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British-Australian in China 🇨🇳 | Geopolitical Analyst | Published Writer | China in focus. Read more 👇

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Seen this video online? The bullshit keeps getting spread. They’re spraying a high-tech maintenance nutrient solution that even includes grass seeds and this is a common practice in China. Even The Telegraph ran with the same rubbish, which says a lot about their credibility. 🖕

Seen this video online? The bullshit keeps getting spread. They’re spraying a high-tech maintenance nutrient solution that even includes grass seeds and this is a common practice in China. Even The Telegraph ran with the same rubbish, which says a lot about their credibility. 🖕

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Happy Year of the Horse 2026! 🐎 Wishing everyone joy, luck and success all year long. 新年快乐,马到成功!✨

Happy Year of the Horse 2026! 🐎 Wishing everyone joy, luck and success all year long. 新年快乐,马到成功!✨

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🇨🇳 Elon Musk gets it right About China: “The Chinese people simply view China’s ascendancy as resuming its normal place in history, the most powerful country on Earth.” The man builds things for a living, so he deals in engineering realities. He has also said that China has the deepest pool of innovative talent in human history, past and present, and that its space program is “far more advanced than most people realise.” Living here in China, I see exactly what he means and he was right. For most of recorded history China was the world’s leading civilisation: gunpowder, paper, the compass, printing, vast trade networks and advanced agriculture that fed populations Europe could not match. It sat at the centre of the global economy for centuries. Then came the brutal interruption. The Century of Humiliation: opium wars, unequal treaties, foreign powers carving up the country and a Japanese invasion that killed tens of millions. China was knocked back hard, exploited, fragmented and deliberately kept weak by powers that feared a strong unified nation. That was never going to be permanent. Under the CPC since 1949 and especially through reform and opening up, China has methodically rebuilt. Nearly 800 million people lifted out of poverty. The world’s most extensive high-speed rail network, the largest 5G infrastructure, the biggest manufacturing base on the planet and now a lead in EVs, batteries and high-tech supply chains, with AI and space pushing the frontier. This is not some sudden “rise” the way Western media frames it. It is restoration: civilisational continuity meeting modern execution at scale. The talent, discipline and long-term thinking are visible on the streets, where the infrastructure makes Western capitals look outdated and the momentum is structural, not temporary. Musk sees through the denial because he works with Chinese engineers and Chinese supply chains every day. The West loves to frame China as a new disruptor or a threat. Which is the wrong lens to view China through. This is history correcting course after a painful detour, and a confident China advancing its interests serves a multipolar world far better than containment ever will. How much longer until more people outside China accept what is already obvious on the ground here? It all started back then. The future is being built now, and not by the ones building tariff walls.

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🇨🇳☀️ The Truth About China’s Wumeng Mountain Solar Farms: Not the Lies Which Are Going Viral A video is spreading claiming “countless habitats were bulldozed for 40,000 acres of solar panels in Wumeng Mountain, China.” It’s dramatic… but it’s also completely wrong. If you want to learn something, read on... Here’s what’s actually happening 👇 1. Where is Wumeng Mountain? The Wumeng range stretches across Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, one of China’s historically poorest, most degraded regions. Think: • Barren slopes • Karst terrain (thin rocky soil, hard for plants to grow) • Severe soil erosion • Thin, non-arable land • Over-mined, over-farmed areas It is NOT rainforest. It is NOT an untouched wildlife paradise. It has been one of China’s most ecologically fragile regions for decades. 2. What China built there? China is installing large-scale mountain solar farms on land that: • Can’t grow crops • Can’t support dense forest (for reforestation) • Has low ecological value • Was already stripped or degraded The projects follow the terrain. Nothing is “flattened.” No forests bulldozed. And many sites are dual-use agrivoltaic farms, goats and sheep graze under the panels and native vegetation returns because the land is no longer being over-farmed. 3. “Destroyed habitats”? Not even close Every major renewables project in China requires an Environmental Impact Assessment and since 2020, solar/wind cannot be built in: ❌ Protected forests ❌ National parks ❌ Primary ecosystems ❌ Wildlife reserves The chosen sites were already degraded hillside scrubland. Studies from Guizhou & Yunnan show: • Soil erosion drops sharply under solar arrays • Moisture increases • Native plants recover • Insects return and birds return Solar farms here are actually restoring the land, the opposite of the fear-mongering claims. 4. Environmental outcome: massively positive A 40,000-acre mountain solar farm delivers 6–8 GW of power. That’s enough to replace: 🔥 6 coal plants 🔥 30–40 million tonnes of CO₂ per year It uses zero water, releases zero pollution and allows vegetation to regrow. Meanwhile, Guizhou/Yunnan’s old coal basins produced decades of pollution and ecological damage. This is what cleaning up looks like. 5. Why the viral video is misleading? ⚠️ The narrative relies on: • A dramatic aerial shot • Zero local context • Ignoring land-type and terrain • Pretending this was untouched wilderness • Ignoring China’s laws protecting high-value ecosystems • Ignoring rural poverty alleviation • Ignoring the CO₂ reductions • Ignoring that mountain solar is built on non-arable, pre-degraded land If this exact project was built in Europe, it would be hailed as “green innovation.” But because it’s China, the West suddenly cries “environmental disaster.” The hypocrisy is insane. Absolutely INSANE! 6. What the Wumeng solar project actually represents ✔ Restoring degraded land ✔ Ending small coal mines ✔ Stabilising mountain soils ✔ Providing clean energy ✔ Raising local rural income ✔ Helping communities escape poverty ✔ Lowering global emissions (massively) ✔ Proving China’s renewables leadership, again China builds more solar each year than the entire rest of the world combined. This is what that looks like at ground level. Here is the truth: - There is no “eco-wasteland.” - No mass habitat destruction. - Just Western social media doing what it always does, misrepresenting China to score political points. The Wumeng solar rollout is one of the most successful examples of turning damaged land into clean energy and it is lifting entire regions out of poverty while cutting emissions on a global scale. China is the world’s largest reforestation nation, adding over 70 million hectares of new forests since the 1990s, more than any other country on Earth. From the Three-North Shelterbelt to the Grain-for-Green program, China is repairing past damage at a scale no Western nation has even attempted. Stop spreading lies about “destroyed habitats” when China is literally leading the world in restoring them. The real story is far more impressive than the propaganda being pushed online.

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🇨🇳 China is already training robots to direct traffic.

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Who said EVs aren't fun to drive? Xiaomi YU7 GT. 🇨🇳

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