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Translation of the words:

标兵就位! biao1bing1 jiu4wei4 (Command) Parade guards take your positions!

同志们辛苦了 tong2zhi4 men5 xin1ku3 le5 (Xi Jinping calls) You comrades have toiled (Well done, comrades)

为人民服务! wei2 ren2min2 fu2wu4 (Response) Serve the people!

Pretty heartwarming story. I’m not sure what the exact details are but it seems like basically after October 7th 2023 he flew over because they wanted to see each other in case she passed during the war. She ended up moving back with him to China in November, pretty nuts!

This 抖音 video goes over how Kigala, Rwanda is starting to look a lot like cities in China. It's really interesting to see how strongly China is (positively) influencing Rwanda's development

Literal translation of Chinese title: "At great cool mountain, for Yi People in rural village selling goods is what personal experience". Wholesome video of man bringing tasty food to villagers in a border region inhabited by Yi people in China.

Kind of long + language barrier but I thought it was really incredible how these wind turbine blades make it from inner mongolia to xizang. It's crazy to see how narrow the roads are and how careful the drivers must be. The mountain roads even have a special tool to transport the blades at an angle. Bonus points for the neat food + lodging over the multi-day journey and the random guy playing CS:GO lmao

This isn't exactly Earth-shattering news but I thought it was neat and this community might enjoy it

The specific timestamp linked is where he explains China's current international position. The crux is that China supports Russia as a counterbalance to the US, and furthermore, the wars in ukraine and israel are keeping the attention off of China. Furthermore, he mentions that the Chinese understand the history of the 3 kingdoms in their strategy.

That probably isn't a revelation to this audience, but I can't help but indulge in 2 points. The first is a big LMAO since europe is not even in the discussion as a world superpower. The second is how intoxicating the Three Kingdoms analogy is for today's world. In my opinion, Russia would definitely be 蜀国 (shǔguó), since it's the most geographically isolated, the least powerful among the three, and has a strong history of repelling invaders. The question is how 魏国 (wèi guó), the most populous and militarily strongest power in the central geographic position, and 吴国 (wúguó), the maritime economic power, compare to today's China and the US. What do you all think of this analogy and its implications?

Some basic context is this talk is that it takes place at a NATO empire think tank called Asia Society with a former voice of america-pilled korean ambassador and audience being impressively Sinophobic, but George Yeo takes a more balanced approach in his responses and actually has some decent takes (although some responses are really pandering to the statesian audience) if you care to watch the rest.

I saw this on Chinese social media and thought it was interesting. The Chinese commentary on social media is that the last time a country sent its historical artifacts to China for safekeeping it was from Syria before their civil war. Is this a sign Egypt is preparing for war?

Mayday and Jolin Tsai are probably top 5 artists in Taiwan right now and both made statements that amount to pro-unification positions in recent days. I'm happy Beijing is finally flexing its muscles to show Lai that he is not in the driver's seat of China's future.

I have some extra money lying around in USD being slowly devoured by inflation. The conventional wisdom is to invest in stocks or bonds in the US. Fundamentally, that’s just gambling on the continued success of empire. Should I buy gold or other metals instead? Are there non-dollar-denominated ways to invest in economic development of the global south instead? I don’t care about returns I just want long-term stability of value

Alternative title: man talks about how he is not Chinese but can be a Chinese Marxist