About 40 years ago after China ended the Revolution... then started constructing commercial residential buildings, with amazing “China Speed.” Look at these pioneer buildings in Shenzhen -- in fact they actually had better quality then today´s. China speed？Big joke.show more

this did not exist 10 years ago in china,... now more than 10x the 5-axis cnc builders with increasing better finish/accuracy exist with shenzen-like ecosystem i've been tracking development; at this rate, swiss-quality will be native to china within 10 years impressive and scaryshow more

Visiting Shenzhen China 🇨🇳 today and wow! There is... no way someone can stand here and not be inspired by how much China has changed in the past 3 decades 🤯 There is not another city on the planet that has transformed the way Shenzhen has, once a fishing village of 25,000 people, it’s now home to 18 million people and the hub of tech and innovation in China 🇨🇳 This is the DJI headquarters, that’s right, the company that has emerged as the number one drone company in the world is based in this building Over 8,000 employees spread across offices, R&D Centers and testing facilities. This is honestly one of the most impressive buildings I’ve ever seen The British Trade Minister just visited Shenzhen for the FIRST time in 40 years last week and just think, how many politicians around the world could understand where China is and where it is going if they simply came and saw the truth with their own eyes. To borrow a phrase from my friend and China insider Shaun Rein the next China is China! 🚀show more

My friend @saschaCodes is traveling in 🇨🇳 China right... now Videos here are in Lijiang in Yunnan province which is in the south and borders on Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, so very close to SEA! I always see Americans and Europeans talk about Asia and then only visit Japan, which is nice but there's so much more to Asia and barely anyone these days visits China anymore China is in many ways a lot like Japan, with cute little walkable traditional villages, and then these massive neon-lit mega cities with the highest speed trains in the world and extreme convenience just like in other Asian cities like Bangkok Anything you hear these days about China is highly politicized, which is sad because it's an amazing country to visit and the people are some of the friendliest I've ever met China has 8 entirely different regional cuisines, my fav being Sichuan, which is spicy and famous for the hotpot And using their high speed train (going 300-400km/h) you can essentially travel the entire country now with ease Obviously the politics is another thing but not everything has to always be about politics, and more foreigners visiting China would long term actually help their politics Politics keeps people apart while travel brings people together I thinkshow more

The worst world cup ever by the USA. Can... you imagine if China were hosting the world cup and did all these things Trump/US did: - China's president called Infantino to complain about FIFA rules and change them - Xi plans to bother and celebrate trophy lift with players - Prices for tickets most expensive ever - Teams had to stay in Japan and fly to China before each matchday - Fans couldn't enter China for 'security reasons' - Xi won a made up 'FIFA peace prize' - Security holding up top footballers from 'risky' countries wherever they go But in reality, China hosted two olympics before and were really affordable and successful, more and more people are now coming to China visa free from around the world unrestricted. In fact, here's a bar where thousands of fans from around the world go to in Shanghai (very international city) to watch the World Cup.. seems way better!!show more

President Trump has long claimed that he personally intervened... to halt Operation Sindoor on May 10, 2025. He has done so on 65 different occasions in various forums in at least seven different countries. The Prime Minister has never broken his silence on these claims made by his so-called good friend. Now the Chinese Foreign Minister makes a similar claim and says China also mediated. On July 4, 2025, the Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Rahul Singh had publicly stated that during Operation Sindoor, India was actually confronting and combating China. Given that China was decisively aligned with Pakistan, Chinese claims of having mediated between India and Pakistan are concerning - not just because they directly contradict what the people of our country have been led to believe, but because they seem to make a joke of our national security itself. This claim must also be understood in the context of our relationship with China. We have begun re-engagement with them - but unfortunately it has been on Chinese terms. The Prime Minister’s clean chit to China on June 19, 2020, has considerably weakened India’s negotiating position. Our trade deficit is at record highs and much of our exports are dependent on imports from China. Provocative actions by China in relation to Arunachal Pradesh continue unabated. Amidst such a lopsided - and hostile - relationship, the people of India need clarity on what role China played in the abrupt halt to Operation Sindoorshow more

🛥 Chinese ships tried to rein in a Philippine... patrol boat — but ended up spectacularly colliding at sea The incident occurred in the South China Sea, near the disputed Scarborough Shoal — one of the key flashpoints between China and the Philippines since 2012. 🇵🇭 Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Jay Tarriela said the Chinese coast guard first blocked Philippine vessels that were assisting fishermen and blasted them with water cannons, then began chasing the boats as they left the conflict zone. As a result, a Chinese navy ship collided with one of its own coast guard vessels. Didn’t go as planned 🤷show more

