Chinese Century

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.

The KMT was hopelessly corrupt. The U.S. didn't waste $13 billion on Chiang Kai Shek which would have been money down the drain, no less than the Vietnam debacle.

China to Tighten Air Quality Rules That Have Helped Slash Smog China is planning its first major tightening of national air quality standards since 2012, as it seeks to extend a largely successful anti-pollution campaign that’s reshaped parts of its economy.

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.

There are a lot of young guys out there trying to make it in the world

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 China will implement zero‑tariff treatment for imports from the 53 African countries with which it has diplomatic relations, starting May 1, 2026, state media reported on Saturday.

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