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When we think of China's transformation, we think of the glitz and glamor of cities like Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzhen. Yet another equally significant transformation happened w/o much fanfare - the restoration of China's desert. The Loess Plateau is once again lush and fertile.
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This is China 1990s versus today.
It is the hard work of a whole nation, the competences of a CPC system of delivering results, the collective experience of a civilisation state that contributed to where China is today.
All the conditions are there today for China to thrive, a system focused on delivering results as opposed to a Western procedural system not attached to a long term project and only tied to corporate greed and election cycles.
Only when the West will stop being arrogant and first step: recognise a superior system, will the West be able to start reforming and competing.
Until then, the development/innovation gap, China’s trade surplus will only widen.
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"I had an affair" is a PR nightmare. "I used a shell company to move $7.5B in banned AI chips to China" is a federal crime. Who was really using whom? The mainstream media is missing the biggest Nvidia story of the decade. Watch here: youtu.be/IC3Kh40dEQY
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This is f*cking insane
Everyone is talking about Jensen Huang's affair this week. Almost nobody is talking about what he said about paying $8 billion in taxes
Nvidia CEO, asked about California's billionaire tax:
"The fact that I can afford to pay $8 billion in taxes over five years is a privilege"
"I'm not afraid of paying taxes. I'm just afraid of being poor"
In 3 minutes, he explains why he's fine paying it while other billionaires spend millions fighting it:
0:31 - "I don't mind paying taxes. Why not?"
0:33 - The one thing he hates: tax dollars wasted
1:05 - "I am the ultimate American dream"
2:13 - The question: $8B over five years, still worth it?
2:37 - Afraid of being poor, not of taxes
2:51 - Why he pays his people as much as possible, not as little
When billionaires fight a tax, most people blame greed
Jensen is teaching the math underneath:
country → education → company → merit → success → taxes
Old way: pay as little as possible, to the state and to your people
New way: paying more is the proof you won
Better than any $2,000 finance course I've seen
Is he right or is that easy to say when you're a billionaire?
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I accidentally deleted this post, so I'm posting it again.
Facts have already proven that ethnic Chinese can never own huge money in Western society. First it was Zhao Changpeng, then it was Jensen Huang—when Chinese people make a fortune in Western society, they get targeted, and those white people start thinking up all kinds of legal or illegal ways to plunder your assets. North Korean hackers, Chinese spies......they'll come up with all sorts of pretexts. What's even more terrifying is that this kind of plundering is in fact tacitly accepted throughout Western society.
This is actually determined by the barbaric nature of white people. Over the past few thousand years, they have fundamentally been a predatory, barbaric people. For the past few thousand years, they have been eating disgusting food, growing ugly beards, and living in low wooden huts. They are not good at building things themselves at all, but they are keen on plundering one another on the European continent or at sea. After the Industrial Revolution, these robbers invented advanced weapons, which enabled them to go around the world plundering and bringing endless disaster to the world. After China's rise, on the physical level, these white barbarian have lost the possibility of plundering the East, but when it comes to those Chinese people making money in Western society, they still cannot suppress their own predatory nature, letting these naive Asian billionaires experience what true Western civilization is.
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A Chinese billionaire having an affair with a young Chinese woman is a BIGGER story/has a bigger coverage than EPSTEIN scandal.
An affair is a bigger story than raping, torturing, and killing children.
Says a lot.
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Today, the Chinese and U.S. militaries held a solemn ceremony in Chengdu to mark the handover of the remains of American airmen, who fought alongside the Chinese people against Japanese aggression during WWII.
We will never forget these heroic American friends who stood shoulder to shoulder with us for peace and justice. May their legacy live on, and may peace prevail.
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Jensen Huang’s affair is just a trigger. What we are witnessing is a pre-planned power grab over Nvidia’s trillion-dollar computing empire, coordinated by Wall Street and Washington.
Some sharp Chinese-American commentators call it America’s new Red Scare targeting elite Asian entrepreneurs.
