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Theresa Fallon

7 months

Honored to be included in the 2023 ranking of influencers in the EU bubble. Thank you for following! #Ukraine #Trade #Economy

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@ZNConsulting

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For two years in a row, our back-to-back top #EUinfluencer for the #UKRAINE category is @TheresaAFallon . She is also our number 1 Economy and Trade #EUinfluencer ! 🏆 Congratulations on winning 2 categories this year, Theresa! 🎉

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German Der Spiegel’s take on outcome of #USElection2020 on right below. Trump cover from 2017.

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Highest recorded voter turn-out in Poland with 73% of the public reported voting. "Poland’s opposition parties look like they’ve won a solid victory in the country’s general election — and if the result holds it signals a radical change both in Poland and in the EU, where the…

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I am just going to leave this right here: 52% of passengers on a flight from Beijing to Malpensa Airport near Milan tested positive for Covid.

Covid, Schillaci dispone test obbligatori per chi sbarca dalla Cina. E oggi riferirà in Senato

Positivi isolati a Fiumicino. A Malpensa, il 26 dicembre, un paziente su due è risultato positivo al test. Tampone negativo richiesto a chi proviene dalla Cina anche dagli Usa. Intanto anche Hong...

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Just arrived at Orly Airport, Paris. Lengthy lines for taxis, but drivers only want to go outside Paris as it is too dangerous to drive into the city. The conference I am attending is about an hour outside. The driver declared to me that it is a civil war. He is listening to the…

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Former German fighter pilots work as trainers in China. They earn “salaries that would normally be reserved for professional athletes or top executives of multinational corporations.” Are they also sharing w/ the PLA what they learned from NATO exercises? …

Suspicious Activity: What Are German Fighter Pilots Doing in China?

A handful of former German pilots are apparently now in China to provide military training – and are earning huge salaries for their services. Their activities have raised sensitive questions for...

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Restaurant menu in Brussels: the drink “Moscow Mule” not available until Peace in #Ukraine is restored.

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Rumors are swirling across the internet of a military coup in China and that Xi Jinping is under arrest after CCP seniors removed him as head of the PLA. Is the massive cancellation of flights in China just a military exercise, or is there something more to it? 🧐

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European leaders will pretend to believe Xi's promises not to help Putin, and Xi will continue to pretend that he isn't helping Putin, and then Xi & Putin will meet once again & have a good laugh about it. This is considered sophisticated diplomacy by some Europeans.

Met Gala Loser Balding 大老板

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Please tell me nobody actually believes these assurances

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I just continue to marvel at China’s Ambassador to France statement about CCP’s plans after they seize Taiwan for re-education programs so that the Taiwanese public will be loyal to🇨🇳.If this is what🇨🇳officials say publicly, I just wonder what they say when they aren’t on tv🧐

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Taïwan: "Après la réunification, on va faire une rééducation", affirme l’ambassadeur de Chine en France

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Russia’s carefully cultivated influence networks across Europe have crumbled.

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Beijing has tried to induce international amnesia, but we remember June 4: Tiananmen Square, 1989. #June4 #TiananmenSquareMassacre

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“Until this month his existence was little more than a rumour, his face unknown. Then, without warning, he appeared alongside the Dalai Lama, the supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who lives in exile in India.”

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It is official — Italy is exiting #BRI .

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CCP doesn’t even care about the optics anymore. Human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng & his wife Xu Yan were arrested en route to EU embassy in Beijing.

China arrests human rights activists en route to EU embassy in Beijing

Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan had been due to meet the EU ambassador

www.politico.eu

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Macron went to Beijing to try to convince Xi to use his influence on Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Instead, Macron threw #Taiwan under the bus and came back w/ a bumper sticker declaring that Europe will not be a vassal of the US. 🤯

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Cambridge University to end partnership with the Chinese military—yes, you read that correctly. Cambridge University won’t continue to help design missiles for the PLA. So much for ‘like-minded partners.’ Getting a #Philbyvibe 🤯

Cambridge University to end partnership with Chinese missiles company

Cambridge University is to end a partnership with a Chinese state-owned military technology firm whose parent company produces spacecraft, missiles and drones.

