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Foreign visitors are sharing what Chinese-style safety truly feels like
u/violentviolinz — 12 hours ago
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Australia Secures Jet Fuel From China as War Strains Supplies
>Australia has secured additional commodity supplies — bringing in jet fuel from China and urea from Brunei — as the Iran war strains markets.
>Three jet-fuel cargoes, totaling more than 600,000 barrels, are expected to arrive from early June, according to a joint statement from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office issued along with several ministers. The cargoes were described as a “first step,” and more may follow, the statement said.
u/violentviolinz — 13 hours ago
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China's two domestically built large cruise ships met at sea for the first time as Adora Flora City conducted sea trials and Adora Magic City returned from Busan, South Korea
u/violentviolinz — 13 hours ago
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RT - Vladimir Putin's key moments in China in one gorgeous montage from our team. (I'm not sure, but I think Russia tried to outdo Trump's montage 😂 tbh, both were well done. Don't think anyone cares what China releases now 🥲)
u/violentviolinz — 1 day ago
The boy Putin hugged at Beihai Park in 2000 met him again. Peng Pai, now a senior engineer from Hunan, was inspired by that childhood encounter to pursue studies in Russia. “Mr President, you look just the same. I’ve gone from a little boy to a chubby middle-aged man,” Peng said
u/Igennem — 1 day ago
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Ronald Sakolsky has been found. Yin Yuzhen posted a video online in search of the American, hoping to show him the forest that he'd helped create with a 5,000 USD donation in 1999. The two of them had a video call
u/violentviolinz — 1 day ago
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It makes sense to compare the content, not ceremonies — Kremlin spox Peskov on Putin's and Trump's visits to China. Both Russia and China attach great importance to this content
u/violentviolinz — 1 day ago
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ABC News - China has been able to offset some of the energy shock caused by the Iran war because of its investment in renewable energy. Britt Clennett reports from a solar thermal plant in the country
u/violentviolinz — 1 day ago
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China has unveiled new regulations aimed at retaliating against foreign nations and companies “implementing or assisting in actions that harm the security of China’s industrial and supply chains.”
>China’s Communist Party journal, Qiushi, published an anthology of President Xi Jinping’s comments on the priority of further strengthening his nation’s already-dominant manufacturing sector.
>“The objective is not only to defend existing market positions, but to actively deter diversification and preserve China’s central role in global supply chains,” is how a report commissioned by the US Chamber of Commerce summed it up earlier this week.
>China has constructed “a legal shield against exactly the kind of supply chain diversification that the IAA is trying to engineer,” Alicia Garcia Herrero, chief Asia Pacific economist at the French bank Natixis SA, wrote in a recent note. “Foreign governments hoping to coax, cajole or compel companies to exit Chinese supply relationships now face a China that can say, with legal force, that such interference violates Chinese law.”
>This week’s Chamber of Commerce report, prepared by the research firm Rhodium Group, detailed China’s muscular moves to both maintain dominance in the lower-value parts of supply chains it acquired long ago, and to secure increasing shares of cutting-edge industries.
>Beijing also is screening outbound investment to ensure its companies’ overseas operations serve to enhance China’s exports rather than replace them, the report said. “Moving forward, Chinese firms will likely be increasingly hesitant to move higher value-added portions of their manufacturing abroad, lest they become bogged down in approval delays.”
u/violentviolinz — 2 days ago
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Why Iran’s choice of Beijing envoy signals an ‘unprecedented’ commitment: prominent hardline conservative is a veteran of the IRGC and a former mayor of Tehran. The appointment was proposed by Iranian President Pezeshkian and supported by Supreme Leader Khamenei
>Iran has signalled “unprecedented” commitment to its ties with China by appointing a veteran of peace talks with the US as its emissary to Beijing, a move experts say also underscored China’s rise as a “third space” where Middle East powers could quietly negotiate.
>Tehran has made Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the country’s parliament, its special envoy to oversee the country’s relationship with China, according to a Sunday report by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency.
>Ghalibaf led the Iranian delegation in April peace talks with Washington. The prominent hardline conservative is a veteran of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a former mayor of Tehran.
>The responsibilities of Ghalibaf’s new role “differ in their level of authority” compared to previous representatives, the Tasnim report said, citing sources familiar with the matter.
>The appointment was proposed by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and supported by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, according to Tasnim.
This suggests broad agreement on China across the political spectrum in Iran. Prior to the war, Pezeshkian would've been considered in the 'Reformist' camp. Though, it's not clear what that even means for the group since American aggression.
u/violentviolinz — 2 days ago
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Du Mengran, one of 10 people who shaped science in 2025 named by Nature, has received China's top youth honor -- the May Fourth Medal. Together with her team, this Chinese deep-sea scientist discovered animal ecosystems at 9,533 meters below the Pacific, overturning long-held beliefs about deep-sea
https://x.com/XHscitech/status/2050922163734208656
>It is not easy to contact Du Mengran, who usually spends nearly half a year at sea, and part of that time, diving thousands of meters beneath the waves.
