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India’s enemy Jinping made a new plan, will make the Chinese army ‘Great Wall of Steel’ The time has come to make PLA ‘Great Wall of Steel’. So that the sovereignty of the country can be protected. Xi Jinping made the remarks at the start of his unprecedented third term as president and army chief. Image Source: AP India’s enemy Jinping made a new plan, will make the Chinese army ‘Great Wall of…

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Protest against Corona lockdown in China, demanding Xi Jinping's resign

Protest against Corona lockdown in China, demanding Xi Jinping’s resign

Beijing: People have started unprecedented demonstrations in various cities of the country, including the capital Beijing, against the strict policy adopted by the country’s communist government for the prevention of corona infection in China. The public is demanding the lifting of the lockdown and movement restrictions, as well as the opposition to the rule of the Communist Party of China, and…

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Once able to lay credible claim to the title ‘America’s most beautiful city’, since the pandemic it has degenerated into the poster child of American inner-city degradation, with iconic neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and South of Market swamped by the tented encampments of the homeless and the attendant rampant drug use, shootings, stabbings, ubiquitous street filth and general lawlessness, while city authorities and police have looked the other way.

Suddenly the squalor has gone – at least for now.

Streets and sidewalks were steam-cleaned, public spaces tarted up, police patrols multiplied. Public defecation ceased, needles no longer littered the streets. Legal impediments previously cited as a block to doing any of this mysteriously evaporated, like San Francisco fog when a strong sun comes up.

There is something hugely comical about all this, something distinctly third world for a city – for a country – which is meant to be one of the most sophisticated, prosperous, and high-tech on the globe.

For decades squalid capitals in developing nations carted off the poor and gave their street fronts a fresh lick of paint before visiting US presidents and other world leaders cast their eyes on them. The communist bloc was a dab hand at doing the same before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. And now San Francisco has joined their ranks.

Comical. But also pathetic.

"NO GROUP IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS DONE WORSE JOB RUNNING THIS COUNTRY THAN THE NEO-LIBERALS CURRENTLY IN CHARGE. THEY'RE VICIOUS, THEY'RE INTOLERANT, & THEY ARE UTTERLY CORRUPT. BUT, ABOVE  ALL, THEY'RE INCOMPETENT."

~ Tucker Carlson

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Former Brazilian President and head of the New Development Bank, Dilma Rousseff, receives the Friendship Medal, the highest Chinese honor

NBD president highlights Belt and Road advantages and says the bank must expand and focus more on the environment

On Sunday morning (29) in the Chinese capital, Beijing, the president of the New Development Bank (NDB), Brazilian economist Dilma Rousseff, received the Friendship Medal, the highest honor awarded by the Chinese state. Rousseff is the second Latin American to receive the medal, after former Cuban president Raúl Castro.

The honor was created in 2016 and is awarded to those who make outstanding contributions to China's socialist modernization by promoting exchanges and boosting cooperation between the Asian giant and foreign countries. Rousseff was the 12th foreigner to receive the medal. Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first foreigner to be awarded, in 2018. Earlier this year, a similar recognition awarded to foreign experts, the Chinese Government Friendship Award, was presented to Evandro de Carvalho Menezes, a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, and José Raimundo Coelho, former president of the Brazilian Space Agency.

Rousseff spoke during the ceremony in the Great Hall of the People, the building used for sessions of the National People's Assembly, welcoming of presidents, among other ceremonies and activities. She praised both the Chinese government and President Xi Jinping – whom she called a “true champion of international cooperation and a strong advocate of multilateralism” – for their governance and contributions to global development.

“China's commitment to reform and opening up has not only lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty but has also contributed significantly to global economic growth and stability,” she told an audience of several of China's top leaders, military personnel, students and representatives from various fields.

