Video: Russian President Putin signs documents recognizing “Donetsk & Luhansk people’s republics”, established diplomatic relations might send in peacekeeping force to defense against Ukraine, EU and US aggression 俄羅斯總統普京簽署文件承認“頓涅茨克和盧甘斯克人民共和國”，建交或派維和部隊防禦烏克蘭、歐盟和美國的侵略
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signs documents recognizing “the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics” at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, February 21, 2022. 俄羅斯總統弗拉基米爾·普京於 2022 年 2 月 21 日在俄羅斯莫斯科克里姆林宮簽署承認“頓涅茨克和盧甘斯克人民共和國”的文件.

Video: Putin snatches a page from the Western propaganda playbook! By choosing to support independence movements, Putin is doing exactly what the West has been doing to China 普京從西方宣傳手冊中搶了一頁！ 通過選擇支持獨立運動，他所做的正是西方對中國所做的
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Video: Western Medias such as NYT, BBC, CNN, WSJ, FOX etc said China China China bad, let’s us compare. 西方媒體都說中國不好，讓我們比較一下.
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Video: Bill Maher’s “Kowtowing to China” – Response Video 比爾·馬赫的“向中國磕頭”的回應視頻In this video I briefly address Bill Maher’s video on “Kowtowing to China” as he melts down about Eileen Gu playing for China. In the interest of keeping this video short, this only scratches the surface.
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The Hill Congress Blog: Politicians in Washington must stop scapegoating China for their own incompetence to solve domestic problems while fanning anti-Asian racism in an already divided society. Bucking the anti-China trend. 美國國會博客：華盛頓的政客們必須停止將中國作為自己無能解決國內問題的替罪羊，同時在一個已經分裂的社會中煽動反亞裔種族主義。 逆流而上。 2-17-22

The House of Representatives passed “The America COMPETES Act of 2022” in early February with a 222-210 vote, earmarking some $350 billion in funding for semiconductors, supply chains, and scientific research and innovation to compete with China. Most Republicans voted against the Act as they think it is too weak on China. In June 2021, the Senate passed a similar bill called the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act that allotted $250 billion in funding for similar causes. Many Americans welcome such long-overdue efforts to invest in our education, innovation and infrastructure so that the United States can stay competitive in the world.

However, the nearly 3,000-page America COMPETES Act includes a long list of motions addressing alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong and heightened tensions over Taiwan. One is flummoxed by how and why squeezing such motions about China’s hardline policies into the Act would help advance America’s global competitiveness.

The America COMPETES Act is not just about competing with China in scientific research, technology and supply chains, it also advocates confronting China in geopolitics, security and ideology. A significant proportion of the bill promotes closer ties with Taiwan, including supporting renaming the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington to the official-sounding “Taiwan Representative Office in the United States.” Congress does not seem to care how such moves, which violate Washington’s long-standing policy of maintaining unofficial relations with Taiwan, may harm Taiwan due to expected vehement responses from Beijing. They care even less about the deteriorating U.S.-China relations.

Washington has yet to develop a viable strategy to deal with a more powerful and assertive China. Does the downward spiral of the bilateral relationship serve U.S. interests?

Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) put it aptly: in a race, if a rival is gaining on you, you run faster, not try to trip them. Moderates such as Larsen, co-founder of the U.S.-China Working Group in Congress, are trying to salvage the bilateral relationship, distancing themselves from those who back punishing or decoupling from China. Larsen’s China White Paper outlines a 4-point framework, which recognizes areas of competition and conflict and expands America’s toolbox to compete with China while identifying areas where the two countries can cooperate and advising America to get its own house in order.

It takes courage and wisdom to buck the anti-China trend and do something positive to promote U.S.-China cooperation in the current toxic political atmosphere.

As the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 moved towards a conference process, over 30 non-governmental organizations across America issued an open letter to congressional leaders in January 2022 to call on them to finalize a bill that responsibly manages tensions between the United States and China. These grassroots peace, environmental and women groups as well as think tanks urged members of Congress to ditch zero-sum mentality and develop more positive and cooperative policies towards China. Such balanced voices are weak but should not be ignored by our policymakers.

