SCMP: Hong Kong lawmakers vote down bill recognising same-sex partnerships not to destroy the fabric of the Chinese society! Look at the sorry state of US Legalizing everything that is immoral and illegal! Law are made by mortals! HK lawmakers are elected by the people through democratic elections! HK people have spoken! 《南華早報》：香港議員否決承認同性伴侶關係的法案，為了不要破壞中國社會的基石！看看美國把所有不道德和非法的事情合法化的悲慘現狀！法律是凡人制定的！香港議員是人民透過民主選舉產生的！香港人民已經發聲了 https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3325049/hong-kong-lawmakers-vote-down-bill-recognising-same-sex-partnerships?
Nury Vittachi: Hong Kong produces more science and technology graduates than any other place on earth, a new study showed today.
And the typical Hong Kong “working man” is a woman.
WORLD RECORD More than 42.4 per cent of everyone leaving higher education in the city have STEM qualifications, the 2025 IMD World Talent Ranking revealed today—a world high.
The city also has one of the largest availability of people with finance skills in the world, said researchers.
Hong Kong also had an unusually high number of women at work, with slightly more females (50.79 per cent) in the labor force than males.
Pay rates for people in business were high, too, with base salary and bonuses for senior managers adding up to US$285,857 a year.
DOWNSIDES TOO But there were downsides, too. The cost of living in Hong Kong was unusually high, and the workforce had shrunk slightly, giving employers fewer choices.
Data from 69 countries and territories worldwide were examined by the International Institute for Management Development, Zurich.
The study concluded that Hong Kong has the world’s most skilled workforce outside the west. The only places to score higher overall on the talent index were Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Iceland. Hong Kong’s perennial rival, Singapore, came 7th overall.
HARDWORKING SCHOOLS An interesting side point the researchers discovered concerned education.
Hong Kong scores in fundamental subjects like reading and mathematics were unusually high – but education spending, at 3.9 per cent of GDP, was low.
This suggests students and teachers were working hard to achieve high grades in an under-funded system.
China will do a live demonstration of star war defense! China’s military parade stunned the world, but just a few days later, China released even more explosive news…中國將進行星際大戰防禦實彈演示! 中國閱兵驚艷全球，不料幾天之後，中國就釋放了更勁爆的消息……
Chinese scientists officially announced to the world: China is going to impact an asteroid!
Don’t think this is just a firecracker. This time, we’re moving the test range 10 million kilometers into space, targeting a 50-meter-class asteroid with a currently undisclosed designation.
Before 2030, a Long March rocket will send a pair of “twins” into space: first, an observer will be placed close to the asteroid for photos, and then the impactor will slam into it at a speed of 6.5 kilometers per second, with an error margin of no more than an embroidery needle.
Why such a push? Tang Zhenghong of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory offered a poignant statement: “In space, you don’t get a second chance. You either deflect once or come back a hundred years later.”
The story behind the scenes is even more outrageous than a science fiction film. NASA’s 2022 DART mission will impact a near-Earth asteroid, just 11 million kilometers away and at an impact velocity of 6.6 kilometers per second.
This time, China is extending its range to 26 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and shifting its orbit by at least 3 to 5 centimeters—which sounds like a tickle, but translated into a trajectory a century from now, it’s enough for Earth to avoid a kiss that could destroy an entire province.
To achieve these 3 centimeters, engineers have reduced the navigation radar to the size of a fingernail and folded the fuel tank into a “space fan.” Even the dust at the moment of impact must be captured by a companion spacecraft, which will complete a 360-degree orbit within 3 seconds. A delay of 0.1 second will mean it’s missed forever.
Even more challenging, the entire mission will require breaking the second cosmic velocity of 11.2 kilometers per second, equivalent to accelerating a 40-ton truck to 40,000 kilometers per hour. Currently, only China and the United States can achieve this.
Some worry, “What if it breaks into pieces?” Purple Mountain Observatory has calculated that if the target is a “rubble pile” structure, the fragments will be pulled away by the sun’s gravity, and the probability of them falling to Earth is lower than winning the lottery three times in a row.
What’s truly daunting is the price tag: a single impact mission costs 3 billion RMB, which sounds painful, but compare that to the 2013 Russian asteroid, with the equivalent of 30 Hiroshima bombs, which only injured 1,500 people. Had it landed in Shanghai, the economic losses would have been in the trillions. In other words, this money buys humanity’s “space traffic insurance.”
A deeper calculation was laid out at the recently concluded Tiandu International Conference in Hefei: China issued a global initiative for cooperation, promoting the sharing of data, payloads, and ground-based telescopes. Satellites from other countries want a ride? Welcome. ESA wants joint observations? No problem.
