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[The Tweets™ @FTweets789]

@ChineseCultccp AI. Seem india copium has reach AI delusion💀

[The Tweets™ @FTweets789]

@RnaudBertrand @jynpang China has retract from punishing US, at least beating US will harm China too and both are smart to retract.

Europe? I think China retaliation will go until the end as Europe not that shameless as Trump is. Once you shoot, its not ez to face-saving. We'll see how destructive cn's

[yanguoliusheng @szygls]

有消息传出，日本恼羞成怒，中国海警船在琉球海域彰显执法威严，日本提出抗议却毫无作用。

与此同时，台方也慌了神，赶忙派遣巡逻船前来一探究竟。可他们又能做什么呢？不过是喊上几句、拍几张照片，然后只能眼巴巴地看着我方执法船逐一进行检查。

以往，他们自认为掌控着这片海域，如今才明白谁才是真正的主导者。

归根结底，在自家门口制定规则，无需他人认可，若觉得不适应，那就慢慢去适应。面对日本海上保安厅的喊话驱离，以及日本官方所谓侵犯专属经济区的抗议，中方明确回应，这是在中国管辖海域的例行巡逻，并拒绝驶离。真心为中国海警点赞，向中国海警致以崇高敬意。

作为联合国五常之一，中国有责任、有义务维护二战后的国际秩序。

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

For those who want to visit too, this place is called Wangxian Valley (望仙谷) in Shangrao, China.

It was once a granite mining quarry, and has now been transformed through ecological restoration into a very popular tourist destination, famous for its fantasy-like ambiance.

[Derek J. Grossman @DerekJGrossman]

"India’s border push-ins and diplomatic missteps are eroding Bangladesh’s goodwill and threatening South Asia’s most vital bilateral relationship."
https://t.co/xS1VD7JxI0

[trianglestomache @trianglestomac1]

Singapore Gov is supposed to make friends with China for good of Singaporeans,but instead some idiots inside Singapore Gov keep talking negatively about China,so end result is China helping Malaysia+Thailand+Pakistan+Russia+Burma+Iran to fully divert all trade away from Singapore

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🇨🇳🎏 Dragon boats in the rain – China celebrates Duanwu Festival

Sputnik correspondent caught the Duanwu Festival in Beijing's Gubeishuizhen – one of the country's oldest traditions.

The holiday honors Qu Yuan — a poet-statesman exiled by rivals who drowned himself after his kingdom fell.

Thousands of years later, the boats still go out for him.

[🟥🟨🟦⬜️⬛️ @loongshih]

After getting blasted by the tiny minority of Chinese on xitter, Indians now decide to fight the Turks. They really are trying to fight an 8 Nation Alliance...

[hello world @whiteTony99]

马来西亚《东方日报》发文批评了新加坡《联合早报》对《给阿嬷的情书》死缠烂打的行为。
《联合早报》真是莫名其妙，但凡正常人都看不下去。
对于电影本身，在6月11日《东方日报》就曾发表评论文章说：
电影真正动人的地方是它拍出了中国人，尤其是潮汕人精神世界中一种极深的善良与情义。电影上映之日，深信在马来西亚、泰国、新加坡及印尼的乡亲们，潮汕人、福建人、广东人、海南人，必将深切感受到祖辈们下南洋时的艰辛，做个有情有义的人……
此文与《联合早报》那8篇阴阳怪气的文章相比，高下立判。

[Loong of the east @loong_of]

Given Giorgia Meloni's attitude towards China and her trade suppression and exploitation of Chinese companies, I believe neither China nor Trump approves of this pitiful figure.

Italy once had the opportunity to become one of China's most important economic and trade partners in Europe, and China repeatedly helped Italy. However, their ingratitude and the arrogance and hypocrisy of old-fashioned imperialism destroyed everything.

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

It’s irrelevant whether you or I decry or celebrate China’s emergence as the unipole. It is a mathematical certainty. And that is what matters.

[Zephyr @zephyr_z9]

U should follow Teo to learn about the Chinese metal market and export controls
Lots of good tweets on the effects of Chinese export controls
He was the first person to flag what could happen to the Japanese Tungsten carbide cutting tool market

[我是梦嫣❤️ @mengyan1234567]

马来西亚《东方早报》发文批评新加坡《联合早报》对《给阿嬷的情书》死缠烂打的行为。

《联合早报》真是莫名其妙，但凡正常人都看不下去🤷🏻‍♀️

[The Tweets™ @FTweets789]

@MaitreyaBhakal The chinese not wrong tho. Indian might get brownie point in the sense making some chinese mad, but This just reinforce the image of Indian that already exist. Recently Vietnam reject against indian. Its going to expand.
https://t.co/eiBUjVe6oa

[Drunk Journalist @drunkJournalist]

An Indian visitor was ignored by vietnam shopkeepers and refused to sell items to Indians.