🚨 SHOCKING: CHINA MAY ALREADY HAVE DRONES DISGUISED AS... BIRDS FLYING OVER AMERICA 🦅🤖 Not science fiction anymore. Military analysts and defense researchers have been warning for YEARS about ultra-small surveillance drones designed to look and move like real birds. Some flap their wings. Some can perch on buildings or power lines. Some are nearly silent. Now ask yourself: How would anyone know the difference? Imagine thousands of “birds” flying over military bases, power plants, ports, farms, or even your neighborhood… recording everything in real time. No radar detection. No suspicion. No one looks twice at a bird. China has poured BILLIONS into AI warfare, autonomous robotics, and surveillance tech. They don’t need massive fighter jets everywhere when they can flood the skies with tiny robotic spies hiding in plain sight. And if they can disguise drones as birds today… What will they be able to disguise tomorrow? The future of espionage isn’t coming. It’s already here. 😳show more

‼️🇺🇦🔥 NATO depleted uranium shells were stored at the... bombed factory near Kiev, - ex-deputy of the Rada ▪️ At the attacked "Vizar" factory in the satellite city of Keiv - Vishneve, right next to residential buildings, shells with depleted uranium and cluster munitions were stored, said ex-MP Mosiychuk*. ▪️ Due to this and a powerful detonation after the attack, five streets were almost completely destroyed, and the population was forced to evacuate. ▪️ These munitions were transferred to Ukraine by Britain in 2023, and then by the USA for the Challenger 2 and Abrams tanks. ▪️ Mosiychuk criticized the Ukrainian leadership, stating that the placement of a military warehouse in the immediate vicinity of residential buildings posed great risks to the civilian population. ▪️ The responsibility for the placement of such facilities in the suburbs of Kiev should lie with the officials who made the relevant decisions. *Listed by Rosfinmonitoring as a terrorist and extremist.show more

A major scene unfolded at the CJP protest at... Jantar Mantar today during dinner. People were served roti with khichdi, and many got upset, asking, "What kind of combination is this?" They were almost about to get into a physical confrontation with Junaid. But at the last moment, some CJP members stepped in and apologized, assuring everyone that it wouldn't happen again from tomorrow. Only then did the crowd calm down. They gave a final warning that they wanted a better dinner from the next day, and only then did they somehow finish their khichdi and roti. Just look at the food tantrums at a protest. 😭show more

Chinese factories can build a car in 77 seconds,... with robots doing the work at a scale the U.S. cannot match right now. And Trump is out here talking about tariffs like they are a magic switch that makes America “make things again.” Look at the automation in that kind of plant. Even with tariffs, it would take the U.S. decades, realistically 40 years, to rebuild the industrial base and the machine building capability needed to produce that level of robotics at scale, then stack enough volume to get true economies of scale. And for what, exactly. U.S. cars barely have a market outside the U.S. Meanwhile China builds for the world. As for the rest of the planet watching America’s tariff daydreams: couldn’t the world care less.show more

Just two months ago, we were on the verge... of letting go of a customer that we had been serving for more than two years. The prices were super competitive as they were procuring these springs from China. According to our cost calculations, we would have to sell them these springs at our breakeven price point. We would not be making any profit from their orders. The volumes were huge and we decided to take up the challenge. In manufacturing, one of the very important metric that your product cost depends on is cycle time. The speed at which we are able to process that part within the desired tolerance. Higher the speed at which you can manufacture, lower the cost of making that component. We could only manage 150 pcs/minute on our imported machines. At this speed, it was unviable for us. It would only make sense for us to continue if we were somehow able to manufacture this spring at a minimum of 200 pcs/minute. We were far apart and it seemed we wouldn’t be able to reach that goal. We were on the verge of giving up after two years of persistent effort in increasing our speed. Today, we manufactured that same spring on the CNC machines that we built in-house at a whopping 220 pcs/minute! We went from almost letting go off that customer to now asking that very same customer to increase our order volumes! First video is our imported machine at 150 pcs/minute. The second video is our in-house machine at 220 pcs/minute.show more

A similar scenario is playing out today with China,... except the roles are reversed. In (at least) one of his interviews, Palmer Luckey explains that we can build incredible high tech weapons, but China can still wreck carriers and bases by throwing thousands of cheaper missiles at them, even lower quality ones, because the numbers just overwhelm you and burn through your defenses fast. The problem is that we don’t produce enough of our good tech, we build it way too slow, and it costs a fortune to replace, while they’re pumping missiles out of factories at a pace we gave up on years ago. So all that fancy stuff only works if you can actually keep replacing it once the fight starts, and right now we can’t. We need systems that are cheap enough to lose and easy to make in big numbers, because the side that runs out first loses.show more

