#China sourcing

[irelandinchina]

Major China Investment Summit

Global Sourcing and Investment Summit to be held in China in June 2025.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Make steampunk and wasteland style charms with screws

[globallyfulfill]

How to Source High-Quality Products from China

Known as the global manufacturing hub, China has now upgraded its production capabilities to deliver high-quality, valuable goods. we will discuss steps to source high-quality products from China for your e-commerce business.

How to Source High-quality Products from China Tips Step 1 Do Market Research Step 2 Select the Right Product Step 3 Search for a High-quality Supplier Step 4 Negotiate with the Supplier Step 5 Place an Order and Confirm Payment

[carwens]

jannik sinner as orange cats

For the sinneristas out there who are missing him🧡

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Open source vs. closed doors: How China’s DeepSeek beat U.S. AI monopolies

By Gary Wilson

China’s DeepSeek AI has just dropped a bombshell in the tech world. While U.S. tech giants like OpenAI have been building expensive, closed-source AI models, DeepSeek has released an open-source AI that matches or outperforms U.S. models, costs 97% less to operate, and can be downloaded and used freely by anyone.

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu

[twig-tea]

Saw the director of Addicted Heroin Thailand had posted this on his Facebook account:

This man looked at the show that was the tipping point of the first big anti-gay censorship wave in China in the 2010s, and decided to remake it and intentionally self-censor, just to see if he could attract the "Chinese BL is superior because it doesn't rely on kisses or NC scenes to show the emotions" audience to Thai BL?

I am so mad about this.

[fireandiceland]

Hetalia characters with dishes typical for their country - part 1 (part 2 here)

Italy: Maritozzo (cream bread) -> This Roman milk bread is said to be dated back to times of Ancient Rome. The baked good is filled with generous amounts of whipped cream and somtimes decorated with fruit or pistachio. Young man also used it in courtship by hiding jewellery or a ring in the filling.

Germany: Breze(l) mit Schokolade (chocolate dipped pretzel) -> A baked pastry with sweet or salty toppings, best known for its distinctive symetrical, knotted shape. Dipped in chocolate the soft pretzel is a popular snack at funfairs and markets, but there are also small, crispy pretzels that are to be eaten like crisps/chips.

Japan: 和菓子 (wagashi; plant based sweet) -> Originally meaning "Japanese confectionery" the term now refers to a traditional dessert made from plant based ingredients. It's artful shapes are influenced by season, nature, or even poetry.

France: Quiche Lorraine -> A savoury tarte traditionally made with a filling of eggs, heavy cream, ham, and bacon. Today cheese is often added, though it is controversial among professionals. (In the drawing there seems to be leek added too which is not mentioned in the original recipe either.)

England: Scotch Egg -> Supposedly inspired by the Indian nargisi koftas, this dish consists of a hard-boiled or soft-boiled egg wrapped in pork (sausage meat) which is coated in breadcrumbs and then baked or deep-fried. Often served in pubs and a popular cold snack as well.

America: Hamburger -> A popular fastfood consisting of a patty (traditionally made from ground beef) between two halfs of a sliced bun. There are countless variations made with all kinds of additional ingredients and condiments, including expensive high-end versions with edible goldflakes.

Russia: пирожки́ (Pirozhki; stuffed bread) -> This popular street food is a baked good made from yeast-dough is typically boat-shaped and filled sweet or savory with meat, vegetables, fruit, jam or tvorog (an Eastern European fermented milk product with a consistency similar to curd cheese)

China: 小籠包 / 小笼包 (Xiaolongbao; steamed bun) -> Steamed dumplings made from leavened or unleavened dough traditionally filled with minced pork, traditionally eaten for breakfast. The top of the dumpling is closed by folding and pinching it. Authentical dumplings have at least 14 folds, preferably 18.

[safije]

Spring in China

[astrarche-x]

ohh btw whenever i imagine canon WBX tormented by office work i have to remember he didn't even have coffee... poor guy

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

A Tale of Two Ws, and neither are America's.

Womp womp.

[political-us]

[incorrect-niche-quotes]

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Skulduggery nailed your sister.