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🇺🇸 C'è chi bombarda i Paesi, e definisce la Cina una "minaccia", e chi - invece - lavora con i Paesi secondo il Principio della Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢), per edificare una Comunità dal Futuro Condiviso (人类命运共同体) 😍

🥰 L'Amicizia del Laos, del Popolo del Laos e del Partito Rivoluzionario del Popolo Lao è molto importante per la Cina, per il Popolo Cinese e per il Partito Comunista Cinese 🤗

🚝 La China - Laos Railway, uno dei progetti più ambiziosi della Nuova Via della Seta, è la dimostrazione che solo attraverso la Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢) è possibile costruire insieme la Prosperità Comune (共同富裕) ❤️❤️

❤️ 人类命运共同体 mostra che l'Umanità (人类, rénlèi) ha un Destino Comune (命运共同, mìngyùn gòngtóng) ❤️

🤧 L'Asia non è una scacchiera per i pericolosi e mortali giochi geopolitici delle tigri di carta statunitensi e dei loro leccapiedi in Europa, ma un terreno fertile per lo Sviluppo, la Prosperità e la Stabilità 💕

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🇺🇸 There are those who bomb countries, and define China as a "threat", and those who - on the other hand - work with countries according to the Principle of Cooperation for Mutual Benefit (合作共赢), to build a Community with a Shared Future (人类命运共同体) 😍

🥰 The Friendship of Laos, the Lao People and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party is very important to China, the Chinese People and the Communist Party of China 🤗

🚝 The China - Laos Railway, one of the most ambitious projects of the New Silk Road, is the demonstration that only through Cooperation with Mutual Advantage (合作共赢) is it possible to build Common Prosperity together (共同富裕) ❤️❤️

❤️ 人类命运共同体 shows that Humanity (人类, rénlèi) has a Common Destiny (命运共同, mìngyùn gòngtóng) ❤️

🤧 Asia is not a chessboard for the dangerous and deadly geopolitical games of US paper tigers and their toadies in Europe, but a fertile ground for Development, Prosperity and Stability 💕

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Biden, Xi to meet in Peru as US-China relations tested by Trump’s return

A meeting between incumbent US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be held on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru’s capital, on Saturday.

Officials told reporters that President Biden wants to discuss military-to-military interaction between the two countries.

Biden is likely to emphasise the importance of maintaining peace and security in the Taiwan Strait and express concern over China’s actions in the South China Sea.

The US president is also expected to express deep concern over the increased co-operation between Russia and North Korea.

The leaders are also expected to discuss bilateral cooperation in the fight against drugs. Fentanyl overdoses are a serious problem in the US. There have been several cases where fentanyl manufactured using materials originating in China has been smuggled into the US.

Biden and Xi Jinping last met on November 15, 2023 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in San Francisco.

China, commenting for the first time on the recent US election, said it hoped for continued peaceful and mutually beneficial co-existence. Beijing declined to comment on Donald Trump’s threats to increase tariffs on Chinese goods.

Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation with Trump the other day. The Chinese leader hailed the Republican on his victory in the US presidential election.

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Biden's looking to get Iran in trouble

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COVID rapidly spreads in China as government eases strict quarantine rules, December 27, 2022

China is grappling with the rapid spread of COVID-19 after the government began rolling back its zero-COVID restrictions earlier this month. Now, cases are spiraling across towns and cities, hospitals are overburdened, medical staff are outnumbered and crematoriums are running out of space. Judy Woodruff reports.

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There is no nuance left in politics or public health policy when there is either an absolute and strict inflexibility of zero COVID or wholesale dismantling of safeguards before the healthcare or support systems are prepared for the waves that have been forcibly suppressed. The political insistence on using their own less effective, non-mRNA vaccines based on the original strains rather than Delta or Omicron, coupled with a low vaccination rate of the vulnerable and elderly is not helping easing the transition at all.

The way they’ve been counting mortality from COVID diverged from nearly every other country since early 2020. A death had to be directly attributable to SARS-CoV-2 eliminating cases of many preexisting or undiagnosed conditions, chronic illnesses, and other high risk factors that may have been exacerbated by the virus which became listed as the direct cause or if they simply tested negative in the few days before dying. The policy as of this week will further limit the count only to deaths caused by pneumonia or respiratory failure after contracting COVID, in addition to dropping much of the remaining inbound quarantines and regular case counts becoming even more inconsistent with lived reality.

