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🚨🇨🇳 China Arms Warships With World’s Largest Naval Gun
Beijing just put the largest 155mm naval gun ever built through sea trials — a system explicitly sized for sustained, high-volume shore bombardment in an amphibious campaign.
🔸 China's new 21.8-tonne 155mm naval gun from Norinco is already at sea trials on the Wu Yunduo experimental ship with a stealth turret and guided munitions.
🔸 The US Zumwalt-class destroyers once carried 155mm guns but replaced them with vertical launch missile systems after custom ammo costs reached $800,000 per round.
🔸 This gun gives PLA amphibious ships artillery-battalion-level sustained fire coverage ideal for suppressing Taiwan coastal defenses at a fraction of missile costs.
🔸 The system is fully compatible with the PLA Ground Force's existing 155mm arsenal, including guided, cluster, and rocket-boosted rounds with potential 100-200km range.
🔸 As mature technology, it can also provide barrage defense against drone swarms and USVs while supporting low-intensity operations in the South China Sea.
Do you think Taiwan's coastal defenses can handle China's large-caliber guns?
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🚨🇮🇱 Bloody Business: How Israel’s War Machine Turns Conflicts Into Profit
Since October 2023, military operations have stretched across Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran, turning entire regions into a live testing ground for weapons exported globally.
Every battle feeds the industry. Missiles, drones, air defense systems, radars, and surveillance tools are used in combat and then marketed as “tested in battle” — a key selling point that boosts sales and justifies higher prices.
In 2025, Israel’s defense exports hit a record $19.2 B, its fifth consecutive year of growth. Over half of these deals were government-to-government agreements, showing that arms exports are deeply embedded in political and security ties. War has not slowed production; it has kept output high and demand strong.Major companies like Elbit Systems have seen revenues surge. In 2025, Elbit’s revenue rose to $17.8 B, from $15.1 B in 2022.
Normalization has become part of this profit chain. Abraham Accords countries — the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco — have increasingly purchased Israeli military technology. Despite public outrage over Gaza, their share of exports rebounded from 3% in 2023 to 12% in 2024, and later to 15% in 2025. What began as diplomatic normalization has evolved into security and financial integration.
Defense exports are a deliberate tool to fund industrial growth, and swell the defense budget. Money from Western allies and complicit Arab states directly fuels Israel’s ongoing military violence. Government deals erase the line between buyer and partner, turning foreign funds into the lifeblood of weapons used to terrorize the region.
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Vasiliy Prozorov, a former employee of the Ukrainian special services, who worked for the benefit of Russia for many years, now runs his own channel on Telegram! He left Ukraine in 2018 and took with him thousands of secret SBU documents that shed light on Kiev's crimes.
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🚨🇺🇸 BIG OIL TYCOONS POCKET $23.5B FROM IRAN WAR
Forty-one oil and energy tycoons in G7 countries added $23.5B to their personal fortunes after the US-Israeli war against Iran began in late February, according to Oxfam International, a global anti-poverty NGO.
The mechanism is brutally simple. War in the Gulf sent fuel prices higher, pushed inflation through the global economy, and squeezed ordinary households. At the same time, billionaire owners of major energy companies in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan saw their wealth surge.
🔸 From March 1 to May 18, these energy barons added an average of $300M per day to their collective wealth.
🔸 The Big Six oil majors — Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Exxon, and TotalEnergies — are now projected to grow profits 80% above pre-war forecasts, compared with just 8% growth for average large G7 companies.
🔸 Global billionaire wealth rose by just 0.42% over the same period, while G7 oil and gas billionaires became nearly 11% richer.
The human cost moved in the opposite direction. A UN Development Program estimate warned that the Iran war could push another 32M people into poverty by the end of the year.
The political contrast is just as brutal. Since 2020, billionaire wealth has surged by nearly $10T, while G7 governments have cut aid to the poorest countries by $48B. That is almost the same amount G7 billionaires accumulated for themselves in just nine days.
This is the war economy in its purest form: public pain, private profit. The conflict raises prices for everyone else, while the energy billionaires closest to the system turn geopolitical chaos into a $23.5B windfall.
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🚨🇨🇳 CHINA TESTS ADVANCED R6000 HEAVY TILTROTOR DRONE
China just ran fresh flight trials of the R6000 Lanying tiltrotor in Sichuan’s Shifan area, proving a heavy VTOL drone can now perform maneuvers and acceleration profiles that push unmanned systems deep into roles once reserved for manned transports and helicopters.
