Larry Lo

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children.

Call it what it is: GENOCIDE.

[Karin Arcuschin @KarinArcus_ok]

🇨🇳🛢️ CHINA LE RESPONDE A TRUMP: NO RECONOCEMOS SUS SANCIONES Y SEGUIREMOS COMPRANDO PETRÓLEO IRANÍ

🏭 Pekín dio un golpe sobre la mesa. El Ministerio de Comercio de China emitió una orden que prohíbe a sus empresas reconocer o acatar las sanciones de Estados Unidos contra cinco refinerías chinas acusadas de comprar crudo iraní. Es la primera vez que China activa formalmente sus reglas de bloqueo contra Washington.

Y no es un detalle menor: China es el mayor cliente de Irán. Según datos de seguimiento de buques, compró más del 80% del petróleo que Irán exportó en 2025. El comercio se mueve en yuanes y a través de intermediarios, esquivando el dólar y el alcance de los reguladores estadounidenses.

Del lado de Trump, su campaña de "máxima presión" sumó a la refinería Hengli a la lista negra el 24 de abril, mientras el Tesoro insistía en asfixiar los ingresos petroleros de Irán. China respondió que esas sanciones, según el gobierno, "violan el derecho internacional", y ordenó a sus compañías ignorarlas por completo.

🤝⛴️ El choque estalló a días de la cumbre Trump-Xi en Pekín, del 13 al 15 de mayo. Allí, Trump aseguró que podría levantar las sanciones a las refinerías chinas y dijo que Xi se comprometió a comprar crudo y gas estadounidense y hasta 200 aviones Boeing. Pero, según los analistas, China evitó cualquier compromiso concreto de recortar sus compras de petróleo iraní. El mensaje de Pekín fue claro: el crudo seguirá fluyendo.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Watch Out Japan: Imperial Ghosts Reawaken Under US Backing

Japan’s so-called postwar “pacifism” was always a convenient lie cooked up by Washington. They wrote the constitution, stuck in Article 9, poured money into the LDP, kept tens of thousands of troops there, and turned the whole place into a giant unsinkable aircraft carrier staring straight at China’s coastal cities. Same old game, different era.

The Brutal Imperial Past That Japan Still Won’t Face
Back in the 1930s-40s, Imperial Japan went all-in on China with a level of savagery that’s hard to forget. The Nanjing Massacre — the Rape of Nanjing — December 1937 to January 1938: 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers slaughtered in six weeks. Mass rape, bayonet contests, bodies dumped in the rivers until the water turned red.

Unit 731 doing live dissections and germ warfare tests, comfort women dragged into sexual slavery.
Pure evil.
And what has Japan done about it?
Nothing real.
No full apology, no proper reparations.
Textbooks gloss over it, politicians march into Yasukuni Shrine to honor the war criminals.

Look at what @zhao_dashuai posted with the actual records:
“Front page news on December 13th 1937 in Japan: 2 Japanese officers engaged in a competition to see who can behead more Chinese in Nanjing. Mukai has killed 106. Noda has killed 105… the entire society was part of that war machine…”
https://t.co/Z89Fdmg3Cy
And the photos that still hit hard:
“Bodies of Chinese civilians along the Qinhuai River… the river banks were the favorite spot for the Japanese to murder and dump the bodies…”
https://t.co/5Sknme897r
Right Now: Japan Rearming Fast, With Full US Backing
Japan is dumping record cash into missiles, drones, ships, and “counterstrike” weapons that can reach deep into China.

They’re twisting Article 9 to allow “collective self-defense,” calling Taiwan their “existential threat,” and gearing up to fight alongside the US. All while saying it’s just “peaceful” stuff. Give me a break.

This isn’t Japan deciding alone. Washington is pushing hard — containment 2.0. Japan is still hosting all those US bases, playing the frontline role like always.

Check my earlier takes on this:
“Japan’s Quiet Rearmament… Just Following Uncle Sam’s Orders…”
https://t.co/2tjCeFS7La
“Japan: The Dagger Aimed at China’s Maritime Heart…”
https://t.co/I4oLcEIRPT
“Japan: America’s permanent pawn…”
https://t.co/GBRPtR8xCf
History Is Rhyming Again

The West helped build up Imperial Japan before. Now they’re doing it again to try and slow down China. Asia hasn’t forgotten the last time.
>>>>>China sure hasn’t

Real peace would mean Japan owning up to its past, giving real atonement, and stopping this proxy role for America. But denial + rearmament? That’s a fast track to repeating the 1930s nightmare.

