An appeal for fresh food for US Marines in locked-down Shanghai has drawn an unsympathetic response from some online users in China: how about lambs, grapes & wines from Xinjiang and breads from Russia? 美國海軍陸戰隊在封閉的上海呼籲新鮮食物，引起了一些中國網友的冷淡回應：新疆的羊肉、葡萄和葡萄酒以及俄羅斯的麵包怎麼樣？
Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: I am glad Angela Merkel finally broke her silence on on the background leading to the Ukraine war now raging in Eastern Europe. 加州大學伯克利分校王靈智教授：我很高興前德國總理默克爾終於打破了她對烏克蘭戰爭在東歐肆虐的背景的沉默
The video is relatively long,. There is little on what Merkel said and a lot, in fact too much, commentaries a several other issues. But the essence of what Merkel is clear. Recent high-profile public blaming of Merkel for the Ukraine war by Zelensky and Western commentators have been quite nasty and inconsistent with a series of key decisions made in the past decade or so have finally prompted her to speak out. From her insiders’s point of view, the destructive war in Ukraine and current oil and gas crisis were avoidable.
Yet, the West, from Biden to NATO to the U.S. Congress, does not have the slightest interest in examining what led up to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the West’s rather systematic all-out attack on Russia and Putin and how the explosive war can be brought to an end. Democrats and Republicans alike have been united in intensifying the war, not just the military confrontation on the ground in Ukraine, but the worldwide financial, commercial, and political war against Russia and it ally, China. The latter war, a world war, is far more serious and ruinous than what is being fought in Ukraine. In fact, the ground war has become secondary to the other non-military war. The U.S. has been escalating this latter war everyday. Congress has been agitating and escalating everyday for more severe punitive actions and the media, liberal and conservative alike, have been doing their utmost to arouse public anger and support for more and more aggressive actions against Russia.
Where it will lead the world into is dangerously alarming, to say the least. Will it trigger a WW III? We don’t know for sure because we do not know what Biden and NATO want to get out of not just the ground war in Ukraine, but more importantly, nor do we know what he wants from the other more serious, global war. If China is Biden’s real enemy of the U.S., as he has repeatedly told the American people, the Ukraine war is just a preview of the greater world war to come.
Video: Chinese RMB will be used to purchase Russian oils 一周對策 人民幣時代來臨 俄石油以人民幣支付
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Video: Bloomberg debunk the myth and fake news propaganda by US & EU on the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa 彭博社揭穿美國和歐盟對非洲中國債務陷阱的神話和假新聞宣傳
Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley:
Thanks for calling my attention to the Bloomberg piece on China’s work in Africa. I agree with your comments on this Bloomberg report on China’s African investments. It is a rare departure from Qwar’a anti-China propaganda disguised as news. The West has essentially two major criticisms on China’s investments in Africa: they are debt traps and neocolonialism. Both my opinion, reflect West’s guilty past. They simply could not see anything but projecting their own past on China. Their aim is to smear China’s cooperative and positive projects with African countries and to undermine China’s influence in Africa.
The Western governments and their mainstream media try to convince the world that China has been doing exactly the same as the former European colonizers in Africa, if not than their colonial exploitation of African countries. Unfortunately, their propaganda campaign is being contradicted by facts on he ground. The facts, the concrete outcomes of Chinese investments, speak louder than the Western falsehoods and negative propaganda against China. African leaders have been speaking out against the lies being spread around the world and in Africa.
As long as the Western media continue to dominate and control the news and information around the world, including Africa, there is nothing China can do to counter their lies. CGTN of China has been doing an outstanding job in reporting news, documentaries, and programs daily through regular programming from African countries by African journalists, allowing African voices to be heard. This, in itself, has been an outstanding contribution from the Chinese government to Africa and, I must add, to the Chinese viewers across China through CCTV. This, however, is not enough because Western governments and media are simply too powerful and overwhelming. Nevertheless, what China has been doing is getting attention from the Western governments and they are trying to do something about it.
A very powerful counter-message in recent years has appeared in greater frequency. That message is: China-African cooperation which began at the dawn of the 21st century, has produced positive and welcome results, especially in infrastructures, education, science, and health care that affect African lives throughout the continent. The results speak for themselves. They are the most powerful testimonies of what is being done. These results have forced the U.S. and the West in recent years to start noticing and even better, copying the Chinese model in infrastructure building in Africa in an effort to win over the hearts and minds of African people. What President Biden said in the Bloomberg video is precisely that. (By the way, Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar investment in U.S. infrastructure is a carbon copy of what China’s has been doing in China in the last 30 years and guess what, he justified such massive expenditure as the need for the U.S. to match what China has accomplished). Europeans too are trying to imitate China and do the same in Africa. Why not? This can only be good for Africa, as long as their efforts are not attempts to revive and replicate their colonial past in Africa.
China welcomes Western competition in working with African countries for the betterment and benefit of Africans! I am keeping my fingers crossed, however.
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I am serbian . I have lived in african countries as a child because my father works in embassy. One thing I can tell you before chinese investments no one cared about africa they just looted resources the western countries especially France looted much from north and west Africa.a Things like gold,diamond and other natural resources like lithium with help of corrupted african political. As I remember living in africa there were no malls,big shopping complexes,proper infrastructure and connectivity like trains,bus in cities but slowly after chinese investments Things changed fastly internet was introduced in large scale by chinese companies which helped other locals also get internet,malls were built ,brands came in africa many trains and ports projects were introduced all across africa and many more industrial and commercial services increased. I Have learned about chinese debt trap policy but it is far better than western countries one sided trades which always destroyed and looted africa.