>She hardly looks like someone who could tame the deep sea. Slender, petite, with a ponytail, the 39-year-old could be the girl next door. It is not until you notice her blue suit, emblazoned with a submersible-shaped armband and the Chinese characters for "China Manned Deep-Sea Diving," that you can realize her career.
>She has been an ocean researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for 12 years. The journal Nature called Du "Deep Diver" and named her one of the 10 people who shaped science in 2025 for her discoveries, alongside the founder of the DeepSeek AI model. Now Du is the recipient of this year's China Youth May Fourth Medal, the country's top honor awarded to youths.
>Du has dived more than 30 times aboard China's submersibles. The most remarkable one was in 2024, when she led a team that discovered an animal ecosystem at over 9,000 meters below the surface of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in the northwestern Pacific. That depth is greater than the height of the world's highest peak.
>As the submersible Fendouzhe (Striver) descended to 9,533 meters, its lights revealed a stunning sight: the dark seabed covered with dense clusters of blood-red, tube-shaped worms, swaying like crimson corals.
>"At that moment, we forgot to breathe," Du recalled.
>The research team found the worms' tentacles were rich in hemoglobin, giving them a red color. Around them were clams, sea anemones and other tube worms. The discovery overturned the long-held belief that no complex life exists below 9,000 meters.
>Du and her two teammates spent seven hours inside a cramped cabin, using robotic arms to collect samples and record videos. When the submersible resurfaced, the entire research vessel burst into excitement.
>Over the next month, Du led 24 more dives. Along the 2,500-km trench, they repeatedly observed similar worm communities, which formed a continuous "deep-sea life belt."
>Sample analysis showed that these deep-sea creatures can withstand enormous pressure and that their cell membranes can maintain normal material exchange in extreme environments.
>"These creatures do not rely on sunlight. They coexist with microbes and get energy from methane and hydrogen sulfide," Du explained. "The process can be called chemosynthesis."
>The journal Nature published its findings in early 2025. International scholars said they offered new clues to how life evolved. Previously, scientists believed that deep-sea life fed only on the remains of plants and animals sinking from the upper ocean.
>The discovery was hard-earned. At 9,533 meters deep, the submersible's hull endured a force equivalent to a car pressing down on a fingertip.
>This is not the first time the small woman has shown a strong heart.
>In 2025, Du led a team to the Puysegur Trench off the coast of New Zealand, a region known for its fierce storms. Despite two-story-high waves, her team completed dozens of dives, seizing the brief intervals between the waves and winds.
>"When the pilot asked me why I didn't back down," Du wrote in her diary, "I said: the abyss never turns away a visitor. It is just waiting for eyes humble enough to see."
>"Her passion for deep-sea science is fierce," said Du's colleague Peng Xiaotong. "That is one reason that we made the discoveries."
>In a male-dominated field, Du never asks for special treatment due to her gender. "In the face of science, everyone is equal," she said.
>Every time the submersible resurfaced, she rushed to the lab with samples, racing against the clock despite seasickness. "I don't feel tired, only excitement," Du said.
>She also enjoys the small pleasures of returning to land, such as binge-eating vegetables and lying on the sofa scrolling through her phone. "They feel like a luxury," she admitted. But the joy of scientific discovery is incomparable.
>Du grew up in Anhui, an inland province in eastern China. "She was smart, determined and persistent in everything she did," recalled Kong Dezhen, her high school teacher.
>In 2004, Du was enrolled at the Ocean University of China. In 2014, having earned her PhD from Texas A&M University in the United States on a government scholarship, Du joined the newly founded Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering under the CAS in the island province of Hainan.
>The institute started humbly. It rented a two-story building from a school. Its lab equipment often tripped the circuit breaker; a few dozen researchers shared one large office; and with no research vessels, they borrowed small fishing boats for sea experiments.
>But the atmosphere was joyful. "It encouraged us to stay patient, not to chase trends," Du said, noting that the institute offered her freedom to explore without academic pressure.
>Over the years, the institute has grown into a world-class research center. It now operates two homegrown submersibles, including Fendouzhe, which has set China's manned diving record of over 10,000 meters.
>In June 2025, the UN endorsed the Global Trench Exploration and Diving program. It was proposed by the Chinese institute, in collaboration with partners from more than 10 countries.
>Under the program, China and Chile launched a joint expedition to the eastern Pacific, which concluded in March this year. Du, the Chinese chief scientist of the expedition, told Xinhua that one achievement was finding new evidence for the "global deep-sea life corridor" hypothesis proposed by her team.
>The young scientist has many exploration plans, one of which is to explore the ocean beneath the polar ice.
