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#LouisVuitton (LV) has filed a lawsuit against a small-sized daily necessities store in Ningbo, East China’s Zhejiang Province, for alleged intellectual property (IP) infringement, according to local media report. This became one of the latest IP lawsuits involving LV and Chinese companies, including tea chain #MollyTea, which have sparked heated debate among Chinese netizens, with some criticizing the French luxury brand for attempting to monopolize traditional Chinese patterns. globaltimes.cn/page/202607/13…

I will forgo all vice and worldly pleasure in order to reincarnate as a Chinese zoo panda during the Chinese century 😭

RT @RT_com

16 hours ago

China opens 13,000 sqm (140,000 sq ft) smart home for pandas The new habitat at Beijing Zoo has hills, streams, trees, toys and automated climate control to keep its residents comfortable The residents reportedly adjusted fast

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U.S. and EU yearning for China to return to the century of humiliation.

Jostein Hauge @haugejostein

14 hours ago

The US and the EU to China right now: “Please import more and export less. Except don’t import anything that helps you innovate. And keep exporting cheap stuff that we need. Actually, could you just trade in a way that preserves our ego, our industries, and our dominance?”

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A plane in the United States was forced to land after the sound of the adhan was heard from a passenger's phone. A Southwest Airlines flight traveling from Tennessee to Florida was forced to make an emergency landing in Atlanta. Upon landing, a SWAT team boarded the aircraft and detained one of the passengers, accusing him of terrorism and posing a bomb threat. It was later revealed that the detained passenger was a Muslim. During the flight, his prayer-time app activated and played the adhan (the Islamic call to prayer). The crew reportedly interpreted the sound as a potential security threat, notified dispatchers, and decided to make an emergency landing.

Several defendants received prison sentences ranging from four to 12 years for killing national first-class protected wild animals, namely snow leopards, wild yaks and Oriental storks, according to typical #biodiversity protection cases China’s Supreme People’s Court released on Wednesday. globaltimes.cn/page/202607/13…

A small Chinese township becomes the nation's largest industrial robot hub Spanning merely 92 square kilometers, Beijiao township in Shunde district, Foshan, south China's Guangdong province, boasts an extraordinarily robust manufacturing ecosystem despite its compact size. Vast factory compounds stretch across the land, while freight trucks shuttle continuously between production facilities. Today, one out of every 20 industrial robots made in China is produced here, making Beijiao the country's largest industrial robot manufacturing hub. Inside the Intelligent Robot Manufacturing City of HiTrom Han's, a major smart manufacturing base located in Beijiao, one machine immediately caught the eye: a collaborative robot undergoing testing. Its bright orange robotic arm performed operations with an accuracy of less than 0.02 millimeters. "Can you guess how many companies operate in this building?" asked Qiu Zhan'ou, deputy general manager of HiTrom Han's Industrial Co., Ltd., pointing to a factory building and raising two fingers with a smile. "More than 20 firms work under one roof. Some make reducers, others produce servo motors, robot bodies or integrated robotic systems. Components manufactured upstairs can simply be sent downstairs by elevator for immediate assembly," he explained. "Engineers can finish a design on the first floor in the morning, have components delivered from the second floor in the afternoon, and complete prototype testing the very same day," added Tao Yuanming, secretary-general of the Shunde robotics association. In Beijiao, "design in the morning, verification in the afternoon" has become a routine practice. Read full: en.people.cn/n3/2026/0714/c…

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An unexpected flood meme surfaced on Chinese social media this week after a famous scenic site in Jing County, Anhui, was flooded, partially submerging the statues of Tang dynasty poet Li Bai (李白) and his friend Wang Lun (汪伦). It's an especially noteworthy scene because Li Bai wrote one of China's most famous poems after departing from the area at Peach Blossom Pond (桃花潭), where he had come to meet and drink with Wang Lun. As Li Bai was about to leave by boat, Wang Lun and the villagers came to the shore to sing him farewell. The poem goes: "Li Bai is about to leave by boat / Suddenly, he hears singing on the shore / The Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep / However, not as deep as Wang Lun's love for me!"* (李白乘舟将欲行/忽闻岸上踏歌声/桃花潭水深千尺/不及汪伦送我情.) Now, netizens are having fun rewriting the poem to match the current situation. One commenter wrote: "Li Bai boarded his boat about to depart / The water is a thousand feet deep over his head." (李白乘舟将欲行，水淹头顶千尺深.) As another commenter put it: "This generation of netizens has both a sense of humor and literary talent." Other memes compare the statues before and after the flooding. In one, Li Bai is depicted as saying: "The waters of the great river come down from Heaven", a famous line from his poem Bring in the Wine (将进酒). In the flooded version, an almost-submerged Wang Lun responds: "Brother Li... that's enough! That's enough!" *Translation by Peter Harris & C. H. Liu

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In "What Is To Be Done?", Lenin made a famous distinction between "spontaneous" anger and "revolutionary consciousness." Lenin argued that left to themselves, the working class would only develop "trade-union consciousness" which is the spontaneous desire for better pay or shorter hours within the existing system. This anger is volatile; if the boss gives them a small raise, the anger dissipates. To actually transform society, the workers needed "revolutionary consciousness", which is the understanding that the entire capitalist system must be dismantled and replaced. Lenin argued that this deep understanding must be brought to the working class by a highly disciplined, politically educated core.

