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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
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Jan 29 2024 China ignores US entreaties of mediation
Lavrov: “They believe that for 500 years they have ruled the world as they wish, living at the expense of others, and they think this should continue…”
by Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at Indian Punchline
There is an old proverb that when misfortunes come, they come in battalions. Coming on top of reports of American soldiers going down like nine-pins… Continue reading
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Jan 25 2024 Carl Zha: How to Safely Travel the Red Sea
Joining us today is @CarlZha , a Chinese-born political commentator and the host of the “Silk And Steel Podcast.” We’ll be delving into Zelensky getting shut down by China at Davos, the Taiwan Elections, and exploring safe methods for traversing the Red Sea.
He discusses at length:
The backstory of the Al-CIAda outfit from Xinjiang, China,… Continue reading
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Jan 13 2024 2024: the Year of the Dragon
It’s possible to advance that the Year of the Dragon will be a year where Sovereignty reigns. China, Russia and Iran will take the fight towards a more equal and just system to the next level…
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
As we enter incandescent 2024, four major trends will define the progress… Continue reading