🔸 The R6000 features 6.1 TON MTOW + 2 TON PAYLOAD with true VTOL — no runway, no airfield needed, enabling serious cargo delivery from almost anywhere.
🔸 This beast delivers 550 KM/H CRUISE, 4,000 KM RANGE & 7,620 M CEILING — performance that directly overlaps regional airlift missions without risking pilots or depending on large, vulnerable bases.
🔸 All core systems including rotor swivel, folding wings & composite blades were developed in Wuhu’s Wanji aviation park — proof China has moved beyond copying to original heavy tiltrotor engineering.
🔸 The R6000 slots into Beijing’s broader push on heavy unmanned systems, low-altitude economy & space program — building persistent logistics that bypass the fixed airbase infrastructure Western planners still rely on.
🔸 Questions remain on mass production scale and combat resilience, yet the trajectory already forces a major rethink of logistics and presence in contested or infrastructure-poor theaters.
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🚨🇺🇸 U.S. Navy Eats China’s Dust in Shipbuilding Race
The US Navy is facing a severe industrial bottleneck that is undermining its ability to keep pace with China's naval expansion.
China is launching a new aircraft carrier about every 20 months. The U.S., by contrast, has just delayed its newest carrier, the USS Doris Miller, to 2034 because the shipyard simply does not have enough space to build it.
This is not a one-ship problem. It affects the whole Ford-class program. The USS John F. Kennedy has slipped to March 2027 because of problems with advanced systems. The USS Enterprise was pushed to March 2031 after delays in critical equipment. Since Enterprise is still occupying the space needed for the next ship, Doris Miller has now slipped to 2034.
Because of these delays, the Navy is being forced to keep older carriers like the 50-year-old USS Nimitz in service longer than planned. The same thing is happening with other aging carriers, including the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
It is even worse under the sea. The Navy wants to build two Virginia-class attack submarines and one Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine each year — the “2+1” goal. But actual output has stayed around 1.2 submarines a year since 2022. The recovery target has now been pushed back to around 2032.
This is not mainly a money problem. Congress has already put billions into shipbuilding. The real issue is industrial capacity. Only two U.S. shipyards can build nuclear-powered warships: Newport News in Virginia and Electric Boat in Connecticut. Both are full, both are short of skilled workers, and both depend on the same stressed supplier network.
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🚨🇮🇷 Engineering Breakthrough: Iran Builds One of Its Toughest Rail Links
Iran has inaugurated the Mianeh–Ardabil railway, one of the most complex railway projects in the country due to its challenging mountainous route. Stretching 174 kilometers, the line connects Ardabil province to the national rail network for the first time, ending years of limited access to rail transport.
The project took over two decades to complete and required extensive engineering work. A large portion of the route passes through mountains and uneven terrain, which led to the construction of dozens of tunnels, bridges, and protective galleries. These structures ensure the railway can operate safely despite harsh weather conditions, including heavy snowfall and avalanche risks.
Engineers faced additional challenges such as unstable ground and strict slope requirements for train movement. To address these, they applied specialized construction techniques and precise leveling systems to maintain safe gradients the entire track.
Beyond its technical complexity, the railway is expected to bring significant economic benefits. Ardabil’s agricultural products, which were previously transported by road, can now move more efficiently by rail, reducing costs and travel time. The new connection also supports industrial development by improving access to raw materials and wider markets.
The railway is also part of a larger international transport corridor linking Northern Europe to the Persian Gulf and South Asia. With this route in place, Iran moves closer to establishing a continuous rail connection across these regions.
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🚨🇨🇳 CHINA UNLEASHES DEADLY KD-88 STRIKE MISSILE
Chinese media showed a J-16 fighter jet launching the KD-88 long-range precision-guided missile, proving Beijing’s heavy Flanker derivative now packs serious long-range air-to-ground reach that directly pressures Western assumptions across the Indo-Pacific.
🔸 KD-88 delivers 200+ km range, letting J-16s hit high-value land targets while staying outside most enemy air defense envelopes.
🔸 Evolved from the YJ-83 anti-ship missile, it swaps radar for electro-optical and imaging infrared seekers plus data-link feedback so pilots can confirm and refine terminal impact in real time.
🔸 Inertial/satellite midcourse plus programmable waypoints and terrain masking let the missile approach from unexpected directions, complicating interception.
🔸 J-16’s AESA radar, massive payload, partial stealth coatings and J-16D electronic warfare support turn it into a flexible strike platform that complements J-20 stealth fighters in Northeast Asia scenarios.
