China's per capita electricity generation has surpassed Germany.

Chinese FM Wang Yi held a phone conversation with Iranian FM Seyed Abbas Araghchi. #China supports #Iran in safeguarding its sovereignty, security, and national dignity. China has urged the U.S. and Israel to immediately stop the conflict from spreading and engulfing the entire #MiddleEast.

America is addicted to war.

Spring enrollment in Yale’s Chinese language program climbed to 345 students this semester, marking a decade-high level, according to program coordinator Fan Liu. The program has increased its advanced-level course offerings in response to greater student interest.

With thick glasses, thin gloves, and a smartphone, 24 year old Chinese woman Liu Yan ties rebar on construction sites and streams her struggle to strangers online as she tries to save enough on 310 yuan ($44) a day to return home with dignity. Her impoverished hometown is deep in the mountains.

A slew of Chinese tech firms reported rising revenue on demand for native computing systems. Chip designer Hygon posted a 57% jump in revenue & 32% rise in profit. Supercomputer maker Sugon saw revenue rise 13.9% as profit rose 10.5%. Foundry Hua Hong reported record revenue for Q4 2025, up 22.4%.

Chinese Nvidia alternative Cambricon Technologies reported first full-year profit since listing in 2020, with revenue rising 450% in 2025, driven by US sanctions that block Nvidia sales to China. Its rival Moore Threads reported a 243% revenue jump and narrowed its loss by 37%.

On the same day Claude topped the app store for its "principled stand" against the Pentagon, it was used in an attack on Iran which killed 148 at a girls' elementary school. It was able to do so in part by harvesting its users' interactions for training.

CHINA: "The US is a war addict. Throughout its over 240-year history, it has been at war for all but 16 years. The US has 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries and regions. The US is the main cause of international disorder, global turbulence, and regional instability."

Breaking: China's official statistics report a 0.3% drop in CO2 emissions from energy&industry in 2025, the third time that annual emissions have fallen this century and the first fall predominantly driven by clean energy growth. 🧵

Chinese researchers have released Habibi, the world’s first open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model that unifies more than 20 Arabic dialects in an AI framework, a move poised to expand China’s technological influence in the Middle East, according to analysts.

Long stigmatized as a fallback for weaker students, vocational education is now attracting more Chinese students. A record 12.22 million university graduates entering the job market in 2025 means competition has sharpened and employers are placing greater weight on practical skills. -Sixth Tone

China's economy grew 32.6% so far this decade through the end of last year, surpassing the U.S., the E.U. and Japan. Despite the pandemic and U.S. hostility, China is now one-fifth of the world economy in purchasing power adjusted terms. The U.S. has not been at this level since 2008.

After years of justifying exports bans of AI tech to China on the pretext of it being militarized, the U.S. is now militarizing AI itself. How is that fair? Chinese companies open weight their models bc they build AI as a tool to benefit all humanity, not weapons monopolized by a few.

China said it would drop tariffs on Canadian rapeseed meal and lobsters, easing disruptions to agricultural trade after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January visit. The halt - which also applies to peas and crabs - will be in effect from March 1.

China's first homegrown operating system for quantum computers, Origin Pilot, opened for online download on Tuesday in east China's Anhui Province, marking the world’s first quantum computer OS available for public download.

China is planning its first major tightening of national air quality standards since 2012.

China is now the global leader in basic research in robotics and mechatronics (the integration of mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering), according to the Nature Index.

China will buy up to 120 aircraft from European aviation giant Airbus, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said following talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday.

China added more solar capacity in 2025 than America has installed in its entire history.

China witnessed a surge in travel during the nine-day Spring Festival holiday that ended on Monday. Total cross-regional passenger trips exceeded 2.8 billion during the holiday, with a daily average of 311 million, an 8.2% increase year-on-year and setting a new record.

It's only february.

Israeli soldiers fired nearly a thousand bullets—at least eight of them at point-blank range—killing 15 Palestinian aid workers last year in a massacre in south Gaza. That’s according to a joint investigation by the independent research groups Earshot and Forensic Architecture published Monday.

By betting on open weight models, Chinese AI companies are also betting on the proposition that AI is too powerful a tool to be left in the exclusive hands of a small oligarchy of global elites.