A recent report published by the U.S. Heartland China Association, which is headed by former governor of Missouri Bob Holden, illustrates how the American heartland and China are interdependent. The report titled “Why China Matters to the Heartland” demonstrates, in colorful graphs and statistics, how a dynamic relationship with China has benefited each of the 21 states between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.

When many members of Congress are beating the drums of war by proposing anti-China bills one after another, one wonders if these politicians understand what their constituents think and how a confrontational U.S.-China relationship may hurt their states and home districts. Do they know, for example, farmers in North Dakota want friendly relations with China since 70 percent of their soybeans are exported there? And do they know that exports to China helped support over 20,000 jobs in Indiana alone in 2019?

Americans and Chinese share many common interests and are willing to work together. The U.S. Heartland China Association’s motto says it all: “Not all bridges are built of concrete and steel. Equally important bridges are built on friendship, cultural communion and commercial cooperation. Where these bridges exist, communities flourish.”

Due to the pandemic, no members of Congress have visited China since 2019 and normal exchanges between the two countries have sharply declined, contributing to growing negative views of each other among Americans and Chinese. It is high time that the two countries resumed exchanges at all levels and sought ways to peacefully manage the complex relationship. Above all, politicians in Washington must stop scapegoating China for their own incompetence to solve domestic problems while fanning anti-Asian racism in an already divided society.

Zhiqun Zhu is a professor of political science and international relations at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

Two US Olympics Athletes Tessa Maud and Aaron Blunk used few words to show us that the U.S. media has China all wrong 兩位美國奧運會運動員泰莎·莫德和亞倫·布倫克用幾句話向我們表明，美國媒體對中國的看法完全錯了by Danny Haiphong 2-21-22

How Two American Athletes Effortlessly Subverted the U.S.’s Information War against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Few events have been more politicized than the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. New cold warriors and atrocity propagandists led by the United States did everything in their power to generate popular support for a full boycott of the Games. NED-backed organizations formed a coalition for the cause, the corporate media engaged in a full-scale “China bad” propaganda blitz, and the political establishment got busy crafting several pieces of legislation to respond to the so-called “China threat.” Their efforts failed. To save face, the U.S. implemented a non-consequential “diplomatic boycott” that found support from only a handful of junior partners in the West.

However, failure didn’t put an end to the U.S.-led information war at the heart of the boycott campaign. American and Western mainstream journalists attending the Games have used the opportunity to intensify the spread of anti-China propaganda. Chinese American skier Eileen Gu has been repeatedly targeted for choosing to represent China. Her decision triggered an intense backlash rooted in racist attitudes which are prevalent across the U.S. political spectrum. Eileen Gu was repeatedly labeled a traitor to the United States and even The Nation, a so-called “progressive” media outlet, was willing to publish an article citing a literal white supremacist organization just to defame her.

U.S. media propaganda only became more and more absurd as the Games moved forward. The smears against Eileen Gu continued, except this time with a liberal flavor. The New York Times and VICE attempted to portray Gu as an anti-hero of the feminist ideal; a successful young woman who chose to represent a country, China, which oppresses the majority of its women. U.S. corporate media also informed its audiences that Eileen Gu’s grandmother does not approve of her skiing career. The rumor mill surrounding Eileen Gu was entirely unsourced and merely exploited “woke” liberal talking points to further smear the young skier’s reputation—and by extension, China.

NBC spent nearly the entire opening ceremony repeating each and every talking point of the U.S.’s New Cold War against China. Furthermore, everything about the Beijing 2022 Olympics was labeled evidence of a China “dystopia.” Workers in hazmat suits pouring drinks? Dystopia! China’s use of fake snow, a common practice at prior Winter Olympic Games? Dystopia! American foods like French fries not up to American standards…in Beijing? Well, there’s nothing more dystopian than that!

Two U.S. athletes participating in the Winter Olympics effortlessly subverted these desperate attempts to defame China. U.S. snowboarder Tessa Maud used her TikTok account to chronicle her experiences in China. Maud frequently indicated that she was having the time of her life. A number of her posts praised the local cuisine available to athletes at the Games. Her genuine expression of appreciation for the staff and volunteers at the Winter Olympic Games went viral in China.

