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[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

AN EDITING ERROR exposed a secret: the UK Daily Telegraph is being edited by a robot.

This was surmised after the news outlet published an article about China with an odd, puzzling paragraph in the middle.

In the middle of the piece about Xi and Trump, it said:

“To further divide the piece and maintain that authoritative, broadsheet pace, here are two additional subheads. These focus on the geopolitical consequences and the final ‘optics’ of the trip:
The regional fallout of a rhetorical shift.”

What did this mean?

Journalists at UK Press Gazette eventually concluded that this was a comment on the original text added to it by an AI-powered robot sub-editor, overseeing the work of human writers.

Instead of noting the robot’s comment and deleting it, someone (a human? another robot?) added it to the main text of the report, and it was published as part of the story.

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HORRIFIED
This indication of the use of AI at that level horrified many journalists, including the writer of this post.

Professional reporters of our generation generally hate AI and refuse to engage with it, preferring to use human researchers and editors.

To promote AI to a senior editorial role is the death of credibility.

Oh, wait, this was the Daily Telegraph. Credibility long dead!

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

'If you do not stop speaking right now you will not graduate'.

This 17-year-old's speech was cut off after she mentioned people suffering around the world. 'Free speech' is a myth in the US.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Security intervened to prevent any display of the Russian flag in celebration of 19-year-old Mirra Andreeva's victory. We are being indoctrinated by our radical political-media establishment to hate an entire nation.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Jimmy Dore: "We preach democracy to China. But we don't have democracy here - the oligarchs run everything. The Princeton study proved 90% of people's wishes never become law. Only the top 10% of wealthy matter.

In China, the government sits above capital. The economy works for the people. Here, capital sits above government. The economy works for billionaires"

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

LINDSEY GRAHAM: “I go back to S.C. and I’m asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the Middle East. To all the isolationists: I’m not with you, I’m with Israel. God bless Israel. We should move all of our stuff to Israel.”

He actually said this on live television.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: The US has banned the Iranian National Football team from staying on its territory before or after a World Cup match

The Iranian team will stay and train in Mexico; it will only be allowed to enter the US on match days and must leave after the game

Iran is the only country subjected to such treatment by the United States

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

Singapore now blames China for discontent at home against Indians in the city-state.

Singapore is too afraid to embrace their Han identity, the Confucian meritocracy that built the city.

Instead, their government is brainwashing its Han majority to embrace their "Indianness" claiming it as an integral part of the Singapore identity.

Chinese identity built Singapore, Indian identity will destroy it.

This is a subtle but clear trend of late, just last month, Singaporean press attacked the Chinese film "Dear You", a highly acclaimed film released this year, telling the story of a Chaoshan family from southern China, and their connections to family members moved to Southeast Asia (Thailand).

State controlled Singaporean press hated it because they see it as China asserting the cultural connections between China and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia.

Many in Singapore would worship the West and their special relations with the US, denouncing their own blood relatives. This trend of importing 3rd world ideas and culture from India will be the city's downfall. And it aligns with the suicidal migration policies of Western liberalism.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

CHINESE SCIENTISTS created a new medicine that is being hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against lung cancer, it was revealed this week.

“And the results here, I think, are quite astounding,” said Dr Monty Pal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in a YouTube video review. “What we see here is an improvement in median overall survival.”

Yet the development of the new drug, called ivonescimab in English, is being portrayed as worrying news by politicians and media in the US. Why?

The US elite’s congenital megalomania means it has to be number one in every field. This need triggers extreme paranoia—and means that Chinese lifesaving advances are bad news.

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NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT
“It’s a war right now with China,” said United States Department of Health and Human Services Chris Klomp at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference.

"We face a national security threat right now...it's not one of missiles and tanks. It's of laboratories and life-saving medications.”

Oh no! Not life-saving medications!

Will the dastardly Chinese stop at nothing?

