1º️ “America’s Fundamental Misunderstanding of China” Kishshore Mahbuhani
“There’s also a fundamentally misunderstanding of China in this country. You’ve seen that China was ruled by the communist party in 1949, in 1979, 2019 & you assumed that China hasn’t changed but it has obviously changed fundamentally. I went to China for the 1st time in 1980. The Chinese didn’t have the freedom, they couldn’t choose what to wear. They all wore Maoist suits. They couldn’t choose where to live, what to study. Certainly, zero Chinese could travel overseas. NOW you go back to China, the Chinese can choose what to wear, where to live, where to work, where to study & guess what? Every year 120 million Chinese leave China freely as tourists. Amazingly 120 million return to China freely. Now, if China was a gulag Stalinist state, would you go back to China? And so there’s a complete misunderstanding of China. Clearly, while the political freedoms in China haven’t increased. THE PERSONAL FREEDOMS OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE EXPLODED. I can tell you that one of the questions future historians will be very puzzled by is the judgements made by America on China. I’ll tell you why they’ll be puzzled. The U.S.A. is about 240 years old. Chinese history maybe 2400 years old. In today’s world, you have a society which is 240 years old passing judgment on a society that is 2400 years old & at a time when China has had its best 30 years of history. The Americans are telling the Chinese ‘you guys are not doing very well, really you should change your political system. Listen to us, become a democracy all be well with you’. And I can tell you one thing, that Chinese leaders there have a whole shade of opinions among them. The one complete point of agreement that they all have is that they saw what happened to the Soviet Communist Party. They saw what happened to the Soviet Union. They saw what happened to Russia. IT WENT OVERNIGHT TO A DEMOCRACY. GUESS WHAT, THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY IMPLODED, LIFE EXPECTANCY CAME DOWN, INFANT MORTALITY WENT UP. THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE SUFFERED & THE CHINESE SAID ‘THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET INSTANT DEMOCRACY’.
SO WHEN THE CHINESE SAY ‘GIVE US TIME, LET US TRANSFORM OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IN OUR OWN WAY’, I say ‘LET THEM DO IT’. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW BETTER WHAT’s GOOD FOR THEM?’. DOES THAT REFLECT THE FACT THAT FOR 200 YEARS THAT YOU GOT USE TO TELLING THE WORLD HOW THEY SHOULD BEHAVE. THEREFORE, YOU THINK YOU CAN BE A BETTER JUDGE OF THE REST OF THE WORLD? So that judgemental character in the West has got to adapt to the rest of the world because the rest of THE WORLD IS LESS WILLING TO BE JUDGED BY YOU”.
https://youtu.be/Ojr-tqaQQOQ
Kishore Mahbubani served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and held the position of President of the United Nations Security Council between January 2001 and May 2002.
2ºIt's now clear that in the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in Washington were panicked. At the time, it wasn’t clear what the mortality rate from the virus would turn out to be. But that wasn’t their main concern. Officials in Washington were terrified of being exposed. They’d used American tax dollars to fund reckless experiments in China that in the end likely created Covid-19. If that fact were to become public, they’d be shamed and ridiculed and possibly even indicted. Their professional lives would be over. So they immediately set to work hiding it on a cover up. Last winter, a group of well-known scientists publicly dismissed the lab leak theory as absurd and categorically untrue, even as they wrote emails to each other admitting that the virus looked engineered by human hands in a lab. Meanwhile, Tony Fauci made sure fact-checkers censored anyone online who dared challenge the official story, which we now know was a lie. In the final days of the last administration, the State Department finally began a serious investigation into the origins of Covid and into what was happening Wuhan Institute of Virology. Almost immediately after the election, Joe Biden canceled it.
In all, the lying went on for a year and a half. We’re just learning how deep it went.
3ºAnother example of why your ratings are in the tank....... just do the actual news and you may recover.
"Another left-leaning media narrative with fact-checker cover went belly-up this week, as an Inspector General report found former President Donald Trump did not have Lafayette Square forcefully cleared of protesters so he could pose in front of a church last year.
"Fact-checked" mainstream media stories unhelpful to Republicans or conservatives – like ones related to Russia or vaccine development or police shootings or the origins of the Coronavirus – have later fallen apart or been amended, updated, corrected, or retracted over the past few years. And observers are taking note it doesn't seem to go the other way."
