What's happening in China?

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Will Xi Jinping be Forced to "Retire" Amid His Health Crisis? | Lei
Danny Jones Clips
514K subscribers
Jul 8, 2025

"⚠️ Is Xi Jinping’s health crisis about to force him out of power? In this eye-opening episode, Chinese dissident Lei reveals insider reports suggesting that Xi Jinping’s declining health could soon push him into forced retirement. From secret hospital visits to visible changes in his public appearances, Lei explains how China’s political elite are preparing for a future without Xi at the helm.

Inside this episode:

The truth behind Xi Jinping’s rumored health problems

Why CCP factions may use his health as grounds to remove him

How a leadership transition could destabilize China’s government

What this means for China’s future and global power dynamics

🧠 If Xi steps down, the ripple effects will be felt worldwide. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WbKC2KEk0tI

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'EXTRAORDINARY DANGEROUS TIME': Chang fears Xi Jinping now has incentives to do this
Fox Business
3.12M subscribers
Jul 7, 2025

"Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang weighs in on Chinese President Xi Jinping's absence from the BRICS summit and the negotiations over the sale of TikTok."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=O03glXyZDDI

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You'll Be APPALLED at What China is Hiding Behind This - Episode #271
The China Show
359K subscribers
7/11/25

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f7T7VymSYhI

[onawah]

China's 1.4 Billion Population is a Complete Lie (It's Much Lower) | Lei
Danny Jones Clips
515K subscribers
Jul 10, 2025

(The depopulation agenda has been working very well in China! )

"💥 What if China’s 1.4 billion population was a complete lie? In this explosive episode, Chinese dissident Lei reveals insider evidence that China’s real population is far lower than the government claims. From falsified birth data to hidden death rates, Lei explains how the CCP has manipulated numbers for decades to project power, economic strength, and global influence.

Inside this episode:

Why China’s real population could be hundreds of millions lower

How falsifying data supports the CCP’s political agenda

The looming economic collapse driven by demographic decline

What a smaller population really means for China’s future as a superpower

🧠 If these numbers are true, the entire narrative about China’s rise changes overnight."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FW8zalzvH-I

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[onawah]

More about the epidemic of lead poisoning in China from NTD:
China’s Toxic Outbreak: Children Poisoned by Lead With Levels 10 Times US Limit
ByVivian Li
Published: 7/10/2025
https://www.ntd.com/chinas-toxic-out...m_medium=email

(Video at the link)

"Discrepancies between official test results and independent hospital reports are raising questions about public health transparency and environmental oversight.
A growing health crisis in northwestern China's Gansu Province is drawing public attention, after a lead poisoning outbreak at a kindergarten left children with blood lead levels over 10 times the U.S. safety limit.

Discrepancies between official test results and independent hospital reports have sparked outrage, raising questions about public health transparency and environmental oversight."

Posted by onawah (here)
You'll Be APPALLED at What China is Hiding Behind This - Episode #271
The China Show
359K subscribers
7/11/25

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f7T7VymSYhI

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China’s Broke, World’s Highest Highway Unfinished, High-Speed Rail Projects Abandoned Nationwide
China Observer
731K subscribers
Jul 15, 2025

"The Tongche River Super Bridge, a critical part of the Zhenqi Expressway, was a joint project between the governments of Yunnan and Guizhou. Located in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan Province, the bridge was planned to stretch 1,458 meters, supported by 22 piers. The average height of the bridge deck was expected to be about 70 meters, with the tallest pier reaching 222 meters, making it the tallest bridge pier under construction in Asia."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MP6Kp_d-pqk

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China’s INSANE Building Boom is Backfiring - Build Too Fast, This Is What Happens - Episode #272
The China Show
360K subscribers
7/18/25

"China is regretting this deeply."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rk6Rzh-kIbc

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Tofu-Dreg China’s Three Gorges Dam Crisis: Sacrificing Cities to Save 30,000 Cubic Meters
China Spotlight
14.2K subscribers
164,672 views
Jul 24, 2025

"China’s Three Gorges Dam—long touted as the pinnacle of modern engineering—is now caught in a full-blown tofu‑dreg crisis. To protect key infrastructure, entire cities have reportedly been sacrificed, flooding tens of thousands of cubic meters, while communities bear the cost.

In this video, we investigate how aging and poorly constructed dams—the so‑called “tofu‑dreg” structures—are being forced to sacrifice residents to save the system. From understaffed monitoring to corner‑cutting designs, this isn’t just a disaster—it’s a pattern.

