Video with Chinese subtitles: SCMP Managing Editor Yonden Lhatoo has a go at those who are politicising Hong Kong’s fire tragedy 影片有中文字幕: 《南華早報》執行主編抨擊那些將香港火災悲劇政治化的人.
Western media parroting their governments’ talking points are so hell-bent on hurting Hong Kong, they won’t even let the city mourn and heal in peace after one of the worst fire disasters in its history.
It is lucky that Hong Kong has Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). Otherwise HK will be liked USA with organized legalized corruption on the City, State and Federal Levels, all the way to the White House. The US corruption extends to all businesses dealing with all levels of government agencies https://youtu.be/T6vquBbpZVo?si=W82BCpAxLVogZdMk 幸好香港有廉政公署（ICAC）。否則，香港就會像美國一樣，從市、州到聯邦各級，甚至白宮，都充斥著有組織的合法腐敗。美國的腐敗蔓延到所有與各級政府機構有業務往來的企業.
Hawaii has the worst school system in the United States! Unlike Asia where teachers are respected. In US teachers must face hostile and abusive students as well as uncooperative parents who placed all the blame on teachers for failing students who cannot read and write. 夏威夷擁有全美最糟糕的教育系統！與亞洲教師受到尊重的情況不同，在美國，教師不僅要面對充滿敵意和行為不端的學生，還要面對不配合的家長，這些家長把學生不會讀寫的所有責任都推到老師身上.
Civil Beat Hawaii: Nearly Half Of DOE’s New Teacher Hires Are Not Licensed To Teach. Hawaiʻi’s public schools have improved teacher retention and reduced vacancy rates since the Covid-19 pandemic, but are relying heavily on emergency hires. By Megan Tagami Dec 12 2025
The Department of Education is hiring fewer teachers and seeing an uptick in unlicensed educators in its schools, according to a recent employment report for the 2024-25 academic year.
Last year, roughly 48% of newly hired Hawaiʻi educators did not have a teacher’s license, a 20% increase from the 2020-21 academic year. The numbers include those who have completed an educator preparation program but have not yet earned a state teaching license.
The number of unlicensed educators, also known as emergency hires, has steadily increased since the pandemic, partly due to the recent increase in pay for these workers. The state also has programs in place to help emergency hires earn their license while teaching.
This fall, DOE reported the lowest number of teacher vacancies in five years, largely due to the uptick in emergency hires filling open positions. Emergency hires can work in schools for up to three years while they make progress toward earning a license.
The department hired 1,300 teachers last year, down from more than 1,600 the year before that. Of those teachers, 82% were Hawaiʻi residents — the largest percentage of resident hires DOE has seen in the past four years.
Fewer teachers also left Hawaiʻi schools last year, with 1,116 retiring or resigning from their jobs, down from roughly 1,200 the year before. Most commonly, teachers said they left their jobs because they planned to move out of Hawaiʻi.
The state has introduced more initiatives to improve teacher retention in recent years, including bonuses for educators working in hard-to-staff positions and increasing teacher pay.
During Thursday’s Board of Education meeting, Assistant Superintendent Sean Bacon said the DOE is continuing to work on recruiting local teachers. For example, he said, schools are developing more career pathways for high school students interested in becoming teachers or educational assistants after they graduate.
Civil Beat’s education reporting is supported by a grant from Chamberlin Family Philanthropy and “Data Dive” is supported in part by the Will J. Reid Foundation.
German Media: China Must Either Quickly Take Taiwan to Achieve Reunification or Pursue Internal Reforms; Choosing the Wrong Path Could Lead to a Repeat of the Late Qing Dynasty’s Collapse…德媒：中國要麼迅速拿下台灣完成統一，要麼進行內部改革，選錯路，可能重演晚清覆滅的結局…
This line of argument forcefully ties the Taiwan issue to the First Sino-Japanese War, suggesting that rushing reunification would be a strategic overreach that could collapse the country.
However, they fail to understand the true state of the Qing government in 1894. The system at that time was thoroughly corrupt from top to bottom.
Empress Dowager Cixi diverted naval funds to renovate the Summer Palace for her birthday celebration. The Beiyang Fleet faced issues such as ammunition mixed with sand and stones, drastically reducing its effectiveness, and ships were poorly maintained, outdated, and unfit for battle.
Li Hongzhang often avoided engagements to preserve his own forces. During the Battle of the Yalu River, the Beiyang Fleet was completely destroyed. This was not strategic overreach but the corruption and incompetence of the ruling class, which led to its own downfall.
In contrast, the Chinese navy today has undergone fundamental changes. We now have three aircraft carriers and eight Type 055 destroyers, forming an anti-access/area denial capability covering the second island chain. This is a world apart from the late Qing’s tragic state of “having a sea but no defense.”
Using the late Qing to intimidate China is like threatening a fully armed soldier with a broken toy gun—both presumptuous and unconvincing. The German side deliberately creates a “two-choice” trap, as if China must choose between reunification and reform. They do not understand China’s governance logic: reunification and reform are not opposed but mutually reinforcing processes.