>Whatever challenges lie ahead, Du said she would meet them with the belief she has carried for years: "I enjoy living with nature, and it always teaches me something new."
u/violentviolinz — 3 days ago
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Tech-driven smart farming powers spring plowing across China
u/violentviolinz — 3 days ago
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Smart vertical farming technology is redefining agricultural production with remarkable efficiency in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province. A 100-square-meter automated vertical plant factory here is capable of producing 50 metric tons of lettuce per year
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Putin thanks 'long-time good friend' Chairman of the PRC Xi Jinping for Beijing invitation in greeting speech, addressing Chinese audience. 'I am glad to once again visit Beijing'
u/violentviolinz — 3 days ago
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Trump sold Xi "very expensive things" and got back "bottles of air," according to a Khamenei adviser. Trump says China agrees on Hormuz and nukes. Hormuz is a public good—like air—available for all. As for nukes, he says Iran is not pursuing them, stating "only US and Israel claim so
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Central Asia’s FIRST driverless rail line launches in Astana, Kazakhstan. Kazakh President Tokayev officially opens the project built with Chinese partners
u/violentviolinz — 3 days ago
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Fareed Zakaria: In President Trump’s recent interactions with Xi Jinping, we saw a version of him rarely on display: respectful, almost deferential. On China, Trump has evolved from belligerence toward a more complicated mix of rivalry and cooperation
u/violentviolinz — 4 days ago
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Washington Post: Iran obliterated 228 US army structures at bases — sat pics. Hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft, key radar, comms, air defense equipment
https://x.com/RT_com/status/2056084215062479171
Iran is lucky Trump didn't pull out the 'discombobulator' though.
u/violentviolinz — 4 days ago
UN Climate Chief Lavishes Praise on China: The further China goes, the faster the clean energy transition accelerates — the greater the benefit to your people and economy...Where China leads, others follow.
>China is reaping benefits as a global leader on the green transition and other nations should follow as the Iran war shows the vulnerability of a fossil fuel-based economy, according to the top United Nations climate official.
>“The further China goes, the faster the clean energy transition accelerates — the greater the benefit to your people and economy,” Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said in the text of a speech to be delivered Thursday in Beijing. “Where China leads, others follow. ”
u/Igennem — 4 days ago
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From lunar research to satellite navigation: China-Russia space cooperation reaches new heights. Through representative projects such as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) and the integration of the BeiDou and GLONASS satellite navigation systems
>CGTN
>Space cooperation has become one of the key pillars of the China-Russia partnership. Through representative projects such as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) and the integration of the BeiDou and GLONASS satellite navigation systems, the two countries are advancing a range of initiatives that promote the peaceful exploration and use of outer space.
>Building the ILRS
>(An illustration of the International Lunar Research Station. CMG)
>China and Russia have been actively promoting the construction of the ILRS.
>In March 2021, the two governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the construction of the ILRS, officially launching bilateral collaboration. The following month, they issued a joint statement committing to build the station alongside other international partners.
>Guided by the principles of "co-consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits," the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos aim to foster broad international collaboration, promoting advances in human space technology and socio-economic development. In June 2021, both sides released the ILRS Roadmap (V1.0), outlining a phased approach from project planning and payload development to in-orbit verification and base construction.
>The two countries have been working closely on China's Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 lunar missions. The Chang'e-7 probe, scheduled for launch later this year, has already arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. It will carry a Russian scientific instrument designed to study the moon's dust and plasma environment. Chang'e-8, expected to launch around 2029, will conduct experiments near the lunar south pole to support future resource utilization and the construction of the ILRS. The mission will carry Russia's lunar plasma-dust environment sensor and the lunar ion and high-energy neutral particle analyzer.
>In May 2025, the CNSA and Roscosmos signed a memorandum on the construction of a power station for the ILRS. Scheduled for completion in 2036, the station will be "an important contribution" to the ILRS project, said Roscosmos, adding that the station "will conduct fundamental space research and test technology for long-term uncrewed operations of the ILRS, with the prospect of a human being's presence on the moon."
>Satellite navigation cooperation
>China-Russia cooperation in satellite navigation has also achieved major progress.
>As early as 2015, the two countries signed an agreement to coordinate their BeiDou and GLONASS systems, initiating efforts to achieve compatibility and interoperability between the two global navigation systems.
>The collaboration has been deepened with the Russian-Chinese Roadmap for Cooperation in Satellite Navigation for 2021-2025 signed in 2021, followed by a new cooperation roadmap in 2025, enhancing joint performance monitoring and promoting integrated applications. Cross-border transport projects, joint development of navigation terminals, and location service systems have been implemented, improving positioning accuracy and anti-interference capabilities. These systems have been applied in sectors such as logistics, disaster prevention and reduction, and border management, providing reliable spatiotemporal services globally.
>Beyond lunar exploration and navigation, China and Russia are deepening collaboration in space debris monitoring, crewed spaceflight, scientific research and talent cultivation.
>Lev Zeleny, chief scientist at the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, said the two countries have potential for cooperation in Venus exploration and other celestial bodies, solar-terrestrial physics, deep space astrophysics, and space telescope development. He added that his institute has participated in the lunar exploration project, and Russian researchers have actively cooperated with their Chinese counterparts to conduct comparative studies on the lunar soil.
u/violentviolinz — 5 days ago