I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes. Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure. I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold. We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep. I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety. What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings? I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.

U.S. CONGRESS IS LAUNCHING an investigation into Jensen Huang’s love-life—as the chip king last night published an emotional admission that he had an extramarital affair, apologizing to his wife, children, and the staff of his firm Nvidia. The affair was clearly real enough, but the shift in the story — that she was a “Chinese spy” on a “honeypot” operation — is struggling to stand up, except among the more over-stimulated elements among western politicians and journalists. “I owe my family and all of you an apology,” Mr Huang, 62, wrote in a public confession sent to his staff. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.” Both Republicans and Democrats said Congress is launching investigations. . STORY CHANGED Huang initially had a business relationship with Alice Huang Le of Megaspeed, a Singapore company that handles semiconductor trading—but it clearly turned into a full-blown affair. For several weeks, the media has been speculating about his relationship with Ms Huang, but the story changed when a 29 Oct report in the New York Times said that US officials considered her to be not just a girlfriend, but a Chinese intelligence agent. Oooo! “American officials had concluded that she was a Chinese intelligence asset, funneling information to Beijing,” the newspaper said. . PILLOW TALK This was largely meaningless, since US politicians and journalists have the unfettered imaginations of five-year-olds on speed, and consider everything from Luckin Coffee to garlic to be national security threats from China. And pillow talk is not a good venue for stealing chip secrets. “Give me a kiss, darling, and a copy of the nano-architecture plans for the next generation GB200 NVL72 chip platform.” But the next steps are coming anyway. Senator Chris Coons, Democrat for Delaware, said: “Congress will investigate and get answers.” Separately, three House Republican committee chairs asked Jensen Huang to appear for a closed-door congressional briefing on 18 November, 2026. . BAD NEWS FOR ALL SIDES This is bad news for all sides. An investigation by Congress will keep the story alive, increasing the harm to Mr Huang and Nvidia. And the timing is terrible – emerging just when the AI empire that is keeping the US stock market afloat is teetering. So why did US officials on the intelligence side stir up the story? A businessman having a girlfriend is not big news, and fearmongering over China has been at peak level in five eyes' countries since 2018. . WHO BENEFITS? Cui bono? Who benefits? The western mainstream media can add another “China bad” story to the endless number of notches on its tally stick. And US politicians can file their usual demands for more money to be diverted from welfare to warfare. But that doesn’t seem worth it. If Nvidia is damaged, that benefits China rather than the US. The US intelligence agencies would have been much smarter to tell Mr Huang that they had the details and hold that over him as a threat to keep him in line. As for the fact that some Nvidia chips do go in and out of Mainland China—well, that’s been happening for a long time, and will continue until China has developed its own super-chips. Then the story could end with a twist. . .

The US has lost Iran’s nuclear program and is offering US$20 million and possible relocation for anyone who finds it. I mean, the obvious answer is: The US army claimed to have "obliterated" Iran’s nuclear facilities last year, so it’s gone, isn’t it?

The Diplomat website retracted an article on Friday, saying that a story about a Ukraine firm was fabricated, and the bylined journalist, one “Kim Hwa-pyeong”, may not exist. “We now know that the journalist fabricated the interview and may not even be who they claimed to be,” the website said. Brendan Ruberry of Semafor yesterday added on X that “Clarissa Jenkins”, another writer for the same website, also did not exist—and her report was graded by a detection service as “100 per cent AI-generated”. . ACCELERATING PROBLEM The problem is likely accelerating. Sophia Gonzales, Ervin B Hoskins, and five other published journalists do not exist, according to a study in September by researchers at OpenAI. The present writer recently raised the issue of “Maya Wang”, the widely quoted China-hostile voice at Human Rights Watch. Her friends say the name was made-up for the wife of former Hong Kong Free Press columnist “Kong Tsung-gan”—who also did not exist—even though he was quoted in the New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, Time magazine, Washington Post, France24, Deutsch Welle and so on. Kong was unmasked as Brian P Kern, a US anti-China activist. UK Press Gazette reported on September 18 that the widely quoted art therapist "Dr Eleni Nicolaou", quoted in Forbes, Psychology, Vice and Glamour, appeared to be AI-generated. While it is not illegal to use a pen name or to add a “name changed to protect the innocent” disclaimer in an upfront manner, any practice that deceives readers is considered unethical in journalism. This can be a particular issue when there is a clear political purpose, as in the case of Mrs Kern, or an ethnicity-switching aspect, as in the case of her husband’s “yellowface” writings. . GENERATING FAKE FACES In the past five or six years, AI-powered scams have made these scams easier, as fake faces can be generated. In 2020, “Martin Aspen”, a researcher who produced a lengthy report on Hunter Biden’s dealings in China, turned out to be a fake identity with an AI-generated face. The project was financed by Apple Daily, run by Trump-fanatic publisher Jimmy Lai. . .