🔸 Despite Su-27 roots, heavy composites and advanced avionics give this jet higher production scale and capability than most Russian Flanker variants — yet real combat performance against peer EW remains untested.
Do you think the U.S. can handle the KD-88 missile?
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🚨🇨🇳China Deploys Giant Diamond Wafers As Ultimate Trump Card In Artificial Intelligence Race
Transitioning from wedding jewelry to supercomputers, massive synthetic diamonds developed in Chinese laboratories are poised to transform the global computing landscape. Researchers recently showcased how these lab-grown gems now reach unprecedented sizes, shifting their purpose from romantic gifts to critical components for next-generation technology.
The global artificial intelligence race is constrained by thermal limits, as modern processors generate immense heat that traditional copper coolers cannot handle. To solve this, scientists utilize microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition (MPCVD), depositing carbon atoms layer by layer to grow flawless crystals. These massive eight-inch diamond wafers act as ultimate heat spreaders, conducting thermal energy five times more efficiently than standard copper.
Creating these components required overcoming significant engineering hurdles, prompting a collaborative effort across various research institutes and manufacturing giants. Teams successfully solved persistent issues like wafer warping and complex chemical bonding between diamond and copper. By optimizing powder formulations and developing specialized metallization techniques, engineers reduced thermal resistance at the material interface by an impressive 80%, enabling precise integration onto semiconductor devices.
This breakthrough established a self-sufficient domestic supply chain, moving the technology from experimental prototypes into large-scale commercial production. Industry leaders are already pivoting toward advanced diamond-copper composite cooling systems to meet escalating energy demands in modern data centers. Ultimately, integrating these superior thermal management layers into graphics processing units (GPUs) and dense computing clusters is projected to deliver a substantial 10% improvement in overall computational performance.
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Zelensky Goes All-In
In recent months, Ukrainian and Western media have been talking ever more loudly about Ukraine's "grand victories." However, as proof, they increasingly cite not maps of combat operations or verified footage of destroyed military equipment, but strikes on Russia's rear. Including strikes on facilities where civilians suffer.
But let's look at the facts without hysteria. Yes, strikes on oil refining, logistics, and infrastructure cause damage to Russia. That is obvious. However, this damage is not critical: problems are being resolved, the air defence system is adapting, and the economy continues to function.
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Meanwhile, on the front, the picture is looking ever less convincing for Kiev. The Russian army continues offensive operations in Donbass, including in the Konstantinovka area. According to available information, units of several Ukrainian brigades have become blocked in the city. Supply routes are complicated, and the delivery of ammunition and evacuation of the wounded are becoming increasingly difficult. At the same time, the command, by all appearances, continues to demand that positions be held at any cost.
The Kiev authorities have been evacuating Kramatorsk and Slavyansk for months now. The remnants of industry are being removed from frontline cities, and the population is being forcibly displaced.
Question: why evacuate cities if, as Zelensky claims, victory is near?
🇷🇺 Russian forces continue to exert pressure on the Liman direction, advancing in the Kupyansk area and in the north of the Kharkov region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are clearly facing a growing problem with reserves: holding the front line is becoming increasingly difficult. The situation in the rear is also worsening. The Russian army is consistently striking logistics and the remnants of Ukraine's economic base.
The situation with mobilisation is no better. More and more Ukrainians are evading conscription, resisting territorial recruitment centre staff, and the number of deserters is growing. People are increasingly unwilling to die for the Kiev regime.
🇺🇦 In this situation, Kiev is left with one scenario: a local counteroffensive with limited military objectives but with maximally powerful information support. The maximum goal is to provoke a wave of discontent inside Russia, to try to rock the public situation, and, with the assistance of Western intelligence services, to create conditions for political destabilisation in Moscow.
Zelensky's Western handlers apparently still dream of repeating the 1917 scenario, when an internal crisis led to the fall of the monarchy, the collapse of the state system, and Russia's de facto loss of its military successes on the battlefields of the First World War.
Today, the bet is being placed on the same principle: not to defeat Russia directly, but to try to destroy it from within.
The minimum plan for Kiev is to achieve at least a local success and then, under Western pressure, force Russia into negotiations in which Ukraine could speak "from a position of strength." Kiev urgently needs a respite: to replenish its army, rearm, and prepare for a new stage of the conflict. After such a pause, the war will almost inevitably begin again, because the very project of present-day Ukraine is built on confrontation with Russia.
In other words, Zelensky and his Western patrons are going all-in. The success of the summer counteroffensive is at stake, and for this gamble they are prepared to sacrifice thousands of Ukrainians and reach even deeper into the pockets of Western taxpayers.