But it gets worse. If American patients become reliant on the Chinese for drugs, there is a risk of “creating a new Strait of Hormuz”, said former FDA chief Dr. Peter Marks, quoted in the New York Times.

That’s a telling remark. Not only is the paranoia up front and center, but look at the example he chose. The US created an entirely needless problem in Iran, with thousands dead and millions suffering from fuel shortages.

Western political plays have real world consequences for both sides--and innocent parties, too.

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CHINA SCIENTISTS GET TOP SPOT
The medical issue escalated last week at the annual ASCO global gathering of oncologists (cancer doctors).

The five biggest breakthroughs are given top-of-the-bill presentation slots—and politicians and journalists were shocked when one of them went to Chinese medical scientists who conducted their trials in China.

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THE ISSUES
Let’s look at the issues, one by one:

Are there serious concerns that the new drug, ivonescimab, doesn’t work or only works on Chinese people?

- No. The drug was created by a Chinese firm called Akeso Biopharma, and it is already used successfully in China. There has since been a global study in the United States, Canada and Europe, too, to ensure diversified data.

Are there worries that China may deny sending this and other drugs to Americans?

- No. Chinese companies keep the rights for their own country and then license the drugs in the US to American firms. Ivonescimab in the US is a product of Summit Therapeutics of Miami.

Is there concern that the data is false?

- No. The Lancet, a medical academic journal, has already printed a study saying that people who got the new drug had a 34 percent lower death rate.

Is the problem that the Chinese copied the drug from the US?

- No. That’s not how science works. Science advances through data-driven breakthroughs, irrespective of where they take place.

So what is the problem?

It’s the usual one: the US needs to dominate everything, whoever gets hurt. In the case of medicines from China, the victims of needless hostility will include US citizens, if drugs are delayed or banned.

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BUILDING WALLS
President Donald Trump has already signed legislation that prevents US government bodies signing contracts with Chinese biotech firms, however beneficial their products and services may be.

And separately, politicians in Congress are trying to get rules passed that prevent the recognition of data from clinical trials in Mainland China or Hong Kong.

Some US journalists also appear less interested in the scientific breakthroughs than the politics of who is making them. The New York Times report last week on the topic began with these lines:

“For decades, an annual gathering of oncologists has featured drug trials that were run mainly at American and European hospitals.

“But at this year’s meeting, which is being held in Chicago this weekend, the signs are everywhere of China’s ascendance as a powerhouse in drug development — and of the threat that many believe it poses to American biotechnology.”

China’s latest threat: lifesaving medications.

[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.

[Nesta @dprkarlos]

Los cables filtrados de la embajada de EEUU desmintieron las supuestas masacres en la plaza de Tiananmen, confirmando en gran parte la versión oficial del gobierno chino.

Pero las ONGs de derechos humanos, el brazo más repulsivo de la CIA, siguen intentando colocar el relato.

[Reuters @Reuters]

CORRECTION: Israel plans major settlement push across occupied West Bank https://t.co/1MGC3gNXdo

We will delete a post that referenced Israel’s latest settlement push as being seen by many as illegal; Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are deemed illegal under international law

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING

Iran's Supreme Leader's Top Military Advisor to CNN:

"If the War continues and the Naval Blockade is not lifted we will drag the war to the Indian Ocean, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Mediterranean Sea

We will give another dimension to the war by attacking these other American bases that we have been attacking so far"

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Y’all need to check this out, the Albania situation is getting more intense by the day. Apparently, Saudis entered the chat!!

This is top-tier reporting.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Afganistán solía ser exportador neto de alimentos... pero cuando la invadió EEUU y tomó el control del pais, pasó a ser el productor del 93% de la heroína mundial. Pregunté a la DEA y me dijeron que los poderosos querían que se plantara ese opio"

John Kiriakou, agente de la CIA durante 14 años, denuncia como EEUU traficó con la heroína en Afganistán y la propia DEA estaba involucrada en las plantaciones de opio.