Donald Trump invited “violent fighter and warrior” Dana White to be White House press secretary—and asked him to bring his assistants. There used to be a gap between official presidential announcements and wacko absurdist jokes, but the two categories are now indistinguishable

OOPS! Today’s Guardian newspaper has a headline about convicted criminal and sexual harasser Russell Brand, warning that “other abusers” are “still hiding in plain sight”. And just above it is a rambling article by convicted criminal and accused sexual harasser Nathan Law. Nathan Law was one of the western mainstream media’s most high-profile “rent-a-quote” protesters – but largely disappeared from sight after he was hit with accusations of sexual harassment in 2023. . SERIOUS ENOUGH While he was never charged in a court of law, the accusations were serious enough for him to be suspended from the Hong Kong Democracy Council—which investigated the charges, and then said bye-bye to him. (Despite the name of the group, this group does not promote Hong Kong or democracy but is a Washington-financed group working to demonize China.) In 2024, an investigative media group in the US called Notus found widespread cases of sexual harassment by prominent males in China demonization groups, particularly those focusing on pushing western narratives on “the death of Hong Kong” and the “Uyghur genocide” hoax. After the Nathan Law sexual harassment claims spread in 2023, “activists at several different organizations reconsidered inviting Law to events, chose not to post pictures with him and rewrote press releases about Hong Kong to minimize his footprint on them,” said Haley Byrd Wilt of Notus in a May 2024 report. . ONE OF MANY PROBLEMS The sexual harassment issue was just one problem. Law was part of a Hong Kong political movement that received vast amounts of financial and other support from the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA soft power spin-off. This helped him to get into Hong Kong’s parliament, the Legislative Council – but he was soon expelled for misconduct. Then he and his associates were in 2017 were found guilty in what the city's Court of Appeal described as “a large-scale unlawful assembly, involving violence” in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong. The shocking attack in the peaceful, low-crime city, left 10 security guards injured, one seriously. Hong Kong’s British system courts are famously lenient, allowing for appeals. On the same week at the start of February 2018 that an appeals court finally confirmed that the evidence confirmed beyond the slightest doubt that Law and the others had committed a criminal act of violence, Senator Marco Rubio nominated the group for the Nobel Peace Prize. Which says it all. . INCREASINGLY UNPOPULAR Law became extremely unpopular in Hong Kong in 2019 when he called on US lawmakers to enact laws to enable America to revoke the city’s special trade status, directly hurting his community’s ability to continue to make a living. There was no way for Law to argue that a campaign to destroy the “one country two systems” policy was helping the people of Hong Kong. Also, the campaigner was eyed suspiciously by some of his fellow protesters, a number of whom liked to physically attack people from mainland China. Law toed the protester line—but he himself was a mainlander, having been born in Shenzhen and moving to Hong Kong at the age of six. . THEN HE FLED When Hong Kong finally passed a western-style security law in June 2020, forbidding political activists from taking cash from hostile foreign powers, Nathan Law decided it was time to flee. From the west, he denied having connections with western intelligence. “My colleagues and I have no connection to US intelligence and any sort of intelligence from around the world,” he said on television. At the time, a popular Twitter/ X commentator from Hubei agreed: “Indeed, he does seem to be innocent of a connection to any sort of intelligence.” His UK handlers quickly arranged for him to get political asylum in the UK. When former CIA director Mike Pompeo visited London on 21 July 2020, he summoned Law to meet him at the US embassy to thank him for his work against China. But with the new law in place in Hong Kong, the southern Chinese city could finally charge Nathan Law with collusion with external forces: an act which has long been criminal in all major western societies. While "five eyes" nations obediently follow the US narratives about China, other countries make decisions independently. In September of 2025, Nathan Law Kwun-chung was refused entry into Singapore. . ASSOCIATES FELT ABANDONED In Hong Kong, Law has been harshly criticized by his former associates on protester message boards. They felt the escapee now had a cushy number working with western political spinners, living in comfort and safely badmouthing Hong Kong from a distance (thanks, Guardian); while some of his former associates were languishing in jail. Law increased his unpopularity by working with Luke de Pulford, the UK-based anti-China campaigner financed by the US National Endowment for Democracy, to sue members of the Hong Kong police force who had British nationality, for doing their jobs. Even for Hong Kong and British critics of the police, this was considered a step too far. (The plot came to nothing.) . EVEN WESTERNERS Law was even mocked by westerners in Hong Kong when he took to referring to himself as an “exile”, a word that usually refers to someone ejected and barred from their homeland, not for a disliked, disloyal, criminal who chose to flee from justice. A group of British westerners in Hong Kong's financial scene told a local newspaper that in the wake of Law’s rebranding of himself, they no longer considered themselves “expats” but would henceforth prefer to be identified as “exiles” from “oppressed Knightsbridge”. . .