A riderless motorcycle was filmed cruising on an elevated road in Huzhou, Zhejiang, with no one on board. Many online users believe it may be a Zhang Xue 820RR, with the brand later reposting the video and saying its stability was “insanely good” while urgently trying to find the owner and confirm they were safe.

This episode's video absolutely shocked me. This American girl has already started using Uyghur to reply to netizens' comments and questions? It means she can both read and speak Uyghur fluently. In this episode, she answered five questions from Uyghur netizens—who had posted them in Uyghur—in Uyghur. Question 1: Can you read the messages/letters we write? Answer: Yes, no problem at all. Question 2: What is your American name? Answer: Catherine. Question 3: Do you have any brothers or sisters? Answer: My parents only have me — I’m their only child. Question 4: Is learning Uyghur difficult? Answer: Yes, it’s quite hard, especially the grammar. Question 5: What language do you use to communicate with each other? Answer: At the beginning we used Chinese, but recently we’ve been using Uyghur. This helps me learn Uyghur faster and more comprehensively.

shuren @shuren70372216

2 weeks ago

Aishanjiang, a Uyghur guy from Xinjiang, and his American wife Yanglizi, together with Yanglizi’s parents who rushed over from the United States to visit them — a record of their travels in China. All the places they chose are absolutely fantastic.

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Chinese Short Film 'Elegy for the Past' Announced Directed by Zhong Yewu (Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, etc.) Release Date: 2027 LOOKS STUNNING

🇨🇳 Three child rapists were executed in China the same day. No hiding it. China’s Supreme People’s Court approved the death sentences and they were carried out together. All three men had raped children. The court made the cases public with one clear message: no mercy for anyone who harms a child. This is straight from Chinese media: One offender names Zhao ran an illegal education business where he and others abused dozens of underage students. He alone repeatedly raped eight girls, three under 14. Wang and Chen had their own records of targeting the vulnerable over years. The system didn’t drag its feet or offer endless appeals. Justice was swift and final. The CPC has zero tolerance for crimes against children and there’s no room for debate. It is protecting the future of families and society in the most direct way possible. These executions send a strong signal: prey on the innocent and the state will end you. Western media goes on about human rights and how no state should kill. The same voices often watch their own systems cycle predators through soft sentences while victims and communities suffer. China chooses different and prioritises the safety of its children over performative compassion for monsters. The difference between China and the West is clear. In China the focus stays on deterrence and real consequences for the worst offences. Publicising these cases reinforces the bottom line. Harm kids and there will be no quiet deals or second chances. This is not new. Beijing has done it before and will do it again when the crimes demand it. It is rooted in practical reality: a stable society protects its most vulnerable first. When a country refuses to hide its toughness on child abusers and delivers results, is that backward or is it basic responsibility to its people? China has made its choice clear.

😌 Chengdu's laid-back lifestyle is on another level. Two vegetable vendors sat down right on the sidewalk for an intense game of Chinese chess, paying no attention to the busy traffic around them.

China crashing the blood diamond industry is such a great story, really brings a tear to my eye

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

4 days ago

De Beers is shuttering its South African diamond mine for two years in order to save costs, while the industry faces plunging prices and an extreme glut bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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A delivery rider who’s clocked 150,000 km on his e-bike and a wet-market vendor with 18 years at her stall have just been nominated for one of China’s top literary prizes: the Lu Xun Literary Prize. Wang Jibing’s poems written between orders and Chen Hui’s essays drawn from market life show the power of “flying low.” globaltimes.cn/page/202607/13…

From "Elegy for the Past", an indie Chinese short film directed by Zhong Yewu @NOTHING_Yukun (animator on Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, Gachiakuta...). To be released in 2027. Full trailer >> catsuka.com/news/2026-07-1…

Militia members clear flood silt from main roads to restore traffic access in Yunbiao town, Hengzhou city, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Though the aftermath is deep, where the waters fade, the warmth of humanity shines brighter—bringing the light back to life.

The worst leftist you know is already calling this a genocide

Global Times @globaltimesnews

5 days ago

Over the past several years, China has relocated families from isolated mountain settlements into newly built communities, while also expanding schools, healthcare facilities, and other public services. This effort has required substantial government investment with little

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People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things. If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different. This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand. Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created. As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes. According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour. Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need. Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital. Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins. Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency. Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition. Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow. So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture. If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.