[Ryan @forbiddenmerch]

Never forget when X updated the platform and showed the DHS is based in Israel

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Glory to Albania kicking out the Israeli settlers on Sazan island.

You have to nip it in the bud before cancer spreads, Cyprus we are looking at you.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🚨🇰🇷🇮🇳A viral video shows a Korean man disguised as a pregnant woman being harassed by Indian men while celebrating with them.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov on nuclear weapons:

Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program — and he was mocked and killed on live television to the delight of Hillary Clinton, who literally applauded in front of the screen.

North Korea simply concluded that without nuclear weapons, they would be wiped off the face of the earth.

They are acting on this choice — and no one touches them.

With Iran, all of this started because Iran had supposedly been promoting international terrorism for 47 years. It very quickly became clear that the reason was once again oil.

The Americans proposed that they and Iran control the Strait of Hormuz 50/50. It's all about oil again — all about the world's energy markets.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨 EVERYTHING THAT COULD GO WRONG FOR MARKETS WENT WRONG TODAY.

S&P 500 down -1.65%, wiping out $1.14 trillion.
Nasdaq down -2.60%, wiping out $1.11 trillion.
Gold down -3.38%, wiping out $1 trillion.
Silver down -6.9%, wiping out $280 billion.
Bitcoin down -6.31%, wiping out $80 billion.

In total $2.5 TRILLION wiped out in a single session. These were not isolated moves. Everything started breaking at the same time.

It started with the jobs report this morning.

The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May. Wall Street expected 88,000. That is almost double.

On any normal day, strong jobs is good news. But inflation is already at 3.8% and oil is sitting at $90. A labor market this strong tells the Fed it cannot cut interest rates and may actually need to raise them.

The probability of a rate hike this year went from 40% to 57% in a single day. That spooked every investor holding tech and growth stocks because higher rates mean those stocks are worth less today.

Then the AI trade started cracking.

Yesterday Broadcom reported record earnings: revenue up 48%, AI chip sales up 143% and the stock still crashed 12.6%. The reason was simple.

Broadcom did not raise its AI revenue targets for the year. Investors had expected it to. That single miss made people ask a question they had been avoiding for months: are we paying too much for AI stocks?

That question got louder today when a research firm called SemiAnalysis revealed that Nvidia's next-generation AI chips will need significantly less memory than everyone assumed, roughly half of what the market was pricing in.

Memory chips are what companies like SK Hynix and Samsung make. SK Hynix fell nearly 10% today. Samsung fell over 6%.

South Korea's entire stock market crashed 5.5% in a single session. Japan's semiconductor stocks did the same.

And then Anthropic added fuel to the fire by publishing a report warning that AI is getting close to the point where it can improve itself without human help and calling for a global pause in AI development.

Coming on the same day as the memory demand news and Broadcom's miss, it fed a single growing fear across the market: what if the AI boom is moving faster than the business models can keep up with?

Underneath all of this, there is a liquidity problem nobody is talking about.

SpaceX goes public next week at a $1.75 trillion valuation. Anthropic just filed to go public. OpenAI is next.

These three companies together are worth $4 to $5 trillion. Fund managers need cash to buy into these listings.

But cash levels are already at their lowest since early 2024. The only way to raise cash is to sell what they already own. That selling is happening right now.

The new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will also hold his very first policy meeting in 11 days. He was appointed by Trump with the expectation of cutting rates.

He is now walking into a situation where inflation is high, oil is high, and the job market is running hot. Investors do not know what he will do.

When nobody knows what the most powerful central banker in the world will decide in less than two weeks, the safest move is to reduce risk today.

Everything that could go wrong, went wrong at the same time. A hot jobs report, a collapsing ceasefire, a crack in the AI trade, a trillion dollar liquidity drain, and a Fed meeting with no clear outcome.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

The US is alarmed that China is trying to cure cancer