It appears the PRC was prepared to stay in suspended animation within an onionskin of self-isolation layers indefinitely, maintaining the appearance of control and adherence to policy that was left to different local officials to execute. Downgrading the classification removes the local, emergency-style powers to lockdown and quarantine which were used capriciously. Residential buildings, offices and commercial areas such as malls, and even theme parks could be suddenly cordoned without warning, causing panic due to the stringency of testing and knock-on effects if a positive case was found rather than fear of having contacted or contracted the virus. Becoming listed as a close contact or a complete stranger’s positive result could mean further quarantining and repeated testing, as well any change in one’s COVID passport status severely restricting mobility for work or education, travel, or even basic necessities. The protests spread because “dynamic zero” was anything but dynamic, refusing to change or amend course in preparation for a transition to an endemic or post-epidemic state. People were simply fed up and the building momentum was becoming a potential danger to a regime that had just renewed its own political mandates.

These things aren’t happening in isolation, China is also changing tact on its travel restrictions domestically and internationally. The Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau have been trying to reopen ports and travel with the Mainland for years now for travel and economic reasons. Both were forced into accepting one-way policies where it was difficult for their citizens to enter China or even between one another, while rules were softened for travelers and politicians entering from and returning to the Mainland for short trips with the reason that the pandemic was less well-contained than within the Mainland.

As news of the highly visible current outbreak within China is continuing to emerge, the Hong Kong SAR is now proudly announcing agreements have been made with the Mainland to drop their travel restrictions posthaste. It’s being reported that many are travelling specifically for mRNA vaccines which are approved in Macau and Hong Kong.

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The principal news items on Russian state television this evening were the reception Vladimir Putin was given by Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing and the succession of meetings that he had with other heads of state who are participating in the 10th anniversary celebrations of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

You won’t find a word about the Russian President’s visit to Beijing in this evening’s online New York Times, but the paper’s editorial board is slow to post news about Putin, probably waiting for the State Department to suggest the proper ‘spin.’ However, The Financial Times online gives Putin ‘front page’ coverage in two articles: one is an overview of his scheduled meetings and the other focuses on his talks with one leader in particular, prime minister Viktor Orban of Hungary.

Let us stop for a moment to consider what the FT wants us to know about Putin in Beijing.  And after that we can come back to the Russian coverage, which not only casts a different light on what you read in FT but provides a good deal more factual information to take in.

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In keeping with its regular propagandistic journalism, the FT cannot print an article about Putin without reminding its readers what a pariah he is, a man pursued by international courts, a man who is isolated and weak. The title itself already sets the tone: “Vladimir Putin visits Beijing for first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Yes, they concede in the first paragraph that he arrived in China “for a high-level meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping,” but then take the air out of that by saying it was the Kremlin which described Putin as the ‘main guest’ at the event, not their own reporter on the ground in Beijing.

Two lines down we read: “The Russian leader cut back his foreign travel after the war in Ukraine began and until last week had not left the country since a war crimes indictment from the International Criminal Court in March.”  We are reminded that Putin skipped the G20 meetings in Indonesia and in India in September.

Thus, almost half the article is spent telling us about where Putin has not traveled to and nothing about this visit to Beijing.

Moving on, the authors speak about how “Russia had become increasingly dependent on China as an economic lifeline” ever since the launch of its Special Military Operation and imposition of sanctions by the West. This is a quote from a former political adviser at the European parliament who is now with a university in Taiwan. The same expert completes the downgrading of Russia by explaining that it is the ‘junior partner’ in the relationship with China.

After kicking the tires of the Belt and Road Initiative in general for having to renegotiate or write off $79 billion in bad loans, the authors give us four lines at the end that actually contain some news, of which I quote two below:

“Putin met Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban and Vietnamese president Vo Van Thuong on Tuesday, ahead of further meetings with Thai, Mongolian and Laotian leaders.”

