History Is Watching Japan, 80 Years Later 👇
🇨🇳📸 A French man named Marcus recently donated 618 original WWII photos to China, exposing brutal Japanese war crimes during the Battle of Shanghai many taken by his own grandfather. Some still have blood stains. This isn’t propaganda. It’s documented history.
These images, now permanently preserved at the Songhu Memorial Museum, offer a chilling, undeniable glimpse into the horrors inflicted by the invading Japanese army massacres of civilians, bombings, suffering. And yet, Japan still refuses to fully admit its crimes.
Meanwhile, two powerful Chinese films are shaking audiences:
🎞 Dead to Rights (just released)
🎞 Unit 731 (coming soon)
Both based on true accounts, international donations and even Japanese citizens’ reflections. The aim? Memory, justice, truth.
2025 marks 80 years since the victory over fascism. As Japan debates whether to finally acknowledge its wartime atrocities, the world is watching.
Some Japanese politicians support a public apology. Others, shockingly, still resist. The pain of East Asia is not something to bury.
🔁 Retelling history is not about blame. It’s about honouring victims, facing truth and never repeating it.
China isn’t asking for much, just acknowledgment and respect for the truth.
China won't even give you a glance. This is an internal affair. Even if you gather all the Japanese people on the streets to protest, China won't give you a second look.
【Follow-up on Gansu Tianshui Kindergarten Lead Poisoning Incident: Parents Block Roads in Protest, Police Beat and Detain Protesters】
On the evening of July 20, parents of children from Hexi Peixin Kindergarten in Maiji District, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, launched a protest, blocking Chengji Avenue East to oppose the police’s beating and detention of fellow protesting parents. Earlier that day, two parents were beaten and taken away by police after protesting against the government’s alleged tampering with test results and coercing parents into signing agreements, sparking widespread outrage among families.
On the same day, Gansu authorities released an official report on the lead poisoning incident. The report stated that in order to make the food more visually appealing, the kindergarten’s principal Zhu Moulin and investor Li Moufang instructed kitchen staff to illegally add inedible toxic pigments to children’s meals over a long period, resulting in severe lead poisoning among both children and staff, with dangerously high levels of lead detected in the food. So far, six individuals have been arrested and 17 others placed under investigation.
@LeisRealTalk You should really go to China and see how the people there are doing, listen to their evaluations of the government, rather than relying on inherent biases to make a mess.
Are you acting dumb, or actually retarded? There is no legal entity called Taiwan, it’s the Republic of China. Both the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China legally admit that Taiwan (island) is a province of China.
Stop being an obnoxious liar.
This would be an absolute bombshell if it happened, BUT given 1) Trump's previous declarations on Gaza, 2) the strength of the Israel lobby in US politics, 3) the administration's efforts to silence any criticism of Israel and 4) the history of US involvement in the conflict, it's pretty much impossible to believe that a deal that isn't singularly one-sided in favor of Israel could possibly be implemented.
But who knows? Trump is nothing if not unpredictable.
Chinese tech giant Huawei on Thursday unveiled the first computer equipped with its self-developed HarmonyOS 5 operating system, marking a significant breakthrough for domestic PC operating systems.
Video: A teacher performs "magic" in class, making "flowers" fly above a student's head. Netizens commented that this kind of physics class is amazing!
This is big. I think we're reaching the stage where we can confidently say that China defeated the U.S. semiconductors sanctions.
Alibaba just announced that they've "developed Al training techniques using Chinese-made semiconductors" where they "achieved results comparable to Nvidia's H800 chips" and "reduce costs by 20%."
Which is exactly what the semiconductors export controls sought to prevent, according to multiple statements by U.S. officials.
INSANE VIDEO: Watch The Man Most Responsible For The Worst Fires In California History— Gavin Newsom— Claim That He Has Now Launched An Investigation To Find Out Who's Guilty
When All He Has To Do Is Look In The Mirror
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I know it's always a little too easy and smug to say "this other country does a better job", especially in the midst of a disaster, but looking at how the U.S. handles disasters vs China - consistently, not just the current LA fires - is actually so illustrative of where both societies respectively stand today.
At heart, this is about all unity vs division. In China, disasters are always taken as occasions for displaying and reinforcing social cohesion: "we collectively face this issue, we'll mass mobilize to overcome it, we the people acting as one can tackle any challenge."