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A Chinese man in🇫🇷posts a video online criticizing Xi-it only had 80 views.Nevertheless,same day he received a call from🇨🇳Embassy & they want to forcibly…

VIDEO. La Chine fait-elle la police en France ? | @EnvoyeSpecial :

A Paris le 22 mars dernier, un jeune dissident chinois réfugié en France a failli subir un retour forcé organisé par les autorités chinoises. Alertée, une équipe d'"Envoyé spécial" a pu suivre et...

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Finally, Beijing’s useful idiots hiding in plain sight in Brussels are being exposed. About time!

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The fact that a book about an emperor from about 400 years ago is now censored in🇨🇳 speaks volumes about how Chinese Communist Party officials fear the public’s perceptions of Xi Jinping’s policies. “A Chinese reprint of a book about an emperor who ran his realm into the ground…

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What troubled me most about Alex Stubb’s talk was that he declared that China was not an imperialist power. Afterwards,I said that the Tibetans & Uighurs would disagree w/ him. His response, which frankly shocked me, was as prickly as his cactus. “Don’t take the moral high ground…

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The Communications to Shetland have been severely disrupted after a subsea cable was damaged. Damage to two cables at the same time is extremely rare. 🧐

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Foreigners are become as rare as hen's teeth in China. "The drop in foreign investment and arrivals comes as China’s economy stagnates, with a depressed housing market, youth unemployment at record highs and widening fears the country could be slipping into deflation. The…

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Is Xi Jinping now handcuffed to a corpse?

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Up to 300 ships have been stopped by Russian forces from departing the Black Sea, leaving one of the key global trade routes for grain virtually blocked. #UkraineWar Countries like Yemen may be tilted into full blown famine. @dw_europe @dwnews

Ukraine war: Russia blocks ships carrying grain exports

Up to 300 ships have been stopped by Russian forces from departing the Black Sea, leaving one of the key global trade routes for grain virtually blocked. The fertile region is known as "the world's...

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My wall after Proximus Belgium ‘installed’ new fiber cable. 🤯

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Study by Allensbach found that “only 46% of Germans consider US to be a reliable ally. In other words, America’s nearly eight decades of protecting Germans from Russia have not been enough to convince a majority of them that the U.S. is their friend.”

The truth about Germany’s defense policy shift

A year after Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared a sea change in German defense, Berlin’s security policy is the same as it ever was.

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The CCP must be desperate—they are trying to use 100 year old Kissinger to improve relations.

Henry Kissinger meets China’s defence minister in surprise visit to Beijing

Ex-US secretary of state’s meeting with Li Shangfu comes amid hopes of improved ties between two countries

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Brexit as Voldemort @NYTOpinion “there’s a larger lesson, one most Western countries seemingly have to continually relearn. Right-wing nationalist projects begin with loud, flamboyant swagger. They tend to end unspeakably.”

Opinion | In the U.K., a Disaster No One Wants to Talk About

The political taboo around Bregret.

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“The Chinese economy is now at serious risk of sliding into a deflationary episode that could spark a self-reinforcing downward spiral in growth and private sector confidence,” said Eswar Prasad, a China finance expert at Cornell University. “The government needs to act quickly…

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We know where this is going folks. The ‘China Delusion’ is over.

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With massive protests in the streets of Hungary, Orban signs a security pact with . . . Beijing. 👀 "Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, has signed a security pact with China, including an agreement for joint police patrols, in a new sign of his determination to allow…

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@NSoames @realDonaldTrump "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." But hey, if it is raining, I have to give it a miss, said @POTUS as he stepped out of Churchill's chair.

