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Tony 🌮 retweeted
2 things the US never wants you to question about China…
🤼 China is aggressive
For 40+ years, this is what China’s aggression looks like: Zero invasions, zero regime changes, zero overseas wars, zero bombing foreign governments, zero killing of civilians.
That's a lot of zeros, a lot of accusations on socials and the lamestream media yet no evidence to the contrary.
China claims its historical territory and it defends those claims, with a lot restraint. Take the recent footage the the Phillipines vessel that entered the path of the Chinese vessel and hit it.
All to create headlines of Chinese aggression.
China’s foreign policy is so weird… it actually abides by it 🤷♂️.
Self Defence.
Some others should try it some time.
All the freedom fighters on this platform don't have much to say about Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Venezuela and Iran.
All countries above have been attacked by the US in some way over the last 20 years.
Imagine if the China bashers from the US actually reflected inward.
What a world X would be then.
👲The Uyghurs are oppressed
China faced years of deadly attacks, extremism, and separatist violence in Xinjiang.
Their response stayed entirely within its own borders: targeted deradicalisation, education, massive infrastructure, and rapid economic development.
The result?
Xinjiang hasn't seen a single terrorist attack since late 2016.
Today, it’s a thriving industrial hub seeing hundreds of millions of tourists every year.
Meanwhile, the US wages a perpetual war on human movement: mass deportations, family separations, strict border militarisation, and blocking people fleeing war torn nations.
Muslim rights and human dignity only matter when they can be weaponised as a foreign policy tool.
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These narratives aren’t driven by principles or a sense of righteousness.
It’s about smearing a declared “enemy”, tribalism and selective morality.
Hey, these are just the facts.
Or is the world of make believe more interesting?
Tony 🌮 retweeted
USI has a $1.6 billion Anti-China Propaganda Budget, banned Huawei, arrested Huawei’s CFO, banned Chinese EVs, banned sale of ASML machines and Nvidia chips, imposed a 145% tariff on China, is supplying weapons to Taiwan and incited HK riots.
But China is undermining USI?
🤡
Tony 🌮 retweeted
Hilarious a British media outlet has the guts to ask why China is strengthening its national defense ability.
The last time China didn't have a strong defense capability, the British invaded and colonized parts of China.
The eight nations joint forces invaded and looted China.
Japan invaded China and massacred our people across the nation for 14 years.
We will never let this happen again.
‘If China stands for world peace, why does it look like Beijing is preparing for war?’
A Telegraph investigation has found that China is rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons programme across at least seven major sites despite calling for non-proliferation.
@sophia_yan reveals what the satellite images show – and what they tell us about China’s nuclear ambitions.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/c…
Because the last time China didn’t have a strong military, the 8 nations ransacked Beijing and forced every Chinese to hand over 1 teal of silver, people who could barely afford to eat.
And then Japan invaded 3 decades later claiming they wanted Manchuria and
Sometimes the best way to have peace is having enough bullets
‘If China stands for world peace, why does it look like Beijing is preparing for war?’
A Telegraph investigation has found that China is rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons programme across at least seven major sites despite calling for non-proliferation.
@sophia_yan reveals what the satellite images show – and what they tell us about China’s nuclear ambitions.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/c…
Tony 🌮 retweeted
The most absurd part is not American anxiety itself, but how openly that anxiety is now expressed—almost every day.
For decades, the United States was simply assumed to be ahead.
It did not need to announce it constantly.
Now the pattern is almost ritualistic:
China unveils a new model — the U.S. immediately explains why it still holds the lead.
China rolls out a new chip — Silicon Valley explains why the gap remains significant.
China uses rare-earth countermeasures — Washington explains why the supply chain remains manageable.
China’s shipbuilding, robotics, EV, solar, and port machinery sectors continue expanding — the media explains why “scale does not equal leadership.”
A U.S.–China summit approaches — American allies once again worry that Washington might “go soft on China.”
The most interesting part is that even Chinese people are not used to seeing America this anxious.
