James Wood 武杰士
@commiepommie • 35,493 subscribers
British-Australian in China 🇨🇳 | Geopolitical Analyst | Published Writer | China in focus. Read more 👇
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Daniel Craig: The New Face of BYD's DENZA Luxury EVs. What an amazing ad.
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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discipline and long-term thinking are visible on the streets, where the infrastructure makes Western capitals look outdated and the momentum is structural, not temporary.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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🇪🇸 Spain won the World Cup but a Chinese Robot Phone stole the show 🇨🇳 The champions were filmed holding Honor’s unreleased Robot Phone during the post-match celebrations. It has an extending titanium 4DoF gimbal camera designed for pro-level subject tracking and stable footage in chaotic settings like the post-match celebrations. Real innovation is not hype: it is on the pitch, in your hand. What happens when every creator has cinema tools in their pocket?
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China is a dictatorship? Don't understand how China's political system works? Watch this and learn something. 🇨🇳
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🇨🇳 Here is a short video from my travels across Xinjiang, China The scenery, the people and the Uyghurs as they actually are in reality. The genocide, mass disappearances and total lack of freedom story the West pushes relentlessly collapses the moment you see daily life there. Stunning landscapes, busy markets, communities living and speaking freely. The story told from the outside is not the one that exists when you're actually there. If you have been to Xinjiang, I'd genuinely love to read your thoughts in the comments.
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🇺🇸 THE REAL BULLY EXPOSED! 🇦🇺🇨🇳 John Mearsheimer lays it bare: “If you’re trading extensively with China, you’re undermining the US… and if we’re not happy, you don’t want to underestimate how nasty we can be. Just ask Fidel Castro.” This isn’t diplomacy, it’s straight-up bullying. The US is strong-arming nations like Australia to alienate China and if they don’t, they’re branded the enemy. Classic power hungry bully tactics. This is about a collapsing empire desperate to stop the rise of China, a peaceful rise, I might add. It’s not about democracy. It’s about control. Always has been. If countries don’t stand up now, we’re sleepwalking into a war nobody wants, all to protect America’s ego and fading hegemony. I’m a UK and an Australian citizen living in China. I, like many foreigners here, call this country home. China is not the villain your media tells you it is. I stand with China and against the bullies. If that makes me an “enemy” of the US, then so be it. I don’t care and neither does China.
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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.
James Wood 武杰士140,352 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
The CIA was booted from China decades ago, after networks collapsed & assets exposed. Now reduced to social media recruitment vids, trying to manufacture betrayal externally. China isn’t a broken society. CIA thrives on destabilisation. In China, it fails every time.
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🚨Meet IRON: China’s Humanoid Robot. So Real People Thought It Was Human 🇨🇳🔥 Meet IRON, XPeng’s next-gen humanoid, unveiled at AI Day in Guangzhou. So lifelike that people swore it was a person in a suit. It wasn’t. That illusion? Brilliant marketing. It forced the world to pay attention. Here’s what makes IRON a game-changer 👇 • 82 degrees of freedom, synthetic muscle system and bionic skin so realistic it moves like flesh. • Runs on XPeng’s in-house AI chips with over 2,000 TOPS computing power. • Solid-state battery, self-balancing gait and a neural control system modelled on the human spine. • Aiming for mass production in 2026, not a fantasy, a roadmap. While others like Tesla’s Optimus still struggle to pick up a box, China’s IRON walks, gestures and interacts naturally, powered by real-time embodied AI. Western media called it “too real,” “creepy,” even “fake.” But in reality, it’s China’s physical AI frontier, bridging robotics, neural networks and mobility tech in a way the West hasn’t caught up to yet. China is not just in the AI race anymore. It’s building the finish line. 🏁🇨🇳
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🇨🇳China's new EV with its own flying vehicle included. No other country can compete with China's innovation. 🚗🚁
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Forget Cyberpunk 2077, China is living in 2077. Why play a video game, when you can experience the real thing. 🇨🇳
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🚛🇨🇳 China just opened the world’s first 5G-AI smart mine and it's straight out of sci-fi. ❄️ In -40°C cold, 100 fully autonomous electric trucks run 21 hours a day thanks to automated battery swaps. No drivers. No diesel. No downtime. Humans can't do that. Machines can. Welcome to the future.
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