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Macron might think this is his Kennedy moment--he is only person here w/ his jacket off because he is working up a sweat shaking the hands of CCP schills. "See how popular I am in a totalitarian country," he seems to beam for the French domestic audience😉 #carnivalofvanity

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#Macron meeting people chosen by a totalitarian regime to greet him with the greatest possible euphoria. How stupid is this?…

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Facts matter. Italy donated items to China. In response, China is selling things to Italy. There is a difference. 😷

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China donated to Italy: 1,000 lung ventilators 50,000 swabs for #Coronavirus 20,000 protective suits 100,000 high-tech face masks 2 million ordinary medical face masks 🇨🇳❤🇮🇹 #Coranavirusitalia #COVID2019

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Before Xi even uttered a word, he received a standing ovation from US biz leaders offering footage to be used for CCP propaganda purposes that Goebbels would have gone gaga for. This from the Editorial Board of the @WSJ perhaps marks a sea change: Xi's "strangulation of Hong…

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At some point the Russian public has to take note that they can’t get money from an ATM, IKEA has pulled out, Russian sports teams are not participating in international matches, & many young men have “disappeared”

War in Ukraine: BBC suspends its journalists' work in Russia

The temporary suspension comes in response to a new Russian law which threatens reporters with prison.

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Chinese Communist Party has managed to bring together a high profile trilateral partnership: US-Japan-South Korea. Biden announced “new measures on defense, technology, education and other key areas of cooperation.”

Biden declares ‘new era’ of partnership with South Korea and Japan

The trilateral group met at Camp David amid rising tensions with China.

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Germany wants it all: good relations with the US, good relations with Russia, and good relations with China.

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Love this picture of Polish President ⁦ @AndrzejDuda ⁩ w/ ⁦ @ZelenskyyUa ⁩. Poland has become pivotal in pulling the West together and has a winning mindset in regard to #Ukraine . A picture is worth more than a thousand “waffles” by some less committed leaders in EU.

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4 years

Made in China chopping board that you can't use.

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10 months

Maslow update

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As the Black Death raged through Europe in 14th century, Venice enforced a rule where ships had to anchor for 40 days before crew and passengers were allowed to come ashore. The waiting period was named "quarantino", which derives from the Italian for 40.

Coronavirus: how quarantine has fought disease through the ages

From a plague-struck village to Wuhan today, quarantine has helped curb outbreaks for centuries.

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Hmm, so I guess it is safe to conclude from 🇨🇳Ambassador’s remarks that Beijing never really wanted to be a mediator for peace in Ukraine—rather they are a loud supporter of Putin’s fiercest dream for CEE. @GLandsbergis

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If anyone is still wondering why the Baltic States don't trust China to "broker peace in Ukraine", here's a Chinese ambassador arguing that Crimea is Russian and our countries' borders have no legal basis.

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There is just too much to tackle in this ⁦ @EmmanuelMacron ⁩ interview.Hats off to @politico for letting us know of the imposed censorship & that Macron had even stronger language on Taiwan, against the US, & his of Great Power status for EU

Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron

The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview.

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Merkel's rapidly tarnishing policy legacy on Russia pulled her out of retirement to defend her policies. But her record speaks for itself. Nordstream 2 was agreed in 2015 after🇷🇺annexation of Crimea. 'Wandel durch Handel' is on the ash heap of history.

Combative Angela Merkel denies appeasing Vladimir Putin over Ukraine

Germany’s interests meant finding ‘modus vivendi’ with Russia, says ex-chancellor in first interview since leaving office

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Travel to Hong Kong is treated as a security concern. It truly is now one country—one big security risk. 👀

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Of course the Kremlin is silent on Chinese Map Claiming Part of Russia's Territory because they can’t do anything about it. Instead of being Peter the Great, Putin’s dangerous legacy from war of choice in Ukraine is that he has opened Pandora’s box.

Kremlin silent on Chinese map claiming part of Russia's territory

The Russian Far East was part of the Qing Empire until 1860, Steve Tsang of the School of Oriental and Africa Studies in London, told Newsweek.