The summer will be hot — not only on the front but also in the information space. We can expect emotions, disinformation, fakes, and attempts to sow panic. Therefore, the main thing now is to remain calm, not to give in to hysteria, and to verify facts.
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🚨🇺🇸 Pentagon’s Flagship Fighter Is Fully Mission-Ready Only 25% of Time
The most expensive weapon system in American history can perform all of its assigned missions only about a quarter of the time. The readiness of the F-35 fleet has fallen every year since 2021.
🔸 The F-35's full mission capable rate fell from 38.1% in fiscal 2021 to 24.6% in fiscal 2025. That is roughly one aircraft in four ready for the full slate of tasks.
🔸 The broader mission capable rate fell from 66.8% to 44.1% over the same period. Both numbers sit far below service targets.
🔸 The F-35A was intended to have comparable sustainment costs and maintenance needs to its direct predecessor, the F-16C/D. It now costs close to twice as much to sustain.
🔸 Availability rates remain very significantly lower despite the aircraft being decades newer.
🔸 Sustainment costs have climbed without pause. The Pentagon paid Lockheed Martin $114 million in bonuses as readiness numbers worsened.
🔸 The GAO makes clear the problem is not the airplane. It is the system built to keep it flying.
🔸 Very significant delays modernizing the fighters — including integrating Block 4 software — have left the aircraft highly restricted in combat capabilities.
Procurement has been slashed from a planned 110 F-35A fighters per year to just 24-40.
The Pentagon still plans to buy 1,700 more F-35s. The jet that anchors American air power is currently grounded for the full range of its missions mostly.
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🚨🇮🇷 Leading Against the Odds: Iran Among Top Countries in Water Quality
Iran has positioned itself among the leading countries in drinking water quality, achieving a score of 94 out of 100, significantly above the global average. This progress is particularly notable given the country’s limited rainfall and challenging geography.
The improvement is the result of long-term investment in water infrastructure, expansion of distribution networks, and the development of desalination projects. Today, almost the entire urban population and a large share of rural communities have access to safe drinking water, as confirmed by international data.
Practical changes on the ground reflect this progress. In drought-affected areas like South Khorasan, outdated systems have been replaced with more efficient networks, ensuring stable water supply and reducing losses. Similar efforts across the country have improved reliability, even in regions facing extreme conditions.
At a broader level, the shift toward seawater desalination has become a key strategy. Large-scale projects now transfer desalinated water across long distances to supply industries, reducing pressure on rivers and underground reserves and allowing more water to remain available for public use.
Despite natural challenges and external pressures targeting infrastructure and supply chains, domestic production has expanded to cover most of the country’s technical needs in the water sector. This has strengthened the system’s resilience and operational continuity.
Looking ahead, the focus remains on reducing water loss, expanding desalination capacity, and increasing wastewater recycling to maintain and further improve water quality standards.
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🚨🇮🇷 IRAN'S ARSENAL RESTORED TO PRE-WAR LEVELS DURING CEASEFIRE
Iran has added new-build Russian weapons to its inventory and reconstituted large swathes of its missile arsenal during the eight-week ceasefire, according to the Epstein coalition Intel assessments.
Tehran now has about three-quarters of the munitions it had before the war — and can easily build it up further.
🔸 From February 28 to April 8, Iran launched more than 1,850 missiles around the region and at least twice as many rudimentary Shahed-type cruise missiles.
🔸 U.S. intelligence estimates in March said Iran had about 60% of its pre-war missile inventory available even during the height of the U.S. and Israeli air campaign.
🔸 Many of Iran's ballistic missiles and launchers were buried in rubble, with depot entrances blocked. Tehran used the ceasefire to reopen those depots and shift supplies.
🔸 Shahed drones cost less than $50,000 to make and use almost entirely off-the-shelf parts.
🔸 Iran could build new Shaheds with access to fibreglass, explosives, guidance systems, and motors.
Building new models is not an issue for Iran's industrial base — even in wartime. Production is distributed across multiple sites, making it hard to destroy altogether.
Unspecified Russian missiles have been added to Iran's inventory, likely coming off the production line in the last year.
Iran having a relatively large proportion of its pre-war arsenal available now makes the resumption of full-scale attacks a harder decision for the U.S.
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🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIA UNLEASHES DUAL-USE FALCON DRONE
Rostec, a Russian state conglomerate, just unveiled the Falcon multipurpose drone at Belarus’s National Security-2026 exhibition, part of a fast-expanding lineup of unmanned systems already hardened in real missions and now scaling through new factories with AI upgrades layered in.