Watch as we expose the political, environmental, and humanitarian consequences of China’s dam failures and what happens when infrastructure is built to fail."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a6BZlz_bBRA

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China Insanity Pro Max WTF is Even Happening? - Episode #273
The China Show
7/25/25
361K subscribers

(The first hour is only about China-- the second part is mostly about South Africa.)
"China is out of control."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m-FmOoW_ihM

(Clearly, reality in China today is a dystopian clown show. The contrast is fearsome and dramatic, hard to believe that it could be real, but there is no lack of credible evidence. The daily Chinese Twilight Zone.)

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Chinese Defector: 1 Billion People Have Gone Missing in China
Lei's Real Talk
Danny Jones
1.08M subscribers
Jul 7, 2025 Danny Jones Podcast

" Lei is an expert in Chinese finance, censorship, and life under a totalitarian government & brings a unique perspective to analyzing and interpreting geopolitics, with a particular focus on China and Sino-U.S. relations. Being bilingual and having grown up in China gives Lei a distinct advantage in accurately interpreting Chinese politics and economic affairs with native knowledge."

EPISODE LINKS
Lei's Real Talk YouTube Channel: ‪@LeisRealTalk‬
Lei's Looking Glass: ‪@LeisLookingGlass‬

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=m2m7_Iqd5to

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China’s Streets Tearing Open and Swallowing People - Why is This Happening Now? - Episode #274
The China Show
362K subscribers
8/1/25

"China is regretting this deeply. "

Some Sources -

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/31/...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/a-bud...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/bu...

https://tiffany.house.gov/media/edito...

https://www.techradar.com/pro/securit...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gal...

https://www.ft.com/content/69183dd8-1...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/engine...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigat...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DTiskzuYyyU

[onawah]

Uncovering China's Subversion of the US From Within
Part two of the interview with Crossroads host Joshua Philipp
ByLee Hall
8/3/2025
https://www.ntd.com/uncovering-china...m_medium=email

(Video at the link.)

"NTD’s Lee Hall sits down in New York’s "Crossroads" studio with host and investigative journalist Joshua Philipp for the second half of this interview. Philipp talks about accidentally uncovering one of the largest Chinese spy networks in the United States, the layers of control and espionage that are used to subvert America, and why years of death threats from the Chinese mafia did not stop him from reporting the truth."

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FBI Expands Global Operations to Counter CCP With Australia, New Zealand Partnerships
By T.J. Muscaro
8/3/2025
https://www.ntd.com/fbi-expands-glob...m_medium=email

(Video at the link.)

"FBI Director Kash Patel praised Australia as a critical ally as the bureau expands its fight against the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) there and in New Zealand.

"We’re expanding global operations to confront some of the most serious threats to the American homeland: foreign influence, cyber attacks, CCP espionage, and counter narcotics,” he said in an Aug. 3 post on X. "Australia is a critical ally in that fight."
Patel made the statement upon returning from a discreet visit to both countries at the end of July, a trip that included the opening of a new standalone office in New Zealand's capital, Wellington.

The FBI said that its office in Australia’s capital, Canberra, had been used to quietly operate out of Wellington since 2017, but with a standalone office now open there, the FBI was now able to cover more of the South Pacific, including Antarctica, Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands, and the Kingdom of Tonga.

"Our team just returned from high-level meetings with our Five Eyes partners to deepen intel-sharing, strengthen joint counterterrorism and cyber efforts, and push back against the CCP’s growing aggression in the Indo-Pacific,” he added in his post. "This is how we prepare to keep threats off our shores- before they ever get here. Thank you to our Australian partners for the renewed vision of teamwork against our adversaries.”

Patel’s visit was not announced at the time, nor did he make a public appearance or speak to the media. A video was later released by the U.S. Embassy showing a speech of his remarks, and the FBI issued a press release confirming the opening of the new office in Wellington on July 31.
“The FBI has had a strong relationship and collaborated closely with our counterparts in New Zealand for years,” said Patel in the press release. “Expanding the Wellington office demonstrates the strength and evolution of our partnership as we continue to work together to address our shared security objectives in the region.”

From there, Patel hopped over to Australia to visit the FBI’s office in Canberra and visit international Five Eyes partner agencies, which the FBI confirmed in a news release on Aug. 1.
Five Eyes consists of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It was founded in 1946 to share intelligence and coordinate security efforts.