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3 years

Germany's biggest trading partners. There is an old saying, show me your trade policy and I will show you your foreign policy . . . @BBC

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Xi Jinping -- a chapeau to you 🎩. You flattered Macron, fed his ego, it was just too easy. Macron responded by helping to throw a wedge into #transatlanticrelations , into the EU, & possibly NATO. Not bad for 6 hours of Xi's valuable time. Macron's #CarnivalofVanity continues.

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We need to find out if @EmmanuelMacron speaks for Europe After his 6 hour meeting in China he told reporters that Europe should create distance with the U.S. & should not get involved in supporting America over China when it comes to Taiwan

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The level of opacity and unpredictability in the PRC/China must have investors on edge: "In another example of how secretive elite politics has become under Mr. Xi, Communist Party authorities announced this week that Lt. Gen. Wang Shaojun, a former head of the Central Security…

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Hmm, wonder what China is preparing for? 🧐

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China has wheat stockpiles sufficient to meet 18-months demand.

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Historians might look back on this period and wonder at the magical thinking going on in some European capitals.

Clash Report

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Chinese college students in Guangxi region rehearse liberation of Taiwan on the National Day of the People's Republic of China, September 1. Recorded at Guangxi Communications Vocational and Technical College.

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CCP: If the data looks bad—delete it. Just one more example of 🇨🇳’s attempts to cover up Covid. Where is @WHO ? “One of China’s most populous provinces has deleted mortality data that offered an indication of the heavy death toll from Beijing’s relaxation of Covid-19 controls at…

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In this 🇨🇳propaganda narrative, unruly folks from the 'global south' try to attack a Chinese man & his blond girl friend. In response to the aggression, the young man wields his mighty PRC passport like a sacred talisman--the attackers see it and immediately bow several times…

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A Chinese passport can be the best protection when someone is in danger? Haha! Many in China actually believe this CCP propaganda crap.

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CCP appointed Shen Bin as new bishop of Shanghai w/o approval from Vatican,in what is seen as breach of 2018 agreement. Shen vowed to 'carry forward the fine tradition of patriotism," referring to forced sinicization of all religious faiths under Xi.

Render under Xi, sir

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New report on the Chinese Communist Party’s Useful Idiots, errh ‘influencers.’ The🇨🇳manager, “cited foreigners different ‘upbringing and values’ which meant they needed ‘some fine-tuning’ on how to handle sensitive topics. “If they don’t say good things about China or how they…

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Pretty bad optics for Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow. Xi risks being tainted by previous phot op that trumpeted 🇷🇺🇨🇳no limits partnership.

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“We know they are lying, they also know they are lying, we also know they know we know they are lying, yet they continue to lie.” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn Soviet dissident

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"The Biden administration is hunting for malicious computer code it believes China has hidden deep inside the networks controlling power grids, communications systems and water supplies that feed military bases in the United States and around the world, according to American…

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Xi Jinping’s economic headache in one graph.

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@pirijanne My thoughts exactly 🤗

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German minister makes landmark visit to Taiwan—first time such a visit has taken place in 26 years! No surpise—Beijing is furious.

German minister makes landmark visit to Taiwan

Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger is the first German cabinet member to arrive in Taiwan in decades. The decision comes amid tensions with mainland China, as Beijing issues a diplomatic...

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Merkel’s legacy was policy malpractice. After the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea, her govt waited only a year to sign Nordstream 2, in order to increase energy dependence on Russia & enrich Putin’s pockets to continue his attacks on🇺🇦. Since 1981, US warned about over reliance on…

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Xi Jinping has a problem. H/T @mrbcyber

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'Everything indicates’ Chinese ship damaged Baltic pipeline on purpose, Finland says ‘I would think that you would notice that you’re dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers,’ says minister. 🧐But now what?

