SCMP: This one US will have problems blowing it up (Nord Stream pipelines)! The long-delayed Power of Siberia 2 pipeline between Russia and China would create a “structural shock” if it begins operations, analysts said, and cause “strategic and market challenges” for the United States, the world’s current largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter. China-Russia pipeline would be ‘shock’ to global LNG trade: analysts 《南華早報》：美國要炸掉這個像北溪管線（Nord Stream）可就難了. 分析人士表示，中俄之間長期擱置的“西伯利亞力量2號”管道一旦投入運營，將造成“結構性衝擊”，並給目前全球最大液化天然氣（LNG）出口國美國帶來“戰略和市場挑戰”。分析師認為，中俄管道將對全球液化天然氣貿易造成「衝擊」. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3324749/china-russia-pipeline-would-be-shock-global-lng-trade-analysts?
China has taken the military world by storm with the LY-1, its most advanced naval laser weapon system. This article takes an in-depth look at the LY-1, from its development background to its strategic implications. The LY-1 is not only a technological innovation, but also a declaration that the era of directed energy warfare has begun. Compared to conventional missiles, the LY-1 offers the speed of light, cost efficiency, and unlimited capabilities to counter mass drone attacks. This system is also a “game changer” in naval strategy and has the potential to trigger a new global arms race. This article explores the LY-1’s soft-kill (sensor jamming) and hard-kill (physical destruction) capabilities, its strategic role in maritime regions, and challenges such as atmospheric factors and heat management. The LY-1 is proof that China is no longer playing catch-up, but is leading a global arms revolution.
East rise and West Decline, your Chinese Passport/Citizenship and US Green Cards & Citizenship will follow! More Smart Chinese are giving up their US Citizenship than ever before! 東方崛起，西方衰落，你的中國護照/公民身份和美國綠卡/公民身份也將隨之東升西降，越來越多聰明有實力的中國人放棄了美國國籍，成為歷史新高！但美國還是貪官污吏和商人的天堂, 也是愛拿美國福利的福地，但跟著美國的衰落，看來好景不長了!
Why are Chinese elites so worried about China’s rise? Shen Yi, a professor of international politics at Fudan University, pointed out that when China achieves comprehensive technological advancement, those Western green cards, once seen as “gilded passes,” will inevitably depreciate significantly. 中國精英為何對中國崛起心存憂慮？復旦大學國際政治系教授沈逸一針見血地指出：當中國科技實現全面超越之時，那些曾被視作”鍍金通行證”的西方綠卡將不可避免地大幅貶值.
This phenomenon reflects a deep-seated misalignment of values among some elites: they prioritize personal gain over national development and view their overseas identities as speculative bargaining chips to be traded.
The formation of this mindset has a complex historical context. In the early days of reform and opening up, the technological gap made “learning from the strong” an inevitable choice, but some people have transformed this temporary gap into a permanent benchmark of value.
Like arbitrageurs in the financial market, they operate within the price gap between East and West, enjoying the dividends of domestic development while simultaneously craving the premium of Western institutions.
With Huawei’s 5G technology leading the world and the Beidou system successfully deployed, this “double arbitrage” survival strategy faces unprecedented challenges.
More fundamentally, this anxiety stems from a rigid cognitive framework. Some elites equate modernization with Westernization, simplifying technological competition into a contest of institutions while ignoring the diverse paths of civilizational development.
Just as 19th-century European aristocrats feared the Industrial Revolution would destroy the hierarchical order, they worry that technological equality will undermine the “epistemic privilege” on which they depend.
Little do people know that true elites should, like Qian Xuesen, turn knowledge into a propellant for national rejuvenation rather than a means of preserving personal interests.
Why are Chinese elites so worried about China’s rise? Shen Yi, a professor of international politics at Fudan University, pointed out that when China achieves comprehensive technological advancement, those Western green cards, once seen as “gilded passes,” will inevitably depreciate significantly. 中國精英為何對中國崛起心存憂慮？復旦大學國際政治系教授沈逸一針見血地指出：當中國科技實現全面超越之時，那些曾被視作”鍍金通行證”的西方綠卡將不可避免地大幅貶值。
This phenomenon reflects a deep-seated misalignment of values among some elites: they prioritize personal gain over national development and view their overseas identities as speculative bargaining chips to be traded.
The formation of this mindset has a complex historical context. In the early days of reform and opening up, the technological gap made “learning from the strong” an inevitable choice, but some people have transformed this temporary gap into a permanent benchmark of value.
Like arbitrageurs in the financial market, they operate within the price gap between East and West, enjoying the dividends of domestic development while simultaneously craving the premium of Western institutions.
With Huawei’s 5G technology leading the world and the Beidou system successfully deployed, this “double arbitrage” survival strategy faces unprecedented challenges.
More fundamentally, this anxiety stems from a rigid cognitive framework. Some elites equate modernization with Westernization, simplifying technological competition into a contest of institutions while ignoring the diverse paths of civilizational development.
Just as 19th-century European aristocrats feared the Industrial Revolution would destroy the hierarchical order, they worry that technological equality will undermine the “epistemic privilege” on which they depend.
Little do people know that true elites should, like Qian Xuesen, turn knowledge into a propellant for national rejuvenation rather than a means of preserving personal interests.