The 2022 Chongqing fires were a great example of this. The fires raged under conditions that were arguably even more difficult than in LA, with the fire spanning 3 kilometers in width at a high elevation with no readily available water sources or paved roads to reach the fire. The response was an extraordinary coordination between state and society: firefighting teams from multiple provinces worked alongside tens of thousands of local volunteers who formed human chains up the mountains' 60-degree slopes to pass equipment hand-by-hand. Motocross riders (with no paved roads, only motocross could reach the fire) formed supply chains up narrow mountain paths. Using tactics like controlled burning ('fighting fire with fire'), the collective efforts managed to contain the blaze in just eight days despite temperatures above 40°C (104°F).
What made the response particularly remarkable was its whole of society nature. When engineers needed to rapidly cut a 10-kilometer firebreak through dense forest to protect the mountain's core, they worked around the clock alongside volunteers who helped clear trees with chainsaws, student volunteers who passed water bottles up the slopes, and local restaurants that shut down normal operations to cook free meals for firefighters and volunteers. The state provided the command structure and professional core, but it was the spontaneous mobilization of society - from high school kids to 95-year-old villagers cooking for firefighters - that gave the response its overwhelming force. And the whole of China was cheering the efforts live on social media, sharing encouragement and shouting "come on!" ("雄起!") to the people on the ground. When the fires were finally contained, it wasn't seen as a disaster anymore but as a story of collective triumph that reinforced what "China" meant in people's mind.
The contrast with what we're witnessing in LA couldn't be starker. Rather than unifying society, the fires have become yet another battlefield in America's culture wars. The right blames DEI initiatives and female leadership in the fire department. The left points to climate change denialism or billionaires' water usage. Some of it is probably right but the end result is that a society that could be pulling together in crisis is instead tearing itself apart over competing narratives of blame, even as the fires continue to burn.
This isn't just about the LA fires - it's become a pattern in how America handles disasters, or just about any issue they collectively face nowadays. The issue isn't a lack of means - it's very much that American society as a collective has apparently ceased to exist: they all hate each other so much that the machinery of collective action has completely broken down, and even basic disaster response becomes paralyzed as everyone scrambles to fit the crisis into their preferred narrative of blame.
Some will say it was always this way: the 'united' states never was. But I don't think so. Just remember 9-11 for instance: not that long ago, Americans could still come together in crisis. Granted, the collective response that ensued was insanely destructive and actually did much to shape the divided U.S. that we see today. But at least the basic machinery of collective action still functioned - for better or worse (turned out to be very much for worse) people could still perceive a common threat, feel common purpose, and act as one society.
What's changed isn't America's political divisions - those have always existed - but rather the complete breakdown of any shared reality that could transcend those divisions even momentarily in times of crisis. All resulting in the actual work of disaster response becoming almost impossible as every decision drowns in this flood of competing blame narratives.
All in all, at the risk of stating the obvious, this all shows that American society is not only in deep trouble: it is no more. This isn't a problem that can be fixed with more funding or better technology: the issue is that the social machinery for converting those resources into collective action has broken down. And, as we're seeing with these LA fires, instead of strengthening society as it does in China, each crisis only serves to tear American society further apart. When a society reaches the point where it prefers scoring ideological points to saving the lives of its own citizens, it's ceased to function in any meaningful sense.
It’s so hilarious that @JesseBWatters thinks everyone else in the world wants to be American citizens and even consider it a “privilege” to be taken over by the U.S.🇺🇸
Seriously, what a delusional world do they live in?
This is insane: China is working on building a 1km wide space solar power station orbiting the earth that'll generate as much energy as the Three Gorges dam and transmit it back to earth via microwaves.
https://t.co/daQcEB84v4
The sheer shamelessness of this, launching a probe into "anticompetitive measures by China to support its semiconductor industry" from the very same administration that used all the tools in the US's toolbox to kill China's semiconductors industry and to subsidize its own.
The West always says that China's economy is collapsing and Chinese people are no longer keen to consume.
Meanwhile, this is a shopping center in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province over the weekend.
Chinese car vs German car speed bump test.
Chinese NIO ET9 (grey) vs German Mercedes Maybach (black).
With the rise of Chinese car makers, the automotive industry, which is a pillar industry for many advanced economies, will see a seismic shift in where the profits go; China.
The West, with a less competitive and increasingly shrinking high end manufacturing sector, will see their countries unable to maintain the current standard of living.
The reason why mundane service sector jobs in the West earns more than in China, are not because of their proficiency in greeting people and carrying plates of food.
It's all supported by pillar manufacturing industries like the automotive industry.
When you take that away, everything else goes.
Many don’t know this.
The PLA may change its name after the liberation of Taiwan. Their historic role to finish the Chinese civil war will be complete.
GLA Global Liberation Army is a great new name.
Once we become a space fairing civilization the G will be changed to Galactic