The whole region is watching.

Stay sharp.

History doesn’t forgive those who keep lying about it.

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🚨🇨🇳 China launches maritime law enforcement operation east of Taiwan island

China has launched a special maritime traffic law enforcement operation in the waters east of Taiwan island, Xinhua reported.

Organized by the Ministry of Transport, the operation is aimed at fully exercising China’s maritime administrative law enforcement jurisdiction, strengthening patrol and traffic control capabilities in key waters, ensuring maritime traffic safety and safeguarding national rights and interests.

The move is a necessary response to Japan and the Philippines unilaterally announcing maritime delimitation talks east of China’s Taiwan island, which Xinhua said seriously infringes upon China’s territorial sovereignty and maritime rights.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

If you understand this story, you’ve understood much there is to understand about geopolitics around Taiwan.

The current DPP government is quite literally cheering its own carve-up - as long as it annoys Beijing.

Here is what happened.

So recently, May 28th, Japanese PM Takaichi and Philippines President Marcos Jr. issued a joint statement (https://t.co/T3HUFO3oDI) announcing they would open negotiations to delimit their overlapping EEZ and continental-shelf boundaries.

As a reminder, an EEZ - Exclusive Economic Zone - is the area extending 200 nautical miles from a country's coastline within which that country has exclusive rights to exploit all natural resources.

Small problem: their EEZs directly overlap with China's, both from Beijing’s standpoint and Taipei’s, as they are less than 200 nautical miles from Taiwan’s coastline.

In effect, what Japan and the Philippines are announcing here is that they're agreeing bilaterally - without Beijing or Taipei at the table - to split between themselves waters that belong, in part, to someone else.

Unsurprisingly, that didn't sit well with Beijing. They issued a statement the day after - 29th of May - where they "strongly deplore and firmly oppose the so-called maritime delimitation talks between Japan and the Philippines" (https://t.co/d9mLwvTcpI).

Any rational person would have expected Taipei to issue a similar statement because, whatever you think of Beijing's claims, it's the EEZ around Taiwan we're speaking about here: surely they'd object to other countries carving up the resource rights off their coastline.

It's actually one thing Beijing and Taipei have aligned interests on: neither wants its maritime entitlements carved up by third parties.

As a reminder Taipei rejected the infamous 2016 Hague arbitration ruling on the South China Sea - siding with Beijing against Manila - for the same reasons: because the tribunal downgraded Taiping (Itu Aba), the largest feature in the Spratlys that Taipei occupies, from an “island” to a “rock,” which would have stripped it of its 200-nautical-mile EEZ.

In other words, defending their own EEZ is normally sacrosanct for Taipei.

Except... not this time. Taipei issued an angry statement, yes, but where the anger was entirely directed at Beijing. The statement (https://t.co/HXekJR7fvi) explicitly “commend[ed] Japan and the Philippines for working to resolve maritime differences”, reserving its sharp language to China because it "has no right to comment on the territory and appertaining waters of the Republic of China (Taiwan)."

Think for a moment about what it says about Taipei’s current DPP independentist government: the party that claims to champion Taiwan's sovereignty literally celebrated, as its first instinct, two countries announcing they'd carve up Taiwan's maritime territory between themselves. All because Beijing opposed it.

This caused quite a stir in Taiwanese politics, with the KMT calling the statement “humiliating,” warning that cheering the talks without seeking a seat in negotiations over the overlapping EEZs could seriously hurt Taiwanese fishermen's livelihoods in the future (https://t.co/5T2jW4HQb5).

So much so that Taipei’s MOFA had to issue a new statement on June 2 specifying that the Japan-Philippines talks "should not impair our country's rights", with MOFA spokesperson Hsiao Kuang-wei finally acknowledging the delimitation waters “highly overlap” with Taipei's EEZ.

But then, confusingly, 2 days after - June 4 - Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung undercut his own ministry’s correction entirely (https://t.co/hgAu7Quj1H). The Japan-Philippines talks, he explained, are “aimed at China” and therefore, fundamentally good - Taipei's EEZ being carved up in the process being, apparently, a minor detail.

