#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
President #Xi has told his military to be ready to invade #Taiwan by 2027…. #Biden doesn’t rule out sending troops to defend Taiwan if #China attacked, saying, “It would depend on the circumstances.”
Biden’s record in facing these tests is more than just nostalgic talk. He has added 2 powerful European militaries to #NATO, & will soon announce the doubling of the number of countries in the Atlantic #alliance that are paying more than the target 2% of their GDP toward #defense….
In #Kharkiv, President #Zelensky addressed the world leaders from the ruins of #Ukraine's once largest printing house.
"I am appealing to the leaders of the world who are still aside from the global efforts of the Global Peace Summit – to President #Biden, the leader of the United States, and to President #Xi, the leader of #China. Please, show your leadership in advancing peace. Real peace, not just a pause between the strikes."
For them, it is a pleasure to burn. We all know who we are dealing with. Russia is run by men who want to make it a norm – burning lives, destroying cities and villages, dividing people, and erasing national borders through war.
There is no nation that can stop such war alone, unaided. World leaders’ engagement is needed.
Does Russia want dialogue? Ukraine has the world’s largest experience of lies from Russia during negotiations. That’s exactly why global efforts are needed. The Global Peace Summit of the leaders whom Russia won’t be able to deceive.
I am appealing to the leaders of the world who are still aside from the global efforts of the Global Peace Summit – to President #Biden@potus the leader of the #US, and to President #Xi, the leader of #China. Please, show your leadership in advancing peace. Real peace, not just a pause between the strikes.
Is anyone else impressed by #Zelenskyy giving a speech in English, under extreme stress? That building is still burning. Please, boost 🙏 🇺🇦 #Ukraine
President Zelenskyy ask for America and China to join 80 countries of the world at the global peace summit President Zelenskyy is standing in a burning building that russian barbarians hit with a missile and killed peaceful Ukrainians, he is giving a speech in English requesting the world to join together at the global peace summit to stop Putin's barbaric genocide of Ukrainians. Please, maximum boost. UKRAINIANS need our SUPPORT. THANK YOU 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine#Ukraine
This weekend is perfect timing for the ‘axis of evil’ to exert their power to pursue expansionism. Putin likely told Xi that now would be opportune to threaten Taiwan. #Xi#Taiwan#China#PLO#AxisOfEvil “Not to alarm anyone, but China has surrounded Taiwan with warships and aircraft and the DoD has issued two statements about it over the past hour.” -P McLeary
Wenn ich wieder anfange, Memes zu basteln, brennt es bei der #Chatkontrolle. Aber was wäre eine bessere Antwort als Memes, wenn wir jetzt mit der "Upload-Moderation" erpresst werden sollen, entweder der Chatkontrolle "freiwillig zuzustimmen" oder keine Photos und Videos mehr versenden zu dürfen.
Könnte vielleicht noch ein paar Referenzen zu Krah und Bystron vertragen, die sicherstellen, dass Putin’s und Xi’s Leute in der entsprechenden Behörde sitzen.
Former president Donald #Trump again invoked authoritarian leaders at a rally Thursday, a reminder of a vision he has been outlining for a potential second term.
Trump referenced Russian President Vladimir #Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Chinese leader #Xi Jinping and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban.
Trump said the leaders were “at the top of their game, whether you like it or not.”
"Jinping's political ideology
China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by"
China, still bitter over 百年国耻, its century of humiliation, has not forgotten that the imperialist #colonial power that took the most land from it was Russia
And now, with a few desperate, obsequious hugs from the downtrodden mafia ghoul Putin, #Xi takes it all back, and heck of a lot more
Today #Russia and #China play best friends forever and #USSR had been traditionally placed in the same “communist” basked as China. Some fun facts that especially tankies are getting completely wrong today.^1
Since 1950’s China and USSR were actually conflicted over each other’s interpretations of #Marxism and in 1960’s the conflict nearly escalated into a full-scale nuclear war between the two countries.
China criticised CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union) over Soviet invasion of #Czechoslovakia (1968)^2 and “Brezhnev Doctrine” which denounced any Marxism version outside of the Soviet one as “reactionary” (Marxist newspeak for “heresy”). This included both Czechoslovak reforms and Mao’s Cultural Revolution in equal manner. At that time China actually developed complex relations with Eastern Bloc countries such as Romania and Czechoslovakia behind Kremlin’s back.