A car broke the 500km an hour record for the first time. And it’s a Chinese electric car. This video shows the moment when the record was broken. The Yangwang U9 Xtreme is being officially recognized as the first production car in the world to break the 500km/hr barrier – hitting 503.17 km an hour. It performed this feat on 1 November 2026 in Abu Dhabi. The designation was given by Guinness World Records and the FIA, the world motorsports governing body. That doesn’t mean you can pick up this exact car at your local car dealer. But it does mean that it’s not a specialist vehicle designed to break world records: you CAN pick up a very similar model—if you have the money! Behind the wheel was driving legend Marc Basseng, a famous endurance driver. Well done all concerned.

HERE'S WHAT THE WORLD WAS TOLD YESTERDAY: Suspected Iran-linked terrorists were caught with vans filled with explosives near a US airbase in the UK. US president Donald Trump said his intelligence people had been watching the men for a “long time” because they “were looking to do big damage”. This morning, what do we learn? The story above is all WRONG. - It has now been revealed that “no explosive material had been found” in the vehicles, police said. - The vans contained diesel, the value of which has soared because of unnecessary conflicts, such as the US-Israel attack on Iran. - The vehicles were branded “Fuel 2You”, suggesting they were openly transporting fuel. - Also, “All five men were British Nationals”. - Further, no tip-off came from US intelligence but from a local farmer in her 50s who called the police after seeing men with white vans. - Photos turned out to have been creatively spun out of one blurred original by an OpenAI program. - Most notably, all the men were released on bail, indicating that they were not considered dangerous. . WHAT A DIFFERENCE What a difference a day makes. It’s worth recalling what yesterday’s headlines actually said. “Counter-terror police investigate Iran link over suspected bomb plot at RAF base used by US,” the Guardian said. “Five men arrested on terrorism charges after explosives found near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire”. The photos with added AI-generated faces were shared on social media by several groups, including the British Army Veterans Group, and spread quickly, viewed at least 1.6 million times. It’s certainly valid to report that men apparently acting suspiciously were found in part of rural Britain near an airbase, RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. That’s no excuse to report that they had vans of explosives to blow up an airbase and point the finger at Iran. . THE REAL STORY As people with a little healthy skepticism know, the actual truth (as opposed to what the headlines say) can usually be found buried deep inside the text. And so it is with this story. The very last paragraph of the latest report on this tale in the Guardian says that the UK’s Iranian embassy said the reports of this being an Iranian operation were false, and pointed to the real illegality in the conflict: "The circulation of such fabricated speculations, particularly in the aftermath of the criminal acts of aggression committed by the United States and the Israeli regime against the Iranian people, will serve no purpose other than to fuel Iranophobia propaganda in the UK." The irony, of course, is that diesel thefts have soared worldwide as the doubling of prices have led to literally millions of people being unable to run their factories and vehicles. A global fuel crisis was triggered by the US-Israel attack on Iran on February 28—which the UN has agreed is an ongoing war crime. And can we name one of the bases the US is using for its operations? Yes. RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, UK. . .