What Do China’s Victory Day Commemoration & SCO Summit Tell The World? By MARIO CAVOLO SEP 8 2025 中國紀念衛國戰爭勝利70週年暨上合組織高峰會向世界傳遞了什麼訊息
I was recently invited for an interview on CRI Radio to share my thoughts on China’s Victory Day Commemoration and the Shanghai SCO Summit held a few days earlier with world leaders from dozens of nations around the world.
Below you will find the transcript of my answers and here is the link to the CRI Radio show: And this is the link to the clip:
As an American who has lived in China for 25 years, how do you view the significance of China’s V-Day commemorations from an international perspective? What kind of message do you think they send to the world today?
More and more people are like myself, coming to truly cherish the security and stability and peace found in where we live, which is here in China and that it is the Chinese govt who has risen over these 30 years in our modern age to its status as a global superpower, yet which is the first global superpower to have done so in peace without starting war with other nations, without dropping bombs on other nations, and as we now see happening once again in Ukraine and Gaza, endless wars being provoked and led by the United States to preserve its power & control with no regard for humanity. So we have these two deeply contrasting powers on opposite sides of the spectrum of war & peace, with China offering the safety, stability & peace to other nations, which of course was emphasized recently at the SCO Summit. This was followed by China’s Victory Day commemorations which then sent the 2nd message out which is that we are fully armed and broadly armed, not to attack anyone, but to defend our people, to defend safe & peaceful way forward. The only people who don’t agree are in my view just crazy people who want more war, starting of course with many western leaders
Q2
Having observed China’s engagement with the international community over many years, how do you see the Global Governance Initiative President Xi proposed at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, which emphasizes “cooperation and shared responsibility”? In your view, what practical role could it play in reducing tensions and fostering trust among countries?
Well again, I see the GGI at the SCO Summit going hand in hand with the message of China’s Victory Day commemorations. I am reminded of Xi Jinping’s speech last October in San francisco at APEC 2023 conference. Back then he told the room, we will never attack another nation, this is remarkable and this is the global shift
supported by BRICS supported by the Global Governance Initiative, supported by every single world leader who showed up to attend the Shanghai SCO Summit…peace is the way forward, unfortunately the United States and its key ally Zionist Israel don’t like that, because it means they will lose their imperialist power grip on the world. People have the right to live free from fear, free from the fear of being killed because of politics
This is the global shift the entire world wants except for the United States, Zionist Israel and the EU, less than 10 countries of more than 150 countries around the world who insist on endless war and death. supported by BRICS supported by the Global Governance Initiative, supported by every single world leader who showed up to attend the Shanghai SCO Summit…peace is the way forward, unfortunately the United States and its key ally Zionist Israel don’t like that, because it means they will lose their imperialist power grip on the world. People have the right to live free from fear, free from the fear of being killed because of politics.
This sentiment is deeply familiar. Again and again, I’ve seen it expressed: Chinese people cherish the security and stability of their homeland, while those from war-torn nations look on and wish their countries could offer the same.
I once followed a Chinese man on Douyin who had been living in Syria. When the jihadis seized control, he fled. Over and over, he expressed his gratitude for being Chinese – grateful that he could return to a nation where chaos and collapse were impossible, where the soil itself was protected by strength. Likewise, during the bombing of Iran by America and Israel, an Iranian girl in China uploaded videos on Douyin. Her message was simple. She was thankful to be living in the safest country in the world.
This is what “freedom” means for much of the global south – not the hollow slogans of western politics, but the reality of sovereignty. Freedom is a nation strong enough to stand independent, unbowed, unwilling to be destroyed at another’s (USA’s) whim. For these two guys from Palestine and Iraq, for all those who have seen their homes reduced to ashes, the Chinese military parade is not just a display of power. It is a vision of what safety and dignity look like when guaranteed by true strength. And the power of that vision is magnified by China’s own past within living memory. It too was invaded, humiliated, and left in ruins. Yet from devastation it rose, forging its own path to sovereignty. That is why today’s China can stand unshaken, and why their tears fall. They see proof that even from ruin, a nation can rise unbreakable. They see a nation that cannot be invaded, a people who need never fear that their loved ones will be slaughtered in war. Their tears are the tears of longing. A longing that their own homelands might one day be just as secure, just as unbreakable.
In the global south, there is a quiet, daily terror that one day America might just decide their nation’s fate, plunging it into fire and ruin. For the Chinese people, that fear does not exist. Their shield is their country’s strength.
Meanwhile, Americans believe freedom means being able to vote for one of two p3d0files who have the exact same destructive policies every four years. They think Chinese people yearn to trade their stability, safety, and prosperity for the chaos of American fake “democracy.” But real freedom is this: to live without the shadow of foreign oppression, to raise children without fearing that bombs may fall from the sky.
Do you think anyone in the world wept with pride while watching that pathetic low-T American military parade? Not one. Because for Americans, such a spectacle carries no existential weight. They are not under siege. No power threatens to do to them what America has inflicted upon countless nations.
But for those who know the abyss, watching China’s strength is different. It is not just a parade. It is hope. It is the sight of a nation that can never be broken.
Business Blog 