Bill Gates, Elon Musk and other white tech billionaires have faced repeated scandals over personal conduct. None were dragged into national security probes or boardroom takeovers. Only Jensen Huang, after a personal relationship misstep, faces an independent board investigation and hostile narrative from intelligence circles.
The double standard could not be clearer: For white elites, personal flaws are private matters. For a Chinese-born leader controlling a strategic tech asset, any tiny blemish gets framed as a national security risk.
Nvidia is the backbone of global AI computing, valued at roughly $4 trillion. Unlike Meta, where Mark Zuckerberg locks control with dual-class super-voting shares, or Microsoft and Amazon, deeply integrated with the Pentagon and intelligence agencies, Nvidia has no such protective structure.
Public filings from 2026 show Jensen Huang holds only 3.58% of shares, and all directors plus executives together hold merely 3.94%. Vanguard and BlackRock own 9.32% and 7.43% respectively, holding decisive voting power. Without institutional shields or deep political backing, this critical tech giant sits exposed on the chessboard of great-power competition.
The groundwork for this takeover was laid months ago. Longtime board allies of Huang, Mark Perry and Michael McCaffrey, stepped down from key committees. Insiders tied to Democratic establishment, Wall Street and U.S. intelligence quietly moved in:
✅ Suzanne Nora Johnson, former Goldman Sachs vice chair and co-chair of Brookings Institution, joined Nvidia’s audit committee in July 2026 with direct oversight of internal investigations and compliance. ✅ Kenneth Jacobs, vice chair of Brookings and incoming Vanguard chair, controls the largest institutional voting bloc and operates within the same inner circle as Johnson.
✅ Gilman Louie,founding CEO of CIA-backed venture fund In-Q-Tel and member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, works alongside Johnson on the same national tech fund, overseeing intelligence acquisition of strategic tech firms.
The media rollout followed a precise political timeline. Initial trial balloons appeared on Oct 29. On Nov 6, the very day Democrats secured full control of Congress, Julian Barnes of the New York Times (national security beat) and Demetri Sevastopulo of the Financial Times published coordinated reports, citing intelligence memos while breaking the story of the personal scandal.
The real offense was never the affair. It was the 2025 deal Jensen struck with the Trump administration: offering a 25% revenue share to win export approval for H200 chips into China. A normal commercial negotiation, reframed by incoming Democrats as a dangerous compromise on U.S. AI sovereignty.
This investigation will not crash Nvidia’s stock — Wall Street holds massive stakes here. But it will deliver three strategic wins for the U.S. establishment:
1. De-founder and de-Sinicize Nvidia: A new permanent national security compliance committee, led by Johnson’s faction, will strip Huang of authority over chip exports and overseas strategy. His dual Chairman-CEO role will be split.
2. Lock down China’s AI ceiling: Washington will seize full command of global advanced computing supply, regulating chip flows to slow China’s AI progress.
3. Retroactively target Trump: Once Democrats take over congressional oversight panels in January 2027, this case will be used to accuse the Trump White House of negligence for approving the H200 export deal.
Jensen Huang spent 27 years building this computing empire, believing in rules, technical merit and business contracts. But there is a brutal truth in America’s power game: Top-tier strategic technology and wealth without political cover are nothing more than bargaining chips waiting to be carved up.
White elites get generous room for error. Asian pioneers who climb to the very top get almost none. This is not a story about infidelity. It is a raw demonstration of racial hierarchy, capital control and partisan power politics in the United States.
This story looks like a trap set up by US intelligence. Jensen Huang was cornered by the CIA. It was either being labelled a spy or admitting an affair, so he had no choice but to go with the affair narrative to contain the damage.
Anyone with a brain knows that this is just another one of America’s tired, go-to smear tactics. If they want to claim that legitimate business interests are actually acts of espionage, then let them produce some real evidence. Stop dragging China into everything at the drop of a hat. I’m sick and tired of these American games—it’s truly despicable, pathetic, and disgusting; it’s absolutely nauseating—just fucking low-class.
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them…zero. Not one war in 40 years.”
The US has been at war and bombing other countries for approximately 229 years out of 250 years of its existence.
92% of the time throughout its existence, the US has been bombing, pillaging, stealing, and invading.