A reporter recently asked what we might see in... China that would really surprise people — something we wouldn’t find in the U.S. Across most of the technologies we looked at — quantum, eVTOL, EVs, AI applications — I wouldn’t say there’s anything entirely unique to China. There’s usually a counterpart in the U.S., whether in a lab, a startup, or a pilot. The real difference is scale — how quickly things move from concept to implementation. If I had to point to one example that captures this difference, that you might actually see on a trip to China in the next year or two, it would be autonomous deliveries. At the Logistics Expo in Shenzhen last month, at the new Automation exhibition hall, we met teams from autonomous logistics vehicle providers such as Neolix, ZelosTech, Meituan, and $JD. Neolix had just reached 10,000 vehicles, roughly ten times what it had a year earlier, and ZelosTech had hit the same milestone. In contrast, U.S. companies such as Nuro have been developing similar systems for years (9 to be exact) and have raised over US $2.3 billion, but their operations still seem to be “pre-scale” and "upcoming." (Correct me if I'm wrong.) It's probably a confluence of reasons but I'm sure it helps that the government is so hands on with the rollout in China. In my Deep Tech Trip Takeaways, I wrote that what stood out most in China wasn’t any single company or product, but the structure that tied them together, enabled by the government's strategic policies and services. Shenzhen’s rollout of autonomous delivery fits that description well. The city just published a report on “functional autonomous vehicles,” giving rare visibility into real-world activity. The August 2025 report — released in time for the Expo — summarized the following: - 764 vehicles operating across the city, including delivery, sanitation, and inspection units - 3,185 km of public roads open to autonomous operations - 230,000 km traveled and about 900,000 deliveries completed in one month (750,000 express parcels, 150,000 fresh goods) - SF Express (a big client of Neolix) led with 504,000 orders, followed by Meituan with 152,000 - Each vehicle averaged roughly 200 deliveries per hour, about twice a traditional courier van - Cost per delivery was around ¥0.1 (≈ 1 U.S. cent) lower than human delivery — not a major saving by any means, but important because new tech is often loss making in the beginnning - Accident rate: 0.04 per 10,000 km; manual intervention: 0.016 per km; public complaints: 23 cases citywide - And of course, I should highlight that Shenzhen isn't the only city working on this, it's just the most advanced that I found It’s not yet a profit story, but it does show that autonomous logistics in China has reached a level of operational maturity and regulatory acceptance that’s still emerging elsewhere. Shenzhen illustrates how local governments in China are building the deep infrastructure — physical, regulatory, and logistical — that allows new technologies to scale in practice, not just in theory.show more

The Geomagnetic Excursion began in the 1850s, and so... did the climate change. The magnetic field started losing, in decades, the amount that it had previously lost in centuries. The speed of the pole shift accelerated between 1995 and 2000 to 50km per year, equivalent to the last geomagnetic excursions, and observers expect it to accelerate even more in the next 5–10 years after the recent jerk in speed (watch Ben Davidson's latest video). Solar flares are not the only threat. You know what is coming, and if we enter a Grand Solar Minimum like the elites expect, then the cosmic radiation will be brutal. That's why they built doomsday bunkers where there are local magnetic anomalies (read my articles for subscribers on X and Patreon).show more

Some uses of AI remind me why technology matters.... After years of seeing automation focus on speed and cost, this is the kind of progress that stands out. China is now using AI-powered robots inside grain warehouses, places so dangerous that workers can sink into loose grain like quicksand or suffocate in dust explosions. These robots map, navigate, and level the grain autonomously, while humans stay safely behind monitors. It is a quiet revolution. Not about efficiency or profit, but about dignity and safety. This is the kind of automation I deeply believe in, where technology protects people before it replaces them. If AI should remove humans from danger first, which industry should it transform next? #AI #Automation #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #TechForGood #Innovation #FutureOfWorkshow more

American influencer Li Meiyue has received backlash from the... Chinese public after showing disrespect to the Chinese people by calling Speed's Chinese fans "animals" and joking about finding him a "chick in China". When Speed asked if his dreadlocks could be clipped in a barbershop in Beijing, the barber said that it would be "not easy." However, Li translated the response as "They think your hair is too raggedy and don't want to cut it," adding fuel to the fire. The hashtag "Influencer Li Meiyue Apologizes" received over 100 million views on Weibo in just hours, making it one of the top trending topics on Chinese social media. The majority of Chinese netizens claimed that his "April Fool's Day apology" was disrespectful and called for his removal from Chinese social media platforms. Li, who identifies as a Vietnamese American, rose to prominence in China after strutting around in red floral outfits, claiming to be the "ambassador of Chinese culture". With just one week gone, Li has lost 280,000 followers. Speed, meanwhile, has won over many Chinese netizens with his respectful replies to LI's mistranslations and improper suggestions.show more