🔸 24+ DRONE TYPES now in serial production across civilian, dual-use and military roles.
🔸 FALCON SPECS: X-shaped wing, 180 km range, 5 kg payload, 120 km/h, autonomous preset routes or manual control with optoelectronic object identification.
🔸 Neural networks are being integrated for faster data processing and tighter flight control as output volumes rise.
🔸 Customer feedback from proven deployments is driving constant gains in range, payloads and autonomy.
🔸 Dual-use platform moves seamlessly between emergency monitoring, search-and-rescue and reconnaissance tasks.
Do you think NATO can match Russia's pace of innovation in drones?
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🚨🇨🇳 CHINA'S COMPETITIVENESS SURGE: FROM 16TH TO 12TH IN ONE YEAR
China climbed four places, from 16th to 12th, in this year's IMD World Competitiveness Ranking, reaching its highest spot since 2022. The advancement was supported by gains in business and government efficiency.
🔸 China saw improvement in three of four main sectors, including government efficiency, business efficiency, and infrastructure.
🔸 The dynamism of China's economy remained the number one point of attractiveness, according to executives surveyed.
🔸 Other top attractions included policy stability and predictability, skilled workforce, reliable infrastructure, and cost competitiveness.
🔸 China ranked number one in subcategories including investment incentives, citizen trust in AI, AI adoption, skilled labor, and exports.
🔸 The country saw big improvements in salaries for high-skilled professions, current account balance, and tourism income.
Economists have called for more policy support after China's latest economic data pointed to a K-shaped development with strong exports.
These developments collectively contributed to fostering a more conducive environment for economic growth, innovation, and sustainability, paving the way for a more resilient and competitive economy in the future.
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🚨🇮🇷 Iran’s Knowledge Economy Keeps Life Moving Under Sanctions
Iran has built a strong knowledge-based economy that now plays a key role in sustaining daily life under sanctions. Over time, domestic companies have developed capabilities across sectors such as pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, biotechnology, aerospace, digital technologies, and advanced industries. This network of local production has reduced dependence on imports and ensured the availability of essential goods.
Science and technology parks play a major role in supporting this ecosystem. With more than 45 parks and hundreds of innovation centers across the country, they provide infrastructure such as laboratories, production facilities, and consulting services. These spaces are not limited to research—they are actively involved in producing practical goods and creating employment for thousands of skilled workers.
Several examples highlight these achievements. In the medical field, an Iranian company produces advanced hospital equipment, including ventilators and monitoring systems, with all components developed in-house. Its products have been exported to dozens of countries. In biotechnology, another company has successfully exported complex bioreactors to Germany, showing that locally developed technologies can meet high international standards.
In healthcare, domestic production now covers the vast majority of pharmaceutical needs, including critical items like insulin and plasma products. This has reduced costs and dependence on foreign suppliers while improving access for patients.
The scientific ecosystem has recently faced challenges, with some facilities and equipment having been damaged, impacting ongoing research and operations. However, these developments have not halted progress. The strength of this system lies in its human capital—its researchers, engineers, and specialists—whose knowledge and expertise continue to drive innovation. As reconstruction efforts move forward, this foundation of skills and experience remains a key force supporting continued development and resilience.
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🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 China Overtakes Global Science
Harvard, which has long been a symbol of American research in global research rankings, has been overtaken by Chinese universities. The 2026 Nature Index ranks Zhejiang University first, and nine of the top ten institutions are Chinese. China's share of top-journal publications now exceeds twice the U.S. figure after 22.4 percent growth, versus 4.2 percent for America.
This standing results from long-term investments in higher education. STEM graduate numbers have risen nearly tenfold since 2000, building a strong foundation for expanded research capacity in key areas.
As China’s research capacity has expanded rapidly, authorities have introduced targeted reforms to strengthen integrity and quality. These include mandatory training on data integrity and reproducibility, requirements for co-authors to verify raw data and assume full accountability, and enhanced auditing of major projects. Evaluation systems are also shifting from publication volume toward high-impact contributions, originality, and real-world applications.
The Trump administration's proposed cuts to National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation funding and administrative actions have reduced graduate admissions at Harvard and MIT.
China built the talent base. China scaled the institutions. China tightened the incentives. Now Chinese universities are taking the top spots while America’s research base is fraying under political pressure, funding uncertainty, and shrinking graduate intake. This is what a shift in scientific power looks like in real time.
