John Helm

We live in a 250 year old Empire that won't see 300.
No dms.

[John Helm @johnhelm2006]

I'm not quitting, but realistically, we're not going to make it. We just had a primary election, and it's shocking how many people still believe we can vote our way out of this mess. When has electing any party stopped the wars? Which party has stops our lives from getting worse?

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

Once the world's fourth-largest lake, #AralSea has lost more than 90 percent of its surface area since the 1960s, leaving behind vast salt deserts between #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan.
Today, Chinese scientists and their Central Asian partners are working together to restore the region's fragile ecosystem, bringing new technologies and new hope to the "Tear of Central Asia."

[Simiao Lin🇨🇳🟩☫🟥 @SimiaoLin]

اخیراً یک رستوران کوچک در شهر خُتَن، در منطقه خودمختار ایغور شین‌جیانگ در شمال چین، در فضای مجازی این کشور حسابی معروف شده – نه به خاطر غذا، بلکه به خاطر صاحبش!
این آقای اویغور هر روز جلوی رستورانش رقص سنتی «بشقاب» را اجرا می‌کند: بشقاب‌ها را به شکلی ماهرانه به هوا پرت می‌کند و دوباره آنها را می‌گیرد.
البته همیشه هم موفق نیست – گاهی بشقاب روی پشت بام می افتند و گاهی هم روی زمین خرد می شوند. ولی همین اشتباه‌های کوچک، شور و اشتیاقش را بیشتر می‌کند و توریست‌های بیشتری را به تماشا می‌کشاند.
کاربران چینی به شوخی می گویند: این آقا غذاخوری نزده، بلکه به دنبال بهانه‌ای برای نشان دادن مهارت خود در رقصیدن است! عشق واقعی‌اش رقص است و بس! 🎭

📌 لایک و شیر کنید تا بقیه هم با این عموی شاد و پرانرژی آشنا بِشَن 😄
#PlateDance #Uyghur #Xinjiang #China #LivingCulture

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳Look at this sweet moment on a Chinese train! The little kid almost took a fall while walking down the aisle, and everyone nearby instinctively held out their hands to catch the child.

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

An 85-year-old man carrying 22,000 yuan (over $3,200) lost his way en route to the bank.
Disoriented, he was unable to remember his address or details about his family.
A kind stranger sent him to a nearby subway station. Staff gave him food and kept him company until police found his daughter. #kindness #everydayhero #heartwarming #China

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

The Monster of Revisionism vs. The Facts
FYI: Reports say the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Japan plans to replace the term "Nanjing Massacre" with "Nanjing Incident." But the Nanjing Massacre was a brutal crime committed by Japanese militarism, supported by irrefutable evidence. History must not be distorted.
#Japan #NeoMilitarism #History

[John Helm @johnhelm2006]

@ForeignAffairs @amanda_hsiao @BonnieGlaser Yep. 2072 is right around the corner. The Evil Empire will collapse, leaving nothing to slow reunification.
https://t.co/WBUXjT3Ebf

[John Helm @johnhelm2006]

@AndyBxxx Yep. 2072 is right around the corner.
https://t.co/WBUXjT3Ebf

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

Aunty Bonnie has finally said something somewhat accurate.

A military takeover of Taiwan Island is definitely NOT imminent or inevitable.

⚠️ ALL of China's leaders since the 1950s have stressed the ultimate goal of PEACEFUL reunification.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

This is the funniest part:
Western powers themselves no longer dare to openly talk about carving up China.
But their dogs are barking louder than their masters.

Japan, a defeated former invader still living under an American military leash, now wants to play maritime architect around Taiwan with the Philippines.

They think they can negotiate maritime boundaries around Taiwan as if China is still some broken Qing dynasty waiting to be sliced up on a colonial map.

Beijing just sent the message:
We don’t need to ask who owns the leash anymore.
If the dog barks at China’s door, China deals with the dog.

[John Helm @johnhelm2006]

@mother_sbrother @DD_Geopolitics 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇷🇺 Dmitry Peskov on Zelensky's letter:

"Zelensky's open letter to Putin was shown to him in accordance with established procedures. We're bureaucrats, we do everything in accordance with established procedures. If Zelensky wanted to send a letter to Putin, he could have just done it, rather than announcing it publicly. If you want to send a letter - send it. If you use a megaphone - don't call it a letter.

Putin mentioned at the SPIEF that attempts to constantly portray oneself as "Rambo: First Blood" are not always appropriate. Zelensky doesn't resemble Rambo, he wants to, but he doesn't."

