Video evidence of the arrest and brutal beating of Ukrainian civilians by the Ukrainian Security Service in Dnipropetrovsk! The hands of the captured Ukrainian civilians were handcuffed with white strips, exactly the same as the corpses in the Butcha massacre. 第聶伯羅彼得羅夫斯克，烏克蘭安全局在逮捕和殘酷毆打烏克蘭平民的視頻証據！被抓的烏克蘭平民雙手被用白條反銬，與布查大屠殺的尸體特征一模一樣. https://rumble.com/vzywte-arrest-and-brutal-beating-of-ukrainian-civilians-by-the-ukrainian-security-.html
China’s diplomacy on a roll in Kabul by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR 3-29-22
Last Thursday, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban interim government Amir Khan Muttaqi made a stunning remark to greet the visiting Chinese Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kabul when he said, “This is the most important high-level delegation received by Afghanistan.” It spoke volumes about the quiet success of Beijing’s diplomacy to turn the tables in the Hindu Kush.
The body language of the red carpet welcome extended to Wang Yi showed that China has emerged as the most influential external player in Afghanistan by a long shot in the period since the Taliban took power last August. Without doubt, the US’ preoccupations in the European theatre, which seem open-ended, can only work to China’s advantage.
Therefore, there are expectations regarding the Third Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Neighbouring Countries of Afghanistan that China is hosting in Tunxi in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui on March 30-31.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, while announcing the two-day meeting beginning on Wednesday, put the event in its context saying that the Afghan situation “is now in a critical transition from chaos to order.” Indeed, he qualified this by adding that the country faces “multiple challenges from within and outside that need to be addressed with more support and help.”
The Chinese spokesperson said the meeting hopes to “pool more consensus” from Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries and to discuss “ways to jointly stabilise the situation.” Thus, the neighbouring countries’ forum will engage the Afghan Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in a formal “Dialogue” format where he will interact with the participants of the event in Tunxi — foreign ministers of China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia — as regards the country’s “difficulties and needs.”
Interestingly, the Chinese spokesman specifically confirmed that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend the meeting in Tunxi “upon invitation.” This is important against the backdrop of the US-Russia confrontation and the West’s concerted attempts in the recent months to entice the Taliban regime into the western orbit through a mix of alluring offers and bullying.
Neither Russia nor China wants Afghanistan to become a turf of the great game, but that said, they also cannot be passive towards the reinstallation of the NATO intelligence apparatus so close to their borders at the emergent regional security scenario.
It is improbable that tomorrow’s meeting will lead to the recognition of the Taliban government. However, beneath that threshold, an intensification of the regional states’ engagement with the Taliban regime can be expected.
Wang Yi’s visit to Kabul coincided with the arrival of a high-level Russian delegation in the Afghan capital led by the presidential envoy on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov, which included representatives of various agencies of the government, especially the economic ministries. Conceivably, Russia is drawing up a roadmap for stepping up security-cum-economic cooperation with the Taliban’s interim government. The internal situation in Afghanistan is stabilising and the prospects of any organised resistance to the Taliban have receded significantly.
Both Russia and China are gearing up for the deepening of their economic cooperation with Kabul. It is entirely conceivable that they may take recourse to innovative payment mechanisms to sidestep the tyranny of the US dollar (“world currency”), thereby undercutting Washington’s capacity to keep the Taliban regime on a tight leash financially through bullying and blackmail until it proved pliable to the Western diktat.
During Wang Yi’s visit to Kabul, both the Acting Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Muttaqi himself emphatically stated their interest in expanding the cooperation with China within the ambit of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Wang Yi has proposed that China is “ready to make efforts to extend” the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan and help the country develop as “a bridge for regional connectivity.”
Basically, both Beijing and Moscow have reason to be satisfied with the Afghan interim government’s performance so far, which suggests that the Taliban leadership’s commitment to the peaceful reconstruction of the country is not to be doubted. Wang Yi, in fact, went to the extent of complimenting the Taliban regime for its “series of positive measures to respond to the concerns of the international community.” Wang Yi told Muttaqi, “We oppose the political pressure and economic sanctions on Afghanistan imposed by non-regional forces at every turn.”
Of course, the clincher will be the Taliban regime’s performance on the security front. Baradar pledged that Kabul will not allow any forces to engage in activities that undermine China.” He just stopped short of mentioning the shenanigans by the western intelligence. Specifically, Baradar underscored the importance that the Taliban leadership attaches to China’s security concerns.
He said Kabul “will take concrete and strong measures to achieve security across Afghanistan and contribute to maintaining regional security.” Importantly, Baradar sought China’s help in enhancing Afghanistan’s “security capacity.” Wang Yi took the opportunity to convey Beijing’s expectation that Kabul will “earnestly fulfil its commitment to resolutely crack down on all terrorist forces, including the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.”
With the US and the European Union hopelessly bogged down in their confrontation with Russia, the situation surrounding Afghanistan is radically transforming. The Taliban leadership is savvy enough to sense this. To be sure, there is no stopping the BRI projects in Afghanistan in this changed situation.
Hungary only country has brain! EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has announced that introducing a total ban on Russian gas imports has been ruled out because the bloc would not be able to pass a unanimous vote due to Hungary’s position.
Australian Citizens Party: Veteran diplomat warns against Australia being a US proxy in war against China April 5 2022
Former Australian diplomat John Lander is speaking out in retirement to warn that the current direction of Australia’s foreign policy is leading to war with China. In an interview that every thoughtful Australian should find alarming, Lander explains how the strategic dynamic that has triggered war in Ukraine is also at play in the Asia-Pacific, and risks pushing Australia into a war with our biggest trading partner.