China protesting the talks, he said, is “getting cause and effect backwards” and he branded “the handful distorting the issue and shifting the focus” - i.e. anyone pointing out that Taiwan's EEZ is being carved up - as “falling into a trap and letting China benefit.”

So the same ministry, within 48 hours, both (a) asked Tokyo and Manila to guard against a danger to Taiwan's EEZ, and (b) declared that danger nonexistent and smeared anyone naming it as a Beijing stooge. Go figure 🤷

But this is actually just one part of a much bigger story - one about colonial nostalgia, about the three competing visions at play for Taiwan, and about why the West champions the one party in Taiwan that does NOT actually defend sovereignty and democracy.

I wrote it all up here: https://t.co/tWqeM8xpX8

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This isn’t Lebanon.

This is Gaza right now.

Israel is dropping bombs on tents packed with families in the middle of the night in Khan Younis.

This is what they call a “ceasefire.”

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China’s 5,000-year civilization learned many things.

Writing.
Statecraft.
Agriculture.
Engineering.
Trade.
Memory.

The one thing it never learned was colonialism.

When Jianzhen sailed east, he carried knowledge, medicine, scripture, and culture.

When Zheng He sailed west, he carried silk, porcelain, spices, and diplomacy.

But when Columbus crossed the ocean, he brought conquest, slavery, disease, and genocide.

That is the difference.

America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand were built on stolen land, indigenous graves, and colonial violence.

France fed itself from Africa for centuries, while Africa was drained of blood, labor, minerals, currency, and sovereignty.

And now the West looks at China building ports, railways, schools, cultural centers, hotels, and infrastructure in Africa and calls it a “debt trap.”

Please.

The real trap was the hole Europe dug in Africa and called civilization.

China is not doing charity in Africa.
Nor should it.

Africa is not a beggar.
Africa is not a slave.
Africa is not a museum of Western guilt.

China treats Africa as a long-term partner capable of growth, strength, and self-renewal.

That is why the West is terrified.

Because China is not teaching Africa dependence.
It is helping Africa recover the ability to build, connect, trade, remember, and stand.

And unlike the colonial empires, China has strategic patience.

It can wait for Africa to grow stronger.
It can cooperate without needing to own.
It can build without needing to enslave.
It can invest without turning every port into a military leash.

Because China itself was rebuilt from ruins.

It knows what humiliation means.
It knows what foreign domination means.

It knows the cold of standing in the rain — so it does not mistake shelter for weakness.

It knows what it means to climb back from ashes without becoming the monster that once stepped on you.

The West sees Africa as a wound to exploit.
China sees Africa as a civilization still breathing.

The colonizer fears roads more than guns, because roads teach the colonized how to leave.

[James Wood 武杰士 @commiepommie]

🇯🇵 Japan is rewriting the Nanjing Massacre into the “Nanjing Incident” inside its own atomic bomb museum

Nagasaki city plans to complete updates to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum panels by the end of the 2026 fiscal year. The reported change removes the clear term “massacre” and replaces it with softer language about killing many civilians and prisoners during what they now prefer to call the “Nanjing Incident”.

China’s Foreign Ministry responded today without hesitation. Spokesperson Mao Ning stated the facts plainly: The Nanjing Massacre was a brutal crime by Japanese militarism.

The evidence is ironclad and cannot be tampered with. The Tokyo Trials already judged it, the Far East International Military Tribunal dedicated a full chapter to the Japanese army’s atrocities in Nanjing and General Matsui Iwane, the commander responsible, was convicted as a Class A war criminal and executed.

Survivor testimony, records from foreign witnesses who stayed in the city and Japanese military documents all confirmed the same reality in an international court. This was systematic slaughter, not some vague incident open to reinterpretation.

What stands out is that even in Nagasaki, atomic bomb survivors, local citizen groups and ordinary Japanese people are pushing back against this revision. They want the full record of Japan’s role as aggressor kept in the museum. They understand that honest history requires both sides of the story.

Living here in China, the memorials and survivor accounts are not abstract. In late 1937 and early 1938 Japanese troops killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and surrendered soldiers in Nanjing. The rape, looting and burning went on for weeks. Primary sources from multiple sides document it beyond any serious dispute.

