Justin Deng 邓孝彬☮️

Proud Asian/anti-racist/anti-war/anti-imperialism/atheist/read Manufacturing Consent/anti-Corporate Media and propaganda/All workers of the 🌎 UNITE!

[Justin Deng 邓孝彬☮️ @JustinDengTruth]

These are war mongering propaganda from the state media of the Australia that was essentially controlled by the US. #NoWar #Warmongers #manufacturingconsent

[Max Le Blond FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA @Balgowallah]

It's really quite fascinating. There are days when the free, democratic Australian press make North Korean news media look like models of journalistic rectitude.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is extraordinarily rare.

In fact, according to a key figure in the German business community (who is a dear friend of mine), it's unprecedented.

An op-ed, two pages, centerpiece, in Germany’s most important economic newspaper (the Handelsblatt) that begs the German establishment to stop looking at China via the prism of propaganda. And it's by their Shanghai bureau chief - not some outside contributor.

The title is "The China debate cannot continue like this!" and the article makes the case that it's suicidal, from a German and European standpoint, to keep reducing China to false caricatures rather than facts.

In effect it's rubbish in, rubbish out: if you tell people lies about China - whichever direction they go (anti or pro) - then obviously the policies that come out will be rubbish, designed for a mirage of a country that exists only in people's imagination.

Needless to say, this is absolutely music to my ears because it's literally the main point I've been making in my advocacy around China for now almost 10 years. Some are finally seeing the light...

I also believe, as I argued in my article "Are Western media turning China-friendly?" last year (https://t.co/Xg1hoSRtNy) that this type of coverage was bound to happen, and there will be more and more of it.

Why? For a very simple structural reason: China is now too powerful to coerce. The West, and Europe in particular, just don't have the leverage anymore. Which means that if you tell China to do something and they don't want to, they just won't do it. Period.

In this situation, incapable of coercing, your only remaining choice is... convincing. And what do you need if you want to convince someone? Well, you need to understand them: understand how they think, how they behave, what drives them, what they actually want.

In other words: the moment coercion stops being an option, not only does propaganda stop being useful, it begins to be actively harmful as genuine understand becomes a strategic necessity. Reality is finally becoming profitable again.

Which means, if you're a journalist reading this and you're peddling some of your usual lies, describing China as some sort of cartoonish dictatorial dystopia that's simultaneously on the verge of collapse yet a "threat" to the whole world (in short, if you write on China for The Economist or the FT), be on notice: the real threat to your country isn't China. It's you.

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

🇵🇸 BBC confirma lo que muchos ya sabíamos.

La investigación del BBC revela que más de 160 niños palestinos en Gaza fueron disparados deliberadamente en la cabeza por francotiradores israelíes.

Los reportes son claros:
“Los israelíes están cazando niños por entretenimiento.”

Niños ejecutados de un tiro en la cabeza mientras jugaban, caminaban o simplemente estaban en sus casas.

Fue una política sistemática de cazar y matar menores.Esto ya no es solo un genocidio…

Es sadismo puro contra los más inocentes.Que el mundo deje de fingir que no lo sabe.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

There you go: the FT confirms that not only is the NSA using Anthropic's AI "for offensive cyber operations" against "nations such as China or Iran" but Anthropic is actively helping them in that effort.

As per the article, Anthropic "installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide the use of the technology and customise models for specific applications."

It confirms two things. First: the United States is the most aggressive state actor in cyberspace, by far. It offensively infiltrates other nations' networks, and is now supercharging that capability with AI. Heck that is literally one of the core mission statements of the NSA, one of the largest security agencies of the US government.

Second, that Anthropic's carefully cultivated image as the ethical, safety-first AI company that "partners with the church" is a fiction. In reality, it is the most deeply embedded AI company in the US security state. Instead of building guardrails, they're literally weaponizing their own AI inside the NSA.

Src: https://t.co/sWmXvPSUy4

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Jensen Huang says it has “largely conceded” China’s AI chip market to Huawei

Nvidia was not rejected because China “hates” Nvidia.
It was pushed out because Washington turned chips into a leash.

China learned the lesson very clearly:
You cannot build AI sovereignty on hardware that your geopolitical rival can revoke with one export-control memo.

Jensen Huang can be friendly.
Nvidia can be excellent.
Chinese demand can be huge.

None of that changes the strategic reality.

If the neck of China’s AI industry depends on an American-controlled chip supply, then it is not an industry.
It is a hostage.