[whitemonkey1 @babywhitemonkey]

PUBG victory dance

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Q: What legal authority did the Pentagon invoke to strike that boat?

Sec. DOD Hegseth: We have absolute and complete authority. (2025)

Fact-check: This is not a legal argument.

[Prof. Dr. Cristina Vanberghen @VanberghenEU]

China, in Xi’an, at a railway station so ordinary that nobody would ever think to write about it, a ticket clerk paused for a moment and told me: “Be careful, the water is hot.”

I showed my passport many times. And honestly, I preferred that inconvenience to the alternative of never showing a passport but constantly looking over my shoulder in the street. Grand speeches about freedom mean little if people do not feel safe in their daily lives.

I love Europe far too much to pretend that everything is fine. We spend endless hours debating the future, drafting strategies, and discussing values, while too often neglecting the simple things that make a society work: attention, responsibility, order, and basic civic trust.

Europe needs to regain its sense of direction.

It really does.

[Laurent Michelon Officiel @LH_86_]

L'affaire à laquelle fait référence @karlitozero date de 2025. Il y a eu une nouvelle exécution début 2026. La politique du gouvernement chinois est simple : Tolérance Zéro.

Petit détail : ils n'ont pas été pendus, cela n'est pas une méthode retenue en Chine pour exécuter les criminels. Injection léthale et peloton d'exécution, mais cela n'est jamais révélé publiquement.

Détail intéressant spécifique à la Chine : une femme reconnue complice de sévices sur une fille de 2 ans menant à sa mort a été récemment exécutée avec son compagnon. Coupables et complices logés à la même enseigne.

La Cour suprême du Peuple a déclaré en 2025 que, tout en luttant contre les délinquants qui abusent de leur position d'autorité pour s'en prendre aux enfants (crèches, écoles, centres aérés, académies sportives pour mineurs, etc.), les tribunaux chinois ont également intensifié leurs efforts contre ceux qui exploitent Internet pour attirer et nuire aux enfants (appelé "digital grooming").

[Camille Moscow 🇷🇺 🌿 ☦️ @camille_moscow]

🇨🇳 La Chine pend les pédophiles. La peur change de camp. C’est simple, efficace, et Karl Zéro a raison : c’est une bonne idée.

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Visa-free is a marvelous and formidable policy against anti-China propaganda.

Previously, people probably might doubt when seeing all that nonsense.

Now, a personal visit shows them just how ridiculous those lies really are.

[Ama Dablam @BananaEcho2]

@japan_nobunaga Sorry the Chinese hurt your feelings, but maybe if your country didn't rape, torture, murder & sexually enslave 300,000 Chinese & then deny/pretend it didn't happen for the next 85 years maybe the Chinese wouldn't be calling your museum out for continuing to lie about it.

[Eivor @Eivor_Koy]

On X you can always see Chinese videos being called “Japanese” and things originated from China being labeled Japanese — sometimes even smeared as “China stole it,” like with Mocha (抹茶).

Here’s the actual story:

Mocha (powdered tea) originated in China during the Tang Dynasty (7th–10th centuries) and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. Tea leaves were steamed, dried, and ground into fine powder, then whisked with hot water in an elegant “pointing tea” style popular among scholars.

Strong evidence comes from China’s Famen Temple (法门寺), a Buddhist temple over 1,700 years old with an underground palace containing undisturbed royal treasures. Among them is one of the earliest known royal tea sets, including a gilt silver tea caddy woven out of metallic yarn (Picture 1), a gilt silver tortoise-shaped tea box (Picture 2), a tea roller-grinder (Picture 3), and a silver stove. As part of the set, a “Tiao Da Zi” (调达子, Picture 4) mixing container was used — in ancient China, tea was prepared like a meal: ground into powder, mixed with spices into a paste, then whisked with hot water.

In the late 12th century, Japanese monk brought the technique and seeds from China. Japan refined it with shading methods and made it central to Zen Buddhism and the tea ceremony, turning it into a symbol of harmony and tranquility. While China later shifted to loose-leaf tea, Japan preserved the powdered form.

Today, Mocha is booming globally as a superfood. China has reclaimed its place as the world’s top producer, with Guizhou Province (especially Jiangkou near Fanjing Mountain) as a major hub — often called China’s “Mocha Capital.” Its misty high-altitude climate is perfect for quality tea, and modern factories have made it a big exporter.

In short: Born in China, popular in Japan, thriving again in China.

[John Helm @johnhelm2006]

@lio_mi44444 @Eivor_Koy Because it's true.
https://t.co/xW7XsNR9Bl