Matt Hodel

[Michelle @D162Michele]

Why shouldn’t China’s government control their own military?
This must be a strange concept for US vassal states as they are controlled by America!!

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The AI world is being reduced to two tribal labels:

China AI = open AI = authoritarian AI.
U.S. AI = closed AI = democratic AI.

The absurdity is almost perfect.

China offers open weights, local deployment, lower costs, and greater technological autonomy—and this is called “authoritarian influence.”

American corporations keep the models closed, control the infrastructure, set the prices, rewrite the rules, and can revoke access at any time—and this is marketed as “democratic AI.”

In this new theology, openness becomes authoritarianism, while corporate monopoly becomes freedom.

The argument is no longer about what the technology does.

It is about who is permitted to define the rules.

“Democratic AI” apparently means intelligence owned by American companies.
“Authoritarian AI” means intelligence the rest of the world can actually possess.

[China Perspective @China_Fact]

Wang Ji, a researcher and professor at China’s National University of Defense Technology, entered the university before turning 14 and became a professor at 33.

After losing both legs following a life-threatening illness and undergoing more than 700 dialysis treatments, he continued his research.

“As long as my mind still works and my hands can still move, I will not stop,” Wang said.

[DaiWW @BeijingDai]

Lukashenko has a clear understanding of China:

"I often tell my friends: the most striking thing about China is its composure. It never rushes, never overreacts, and never overplays its hand. It just keeps moving forward, step by step, toward its goals. 'Composure'—those four syllables sound simple enough, but they're incredibly hard to live by. When someone provokes you on the world stage, smears your name, or shows up at your doorstep with hostile intent, and you still manage to keep your cool and stay focused on your own development—that, to me, is real strength. This isn't diplomatic flattery. It's the conclusion I've drawn after 17 visits to China and decades of watching it closely. Even before the Soviet Union fell, I argued that we should seriously study China's development path."

"Unfortunately, we tore our own country apart—the Soviet Union—and now we're swallowing the bitter consequences: brother fighting brother. I lived through the collapse, and I've witnessed the post-Soviet era with my own eyes. I saw a superpower break into pieces overnight. Thirty years on, some of the former republics have tilted toward the West, others have been consumed by war, and former brothers-in-arms are now killing each other on battlefields. Countless families have been shattered, countless lives lost. Yet here is another great power—facing similar external pressure, dealing with its own internal challenges—and China hasn't lost its footing, hasn't turned on itself, and has simply stayed the course at its own pace."

"Sending my youngest son to study in China wasn't a whim. I'm entrusting my country's future—the hopes of our young people—to a path I genuinely believe in. I know that if you follow a steady hand, you won't fall into a ditch."

[来都来了 @SecondRingSZN]

Western mind cannot understand

[Elaine Xu @ElaineYiningXu]

This post is disgusting. The man was in tears because he would rather see these artifacts in his home country, but they are looted by the British, long before the culture revolution.

[Giokielicious @jokieliu]

Meanwhile in 🇨🇳:

[番茄大叔🇨🇳 @uncleTomat0]

美国人做了一部短片讽刺高温下的法国：先生，你是否藏了一部空调？

[CGTN @CGTNOfficial]

'I knew they would save me': Driver seeks help at military gate #CoolChina

[Matt Hodel @hatt_model]

@shaunrein There's no such thing as Jewish blood anymore than there is such thing as Islamic blood or Christian blood. Your DNA doesn't determine your religious beliefs.

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

Recently, some Indian social media users claimed that they had made a "discovery" that China, like India, supposedly has "a caste system." They shared memes about ancient China's "four occupations" (Shi-Nong-Gong-Shang: scholars, farmers, artisans, merchants) by framing them as equivalent to India's hereditary jati system. Chinese commentators believe the claim reflects the ignorance of some Indian netizens about Chinese historical culture. https://t.co/qpLHiUGTbH

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

#ItsNiu The touching blockbuster Dear You has taken China by storm. Yet since late May, a Singaporean media outlet has published a string of snarky articles. It twists the film into a completely different narrative, claiming it carries political motives related to the so-called "united front work" and is a "psychological warfare" aimed at eroding Chinese Singaporeans' identity. What exactly are they so upset about?

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

Japanese soldiers cutting open a Chinese factory worker's torso to eat his heart and liver. Nanjing, China .

[Dmitriy @InfraDmitriy]

🧵THREAD: How Nazi Germany, not the Soviet Union, committed the Katyn Massacre in 1941.