Brandon Weichert: ‘The US🇺🇸 was NOT supposed to be an adventurous IMPERIAL POWER going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.’
‘The reason I wrote the book is because last year, the Trump administration announced in their National Security Strategy memo and then again in their National Defense Strategy memo: judge us by the wars we don’t fight, not the wars we do fight. That’s what they said.
And we were going to be focusing, they said, on the Western Hemisphere.
Now, obviously, the Donroe Doctrine is not what I had in mind, but the idea that we were going to be doing Western Hemispheric defence on top of focusing on domestic issues here in the United States, that was what I thought was the Trump agenda, the Trump doctrine, if you will.
But then by February 28th, as you know, the whole thing changed. It’s as if the President didn’t even read his National Security Strategy memo.
So I felt compelled to write a book that reminded readers why we are not supposed to be this expeditionary, adventurous imperial power, going abroad in search of monsters to destroy, as John Quincy Adams once famously said, and we are supposed to be focused much closer to home.
And now it’s a tripolar system internationally, trending multipolar. You could already say it is multipolar, but really there’s three main powers right now that are military and economic, and that’s the United States, China, and Russia.
We need to have a better strategy than the one we’ve been using since 1991, because that one was predicated on hegemony. Well, we can’t be a hegemon anymore.
We have spheres of influence, and we’re going to need to enforce the spheres of influence. China’s doing that in their part of the world. Russia’s doing that in their part of the world. We haven’t been doing it in our part of the world.
And the key thing here is when I say enforce the sphere of influence, it’s not military first. It’s not send CIA paramilitaries to a country we don’t like in Latin America and knock off the country. The whole currency of the realm in 21st century international affairs is geoeconomics. It’s trade.
First and foremost, it’s the economy, and so you have to be able to make your first point of contact in terms of foreign policy the economic front. The United States used to be good at this.
This was what the founders wanted us to do. I quote George Washington effusively in the book. This goes back to the founding, a commercial republic, and that’s what we need to go back to. And unfortunately, under this President, we’ve lost sight of that completely.’
—@WeTheBrandon, Author of ‘Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine’
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇
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The contrast is crystal clear. While some security forces shove and shout at civilians, China’s service members are always there to help their people. Security is built in two very different ways.
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Britain got China addicted to opium, and when China tried to stop it, Britain went to war to keep selling.
In the 19th century, British merchants flooded China with opium grown in British-ruled Bengal. By the late 1830s millions of Chinese were addicted, and China's silver was flowing out to pay for the drug.
In 1839, Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu seized and destroyed more than 20,000 chests of British opium in Canton. London answered with gunboats.
China lost the First Opium War. Under the 1842 Treaty of Nanking it paid Britain 21 million silver dollars, opened five ports to British trade and handed over Hong Kong. After the Second Opium War, the opium trade was made legal.
By 1906, an imperial edict admitted that three or four out of every ten Chinese were smoking it.
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US Sec of War Pete Hegseth labeled China’s Confucius Institutes a national security threat. No evidence of espionage—just language classes, calligraphy & dumpling workshops.
If Mandarin is a threat, how long has China been threatened by English, Hollywood & Starbucks?
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Who do young Chinese citizens think is the greatest person in the history of China?
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Nos vendieron en Europa que Rusia se quedaría sola con la Guerra de Ucrania. Y hoy 48 de 54 países de Unión Africana han participado en la III Cumbre Rusia-África celebrada en el Kremlin "Por la paz, la seguridad y el desarrollo". Europa está perdida.
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"You are a tool, nothing but a tool."
Scott Ritter, former US Marine intelligence officer, with a message for Filipinos :
> "You think America is your friend. So too did the Ukrainian people"
> "We are using you to gain some sort of momentary leverage over the Chinese"
> "when the tool ceases to be useful, we will discard you"
> "China is not your enemy. China is your neighbor"
Harsh words. Now look at the facts on the ground.
A US colony from 1898 to 1946.
Today : 9 EDCA sites open to US forces, a Typhon missile launcher on Luzon since April 2024, and in May the first Tomahawk ever fired from Philippine soil.