[Asia Times @asiatimesonline]

#Indonesia’s #nickel nationalism is colliding with #China’s technology hedge. LFP, sodium-ion batteries and recycling are weakening #Jakarta’s pricing power, turning resource control into an investor-confidence problem. #NickelNationalism

https://t.co/kmKAvnJlTX

[Maya Majueran @MayaMajueran]

The U.S. trade war failed. China's trade with BRI partners now exceeds half its total - $3.39 trillion.

Europe is no longer essential to China's growth. And if Brussels chooses confrontation, Beijing will respond in kind.

[Manju Asura @mandate2049]

Bravo to Vietnamese women.

[William Han @W_T_Han]

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was actually the inciting incident of the most recent iteration of one of those patterns of Chinese history that'd happened at least twice before, catastrophic every time.

The patterns goes: massive rebellion happens -> central gov can't put it down -> so it deputizes local commanders -> they ultimately put down rebellion -> but military command is now decentralized & hard to take back -> local commanders become warlords -> division -> conflagration many yrs later destroys warlords -> reunification.

Han Dynasty in 184 faced Yellow Turbans -> Three Kingdoms -> wars kill maybe 80-90% -> reunification in 280.

Tang Dynasty in 755 faced Anshi Rebellion -> wars kill maybe 2/3 (disputed) -> warlordism of late-Tang -> period of division starting in 907 -> reunification under Song Dynasty starting in 960.

So Taiping -> wars kill 10s of millions -> formation of local armies like Xiang & Huai -> Qing falls in 1911 but warlords -> PRC coming to power in 1949 finally destroys warlordism.

There's nothing new under the sun.

[The Tweets™ @FTweets789]

@BrankoMilan Your view is very western centric influence which is kinda weird. The west vacate it thinking it's dirty.
That's not how China see it. Losing manufacturing is losing your capability. Just look at US, not easy to get it back.

[Ricky Ho @rickyho_1989]

MSCI’s decision to downgrade Indonesia’s information flow criterion to negative may prove more important than many investors currently appreciate. While it does not immediately trigger index changes or forced selling, it strikes at the foundation of what global investors value most: confidence in market integrity and price discovery.

The concerns highlighted by MSCI are structural rather than cyclical. Transparency around beneficial ownership, the ability to accurately determine free float, and signs of coordinated trading behavior all directly affect investors’ ability to assess risk. When investors cannot confidently determine who owns shares, how much stock is genuinely available for trading, or whether market activity reflects fundamental demand, they inevitably demand a higher risk premium.

The immediate impact is unlikely to be large-scale foreign outflows. Most passive funds only react to formal index changes. However, the more significant risk is that global investors gradually become less willing to allocate incremental capital to Indonesia. Lower inflows, reduced liquidity, and weaker valuation multiples can ultimately be more damaging than a one-off selloff.

At present, a downgrade from Emerging Market to Frontier Market remains a tail risk rather than the base case. Consensus appears to place the probability at roughly 10%. Indonesia remains a large economy with substantial market capitalization, an established exchange, and a broad institutional investor base. These factors continue to support its Emerging Market status.

Nevertheless, the fact that MSCI is explicitly highlighting concerns around transparency and market functioning means the risk can no longer be dismissed outright. Index providers tend to focus heavily on accessibility, governance, and market structure. If concerns persist through multiple review cycles without meaningful reforms, the probability of a downgrade could rise materially.

The solution is relatively straightforward in principle, though difficult in execution. Greater transparency around beneficial ownership, stronger free-float verification, enhanced surveillance of unusual trading patterns, and visible enforcement actions against market manipulation would go a long way toward restoring confidence. Investors do not expect perfection, but they do expect transparency, consistency, and credible enforcement.

Ultimately, this is not really a story about index classification. It is a story about investability. The greatest risk is not necessarily that Indonesia loses its Emerging Market status. The greater risk is that global investors increasingly view Indonesia as a market where capital is harder to deploy, risks are harder to assess, and liquidity is less reliable. Once that perception becomes entrenched, rebuilding confidence can take years.

Markets can lose trust very quickly. Rebuilding it is usually a much longer process.