‘Everything indicates’ Chinese ship damaged Baltic pipeline on purpose, Finland says

‘I would think that you would notice that you’re dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers,’ says minister.

www.politico.eu

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Surprise: Ukraine allegedly finding more Chinese components in Russian weapons

Reuters: Ukraine allegedly finding more Chinese components in Russian weapons

Ukraine has allegedly been finding an increasing number of components originating from China in Russian weapons recovered on the battlefield, Reuters reported on April 14.

kyivindependent.com

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VW employees are disgusted by this joke of an audit in Xinjiang. “The consultancy firm hired by Volkswagen to investigate allegations of forced labour in the carmaker’s Xinjiang plant in China is facing a staff rebellion after the report cleared the German company of human…

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6 years

Aah, what people will do to prevent colds this flu season.

CNN

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Yes, that's a car crammed to the hilt with oranges. Police ended up finding more than four tons of the fruit when they they pulled over two cars after a short chase in Seville, Spain

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What this article does not point out is that 27 silent diesel submarine engines were sold to 🇨🇳PLA(N) by a German company. It is quite a stretch of the imagination to explain that these engines were dual use. With US allies like these . . . 🤔

German technology found in China's warships: report

Engines developed in Germany can evade export control bans due to their status as a so-called dual-use technology, a German media investigation has revealed.

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Pic is for the history books. Did Macron throw @vonderleyen under the bus as he basked in the attention of Chinese Communist Party officialdom which designed an agenda to flatter his ego while leaving @vonderleyen to communicate all serious and consequential messages?

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👀A Chinese container ship called ‘Newnew Polar Bear’ is at the centre of a Finnish investigation into the potential sabotage of a gas pipeline and data cable between the Nordic country and Estonia. Finnish police said on Friday that they were was focusing on the Hong…

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This is a bit cringey. Borrell begs Beijing to take EU seriously as a great power—but true great powers never need to say that.

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“The world is at a turning point in history. The international community is facing its greatest trial since World War II, and we have entered a new era of crisis,” Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu said on the opening page of the 2023 defense white paper, titled “Defense…

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Looks like China is decoupling from US consulting firms. The problem is, w/out due diligence, companies can’t fulfill their legal requirements which will prevent them from further investments in🇨🇳. “Clients are saying we can no longer work with American consulting firms,” said…

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Ukraine teachers tortured for refusing to teach in Russian.These stories of brave teachers,1 put in solitary confinement,1 creating online courses for🇺🇦& for those who left,& 1 preserving🇺🇦textbooks that🇷🇺soldiers demanded 2B destroyed r incredibly moving.

Ukraine war: Tortured for refusing to teach in Russian

Teachers in parts of recently-occupied Ukraine say they were beaten and forced to destroy textbooks.

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Best line of the day: "We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us."

Opinion | Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost (Published 2019)

We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.

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The story of the Newnew Polar Bear, a Chinese owned ship from Hainan, gets stranger and stranger. Finnish authorities recover anchor which appears to have been dragged across the seabed and damaged the pipeline. Investigators are now trying to assess if it was done on purpose.

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This cover on Europe’s strategic impotence from ⁦ @politico ⁩

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4 years

Chinese Communist Party info war: 1) Label anyone a racist who mentions that epicenter of coronavirus was in Wuhan.This effectively creates self- censorship. 2)Use troll army & fellow travelers to attack people @twitter 3)Use Twitter to spread CCP propaganda, blame US & sow doubt

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Reminder #Tweeter blocked in 🇨🇳 but becomes a weapon at the service of CCP propaganda war. @FRS_org @Anne_MarieBrady

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It was India, not China, that was the greatest trading partner of the Roman Empire. @NYRB_Imprints reviews 3 new books on this subject. This picture of an ancient ivory statue from India unearthed in Pompeii was mentioned in @GiorgiaMeloni 's opening speech at @Raisinadialogue .…

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Can you hear that sucking sound—it’s money leaving🇨🇳’s stock market.🧐 “Nearly 9/10ths of the foreign money that flowed into🇨🇳’s stock market in 2023 has already left, spurred by mounting doubts about Beijing’s willingness to take serious action to boost flagging growth. Since…

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Richard Haas nails it: "Increasingly, it appears that Xi is turning to nationalism as a substitute for economic growth as a source of political legitimacy. And when it comes to generating popular support in🇨🇳, nothing competes w/ asserting the mainland’s sovereignty over Taiwan."

