features of the traditional Chinese civilization which give it its distinctive character. I should be inclined to select as the most important: (1) The use of ideograms instead of an alphabet in writing; (2) The substitution of the Confucian ethic for religion among the educated classes; (3) government by literati chosen by examination instead of by a hereditary aristocracy. ...the three characteristics which I have enumerated distinguish China from all other countries of past times."

Bertrand Russell’s "The Problem of China" 1921

Russell was a sympathetic and prescient commentator on China. He accurately predicted that China will be able to educate its masses, industrialize and emerge as a colossus on the world stage while retaining its civilizational identity.

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

I aways find it odd that some in the West keep using the Tiananmen insurrection of 1989, as a gotcha moment.

It was literally the least successful color revolution of the 1980s. All the other ones in Eastern Europe and USSR worked.

The Tiananmen insurrection had almost zero impact on the Chinese economy or geopolitical standing, the economic boom of the 1990s happened regardless of the CIA backed color revolution attempt.

In fact, it was such a victory for China, that we've eradicated all the openly pro-West traitors in our government and "intelligentsia". Paving the way for a much more unified and prosperous China that you see today.

For that, we thank the brave PLA soldiers who saved our republic from traitors within.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Their crimes are always mistakes.

This word is doing extraordinary work.

A mistake is when you miscalculate.

When you act in good faith and the outcome is bad.

Three million dead in Vietnam: mistake.

A million dead in Iraq based on fabricated intelligence: mistake.

Decades of funding death squads across Latin America: mistake. Or complicated. Or a different time.

The word "mistake" contains an entire theology.

It preserves the intention.

It says: we meant well, it went wrong, we are still the people who mean well.

The alternative word, "crime," does something the theology cannot survive.

Crime implies a perpetrator.

Crime implies a victim with standing.

Crime implies accountability.

So it is never a crime.

It is always a mistake.

Always.

Across every administration. Every decade. Every continent.

The most consistent mistake-makers in modern history.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

I wonder if the incredible intelligence of the jumping spider is somehow related to its spectacular vision. Backing up now the jumping spider has four pairs of eyes. Three detect movement almost in a 360 degree coverage, and the front pair has two lenses and tube-shaped eye with a multilayered retina that can be aimed and even twisted (purpose still unclear to science).

These little guys with brains the size of poppyseeds outperform pigeons in cognitive tasks. When the experimenters switch the color code of sweet vs sour liquids it takes them one trial to figure out the new color code while force of habit mean pigeons would keep getting it wrong even though their brains are millions of times larger. And it’s proven by science that they recognize other jumping spiders as individuals. Anecdotally jumping spider owners say their spiders recognize them.

They don’t have that many neurons tho! Like 100,000 so how is this possible? Anyhow…ladies and gentlemen…the jumping spider!

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

Once a heavily polluted urban inner lake shunned by residents, Xiamen's Yundang Lake has undergone an ecological restoration spanning over three decades. Find out how a continuous, evolving long-term strategy that puts ecology and people first has turned a severe crisis into a living global model of sustainable urban growth.

[China Perspective @China_Fact]

China is a model of minority cultural and linguistic preservation.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

The US is controlled by US-based corporations Americans themselves fund daily by buying their goods and services.

Without US funding/arms/political and military support, Israel would dry up and blow away overnight. Israel was created by and exists as an extension of US empire.

A fake country smaller than New Jersey and with a population smaller than NYC - literally waiting in the middle of its various genocides and wars for additional US bomb deliveries - doesn't "control" the US.

Israel didn't "corrupt" the US - the US was never anything wholesome to begin with.

The US began as an extension of the British Empire then immediately began pursuing its own empire - built first over the land and bodies of indigenous American people - then across the Pacific, and now in wars spanning the entire globe.

If you can't see this - maybe you aren't intelligent enough to grasp reality and that is genuinely sad - but it is also possible you are just living in denial.

No one wants to admit they are the bad guys - but you are - so deal with it.