So China did what any serious civilization-state would do:
It built alternatives.
It endured the pain.
It let Huawei grow into the space Washington forced open.

Now Nvidia says it has “largely conceded” China’s AI chip market to Huawei.

That is not China closing a door.
That is America sawing off the bridge, then acting surprised when China built its own road.

[Justin Deng 邓孝彬☮️ @JustinDengTruth]

@JiaweiShen2568 斧头帮的舞蹈原来源自这里

[Justin Deng 邓孝彬☮️ @JustinDengTruth]

中国有说让委内瑞拉变成中国的南美省份吗？中国有说别的国家是hellhole shithole吗？是哪个国家不把别的国家领导人当人看？

[纽约时报中文网 @nytchinese]

习近平是全球政坛最不透明的人物之一，但与其他世界领导人的会面令外界得以一窥他的形象。
他会毫不掩饰地对实力较弱的领导人进行说教，并摆出中国古代哲人圣君的姿态。
https://t.co/BfW49grHIy

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

They told the whole world to avoid China. Decouple. De-risk. Sanctions. Tariffs. War rhetoric.

Then 12 US capitalists flew to Beijing to beg the Communist Party for deals.

Elon Musk. Top CEOs. Trump himself. All in China. Smiling. Shaking hands. Asking for business.

The same politicians who call China an "evil empire" are now standing in Beijing with their hands out.

Told Africa to stay away from China. Told Europe to cut ties. Told everyone China is a threat.

But when their economy is burning, when their factories are shutting, when their own system is failing, where do they run?

Beijing.

They do not believe their own lies. They just want you to.

Hypocrisy has no borders. But neither does desperation.

[⧉ ☀ @secondposition]

>go to China to film a concentration camp
>it's just a desolate prison and there's no concentration camp
>nothing happens, leaves the country
>go to the free and democratic USA
>get put in a concentration camp

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Every year, this has to be the one report I look forward to the most: the Democracy Perception Index, compiled by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (in partnership with Nita Data).

In fact, my yearly thread on the report is apparently such a tradition that, this year, its lead researcher personally sent me the report with this message: "every year, I look forward to your thread about it!". That's how you start wondering whether you tweet too much 😅

Why do I like this report so much? A few reasons:

1) The Alliance of Democracies Foundation, the organization behind the report, cannot even remotely be suspected of being some sort of anti-West outlet: it was started by an ex-NATO Secretary General (Anders Fogh Rasmussen) and its stated purpose is "to unite world democracies"

2) It's surprisingly honest and the methodology is actually democratic. Unlike other reports on democracy the scoring isn't done by the report's authors (like the report by Freedom House or The Economist's "Democracy Index"). It simply asks people what they think and, when it comes to democracy, that's kind of the point 🤷‍♂️

3) I love the expression "perception is reality" because, like it or not, what people believe about their system is what determines its legitimacy. A democracy that nobody actually experiences as one can't credibly claim to be one. And conversely, a so-called "autocracy" that its people overwhelmingly believe is actually a democracy might... actually be a democracy.

Anyhow, this year's edition did not disappoint. The data is absolutely fascinating and frankly, a little terrifying. So here you go: my thread on the 2026 Democracy Perception Index 🧵

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

These students at Towson University in Maryland who confronted an Israeli soldier speaking at their school are heroes:

“You’re a terrorist, bro. Get off my campus!”

“We’re not paying $30,000 a year in tuition to have a terrorist here.”

[紀春生 @ji_chunsheng]

74岁的法国左翼民粹政客，再次宣布参选总统的梅朗雄在最新采访中表示台湾是中国的一部分，中国如果武力攻打台湾，他要是总统，绝不干涉：

记者： 那么，您认为台湾是中国的一部分？

梅朗雄： 是。

记者： 但他们有自己的货币、政府……但对您来说，台湾就是中国。那是历史性的。那么，如果中国接管台湾，您会支持吗？

梅朗雄： 听着，我曾在国民议会的讲台上明确表达过：这确实是个问题。 而且，我并不是唯一一个这样说的人，这一点我们��须记住。 加拿大总理在与川普先生发生争执后刚刚访问了中国，一到那里他就声明：“对我们来说，只有一个中国。” 随后，西班牙首相也在与川普先生争执后访问了中国，他也表示：“对我们来说，只有一个中国。”

所以你看，我有很好的同伴——一位加拿大自由派和一位西班牙社会民主党人。 因此，我可以很自然地在演讲开头说“只有一个中国”。 至于剩下的问题，那应该由中国人自己去解决。 我们应该希望并采取行动，以礼貌和尊重的方式进行干预，使事情能够和平、冷静地解决。