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Within 4 yrs of China joining WTO: “last penicillin fermentation plant in US closed; China’s vitamin C cartel forced closure of last US production facility & last aspirin manufacturing facility ceased biz because of predatory pricing by Chinese firms.”

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China is threatening to wreak havoc on America’s drug supply amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Thanks to our globalist elite and especially missteps during the Obama-Biden administration, Beijing

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We have all been waiting for this—and now it has happened. 💣 “China has launched an investigation into Apple iPhone maker Foxconn over tax and land use, Chinese state media reported on Sunday.”

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Chinese Communist Party’s Lawfare and the SEC’s myopia. Matt Pottinger gives the best quote: “If the SEC doesn’t challenge Beijing’s primacy,” Pottinger, a former US deputy national security adviser, “it will end up like an airport X-ray machine operator who is good at spotting…

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#parisriots All concerts, performances, cancelled across France. Widespread looting, malls, cars, luxury stores, government offices.Transport ends at 9:00 PM for all of France and curfew in Paris. They

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One of Xi Jinping’s fears. “At two high-level meetings in Beijing this month, Xi told military leaders they must “focus on solving the prominent problems that persist at party organisations on all levels with regard to enforcing the party’s absolute leadership over the military”.…

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Rising US congressional security comes as Biden administration attempts to cut flow of US money to Chinese tech w/ military applications of which Blackrock is being investigated. Too bad European funds can’t get on board w/ this as German firms, for example, are investing in…

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“Pessimism about China is becoming entrenched. In Bank of America’s latest Asia fund manager survey from early Aug, 84% of respondents said they believed Chinese equities were in the middle of a structural derating—in other words, a lasting contraction in the proportion of…

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Finland recently joined #NATO . I was surprised to hear Alex Stubb, who is running for president of Finland, glibly remark at an event in Brussels that he was inspired by Machiavelli and would hold the US hand 75% of the time and the other 25% of the time work with China. That is…

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Beijing’s strategy of elite capture is the gift that just keeps on giving. 🧐

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German businesses that bet big on China are starting to worry as the two pillars of their economic growth have changed. "Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine forced Germany to wean itself off the gas that provided its industry with cheap power. China’s drive toward self-reliance means a…

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German Foreign Min delivers a vy different msg from Macron. “Conflicts can only be solved peacefully.A unilateral,to say nothing of a violent,change of the status quo would be unacceptable to us as Europeans.” Macron:Europe should not get “caught up in crises that are not ours”

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This sounds like a mafia movie script on the dangers and perils of being a rating agency in China. 👀 “The move by the US rating agency highlights the unease of many foreign companies doing business in the world’s second-largest economy, where some have suffered police raids,…

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Many policymakers were surprised by how far Chinese researchers penetrated research institutions. “In collaborations, China dominates its relationships with academic partners.” Total share* (vertical axis) and proportion for top eight research collaborators with China @ft

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.⁦⁦ @GLandsbergis ⁩ : “Unfortunately, our geopolitical blindness has not yet been cured. We chose not to see the threat of Russian aggression,& now we are choosing not to see the threat of Chinese aggression. We are on the verge of repeating the same mistake.”

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2 years

OMG, please, please make him stop.

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@truthandfiction You obviously missed his JFK photo shoot a couple of days before.

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. @Chellaney : "China’s claims to India’s vast Himalayan borderlands are based on their alleged historical links to Tibet. If China is merely occupying Tibet, how can it claim sovereignty over those borderlands?"