I resigned from my post today as head of AI at both OpenAI and Anthropic. AI has a 98.5% chance of destroying humanity by Tuesday morning coffee break. I’ll give you an update when my handler tells me what to write next

THE BIGGEST COUNTRIES in the world yesterday stood up for Iran and for the people of Palestine. The attack on Iran is illegal, they declared. And Palestinians need justice. But western mainstream media outlets ran an astonishing news blackout on the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, with most outlets giving it zero coverage. . ATTACK VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL LAW Leaders of China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Iran and other countries declared that the US attacks on Iran “violate the UN Charter and the principles and norms of international law, posing a serious risk to world peace, security, and stability”. The lack of coverage from most western mainstream media outlets is bizarre. The SCO is more than three times the size of NATO. The pro-peace Eastern organization covers 42.5 per cent of humanity, compared to NATO’s 13 per cent. . MODI SIGNED While China is seen as the de facto leader of the organization, much of the attention was on India’s Narendra Modi, who has been cozying up to Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu And Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has also been trying to play both sides. But both turned up and signed the declaration. . MOURNING THE DEAD Leaders at the huge gathering of nations also used the opportunity to condemn the murder of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and his family by the United States and Israel. In an unprovoked attack on 28 February this year, they killed 40 people, including the leader’s granddaughter Zahra, aged 14 months. Other victims, the same day, included 120 children at a primary school. . NO MILITARY ANGLE Participants also reminded the world of the difference in character between itself and NATO. NATO focuses on diverting public cash to weapons and the military. SCO is non-military, and promotes friendly relations between countries through mutually beneficial trade and shared pro-peace policies. . .

THE RULE OF LAW ITSELF is globally in danger from the United States, the International Criminal Court warned yesterday. The court revealed that the US had slapped sanctions on: - nine of the ICC’s 18 judges - both its deputy prosecutors - its former chief prosecutor and - a prosecution office staff member. When judges “are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at risk,” the court said in a statement (link provided). . US TO DESTROY COURT But US foreign minister Marco Rubio vowed to destroy the court by pressurizing states to withdraw support for it. Venezuela—which the US illegally took control of in January—has already complied. Rubio has said it will dismantle the court "brick by brick if necessary” in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal last month. The ICC has never investigated alleged crimes committed in the US or its official territories, but has angered Washington by taking action against actions by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, mainly women and children. . SHOCKED THE WORLD The addition of new sanctions this week, including one on Japanese national Tomoko Akane, ICC President, shocked people around the world. “Such measures targeting judges, prosecutors and staff who work towards the fulfilment of the mandate that was conferred to the ICC by States undermine the rule of law,” the court said in a statement. When the US sanctions a person, they lose the ability to hold bank accounts and use credit cards, even in their own countries, thanks to the US dollar being the global reserve currency. Some have reported that they cannot access their own money to buy basic food and drink for their children. Rubio argues that the ICC has no right to interfere with places such as the US and Israel which have not ratified its conventions—although the US does precisely that, repeatedly. .