And before you say, "well, Jews run all our corporations," just take 3 seconds to actually look up which ethnicity and religion makes up the vast majority of US-based corporate leadership, shareholders, and board members (but only if you're ready to be disappointed by the answer).

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Fun fact about Cai Qi: before making it to the top of the central government, he was one of the only senior Chinese officials who was a genuine social media influencer.

As a senior official in Zhejiang province, he was posting on Tencent Weibo and had over 10 million followers.

Many of his posts are very famous in China. For instance a mother once complained on Weibo that her son, who worked at a tax bureau, kept being forced to drink with his superiors. Cai Qi publicly replied: "Tell me which tax office your son works at? From now on he won't have to drink." (https://t.co/zHxj0u5Eto)

He posted 9,278 times in under four years (starting in May 2010). He insisted every single post was self-written and original, because it had become "part of the joy of life."

Interestingly, his posts have since been compiled into a book titled "The Glass House" (玻璃房) - a nod to his line that officials should learn to work inside a glass box, open to scrutiny.

He is also one of the only CPC officials in history to have benefited from a "three-level jump" promotion: at the 2017 Party Congress he leapt straight to the Politburo despite not being even an alternate Central Committee member, something which is extremely rare.

Like many senior Party officials his age, he started off as a peasant, farming in his native rural Fujian before university. He has a PhD in economics from Fujian Normal University.

[Chunyu 春雨 @Chunyu_China]

当青花瓷活过来跳舞！每一片裙摆都在讲东方故事～这才是刻在DNA里的美啊！

[Zhai Xiang @ZhaiXiang5]

https://t.co/r20htEhGpO
1,800 years ago, one of the most dazzling young heroes in Chinese history died at the age of 25.

His name was Sun Ce (孙策).

At the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, on the eve of the Three Kingdoms age, he started with only a few thousand men in his early twenties. In just four years, he swept across the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, defeated multiple warlords, and married one of the most celebrated beauties of his era, Da Qiao (大乔).

In China, he was remembered almost as an Alexander-like figure: young, heroic, astonishingly fast in expansion, yet cut down by an extremely short fate.

Shown in the upper left is a gilded Wu Zhu coin unearthed from a tomb many scholars believe may be his true resting place. It is already damaged, but it brings us back to that age of heroes, war, love, and power.

His resting place is generally believed to be in Suzhou, a city adjacent to Shanghai. There is a site in Suzhou that has long been identified as his tomb, and for years young people from all over China went there to leave flowers. But archaeological excavations conducted there 40 years ago showed that the objects inside the tomb dated to a period far earlier than Sun Ce's lifetime.

Then, about ten years ago, during construction work in Suzhou, a family tomb was discovered beneath an earthen mound next to a residential compound. Today, most scholars, myself included, believe this is his true resting place.

Tomb No. 1 covers more than 60 square meters and consists of a front chamber, a rear chamber, and two side chambers, an unusually large and elaborate tomb for that period. Tomb No. 2 beside it was well preserved because it had never been looted. Among the artifacts unearthed there was a heart-shaped hairpin and a gold ornament in the shape of a pair of lovebirds.

In traditional Chinese culture, such paired birds symbolize a love in which two lives depend on each other and remain inseparable even in death. The tomb occupant, who I think is Da Qiao, wore gold rings on every finger, offering a glimpse of her refined life, and of the care and affection she may have received from her husband.

Today, the tomb chamber has been relocated in its entirety to the Suzhou Archaeological Museum, where it has become the museum's largest exhibit. Its tomb bricks are richly varied, decorated with geometric patterns, coin motifs, and auspicious words such as "Great Fortune (大吉)."

Standing before them, we see not only death, but a life that still seems to pulse: the longing for wealth, the prayers for good fortune, the pursuit of beauty, and, even in an age of chaos, the stubborn human desire to live well.

A single gilded Wu Zhu coin, of course, cannot speak for Sun Ce, certainly.

But it allows us to see the light of his age: war, love, power, wealth, and the unfinished dream of a young hero who died at 25.

Sun Ce flashed across history like a meteor. And this coin is like a trace of golden light left behind after that meteor fell.