🚨 XI JINPING: "China is ready to work with Peru to build a new land-sea corridor between China and Latin America with the Chancay Port as a starting point... From Chancay to Shanghai, we are witnessing the birth of a new Asia-Latin America land-sea corridor."

The China Russia East Gas Pipeline Project has been completed, with a total length of 5111 kilometers, and can supply 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China annually. This kind of huge project will obviously last for decades and serve as the foundation of future China

Huawei will launch its new flagship smartphone, the Huawei Mate 70 series, on November 26. The phone will feature the HarmonyOS Next system, completely independent of Android. In just 9 hours, 1.88 million reservations were registered on its official online store.

The pace of BYD's NEV production growth has been nothing short of sensational: 10 millionth: 2024 6 millionth: 2023 3 millionth: 2022 1 millionth: 2021 BYD's 10 millionth car (pic below) is a Denza, a brand founded in 2012 as a 50-50 JV with Mercedes-Benz. BYD now owns the

Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35 🗑️ 🫠

Meanwhile in China. #China

asiatimes.com/2024/11/how-ch… I analyze US dependence on Chinese industrial inputs and speculate about a possible Chinese response to US tariffs. A caveat: I don't believe China will retaliate against punitive tariffs. The US just isn't that important to China anymore (exports to US =

The "Sino-forming" of the Global South has taken off since I predicted it in my 2020 book, "You Will Be Assimilated." Chinese supply chains turn into exports to the US from a dozen countries (Mexico and Vietnam are the biggest).

🇩🇪 - Germany is going through deep industrial crisis • Country's industrial production has shrunk by around 5% over past ten years, with no recovery in sight • High energy prices, labour shortages and increasing EU-China tensions are among main reasons for crisis

I’m headed to Huawei’s Mate 70 launch event in Shenzhen (yes, Shenzhen Metro has business class). This phone/chip/OS/event is a really big deal for Chinese tech, and has big implications for US-China relations. Here’s some background.

Chinese EV capacity now exceeds 20m cars, per the South China Morning Post 1/x

2/3 of Korea will disappear every generation. Population collapse.

I often read about how Vietnam and Mexico have emerged as connector countries, helping firms get around the bilateral tariffs on China. That's no doubt true. But Taiwan should also be on that list. Taiwan in fact is up there with Vietnam 1/3

Huge....Huawei gets WeChat on board with HarmonyOS, a key step to challenge Android, iOS in China The US-sanctioned Chinese company hopes to have 100,000 apps in its self-developed mobile operating system this year sc.mp/33kqm?utm_sour… via @scmpnews

BYD is achieving the most explosive growth of any car company in history. Sales up 12x - 400K to 5.5M since 2020. BYD Sales 2020-2025 2020: 440K 2021: 610K 2022: 1.8M 2023: 3.1M 2024: 4.25M 2025: 5.5M (f) 2025 targeted deliveries would make BYD bigger than Honda,

#AthensDialogue2025 kicks off in Greece. Experts from China, Europe & America discussed how ancient civilizations can inspire global progress. Participants highlighted shared values of peace & mutual learning in Chinese & Greek cultures.

I regret some of my posts about President Donald J. Trump last week. They went too far.

What are the next tech innovations that might come out of #China? And what is the next "Sputnik moment"? Experts discuss the latest tech trends in China via ChinaFile. Read: chinafile.com/conversation/c…

Increasingly skeptical of reporting on DeepSeek + Huawei Ascends. A short thread. 🧵 Recent report quoting sources saying "delay" in the release of DeepSeek's V4 and R2 models stems fro Chinese government request/mandate? firm use Huawei Ascend processors to train new models.

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