Every one of those points at China. Every one of them turns the Philippines into a target.
Whose war is being prepared in Luzon ? And who would pay for it ?
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Sean Haines wrote a Substack hit piece, amplified by Bill Bishop, trying to trick his audience into believing @RnaudBertrand and I went on a covert, Chinese-state-sponsored RV trip through Xinjiang.
To pull it off, he relied on textbook logical fallacies, doctored back-translations, and outright lies about "deleted" tweets.
The funniest part? While Arnaud and I run real businesses and pay for our own family vacations, guess who actually used to cash checks as a literal mouthpiece for Chinese state media before pivoting to the Western anti-China grift?
Every accusation from these people is a confession.
Here’s a preview of the full takedown, the full teardown will go live on YouTube tomorrow morning.
I long knew that Bill Bishop was the high priest of these so-called "China experts" who systematically promote a negative image of the country.
What I didn't know is that he was a straight-up conspiracy theorist, I thought he was a tad more subtle than this.
This article he's pushing - written by an anonymous account (these people are always so courageous) - says my trip to Xinjiang this summer was part of a promotion campaign by the Chinese government.
Which is of course completely false, and I can prove it: I personally paid for everything and I have the receipts.
My two biggest expenses, given this was an RV trip and we were sleeping in the RV (as everyone who followed the trip here on X knows) were:
A) the RV rental fee
B) the plane tickets to travel to Xinjiang from Malaysia and back
All four receipts are attached. The RV cost us RMB 18,000 (about US$2,650) for the month, paid in two installments: a RMB 3,000 down payment to the rental company in May to reserve it, and the RMB 15,000 balance when we picked it up.
The plane tickets for the four of us cost RM 8,164 (about US$2,050): RM 3,915 to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Urumqi and RM 4,249 to fly back.
Except for these, all our other expenses were relatively small: mostly restaurants, snacks, attraction fees and a hotel in Urumqi for the last 10 days, during which our daughters were at a holiday camp to perfect their Chinese with local kids. I also, unfortunately, had some medical fees because, as followers know, I ended up having health issues during the trip. Happy to show receipts for all of these too...
The supposed "proofs" that this was a promotional trip in Bishop's promoted article are 1) that I got interviewed by Chinese media at some point towards the end of my trip, and 2) that I met up with my friend Daniel Dumbrill and his family.
The second one is particularly hilarious. They write "One foreigner spending weeks touring Xinjiang in an RV with his young family is odd. Two is odder." That's it, that's the extent of the proof: it's "odd" 🤷 Yes, super odd indeed that two friends would meet up on holiday, completely unheard of! What a joke...
Plus, it's anything but "odd" for me to travel in China in an RV with my family: as people who follow me are (maybe painfully) aware, it's the third summer we've done this. Before Xinjiang we'd toured Dongbei in an RV in 2023 (China's northeast) and some of the central provinces like Gansu in the summer of 2021.
It's even less odd for my friend Daniel who owns his RV and lives in China: he travels in his RV with his family all the time.
And it's actually the third time our 2 families have met during trips to China: friends, oddly, have this strange habit of wanting to see each other. Deeply suspicious behavior, I know.
As for the first "proof", the fact I got interviewed by Chinese media, it's such a stupid accusation. For better or worse (I'd argue for worse, and because of people like Bill Bishop), a foreign family travelling to Xinjiang is indeed news in China. It shouldn't be, it should be normal, but the geopolitical climate is such that it is.
I agreed to meet up with @FriedaLi3 from Beijing Review by the end of our trip because we already knew each other and I like her work, which I find nuanced and thoughtful.
It's basically the equivalent of, say, a Uyghur family from Xinjiang doing an RV trip in France: it's a good story and I'm sure French media would want to interview them. I don't see how it'd be scandalous, unless of course you're Bill Bishop, in which case it'd be irrefutable proof of an Orwellian French influence operation.