For decades, the prevailing public perception was that the United States was the unreachable center of technology, capital, and institutional power, while China was the one playing catch-up.
So when Chinese people suddenly see U.S. politicians, media outlets, and AI companies constantly debating whether China has caught up, whether China might overtake the U.S., or how America must “maintain the lead,” even they experience a kind of cognitive dissonance:
Wait a minute — since when did you become the nervous one?
A shift in power is not always measured in aircraft carriers, satellites, or GDP.
Sometimes, it reveals itself in who suddenly feels the need to keep saying they are still ahead.
Tony 🌮 retweeted
Don't be disingenuous.
If China sent submarines and warships to the English channel and use the freedom of passage card. It doesn't mean the West would be fine with that.
They be complaining about it being bullying as that's what it literally is. & you're the provocateurs here.
Tony 🌮 retweeted
🇨🇳China hasn't fired a bullet at a foreign army since 1988.
🇨🇳China is the only permanent member of the UN security council that hasn't had a war in 40+ years.
🇨🇳China has a no-first-use nuclear policy.
🤡But still we get idiots like this ⬇️
Tony 🌮 retweeted
This is the full video. Stop with the bullshit.
nitter.cf/commiepommie/status/21…
🇵🇭 The Philippines picked the 18th of September to run another collision with a Chinese ship
This was no ordinary Friday. It was the 95th anniversary of the Mukden Incident, the night Japanese troops blew up a railway near Shenyang and used it as the pretext to seize the northeast. Air-raid sirens still sound across Chinese cities on this morning every year.
China Coast Guard spokesman Jiang Lue says the BFAR vessel 3015, BRP Datu Magat Salamat, entered waters near Xianbin Jiao, the shoal Manila calls Sabina Shoal, ignored repeated warnings, changed course, accelerated and cut across the bow of the patrol boat Sanzhou’ao, hull 21585. Manila logs the same ship as CCG-21585.
Manila’s line went out the same day: China had rammed a “civilian government vessel on a humanitarian and livelihood mission”.
Watch the footage, not the press release. The clips carry the timestamps: 11:04 and 11:13, nine minutes apart, both crossings from the starboard side of Sanzhou’ao. On the second run the Philippine vessel accelerated as it closed, did not adjust course and made contact. The Chinese ship held a straight line throughout.
The bow of a ship is a blind zone and a high-risk zone. Any sailor knows it. Driving into one after warnings is not a fuel run. It is a stunt built to produce bent railings, a deck photo and a line for Jay Tarriela.
The “fuel subsidy for fishermen” line is the same play Manila runs at Ren’ai Jiao and Huangyan Dao. Vessel 3015 is not a wooden banca with a fisherman at the tiller. It is a government fisheries boat and it has done this before. The day before, it led about 20 fishing boats into Half Moon Shoal, ran onto the reef, declared an accident and called its own coast guard for a tow. Two days, two stunts, one camera package.
Then come the three familiar documents: COLREGS, UNCLOS and the 2016 award. COLREGS does not license accelerating across another ship’s bow. UNCLOS does not turn a Chinese reef in the Nansha Islands into Philippine EEZ just because Palawan is 54 nautical miles away. The 2016 award was a unilateral case China never accepted and is not bound by.
Xianbin Jiao is part of China’s Nansha Islands. Chinese fishermen have worked those waters for generations and Chinese coast guard ships patrol them because they are Chinese waters. Distance from Palawan does not rewrite that.
The timing is not an accident either. They did this on a date every Chinese person knows, then had the video uploaded before the dust had settled. That hands Washington and Manila a ready-made “crisis” just weeks before a possible Xi trip to the United States and with APEC coming to Shenzhen in November. They are selling victimhood and the reef is just another B-Grade movie set.
China’s restraint has its limits. Peace is preferred, but the baseline is not for sale. If Manila wants to keep performing “egg against rock” for the American cameras, it will keep leaving with bent metal and a weaker hand.
