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litbear2022on More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

Active-duty armed personnel stormed a neighboring country's embassy with a knife. It’s really hard to guess who is pursuing expansion.

litbear2022on How China Saved the Global Oil Market

Freedom. We cherish freedom, and we attain it through technological progress and self-restraint—unlike certain nations that rely on plunder.

litbear2022on US administration considering ban on Chinese open source AI models

I myself am actively considering banning Newton's First Law.

litbear2022on Qwen 3.8

Thanks for reminding me—it was China that robbed TikTok.

litbear2022on Why jet engines aren't made in China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Y-20#Specifications_(Y...

litbear2022on Challenging the Narrative of European Decline

How are you feeling now?

litbear2022on In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition

Just checked the ranking of EV patent Holders , did not find your country

litbear2022on The US Is Demonstrating That It Cannot Oppose China

What gave you the impression that China is incapable of nuclear retaliation?

litbear2022on China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built

You should update your data; in 2013, China's high-speed rail reached 605 km/h on experimental lines. The CR450 is scheduled to enter commercial service in 2026.

litbear2022on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

Before Trump set his sights on Greenland, Denmark also considered Kosovo to be independent.

litbear2022on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

There is no place called the French Concession in Shanghai today.

litbear2022on Can Old Lime Bikes and Hard Disks Counter China's Rare-Earth Chokehold?

> The Russian military is taking chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix their military hardware, because they ran out of semiconductors.

> Russia's industry is in tatters and its economy on life-support.

> This is the price for Putin's trail of death and destruction.

LMAO

- https://x.com/EU_Commission/status/1571454007683428352?lang=...

- https://time.com/6226484/russia-appliance-imports-weapons/

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/01/20/is-russia...

litbear2022on China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk

FYI, Seven years ago, China discussed banning killer robots at the United Nations, but the effort failed. The rest of the story is as you can see.

- https://press.un.org/en/2019/gadis3635.doc.htm

- https://web.archive.org/web/20201028152258/https://www.stopk...

litbear2022on China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk

> On April 18, 2000, the BeiDou and Galileo systems were simultaneously declared. According to ITU rules, navigation satellites must be launched within 7 years and the corresponding frequency signals must be successfully transmitted and received in order to obtain the orbital position and frequency resources, otherwise they cannot obtain legal status.

> At 4:11 a.m. on April 14, 2007, the BeiDou satellite, which was tasked with carrying out an important mission, took off and sent back a signal at around 8 p.m. on April 17. At this point, there were less than four hours left before the ITU's "seven-year deadline."

https://en.eeworld.com.cn/news/qrs/eic475760.html

litbear2022on Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023

Let's see who disconnected from the internet completely :)

litbear2022on China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan

If the United States and Japan dare not send troops at that time, remember to commit seppuku.

litbear2022on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

> -- Phil Karlton

- https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-...

- https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

litbear2022on All-solid-state EV batteries hit milestone in China, promising to double range

The first production line for solid-state batteries has been built and is currently undergoing pilot-scale experiments.

The US government has banned the sale of EV from China, the EU is demanding minimum prices, and BMW is suing EV importers in Germany[1]. Without these protection rackets, you could definitely afford one by now.

- [1] https://www.teslarati.com/volkswagen-sues-id-6-import-german...

litbear2022on Laptops with Stickers

I think some people would be very interested in similar satirical stickers.Unfortunately, this link is sold out.

https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005005801847872.html

litbear2022on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty

It must be China or North Korea that forced TikTok to sell.

litbear2022on Could China devastate the US without firing a shot?

Commander, you should take a break from the conspiracy theories and anti-China political news. Take a moment to check the news[1] , then declare war on Silicon Valley startups and send a passenger plane to shoot down the balloons[2].

- [1] https://wpo.noaa.gov/windborne-weather-balloon-reaches-new-h...

- [2] https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/the-mystery-object-tha...

litbear2022on China Can't Win

I felt the vulnerability and sensitivity that only perpetrators have.

litbear2022on China Can't Win

What a poor analogy. Put away your colonial arrogance and go argue with hypersonic missiles.

litbear2022on China Can't Win

The invaded country has no obligation or reason to make any promises to its former colonial master.

litbear2022on Gang suspected of sending up to 40K stolen UK iPhones to China

Recipe: Raging demand for repairs drives stolen iPhones from all corners of the world to Shenzhen.

BBC Seasoning: Add a touch of political conspiracy theory flavor

litbear2022on China's plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe

Does this headline treat non-Chinese people as apes? Or does it mean that the G7 is not responsible for historical carbon emissions?

litbear2022on Wind turbine blade transportation challenges

A darkly humorous idea that significantly increases the carbon emission cost of wind turbine construction

litbear2022on China is quietly saving the world from climate change

We *were* indeed the most polluted country in the world before we banned you from sending your garbage here. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_waste_import_ban

litbear2022on China running out of rubbish to burn as waste power goes into overdrive

Considering the irresponsible record of developed countries, this idea is extremely selfish.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_waste_import_ban

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong_Ship_Breaking_Yard

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ6c0EAS0aY

litbear2022on Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

If pooping on the beach is a Canadian tradition, then you're right.