While some countries treat space as their private backyard, China has elevated it to a “global group purchase,” allowing anyone to participate. By 2035, we will deploy 25 “Chinese Compound Eyes” with 30-meter apertures, forming a radar network spanning tens of millions of kilometers. Theoretically, this radar network could lock onto a 140-meter-diameter “city killer” ten years in advance.
In short: In the future, any asteroid aiming to provoke Earth will first have to ask China for permission. So, stop calling this “Star Wars 2.0”; the real name is “Community of Shared Future for Mankind” with a hack.
The next time you see a shooting star streak by at night, remember that it might not be a wish, but someone taking a bullet for you.
Do you think this 3 billion yuan “insurance premium” is worth it? Leave a comment in the comments section, give a like, and let the Earth hear our voice.
Video with English subtitles: A modern-day Chinese traitor, selling out his country for personal gain! Ishihira Taro “asks for a hammer and gets it”: a clown purged by China and despised by Japan! 視頻有英文字幕: 當代漢姦，賣國求榮！石平太郎「求錘得錘」：一個被中國清除，也被日本嫌棄的小丑!
China has taken action! A Japanese lawmaker has been sanctioned, and he’s asking for punishment, having once regretted being born in the “Land of Abundance”…
On the morning of September 8th, a notice of less than 300 words on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website propelled 63-year-old Japanese Senator Ishihira to the top of trending searches in both China and Japan.
The notice contained three main points: 1. All of his assets in China are frozen; 2. No Chinese institutions or individuals are allowed to do business with him; 3. He and his immediate family members will never be able to obtain visas to mainland China, Hong Kong, or Macau. There was no buffer or advance notice; the sanctions took effect the moment they were announced.
This isn’t the first time Ishihira has been the subject of scrutiny on the Chinese internet. Two months ago, he was elected to the Senate as a proportional representative of the Restoration Party, becoming one of the very few Chinese-born members of the Japanese Diet.
At the time, public opinion dismissed him as simply “another anti-China commentator who had come ashore.” It wasn’t until late August, when he compiled several GIFs of Emperor Hirohito parodies posted on Chinese social media platforms into an “investigation report” and submitted it to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, demanding official representations to Beijing regarding the “insult to the symbolic emperor.” The matter then escalated from the keyboard to the diplomatic level. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs subsequently raised the matter during a bilateral meeting, which the Chinese delegation rejected on the spot. However, Shi Ping’s name was subsequently placed on the sanctions list by the relevant authorities.
Compared to his recent actions, his trajectory over the past three decades reads more like a manual on “How to Lose Your Homeland.” Born in Chengdu in 1962, he entered the Department of Philosophy at Peking University in 1980 and was sent to Kobe University in 1988 for a doctorate. Since then, he has relied on scholarships and commissioned writing for Chinese media outlets to make a living.
Unable to find a stable teaching position during the 1990s economic downturn in Japan, he began using extreme rhetoric to gain publicity: first, he denied the number of victims of the Nanjing Massacre, then he called “Chinese people a human virus.” In 2007, he finally obtained Japanese citizenship and immediately changed his name to “Ishihira Taro,” describing his birthplace as “the stain he most wanted to erase.”
In 2013, he registered the “Ishihira Taro” account on Twitter, introducing himself as “a former Chinese.” Leveraging this persona, he published twelve books over the next decade, with similar titles like “Why I Abandoned China” and “Countdown to China’s Collapse.” Total sales were less than 80,000 copies, but they were enough to secure him a regular column in the Sankei Shimbun.
What truly made him a “must-have” for the Japanese right was the 2012 Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands nationalization incident. In seven consecutive live broadcasts, Ishihira used his experiences as a student in Chengdu, asserting that “there’s not even fresh water on the islands, making it impossible for Chinese people to live there permanently.” After the broadcast, right-wing groups hailed him as evidence of his pro-China credentials.
From then on, whenever Sino-Japanese friction arose and a TV station needed a “Chinese-born commentator” to speak, they would call him. With this 500,000 yen daily “announcement fee,” he bought a 70-square-meter apartment in central Tokyo, registered under his Japanese wife’s name.
After the sanctions were implemented, he posted on platform X, claiming to have been “honored by the Chinese government,” with a photo of a self-Photoshopped “medal.” But the numbers don’t tell the whole story: According to the Japanese Senate’s public asset declaration, Ishihira’s only verifiable domestic real estate is a 90-square-meter old house in his hometown in Yamagata Prefecture. His bank deposits in China, the earliest of which was 32,000 RMB in royalties from a Sankei Shimbun column in 2009, have been regularly transferred in monthly since then, totaling approximately 2.8 million RMB over ten years. All of this has now been frozen.