This push fits a familiar pattern. Certain forces in Japan keep trying to soften or remove references to imperial army crimes while insisting the world focus only on Japanese suffering at the war’s end. With the 80th anniversary of that war’s conclusion approaching, the timing makes the double standard even harder to ignore.

The CPC position has stayed consistent for decades. Face history squarely, reflect deeply on war responsibility and make a clean break with militarism. Anything less keeps old wounds open and undermines real trust in the region.

Japan wants its nuclear victims remembered and the human cost of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was real. But genuine reconciliation cannot rest on selective memory that erases what its own army did across Asia.

If even a peace museum cannot keep accurate language about one of the worst atrocities of that war, what does that reveal about deeper attitudes still at work?

How many times will the same chapter get edited before Japan realises the only path forward is to stop pretending parts of its history never happened?

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Chinese people are not terrified of AI because China mostly presents automation as a way to remove humans from dangerous, exhausting, hostile work:
Coal mines, power grids, extreme weather, heavy industry, and disaster response.

In America, AI arrives with layoffs, “efficiency,” restructuring, shareholder value, and workers being told their lives are obsolete.

Same technology, different civilization logic.

One asks: How can machines reduce human suffering?
The other asks: How many humans can we remove from payroll?

AI does not automatically become dystopia.
It becomes dystopia when capitalism owns the switch.

[RT @RT_com]

‘I was surprised to hear that Russia, this evil Russia, stopped supplying energy resources to Europe’ — Putin

‘We NEVER stopped. Europe just said no. They refused to buy, hoping that we would collapse’

‘They have seen for themselves that we did not collapse’

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🔥 Putin just made a bombshell speech at SPIEF, detailing Russia's vision for BRICS and multipolar world order

🔸 Sovereignty: race for sovereignty accelerates; it determines world economic positions and leadership

🔸Sanctions: Western sanctions and theft of Russian reserves destroy trust in dollar and euro forever; any country can lose legal assets in dollars or euros at any moment for any reason

🔸New financial architecture: West lost interest in the rules of trade as soon as it started losing; the world needs flexible financial system without sanctions risks and with incentives for sovereign development

🔸True sovereignty means smarter resource management and more effective technological investment

🔸 Digital sovereignty: Nations face historic choice – build own platforms or become digital periphery; foreign digital services seem convenient but create dangerous country dependence later

🔸Multipolar transformation: new centers of power want to independently shape their development pats; the world undergoes largest structural shift from Western-centric to multipolar model

🔸Rise of BRICS: BRICS share in world GDP hits 40% while G7 below 29%; BRICS' leadership will continue to grow

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️JUST IN:

The military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader warns the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain:

"The Emir of Qatar and Mohammed bin Salman are on the right path in history

But the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait continue to believe that American power will remain as strong as ever

They also supported Saddam's Iraq against Iran

If they continue down this path, we will even go after them once the war is over"

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

I aways find it odd that some in the West keep using the Tiananmen insurrection of 1989, as a gotcha moment.

It was literally the least successful color revolution of the 1980s. All the other ones in Eastern Europe and USSR worked.

The Tiananmen insurrection had almost zero impact on the Chinese economy or geopolitical standing, the economic boom of the 1990s happened regardless of the CIA backed color revolution attempt.

In fact, it was such a victory for China, that we've eradicated all the openly pro-West traitors in our government and "intelligentsia". Paving the way for a much more unified and prosperous China that you see today.

For that, we thank the brave PLA soldiers who saved our republic from traitors within.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The New York Times accidentally revealed the moral bankruptcy of capitalism.

China is making breakthroughs in cancer drugs, clinical trials, biotech research, and life-saving medicines.

The first American reaction is not:
“How many patients can this save?”

It is:
“Will this threaten U.S. dominance?”
“Will American biotech lose its edge?”
“Will Big Pharma struggle to keep up?”

That tells you everything.

In a sane world, better cancer drugs would be a human victory.
In Washington’s world, even medicine becomes a battlefield the moment China helps people live.

China’s biotech rise is not just about winning.
It is about responsibility to a massive patient population that cannot wait for American monopolies, American prices, or American permission.

Cancer patients do not care about U.S. dominance.
They care about staying alive.

