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May 21 2024 
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs start talking in Flashcards
I regularly follow the Chinese Foreign Affairs Briefing and know that more often than not, they have to repeat the status of Taiwan. The Chinese Spokespeople in general are choosing stronger words. Note, there will be no further statements made to the effect that the status of Taiwan is undetermined.
A short history lesson by Assistant… Continue reading
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May 15 2024 
Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing – Ceremonies have started
Nuclear snap drills last week …
Inauguration last week …
Victory Day celebrations last week …
Inaugurate a new cabinet …
This week in Beijing …
If you think back, Xi Jinping was in Moscow just a few days after his election as well. RT reports
The Russian leader arrived in Beijing exactly ten days after his inauguration, just as Xi… Continue reading -
May 15 2024 
Russia-China trade and economic cooperation
Russia-China trade and economic cooperation soars to dizzying highs
As Moscow and Beijing counter US efforts to limit their economic growth, trade between Russia and China has surged, surpassing all expectations and reaching unprecedented highs ahead of President Putin’s visit to Beijing.
🔺Chinese customs data revealed that trade between China and Russia soared… Continue reading
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May 15 2024 
Touching on China, just before the Putin visit.
This is what they are talking about in China, before Mr.Putin arrives:
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on May 15, 2024
2024-05-15 21:44This week is the 34th National Energy Conservation Week under the theme of “green transition, energy-saving endeavors.” Today, May 15, is this year’s national low-carbon day with the theme of “green and… Continue reading
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May 07 2024 
Beijing and Belgrade remember the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
President Xi Jinping of China arrived in Serbia on Tuesday for a two-day visit, landing on the 25th anniversary of the deadly US airstrike on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
The strike, which came during the 1999 NATO air war in support of ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, killed three Chinese nationals and injured 20 more.… Continue reading
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May 05 2024 
You’ve heard of a quad, meet the squad
The west is desperate but not fully down and out yet. We still have some years of the current kind of trouble-making to contemplate and marvel over, and sometimes fall victim to. It will be an active time with no time for navelgazing!
Who is Ukraine or intended to be Ukraine near China? … Continue reading
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May 03 2024 
Billy Bob ponders China, Mao, Deng, Xi, Russia, USSR, and what is all means to today’s headlines
Seek truth from facts Foundation
“A lot of “anti-imperialists” that have the good sense not to support imperialist wars of conquest, in Syria, Ukraine, or Palestine, are not sold on communism and are wary of those countries that are governed by a communist party. These folks will often echo imperialist slurs about China and the Soviet… Continue reading
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Epic China
The First Opium War begins – a continuation of the Nathan Rich series, Epic China and what made me think of it this morning was Pepe Escobar who is following the British Foreign Miister’s statement that Ukraine may use British weapons to attack Russia and the Reuters publication and non-publication. Quite the scandal in… Continue reading
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Taiwan – the inside story
The US, as Smoothie says so many times, is made up of advertising or promotion. So Taiwan is supposed to denote the scary bugbear that tells US Americans that they have something real on China. Of course it is just a word and the value of the word is made up and sold… Continue reading
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Apr 28 2024 
Overcapacity, the new anti-China narrative
Spring Morning
“I wake up with the sun up high
Birds chirp everywhere in the sky
Last night a rainstorm passed by
Flowers must have fallen down.”By Dongsheng (Eastern Voices) News on China.
This week we would like to recommend to you a Chinese song from 1967 called Bravely March On, Arab People! (奋勇前进，阿拉伯人民) in support of the pan-Arab movement.
If you don’t… Continue reading
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Apr 09 2024 
Our Uncles Lavrov and Wang Yi palaver in Beijing
Just a couple of adults in a room in Beijing..
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Today Lavrov finished two days of intensive talks with the Russian delegation’s counterparts in Beijing, intensive because there’s so much to cover in such a short time. Further work will be done by Deputy Ministers between now and… Continue reading
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Mar 12 2024 
Confident China Lays out the Refined Roadmap
As Project Ukraine goes down the drain of history, Project Taiwan will go on overdrive. Forever Wars never die. Bring it on. The Dragon is ready.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture.
This is the Year of the Wooden Dragon, according to China’s classic wuxing (“five elements”) culture. The dragon, one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac,… Continue reading
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Mar 04 2024 
… and it’s 3 for 3
CHINA OPEN THREAD
In the last days, the US has taken fateful steps toward conflict with China. It deliberately crossed one of China’s red-lines, officially stationing “permanent troops” on its province of Taiwan, even though they had been permanent since transfer by the United States Seventh Fleet of the losing fascists to this island in 1949.… Continue reading
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Mar 03 2024 
Can China arrest the drive to Armageddon?
China resumes shuttle diplomacy as Ukraine war drums get louder… in this foreboding backdrop, what is it that Li Hui can hope to achieve?
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announcement on Wednesday that Beijing’s Special Representative on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui will set out from home on March 2 on… Continue reading
