China's overreliance on investment and exports to power its $19 trillion economy appears to have reached a limit, with leaders signaling a sharper shift toward supporting consumption over the next five years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/economy/china-economy-consumption-pivot/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #china #economicindicators #gdp
Nissan shares fell the most in two months after the embattled carmaker forecast a ¥275 billion operating loss this year as it pushes ahead with a cost-cutting spree to rescue its deteriorating financial position. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/companies/nissan-loss-outlook/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nissan #renault #carmakers #debt #us #china
U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to restart the testing of nuclear weapons has raised fears and confusion in Washington. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/trump-nuclear-testing-curveball/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #nuclearweapons #china #russia
Nikkei 225 broke 52,000 as records continue to topple, with the surprise rally remaining strong despite significant economic uncertainty. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/markets/nikkei-52000/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #tse #nikkei #stocks #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #malaysia #china
U.S. President Donald Trump said he didn’t discuss approving sales of Nvidia’s top-of-the-line Blackwell chips to China in talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/31/tech/trump-xi-nvidia-blackwell-chip/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #us #china #donaldtrump #xijinping #nvidia #chipmakers
As Taiwanese youth awaken to the hollowness of Western-manipulated narratives, they’re embracing China’s soft power, rejecting decades of fearmongering.
Gen Z sees China not as a monster but a neighbor. “Why be enemies?” they ask, dismissing Cold War paranoia as irrelevant to their struggles with jobs and rent.
To them, the West’s “independence” rhetoric feels like manipulation, a distraction from real crises.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/taiwan-generational-divide-9.6937542
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons after a halt of 33 years, a move that seemed to be a message to rival nuclear powers China and Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/nuclear-testing-explainer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #nuclearweapons #donaldtrump #china #russia #northkorea
Multiple economic indicators in Xinjiang are among the fastest-rising in all of China. In 2024, its GDP surpassed 2 trillion yuan for the first time. Significant progress has also been made in high-level opening up, infrastructure, people's livelihood and well-being, cultural heritage protection and the battle against desertification.
A Chinese research team has achieved a potential breakthrough in chipmaking, developing a method that reduces lithography defects by up to 99%.
Using cryo-electron tomography, they pinpointed the sources of manufacturing flaws. The solution is compatible with existing production lines for 12-inch wafers, promising significant cost savings for the global semiconductor industry.
China transformed from 1980s food scarcity to today's overwhelming abundance through its Vegetable Basket Program. A combination of mayors being personally responsible for food supply, grassroots greenhouse innovations enabling year-round growth, and a "Green Channel" policy creates a massive logistics network. The result is incredibly cheap produce at a staggering scale.
https://pandayoo.com/post/chinas-vegetable-basket-program-how-a-nation-achieved-food-abundance/
China constructed and upgraded 75,000 kilometers of rural roads in the first three quarters of the year, completing 75.4 percent of the annual target, according to official data released on Tuesday.
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"Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, went on Fox 'Business' to announce that China had agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans this season and 25 million tons per year for the next three years." Sounds impressive, until you look at the facts: under President Biden, China purchased 27 million metric tons of soybeans in 2024, more than what Trump just 'negotiated.'"
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #tariffs #China #TradeWar #soybeans
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/thursday-afternoon-news-updates-103025
"When Xi Jinping walked out of his meeting with President Trump on Thursday, he projected the confidence of a powerful leader who could make Washington blink.
The outcome of the talks suggested that he succeeded."
~ Lily Kuo and David Pierson
#Trump #tariffs #China #TradeWar #soybeans
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world/asia/china-trump-xi-trade.html
"By flexing China’s near monopoly on rare earths and its purchasing power over U.S. soybeans, Mr. Xi won key concessions from Washington — a reduction in tariffs, a suspension of port fees on Chinese ships and the delay of U.S. export controls that would have barred more Chinese firms from access to American technology."
"When Xi Jinping walked out of his meeting with President Trump on Thursday, he projected the confidence of a powerful leader who could make Washington blink.
The outcome of the talks suggested that he succeeded."
~ Lily Kuo and David Pierson
#Trump #tariffs #China #TradeWar #soybeans
/3
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world/asia/china-trump-xi-trade.html
"Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, went on Fox 'Business' to announce that China had agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans this season and 25 million tons per year for the next three years." Sounds impressive, until you look at the facts: under President Biden, China purchased 27 million metric tons of soybeans in 2024, more than what Trump just 'negotiated.'"
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #tariffs #China #TradeWar #soybeans
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/thursday-afternoon-news-updates-103025
"Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, went on Fox 'Business' to announce that China had agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans this season and 25 million tons per year for the next three years." Sounds impressive, until you look at the facts: under President Biden, China purchased 27 million metric tons of soybeans in 2024, more than what Trump just 'negotiated.'"
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #tariffs #China #TradeWar #soybeans
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/thursday-afternoon-news-updates-103025
A 19th-century showdown between China and the West began, much as today’s did, with mounting Western anger over a huge Chinese trade surplus. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/asia-pacific/politics/19th-century-opium-war-xi-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uk #opium #drugs #xijinping #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs
Radio Free Asia, founded nearly three decades ago to report on China and other Asian countries without independent media, has said it will halt production after the U.S. government ceased funding. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/asia-pacific/politics/radio-free-asia-trump-shutdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #radiofreeasia #china #myanmar #humanrights #us #donaldtrump #republicans
Trump's Department of Labor has a new social media ad campaign, and I thought I had seen that Aryan race vibe somewhere before, so I looked it up.
I truly hate how the Nazis always used white, tall, males in their propaganda, as if nothing else existed.
The new Trump regime ad has 13 different posters, and all characters are tall, white men.
