Louis Lei

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

@TheBlackWallaby 早上飞机，下午高铁。😵‍💫

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

技术验证机，基于V22构型改进，更类似V280。成年人不做选择，所有技术路径都应该尝试。😄

[-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 -- @GeromanAT]

looks like a better Osprey

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

@wuthi11_ 解放军退役二手装备。🙂

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

这次不准备让中航通飞出让股权给美国资本大鳄吗？😂就像tiktok那样。

[Congressman Pat Harrigan @RepPatHarrigan]

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?
https://t.co/BlBPe9Yw0l

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

完全无法理解搞这么多品牌有什么意义…🤷‍♂️

[Tycho de Feijter @TychodeFeijter]

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.

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

是“见证者”出了新型号，还是阿帕奇直接撞上去了？🤔

[Clash Report @clashreport]

An Iranian Shahed drone brought down the U.S. Apache helicopter.

Source: CNN

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

2.5小时从景区入口爬到海拔720多米的顶峰，然后回到景区入口。手表记步11000步，达成今天的锻炼目标😌。

雨后的空气湿润，气温也不高，体感非常舒服。空气通透度很高，很容易拍出漂亮的照片✌️。

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

周六下了一天雨，周日终于放晴了。必须要抓紧时间去爬个山😌。

“银山塔林”是历经唐、辽、金、元、明、清多个朝代发展起来的中国北方佛教中心，和江苏镇江的金山寺并称“南金北银”。

尤其是金、辽两代的僧侣墓塔群，是“银山塔林”最为特色的景观。

[David Lee @DavidLe76335983]

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

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

雨后带小朋友🐶散步。😌

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

其实没什么好说的。中国人做出了选择，时至今日已经没人能否定选择是正确的。

历史永远是这样，无论真相如何总会有不同的版本，但最终还是看走向是否正确。

被历史碾过的尘埃，也许当时会觉得自己多么光辉伟大，但终究消散不见。

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

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

[Aviation @xAviation]

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.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

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.

[Hûrin @Hurin92]

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.

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

@HaroqODGvmafhmf @TripInChina 上周末35度了。🤷‍♂️

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

看起来美国已经没能力保护GCC了。🙂

打击GCC目标已经无法测试美国人的能力了，也许伊朗只能通过打击以色列来做极限能力测试了。

[Brezhnevite Intel @Brezhnevitee]

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.

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

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.

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

@JakeKAllDay @Sabyasachi69038 @Bluebearmonkey 我以为我们在讨论消费GDP占比的问题。

我想我已经说明了消费GDP的占比没有什么价值，尤其是以金融/消费为主的西方经济模式为尺度去衡量。

在中国消费是为了服务于生活质量而非经济数据。如果有人觉得中国的生活质量还不足够高，中国人会继续努力提高它。😌至于消费成本，越低越好。

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

@JakeKAllDay @Sabyasachi69038 @Bluebearmonkey 保险公司报销部分也算GDP，高额的保险购买费用还算GDP。都是消费拉动GDP。很棒不是吗😏

[Louis Lei @leiyilu]

@Sabyasachi69038 @Bluebearmonkey @JakeKAllDay 为了GDP数据刻意拉高消费成本是愚蠢的（对华尔街也许不是）。消费水平变化看的是趋势而非绝对值。

例如在中国去医院做一次完整体检花50-100美元，而在美国需要400-1000美元。这种消费拉动GDP的行为有意义吗？