How many more “fuel missions” does Manila think it can run before the cost stops being just a railing?
Tony 🌮 retweeted
Hypocrite. You do not care those people. What you care is gaining political benefits by demonizing China.
Tony 🌮 retweeted
You can just literally talk to Uyghurs and find out that the US is making up lies about them. They are all over China. Their restaurants are fantastic. Order the barbecue lamb
Tony 🌮 retweeted
You ask what China’s development cost.
Fair question.
But it becomes a much less comfortable question when you apply it consistently.
What did Western development cost?
Coal smoke.
Child labour.
Plantation slavery.
Indigenous dispossession.
Colonial extraction.
Policy-made famines.
Cleared forests.
Poisoned rivers.
Crushed strikes.
Suppressed unions.
Markets opened by gunboats.
Generations of workers whose suffering disappeared into the word "industrialisation."
You present China’s development as evidence against its system.
Western development, meanwhile, is granted the luxury of becoming "history," severed from the system that produced it.
That is not serious comparison.
It is moral accounting that begins only after one side has already accumulated the capital, infrastructure and power, then turns around and lectures those still climbing.
If the costs of development are going to be counted, then count them consistently.
Count all of them.
America's Chinamaxxers marvel at the rapid buildout of Chinese tech and infrastructure. They don't ask about what it cost—labor exploitation, mass surveillance, political repression. My latest in @WSJFreeEx:
Tony 🌮 retweeted
⚠️IMPORTANT CONTEXT: "Defending freedom" is not a crime, but colluding with foreign forces to bring harm to your country is. He is guilty and admitted that himself.
Accounts like this attempt to twist words to imply the actions of people like Joshua wouldn't be considered crimes elsewhere.
Try doing the same thing in the US and see what happens.
Tony 🌮 retweeted
Just so people are clear on the level of disinformation we're dealing with here in the WSJ:
- Left on the map: the location of the mudslide
- Right on the map: the "Chinese megaconstruction project" which they imply may have something to do with it
(namely the Medog Hydropower Station project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which is the only thing that qualifies as a megaconstruction project in Tibet right now, alongside the Chengdu-Lhasa Railway)
From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: Could a Chinese megaconstruction project in this remote and sensitive region have had something to do with the deadly landslide? A legitimate question, you would think, given the loss of life, writes @MattHennessey.
on.wsj.com/4A2V2b8
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Scientists state the August 2026 disaster was triggered by a natural glacial and rock collapse on Nepal's Langtang Lirung mountain. nytimes.com/2026/08/26/wor…
The Chinese project referenced is located in M%C4%93dog County, over 500 km away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medog_Hyd…
Tony 🌮 retweeted
This is genuinely shocking and really illustrates how "Human Rights Watch" is much more of a political organization than one that actually cares about human rights.
Read the piece: it doesn't contain a single expression of sympathy for the victims, not one. Last I checked, if you genuinely cared about human rights, you'd start by caring about... humans.
The victims are only mentioned in the piece to the extent they can be used as props for HRW's usual crusade against China.
In fact if you read the article you almost get the feeling HRW are relishing in the disaster, grateful for fresh material to rewrite the same "the choreography is familiar" article they publish every time something bad happens in China. They even wrote so themselves.
Worse still, their big beef - apparently - is with China's "information control." Yet in the very same article they actively spread misinformation about the disaster, thereby ironically proving that they're guilty of the very thing they're accusing China of: manipulating information about a disaster to serve a political agenda.
2 ways they do this:
1) they write that the CCTV footage "showing Gyirong Port on the Chinese side of the border overwhelmed by floodwater as people run for their lives is being censored" in China, which is a thoroughly debunked piece of disinformation (see nitter.cf/RnaudBertrand/status/2…)
2) they sow doubt on the origin of the mudslide, describing Chinese visualization of it as "AI-generated materials purporting to show the likely origins of the mudslide." The word "purporting" means that the origin of the landslide is in doubt when that's not the case at all: the scientific consensus is total, it was a glacier collapse on the Nepalese side. For proof, I encourage you to watch this fantastic explanation of it by @mikebettes on the Weather Channel (not exactly "CCP propaganda"): nitter.cf/simongerman600/status/…
I mean, ask yourself: how do you even remotely serve "human rights" by undermining public understanding of what killed people in a natural disaster?