Working with New Zealand partners, the FBI said it would address not just threats of the CCP, but also general foreign intelligence threats as well as criminal activities such as terrorism, cybercrime, fraud, money laundering, and child exploitation.

Meanwhile, the Chinese regime's embassy in Wellington condemned Patel’s remarks, calling them “groundless assertions” and evidence of “a Cold War mentality.”

However, after her meeting with Patel, New Zealand Attorney General Judith Collins, who oversees the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, told her country’s parliament that she did not expect a response from China.

“This is our country, our sovereign right to do what we do,” she said.

“I think the point is that it’s a US administration decision, and we’re happy to support it. It works well for New Zealand, it’s in our best interests.”

Naziya Alvi Rahman and Rex Winderstrom contributed to this report."

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CCP Launches Chikungunya Virus Testing in Foshan, Sparking Fears of Lockdown
By Alex Wu
8/3/2025
https://www.ntd.com/ccp-launches-chi...m_medium=email

(Video at the link.)

"The U.S. CDC said it is considering issuing a travel notice for China as the Chikungunya virus outbreak continues its rapid spread.
As the Chikungunya fever outbreak has continued to spread in Guangdong province, Chinese authorities have adopted similar control measures to how they handled the COVID-19 pandemic, triggering public fear of a return of city wide lockdowns.

As of July 31, the total number of officially confirmed cases of Chikungunya fever reported in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, reached more than 6,000, according to Chinese state media. The first case was reported on July 8. On Aug. 1, Foshan authorities reported 333 newly confirmed cases in one day.

Chikungunya fever is a viral disease mainly transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. Its symptoms are similar to dengue fever. Patients usually experience fever, severe joint pain, muscle pain, headache, fatigue, and rash.

There is no specific antiviral treatment for Chikungunya. Deaths from the disease are rare but do occur, especially among vulnerable populations such as those with underlying health conditions.

Meanwhile, confirmed cases have also been reported in more than 10 cities in Guangdong Province, according to Guangdong Provincial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On July 31, the Department of Medical Emergency Response of the Chinese regime’s National Health Commission issued an urgent nationwide notice for diagnosis and treatment plans for the Chikungunya fever outbreak.

In the notice, the central authorities said there is currently no Chikungunya virus vaccine available in China. They said that “quarantine measures must be taken” for suspected and confirmed cases.

Meanwhile, local authorities in Foshan City, which is hardest-hit by Chikungunya fever, initiated a Level III public health emergency response on July 29.

In China, the official response levels are divided into four levels: Level I (extremely serious), Level II (serious), Level III (major), and Level IV (general).

Residents in Foshan City told local media that they had received an official notice that Chikungunya virus PCR screening would be conducted as part of a three day mass testing effort from July 29 to 31.

On July 30, the Shabian Village Residents Committee of Lecong Town in Shunde district, Foshan, told local media that the whole town had received notice of mass PCR screening for the Chikungunya virus for July 29 to July 31.

Videos circulating on social media showed Guangdong residents lining up for PCR testing, and epidemic prevention personnel fumigating the city to kill mosquitoes.

Spreading Outside Guangdong
The Chikungunya outbreak had spread to Macau and Beijing a few days earlier, according to local health authorities.
On July 29, health authorities in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province in southeast China, posted an alert on their WeChat public account about Chikungunya fever and dengue fever, requiring that “people returning from Foshan must monitor their health for 14 days at home.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was monitoring the Chikungunya fever situation in China.

“CDC is aware of the reported chikungunya outbreak in Guangdong Province in China and is currently assessing the size and extent of the outbreak,” a CDC spokesperson told Bloomberg News. The agency said it is considering a travel warning to China.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has raised concerns of another Chikungunya virus epidemic. The WHO said it was noticing the exact same early warning signs as were seen before a major outbreak two decades ago that infected more than 5 million people. That epidemic started in Kenya and spread to countries primarily in the Indian Ocean region, and South and Southeast Asia, and later, parts of tropical and subtropical Europe and the Americas.

“We are calling for urgent action to prevent history from repeating itself. There is no particular treatment for Chikungunya, so people need to avoid mosquito bites,” Dr. Diana Rojas Alvarez, a medical officer at the WHO, told reporters on July 22.

