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China accuses Philippine vessels of 'dangerous manoeuvres' after its own ships collided
"The Philippine vessels' actions "seriously endangered the safety of Chinese vessels and personnel," ministry spokesperson Jiang Bin"
--- Yeah, those evil Filipinos. Had they just let our destroyer ram them, nothing woud have happened.
China’s growth stumbles in July as retail sales, industrial output miss forecasts
"growth faltering across the board, as weak domestic demand persisted"
--- As if there actually had been any growth at all.
"China’s survey-based urban unemployment rate in July came in at 5.2%, edging higher after remaining at 5% in May and June. Unemployment rate for those aged between 16 and 24, excluding college students, however, has remained above 14% for a year."
--- Phhh... A more realistic number is twice as high.
Trump says Xi told him China will not invade Taiwan while he is in office
"“I will tell you, you know, you have a very similar thing with President Xi of China and Taiwan, but I don’t believe there’s any way it’s going to happen as long as I’m here. We’ll see,” Trump said during an interview on Fox News’ Special Report. “He told me, ‘I will never do it as long as you’re president’. President Xi told me that and I said, ‘Well, I appreciate that’, but he also said, ‘But I am very patient and China is very patient’,”"
--- Dubious, but, well, Trump tends to like & trust dictators.
Box, run, crash: China’s humanoid robot games show advances and limitations
"When it comes to humanoids, the Chinese industry has many advantages. Although US companies such as Tesla and Boston Dynamics are still seen as the overall market leaders, several Chinese firms such as UBTech and Unitree Robotics – which supplied the boxing robots in Friday’s games – are catching up."
--- Catching up, maybe. But much of what China's propaganda is so proud about has been achieved by Western robotics companies a decade or longer ago.
'We were never friends': A massacre on the eve of WW2 still haunts China-Japan relations
"Dead To Rights, or Nanjing Photo Studio, is a star-studded tale about a group of civilians who hide from Japanese troops in a photo studio. Already a box office hit, it is the first of a wave of Chinese movies about the horrors of Japanese occupation that are being released to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two. But a sense of unfinished history - often amplified by Beijing – persists, fuelling both memory and anger.""
--- Often amplified by Beijing? More like 'continuously amplified'. For 30 or 40 years now, there is a daily barrage of anti-Japanese propaganda in all kinds of media.
"Mao, whose priority was to build a communist nation, avoided focusing on Japanese war crimes. Commemorations celebrated the Party's victory and criticised the Kuomintang. He also needed Japan's support on the international stage. Tokyo, in fact, was one of the first major powers to recognise his regime. It wasn't until the 1980s - after Mao's death - that the Japanese occupation returned to haunt the relationship between Beijing and Tokyo. By then, Japan was a wealthy Western ally with a booming economy. Revisions to Japanese textbooks began to spark controversy, with China and South Korea accusing Japan of whitewashing its wartime atrocities. China had just begun to open up, and South Korea was in transition from military rule to democracy. As Chinese leaders moved away from Mao – and his destructive legacy – the trauma of what happened under Japanese attack became a unifying narrative for the Communist Party, says Yinan He, associate professor of international relations at Lehigh University in the US. "After the Cultural Revolution, Chinese people for the large part were disillusioned by communism," she told the BBC. "Since communism lost its appeal, you need nationalism. And Japan is [an] easy target because that's the most recent external [aggressor].""
--- Or you could say that Taiwan wasn't considered much of a threat anymore & the CCP needed another external enemy for its citizens to focus upon.
Second senior Chinese diplomat detained for questioning
Tuvalu considers pulling out of Pacific leaders’ summit amid China-linked power struggle
An artist on the run, an exhibition censored: How China tried to silence a Thai art show
--- China Uncensored featured the usual weekend news variety:
--- China Uncensored: "Chinese elites are out of control"
Fußball, Sprinten, Kämpfen: Erste Humanoide Roboterspiele in China
"Während Wettbewerbe mit Robotern schon lange durchgeführt werden, sind die "World Humanoid Robot Games 2025" nach Angaben der Ausrichter die ersten, die sich auf Roboter in vermenschlichter Form konzentrieren."
--- Quark. Fußballturniere von Robotern gibt es in Europa schon seit Jahrzehnten.
