Michael Sami EN⚛☭

Egyptian Atheist Communist

[Michael Sami EN⚛☭ @mike4evolution]

🧵 I find it axiomatic when #Chinese comrades say their #Socialism is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. Like how else can it be? Every Socialist experiment in history has to be an indigenous experiment. Even the #SovietUnion was just Socialism with Russian Characteristics.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

#ChinaWatch🇨🇳: China’s exports SURGED 19.4% in May.

THE CENTER OF GRAVITY CONTINUES TO SHIFT EAST.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Dow is now down -800 points since the Fed decision was released.

The S&P 500 has erased -$1.2 trillion in market cap in under 2 hours.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

When surveyed, Chinese people rate their government as more democratic than Americans rate our government.

US State work-around: fund a group that makes up stats using biased metrics to counter reality.

"Freedom House" is pure deep-state propaganda.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

China sees itself, according to surveys as more democratic than US citizens see ourselves.

Why is that. As a US citizen, living in China, I think its because in the US we can vote, but not change our community, state, or federal government at all.

In China, the government delivers constant positive change for the people.

I prefer China's system. I prefer living in a better society, largely free from crime, largely free from homelessness, largely free from fear, largely free from medical/credit card/university debt.

I prefer the freedom China provides.

I don't want elections if they don't mean anything. I want people in my community to have a better life. I want all of us to become more prosperous together.

That's the Chinese dream.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Happy birthday, Chairman Xi!

[RT @RT_com]

US B-52 BOMBER CRASHES IN CALIFORNIA

[RT @RT_com]

8 KILLED in B-52 crash

https://t.co/u6kaVhzNYE

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The obsession by European leaders to bring the war to Russian territory will very likely result in bringing the war to European territory.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The most brutal part is not that China is using AI to sort garbage.
It is that China has pushed waste management so far that the old problem has reversed.

China used to worry about having too much garbage to process.
Now some waste-to-energy plants are facing the opposite problem:

not enough garbage.

Previously sealed landfills may even have to be reopened, not because China failed, but because waste has become fuel, feedstock, data, and part of an industrial recycling loop.

This is what China does best.

It takes the ugliest, dirtiest, most ignored corner of urban life — garbage — and turns it into engineering, automation, energy recovery, environmental governance, and industrial optimization.

Even trash gets absorbed into the machine.

In many countries, garbage is where governance collapses.

In China, even garbage becomes a system.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China’s real strength is not just that it can build things.
It is that China can turn almost anything into a complete, disciplined, self-correcting industrial system.

For years, Chinese liberals worshipped German “precision” and Japanese “craftsmanship.”
But when it comes to industrial resilience, iteration speed, error correction, supply-chain depth, and the ability to scale from small workshops into the world’s largest production machine, no country comes close to China.

China can take countless tiny parts, scattered suppliers, ordinary workers, ports, warehouses, logistics networks, engineers, customs systems, after-sales services, and turn them into one seamless economic machine.

Raw materials.
Manufacturing.
Assembly.
Distribution.
Ports.
Shipping.
E-commerce.
Repair.
Replacement.
Export.

Every gear connects.

That is why China can offer efficiency, price, quality, and volume at the same time.

Most countries can do one or two.
China does all four.

This is organizational power.
Infrastructure power.
Industrial memory.
Civilizational patience turned into supply chains.

China’s ports ranking at the top of global efficiency is not an accident.
It is what happens when an entire country treats logistics, production, infrastructure, and trade as one living system.

The world sees containers.
China built the machine behind them.

[RT @RT_com]

TRUMP ISSUES BLUNT WARNING to Bibi: Israel might fight Iran ALONE

‘Be very CAREFUL… you might soon be left alone against Iran’ — N12

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THE PENTAGON YESTERDAY DECLARED BYD, the world’s most successful electric carmaker, to be linked to the Chinese army.

Alibaba, one of the world’s largest retailers and e-commerc companies, was also added to the Federal Register yesterday.

Innovative tech firm Baidu, and two chipmakers, ChangXin Memory Technologies and Yangtze Memory Technologies, were also written into the register, known as the “1260H list”.

Last year, the Pentagon made the same accusation at Tencent, the world’s biggest video game and entertainment company, owner of Epic Games, and a major backer of Reddit, Snapchat, Spotify and others.

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UNFAIR
The accusations are unfair, and everybody knows it. America’s biggest firms work directly with the Pentagon at extremely deep levels with multiple joint ventures to create attack tools, yet this is never considered an issue. In contrast, Chinese firms which have the slightest interaction with their country’s army are targeted for harm by the Pentagon.

The accusation paves the way for the US to make unilateral sanctions against the firms and then use economic coercion to force its vassals (“allies”) to follow suit.

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REAL REASON
Analysts say the real reason is to harm the work of Chinese technologists, many of whom are developing AI applications.

The US already has an unassailable lead in the sector, with more than 5,400 datacenters compared to China’s approximately 375, but Washington DC has strongly opposed the concept of fair competition in recent years.

The listing move also harms US investors, who are steered away from buying shares in companies on the register, which are some of the most innovative and fast-growing firms in the world.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Global investors are dumping South Korean stocks at an unprecedented pace:

Foreign investors sold -$801 million of Kospi-listed shares on Monday.

This follows -$10 billion in outflows recorded last week.

Foreign investors have now offloaded South Korean stocks in every trading session over the past month.

This brings total year-to-date sales to -$75 billion, according to Goldman Sachs.

By contrast, domestic retail and institutional investors bought +$69 billion over the same period.

South Korea's stock market is making history.

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

The Most Incredible Story: The Wall Street Journal Reports on the Boom of the North Korean Economy.
The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal described North Korea as one of today's surprising economic stories, stating that the country is recording noticeable economic progress for the first time in many years.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The Economist never disappoints.
It writes about China, Russia, and North Korea as if this were some geopolitical love triangle.

“Competing for influence.”
That is how the West understands the world:

Every relationship must be ownership.
Every friendship must be leverage.
Every sacrifice must become a debt.
Every alliance must have a master and a subordinate.

But China paid an enormous price in the Korean War.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese volunteers crossed the Yalu River.
Many never came home.

And China has never turned that blood into a moral leash around North Korea’s neck.

That is what the West cannot understand.

Not every relationship is a transaction.
Not every memory is a bill.
Not every bond is built to be cashed in.

君子和而不同。
小人同而不和。

The gentleman seeks harmony without demanding sameness.
The petty mind demands sameness and still produces no harmony.

That is why Western media keeps misreading Asia.

They mistake restraint for weakness.
They mistake difference for rivalry.
They mistake friendship without obedience for competition.

Because empire only understands mirrors of itself.

[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.

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

🇨🇳 China is switching to its own payment network CIPS instead of SWIFT. The turnover has increased fivefold since 2020.

[RT @RT_com]

Iran tensions RISING AGAIN after Israel bombs Beirut:

- Qatar issues NOTAM, airspace EMPTY

- Dutch airlines KLM CANCELS all flights to Israel until July 27 — N12

- Netanyahu calls emergency security meeting

- Iran says army ready

[Reuters @Reuters]

The Strait of Hormuz will be open but under new conditions to be set by Iran and Oman, including a transit fee, Iran's ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying https://t.co/kDVX1MhEFI

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

Chinese scientists have taken a major step toward building a “space power bank” – a solar power station that can store energy and transmit to space and ground devices – by completing the ground verification for a wireless power transmission system capable of beaming kilowatt-level energy to multiple moving targets simultaneously, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Sunday. https://t.co/NfqXh35SWu