Chikungunya fever can spread rapidly. “Based on the life habits of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, its vector, and the virus’s activity in both humans and mosquitoes, it is estimated that in a community with a high Aedes aegypti population, a single infected person could transmit the virus to over 2,400 people through mosquito bites within 30 days,” Dr. Cheng Yuan-yu, attending physician at Shang-wen Clinic in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, who specializes in infectious diseases, told The Epoch Times on Aug. 2.

If the epidemic continues to worsen, there’s a high chance that countries will issue travel warnings, Cheng said. However, “travel bans are unlikely, as this is a disease with a low mortality rate and a low severe case rate,” he said.

“Prevention measures primarily involve monitoring and tracking incoming travelers for symptoms, particularly body temperature,” he added.

Sean Lin, assistant professor in the Biomedical Science Department at Feitian College and former U.S. army microbiologist, shared a similar assessment, saying he doesn’t think travel bans will be necessary.

He said “there is no need” for the Chinese regime to impose quarantines “because the virus isn’t transmitted from person to person but rather through mosquitoes.”

“Local authorities can generally control the epidemic by implementing mosquito control campaigns and maintaining good hygiene,” Lin told The Epoch Times on Aug. 2.

This outbreak in China is likely “related to changes in the local mosquito population and their adaptability to the virus,” Lin said, noting that “the Chinese government hasn’t been able to produce a timely research report on this.”

He added that some people who are infected by Chikungunya virus are at risk of long-term joint pain.

CCP’s Mandatory Measures Sparking Fear
Many Chinese citizens have been sharing their experiences on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Chikungunya control measures on social media. Some fear that the draconian lockdown measures that the CCP employed during the three-year COVID-19 pandemic may come back.
A Foshan resident infected with Chikungunya virus posted a video on social media claiming they were not being allowed to leave after having a blood test at Longjiang Hospital in Shunde.

Another resident said in a video post that he has been in forced quarantine in a hospital for four days, and was being monitored by medical staff 24 hours a day. The video showed security guards at the quarantine site.

Others commented on social media about Foshan’s mass testing and “long lines,” reminiscent of the long testing lines for COVID-19 during the pandemic.

“Do we need to be quarantined? Will they lock down the city?” another post read. “No way! Why do we have to wear masks every day again?” another comment read.

On July 29, CCP officials held a national video and telephone conference in Beijing on Chikungunya fever prevention and control, including launching a mosquito eradication campaign. A video on social media showed the Foshan government deploying a large number of armed police officers to “exterminate mosquitoes.”

A Chinese citizen commented on the video, “The armed police has even been deployed. This feels a bit serious.”

Another comment read, ”Are they planning to lock down Foshan and Shunde?”

Tang Bing, Luo Ya, and Reuters contributed to this report.
From The Epoch Times "

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Thriller Showcasing Beijing’s ‘Unrestricted War’ Screened on Capitol Hill
ByEva Fu
7/31/2025
https://www.ntd.com/film-showcasing-...m_medium=email

(Videos at the link) (Trailer at: https://www.unrestrictedwarmovie.com/ )

"WASHINGTON—A whistleblower silenced, a vial of biological material secretly sent to China, a pandemic spilled out.

In a country where the Chinese Communist Party holds onto power at any cost and covers up truth with chilling speed, ordinary families find themselves thrust into the center of an invisible war that knows no rules or bounds, one that the regime wages worldwide.

Such is the setting in the fast-paced political thriller “The Unrestricted War,” screened on July 31 at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill.
Inspired by real-world events in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian filmmaker Ma Yan presents a story of freedom and survival, following a respected Canadian virologist, Dr. Jim Conrad, who is forced to make an unthinkable choice between stealing national secrets from his homeland or endangering his loved ones in a country where he has built his second home.

Casey Fleming, a national security expert and author of the upcoming book “The Red Tsunami,” said the film “gets you inside of what your enemy's thinking.”
“To win this war without ever firing a shot, that's what unrestricted warfare is,” he told The Epoch Times.

He said the film is "absolutely worth your time."

"It moves very quickly. But remember," what it shows is "just the tip of the iceberg.”

While people traditionally think of war and peace in black and white terms, he said, the Chinese regime looks at the gray zone, weaponizing everything from schools to one’s next-door neighbors to achieve its goals.


Casey Fleming at a film screening event, "Unrestricted War," at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2025. (Chen Lei/The Epoch Times)

In the film, espionage, media disinformation, and blackmail are some of the tactics on display as the regime plots a biowar following an accidental lab leak.

Ma said that he intended for the film to be a warning to audiences. “We need to prepare for the worst, right?” he told The Epoch Times.

“Does the Party leader intend to release the virus globally to infect the whole world? Maybe, maybe not. But under that system, it's very easy to get out of control. They will weaponize whatever they can to use it for their political purpose.”

Producer Sophia Sun had a personal brush with Chinese spycraft efforts during the 1990s.

Sun had graduated with high honors as the top student of her school. After she joined a state-linked company in Shanghai that oversaw representative offices of Western businesses in China, three separate national security agencies approached her, asking her to eavesdrop on the foreign firms.

They contacted her regularly, taking down what intelligence she had gathered and asking if she had any financial needs they could help with.

Her experience was part of the inspiration for the character Sophie Wen, who remains “blind to the dark side of the party” until a personal tragedy shakes her awake, Sun told The Epoch Times.

Sun said she had enthusiastically joined the Chinese Communist Party in college, seeing it as an honor.

“You are selected because you have good grades, you are well-behaved, you are capable,” she said. “They pretend to mean well and give you all kinds of opportunities so that you feel like you are something.”

It's only once you're deep in a scheme that you “realize that what they ask for are all the things you are not supposed to do,” she said.

Making the film wasn’t easy. Ma’s family members in China faced harassment from local officials during the production, with one losing their salary. Ethnic Chinese actors were also reluctant to appear even in the background for fear of retaliation in China.


Uni Park, a Korean Canadian actress who stars as protagonist Chinese general Chen Wei, at a screening event for the film "Unrestricted War," at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2025. (Chen Lei/The Epoch Times)

Korean Canadian actress Uni Park, who portrays antagonist Gen. Chen Wei, said the film opened her eyes to how Party mechanisms enslave everyone from the top down.

At one point, the film flashes back to Chen’s girlhood during the Cultural Revolution, to a moment when her mother denounced her father in front of her and told her to be loyal to the Party.

Chen survives physically, but she’s the “walking dead,” “a puppet with no soul,” Park told The Epoch Times. And the Party, “the only thing in her whole life she worked for, faithfully and diligently,” would eventually cast her off, like a “used-up tool.”

Ultimately, Ma said, the film is about “how people can make right choices in a very difficult situation.”

Park agrees. Chen represents “an example of what happens when one's innocence, loyalty, and love have been stolen,” she said during a panel discussion prior to the screening.


Canadian filmmaker Ma Yan at his film screening event, "Unrestricted War," at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2025. (Chen Lei/The Epoch Times)

“She has become a weapon shaped by a regime that understands how to exploit grief, fear, and loyalty for her country. Her true identity was stolen, like many others. And that brings me to the heart of why this story matters,” she said.

By sharing the film, Park said, she hopes “we can begin to build more compassion, courage, and empathy for those who cannot yet speak for themselves.”

The film will premiere on the streaming platform Ganjing World on Aug. 8.
From The Epoch Times "

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US in Much More Complex Cold War With China Than With Former Soviet Union
By Steve Lance
8/6/2025
https://www.ntd.com/us-in-much-more-...m_medium=email

(Video at the link)

" Former US Ambassador Joseph Cella discussed how the Chinese Communist Party uses the United States' open trade and investment system against Americans.
Joseph Cella, principal of the Pontifex Group and former U.S. ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu, discussed with NTD's Steve Lance how the Chinese Communist Party uses the United States' open trade and investment system against Americans.

Cella also spoke on how dependence on China makes the United States more vulnerable and how the United States can completely mitigate risks from China."

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This Girl Sparked a Revolution in China - This is Much Bigger than You Think - Episode #275
The China Show
362K subscribers
The China Show
8/8/25

"The protest that sparked a revolution across China has got the whole world watching what will happen next."

Some Sources -

https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

https://www.ft.com/content/216a74ba-0...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v...

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-cult...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z-4-yjInjm0

[Wilbur2]

Well, I hope I don't have it. I have had mild flu-like symptoms for about a week, and a sore neck and low-grade headache. I had an episode today where I suddenly realised my memory had gone. I couldn't remember certain things, and I had to contact a family member to have them remind me. I'm not in Guangdong Province, but I'm not that far away from there....

