Supporting Ukraine in any way possible. Have a clear understanding of the war from 10000 contacts including political and front line. Open for media interviews
@vonderleyen Our sanctions are weak primarily because you are sanctioning the primes but in too many cases not their providers. These can then import to Russia with impunity and then pass the parts etc to the Prime who can then make the weapons Putin wants.
JUST IN: Germany’s Chancellor Merz flew to Hangzhou today to visit Unitree Robotics, the company whose kung fu robots just broke the internet in front of 1 billion viewers.
This is not a tech story. This is the moment the West realized it already lost the humanoid race.
Ten days ago, dozens of Unitree G1 robots performed the world’s first fully autonomous martial arts swarm performance on live television. Backflips reaching 3 meters. Nunchucks. Drunken Fist. Swordplay at 3 meters per second. Not a single robot faltered. The G1 has 43 degrees of freedom, 90% motion-learning accuracy, and costs $16,000.
You can buy one today.
Tesla’s Optimus cannot do a backflip. Cannot run. Moves at 8 km/h. Is not for sale. On Tesla’s own Q4 2025 earnings call, Musk admitted Optimus is “still very much in the R&D phase” doing no useful work inside Tesla’s own factories. Commercial sales: 2027 at the earliest.
Now absorb this number: Chinese companies shipped 90% of all humanoid robots sold globally in 2025. Unitree: 5,500 units. Agibot: 5,168 units. Tesla failed to hit its own 5,000 unit target. China now has over 140 domestic humanoid manufacturers with 330+ models. Morgan Stanley just raised its 2026 China forecast to 28,000 units shipped, up 133% year over year.
Musk himself said it at Davos: “China is very good at AI, very good at manufacturing, and will definitely be the toughest competition for Tesla. We don’t see any significant competitors outside of China.”
The man who was supposed to own this market just told you he already doesn’t.
This is the EV playbook executing in real time. State support. Aggressive pricing. Local supply chains. Mass deployment creating feedback loops that accelerate iteration faster than any closed-loop Western R&D lab. Unitree targets 20,000 shipments this year. Its valuation hit 12 billion yuan after last year’s Gala alone.
And now Europe’s most powerful industrial leader arrives in Hangzhou with VW, BMW, and Mercedes CEOs, visits Unitree’s HQ alongside DeepSeek and Alibaba, while Germany’s trade deficit with China sits at a record 89 billion euros. The body language of that visit tells you everything the earnings calls won’t.
The humanoid market hits $38 billion by 2035. $5 trillion by 2050. China is not competing for this market. China IS the market.
Falsifier: If Tesla ships commercially and captures 20%+ global share by end of 2027, the dominance thesis breaks. Watch Fremont factory conversion as the leading indicator.
The physical intelligence revolution already aired to 1 billion people from Beijing. Silicon Valley is still rehearsing.
President @realDonaldTrump's peace initiative has gained new momentum. A 28-point peace plan is on the table, an American negotiating delegation is in Kyiv, and expectations are high worldwide. The American President is a persistent maverick. If he had been President at the time, the war would never have broken out. It is clear that once he sets his mind on something, he does not let it go, and he has certainly set his mind on ending the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Meanwhile, in Brussels, they have lost the plot once again. While Washington is negotiating peace, the President of the Commission is busy figuring out how to secure even more money for Ukraine and for financing the war.
We Hungarians will have a word or two to say about this. The moment of truth is upon us. More precisely, it is upon the Brusselian leadership.