I grew up in 90s, And my country was so poor under Western Aid. Since China came in, things have changed a lot. In 10 years the skyline had changed and a middle class has sprung. People are climbing out of poverty, and my generation is wealthier than my parents. China has been a blessing to Africa. The west is scared, because a stronger Africa will mean they’ll lose the last colonial grasp over the continent. It’s economy.I’m not a fan of China but if there’s no debt trap, then I’m happy. Happy to be wrong all along. I’m so used to hard line anti-china stuff that this video feels wierd Debunking myths you helped spread in the first place. Congrats. There’s the thing you only have one example, which you continually repeat, whereas China has 3700 projects in the developing world, from construction to power to IT telecoms. Statistically your one example represents a 0.001% chance of occurrence.
https://rumble.com/v10c9yi-bloomberg-debunk-chinese-debt-trap-in-africa.html
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Not surprised! US bully Chinese and promote hate crimes against Chinese Americans at home / 90 percent of Chinese netizens believe the US is a bully in Ukraine crisis, coercive toward China: survey by Global Times Apr 08 2022
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that his country has been pressured (blackmail) under the threat of sanctions to back Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council.
Head of UK Supreme Court should resign for talking to London before quitting Hong Kong court, former leader says by Tony Cheung April 8 2022
梁振英今天的發文：“《南華早報》今天報道，辭任香港終審法院的英國法官韋彥德解釋，其實是由他啟動和英國政府的洽談，然後決定辭職，辭職並非由於英國政府向他施壓。
我有幾個問題：
韋彥德法官邀請英國政府干預香港的司法獨立，極度不智，應該馬上辭去英國法官辭務。
Today’s South China Morning Post reports “British jurist Lord Robert Reed has rejected claims he bowed to pressure from British politicians when he and fellow judge Lord Patrick Hodge resigned from the Court of Final Appeal because of concerns over the national security law”. Lord Robert added “it was actually he who initiated discussions with the British government about tendering his resignation because of his own concerns”.
Questions:
Lord Robert invited the British government to be part of his decision to resign from the Hong Kong court. This is very poor judgment. He should resign also from the British court. ””
Leung Chun-ying accuses Lord Robert Reed of showing poor judgment by going to the British government with his concerns over freedoms in Hong Kong
‘Why didn’t he decide and then inform the British government?’ Leung asks
The head of Britain’s Supreme Court should resign after he involved London in his controversial decision to step down from Hong Kong’s top court, a former leader of the Asian financial hub has argued. Lord Robert Reed showed “poor judgment” in going to the British government with his concerns over Hong Kong’s national security law before his departure was announced, ex-chief executive Leung Chun-ying wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.
“What did [Reed] have in mind when he ‘initiated discussions with the British government about tendering his resignation because of his own concerns’? Why didn’t he decide and then inform the British government? What would he have done if the British government ‘advised’ him not to resign?” said Leung, who is now a vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the nation’s top advisory body. “This is very poor judgment. He should also resign from the British court.”
Reed and the vice-president of the British Supreme Court, Lord Patrick Hodge, resigned as overseas judges who heard cases in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal last week, noting they agreed with the British government’s concerns over the national security law. Reed said he could no longer serve on both courts “without appearing to endorse an administration which had departed from values of political freedom, and freedom of expression”.
The Chinese government, as well as officials and legal bodies in Hong Kong, accused the United Kingdom of putting politics before the law.
Responding to the resignations, current leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said “we must vehemently refute any unfounded allegations that the judges’ resignations have anything to do with the introduction of the Hong Kong national security law or the exercise of freedom of speech and political freedom in Hong Kong”. But speaking at a parliamentary session in London earlier this week, Reed said he was not under political pressure to make the decision and added that it was he who initiated the talks with the British government.
Leung also urged Reed to clarify whether the British government told him to make the decision himself so that London would not be seen as interfering with Hong Kong’s judicial independence.
“Why didn’t he also initiate ‘discussions’ about his resignation with the Chinese government?” he said.
Reed and Hodge resigned from the Court of Final Appeal on March 30, ending a practice of serving British judges sitting on the Hong Kong bench that stretched back to the city’s handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997. Reed and Hodge were among 12 overseas jurists from other common law jurisdictions serving as non-permanent judges on the top court, an arrangement that has stood as a strong endorsement of the city’s rule of law.
The remaining 10 – six from Britain and the rest from Canada and Australia – are all retired in their home countries so they are not bound by decisions made by their governments should others decide to withdraw their judges. Nine of the remaining jurists have told the Post they will remain.
Tony Cheung became a political journalist in 2007. He joined the Post in 2012, and covers Hong Kong-mainland relations, public policies and political issues. Prior to joining the Post, he was a reporter at Asia Television in Hong Kong, Beijing and Guangzhou. He holds a Master of Laws in Human Rights degree from the University of Hong Kong.
World Journal Newspaper San Francisco: Russia POW torture and murder by Ukrainian military exposed.
Video: US Treasury Secretary threatened to impose financial sanctions on China, no matter if you are pro-China or anti-China, just like the current Ukrainian model or the treatment of American Japanese in WWII, confiscation of Chinese personal and corporate assets in the US 美財長揚言 金融製裁中國, 不管你是親中或反中跟現在烏克蘭模式或二戰對待美國日本人一樣做法, 沒收華人在美國的個人和公司資產, 眾院議長訪台生鞭數.
https://rumble.com/v109145-us-treasury-secretary-threatened-to-impose-financial-sanctions-on-china.html
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NATO thought China still sick man of Asia accuses China of issuing ‘challenge’ Beijing’s refusal to condemn Russia presents a challenge to the bloc, the secretary general says. 北約認為中國仍是亞洲病夫，指責中國發出“挑戰” 北京拒絕譴責俄羅斯對北約構成挑戰，秘書長說.
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