Jeff Jarvis
China steps in for the US... This is humiliating....
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million/
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.

Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.

The Washington Post
May 21, 2025 at 10:13amWeb
Show threadToni AittoniemiMay 21, 2025

@jeffjarvis And soon you will start to see Chinese military bases all around the world..

How do you think the US got those military bases to begin with, other than the host countries being thankful for something?

Show threadAl & Val's Modern HomesteadingMay 21, 2025
@gimulnautti Honestly, good for them. The US is doing what Donald's dad SHOULD have done. Pulling out of everything. The void is getting filled, and it's no longer up to us to say what's acceptable and what isn't. The world will keep going, even if we don't
Show threadenoch_exe_incMay 21, 2025

@gimulnautti @jeffjarvis No, that’s the mindset of a settler-colonial empire, which China is not.

The US got those military bases by having lots of aircraft carriers, gunships, nuclear subs, and the promise that they won’t use them on you if you let them take a piece of your land for their military to use.

Show threadDisplay NameMay 21, 2025
@enoch_exe_inc @gimulnautti @jeffjarvis Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Newsweek: "The Chinese people are living, working and traveling in many parts of the world. Cargo ships with Chinese goods sail along almost all major international waterways. These fully justify China's moves to build up its defense capability to protect its legitimate interests overseas and promote regional and international peace."
Show threadenoch_exe_incMay 22, 2025
@alper @enoch_exe_inc @gimulnautti @jeffjarvis Considering the number of countries China has invaded (none since 1979) and occupied (none), I’d say that statement is far less duplicitous than similar statements made by the United States or any other “democratic country”, including my own (🇨🇦).
Show threadDisplay NameMay 22, 2025
@enoch_exe_inc @gimulnautti @jeffjarvis the goal posts are moving rapidly. China is working to expand its influence too as it gets more powerful. That's why it's been building a giant navy. Btw there are existing territorial disputes too.
Show threadenoch_exe_incMay 22, 2025

@alper @enoch_exe_inc @gimulnautti @jeffjarvis Ah, the famous Sino-Indian border disputes and also the Nine-Dash Line. Be glad it isn’t the Eleven-Dash Line that certain people in Taiwan Province are pushing.

If America has a right to patrol the coastlines and seas to which it doesn’t belong, then China has a right to defend itself, and with overwhelming force if need be.

Show threadenoch_exe_incMay 22, 2025
@alper @enoch_exe_inc @gimulnautti @jeffjarvis Also, what goalposts?
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenMay 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis They are seeing the US withdrawing its soft power and fill the gap. Just wait until China replaces the USAID workers and the countries gratefully sell their resources to them instead of the US…
Show threadscribblerMay 21, 2025
@toriver @jeffjarvis As a country we've already learned this. It's the idiots in power trying their best to put us back in the medieval times...
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵May 21, 2025
@toriver @jeffjarvis Europe should also do this! Why are "we" always so slow to react to a changing world..
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenMay 21, 2025
@bazkie @jeffjarvis Europe largely leave it to NGOs, the countries have too much of a colonial past that makes it awkward.
Show threadStoneface VimesMay 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis ooh! Don't worry donold, China will sort it if you can't get it up any more.
Show threadFunGuy2PlayWithMay 21, 2025

@jeffjarvis

#GiftedArticle

https://wapo.st/43Exqv2

China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.

Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.

The Washington Post
Show threadflamingoredMay 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis
Was anyone expecting anything different?
Show threadJoe AlexanderMay 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis To be fair, Donald left the WHO because he claimed the Chinese were taking it over. And look he must have been right because boy did they take it over.
Show threadMichael StancliftMay 21, 2025
@joe @jeffjarvis #SelfFulfillingProphecy
Show threadJoe AlexanderMay 21, 2025
@vmstan @jeffjarvis Next: "Medicaid is obviously a failure"
Show threadRobin BartonMay 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis A hegemony is being killed by Agent Orange and a new one is being born
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌May 21, 2025

@jeffjarvis Embarrassing & idiotic isolationism!

#WHO #ChinaGives #TrumpLeaves #Trump #Dementia #Psychopathy #RecklessEndangerment #GOP #HealthcareThieves #HealthcareSabotage #AmericaHasBetter #RuleOfLaw #Law #Justice #Democracy #Freedom #Medicaid #Medicare #Healthcare #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether

Show threadcontrasocialMay 21, 2025

@jeffjarvis

The next stage of global fascism becomes more entrenched by the day. Each rising power builds and "improves" upon the fascist system of the last. Now China and Russia get their turn at the imperial wheel.

Show threadxs4me2May 21, 2025

@jeffjarvis

As expected, the stupidity of the current administration has no limits.

Show threadMcWabbit 🇺🇦🍋🌻🍉May 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis Brilliant move by China. Not that I am happy for it, though.
It is a middle finger to the US to look good, but also snubs Taiwan of any hope to become a member.
Show threadMutant From HoosierMay 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis the comments are great. My favorite overall theme is the anxiety of westerners that China would be the next Empire of the World. Because we know that would be bad. Because European and American Empires are/were atrocious. No possible alternatives. Someone must maintain absolute dominance over people and the world.
Show threadCockneyLaurieMay 21, 2025
@jeffjarvis no surprise they are more popular that US https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewsglobal-does-the-collapse-of-american-soft-power-actually-matter
TLDR News Global — Does the Collapse of American “Soft Power” Actually Matter?

Global polling shows that America's appeal has fallen sharply and China is now popular than the US internationally. So in this video, we'll look at the data, Trump's impact, the decline in America's so called "soft power" and whether it actually matters.

Nebula
Show threadJohnnieMacMay 22, 2025
@jeffjarvis kind of like when the US stepped in for England in the last century… torch is moving on
Show threadubrummackMay 22, 2025
@jeffjarvis that’s very nice of them. I suppose.