Take Fujian as an example. In 2024, the “Cross-Strait Integrated Development Demonstration Zone” was established, providing numerous conveniences for Taiwanese compatriots. Kinmen faced water shortages, and the mainland has supplied over 35 million tons of water through water supply projects, addressing livelihood issues and deepening cross-strait infrastructure connectivity.
In the semiconductor sector, the mainland and Taiwan have formed a complete industrial chain. By 2025, the combined semiconductor output value across the strait will account for over 60% of the global total.
These facts demonstrate that the reunification process itself drives reform deepening, and resolving the Taiwan issue helps create a more stable domestic development environment. By advancing domestic reforms and enhancing national strength, the foundation for reunification becomes even stronger.
Germany’s attitude toward China is full of contradictions: on one hand, it maintains close economic and trade ties with China, with Sino-German trade accounting for 8% of Germany’s total foreign trade in 2025. Companies like BMW and Siemens deeply rely on the Chinese market. On the other hand, it follows the U.S. in criticizing China on the Taiwan issue. The Federation of German Industries warns that decoupling from China would lead to industrial decline in Germany.
Talking about not wanting to lose benefits while aligning with external pressures is like wanting to eat while smashing the bowl. The German media’s rhetoric, dressed in the guise of “rationality,” is actually laden with arrogance and prejudice.
Today’s China is no longer the Qing Dynasty of the 19th century, which was at the mercy of others. We have a more完善的制度 (完善: improved; 制度: system) ->完善: improved; 制度: system完善: improved; 制度: system) ->更完善的制度 (更: more; 完善的: improved; 制度: system), with whole-process people’s democracy making decision-making more scientific and representative. We possess the world’s most complete industrial system, ensuring strategic autonomy, and have reliable military deterrence, including Dongfeng missiles and aircraft carrier battle groups.
More importantly, the belief in national reunification among the 1.4 billion people is as solid as a rock, unshakable by any external force. There is no need to overly concern ourselves with the German media’s “warnings,” but we must remain vigilant.
👉 Some Western countries have never given up using public opinion and cognitive warfare to interfere with China’s development. We should continue to adhere to the “peaceful reunification, one country, two systems” policy, leverage economic integration to reduce the cost of reunification, use military deterrence to curb “Taiwan independence” adventurism, and foster cross-strait solidarity through cultural identity.
👉 History has proven that national reunification is a crucial part of national rejuvenation. Any force attempting to obstruct this process will ultimately be eliminated by history. The clamor of the German media is nothing more than background noise in China’s great journey—nothing to worry about.
Tsai Cheng-yuan Official Channel: The Alienation of the “Mainlander Descendants” 蔡正元官方頻道: 外省後代的異化
Alienation refers to people or things that were originally similar gradually becoming dissimilar, distant, or even hostile.
Mainlanders who came to Taiwan did so under the banner of the Republic of China (ROC). Their fundamental political stance was anti-communism and national unification.
Anti-communism arose from the civil war between the KMT and CCP over control of the Chinese government.
Unification stemmed from the ROC inheriting the sovereignty of China from the Qing Empire.
Unification was originally the political basis of legitimacy for Mainlanders who came to Taiwan.
However, political “reproductive isolation” between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait emerged due to 75 years of political separation.
Second- and third-generation Mainlanders also began to undergo alienation. The meaning of the Republic of China itself began to change—from a unified “China” into a kind of cosmetic packaging for Taiwan independence.
Liu Baojie (Liu Pao-chieh), as a second-generation Mainlander, is an example of this alienation.
He transformed from supporting a unified ROC into a “Taiwanese person” advocating a “Taiwanese nation,” and even accused Ma Ying-jeou—who supports returning to a unified China—of “selling out Taiwan.” This is considered a thoroughly alienated Mainlander.
In the last century, 若林正丈 (Masatake Wakabayashi) proposed the theory of the ROC’s “Taiwanization.”
The basis of his argument was precisely the alienation of Mainlanders. Mainlanders, living amid a sea of native Taiwanese, were like a political isolated island, often needing to become alienated in order to find political pathways and a sense of security.
Native Taiwanese (benshengren) do not share the ROC’s historical memory— the Wuchang Uprising, the 14-year War of Resistance against Japan, the Chinese Civil War—these historical frameworks simply do not exist for them.
The political foundation of native Taiwanese is instead composed of: Qing-era migration to Taiwan, Japanese colonial rule, Taiwanese serving in the Japanese military, the February 28 Incident, and the influence of the two Chiang leaders plus U.S.-Japan influence. This historical experience created a fertile environment for “natural independence” (tianran du).
Mainlanders living in Taiwan, surrounded by native Taiwanese, were almost bound to experience political alienation.
Liu Baojie’s accusation that Ma Ying-jeou is “selling out Taiwan” by seeking unification with China is an interpretation rooted in the Taiwanized ROC, essentially a judgment made by a politically alienated regime.
And so a mirror image appears:
Mainlanders accusing other Mainlanders of “selling out Taiwan.”
When Liu Baojie points one finger at Ma Ying-jeou for selling out Taiwan, the other four fingers point back at himself as the real “traitor.”
