Earlier, China’s Global Times state paper wrote that it would technically be impossible for Washington to stage a ‘diplomatic boycott,’ given that no American diplomats had been invited to the Olympic Games in the first place. While a virtual summit between the US and China last month was supposed to set the stage for Biden to either decline or accept Beijing’s invite, neither the US president nor his diplomats have been officially invited to the Olympics, it wrote.
NYT: Breaking News – Invitation never arrived – The U.S. will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in a boycott to pressure China for unsubstantiated human rights abuses. 紐約時報：突發新聞 – 中國邀請從未到達 – 美國不會派政府官員參加 2022 年北京冬奧會，對毫無根據的侵犯人權行為(又吹水) 抵制向中國施壓 (跌落地拿沙).
Smart move by Xi. Look back last 200 years, Western Empires used religion to brainwash, suppressed and conquer. In US, same tactics being used in the name of democracy to brainwash and control voters works like magic.
“Religious activities should be carried out within the scope stipulated by laws and regulations … and should not interfere with educational, judicial and administrative affairs as well as social life,” Xi said.
In his speech to the conference, Xi said the Communist Party’s policy on freedom of religious belief must be “completely, accurately and comprehensively” implemented, and religions must adapt to the fact that China is a socialist country.
Xi highlighted the importance of adopting a holistic view of national security in religious works, and to “strengthen the management of online religious affairs”- a step up from a 2018 regulation which restricted the distribution of religious information online.
US crying foul! Really? 750 US overseas Military Bases verses China’s 2 only. Old Chinese saying: “thieves crying thieves.”
Wall Street Journal: China Seeks First Military Base on Africa’s Atlantic Coast, U.S. Intelligence Finds – Alarmed officials at the White House and Pentagon urge Equatorial Guinea to rebuff Beijing’s overtures By Michael M. Phillips Dec. 5, 2021
Greeks Commemorate 1973 Massacre by U.S.-Backed Junta. Prof. John Walsh, MD in SF: Another reason that Greeks prefer China to the US. Italy has experienced similar interference by the US in Cold War 1.0. And Spain remembers that the US backed Franco to the bitter end.
Greeks Commemorate 1973 Massacre by U.S.-Backed Junta By John Kiriakou on Dec 01, 2021 06:37
History reminds us of the evil U.S. foreign meddling and the need for a strong anti-imperialist movement
I was in Athens, Greece earlier this month and I had the chance to participate for the very first time in the annual 17 November march on the U.S. Embassy.
When I was working as a CIA officer in Athens between 1998 and 2000, we used to evacuate the Embassy every year on 17 November, lest we be the subjects of violence from the crowd, which always numbered in the tens of thousands and would sometimes smash windows and throw balloons filled with red paint at the Embassy.
The annual event commemorates the date in 1973 when Greece’s far-right military dictatorship, the Junta, attacked unarmed, peaceful students at the Athens Polytechnic University demonstrating for a return to democracy. […]
Professor Kiji Noh:
Even prior to the massacre, there was the Greek civil war.
The Greek leftists had constituted the resistance against the Nazis during WWII.
However, after the end of the WWII, the British and the Americans put the Greek Facists into power, resulting in a civil war where 100,000 Greek leftists were slaughtered (1945-49) and 80,000 put into concentration camps (1947-1950).
The rollback of free market policies in China – CBS’ 60 Minutes program. I just watched this on TV. American economist continue the tired old stereotype spin on China. He did not do his homework!
Surprisingly, CBS’ 60 Minutes show did an episode on China’s crackdown on some free market policies, which gave time to both sides of an American debate, but one in which China’s actions were described accurately by two of the three speakers. The two Chinese economists on the program, Weijian Shan and Keyu Jin, gave accurate information and insight on what China is doing, and made a fool of China hawk Matt Pottinger, who could only cite tired old stereotypes and not address any of Weijian Shan and Keyu Jin’s points.
RD: IMO Keyu Lin knows China well and may be a future national leader when she returns to China
Professor John Walsh, MD in SF: Weijian was superb and Keyu Jin was also quite good.
Matthew Pottinger was a disgrace – he looked like the simpleton he is.
And the 60 Minutes episode could have been soooo much better if it had tried to discuss the facts and get a picture of them rather than trying to shoehorn them into simple anti-Communist categories.
If it is not yet apparent to the US that China bears almost no resemblance to the post-Lenin (post-NEP) Soviet Union, then the US is totally wrapped up in sterile categories that prevent it from seeing the real world.
Isn’t this another failed infrastructure in US!? Hawaii’s Leadership Calls For Suspension Of Navy’s Honolulu Hawaii Red Hill Fuel Facility.
Hawaii Gov. David Ige and the state’s entire congressional delegation called on the secretary of the Navy to immediately suspend operations at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility amid a water contamination crisis that has raised fears of broader problems.
“Test results confirming contamination of drinking water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam show that the Navy is not effectively operating the World War II-era facility and protecting the health and safety of the people of Hawai‘i,” said Ige, Sens. Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono and Reps. Ed Case and Kai Kahele.
Johnson Choi Biz 