Veteran Australian diplomat speaks out against war danger—John Lander
In the interview, John Lander reveals:
Why he is speaking out now; His perspective on the cause of the war in Ukraine, which is now a proxy of the antagonistic US-UK-NATO agenda against Russia; How Australia’s political leaders, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Defence Minister Peter Dutton, are talking Australia into a similar proxy role in the current US strategy against China, called the “Strategy of Denial”; That Australia cannot win a war against China, so if they continue on this path our politicians will only succeed in destroying the nation; How Australia could start to steer away from this danger by reiterating an existing policy that is the basis of our relationship with China; That Australia does not have an independent foreign policy, but is subservient to Anglo-American geopolitical strategy due to the financial control of the City of London and Wall Street over our economy; How the US-led sanctions on Russia are actually reshaping the global economy and global alliances away from the Anglo-American world order, in a way in which Australia’s position is becoming increasingly isolated within our region and the wider world. John Lander is one of a growing number of retired diplomats, politicians, and military officers who have become alarmed at the Australian government’s sudden lurch to hostility against Australia’s biggest trading partner. The late former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was another, who warned in 2012 that Australia was aligning with a US policy that was leading towards nuclear war with China. In his 2014 book Dangerous Allies, Fraser stated that Australia has never been independent, but has always been subservient to the UK and USA, our dangerous allies who drag us into disastrous wars.
In his 30-year diplomatic career, John Lander was Deputy Ambassador to China in 1974-76, Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1985-87, and three times was head of the China section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He devoted a large part of his career to developing and strengthening Australia’s relationship with China, with which Australia now enjoys a more than $70 billion annual trade surplus. His motivation, shared by many of his colleagues, was to promote the idea that Australia should pursue its independent national interest. As an experienced diplomat, with a deep understanding of international relations and international law, John Lander’s perspective on the biggest issue facing Australia deserves to be heard by every citizen.
STOP giving orders to China! EU Commission Leyen tweeted a list of 4 things China “must” do: Stop “unjustified trade measures” against Lithuania; remove sanctions on MEPs; Address (FAKE) human rights problems in Xinjiang Uygur; improve market access & conditions for EU companies.
This surprisingly undiplomatically condescending attitude toward China is made even more surprising as it comes when China and the EU held their first summit in almost two years. It’s quite unclear why the EU believes this is the time to be demanding and overbearing towards China when it’s clearly in their best interests to build relationships as it faces the Ukraine conflict on its doorsteps.
The age of colonialism is over. The only thing Chinese leaders “must” do is look after the interests of its people. Bullying and threats rarely achieve the desired results and often make a situation worse. What makes the situation worse is that von der Leyen gave four terse orders to China in her tweet that are based on smears and misinformation designed to isolate and diminish Beijing while shifting responsibility for Europe’s own problems and mistakes onto China.
Von der Leyen ordered China to stop “unjustified trade measures against Lithuania.” First of all, China has never discriminated against any country or enterprises and has always upheld the WTO rules and created a fair and competitive market environment for trade. However, Lithuania hasn’t upheld its terms to China when it established diplomatic relations in 1991. The Lithuanian government allowed Taiwan authorities to set up a “Taiwan representative office” in Lithuania last year, in a brazen breach of the one-China principle. The Chinese government is within its obligation and responsibility to the national integrity to respond to such a breach of contract. This is a bilateral problem. The European Union as a whole should be very careful in assessing its participation in this bilateral relationship.
The tweet also said China “must” lift its sanctions against members of the European Parliament who have spread lies and disinformation alleging the mistreatment of Uygurs in Xinjiang. This conveniently leaves out the fact that China’s sanctions are responding to sanctions the European Union first arbitrarily placed on China. The EU cannot expect to be able to freely sanction Chinese officials without a response, especially when the EU’s sanctions on Chinese officials may have been politically convenient, but they had no factual basis and constituted gross interference in China’s internal affairs.
The tweet stated that China “must” address “global concerns on human and labor rights, especially in Xinjiang.” First of all, these so-called “global concerns” about Xinjiang are not global at all, but spread from shady disinformation coming from questionable U.S.-government-backed think tanks and Uygur separatist groups whose stated aim is breaking away from China. The clamor about so-called human and labor rights notably is not coming from the Islamic world, but the West, which has a notoriously poor track record on caring about the human rights of Muslims.
The U.S. government has put tremendous pressure on international corporations to pull out of Xinjiang, but strikingly no corporation has ever said it witnessed any human rights violations there. The U.S. and some politicians in the EU have made grave accusations about “genocide” in Xinjiang. Yet not one of them have been able to make a convincing case about it. Perhaps it’s time to recognize that the reason why there’s no convincing case is because there’s no case at all, but rather the lies spread by media-attention-grabbers like Adrian Zenz.
The final demand of the tweet is that China “must” improve access and conditions for EU companies in its market. This is disingenuous because China and the EU have comprehensively dealt with these issues in their Comprehensive Agreement on Investment. This deal reached on December 30, 2020, after seven years and 35 rounds of negotiations, addresses both sides’ concerns about market access and conditions.
It is Europe, not China, that’s putting this deal on ice. It is ridiculous for the EU to demand random concessions from China simply because it has chosen not to sign a diligently negotiated trade deal that both sides agree would level the playing field between Chinese and European firms.
Although many people in the West still don’t realize it, the age of colonialism is over. Treating other nations in an arrogant manner or without basic respect or consideration of their concerns get nothing done. The European Union “must” see that it bears responsibility for its own problems, instead of instructing others on how they “must” behave.
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