-Tanith to Bliss

[arthurhonda]

After America falls off a cliff

China: Are you okay? America: No. It hurts! China: What would you rate your pain? America: Zero stars! China: -_- America: Do not recommend D:<

[alpaca-clouds]

Digimon and the Chinese Market

Back when I was doing my economics degree, I learned how to read investment reports and I did the next logical thing for someone with autism and a hyperfixation on Digimon: I started to read Bandai Japan's yearly reports starting with 1997, when Digimon first launched. Now, due to my issues with investment Japanese and the fact that online translators were not that good, this also meant that I had to annoy two dear friends about those reports again and again. While I quickly learned how to read the actual tables of returns, gains and so on, they did have those columns on how their franchises were doing. And I quickly learned that they usually just put the "overseas market" for their stuff off as: "Oh yeah, we released this and that in the US, this in Europe, and this to Asian markets." And that was pretty much it. Because Bandai - like many companies - basically is partitioned into subsidaries with different investment reports. So, basically we have Bandai America, Bandai Europe, Bandai Asia, and Bandai Japan. While these days the Japanese reports go a bit more into oversea sales, that did not start until the late 2010s.

So, for the most part I never really thought about Digimon outside of my own country - Germany - the US (due to the biggest fansites being US run) and Japan. I kinda knew that the series was pretty big in Brazil, apparently, but that was it. Well, and I knew that from time to time Bandai Asia, and specifically China would get merchandise that the rest of the world would not get. Most notably some Digivices and V-Pets that were kinda cool looking but never got released outside of Asia. And there was D-Cyber of course. Which was cool, and thankfully got a translation. But that was it.

Well, until around 2015 I watched a documentary that someone had uploaded to Youtube. Tbh, I do not know how that documentary was called, but it had a couple episodes and was probably from around 2010 (maybe 2009, maybe 2011, but around 2010). It was basically about Chinese culture around learning and school and how children in different parts of China grew up. I was mainly watching as research for story I was writing back then. But then I noticed something: Digimon.

Yeah, in this absolutely not Digimon-related documentary, I saw... Well, a lot more Digimon merchandise, than I would have expected. One of the kids in Rural China was wearing a T-Shirt with Agumon. One of the other kids was in a soccer kid club, that had a Digimon mascot. And one of the city kids clearly had some Digimon merchandise in his room. Now, mind you, the documentary never mentioned the franchise by name in any way, but as an autistic person obsessed with Digimon, I was sitting there like: "Wait... Is Digimon kinda big in China?!"

Well, a couple years and three chinese-exclusive mobile Games later - one of them apparently featuring a whole ass story... Yeah, actually apparently Digimon is actually pretty popular in China o.ô

I think this is almost funny in a way, given that usually in the west we just do not think a whole lot about the chinese market in any way or form. Sure, these days, when it comes to movies, we will at times mention that indeed, a lot of companies are marketing their movies towards the chinese market. Or you will hear how the chinese game market is big. But that is it.

But in terms of Digimon, it seems that indeed China has a really strong market with a lot of people willing to invest in not only into Digimon merchandise, but also games and manga. I think most of us by now know, that there was a ton of exclusive Chinese manga.

While D-Cyber eventually also released outside of China (as did the Manhua adaptations of the first four seasons), neither Legendary Skies (a sequel of sorts to Frontier) or Battle released or even got so much as a scanlation. Same seems to go for the manga adaptions of Savers, Xros Wars and the Adventure remake. (At least according to Wikimon.)

All in all, I feel this is a rather interesting aspect of the fandom, that rarely is discussed.

Obviously the lack of discussion also has majorly to do with how little information on some of those Chinese things. We have a fairly good overview of the plot of New Century, and as mentioned got D-Cyber translated. But all we have from Legendary Skies is some single pages and a plot overview.

Now another Phone Game has released a couple of days ago - Digimon Source Code. Another one I will asume is going to have its own little story.

And... Yeah, I don't know. I am fascinated by this almost invisible part of the fandom.

[daily-public-domain]

Day 397: Untitled (abstract watercolor, 1913)

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