The space allotted to the close-up photo of Putin and Xi smiling complacently to one another at the head of the article is six times bigger than the actual news in the text of the article.

The separate article “Orban meets Putin in bid to ‘save everything possible’ in bilateral relations” might be said to be marginally better journalism though the same Max Seddon in Riga is a co-author of both. The editors have done their best to spoil everything by giving it the subtitle “European head is first western leader to meet Russian president since issue of war crimes warrant for his arrest.” Once again the big photo of Orban and Putin, clasping hands at their meeting, tells more than the text.

There are some of the same general reminders here of Putin’s alleged isolation and pariah status, but they are given more force by a quotation from the U.S. ambassador to Hungary condemning the meeting: “…Orban chooses to stand with a man whose forces are responsible for crimes against humanity in Ukraine…” 

The only neutral remarks in the article catalog the common business interests of Russia and Hungary, including natural gas supply and a nuclear power plant under construction by Rosatom.

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Russian television news support the view that Putin is the main guest at the BRI gathering in Beijing by videos showing the entry of the participants to the state banquet this evening:  the procession is led by Putin and Xi side by side. Just behind them is Xi’s wife and Kazakhstan president Tokaev. The several dozen others follow behind.  Similarly in the video of all the leaders lined up for their group photo, Putin and Xi are together in the very center chatting to one another.  Questions anyone about who is who, and what is what?

Perhaps the Russians go overboard in stressing the great demand of other participants for one-on-one time with Putin at the large residence which the Chinese made available for holding these tête-à-têtes in discrete luxury. Pavel Zarubin, the host of the Sunday evening program Moskva, Kremlin, Putin is a master at showing off details like the line of limousines of leaders waiting outside for their time in the sun with Putin.

Aside from footage from the meeting with Orban, Russian television presented to viewers the public part of Putin’s meeting with the president of Laos, who opened the conversation speaking passable if heavily accented Russian. As we learned, he was studying at Leningrad University during the same years as Putin, though in a different department.  The Vietnamese president also made reference to studies in the Soviet Union in their opening remarks for the cameras.  His talks with Putin were likely about energy first of all since Gazprom is fairly active in the country. Gazprom chairman Alexei Miller is in the Russian delegation.  As for the meeting that Putin had with the interim president of Pakistan, who is an English speaker, we know that they discussed energy projects and deliveries of more than a million tons of Russian grain to Pakistan, presumably paid for in yuan. With the Mongolian president, Vesti tells us they discussed a new gas pipeline which apparently is intended to supply Mongolia itself and not only serve as a transit route to China.

However, from the Russian perspective these side meetings with other BRI Forum participants are small beer. What they are awaiting with great anticipation is the several hours tomorrow that Putin and Xi will spend one-on-one and then are joined by their respective delegations. We know that the situation in the Middle East is at the top of their agenda, with a secondary focus on the Ukraine war and remaining time devoted to further development of economic ties.

The one tantalizing tidbit that Russian news (Sixty Minutes) threw out to viewers is that whereas Putin returns to Moscow tomorrow evening, Foreign Minister Lavrov flies to North Korea for a meeting with Kim.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2023

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▪️ Président Xi: «Le peuple chinois a perdu un bon ami» avec le décès du président Raïssi

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China signals possible end to zero-covid

China signals possible end to zero-covid

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I'm so annoyed no matter what I do I just never actually do this stupid work. It's not OBSCENELY difficult but it doesn't come naturally to me and I just struggle with it

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By Scott Scheffer

Moving toward a relaxation of quarantine times and lockdowns shows that China’s battle against COVID is based on not only physical science but also social science. From the beginning of the outbreak, it was meant to be a dynamic approach that would adjust based on the ever-changing characteristics of the virus and even on differences between locations.   Even if greatly exaggerated by the U.S. press, the tragedy in Urumqi brought frustrations to the surface after three years of dealing with the pandemic. But that doesn’t mean there is broad dissatisfaction with the leadership of the campaign against COVID.

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