There was a lot of talk of Chinese weapons systems but all we’re seeing is Shaheds and Iranian domestic missiles.
Both of these are made using materials from China. Rocket fuel precursor and duel use drone components (also SAM components which seem to have had some luck downing Israeli drones).
Or those hypersonic anti ship missiles.
Iran are using their old stock they haven't even started using their own hypersonic FATTAH-1s what makes you think they'd bring out the even more advanced Chinese stock they might have?
Meanwhile NATO is sending troops and weapons from every country including the European ones. And they even participate in intercepting Iranian missiles. Looks like Capitalist international solidarity is far superior.
Almost like when the current hegemon and it's vassal's have nuclear weapons and they decide to take direct action against non nuclear powers MAD makes it near impossible for rival nuclear powers to step in personally.
Please don't take this the wrong way I'm not trying to call you out or any of that nonsense, but from the 2 of your posts where we've had brief interactions it feels like you have a set outcome in mind (China bad) and are twisting yourself in knots to to reach that point irrespective of facts or material reality.
Most large Chinese companies, especially high-paying tech firms, requires a work schedule of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Monday to Saturday
Gross overstatement. It was an issue affecting ~40 of the largest tech firms during peak tech boom.(2016-2019) Was ruled illegall in 2021 and further protections and enforcement are being put in place on 996 and illegal overtime in general with the 2025 Consumption Boost Plan alongside further solidifying a more comprehensive social safety net and worker protections.
Didn't read the link, did you? Classic. China is already supplying Iran with advanced radar, Beidou satellite access, rocket precursors, and dual-use components for SAM sites and drones. That is not "empty words", that is tangible military hardware moving right now. But sure, keep screaming "actions not words" while ignoring the actual actions you were too lazy to click. Cope harder.
You genuinely think slapping rare earth restrictions during a trade spat is the same as cutting off the US and Israel cold in a wartime ultimatum? One is calibrated economic pressure, the other is lighting the fuse on WW3. Did you think your reply through at all?
Also wild that you demand China "prove" support by throwing citizens into a US-proxy meatgrinder. China already handed the US military its first strategic defeat in Korea with volunteers and bolt-action rifles when America had nukes and industry at its absolute peak. Today? China's defensive industrial base outproduces the US in drones, rockets, ships, and jets. In a non-nuclear defensive war, China absolutely wins. And if you are still daydreaming about the US "coming after China militarily", maybe google DF-61 before you type.
Lastly, spare me the lecture on "supporting oppressed nations" from someone whose entire foreign policy knowledge comes from Western headlines. China lifted 800 million people out of poverty, builds ports and railways across the Global South without colonial strings or regime-change footnotes. China has done more for oppressed nations than any other group or nation that still exists. Again I say cope harder.
China not wanting to get into a hot war with the US is bad? You people are so unserious. How many Chinese citizens should the PRC sacrifice in a meaningless dick measuring contest with the US to satisfy you people. And before you say Israel isn't the US that's just not true Israel is effectively the 51st state any act of aggression against them will see American retaliation.
Elevating Kim Jong Nam as some poor detefector who was killed for speaking out is kind of funny given he was a CIA asset. And on all those who "disappear" for speaking out you wouldn't happen to have a source? Ideally one that avoids the ROK defector industrial complex, ROK tabloids or RFA. "It is known" isn't really enough to assert claims like that
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.
Iran's strength is that even with its old stock of short-medium range missiles and cheap shahed drones they can already strike through multi million dollar interceptor swarms.
Iran's trump card is that they have stocks of Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles in reserve and that the USIsrealis are already running out of interceptors.
Also again if the gulf are "selling" under monopoly conditions to Russia and China who support Iran they will absolutely be getting cents which is economy crushing when you rely on oil if China or Russia buy from them at all when they already have massive oils deals with Iran. This is massive speculation that it will happen at all as again I pointed out already their production capacity has been targeted and some of it is already shut down.
We're back to this point which is as I already pointed out is ruled irrelevant by the fact that when 2 countries hostile to the west hold complete control of flow from the region they get to set the price. "Market price" isn't real in a monopoly situation.