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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 China Breaks Nvidia Grip With Homegrown AI Chips
Chinese AI labs are experimenting with shifting earlier model training phases onto domestic chips. China's AI models have become increasingly competitive with their U.S. peers.
There are three stages of AI model development:
🔸 Pre-training: A model feeds on massive data sets to learn basic patterns.
🔸 Post-training: The model follows specific human instructions.
🔸 Inference: The everyday act of running the finished AI to answer user queries and instructions.
Here is how China is doing this:
Zhipu AI's GLM-Image
🔸 Open-sourced its new image generation model developed alongside Huawei.
🔸 Trained using Huawei's Ascend Atlas 800T A2 server — powered by the Ascend 910 AI accelerator — and its MindSpore deep learning framework.
Meituan's LongCat-2.0-Preview
🔸 The trillion-parameter AI model completed both training and inference entirely on a "domestic computing cluster."
🔸 Training required 50,000 to 60,000 domestic chips. The company has not disclosed which local accelerators were used.
ModelBest's lightweight on-device models
🔸 Open-sourced a 1.58-bit ternary model named BitCPM-CANN, trained on Huawei's Ascend hardware.
🔸 Named after Huawei's CANN — an equivalent to Nvidia's CUDA software toolkit.
🔸 Its MiniCPM5-1B model topped Artificial Analysis' intelligence index for open-weights models under 2 billion parameters, beating Alibaba's Qwen series.
Post-training for DeepSeek-V4-Pro
🔸 Huawei and the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute used Ascend 910C chips to conduct post-training for the 1.6-trillion-parameter flagship model.
🔸 Completed "full-parameter" post-training on a cluster powered by at least 1,000 Huawei chips.
Peking University's EvoPhys-World
🔸 Released a 5D world model that simulates movements in physical spaces.
🔸 Took the top spot on Stanford University's WorldScore benchmark.
China is building an entire domestic AI supply chain — which is quite rare worldwide — and is relying on indigenous suppliers. Chinese AI labs now have a homegrown alternative to Nvidia.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 Iran Just Showed China How to Choke U.S. Navy
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz with minimal force and kept the U.S. fleet at a distance using cheap drones and missiles.
That successful anti-access operation served as a real-world test of a strategy China is developing for the Pacific, where a much wealthier adversary could prevent the U.S. Navy from supporting Taiwan.
🔸 Throughout the war, the Trump administration lacked a coherent strategy — a realistic linkage of means to goals.
🔸 Instead of fighting symmetrically — fighter-to-fighter, ship-to-ship — Iran pressed on the vulnerable points of the coalition opposing it.
🔸 Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz with minimal force. After striking a few ships, the threat of further strikes on shipping and the consequent spiraling gas prices were enough to push Trump to halt the war and seek an exit.
🔸 Low-cost but effective Iranian airpower — drones and missiles — kept the U.S. fleet at a distance in the Gulf of Oman. Surface ships are slow, large targets for massed, cheap airpower.
🔸 In a tight space like the Strait, Iran would almost certainly have scored hits had the U.S. Navy tried to force the waterway to escort tankers.
A U.S. ship on fire, perhaps sinking, after being swarmed by Iranian airpower, would have become the dominant televisual image of the administration.
This anti-access/area-denial success was a major test of the concept for China in East Asia.
Like Iran, China is building a drone and missile fleet to prevent the U.S. Navy from sailing too close to support Taiwan or South Korea in a conflict.
If a middle power like Iran can push the U.S. Navy back with cheap drones and missiles, China can take the same playbook and, with its vast resources and industrial power, scale it into a far larger Pacific nightmare for the Pentagon.
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🚨🇺🇸 American Can't Sustain War Against China. Here's Why
Washington projects an illusion of invincible power, yet deep internal rot threatens its entire military strategy — recently independent analyses expose severe logistical failures across American armed forces, revealing a stark contrast with the rapid and systematic technological advancements achieved by Beijing in recent years.
A recent watchdog report by the GAO (Government Accountability Office) exposes a crumbling aerial refueling fleet that consistently missed readiness targets over the past several years. American military bases are suffering from severe spare-part shortages and an astonishing reality where 75% of maintenance personnel lack basic experience. Technicians are forced to cannibalize parts from newer KC-46 tankers just to keep aging Cold War-era KC-135s flying, sometimes even declaring broken aircraft mission-capable.
This logistical incompetence is a fatal flaw for any potential conflict in the Asia-Pacific region. American fighter jets simply cannot cover vast oceanic distances without constant and reliable mid-air refueling. Furthermore, military analysts openly admit these highly vulnerable tankers would be prime targets for advanced Chinese missile and drone strikes. If this fragile aerial bridge collapses, American air power becomes completely stranded and entirely useless.