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly" - Vizzini, Anthropic spokesman

BYD is rapidly gaining ground in Europe, with January registrations surging 165% year-on-year to 18,242 vehicles, boosting its market share to 1.9%. Meanwhile, Tesla continues to lose momentum, with registrations falling 17% to 8,075 and market share dropping to 0.8%.

China's industrial robots increasingly come from domestic suppliers as the country moves up the value chain. Local Chinese robot suppliers also managed to open up new markets for the use of robots with sharp growth in fields such as food processing, textiles, and wood manufacturing.

China installed 295,000 industrial robots in 2024- more than every other country combined - as automation demand surged across its factories.

🇨🇳 Eileen Gu wins gold in the Freestyle Skiing Halfpipe, after silvers in Big Air and Slopestyle. 🥇 Another Olympic medal, her SIXTH overall.

Jeffrey Epstein tried to lie on his Chinese visa application in 2012 and still got DENIED. Meanwhile the West just kept handing him new passports and private jets.

Reports in Israel: 'A Palestinian child was killed and two others were injured by a blast caused by previously unexploded IDF ordnance near a military shooting range in the Jordan Valley a short while ago, according to preliminary reports received by the army.'

Countries with the most mobile phones, 2025-2026.

🇨🇳 Eileen Gu claims silver in the women’s freeski big air - her first major big air competition in four years! ⛷️ 179.00 points 🤏 Just 1.75 behind 🇨🇦 Megan Oldham 🔥 Five Winter Olympic medals - the most by any woman in freeski history

The world's longest high speed rail networks

Happy Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year to All! Happy Year of the Horse!

One of the highlights from China's Spring Festival Gala to celebrate the new year: Unitree humanoid robots performing martial arts. Govt plan is to lay the foundation for an entire embodied intelligence ecosystem in areas like manufacturing, building on its current lead in industrial robotics.

Chinese AI lab Alibaba released its open source Qwen 3.5 on Monday, which is 8 times more efficient than its previous flagship model, Qwen 3 max. It compares favorably to closed models ChatGPT 5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview on multiple benchmarks.

The U.S. has become the most powerful pirate government in the world!

中国大陆的汽车出口在过去五年实现了快速增长，并超过日本成为全球第一。

🇨🇳 China confirms visa-free travel for UK and Canadian nationals. The move brings rules for UK and Canada passport holders into line with 50 other countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Australia and Japan.

China to implement zero tariffs on imports from 53 African countries reut.rs/4qxPI9L

Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, is now at the top of a global ranking of research output, supplanting Harvard University. It was established in 1897 by Lin Qi, the mayor of Hangzhou, on the site of a Buddhist temple that had been destroyed in a disaster.

So much for "China only exports solar panels and windmills and doesn't use it themselves"

Chinese restaurant chain Mixue overtakes McDonald's to become the world's largest fast-food chain with 50,000 stores worldwide. Mixue operates approximately 4,700 stores outside China across 13 countries, including Australia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

China's Zhipu AI released GLM-5, a new model comparable in performance to current frontier model GPT 5.2 (high), as well as Claude Opus 4.5, which was the best Anthropic model a little more than a week ago. But it's open source, 11x cheaper than GPT-5 & over 100x cheaper than Opus.

"Becoming Chinese" has become a meme from Gen Z. The trend's rise coincided with Pew data showing that "under-34s viewed China much more favorably than over-50s in 16 of the 17 countries polled" and could be a politically subversive response to "being told to hate China" in contemporary politics.

Newsweek picked up my comments on Chinamaxxing, lol www.newsweek.com/chinamaxxing...

The number of marriages in China rose to 6.76 million in 2025, up 10.75%, after a change in marriage law allowing for more flexible registration. Q4 marriages were up over 18%. Marriage is a leading indicator of the birth rate. China already has more births than the U.S., Canada, & E.U. combined.

China tested the first stage of its reusable human-rated rocket in development, the Long March 10A, this week. It reached the Karman line at 105km and then re-entered, splashing down successfully in the ocean. An abort test of the Mengzhou space capsule was also successful on the same flight.

China's ByteDance dropped the best video generation model in the world, SeeDance 2.0, this week. A drastic step up from Veo 3.1 / Sora 2 in quality with multimodal input. This MV ft. Kayne West is so well made that it went viral on Chinese internet. youtube.com/shorts/YhEzj...