Bishop's promoted article also points out the Substack post that I wrote at the end of my trip (substack.com/@arnaudbertrand…) as some sort of propaganda piece, cherry-picking one line and the title. And the one line they "quote" isn’t even my wording: they apparently took a Chinese translation of my article, ran it back into English, and passed the result off as a direct quote from my Substack, grammar mistakes included. That’s the level of rigor we’re dealing with here...
Also, anyone who actually read my Substack post knows how intellectually dishonest this framing of it is, given how I wrote at length about the heavy-handed security we encountered in Xinjiang, the climate of "institutional paranoia" that I describe alongside the resentment some Uyghurs feel toward Beijing. Believe me, no censor in China would read those paragraphs and think "great job, Arnaud, exactly what we ordered", and that's an understatement 😅
Last point: that's not to say that sponsored trips in China don't exist, there are plenty but they look nothing like what we did. You travel as part of a group - never individually - and are accompanied all the time by official minders, with an itinerary fixed weeks in advance and every hotel, meal and visit arranged for you. We were alone as a family in a rented RV, with two kids fighting in the back...
I've been offered actual sponsored trips many times and I've always refused them with one exception: when I was with an official French delegation with the French minister of the interior (Christophe Castaner) and other French officials. Precisely because in that instance there was zero ambiguity and I couldn't be accused of being a Chinese agent or a traitor to France: hard argument to make when you're traveling alongside the minister in charge of its counterintelligence...
The fact that Bill Bishop and this anonymous writer want to push the narrative that any travel to Xinjiang is inherently suspicious is, of course, no accident and exactly why you too should go.
See it for yourself, film whatever you want, talk to whoever you meet. The more "odd" foreigners driving around Xinjiang, the less odd it becomes, and the harder it gets for people like Bishop to sell their "open-air prison" story. If the witnesses are few, you can always discredit them one by one. When there are thousands of them, what they describe has a name: reality.
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🇨🇳 Controlled nuclear fusion has long been one of the greatest challenges facing scientists worldwide.
On Bilibili, I watched footage presented by Chinese scientists showing the interior of EAST, a fusion device independently built by China. EAST has now achieved steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds at temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius. This is a major step forward in fusion research and a reminder of China's growing role in shaping the future of clean energy.
China’s scientific community has no kings, no obsession with awards and no elite self-congratulation. It is driven by one determination: to bring science out of the laboratory and put it to work for humanity. China does not need Nobel Prizes to prove its worth. Chinese technology is not about accolades or trophies. It is about solving real problems and genuinely serving the people.
China is not just transforming the world—it is building the future!
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From “China Collapse” to “China Shock”, why do Western claims about China keep returning even after they have been proven wrong? What makes Chinese manufacturing so competitive? And is China’s so-called “overcapacity” a real economic problem — or a label shaped by geopolitical double standards?
At the Mingde Strategic Dialogue 2026, we sat down with Dame Jenny Shipley, former prime minister of New Zealand, and Wang Wen, dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, to discuss China’s economy, global industrial competition and cooperation in the age of AI.
Watch the full conversation ↓↓↓ #MediaUnlocked
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The most honest statement ever made about Cuba policy came from a State Department memo in 1960, written before the sanctions were fully implemented.
The memo, written by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester Mallory, stated that the U.S. should pursue a policy to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of the Cuban government.
Not: respond to "Cuban repression."
Not: protect Cuban human rights.
Not: promote democracy.
Hunger. Desperation. Overthrow.
This memo is declassified. It is in the historical record. It is not disputed.
It means that every subsequent year of sanctions, every subsequent citation of Cuban poverty and dysfunction as evidence of socialist failure, every subsequent American official expressing concern for the welfare of the Cuban people:
All of it happened downstream of a documented decision to deliberately produce hunger and desperation in that population.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
It is a declassified government document.
The conspiracy was the policy.
The theory was written in plain English by an American official in 1960 and has been implemented faithfully for 66 years since.
What they wanted to prove, they engineered the conditions to prove.
And then they called it evidence.
ALT U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester D. Mallory's secret memorandum recommended economic measures to bring about "hunger, desperation and overthrow of government" in Cuba. Declassified U.S. State Department memorandum, 6 April 1960, FRUS Document 499.