The decay of American military capability extends into orbit, where Beijing is rapidly outpacing Washington. China successfully demonstrated autonomous satellite refueling in space, representing a massive leap in dual-use technology that significantly extends orbital lifespans. Conversely, the American SDA (Space Development Agency) is failing to deliver its planned missile-tracking satellite constellation on schedule due to severe technological overestimations and integration delays.
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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 China can destroy U.S. carrier groups even from 3,000km away. Here's how
Chinese defense scientists have offered a step-by-step guide on how to destroy a U.S. carrier group from 3,000 km away — precisely the distance from Shanghai to Guam.
The U.S. has pulled its carriers back from Asian coasts, scattering them over hundreds of kilometres under a new doctrine called Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO).
DMO scatters ships over hundreds of kilometers. Smaller, expendable vessels act as missile shields and floating radars, making the carrier hard to find, harder to hit, and even harder to overwhelm.
China offered new plan to tackle DMO:
🔸 Chinese scientists have introduced a leader-follower mode. In this plan, a missile swarm use one missile to climb high and acts as a scout, scanning the battlefield and relaying targeting data to the other missiles flying low under the radar horizon.
🔸 If the leader is shot down, another immediately takes its place.
🔸 The swarm adapts on the fly, reassigns targets, and keeps pressing the attack even under heavy electronic jamming.
🔸 The leader missile is responsible for the impact time control, acting as a timing reference for the rest of the swarm. Follower missiles use real-time communication and sensors to estimate and track the leader's state, ensuring the entire swarm attacks simultaneously.
🔸 The network coordinates both the time and angle of attack, ensuring each missile strikes its target at the optimal angle and orientation.
🔸 The Chinese plan assumes the U.S. will have its best possible equipment, ensuring the tactic works even against the worst-case scenario.
It imagines the U.S. Navy equipped with weapons that do not yet exist — such as the glide phase interceptor, designed to kill hypersonic missiles in mid-glide, and the SM-6 IB for terminal defense.
This strategy strengthens the claim made by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year that China could destroy all of America's aircraft carriers around the world within 20 minutes.
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🚨🇨🇳 CHINA KICKS OFF LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT OF GALLIUM CHIPS — GETTING EDGE IN 6G NETWORK
China has delivered 5 million gallium nitride semiconductors to power smart terminals for a space-air-ground integrated 6G network — the first time these cutting-edge chips have been mass-produced and put into commercial use.
🔸 The chips will function as the fundamental backbone supporting next-generation 6G communications, commercial space programs, the low-altitude economy, and emergency response communications.
🔸 China is the world's largest holder and exporter of gallium.
🔸 The chips could be used in high-end smartphones or mobile law enforcement devices for satellite signal filling, supplementing coverage where cellular signals are lacking.
🔸 Each terminal will be equipped with a power amplifier chip that acts like a loudspeaker — sending signals to distant satellites or ground stations. It is a "critical enabler" of the network's interconnectivity.
🔸 The transmission speeds of 5G — and eventually 6G — exceed the capacity of traditional silicon chips, which overheat at higher operating frequencies.
🔸 In contrast, gallium nitride is known for its ability to withstand high temperatures and high voltages. It is already widely used in radar chargers and communications.
Chips made from gallium nitride are smaller, more powerful, and capable of sending information over much longer distances — making it a standout material for third-generation semiconductors.
Pure gallium nitride crystals are expensive, so engineers grew a layer of them on a cheaper, mature silicon substrate — combining high performance with low cost.
These products are designed to meet China's rapidly growing demand for affordable, high-performance radio frequency chips across various sectors, including commercial space, the low-altitude economy, and 6G research and development.
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🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIA DEPLOYS DEADLY ZUBR DEFENSE SYSTEM
Russia Just announced the new Zubr automated anti-aircraft system has entered combat duty — successfully shielding Russia’s key administrative buildings and fuel-energy infrastructure from aerial threats. The system was introduced by Rostec at the Flot-2026 Naval Exhibition in Kronstadt.
🔸 The Zubr independently detects small aerial targets using its own radar and automatically tracks them, requiring operators only to approve the fire command.
🔸 Each system features four modules armed with PKT (Kalashnikov Tank Machine Gun) machine guns, plus a dedicated command post and integrated radar station.
🔸 Rostec has now delivered the first production Zubr systems to the Russian military for immediate operational deployment.