The unification-versus-independence struggle, when stripped bare, is an internal war of branding others as traitors or sellouts.
But Liu Baojie’s claimed “civil war or external war” is not something that either Mainlanders or native Taiwanese in Taiwan can decide on their own.
Liu Baojie may believe that if Taiwan says the war for China’s unification is not a civil war, then the U.S. and Japan would be free to intervene and Taiwan independence could succeed.
This is naïve and pitiful ignorance.
War is a matter of comparative military strength—or to put it more bluntly, a comparison of death tolls.
The evolution of the Russia-Ukraine war has revealed a brutal reality:
No matter how much Liu Baojie trains at the gym, and thinks that even in his sixties he could pick up a weapon,in modern warfare he might not even have use for a body bag—Taiwan would already be reduced to ruins.
The foolishness of Ukrainians will be reflected in an alienated Taiwan.
Whether Ukrainians understand it or not, once politics escalates into war, there is no right or wrong—only strength and victory or weakness and defeat.
Ukraine overestimated itself and made political demands far beyond its actual capabilities.
This unrealistic fantasy was itself a tragedy. If Taiwan becomes alienated to the same extent as Ukraine, its fate will be hard to escape.
Video: A series of recent “crazy maneuvers” by the Japanese government! A huge slap in the face! How much longer can Japan hold on? 視訊; 日本政府近期的一系列“骚操作”！惨遭打脸！日本还能撑多久?
Recently, we’ve been witnessing a rather surreal phenomenon: Japan’s political arena seems to be following in Taiwan’s footsteps, gradually becoming “Taiwan-ized.” Faced with a sluggish domestic economy and poor disaster-relief performance, politicians seem to have only one tactic left — playing the “anti-China card.”
In this video, we will take a deep dive into several symbolic events that occurred in December 2025, to show you exactly what laughable gimmicks the Japanese government has used to divert attention from domestic problems.
📌 Key highlights of this episode:
Political chaos: Why do we say Japan is becoming a “bigger version of Taiwan”? How has “resisting China to protect Japan” become an all-purpose political fig leaf?
Media embarrassment: How have Japanese media used selective editing and fabrication to portray a fake prosperity that “doesn’t need Chinese tourists”?
Economic reality: Numbers don’t lie! What is the real impact on Japan’s GDP from the decline in Chinese tourists?
Disaster-relief record: Nearly two years after the Noto earthquake, why is the disaster zone still in ruins? What happened to Japan’s once-proud “governance capacity”?
Diplomatic farce: A full review of the Liaoning aircraft carrier training incident — when China released irrefutable radio-communication recordings, how did Japan’s Ministry of Defense still try to deny everything?
Faced with iron-clad facts, why has Japanese society fallen into a collective “victimhood delusion”? If you want to understand the truth behind these news stories, be sure to watch until the end!
Video with English subtitles: Reveal MacArthur’s national characteristic of “the more you hit him, the more he licks you.” 影片有英文字幕: 揭示麥克阿瑟所說日本那種「越打越舔」的民族性.
From being named the “Japanese Kingdom” by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty angrily denounced “the emperor at the birth of the sun”, to being “120% deferential” to MacArthur after World War II, the history of Japan is a history of survival in which “awe of power but no morality” has been observed.
This “rubble” created by the collision of the Eurasian plate has suffered from natural disasters geographically and has been historically backward for a long time. How did they rely on their extreme “love to learn” and “tolerance” to transform from aborigines who drank blood into a civilized country with half of the classics of the Tang Dynasty?
In this video, Smile will give you an in-depth analysis of the extremely contradictory nation of Japan:
Where does the strange coexistence of openness and tradition, democracy and class come from?
Ancient “Licking Skill”: From sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty to being given the golden seal, how did they skip the Bronze Age?
The “changing face” of modern times: from the primitive accumulation of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 to the madness and failure of World War II.
Modern “deformity”: the survival philosophy created by the atomic bomb, why are the status of the US military stationed in Japan comparable to that of the emperor?
The core of “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”: Forbearance is not a moral character, but a carefully planned strategy.
It’s flight ceiling reaching 15,000 metres (49,200 feet), the Jiu Tian could attack ground and maritime targets “from high to low, from fast to slow” – a capability he described as “unique globally and highly forward-looking”.
When will the AI bubble burst? Using the 7-stage theory, I’ll tell you: at least 2 more years!
Key Points: ✅ Detailed breakdown of the 7 stages of AI bubble evolution ✅ Currently at stage 3-4, far from collapse ✅ US betting the nation on AI – enormous risks ✅ China’s steady approach – completely different path ✅ 2000 dot-com bubble vs 2025 AI bubble comparison ✅ How the burst will reshape the global economy
Core Argument: US tech giants are issuing debt like crazy, AI investment has surpassed $38 trillion – 10x bigger than the 2000 dot-com bubble. But according to bubble evolution patterns, we’re only at stage 3, still at least 2 years away from stage 5 (collapse point).
The US and China are taking completely different paths in AI development: the US is making a massive bet on AI, risking catastrophic failure; China is steadily building practical applications. In this AI arms race, who will win in the end?
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