Essentially, everyone called each other “reactionary” and claimed their Marxism is the correct one. Any resemblance to past religious wars is entirely incidental. 😉 In 1968 Chinese diplomat Zhou Enlai speaking in Romanian embassy in Beijing called Soviets for “fascist politics, great power chauvinism, national egoism and social imperialism”.^3
Does that ring any bells? 😉
Soviets and China had a number of unresolved border issues in Manchuria. In 1968 China started escalating these, actually killing Soviet border guards. Moscow, knowing of China’s nuclear weapons and Mao’s confrontative attitude preferred to deescalate… which only encouraged Chinese.
Does that remind anything from contemporary history? 😉
At the peak of the conflict in 1969 USSR found itself in the position of a country with high-tech army challenged by a low-tech army which relied on millions of conscripts and human wave tactics.
Does this ring any bells? 😉
In 1969 Soviet army managed to push back overwhelming several Chinese offensives near the island of Zhenbao in spite of their overwhelming numbers with ratios up to 1:10 Soviet to Chinese. That was possible primarily due to the technical advantage, such as then-advanced T-62 tanks.
A ceasefire was signed in 1969 - on Chinese side by the very same Zhou Enlai who called Soviets “fascists” only a year before, but the actual peace agreement was only signed in 1991. The conflict was only completely resolved in 2008 (!) when Russia ceded 340 km² of the disputed lands to China.
As you can see, contrary to the mythology carefully constructed by modern “geopolitical realists”, there’s nothing constant in Russian or Soviet policies. Russia can not always win armed conflicts, it can cede territories and in general conflicts can be won in spite of imbalance of power. Oh, and calling others “fascists” was used by everyone and Russia was both an user and a recipient of this nomination.
I don’t have special insight into the heads of #Putin or #Xi. I connect dots in publicly available knowledge, and share them if they make sense and other tangential info seem to corroborate them.
Whenever I do this though, I always cite links to sources so others can either accept my ideas or reject them by evaluating the supplied source material.
Chinese President #Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir #Putin condemned what they cast as increasingly aggressive #US behaviour on Thursday and pledged to deepen their countries' already close defence and military ties.
Russia willing to 'soften the border' in exchange for China's support, political scientist says
As the meeting between Vladimir #Putin and #Xi Jinping wraps up, Tom Burges Watson speaks to political scientist Dr Una Aleksandra Berzina-Cerenkova, Head of the China Studies Centre at Riga Stardins University, about how far will Russia go to secure the support of Beijing. #China#Russia#Ukraine
The wanted war criminal Putin and FSB thugs (successor of the Soviet-era KGB) entourage on their way to Bejing to meet with Xi on Thursday.
RSD111 is Il-96-300PU RA-96021 #157715
RSD501 is Il-96-300PU RA-96024 #157718
RSD433 is Il-96-300PU RA-96025 #157719
RSD171 is Il-96-300 RA-96017 #157711
RSD972 is Tu-214VPU RA-64517 #14FC05
Dear Xi, Don't leave your drink near any FSB, you are well aware they like to poison.
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
Compare with #US, which has barred #Israel’s FULL-SCALE invasion of #Rafah.
Putin says Russia is prepared to negotiate over Ukraine, just like #Hamas says it’s prepared to negotiate with Israel.
#China claims to be neutral but backs Russian position that it was provoked into attacking Ukraine by the West, despite Putin’s public avowals of his #RevanchistDreams
While most Western countries are concerned with extrajudicial security personnel from #China going after Chinese dissidents and other interference via secret police stations, Hungary just went and signed a deal with China: "lol, police from a totalitarian country officially patrolling our streets? sure thing"
On the last leg of his European tour in #Hungary, Chinese President #Xi Jinping on Wednesday (8 May) is expected to tighten ties with #Budapest, its closest ally in the #EU.
#China’s ambassador to Hungary, Gong #Tao, said that “#Beijing expects from the Hungarian EU Presidency that the Hungarian side will pursue a rational and pragmatic policy towards China and will encourage other EU countries to do the same.”
Who is #Xi Jinping’s travel agent? If you are making your first trip to #Europe in nearly five years, an itinerary that reads #France, #Serbia, #Hungary seems a little eccentric.
But the three stops chosen by #China’s leader make perfect sense viewed from #Beijing. For strategic and economic reasons, China badly wants to disrupt the unity of both #Nato and the #EU.
#Xi Jinping on Monday warned against smearing #China over the #Ukraine conflict, insisting that Beijing was playing a "positive role" trying to find a peaceful solution to #Russia 's invasion. Mark Owen speaks to Philippe Le Corre, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis.
🇨🇳➡️🇪🇺 "For the first time in 5 years, the leader of China will come to Europe. Xi Jinping makes rare visit to France, Serbia and Hungary", - The Economist
🇫🇷 In Paris, Macron will "press" him on Ukraine and the trade imbalance, — Reuters.
🕊️ He also plans to discuss the "Olympic truce", - La Tribune