And that is exactly why China cannot leave this field to America.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Australia, have you really thought this through…?

▪️If US military attacks against China are facilitated or launched from Australian soil or otherwise with Australian assistance, — China may have the right to utilise the United Nations to force Australia to pay full reparations for the damage those attacks cause.

▪️”Under established international law, these nations are legally obligated to provide comprehensive compensation for both material and moral damages suffered.”

▪️The massive ongoing payments Australia will owe to China, if successful, may economically cripple the nation for decades.

▪️So not only is Australia being presently impoverished by excessive unnecessary military expenditure to support the US, — and not only will Australia likely encounter significant devastating retaliatory attacks by China, — but we may also be massively financially penalised for our deranged support to the US war.

▪️The consequences of Australia’s obedience to America’s military objectives against China, may last for generations.

▪️It seems none of this has been considered by Australia’s transient leaders.

👉 The time is now to rethink #AUKUS & #ANZUS & #FVEY.

@ICAN_australia
@NuclearBan
@IPAusNet
@WagePeaceAU
@BaseWatchAU
@OzAntiBases
@MAPW_Australia @WarPowersReform @DeclassifiedAus

[🇨🇳 Guo Shen 郭深 @GuoShenCN7]

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME CHINA DEPLOYED 100+ SHIPS THE SAME WEEK A US PRESIDENT FLEW HOME FROM BEIJING?

Think about that.

100 ships. Navy vessels, coast guard ships, stretching from the Yellow Sea to the South China Sea to the Western Pacific. Taiwan's own National Security Council chief posted the deployment map himself.

The same week Trump landed home from the Beijing summit.

The last time something like this happened, the world changed forever.

This is not a routine exercise.
This is a calendar.

What does Beijing know that the rest of us are still figuring out?

The US just burned through roughly 1,100 Tomahawk cruise missiles, more than 1,200 Patriot interceptors, and over 1,000 ATACMS in 40 days of Iran operations.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed it under oath: the US paused arms shipments to Taiwan specifically to preserve what was left for Iran.

The same missiles Taiwan needs to stop a naval invasion are the same missiles Washington just used up in the Middle East.

China watched the entire Indo-Pacific deterrence stockpile get spent on one war.

Then sent 100 ships.

Not before the summit. After it.

This is not a show of force.
This is a message.
And it was timed to the hour.

This is the moment. Right now. Pay attention.

I'll share more updates shortly. Turn on notifications, this is very important.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."

40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.

"The superiority of socialism is clear."

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China directly exposed Washington’s hypocrisy on press freedom — and the efforts and sacrifices Chinese journalists have made under America’s so-called “free press” system.

The background is simple.

A New York Times reporter based in Beijing went to Taiwan, interviewed Lai Ching-te, called him “president,” and referred to Taiwan as a “country.”

That crossed Beijing’s red line.

China had tolerated years of hostile, ideologically biased reporting from her.
But this was no longer journalism.
It was a direct violation of China’s sovereignty framework.

So China revoked her visa.

Then Washington retaliated by canceling the visa of a Xinhua journalist who was simply doing normal reporting in the U.S. and had violated no American law.

And now the U.S. wants to lecture China about “press freedom” and “reciprocity.”

Please.

In America, Chinese media are labeled “foreign agents” or “foreign missions.”
Chinese journalists face visa delays, restrictions, and expulsions.
Some can barely even ask questions at White House briefings.

But when China enforces its own red lines, Washington suddenly discovers “freedom of speech.”

This is not press freedom.
It is a monopoly of rights disguised as press freedom.

The U.S. wants American reporters to enjoy political immunity in China, while Chinese reporters are treated like hostile operatives in America.

Once again, America’s colonial double standards remain repulsive — even when dressed up as democracy.

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

Japanese media outlets on Wednesday revealed the outline of Japan's annual defense report, which claimed China's military activities "a grave concern," and highlighted the need for securing sustained combat capacity for potential "prolonged war." A Chinese expert noted that Japan is using a well-worn trick to portray itself as a victim to drum up global public opinion and fabricate excuses for its militaristic expansion. Tokyo's rapid military buildup has gone far beyond legitimate self-defense demands and serves to pave the way for a return to militarism, a development that warrants close vigilance from the international community.
https://t.co/SGP33XKZE6