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They're getting new beautiful infrastructure and disease cures.
We're bringing back measles, coal mining, and actively stupefying our kids for profit.
USA! USA!
you mean from the not communist, capitalist china, that one, the one that ditched communism 40 years ago
ok
Yeah. The same one that’s getting new beautiful infrastructure and disease cures.
Have you ever heard of Tofu buildings? A bunch of Chinese construction companies have been using unwashed beach sand in their concrete. This means there's salt in the concrete.
So you can walk up to some of these buildings and with just a little effort, rip a chunk off with your bare hands.
The companies are still doing it, because it's cheaper, and they rarely get in trouble. It's a sign of Chinese capitalism, reckless disregard for harm done in the name of profit. The US went through a phase like that from about 1607 until we all died in nuclear hellfire during the Able Archer exercises in 1983.
The companies are still doing it, because it’s cheaper, and they rarely get in trouble. It’s a sign of Chinese capitalism, reckless disregard for harm done in the name of profit.
80% of the sand used in their construction is now artificial... Because they stopped using unwashed sand.
It took me less than 5 minutes to find this out with a simple search.
'fun' read about able archer though.
How the Therapy Works
The process involves regenerative medicine, utilizing the patient's own body's capabilities to treat the illness.
Cell Extraction: A small sample of cells (e.g., fat cells or blood cells) is taken from the patient. Reprogramming: These cells are chemically treated in a lab to revert them to a pluripotent state, meaning they can develop into any type of cell.
Differentiation and Transplantation: The stem cells are then guided to become functional, insulin-producing islet cells. These new cells are then transplanted back into the patient's abdominal area.
Restored Function: Once implanted, the cells engraft and begin producing insulin naturally in response to blood glucose levels, effectively restoring the body's natural ability to regulate blood sugar.
That doesn't make sense for type 2. This is exactly how they've been trialing treatment of type 1, they just announced it a few months ago I think it was Stanford and Toronto
I wonder if the US diabetic population is comparable to the Chinese diabetic population. Similar weight and eating habits? If not that could complicate things.
Rate of diabetes in China “explosive”
China has the world's largest diabetes population, with over 118 million adults (approx. 11–12% prevalence) living with the disease as of late 2024–2025, driven by rapid urbanization, obesity, and an aging population. The epidemic has shifted dramatically from less than 1% prevalence in 1980 to a major public health challenge, with type 2 diabetes accounting for over 90% of cases
This is a consistent pattern in Chinese domestic politics. What a western nation would pick out as a profit center, the Chinese state addresses as a social cost. So the state plows a small fortune into cost-effective medical solutions, rather than squeezing the existing health care system out for therapeutic remedies that never resolve the root problem.
This is a consistent pattern in Chinese domestic politics
What are other examples?
It should be noted that this treatment sounds likely to be very expensive, and also if someone doesn't change their lifestyle, the newly implanted functional cells are likely to become dysfunctional again over time, requiring another expensive cycle of treatment
What are other examples?
Environmental policy was a big one. China took a hard pivot in the '00s, cutting emissions, advancing alternative energy, reforesting deserts, rapidly advancing HSR, building enormous wild life refugees.
Their insourcing of processors was another. Going from Taiwan's biggest customer to it's biggest competitor in a decade and change.
Then there was the housing boom - remember "Chinese Ghost Towns"? All over the news in the early '10s. Now China has more homeowners than any other county on Earth with more than 90% of households owning at least one property.
I believe you may conflating type 1, and type 2. Type 1 does not have a causal relationship with food consumption. The article also might be conflating the two as it mentions curing type 2, but by using the methodology everyone has been looking into to treat the autoimmune issues of type 1s.
I love how you call it Communist China when it's just as run-by-oligarchs as the US is. In fact they made an oligarch president for life.
It's not communist, it's socialist with Chinese characteristics! (The characteristics are oligarchs)
Is there a more reliable source than "HR News" ?
Seriously, MASSIVE source citation needed. As the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Shhhhhhhh! Don't you know facts and evidence are tools of capitalist oppression!
