Perfect illustration of how broken X's "community notes" system is. Complete fake news like this one 👇 on China's social credit score routinely amass millions of views with zero notes appearing. Which is crazy when you think about it. Anyone who spends more than 5 minutes in

John Mearsheimer: West Destroying Itself in Ukraine & Gaza https://t.co/V8oKmlWY6h

@ISO304S The accumulated tech export restrictions from ZTE/Huawei in 2018-19, Biden’s Oct 7 2022 and Oct 22 2023 chip restrictions and FDPR, the many escalations since, are more than poking and prodding. It’s kneecapping. Choking. Going for the jugular.

The Nobel Committee has decided to make the case for Trump’s war on Venezuela, giving its “Peace Prize” to Maria Corina Machado, a US govt-funded regime change activist who’s helped lead failed military coups, violent street riots, and has likely promised her country’s oil and

John Mearsheimer cuts through all the illusions: Ukraine has no way out but to drop NATO ambitions, give up its weapons, and hand over a large chunk of its land to Russia. That’s not peace ,it’s surrender under threat. The West, meanwhile, can do nothing. Its leaders spent years

Given the occasion, today's programme includes a visit to the Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul.

Takaichi Sanae's views on WW2/history, from a 2004 column on her website: •textbooks should feature "the great achievements of our predecessors" •Japan's "overseas advances" should not be called "aggression" •"it is clear that Japan's intent was to fight a defensive war"

This is the mess Yoon left behind. The far-right forces that had been active online have now come out into the open, fueled by Yoon’s agitation and the US MAGA forces. It is a fair and democratic outcome that South Korea is paying the price for having elected Yoon.

Der Autor warnt, „was die Politik betrifft, so ist es nun höchste Zeit, sich von Floskeln und hohlen Ankündigungen zu verabschieden und konkrete Schritte zu gehen“, um dann selbst nur Floskeln und hohle Ankündigungen zu präsentieren.

Right-wing racists in South Korea are inciting hatred against Chinese people with the slogan "We are Charlie Kirk". This is, of course, acceptable because, for the China hawks, Chinese people are second-class citizens.

“When Trump repeatedly breaks promises or abruptly shifts course, it deepens skepticism not only about him but also about the reliability of American institutions altogether. And once credibility is lost, it is hard to recover.”

Yes, only the U.S. is allowed to impose tariffs, restraints, and use coercive instruments - it is shockingly, shockingly unsporting when others do the same. Seriously, was the Treasury Secretary born last week?

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BYD recently exported over 900 EVs to Europe from its factory in Thailand for the first time. It’s a big deal because it could be the start of new globalized Chinese supply chains that can get around trade barriers by manufacturing in different countries. “Industrial diplomacy”

It's certainly possible that my collective operating loss estimate for the "Others" group is not exactly right. After all it is only an estimate. But now the burden of proof falls on others to come up with more accurate estimates. They cannot fall back on the fig leaf of

“Economists call this cumulative causation: Gains in one sector fuel advances in others. That’s exactly what the Chinese have been doing.”

About 70% of Chinese manufacturing is now in the tech-intensive, high-value sector. Automation integration is ~40 to 60%. It accounts for 54% of robot installations globally. That's why China is less concerned about low-end labour manufacturing moving elsewhere.

“Washington’s true objective is demonstrably not peace, but the continuation of its historically unwarranted dominance, even at the cost of turning the Asia-Pacific region, or even the rest of the world into spiraling chaos, conflict, and catastrophe.”

Professor Mearsheimer: why Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ won’t work https://t.co/Izju9vPrye via @YouTube

Being paid by Israel to post on social media is very lucrative.