Answer: you don't.
You serve what HRW actually serves: a political narrative that treats every disaster in China not as a tragedy to understand but as an opportunity to exploit, at the expense of actual humans.
As people in Nepal and across the Chinese border in Tibet reel from horrific mudslides, the Chinese government has turned to censorship and control.
Information controls can make it harder for families to locate loved ones, and hamper understanding of the disaster and any future response. hrw.org/news/2026/08/31/tibe…
Tony 🌮 retweeted
The West’s Rule: If China Shows It, It’s Propaganda. If China Doesn’t Show It, It’s Censorship 🇨🇳
The Telegraph and BBC are showing CCTV footage from a Chinese border camera as "proof" that China is censoring a disaster.
I live in China. The Gyirong disaster has been all over Chinese news and social media since Wednesday: daily casualty figures, press conferences in Gyirong county, scientific briefings on the cause, rescue footage and two 24-hour English hotlines for foreign families.
They even named the immigration officer who stood at his post directing people out while everyone else ran. His name is Huang Peng and he is still on the missing list. None of that fits the “Beijing deleted the truth” lies.
What happened is not a mystery: At 10:52am on 26 August a glacier on Nepal’s Langtang Lirung fractured at about 5,200 metres. The ice and rock dropped, scoured the slope and became a debris flow. It covered 22 kilometres in six to seven minutes and hit Gyirong Port at 1,800 metres. The Chinese Academy of Sciences mapped the whole event, the USGS has since confirmed the early “earthquake” reading was the landslide itself. That is science, not a cover-up.
On the Chinese side the latest count is 16 dead and 546 missing, including 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries. Four hundred and ninety-nine villagers were moved out of risk zones. Five hundred and fifty-five domestic tourists were transferred out. More than 2,100 rescuers are in the mud with dogs, boats, drones and helicopters.
Xi Jinping convened the Politburo and Li Qiang went to Gyirong himself. Two Y-20 transport planes flew 50 tonnes of supplies into Nepal. All of it is public.
Yes, the raw CCTV of people running from the wall of mud did not stay on loop on Weibo and Douyin. That is not the same as “China censored the floods”. Chinese media does not treat dying people as content, but the West does. “If it bleeds, it leads.”
Here the instinct runs the other way: report the numbers, show the rescue, do not replay the last seconds of someone’s life for engagement. You can call that respect, but do not call it an absence of coverage when Xinhua, CCTV and CGTN have been running the disaster and the rescue in public for five days.
The Telegraph quotes a former Nepali MP asking what Beijing is “trying to hide”. The BBC leans on the International Campaign for Tibet and runs an even stranger line: the footage “spread widely around the world, but not in China”. It spread around the world because it came off Chinese cameras and the still everyone is using came from Chinese state media.
The BBC’s own article concedes Beijing has published daily casualty figures and rescue progress since day one and notes how rarely a Chinese premier reaches a disaster zone this fast. Its real grievance is that nobody in China is replaying the last seconds of someone’s life and no survivor is being put on air to sell the story. That is what they are calling censorship: the refusal to turn the dead into content.
The smear campaign writes itself: disaster in Xizang, therefore concealment, therefore politics. A glacial collapse that started on the Nepalese side becomes another lecture about transparency.
Living here in China you watch the same pattern:
A natural disaster on a high Himalayan border becomes a morality play about the CPC, while the rescue is pushed to the background. The dignity rule is recast as guilt and the actual work in waist-deep silt is treated as suspicious because it is not packaged the way London and Washington package grief.
China is not hiding a flood that its own cameras recorded, it is refusing to turn the dead into a product. The West cannot tell the difference and that is the real story.
