Cirrus Aircraft, the most delivered piston aircraft manufacturer in America, has been wholly owned by the CCP's primary aerospace and defense conglomerate since 2011.
The same Chinese company that builds fighter jets and drones for the PLA has been sitting inside our aviation industry for nearly 15 years.
How did we let this happen?
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New Chinese brand: AIVA
Today, AIVA presented a concept car called the Origin, previewing an upcoming sporty SUV. The design is fine, but not overly distinctive. The wheels look cool, and the camera mirrors are super small.
The production version will be called the AIVA ME7. AIVA will offer EV and EREV versions. It is aimed at, what else, the Xiaomi YU7 SUV.
The AIVA ME7 will launch within this year, with a base price of about 220.000 yuan ($32 K).
AIVA stands for "Artificial Intelligence Voyage Ahead". The brand slogan is "Live Alive". The Chinese name is Saidu (赛豆).
The owner is Saidu Technology. The main shareholders are Chongqing-based locally-state owned investment funds, Seres, and CATL.
Bytedance will provide cloud-services and AI-based smart-cockpit software, but Bytedance is not a shareholder in the company.
The Nexperia saga continues
China’s Dongguan Intermediate People’s Court has accepted Wingtech’s lawsuit against Nexperia and its Dutch entities under China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law (AFSL)
Wingtech (the Chinese owner) is demanding full control restored plus around $1.1 billion in damages. This follows Dutch government moves last year that blocked Wingtech’s oversight on national security grounds, sparking a messy cross-border chip dispute.
Why it matters: This is one of the first big tests of the AFSL in a major semiconductor case. It shows China’s willingness to hit back at Western “de-risking” efforts with domestic lawsuits.
On precedent: Yes, a win or strong ruling here would likely encourage other Chinese companies to use the AFSL when foreign governments restrict their overseas assets. It’s becoming a key tool in the ongoing tech tensions.
Worth watching how it plays out alongside Dutch courts and diplomacy
I was a rather precocious nine-year-old in Taipei on June 4th 1989. In my childish mind's eye...helpless students were kettled into Tienanmen square like animals in a pen before the tanks rolled over them, creating a kind of bloody, dense, student-patty. It was a flashbulb moment that represented the evil of the communist party of China and the destruction of the flower of China, the best of the best, by the worst of the worst.
Growing up sometimes means finding out the fairytales of your childhood is far more complicated than you thought.
This is Tienanmen Square 1989, as I understand it today. There was no bloodshed in the square. Dissident leader Liu Xiaobo (who subsequently won the Nobel Peace Prize) negotiated the peaceful withdrawal of demonstrators as the troops moved in. By the time the iconic Tankman stood in the way of PLA tanks, the crackdown was basically over. If you watch the video all the way through, you'll see tankman block the tank a few times, climb on top of it, before being led away.
This is not to say, of course, that there was no bloodshed. They mostly happened in clashes between violent demonstrators and PLA troops off the square. The "peaceful protestors vs brutal regime" picture is inaccurate and incomplete. The crowd ambused, mutilated, lynched, disembowled and burned the corpses of PLA soldiers. This is when the shootings happened: not in the square, not on the students.
You have to understand, in 1989, China didn't know how to deal with protests. They had no riot police. They rolled out the tanks and the troops not because they were determined to exterminate the crowd, but becauses they were unprepared. Since then, it's been largely a hushed and censored topic in China, which I think is a mistake. Because once you go through what actually happened, June 4th was a tragedy, not a crime.
It was Deng Xiaoping that made the decision to initiate the crackdown. He knew he'd bear the infamy. But looking at China in 2026, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that Deng did the right thing. The students in the square might have been truly idealistic and only wanted the best for China, but if the Chinese government have given in to their demands, China would not have been a democratic paradise but might have fallen into a chasm of chaos. We all saw what happened when the people of Russia cast off the Soviet Union only to be plunged into decades of pitch black despair. Had China done what the students asked, could the results have been any better? Already almost in retirement...Deng, who already saved China with his reform-and-open-up, arguably saved it again.
Most ordinary Chinese people I know now sees June 4th as an example of a failed color revolution, or an externally-driven attempt to destabilize China from the outside. They don't percieve the crackdown as the government oppressing the people, but of China asserting its sovereignty.
I know this is a controversial topic, and will probably draw a lot of condemnation from the usual crowd. So let me end with a criticism of the Communist Party of China: Stop censoring and shielding the history so much, and be frank about the past. When you try and erase June 4th, it means you yourself cannot tell your side of the story. The cultural revolution, for instance, works far less well as an anti-China talking point because the mistakes of that era are widely acknowledged and digested in China itself while June 4th still seems too raw to touch.
Below you can find the full "tankman" video. It only takes two minutes to watch. Try and watch it as if you're seeing it for the first time. What do you see? See less
A nearly five-month-old Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner at Frankfurt, preparing for a flight to Los Angeles, experienced a nose landing gear collapse at the gate.
THERE WAS DELIGHT at the United Nation yesterday as Kyrgyzstan last night roundly defeated the Washington-controlled Philippines to win the sole Asia-Pacific seat at the UN Security Council.
Kyrgyzstan received 142 votes, while the Philippines received only 49.
The Iranians, sitting in one row ahead, were clearly delighted at the win.
The Central Asian nation now becomes a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2027-2028 term.
Most people in the west have never heard of the country, but the US was concerned about the vote, because Kyrgyzstani people have friendly, peaceful relations with their Chinese and Russian neighbors.
The US spends billions of dollars a year to demonize China and Russia. The UK voted with the US.
There was more bad news for the US-Israel bloc, too. Germany was defeated by Austria and Portugal in the European vote.
After the illegal US-Israel attack on Iran, German leader Friedrich Merz shocked the world by echoing the far-right Israeli view that that international law did not apply to Iranians.
Beauty \(^o^)/
09X SSN
Contrary to navalnews TWZ suggests the one at Bohai is 09V, a more plausible assessment. Two novel SSN class boats would be unprecedented for the PLAN. Pending higher fidelity sat imagery, consider Bohai boat as 09V or arguably a 09VA variant at best.
As it turns out, the damage in Kuwait is absolutely apocalyptic. This is a consequence of a very small barrage too.
It seems that the interceptor stockpile situation in the Middle East is catastrophic.
Germany has failed to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) secured 104 votes in the General Assembly, falling 23 short of the required two-thirds majority. It is the first time Germany has missed out on a rotating seat.