STOP BEING MEAN TO THE CHINESE! Young Americans oppose a new cold war with China, says a report published yesterday. There’s a huge gulf between the mega-hostile attitudes of Washington’s old men, and the open-mindedness of the new generation in the country, said Ali Wyne, senior research and advocacy adviser for US-China relations at the International Crisis Group, in an essay for the Financial Times, published yesterday. “Though many China experts in Washington think Beijing’s mounting power and widespread congressional anxiety will eventually compel the US to resume a more confrontational posture, for now the public does not seem inclined to support a ‘new cold war’,” he wrote. . POISONING MINDS This is interesting. As well pushing the “China threat” theme in media across the country, Washington funds or co-funds multiple organizations around the world to poison minds against the Asian country, including the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, Radio Free Asia, and literally scores of media outlets, including many in Asian countries and in Europe, we note. But despite the billion-dollar budget to demonize China, the process is failing around the world, including with young adults and youth in the U.S., multiple surveys show. . 'CHINA THREAT' NARRATIVE FAILING The standard “China threat” fearmongering technique favored by Joe Biden and others may never come back, Wyne said. After the Trump presidency ends, US policymakers “should not assume that the country’s allies will support a renewed effort to counterbalance China nor expect that invoking the ‘China threat’ will imbue younger Americans with a nationalist sense of shared purpose,” he wrote. . HOSTILITY EFFORTS FAILING A host of surveys show the failure of efforts to create hostility. The new generation in the U.S., in particular, show a positive attitude to China, Wyne said. - The number of people in the U.S. who call China an “enemy” fell from 42% in March 2024 to just 28% in a January 2026 Pew Research survey. - Only 27% of 18- to 29-year-olds think that their lives would become “worse” were China’s power to overtake America’s, according to a Carnegie Endowment survey in November 2025. - A solid 62% of those aged 18-34 want the U.S. to “co-operate with China and improve U.S.-China relations”, while just 29 per cent want it to “stand up to China”. - 82% of Gen Z respondents say that the bilateral economic relationship has been good for the U.S. over the past quarter-century, and 68% want to encourage Chinese investment, said a May 2026 American Compass survey. . BUT WAR DANGER REMAINS But there’s one angle to Wyne’s report in the Financial Times that many people may disagree with. He quotes positive things that Donald Trump has said about Chinese leader Xi Jinping, indicating that the US President and the new generation in the US think alike. Two caveats should be highlighted here. First, taken as a whole, Trump’s statements about Xi and China are so plentiful and self-contradictory that one can cherry-pick them to make a positive or negative impression. . SERIOUSLY BAD IDEAS Second, the US military media industrial complex is clearly pressing ahead with plans for a war on China – the recent RIMPAC exercise, involving some 30 nations, barely bothered to hide this. As part of this plan, we see the continuing recycling of the "China is just about to invade Taiwan" narrative, which has been wrong annually for at least forty years. A US war on China would be a terribly bad idea. But that’s the problem. As we can all see with Iran, the system shows that extremely bad ideas end up on desks in Washington DC, where, scarily often, they get an instant green light. . .

BREAKING: China’s hot: the US is not. Out of 36 countries surveyed, 25 now have a more favorable view of China than the US, a new Pew study showed yesterday. A thumbs-up for China is very visible in data from across Asia, Europe, Africa, and elsewhere—and even from Trump loyalist countries such as Argentina. “Americans’ nearest neighbors – Canadians and Mexicans – also view China more positively than the U.S.,” said Pew Research, a US survey firm. . BUYING LOYALTY The study of three dozen countries showed that the US was viewed more positively than China in only six countries in the study, including three in which Washington has purchased loyalty, largely by fearmongering-based militarization: Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. The study also showed that many people across the planet have more confidence in Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make positive decisions for the world than US President Donald Trump. The study said more people believed the US had more “freedom”, but without defining the term. . FAILURE OF DEMONIZATION OPS The results show a catastrophic failure of the billion-dollar-a-year effort to demonize China, which includes hundreds of operations – including those run by National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA-spin off that has financed thousands of groups, including the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. The US this year admitted that the NED was a political interference group which "destabilizes sovereign governments". The continuing loss of trust in the international mainstream media (which is the western mainstream media) will also have played a part. The change of views has also come about because the huge rise in new voices, with independent media groups and citizen journalists using social media to debunk false US narratives on Greater China, including Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan and Hong Kong. . PEW ALSO GUILTY Pew itself will have played a role. In the past, it used to be notorious for producing surveys which apparently showed China in a bad light. The studies, presented in the media as global, were actually focused almost entirely on results from US and US-allied countries, conditioned by the media to be harshly negative on the Chinese. In contrast, this week’s new Pew survey has a much wider frame of reference, highlighting views of three dozen countries around the world, not just US allies. So even though it is just 36 countries, it is a far more valid than Pew’s own previous studies of the same question. But this could all change, with anti-China propaganda groups still being cashed-up. The NED is still active, and the notorious Radio Free Asia is being relaunched in Washington DC. .