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[nuanced.nl @nuanced_nl]

Western journalists reporting about China for Western Mainstream media are ... journalists.

[CGTN @CGTNOfficial]

The Pinglu Canal, a key project of China's New Western Land-Sea Corridor, has now achieved full-channel water filling and entered the testing and commissioning phase. The canal is expected to begin full operations in September. #CoolChina

For more: https://t.co/go2aMxDUqm

[Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan]

Italian blogger exclaims:
Go visit China. Your perception of the world will completely change.

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Everyone’s still obsessing over semiconductor lithography and GPUs, but the US just quietly opened its next Cold War tech battlefield — and it’s the most boring, ubiquitous thing you’ve never thought twice about: printed circuit boards (PCBs)

CNBC’s panic piece https://t.co/3ByBakakHH confirms PCBs are now being elevated from disposable commodity to strategic leverage point, exactly the same cynical playbook they used for chips. The numbers tell the whole story: China makes 60% of the world’s PCBs. The US? A measly 4% 😱

Their big viral scary talking point? “Compromised Chinese PCBs will make our MISSILES misfire mid-flight.” (Guess that's why their Patriot missiles have a intercept rate of less than 10% 🤣 as stated by MIT's Prof. Ted Postol https://t.co/FXNAqT9PDF)

However, as usual there is ZERO evidence. Just another manufactured national security boogeyman to ram through 25% tax credits and $3 billion in straight-up corporate welfare for American PCB firms!

The funniest, most revealing hypocrisy of all? America’s supposed “trusted national champion” TTM Technologies still runs its largest factory in China and operates 7 total Asian plants. Washington can yell about decoupling all it wants, but its own defense supply chain can’t function without Chinese manufacturing capacity — it’s not even close.

The CHIPS Act poured $52B into U.S. fabs but ignored PCBs. The CNBC coverage exposes that American-made chips are useless without Chinese-made boards — as "Chips don’t float; they have to be mounted on a circuit board for the entire package to work successfully,” and those US made chips get "shipped to Asia to be packaged with Chinese-made PCBs"

This is a critical escalation almost no one is picking up on. US tech warfare isn’t just targeting silicon anymore. Now it’s coming for every layer beneath the chip: packaging, substrates, circuit integration. They can’t beat China on manufacturing scale or cost, so they’re trying to redefine every single part of the electronics supply chain as a “national security threat” to prop up their own uncompetitive domestic industry

It’s never been about security. It’s always been about protecting Western corporate profits and clinging to fading tech hegemony. But this time, the math and a multi-polar world is already stacked against them

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

There are many reasons why China now has a higher average life span than the United States but one of the main reason is the simplicity of the Chinese diet.

Traveling in Guangzhou today and eating a local meal. This cost 21.6 RMB (about $3.20 USD) and gives you everything you need.

Carbs, protein, and veggies. Served fresh with most importantly a normal portion size.

America’s obesity problem could be solved overnight if we just adapted better eating habits

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

On June 1, China Southern Airlines launched the first direct passenger route from Urumqi to Frankfurt, Germany.

This marks the first direct international passenger air route from northwest China's Xinjiang to Germany.

As of April 2026, Urumqi has opened over 30 international passenger routes.

[Chinese Consulate General in Belfast @CCGBelfast]

On June 1, China Southern Airlines launched the first direct passenger route from #Urumqi, #Xinjiang to #Germany. Urumqi has now opened over 30 international passenger routes, enhancing its role as a key gateway connecting Asia and Europe.

[David Fishman @pretentiouswhat]

Let's go to the SNEC PV exhibition in Shanghai today. I'll keep adding to this thread as I see interesting things at the show.

This is the largest clean energy equipment trade show in China (and thus the world). It is held together with several other shows for storage, electronic equipment, and energy management systems, so it's massive, taking up multiple wings of the NECC.

It attracts 100s of thousands of visitors over 3 days. A lot of regular people (not just industry people) like to visit technology trade shows in China and they are presented as huge entertainment spectacles, not just industry functions.

People take their kids. Schools take field trips. They treat it like going to a museum or a show. One of the broader social benefits of the manufactured technology industry holding such a prominent economic role.

This was the exit to the metro station heading to the exhibition center at 11am.

[Blue Bear @Bluebearmonkey]

This is exactly right! China has a comparative advantage in productivity and the West has a comparative advantage in assets.

When these two economies trade, it will be a net assets for goods trades.

Why is that so difficult to accept?

[David Lee @DavidLe76335983]

Something to think through
🇺🇸 wasted $4T in Middle East
🇨🇳 spent <$4T and achieved many goals
Are we spending wisely?

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

The Tiananmen Rioter Atrocities the West Never Shows

Rioters hijacked armoured vehicles, stole machine guns, torched dozens of military trucks & APCs. They dragged unarmed PLA soldiers out — beat them, lynched them, stripped them naked, then burned them alive.

Charred corpses hung from buses like trophies. Dozens of soldiers killed in these savage ambushes on Beijing streets.

This wasn’t “peaceful students.”

This was brutal mob violence that sparked the chaos.

Full truth matters.

The hidden side every June 4.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

🧧 Tiananmen 1989: Celebrating China’s Long Journey — From Setbacks to Strength

Every June 4th, Western media pushes the same tired “peaceful students massacred” narrative.

After 30+ years living in China watching its rise, I see the fuller truth: Tiananmen was one painful but necessary bump in a century of resilience under socialism with Chinese characteristics.

From the Century of Humiliation — foreign carve-up, wars, poverty — through 1949 Liberation, civil war scars, Japanese invasion, Korean War, revolutionary experiments (Great Leap, Cultural Revolution), to Deng’s Reform & Opening Up. Growing pains like inflation & corruption set the stage for 1989.

Legitimate grievances were hijacked into an early Colour Revolution: foreign funds, NGOs, Gene Sharp tactics, VOA, Chai Ling openly calling for bloodshed (“square awash with blood”). Rioters burned soldiers alive, hung charred bodies on Beijing streets. No massacre in the Square itself — most students left peacefully.

China chose sovereignty & stability over chaos. One step back, two steps forward.

Every bump became a lesson.

Result: 800M+ out of poverty, modern marvels, tech leadership. The Chinese people turned setbacks into strength.

Full article on Substack:
https://t.co/pNj3C72Exu

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

Automakers around the world are partnering with Chinese EV companies for their tech:
- Volkswagen + XPeng
- Stellantis + Leapmotor
- Toyota + BYD
- Audi + Huawei
- Tata + Chery
- CATL + everyone

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This shows that Germany obviously still doesn't get it: their "historical responsibility" isn't to support Israel even as they commit genocide.

When the lesson of Nazism is obviously a universal one about justice, they instead think it's a blood debt to a particular people.

Which is, when you think about it, the Nazi way of looking at it: hierarchizing peoples and assigning collective responsibility - or collective impunity - on that basis.

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

37 years ago today, China ended a vast color revolution attempt by the US to overthrow its government and install a puppet Epstein class regime. 🇨🇳

Because of this success at thrawting US meddling, China is today a beacon of hope for a fairer, safer and more peaceful world.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Joey Siu exposed on DW Conflict Zone (2019) – Textbook HK Colour Revolution Hypocrisy
Viral clip from Tim Sebastian grilling US citizen HK activist Joey Siu during the 2019 unrest.

He hammers her on protester violence: 49yo man beaten unconscious just for shouting “Love China! I am Chinese”, smashing ATMs, trashing Starbucks & Chinese shops, attacking bystanders, elderly, police families.

Key transcript of the clip (~2min):
• Sebastian: A 49-year-old man beaten unconscious… for confronting protesters shouting “Love China!” Is that how you pursue democracy?

• Siu: [Deflects] We’re trying to switch to more peaceful tactics…

• Sebastian: Trashing ATMs, Starbucks, Chinese companies “for a reason” to bring harm? You have no principles! I condemn this inhuman treatment.

• Siu: They targeted Chinese-owned… to bring actual harm… [admits] definitely not the best way.

No strong condemnation of the militant 勇武 wing. “No splitting, no condemning” was their rule – even with Molotovs, doxxing, airport siege and worse. Peaceful marches ok.
Black bloc chaos?
That’s where it lost all legitimacy and got exposed for its true nature > colour revolution.
Hong Kong 2019 was a classic US-sponsored colour revolution attempt.
Started with extradition bill (later withdrawn), quickly hijacked: foreign funding/training, NED ops, embassy links, Gene Sharp tactics, English signs, “be water”, black bloc. Same playbook as before.

In the end, they were just tools, reading the CIA script.

