☝️ In summary: A Malaysian diaspora-Chinese-nationalist columnist hails the "people's republic" of china's unstoppable rise despite the American enemies 'doing everything" to fight it... 🧐
The Singaporean journalist Shibani Mahtani wrote about this theme recently for the Washington Post.
@w7voa Just what if the #CCP hadn't launched mass attacks against the #UnitedNations forces in #Korea in 1951 and given the despotic kim dynasty life support over the following decades... 🧐
What would the 26 million 'DPRK' subjects think about the 'PRC' if they only knew anything...
The Chinese #dictatorship was quite busy after overthrowing the republic of China in 1949. The communist party's private army they insist calling the "people's liberation army" was still hard at work invading #Tibet from 1950 onwards.
The neighbouring despot #Stalin of the #USSR had received so much #LendLease hardware from the USA during #WWII that he could afford to donate plenty to the #Chinese upstarts' war efforts. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@arstechnica ☝️ It may not take any single scary subvariant to actually be a scary proposal.
Every infection — the #antivaxxers 'did their own research', so good on 'em 🤷🏻♂️ — attacks/lowers our defences and reactivates the prevalent #HSV and #EpsteinBarr viruses which appear to be behind lot of the #longcovid cases... we're approaching 100 million cases of long covid globally by the end of the year.
The best way to lower the risk of (long) covid to yourself and those you care about is by staying current on vaccinations and, yes, using a mask.
And thanks #CCP for demanding that in early 2020 flight had to be allowed to leave the #PRC and create this #pandemic it covered up.
This would only surprise you if you were ignorant enough to think that the #CCP is still a "leftist" party & not, in fact, a #Chinese Han-enthno-centric, patriarchial, male-led hyper-nationalist party that has long abandoned it's Marxist roots. #China#Germany
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middle-class and poor people hate handouts to single mothers
So, millions of US folks believe that folks stuck in poverty are HURTING the economy by getting some grains of sand of wealth, each month? That's right, many do see the fix to #poverty IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S problem
Maybe that's why the super rich POUR donations into elected govt representatives to look the other way
There’s something contradictory in the movement to #FreeTibet : the whole idea is to get rid of the oppressive Chinese government but then the plan is apparently to restore the feudal theocracy that existed there before the communist takeover.
@santiago Besides the undoubtably fine material disseminated from certain departments of the Chinese communist party, perhaps read something about Tibet's history, geography, perhaps something biographical about the first modern reformer of Tibet in the early 1900s the 13th Dalai Lama and perhaps even about the Tibetan government in exile and democracy...
I found the reading and also visiting the areas in question quite helpful. Meeting those who had managed to escape their homeland after years of incarceration and torture for non-violent 'crimes' against the occupying Chinese was also unforgettable.
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The campaign’s lack of any audience development despite years of operation, dozens of personnel behind it, and thousands of pieces of content leads some to wonder why China even bothers with the trolling effort.
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Why even bother, westerners can troll themselves just fine and #tankies will praise #China and #CCP for free.
Im thinking, a rich guy who is willing to loose it all, is still "rich"
🇹🇼Gou #foxconn has $7 billion earned from building Apple and Sony products in the 🇨🇳PROC (iPhone City)
🇹🇼Gou dismissed concern that 🇨🇳China would make him susceptible to pressure from Beijing
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“If the Chinese 🇨🇳 #ccp regime threatens to confiscate the company’s property in China, I will say, Yes! Please do it❗ he said. “I can sacrifice my personal wealth in exchange for peace for Taiwan"
Today in Florida a white supremacist used an AR-15 to kill 3 Black people, because Florida demands even white supremacist terrorists have easy access to firearms—but then forbids any child from learning the history of white supremacists mass murdering Black people
It’s the 238th day of 2023–the 472nd mass shooting, 30th mass murder, & we’ve surpassed 28K gun deaths😳
We don’t have to live like this. We need federal gun reform. And we need champions in Congress who will relentlessly fight for it
Chinese nuclear Qinshan power plant released 218 trillion becquerels of tritium in 2021 - about 10x 🚨⚠️☢️ the max amount of tritium to be discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi plant in a year.
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.
US businessman reportedly working with #CCP in #China to spread pro-China #propaganda globally. Network of US nonprofits whose donors cannot be traced used to fund activist groups around the world.
Hopefully this is gift link, not sure if it worked.
I know we're all keyed into the indictment news, but... Also TODAY:
Brutal heat in Argentina (in WINTER)
Uprecedented heat in Japan
Most intense rain in 140 years in China
Iran shuts down for two days due to high temperatures
Record low sea ice in Antarctica for July
Highest ever recorded ocean temps in Florida
"Dangerous heat" in US Southwest
@hkfp Roman Protasevich, Belarusian blogger and activist, flying from Athens to Vilnius - Bel authorities diverted his plane to land there w a fake bomb scare & arrested him. Q rightly, US has indicted Belarus for aircraft piracy. Wd #CCP or HKGvt dare? Hard to predict w mafia regimes
As the #AmericaFirst movement of #WWII once again rears its head and gears up for the next elections, it is much better prepared than in 2016 and the #Midterms of 2022.
A racist utterance of a #US military 🪖 leader made me remember a thread I had published on the Birdsite in Sept. 2022.
It focused on the strategic use of #veterans by the #MAGA movement.
As it will happen again, I am republishing...
"...necessary 👉The imminent threat is from an unholy combination of #China and #CriticalRaceTheory. There is no room for compromise here, #Bannon insists: #👈“We don’t seek competition. 👉We don’t want confrontation, we want total and complete destruction root and branch of the #Chinese#Communist Party.” [#CCP]👈
“You ask anybody in the #SpecialForces, the broad Special Forces community, I’m talking...
WOOOOOOW apparently "no public links" wasn't enough
Elon Musk announced Saturday that #Twitter will... limit the number of tweets users can read per day...
Under the new limits, verified accounts will be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day while unverified accounts will have access to 600 tweets per day. New unverified users, who join the platform after Saturday’s announcement, can only access 300 posts per day.
The #Council should rule that the #Russian aggressor stop the shelling of #refugees immediately and the UN should secure the #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (#ZPP) and empower #NATO to put its decisions into effect by armed measures (Art. 42, #UNCharter).
#Xi, in contrast to #Putler, is a brilliant strategist.
At present, he still needs the West to revive his sputtering domestic economy.
We all saw how quickly #ZeroCovid collapsed after protest that a #French government might have ignored, figuratively speaking.
The #CCP promised it people prosperity in exchange for control and lack of freedom. #China is the #EU's biggest trading partner.
IDK how #AtomicKitten's music sales are faring in 🇨🇳. I am quite sure, though, that...
Fuck the CCP and "Glory to Hong Kong" - Anthem of The Hong Kong Protests (www.youtube.com)
Context: How a song threatens the Chinese Communist Party’s grip
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.