记者： 但难道不去阻止他们吗？

梅朗雄： 阻止什么？

记者： 阻止他们接管台湾。对您来说，我们不该阻止他们，不该反对，也不该试图拖住中国的后腿？

梅朗雄： 你在这一句话里用了三个词：拖后腿、阻止……这些词的性质是完全不同的。 所谓“拖后腿”，我们可以讨论，可以谈。 我们可以和中国人对话，没必要去威胁他们，我们可以带着尊重和友好去交流。 但如果他们真的介入（武力行动），那就是另一回事了。

记者： 那我们会怎么做？

梅朗雄： 我们不会干涉。 就这样。如果我是共和国总统，我们绝不会对中国开战。

记者： 如果您是总统，您必须发表一份声明。那会是什么样的声明？

梅朗雄： 到时候看吧，因为我不打算现在就把所有底牌都亮出来。 面对那种情况，必须比非黑即白的态度更加机敏、更有策略。 我们绝不会对中国开战。

女士，我用稍微粗鲁点的话告诉你原因：要想击败中国，至少需要 20 到 30 枚核弹。 而法国只要挨上一枚，就彻底消失了。 因此，如果我们想发动战争，我们根本没有那样实力。

19 世纪那种我们和英国朋友联手摧毁园林艺术奇迹：圆明园，以此强迫中国人购买鸦片的时代已经结束了。 殖民主义的时代已经过去了，我们不能重蹈覆辙。 我们不能再以殖民心态去对待中国，因为即使我们想，我们也已经没有那个能力了。 所以，我们必须与中国达成谅解。 你看，中国人比我在美国那边听到的一些言论要聪明得多。

[Justin Deng 邓孝彬☮️ @JustinDengTruth]

@leige88888 日本人��要认识清楚，你们的领导人是西方的狗奴才，只要有这样的领导人在，日本人就永远没有尊严，不仅被西方看不起，更被亚洲人鄙视。赶紧弃暗投明，只有跟着中国走，才能站起来做人。

[Justin Deng 邓孝彬☮️ @JustinDengTruth]

@WangNextDoor2 煞笔 美国���人几百万 有几个喜欢吃这玩意儿的？偶尔吃一下 不错 谁会经常下馆子去吃这个

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Ford CEO Jim Farley: We should not let Chinese EVs into the US.

Jim himself drove a Chinese Xiaomi Su7 and has been to China 6-7 times a year.

He said, "It's the most humbling thing I've ever seen. They have far superior in-vehicle tech."

Can't win, so they ban.

[Michelle @D162Michele]

I am almost certain that every mainstream media outlets in the West are on the payroll to smear China.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Le digo tres cosas a Netanyahu:

1. España siempre va a proteger a sus ciudadanos.

2. Siempre vamos a defender el derecho internacional.

3. Exigimos la libertad del ciudadano español secuestrado en la flotilla.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

love that all discussion around Iran and nukes just ignores that fact that Israel has illegal nuclear weapons and we're fine with it
https://t.co/A3uOJ3KNoD

[DaiWW @BeijingDai]

Except for Chinese and Koreans, the world did not know much about Japanese in the past.

People around the world — especially in Western countries — grew up watching Japanese anime, playing with Japanese toys, using Japanese electronics, and driving Japanese cars. In their impression, the Japanese are polite, constantly bowing, apologizing, or expressing admiration for the West. For a long time, people had a favorable impression of Japan. Then, seemingly overnight, they started reading what Japanese users were actually saying on X — and they realized that the Japanese are, in fact, a deeply dark, socially Darwinist, power-worshipping, perverse, evil, and racist people. And they find it utterly disgusting.

I've said it before: Japan has the most isolated internet enviorment in the world. The Japanese-language internet is the largest echo chamber in existence. No one outside Japan could read Japanese — and most Japanese couldn't read any other language. They were like animals in Australia, disconnected from the rest of the world, gradually evolving all sorts of strange shape. Japanese post wildly outrageous comments without restraint, developing all kinds of extreme and distorted theories.

Then Musk introduced automatic translation — and the mask fell off. To everyone's shock, the vast majority of Japanese netizens turned out to be right‑wing extremists, each more radical than the last. They fight with everyone around the world, flinging insults and attacks, lying through their teeth, refusing to acknowledge their own historical crimes, and casually calling for the "elimination" of anyone who disagrees with them. That's when people finally understood: the Chinese and the Koreans were right all along.