When a disaster gets used to prosecute a country instead of understand a disaster, who exactly is being dishonest?
The @BBCWorld @bbcchinese and @Telegraph are a joke and lets not forget Laura Bicker, who lives in Beijing, is an excuse for a journalist.
China has censored footage of the floods in Nepal and Tibet.
Beijing authorities removed footage of the moment people fled before a wall of mud swept through the Gyirong border crossing.
Nepalese politician accuses Beijing of lack of transparency and questions what ‘they are trying to hide’ 👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
Tony 🌮 retweeted
No wonder the BBC is fucking banned in China. They can straight up USE CHINESE MEDIA FOOTAGE, and claim that CHINESE MEDIA is hiding the news. What a fucking joke.
Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there bbc.in/4i1kpDG
Tony 🌮 retweeted
A lot of people are confused as to why China reports so few deaths (only 16 so far 👇), with most victims classified as "missing" (546 so far).
The reason is actually statistical rigor as opposed to trying to conceal the death toll, as some of the usual suspects are saying.
Everyone in China knows these numbers mean that 562 people most likely died in the mudslide but, to be classified as "dead," a body needs to be recovered, or there at least needs to be solid evidence confirming death.
China's official Natural Disaster Statistical Investigation System (which you can read here: mem.gov.cn/gk/zfxxgkpt/fdzdg…) explicitly defines this: "因灾死亡人口" (disaster deaths) means persons whose death is directly confirmed, while "因灾失踪人口" (disaster missing) covers those "whose whereabouts are unknown as a direct result of the disaster and whose death cannot be confirmed for the time being" (以自然灾害为直接原因导致下落不明，暂时无法确认死亡).
Why do this? A few reasons:
1) A death declaration triggers irreversible legal consequences: inheritance, insurance payouts, spousal remarriage rights, cancellation of identity documents. So it'd be extremely inconvenient if someone who turned out to have survived were classified as dead
2) It helps maintain search and rescue going: classifying victims as "missing" rather than "dead" preserves the institutional obligation to keep searching
3) It's an anti-gaming mechanism: disasters are, by their very nature, prone to gaming numbers. Local authorities tend to underreport because many deaths is bad for their record and families tend to overreport because it's tied to receiving compensation. As such, the threshold for entering the system as "missing" is deliberately low to prevent underreporting: if someone is unaccounted for, they go into the system immediately. But, the corollary of this means that the threshold for moving from "missing" to "dead" needs to be deliberately high.
4) Lastly it's simply the most respectful thing to do for families: you want to give them a definitive answer, not a bureaucratic presumption. Keeping the "missing" classification open means identification work continues - DNA matching, forensic analysis, etc. - until families get actual closure.
In such natural disasters, when the investigation couldn't conclude with certainty that someone is dead, China's Civil Code (Article 46) allows a court to declare death after just a 3-month public notice period, provided authorities certify that survival was impossible.
This is likely what will happen for the majority of victims in this mudslide instance: in 3 months' time you'll likely see the official death toll revised to include most of the 546 currently listed as missing.
This is, by the way, the way most serious countries do these things.
For instance after Japan's 2011 tsunami, the initial reports listed just a few hundred dead - but over 16,500 missing. And, incredibly, as of 2023 - 12 years later - over 2,500 people were STILL listed as missing (asahi.com/ajw/articles/14858…).
So, as is so often the case, the people shouting "cover-up" simply don't know what they're talking about. They decide in advance that China must be lying and then work backwards from that conclusion, whilst being completely uncurious about how China's systems actually work.
China released official death toll from the mudslide in Xizang/Tibet:
16 dead, 546 missing
Check the latest updates here:
xhnewsapi.xinhuaxmt.com/shar…
Tony 🌮 retweeted
Videos of the disaster haven’t been removed from Chinese social medias, there are round the clock coverage of the rescue operation on state TV. Fuck you and @lilkuo for such blatant lies.
