Hopefully, Biden will remain in office for 4 more years, though he will need to tune down (economic) protectionism, in particular with military allies.
In my opinion, the #RussianFederation will fracture in 3 bigger parts and several smaller ones. The far eastern parts will be claimed by the #CCP, they've already begun renaming them. This will bode bad news for #Mongolia, as it is the heartland of the #Yuan Dynasty...
World Con was among the worst experiences in my life, where the formal writers event told me, literally "Stop writing dude" from two professionals. in the writing program I paid for for ritual humiliation, so to find out these vain glorious turds are now (like the WHO) owned lock stock and barrel by the CCP makes me feel vindicated.
Techbrodudes reinvent something that's been around for ages, only making it worse.
You know, public transit has been around for AGES before you got your grubby little rent-seeking mitts on it and tore it down, you festering horde of goblins!
Fun fact, the server you are posting from is blocked inside the #CCP. Are you breaking the law over there? Are you not in #China? Or is there something else that you would like to share with the class? I'm extremely curious.
"Virtually every aspect of the early People’s Republic [of China], from the organization of its railways to its party structure to its ethnic minority policy, was copied from the Soviet Union. As Marxist theorists saw it, like the Soviets, China had leapfrogged from peasant feudalism over industrial capitalism straight into socialism. But in reality, both slapped a veneer of socialism over a fusion of new nationalism and old-fashioned empire."
...#WhiteHouse, they can expect little or at least less opposition from this foreign-controlled / indebted stooge (let's not forget about the #CCP deal we already know about!)
The U.S. top diplomat held more than seven hours of talks with China's foreign minister, although they did not appear to make concrete progress on disputes including Taiwan, trade, human rights and fentanyl.
China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms.
Chinese Trolls Pretend to Be Psycho Magas.
China has adopted some of the same #misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say.
Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of criminal defendant Donald, promoting #conspiracy theories, stoking #domestic divisions and attacking President #Biden ahead of the #election in November, according to researchers and government officials.
The accounts signal a potential tactical shift in how Beijing aims to hijack American politics, with more of a willingness to target specific candidates & parties, including Mr. Biden.
In an echo of Russia’s influence campaign before the 2016 election, China is trying to harness partisan divisions to undermine the Biden administration’s policies, despite recent efforts by the two countries to lower the temperature in their relations.
Comments in support of Taiwan's elections on the Chinese internet, despite harsh censorship, hint at the depth of grievances with the CCP, writes Yaqiu Wang
"Democratic states should take this into account by crafting long-term policies that treat the Chinese people and the CCP as separate entities, and include support for pro-democracy movements in China and the diaspora as a key priority. Democracy in China needs all the help it can get."
Dr Omar Alieu Touray, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, has approved the deployment of 15-member Long-Term Election Observers (LTOs) to monitor key stages in the upcoming general election in Liberia. ...
One pleasant thing about #Japan is that I don't run into many pro-#China Japanese leftists here. Most seem to be well-aware that the #CCP is an authoritarian party, suppressing #humanrights, and doesn't represent leftist or #workers values at all.
The far-right populist Alternative for Germany party rejects a values-based foreign policy, just as much as it rejects NATO and the US. That approach has attracted the attention of Beijing.
A Taiwanese band performing in China was sanctioned for saying "This is our first time playing in China" (第一次來中國演出) rather than referring to China as the "mainland". The CCP's oppression knows no bounds
Military supplies delivered to Belarus aboard 4 Chinese flights, observers report.
"At the beginning of January, the Belaruski Hajun monitoring group recorded unusual activity by the Chinese cargo airline Air China Cargo at Minsk National Airport. Over a period of four days, the Boeing 747-400F registered B-2476 completed four round-trip flights between Ürümqi (airport code ZWWW) and Minsk (UMMS)...
We have reason to believe that the cargo plane transported military equipment from China to Belarus. The cargo likely bypassed customs clearance and was transshipped out of the airport immediately, as staging the freight in the usual military cargo area would have attracted additional attention with the consignment sitting out in the open."
Glad to report that the hashtag #loongyear does not return anything on Mastodon.This means that the #CCP's brainrot has not taken hold of this platform yet. Good, let's keep it that way.
Chinese students studying overseas face harassment and surveillance for participating in activism. There are often threats made against their families in China
"“Universities in Europe and North America are often unaware of, and ill-equipped to deal with, transnational repression and the resulting chilling effect taking place on their campuses,” said Sarah Brooks of Amnesty International
UN experts say they have proof that Putin's army fired a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile at civilians in #Kharkiv#Ukraine.
"Indicate procurement by nationals of the Russian Federation," they said, adding that this would be a violation of the arms embargo imposed on North Korea in 2006.
@skykiss like #russia care, they been denying that they target #civilians and using #chemicalweapons but still they just keep on doing all the bad things as they have veto in #UNSC and backed up by #ccp#china as they can get under market value oil from russia.
A singed document with russia is less worth than the paper it was written on.
Teacher Li is a Chinese student living in Italy who became well known for disseminating censored information from China via his Twitter account. As a result he has faced repression from the Chinese government that has included threats against his family and followers in China as well as impacting his own life in Italy. This article provides details of this as an example of the CCP's transnational repression
Chinese Communist Party-linked network behind 'well-funded' anti-Israel campus protests, group says (www.foxnews.com)
Xi, Blinken agree to stabilize US-China relations in Beijing talks (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. top diplomat held more than seven hours of talks with China's foreign minister, although they did not appear to make concrete progress on disputes including Taiwan, trade, human rights and fentanyl.
US recommends Americans reconsider traveling to China due to arbitrary law enforcement, exit bans (www.sun-sentinel.com)
The U.S. recommended Americans reconsider traveling to China because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions.
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission deploys election observers to Liberia (newsghana.com.gh)
Dr Omar Alieu Touray, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, has approved the deployment of 15-member Long-Term Election Observers (LTOs) to monitor key stages in the upcoming general election in Liberia. ...