Yep, I tracked it back to that correspondence too. Key word there is “correspondence.” It’s not a complete research article, just a single report.
For real, this is a zillion miles away from overall "cured diabetes"
Other articles I see for this are from 2024. I don’t think this is recent.
Terrible hype article. This was one person. And, it's not unique, similar trials are taking place worldwide. But the US based development was all killed with the NIH cuts.
Also, china is not comunist.
This "cure" was from 2024, per the South China Morning Post.
In case anyone was thinking this was new.
Any news on it since then? It wouldn't be the first time a scientific achievement out of China that embarrasses The West just fizzled out when no one was looking.
Hell, it calls China "Communist", I started reading it like it was a headline from the 1960s.
Ohhh nice... where is Communist China again... ?
I know where the State Capitalist Chinese Dictatorship is, but yeah, can't find the Communist one.
Hell, they aren't even fully State Capitalist anymore, they have billionaires.
Still, if this is true, and widely available, it could be one of the handful of good things done by a bad government. Hell, even if the methods are released for others to improve on, it would be a boon for the world.
There are close to 2 million children with type 1 diabetes worldwide. And I guess there are like 8 million adults, whatever. Cure the kids, let them not die when someone hands them a candy bar.
That is, if this works. Type 1 is usually an autoimmune disease. Do doctors first need to cure the autoimmune disease and then give this treatment? If so, then this is just another temporary treatment for now. Possibly in the range of days if the immune response is particularly aggressive.
I agree with most of the points regarding how how China does/would treat a diabetes cure in comparison to China, this post (it's not an article) is garbage. It's got no sources, just vaguely references a single case.
It would be a better post if it didn't mention China at all and instead discussed how diabetes is approached under American capitalism.
It's a substack page, where they praise themselves for their "award winning journalism" so I would take this article with a massive grain of salt.
People shouldn’t have to hope that Chinese scientists cure diabetes just so American companies can’t keep price gouging them. But here we are.
here we are indeed
That's amazing! I wonder if the patients will have to get more insulin-producing cells transplanted every few years, or if this is a "one and done" type of deal?
In any case, an autologous cell transplant every ≥3 years or so is a vast improvement over the current situation for type 2 diabetes
US patients certainly will, if the cure is ever legal here.
Oh yeah I don't doubt that you folks will get fucked over by your oligarchy, one way or another
This experiment was done on a type 2 diabetes patient. Type 2 diabetes is characterized by damaged islet cells due to a diet high in glucose / carbohydrates. Changing the diet won't undo the damage, it will just not cause further damage. This patient had enteric neuronal stem cells (nerve tissue from the gut) extracted, and those extracted cells were induced to differentiate into pancreatic islet cells in vitro (in a lab). Once differentiated, they were transplanted back into the patient, and they were able to successfully implant into his pancreas and repair some of the damage his diet had caused.
If the patient had type 1 diabetes, this would not be an effective therapy, as the issue in type 1 diabetes is that the body's own immune system attacks the cells. A similar approach has been tested for type 1 diabetes, and it has seen some success when combined with immune suppressant drugs to limit the damage caused by the autoimmune disorder.
Since this patient had type 2, however, theoretically he should not need additional therapy as long as he does not go back to a destructive diet or suffer trauma to his pancreas due to accidents.
wasn't the original inventor of insulin insistent that it remain cheap and readily available?
Banting and Best sold the patent for $1. But they were Canadian.
The cost of insulin has nothing to do with intellectual property.
No.
Ahhhhh riiight "communist" china. In the same group as the "anti-nazi russia" and "democratic usa"
B-but they arrest billionaires sometimes and have social welfare! That's what communism is, right?
Lmao yeah China is a capitalist dynasty
HIV is next, then cancer. China now has the kind of state scientific infrastructure that the US had in the 1950s. For some reason the USA is actively trying to destroy theirs.
A book I was just reading talked about the pluripotent cells and using them for medical treatments. The author was talking to a US lab but then their work was cancelled due to funding cuts. Doesn't surprise me that China is taking up the slack.
big if true