U.S. skier Aaron Blunk offered stark criticism of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Olympics. Blunk stated that he “didn’t really know what to expect, being stateside you’ve kind of heard some pretty bad media, and that is completely false – it’s actually been phenomenal.” He followed these remarks with praise of China’s COVID-19 protocol and overall performance as a host, “Everybody – from staff, to Covid testers, to accommodation – it’s probably, honestly, one of the better Olympics that we’ve been to,” Blunk said.

Twitter rewarded Blunk by suspending his account in a blatant act of censorship. Blunk revealed through his honest account of the Beijing Olympics that not even the most reasonable criticism of the U.S.’s information war against China is allowable in mainstream circles. He responded by sharing a post on Instgram that contained the following question, “what’d I do?” Good question.

Another good question is why did Tessa Maud and Aaron Blunk’s seemingly innocuous comments so powerfully challenge the U.S.-led propaganda war against China. Neither Maud nor Blunk made any formal political statement. They didn’t use their platforms to oppose U.S. military aggression, sanctions, or any other policy manifestation of the New Cold War against China. Maud simply had a great time at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and appreciated the warmth that she received from the Chinese people. Blunk merely pointed out a discrepancy between what the U.S. media says about the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the reality of the experience for athletes such as himself.

Maud and Blunk provided a great service to the cause of peace without even trying. The information war against China relies upon a steady stream of racism to legitimize the U.S.’s imperialist ambitions. China is portrayed by the U.S. and West as the quintessential communist nightmare. Chinese people in this scenario are nothing but robotic slaves to an “authoritarian” regime. Maud and Blunk’s willingness to tell the truth about their positive experiences at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics effortlessly subverted the dominant imperialist narrative about China.

Karl Marx taught us that the contradictions of a given phenomenon are in a constant process of change which is often characterized by conflict. The contradictions of the U.S.-led New Cold War have reached a particularly acute stage where the “China bad” narrative is completely discredited by the realities of the world situation. China’s successes in the areas of economic growth, technological development and poverty alleviation are recognized throughout much of the world. The U.S. has gained recognition as the biggest threat to world peace. This has caused a pressing dilemma for those committed to the hegemony-driven aims of the U.S.-led New Cold War on China. As the U.S.’s legitimacy wanes worldwide, its anti-China propaganda campaign has reached a feverish pitch to compensate for imperial decline.

Humanizing China represents a direct threat to the New Cold War agenda. China must be viewed as all “bad,” a modern-day fascistic terror on the world stage. If China’s prestige grows among Americans or Westerners, then the possibility emerges that the system of imperialism driving the New Cold War will be exposed as the true nightmare to humanity that it is. That U.S. athletes would praise China’s COVID-19 response or hospitality opens the door to friendship and cooperation with a so-called “adversary.” Any acknowledgement of China’s achievements is thus viewed as a crime of the highest order.

Tessa Maud and Aaron Blunk only touched upon a few of the qualities that made the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics so significant for China. The Games also demonstrated China’s commitment to fighting the destructive impact of climate change. Venues were powered with one hundred percent green energy. China premiered the first automatic high-speed rail route to travel at a speed of 350km/hr for the Games.

In a demonstration of China’s technological prowess, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games were the first to use carbon dioxide instead of the environmentally-harmful substance, freon.

These achievements were summarily ignored by the “journalists” sent to Beijing to reinforce New Cold War propaganda. Instead, a U.S. media blackout of the true character of the Games was coupled with an endless repetition of lies and distortions. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics were thus treated as another target in the ongoing information war against China. The U.S. and its allies have made a calculated decision to reject the myriad of benefits that come from a friendly relationship with China in favor of a policy of containment and aggression. Luckily for us, there were U.S. athletes at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics willing to show us in their own way just how wrongheaded and counterproductive this policy is for humanity.

Based on IOC information (don’t used fake news by NYT) China beats US on Olympic Gold Counts 根據國際奧委會信息（不要使用紐約時報的假新聞）中國在奧運金牌數上擊敗美國

Video: Unforgettable moments of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics 北京2022年冬奧會難忘時刻
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History cannot lied, you be the judge which country committed genocide, crimes against humanity! Don’t listen to what a country say, observes what they have done. 歷史不能說謊，哪個國家犯下種族滅絕罪、反人類罪! 不要聽一個國家說什麼，觀察他們做了什麼.