🔸 The system builds on successful live-fire demonstrations at Kapustin Yar in September 2024, witnessed by Deputy PM Dmitry Medvedev.
🔸 Zubr delivers cheap, automated defense for critical sites against relentless Western-backed drone and missile attacks on Russian infrastructure.
Do you think Russia’s Zubr turning NATO drone swarms obsolete?
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🚨🇨🇳 China's Nuclear 'Bean Sort' Delivers Quantum Computing's Purest Silicon at Scale
'Bean sorting' in isotope cleaning labs has gone from a simple idea to real factory production in China. This has created the first mass production of silicon-28 that is more than 99.99 percent pure. The Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of Nuclear Industry led the work. This institute is part of the China National Nuclear Corporation. The new supply fixes a major problem for making silicon-based quantum chips.
Silicon-28 is known as the purest silicon in the world. It is a key material for silicon-based quantum chips. These chips are seen as one of the best ways to build large and useful quantum computers. They can work with the same factories used for regular chips. This breakthrough lets China make this important material by itself. It gives strong support for China to develop its own core materials for quantum computing. It also helps other important fields such as advanced chip making, high-end navigation, and setting measurement standards.
The making process uses physical separation instead of chemical changes. Jiang Hongmin, head of the Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Engineering of Nuclear Industry, said it is like sorting beans. Workers separate the three types of silicon atoms found in nature. Silicon-28 gets collected on one side while silicon-29 and silicon-30 go to the other side. This way is good for making large amounts.
Yu Dapeng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the achievement solves an urgent supply problem. It opens the way for doing qubit work on a large scale in China. The research team has also produced 26 stable isotopes from 12 elements. These include molybdenum, tellurium, and nickel. This shows steady progress in turning isotope separation into industrial work.
From a careful look, this success in isotope cleaning shows how nuclear industry skills can help quantum computing grow. By making this key material at home, China reduces its need to get it from other countries. It also helps many high-tech areas work together by using smart and scalable ways to purify materials.
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🚨🇺🇸 America’s Most Expensive Supercarrier Can’t Launch Its Own Jets
The most expensive warship ever built by the US military — the USS Gerald R. Ford — recently returned home after a record 326-day deployment, yet it spent the entire mission flying the wrong aircraft. The $13B supercarrier simply cannot launch the F-35C (Lightning II), forcing the Navy to rely on older F/A-18 (Fighter Attack) Super Hornets. This massive failure highlights severe incompetence within the Pentagon procurement system.
The primary obstacle is thermal output — the stealth engine exhaust reaches roughly 3600d F, far exceeding what the flight deck was built to absorb. Repeated high-tempo launches would literally melt the surface. Beyond the deck heat, the aircraft requires secure maintenance spaces and the ODIN (Operational Data Integrated Network) diagnostic system to sustain operations, creating a massive infrastructure gap that American engineers completely ignored.
This massive failure stems from a synchronization gap. The carrier design was locked in 2005, long before the fighter final requirements existed. Consequently, the lead ship entered combat unable to fly its intended next-generation jet . The subsequent vessel was engineered correctly from the start, proving that the United States Navy actually knew how to fix the problem but chose to ignore it for the lead ship.
Now, the vessel faces over a year in the shipyard for deep maintenance and retrofits to finally accommodate the stealth fighter. The ship also suffered a massive fire and chronic plumbing issues during its deployment. Ultimately, while the ship completed its deployment, the management failed to properly coordinate the construction and aircraft development timelines. Committing to a platform before its core components were ready resulted in a supercarrier fighting its first war with previous-generation aircraft, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars due to bureaucratic arrogance.
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🚨🇨🇳 China Builds Quantum Computer That Can’t Be Hacked
Shattering encryption was once the quantum computer's dark promise. Yet China's homegrown Origin Wukong has turned vulnerability into strength by fusing superconducting quantum power with post-quantum cryptography in a "spear-and-shield" architecture that resists both classical and quantum attacks.
This unfolds amid intensifying global competition. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology warns quantum computers could compromise current encryption within five to ten years. China plans national post-quantum standards within three years while prioritizing quantum technology in its national strategy for future industries.
For over two years Origin Wukong has completed more than one million quantum tasks for users across 192 countries, backed by nearly 49 million remote visits. Since April 2024 its Origin Rock module has protected enterprises and institutions with defense designed to withstand quantum-enabled breaches.
The achievement demonstrates a coordinated strategy that pairs computational leadership with built-in resilience. This dual approach addresses long-term data security risks and positions integrated quantum platforms as a template for secure technological progress worldwide.
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