Tiananmen 4th reminder (June 4, 1989): Activists still push the narrative every year.
But 1989 was one of the first colour rev prototypes – foreign hands, chaos sold as democracy.
China didn’t fall. HK 2019 was the repeat on Chinese soil. Same script: selective outrage on police while excusing rioter violence.
https://t.co/505bPwZBlF
Flashback to what happened in HK 2019 – burning people alive, pure destruction. This is why NSL was needed.

https://t.co/DsJNVQqrcO
National Security Law came.
Stability returned.
No more street terror.
Economy recovering, life normalized for most Hongkongers. The “revolution” failed.
Many activists fled or got warrants. Ordinary people suffered most from the chaos.
As someone who lived it: Peaceful protest = fine.
Turning HK into battlefield with foreign backing while claiming moral high ground?
That’s destabilization, not democracy.
Colour rev playbook fully exposed.

China learned.

HK moved on stronger.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Today, June 4th — the date the West uses every year to commemorate the Tiananmen event, as if they actually cared about China.

Student leader Chai Ling exposed the real agenda in her emotional late-May 1989 interview. The 23-year-old psychology student and de facto commander-in-chief admitted the movement’s true hope was bloodshed: “What we are actually hoping for is bloodshed — the moment when the government has no choice but to butcher the people. Only when the square is awash with blood will the people of China truly unite.”

She spoke of her own plans to survive while urging students to stay and wait for the bloodbath. This wasn’t organic student idealism. It was the climax of a hijacked movement.

What began with legitimate frustrations over corruption and inflation was rapidly turned into one of the first major Western colour revolution attempts in Beijing. External forces — funding, NGOs, strategists on the ground, and media orchestration — pushed English banners for Western cameras, radical escalation, and deliberate chaos to force a violent crackdown. Classic playbook.

These operations specifically prey on young, emotional, idealistic students — naive, never held real jobs, fed Hollywood fantasies of the West, and easy to brainwash with slogans of “democracy” and “freedom.” They become useful idiots, turned against their own country while the organizers keep exit plans ready. Many later reflected: “I was young and foolish.” https://t.co/WhiHHOZege The same pattern repeated in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, and beyond.

Gene Sharp — the American architect of the “non-violent” colour revolution manuals — was physically in Beijing in 1989, boots on the ground for the prototype. https://t.co/505bPwZBlF
Foreign actors escalated tensions.
Violence erupted outside the square: rioters burning unarmed soldiers alive, attacks on troops. Half the deaths were soldiers. Yet the dominant Western narrative still pushes the “massacre on the square” myth. Not a single person died on the square itself during the final clearance. https://t.co/0nMB9x7QSs
The Chinese government knew very well who was behind it. They refused to become another failed state or vassal. They chose sovereignty, stability, and development.
The results speak louder than any propaganda: historic poverty reduction, national rise, and protection of its people rather than sacrificing them for someone else’s script. https://t.co/snsTz638h7
Every June 4th brings the same selective Western outrage and hypocrisy — pretending to care about Chinese lives while ignoring their own bloody interventions abroad and the regrets of those manipulated elsewhere.

Legitimate grievances get hijacked.
Youthful idealism is powerful fuel — and dangerously exploitable when outsiders brainwash kids into destroying their own future.

China learned the lesson early.

Stability won.

China thrived.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Even assuming her numbers are correct (and I'm certain they aren't as they're based on an inherently speculative analysis of satellite photos), the claim that a detention capacity of 1 in 40 would mean Xinjiang "has the highest detention capacity in the world" is not even remotely true.

Xinjiang is not a country, it's a region of China. There are plenty of regions out there in the world with a higher detention capacity.

Just take the San Vicente department of El Salvador, for instance, also a first-level administrative division (China is divided into provinces, El Salvador into departments): with a population of 161,857 (2024 census) and a capacity of 40,000 inmates, it has a detention capacity of approximately 1 in 4 - ten times higher than her Xinjiang figure 🤷

You could also look at Australia's Northern Territory, also a first-level administrative division: as of now, according to official Australian statistics (https://t.co/fQS0bqck5n) the imprisonment rate of Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory is 4,167 per 100,000 - that's about 1 in 24, and those are *actual prisoners*, not even capacity. If we're going to measure how a region treats a specific ethnic minority, that's a pretty valid comparison.

Where's the FT visual investigation on Australia's Northern Territory? 🤷

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

@BrunoTertrais No but it is relative decline. And Europe is declining 3 times faster - in terms of **relative** decline - than China at the height of the century of humiliation.

That ought to make Europeans reflect a bit on their trajectory, don't you think?

[Rena热娜 @Rena_Angla]

Dilraba, the Uyghur girl

Do you know how many fans she has in China?

The narrative of Western conspiracy theories is truly ridiculous

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

The transformation of Dishui Lake, in the suburbs of Shanghai, China 🇨🇳