Outside the fact that the USIsrealis barely have enough stockpiles for themselves. Iran is striking the gulf production capacity. Qatar for example has shut down it's LNG. Do you think smuggled oil if any even is smuggled (big speculation) will be getting a fair price?
So? That's completely different than what your post is suggesting. Even if Chinese or Russian vessels "smuggle" gulf oil it's not really relevant. Do you think they'll be bailing out the west with it?
Look, I'm rural minority. I've filled the forms. I've seen the wage gap. I know the barriers. Saying it has flaws isn't news. I said that already. But pretending the land-use rights, the homestead eligibility, the hometown fallback don't materially change a worker's risk calculation? That's idealism. That's ignoring the concrete for the sake of a slogan. You can critique the system and acknowledge its positive material effects.
I've just realised I've replied to you on another comment. I don't have time for people who brag about targeting random Chinese players in games, buying into propaganda to dehumanize us, then show up pretending to champion Chinese workers' dignity. So I'm just going to stop here and leave it at this.
More on 996: it only became a "major" phenomenon around 2016–2019. It was ruled illegal in 2021. That's a 3–5 year window, most of which the government spent doing the groundwork to draft enforceable legislation. Comparing that timeline to Europe's decades of labor law development isn't a fair metric, it should be about trajectory, not starting point.
On worker rights: yes, China still has gaps. However it's important to note it's rapidly moving in the right direction. While China is tightening overtime enforcement, expanding social insurance coverage, and piloting portable benefits for flexible workers, many US and EU jurisdictions are eroding protections through austerity, gig-classification loopholes, and weakened collective bargaining. Improvement vs. decline isn't a tie.
To add to that is the hukou system. It's extremely flawed in it's own way, no question. But for rural hukou holders, it does guarantee land use rights and homestead eligibility, a subsistence buffer that doesn't exist in the same form in the US or Europe. It is a structural fallback against total destitution, which changes the risk calculus for work.
On China's gig economy: platforms like Meituan and Didi are now included in pilot programs requiring occupational injury insurance contributions, and several provinces have issued guidelines mandating minimum earnings floors (tied to local minimum wages) and rest periods. Enforcement is uneven and rollout is gradual, but regulatory pressure is moving toward protection, not extraction. The "worst exploited kind" framing ignores that China's gig workers generally retain rural land-use rights, face lower cost-of-living baselines in hometowns, and operate under a system actively testing mechanisms to curb platform abuse, not one that universally treats them as independent contractors to dodge all liability.
Something I always find interesting about people bringing up 996 and that era is that at its peak it was about as bad as Japanese work culture while being far less prevalent as a percentage of the population affected.
Now China is putting multi year plans in place to fix it and support workers and yet is still demonised for it while Japan under the cart titan is continuing to push workers harder and doesn't get half the blowback especially among westerners.
I understand propaganda and racism play a big part in it it's still an interesting sight to behold.
there are hypersonic missiles, and a combination of technologies that have already defeated the so called Iron Dome.
I knew Iran had been breaching air defences like the iron dome but didn't realise they had dipped into their hypersonic supply yet. Would you happen to have any sources or videos? I was under the impression they were saving the more advanced stuff like the Fattah-1 still and had been making do with short-medium range ballistic missiles and shahed swarms.
Both of these are made using materials from China. Rocket fuel precursor and duel use drone components (also SAM components which seem to have had some luck downing Israeli drones).
Iran are using their old stock they haven't even started using their own hypersonic FATTAH-1s what makes you think they'd bring out the even more advanced Chinese stock they might have?
Almost like when the current hegemon and it's vassal's have nuclear weapons and they decide to take direct action against non nuclear powers MAD makes it near impossible for rival nuclear powers to step in personally.
Please don't take this the wrong way I'm not trying to call you out or any of that nonsense, but from the 2 of your posts where we've had brief interactions it feels like you have a set outcome in mind (China bad) and are twisting yourself in knots to to reach that point irrespective of facts or material reality.