I am guessing the memory loss is something to do with the low-grade headache and sore neck (meningitis?). Not sure whether that is a common symptom of the Chikungunya virus.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Wilbur2 (here)
Well, I hope I don't have it. I have had mild flu-like symptoms for about a week, and a sore neck and low-grade headache. I had an episode today where I suddenly realised my memory had gone. I couldn't remember certain things, and I had to contact a family member to have them remind me. I'm not in Guangdong Province, but I'm not that far away from there....

I am guessing the memory loss is something to do with the low-grade headache and sore neck (meningitis?). Not sure whether that is a common symptom of the Chikungunya virus.

Hi Wilbur. You’ll be fine. But maintain your immune system. I take 10k units of vitamin D3 each day, as well as 200 mcg of vitamin K2 to enable best D3 effects.

If it gets bad enough to scare you, prayers should be effective.

Best wishes.

[Johnnycomelately]

Big project announcement, ostensibly, from China. A deep ocean research station, a little over half as deep as the Titanic is resting.

Lots to doubt in this report, including fuzzy logic. Title states the depth goal to be 6560 feet down in Davy Jones locker, but the story says the location hasn’t been chosen. That is two unneccessary significant digits, out of three. Assuming 6k at all.

I thought of starting a new thread for this, because if it is real then it would be worth it. Decision was no, as I don’t think it will happen.

If 2030 rolls around with news of success on this, I will probably die from a confliction-related condition.

https://evidencenetwork.ca/china-pla...leted-by-2030/

China plans to build a “deep-sea space station” 6560 feet deep, set to be completed by 2030.

9 August 2025 By Rosalia Neve

China’s ambitious underwater research facility marks a significant leap in marine exploration capabilities. The project, confirmed by Chinese authorities, aims to establish a permanent presence beneath the waves by 2030. This innovative installation will enable scientists to conduct extended studies of deep ocean environments at depths exceeding 6,500 feet, revolutionizing our understanding of underwater ecosystems.

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Beyond pure scientific inquiry, the station positions China advantageously regarding underwater resource exploration. The South China Sea, where this facility will likely be constructed, contains estimated hydrocarbon and methane deposits amounting to approximately 70 billion tonnes. These represent significant untapped energy resources with substantial economic potential.

The strategic positioning of this research station raises important geopolitical questions. Several nations including Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines contest China’s sovereign claims over parts of the South China Sea. These territorial disputes center largely on access to the valuable resources that the station aims to study.

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[Johnnycomelately]

Kind of a kharmic version of FAFO? Harrassment gone wrong anyways.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ch...ina-sea-manila

Chinese vessels collide while pursuing Philippine boat in South China Sea: Manila

Published Aug 11, 2025, 12:55 PM
Updated Aug 11, 2025, 02:55 PM


MANILA – A Chinese navy vessel collided with one from its coast guard while chasing a Philippines patrol boat in the South China Sea, Manila said on Aug 11, releasing dramatic video footage of the confrontation.
The incident occurred near the contested Scarborough Shoal as the Philippine coast guard escorted boats distributing aid to fishermen in the area, spokesman Commodore Jay Tarriela said in a statement.
Video released by Manila showed a China coast guard ship and a much larger vessel bearing the number 164 on its hull colliding with a loud crash.


“The (China coast guard vessel) CCG 3104, which was chasing the (Filipino coast guard vessel) BRP Suluan at high speed, performed a risky manoeuvre from the (Philippine) vessel’s starboard quarter, leading to the impact with the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) navy warship,” Mr Tarriela said.
“This resulted in substantial damage to the CCG vessel’s forecastle, rendering it unseaworthy,” he said.
The Chinese Embassy in Manila did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


The reported collision is the latest in a series of confrontations between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost entirely despite an international ruling that the assertion has no legal basis.


More than 60 per cent of global maritime trade passes through the disputed waterway.
The Scarborough Shoal – a triangular chain of reefs and rocks – has been a flashpoint between the countries since China seized it from the Philippines in 2012.


It was unclear if anyone was hurt in the Aug 11 incident.
Mr Tarriela told AFP the Chinese crew “never responded” to the Filipino ship’s offer of assistance.
Earlier in the confrontation, the BRP Suluan was “targeted with a water cannon” by the Chinese but “successfully” evaded it, Mr Tarriela’s statement said. AFP


https://x.com/PTVph/status/195475867...ina-sea-manila


Edit: tried to embed the tweet, failed (forgot?). 4 vid clips there.