🇨🇳📊 China’s manufacturing dominance has very little to do with being “cheap”.

China’s labor costs are rapidly approaching developed economy prices.

Things are made in China because they’ve spent 50 years developing infrastructure, technical expertise, deep supply chains, extensive access to credit, and a conducive environment to doing business for foreigners (at least up until 2019).

If this was all about cheap products, Tesla’s gigafactory would be in Mumbai and not Shanghai.

🔗 Spencer Hakimian

👑👑🤝🇺🇸🇸🇦 — A video from the recent Saudi Arabia summit has gone viral across Iranian social media, showing Iranian-American entrepreneur and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in conversation with United Stated President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

➡️ Khosrowshahi, a prominent figure in global tech, hails from a distinguished Iranian entrepreneurial family that rose to prominence during the prosperous and modernizing era of the late Shah of Iran and the Pahlavi Dynasty, the founder of modern Iran — a time when Iran stood on as an economic powerhouse.

➡️ As expected, this once again triggered debates on Iranian internet regarding the brain drain affecting Iran since the Theocratic Shiite rule of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist was installed in Iran by a coalition of Marxists and Islamists and how Iran could have been in case the Islamic Republic was never been founded.

➡️ Mr. Khosrowshahi is a steadfast supporter of Iran’s current exiled Shah and National Leader, His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah II Pahlavi, and His Majesty's economic vision, the Iran Prosperity Project (IPP) — a bold and visionary initiative aimed at laying the groundwork for a free, sovereign, and prosperous Iran.

💸 The IPP aims to pave ground based on national unity, institutional change, and sustainable development for a post-Islamic regime Iran.

🤑 Recently, on April 30, 2025, Khosrowshahi joined a well-selected and distinguished panel of Iranian entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. at a major conference hosted by the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), where the IPP was formally unveiled before the public.

📈 This event marked a major turning point in articulating a clear roadmap for Iran’s economic renaissance once the nation is liberated from the theocratic grip of the Islamic Republic's Regime.

📝 Dara Khosrowshahi is the grandson of Ali Khosrowshahi, one of Iran’s well-known industrialists and founder of the Minoo Industrial Group — a major conglomerate involved in pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetics. Like many icons of the prosperous Pahlavi era, his achievements were stolen and destroyed by the regime, which confiscated his company and even appropriated his private mansion in Jamaran — ironically used by Khomeini himself, which was falsely projected as "ascetic cleric" by regime propaganda, after the Islamist revolution. Despite Khomeini’s propaganda of living modestly after 1979, he resided in Ali Khosrowshahi’s confiscated mansion in Jamaran, in northern Tehran, a wealthy neighborhood.

➡️ The Khosrowshahi family was among a generation of Iranian entrepreneurial families, including the Elghanian and Khayami families, who emerged during the prosperity era of the Pahlavi Shahs and helped transform Iran into a regional industrial and economic leader under the Pahlavi Shahs. Their contributions formed the backbone of Iran’s modernization and stand in stark contrast to the decades of decay under the current theocratic and ideological regime.

➡️ Today, as Iran faces historic crossroads, figures like Dara Khosrowshahi and movements like the Iran Prosperity Project offer a beacon of hope—a rallying call to return to the path of progress and national dignity under the unifying leadership of Reza Shah II Pahlavi, the rightful heir to a vision of a modern, sovereign, and thriving Iran.

🇷🇺🤝🇻🇦🤝🇺🇦-Pope Leo XIV has offered to mediate between Ukraine and Russia, according to Bild.

“The Holy See stands ready to facilitate dialogue between the adversaries, helping them face each other to restore a dignified life for the people,” the report quotes the Pope.

🇮🇷☢️❌🇺🇸 — Deputy Foreign Minister of the Iranian Regime, Kazem Gharibabadi, answering a netizen, says the "Right to enrich Uranium" is non-negotiable

Hello dear brother

Our negotiating parties know very well that the Islamic Republic of Iran will never compromise the achievements it has achieved with the blood of martyrs and at great expense!
The right to enrich uranium is our definitive red line!

No halt to enrichment is acceptable.

https://fxtwitter.com/Gharibabadi/status/1923346598509093007

🇻🇪🇻🇪⁉️🇧🇷 — 🇨🇳 A report published by Reuters revealed that oil trading companies may have shipped over US$ 1 billion worth of Venezuelan oil to China disguised as Brazilian product since at least July 2024

➡️ This scheme allows tankers to sail directly from Venezuela to China, bypassing stops in Malaysian waters and shortening the trip by about four days. In addition to reducing costs, the practice helps circumvent U.S. and other international sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil due to Nicolás Maduro’s regime and its repression.

🔍 One piece of evidence is Chinese customs data, which shows that China imported about 67,000 barrels per day of "mixed bitumen" from Brazil between July 2024 and March 2025, totaling US$ 1.2 billion. However, Petrobras president Magda Chambriard stated in Houston last week that the Brazilian state oil company exports "mainly pre-salt crude oil to China, not bitumen".

Reuters further reported that Brazilian customs data shows no export of mixed bitumen to China since at least 2023. In reality, many of the cargoes labeled as Brazilian mixed bitumen contain Venezuela’s Merey crude, a blend of extra-heavy and lighter oil. This was confirmed by trading sources, Vortexa Analytics, and internal documents from PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company.

❌ The investigation used maritime navigation data, satellite imagery, and coastal photographs compiled and analyzed by TankerTrackers.com. Neither the Chinese nor Venezuelan governments have commented on the matter.

Source 🖇

🇦🇱🇮🇹🤣📹 — Albanian Prime-Minister Edi Rama welcomes Italy’s Meloni and kneels before her.

🇻🇦🤝🇺🇦☦️ — Vatican News reported last May 15 that in the Vatican, Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIV received in a private audience the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

Credits for the video: Vatican News

🇺🇸📉❗️ — Moody's downgrades United States ratings.

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Germany to spend 5% on Defense‼️

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German FM Wadephul said in Istanbul about defense spending: "The result is the 5% that President Trump has called for, and we will follow him in this respect."

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Germany now spends 2% of GDP and long term spent 1.3% since the cold war.

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CDU politicians already discussed that it's possible with Rutte's plan of 3.5% on Defense and 1.5% on Defense usefull infrastructure.

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸👩‍⚕️ — Controversial Chinese Scientist He Jiankui says on his Twitter/X account that the Chinese Regime authorities banned and denied his wife Cathy Tie, a Chinese-American national, from entering into China from a Los Angeles-Beijing flight

He Jiankui is credited for being the scientist behind the creation of the first human babies immune to HIV/AIDS

His wife is now stranded in Manilla, capital of Philippines

https://fxtwitter.com/Jiankui_He/status/1923903162228015470

👨‍⚕️❌🇨🇳❗️ — Controversial Chinese Scientist He Jiankui, following the confirmation that his wife is banned from entering into Mainland China, threatens to defect from Communist China to United States

He Jiankui is part of the high level scientific corps of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and is part of the highly selective Thousand Talents Plan, a Chinese government initiative affiliated with the PRC's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to recruit the best of the best among the Chinese Academic field.

The Thousand Talents Plan is believed to be part of a wide MSS-run Counterintelligence program to steal Intellectual property from China's enemies globally regarding technological and biomedical fields

https://fxtwitter.com/Jiankui_He/status/1923904697574039662