A more pressing issue is that he was originally scheduled to attend the East Asia Economic Forum in Osaka at the end of September, sponsored by a Chinese company. After his visa was revoked, the organizers simply scrapped his speaking slot, citing a “scheduling conflict.”
A source within the Peking University Alumni Association revealed that the university quietly removed him from its “Overseas Alumni Directory” as early as 2010, “but it simply didn’t announce it publicly.” Zhang Shiying, the retired philosophy professor who recommended him to study in Japan, was asked about Shi Ping by a student at a small lecture last week. The professor simply replied, “If a person treats his hometown as an enemy, his hometown will have no choice but to treat him as a passerby.”
The story doesn’t end there. At a regular press conference on the afternoon of the 8th, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian, when asked if there would be a subsequent list, replied, “Any individual or entity that undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity will be severely punished according to law.” The on-site interpreter emphasized the words “according to law.”
Video with English subtitles: All you need to know about Belt and Road is here, Why do 80% of countries choose China’s Belt and Road Initiative? 視頻有英文字幕: 關於「一帶一路」你需要知道的一切在這𥚃，為什麼80%的國家選擇中國的「一帶一路」倡議?
“The Belt and Road Initiative” is not just about building roads and bridges; it is China’s top-level design for the world pattern.
From the 1997 financial crisis to 9/11, from U.S. dollar hegemony to the lifeline of oil, from 5G and Beidou to 6G standards — this is a great chess game that concerns the next century.
Exposing US “ideological colonization” tactics. Xinhua News Agency Research Institute releases a major report. Here’s a mind map! Explore the think tank report “Ideological Colonization: The Means, Roots, and International Dangers of US Cognitive Warfare.” 曝光美國「思想殖民」手段. 新華社研究院發布重磅報告. 思維導圖來了！一圖了解《思想殖民——美國認知戰的手段、根源及國際危害》智庫報告.
HK Ta Kung Pao Wen Wei Net reported that the Xinhua News Agency Research Institute released a research report on September 7 titled “Ideological Colonization: The Means, Roots, and International Dangers of the United States’ Cognitive Warfare.” The report states that the United States has long relied on “ideological colonization” to maintain its global hegemony. The report emphasizes that the United States does not expand solely through military or economic means, but rather through the export of values, public opinion manipulation, and cognitive warfare infiltration to reshape the social cognition of other countries and cultivate pro-American forces. The report aims to expose the United States’ covert tactics at the cultural and discourse levels and to warn the international community to be highly vigilant.
Overt, Covert, and “Civilian” Communication Methods
The report states that analysis suggests that the United States’ ideological infiltration primarily utilizes three methods: first, “white communication,” which involves overtly packaging values, such as through film, media, publishing, and education to promote so-called “freedom and democracy”; second, “black communication,” which operates covertly, including financial infiltration, cyberattacks, and public opinion manipulation, attempting to directly sow division and confrontation; and third, “gray communication,” which operates under the guise of “non-governmental” and “civilian exchanges,” using foundations, think tanks, and NGOs to covertly intervene and blur the lines between official and civilian sectors. These three methods complement each other, forming a comprehensive system of ideological manipulation.
Building cultural power through language and discourse monopoly
The report points out that the United States’ ability to exert influence over the long term is inseparable from its advantages in language and discourse. Leveraging the global currency of English and its monopoly in international media and academic publishing, the United States holds the commanding heights of discourse. This often leads to coercion in the promotion of its values, thereby forming a cultural power that supports its political hegemony and economic privilege.
New technologies facilitate more subtle infiltration
The report also emphasizes that with the application of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, the United States’ ideological infiltration methods have become more sophisticated and covert. Leveraging algorithms and data analysis, the United States can more accurately target audiences, deliver targeted public opinion, and achieve precise influence. This change makes it more difficult for the outside world to identify and prevent this, further increasing the risk of ideological colonization.
With the decline of hegemony, its hypocrisy and harmfulness are becoming increasingly apparent.
The report points out that against the backdrop of the rise of power in the “Global South” and the decline of overall US hegemony, the hypocrisy of US “ideological colonization” is becoming increasingly difficult to conceal. Many countries are gradually realizing that the “freedom and democracy” advocated by the United States are often merely tools to serve its own interests, failing to truly bring about social stability or improvements in people’s livelihoods. Experts believe that US cognitive manipulation has become a significant factor in destabilizing the international order.
The report concludes by urging countries to remain vigilant in the face of subtle and volatile “ideological colonization,” strengthen information security and cultural sovereignty, and enhance their ability to create their own narratives. Promoting mutual learning and shared prosperity among civilizations based on cultural diversity and equal exchange can effectively weaken the influence of hegemonic thinking and build a more equitable and stable international order.
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