In 1943, Nazi Germany claimed to have uncovered thousands of corpses of Polish officers near the town of Smolensk, and consequently blamed those deaths on the Soviet Union. In 1944, the Soviet Union released their own report, blaming those deaths on the Germans.

We will demonstrate the evidence, and how it conclusively proves that the Germans were guilty.

Additionally, we will go over some common talking-points used by the pro-Goebbels camp, and analyze them meticulously.

The conclusion, therefore, is inescapable - Nazi Germany murdered those Poles in late 1941, and then cynically blamed the Soviet Union for their own crimes.

[番茄大叔🇨🇳 @uncleTomat0]

1996年，美国总统克林顿访华，北京大学同学向美国总统提出致命问题：

“如果中国向夏威夷出售武器，派军舰进入夏威夷，把夏威夷纳入防御范围，你会同意吗？美国2亿人民同意吗？”

[CGTN @CGTNOfficial]

Can peace be preserved in the Taiwan Strait? A Fudan expert argues yes #ChinaUS

[凌波微步 @linboweibu17]

“主权问题，不能谈判！”，重温邓公这句话，依然令人振奋。

[China Military Bugle @ChinaMilBugle]

Through the Lens:

Facing the dark past, Germany chose atonement, while Japan chose distortion.

A video posted by a Slovak girl reveals how Yasukuni Shrine whitewashes Japan’s history of aggression and breeds neo-militaristic zealots.

#Yasukuni #YasukuniShrine
#Japan #WWII #ClassAWarCriminal
#HistoryWhitewash #HistoricalRevisionism
#NanjingMassacre #PuppetManchukuo
#ChinaMilitary #ChinaMilBugle

[PIC | صـور من التـاريخ @inpic0]

#صورة من عام 1941

جنود يابانيون يقومون بتجربة بيولوجية على طفل صيني أسير عبر رشه بالفيروسات.

الجميع يعرف #هتلر،
لكن القليل يتذكر هيديكي توجو، رئيس وزراء اليابان خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية.

خلال فترة حكمه، ارتكبت اليابان الإمبراطورية مجازر بشعة في جميع أنحاء آسيا، وتُقدّر بعض الدراسات أن عدد الضحايا وصل إلى حوالي 20 مليون إنسان، أغلبهم من الصينيين.

في نانكينغ وحدها عام 1937، قُتل خلال أسابيع حوالي 200 ألف مدني وأسير حرب، وتعرضت عشرات الآلاف من النساء للاغتصاب.

طُعن الناس بالحراب، وأُحرقوا أحياء، ودُفنوا أحياء، بينما أفادت التقارير أن بعض الضباط اليابانيين كانوا يُقيمون مسابقات قتل بالسيوف لمعرفة من يقتل 100 شخص أولًا.

أما الوحدة 731، فكانت واحدة من أبشع منشآت التجارب البشرية في التاريخ.

هذه الوحدة اليابانية خالفت كل الأعراف وتجردت من الإنسانية، وارتكبت جرائم وحشية في دولة باتت تُعرف اليوم بالحضارة والتقدم والمدنية.

قام أفرادها بتشريح أسرى وهم أحياء دون تخدير، وتجميد أطراف أطفال ونساء لمعرفة تأثير الصقيع، وحقن البشر بالكوليرا والطاعون والتيفوئيد، وتجربة القنابل الجرثومية على القرى والمدنيين.

وتقدّر بعض الدراسات أن تجارب الوحدة والهجمات البيولوجية المرتبطة بها تسببت بمقتل مئات الآلاف في #الصين وحدها.

كما أُجبرت عشرات الآلاف من النساء من الصين وكوريا ودول آسيوية أخرى على العمل فيما عُرف باسم “نساء المتعة”، وهو نظام استعباد جنسي للجنود اليابانيين.

بعد الحرب
أُطلق سراح العديد من المسؤولين لأن الولايات المتحدة رأت في اليابان حليفًا مفيدًا ضد السوفييت مع بداية الحرب الباردة.

بل إن واشنطن منحت حصانة لعدد من علماء الوحدة 731 مقابل الحصول على نتائج أبحاثهم وتجاربهم البيولوجية.

وأُعيد تأهيل بعضهم لاحقًا في مجالات السياسة والأعمال والأوساط الأكاديمية والطب.

في غضون ذلك، أصبحت ألمانيا رمزًا عالميًا للشر، بينما أصبحت اليابان “ضحايا القصف النووي ”، ثم تحولت لاحقًا إلى موطن للأنمي والسوشي ونينتندو وهيلو كيتي.

هذا ما حدث فعلاً ..

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Taiwan is China.

If I am president of the Republic, France will never go to war with China.