Over the past ten days, a number of excellent articles have appeared in the Chinese publication Guancha that merit attention but failed to be translated by me and circulated via the Gym. I intend to rectify that somewhat by providing the links and excerpts for readers to explore on their own, although data shows that’s only done by a very small percentage of readers. Nevertheless, China is continually exerting its diplomatic and economic weight in ways that those following geopolitics ought to be aware of. Daily a new engineering project is completed, or a scientific advancement is announced by Global Times or other English language Chinese media , which are easier to follow because translation isn’t required. Here are several examples: “NE China's first solar thermal power plant put into operation, marking a major breakthrough”; “China launches 'yisuan computing ark' full-stack platform to help solve software designing challenges”; “Beijing launches space computing innovation center, first in nation”; and one related to the first, “US working on ban targeting Chinese energy inverters, a move politicizing clean-energy supply chains, ignoring industrial, consumer interests: expert.” Those are just a few and perhaps I should include this editorial, “Who got slapped in the face by Fox News' apology?” from a few days ago that covered an important incident. What many see as a Tech War or Race between China and the Outlaw US Empire is becoming very tense as this article that also appeared at Guancha attests with this being the Global Times version, “More 'DeepSeek moments' ahead: Will US continue to build walls or learn?”, and is also becoming an important component of the geopolitical competition between the two states. Yet, besides the two behemoths, a forgotten term is being reborn as the Multipolar World continues to blossom, and that’s the Medium or Middle Power concept, which is how Iran is now being characterized as having become with its defeat of the Empire.
The discussion of that concept brings us to the first Guancha article: