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China's G1 humanoid robot is mastering combat skills at a terrifying rate pic.twitter.com/CTv5W1QXZj — Interesting AF (@interesting_aIl) October 22, 2025 https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-g1
Beijing said economy grew 4.8% in the third quarter, a deceleration that nonetheless keeps it on track to hit its official annual target https://www.wsj.com/economy/chinas-economic-growth-slows-to-one-year-low-07e36e7b The July-September data was the weakest pace of growth since the third quarter of 2024, and compares with a 5.2% pace of growth in the previous …
Trump didn’t just hint at a trade deal with China. He admitted the United States helped build China’s military power. Not through espionage or theft, but through decades of bad trade policy, offshored industry, and the slow surrender of leverage. What he called “business” was really national decay dressed as …
The weapon disables infrastructure, rather than destroying it – cutting power It causes short circuits over power lines Can reach targets up to 180 miles https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/china-s-graphite-bomb-could-black-out-the-next-war-here-s-how/vi-AA1OJExI
Trump’s 100% tariffs are counting down to launch! Beijing’s rare-earth gambit backfires, prompting an emergency downshift and a sudden change in diplomatic tone. The U.S. and Australia are joining forces to build a “de-China-ized” rare-earth alliance, as a global encirclement takes shape. The South China Sea flares again, and the …
China makes 80% of the world’s industrial robots and has the highest density of them in the world. If the west does not change soon, China’s 24/7 dark factories will allow them to have a monopoly on global manufacturing because of how cheaply quickly and voluminously they can make things. …
🚨 BREAKING! 🇨🇳 China's August Economic Data MISSES Across the Board: 📉 Retail Sales YoY 3.4% (est. 3.9%, prev. 3.7%)📉 Industrial Production YoY 5.2% (est. 5.7%, prev. 5.7%)📈 Unemployment Rate 5.3% (est. 5.2%, prev. 5.2%)Jan-Aug 📉 Fixed Asset Investment YoY 0.5% (est.… pic.twitter.com/totPuytZVq — MacroMicro (@MacroMicroMe) September 15, 2025 China’s …
China’s CCP needs a huge international fire sale.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-great-firewall-springs-huge-leak Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering …
Iron Ore Hits Six-Month Highs Despite UBS Calling It "Least Discussed" With Investors https://t.co/Beue6dTikp — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 10, 2025 Singapore iron ore futures have perked up over the past week, extending gains into a sixth straight session and approaching a six-month high as signs of revived Chinese demand emerge …
The AP obtained tens of thousands of pages of classified and internal documents that show how U.S. companies designed and marketed systems that became the foundation for China’s digital cage. (AP Video/Serginho Roosblad, Marshall Ritzel)
On August 11 this year, the Hong Kong High Court ordered the liquidation of Shenzhen’s China South City Holdings. By asset size, this is the largest liquidation of a Chinese real estate company since Evergrande. Notably, three years ago, Shenzhen SEZ Construction And Development Group became the largest shareholder, but …
In 1999, Serbian radar crews were preparing for another wave of NATO strikes. But there were no explosions. In the middle of the night, substations across Belgrade began to fail in sequence. Power stations lost control. Air defense grids went offline. By morning, 70 percent of the country’s electricity was …
The EU plans to launch its digital euro in October this year. Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said, “It is piloted on a fairly large scale in China, [where it] is of use and of service to all citizens” https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/ecbs-lagarde-urges-eu-lawmakers-speed-up-digital-euro-law-2025-06-23/. She added, “So it is not something …
China’s real estate crash spirals: Builders fail, buyers flee, cities hollow out. Turns out concrete isn’t a liquid asset after all. “New home prices in 70 major cities fell for a 24th straight month in May, extending the longest losing streak since at least 2011” https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/chinas-home-prices-dip-may-extending-two-year-stagnation-2025-06-16 “The amount of unsold …
China is cutting off rare earth mineral supplies to Western militaries, disrupting critical defense production. The Wall Street Journal reported, “China has tightened export controls on rare earth minerals used in Western defense systems, raising concerns about supply chain security.” https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-rare-earth-export-controls-8e9c82c1 China controls more than 90% of the world’s rare …
Bloomberg found China is building a small city of AI data centers in a remote desert. In this mini-documentary, we reveal how it’s planning to use thousands of export-banned US chips to power them https://t.co/iIHBF0rFIA — Bloomberg (@business) July 31, 2025 China plans to build roughly 36 data centers in …
Asia’s deflation wave is no longer a theory. It’s a measurable shift. In June 2025, China’s producer price index dropped 3.6% year over year. That marks the sharpest contraction since July 2023 and extends the deflation streak to 33 consecutive months. The cost of production materials fell 4.4%. Mining prices …
What collapse am I referring to? The ongoing economic collapse in China… China is trapped in the worst deflationary spiral since the Great Depression, and one financial expert believes it’s a downturn the Chinese regime will not recover from. In today’s video, we talk about what’s happening in China, how …
China’s grand experiment with the digital yuan is spiraling out of control. Citizens are rejecting it, merchants are ditching it, and the government is panicking. The very currency that was supposed to give Beijing total financial control is being pushed back by the people. And now, a wave of economic …
China’s industrial profits dropped 9.1% in May 2025 compared to the same month last year. That is the sharpest monthly decline since October. The fall is not isolated. It is part of a broader contraction that has now stretched across multiple sectors and quarters. Beijing’s stimulus efforts are not catching. …
By Tsvetana Paraskova Battery makers in America have started to feel the pinch from China’s ban of exports of the critical mineral antimony, to the point of seeing the shortage as a national emergency. Last summer, China, which supplies more than half of the world’s antimony product, introduced export restrictions of …
On the morning of June 13, 2025, the South China Sea was struck by sudden chaos as Typhoon Wutip, the first named tropical cyclone of the year, surged toward Hainan Island with powerful winds and torrential rains. Formed just days earlier over the warm waters east of the Philippines, Wutip …
It is literally 4x in the case of Denmark, thank god for the labor movement pic.twitter.com/MDagjTdBK5 — Henry (@HeSBK) June 10, 2025 China’s wealth distribution is shifting, and the numbers tell a story that few expected. The bottom half of China’s population now holds twice as much wealth as the …
Northern China was caught off guard by a violent storm system that tore through cities and rural areas alike. What started as a typical summer afternoon quickly escalated into a full-scale weather disaster, leaving destruction in its wake. Convective storms erupted across the North China Plain and Bohai Rim, bringing …
Across China, an entire generation is learning to live without expecting progress. Not just on buying homes. Not just on getting married. They’re disconnecting from the promise that tomorrow will be different. And they’re learning to find peace in that silence. The Chinese middle class has collapsed. It’s not collapsing. …
by Mike Shedlock Rare earth minerals are China’s trump card. Trade Hardball Coming Up The Wall Street Journal reports China’s New Trade Negotiator Is Ready to Play Hardball In Geneva in mid-May, Vice Premier He Lifeng [pronounced “huh”] extracted a 90-day trade truce from a Trump team that had until then …
China is facing an unprecedented financial catastrophe that could reshape the global economy forever. From empty government offices where civil servants haven’t been paid in months, to elderly investors crying in the streets after losing their life savings, the signs are everywhere. China’s total debt has exploded to well over …
Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang weighs in on President Donald Trump threatening Apple with tariffs, trade talks and the state of China’s economy during a wide-ranging interview on ‘Mornings with Maria.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfVRv5QuB48