4º️Canadian scholar & G7 Research Group Compliance Director Ian Stansbury says “A lot of media is just not reporting very accurately. I believe any country’s sovereignty should be respected. For example, there’s a whole lot of issues I could list that you don’t see other countries moving into try & have an influence on. For example, the issue on gun control in the United States is largely an American issue. Very few governments try to have an influence on. The issue of immigration in Australia. Very few countries are stepping in to have an influence on that. There’s this kind of weird double standard of sovereignty. Where in the West, countries respect other western governments sovereignty. Their sovereignty is all respected but as soon as it comes to China, for some reason that standard changes.”
https://youtu.be/e9EfF76tRFQ
5ºThere are a few "India" variants, but one called B.1.617.2 appears to be spreading more quickly in the UK. Second jabs for all over-50s (and the clinically vulnerable) in England are now being brought forward to protect more people, faster. Second doses will come eight weeks after the first, rather than 11-12 weeks. Meanwhile, a hotel reported to be used by members of the G7, has closed because members of staff tested positive for COVID-19. The Pedn Olva hotel in St Ives, a seaside town adjacent to the location of the G7 leaders' meeting in Cornwall, has shut temporarily. Hope those G6ers are "fully vaccinated".....or will it matter?
6º American foreign policy analyst who is a Muslim speaks out in support of China and summarizes the true situation about Ughuirs in Xinjiang, debunking U.S propaganda.
“In an interview with CGTN anchor Wang Guan, Foreign policy analyst and former Miss New Jersey Sameera Khan says Washington often uses "human rights" as pretext to invade Muslim countries such as Iraq, Syria and Libya. Similarly, the United State's narratives of "genocide" and "forced labor" in Xinjiang are tactics to weaken its main rival China.”
Check out the YouTube video under “Foreign policy analyst, former Miss New Jersey on Xinjiang & U.S. propaganda”
7ºWhy CNN give attention in Ethiopia only for Tigray people what about Amhara people nearly 2,000,000 including children who have been displaced from their homes in Metekel, Benshangul, Ataye, North Shewa, Yifat, Kara Korie, Wolega, Wollo, Shashemene, Mojo, Assela, Arsi, Asasasa, Gedio, and others after their houses and churches were burned down. They lost their families due to killings by armed groups supported by government officials. Many of those that escaped the killings are now in tents at the Changi Center and other areas in Amhara Region. Once productive members of the society, now their properties have been destroyed due to ethnic-based attacks. They are now out in the streets begging to feed their families. They need help. If you would like to help them you can go to Changni Center. You can also contact people that have provided them temporary shelter in other areas of the Amhara region. If you want to be helpfull then please expose the suffering of the amhara people in ethiopia for the past 30 years. To this day more and more people are being slaughtered and mutilated.
8ºOpinion: Bring peace to the world. Stop killings and land grabbing in Palestine.
US is responsible for
1. All the killings and land grabbing operations conducted by the Terrorist State of Israel in Palestine using US supplied weapons and jets
2. Wasting money of US taxpayers. For every dollar the Terrorist State of Israel pays US for the weapons and jets, it costs US taxpayers $100 to fund the pointless wars which are a direct result and consequence of the killings and land grabbing operations by the Terrorist State of Israel in Palestine. US government and politicians need to answer its citizens on the monetary losses and lives lost in those wars.
With ‘ally’ like the Terrorist State of Israel, US doesn’t need an enemy.
9º️️ “Unmasking Hypocrisy and Propaganda
The use of think tanks as a political tool to promote an ideological bias or government agenda is becoming more and more prevalent in the current climate as many Western nations struggle to come to terms with their systemic failures, and divert their people's attention to unrelated matters.
While some think tanks are aimed at promoting benevolent goals such as global cooperation or environmental causes, others have a more insidious agenda. Often cited by media outlets as "independent institutions of scholarly research", some think tanks, who are tax-exempt and do not have to reveal how they are funded, are precisely the opposite.
In fact, many think tanks are funded by governments and even weapons manufacturers.The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, ASPI, gets its funding from the Australian and US governments and has been integral in the anti-China sentiment in Australia, said political commentator Jordan Shanks.
By producing pro-American and anti-China literature, ASPI has risen to a dominant position in shaping Australia's foreign policy towards China, according to Geoff Raby, former Australian ambassador for China.
Meanwhile, some think tank experts have dubious credibility. Adrian Zenz, the German scholar often cited by Western media as the "expert" on Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, claimed that in Xinjiang there may be more than one million people detained. But the Grayzone, an independent news website, revealed he based this claim on a single report by Istiqlal TV, a Uygur exile media organization based in Turkey.
Such think tanks and experts are not doing research, said Shen Yi, a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Instead, they are practicing propaganda and are often used to indirectly push the agendas of the governments and corporations that financially support them.
Researchers, politicians, and media collude to drive anti-China sentiment worldwide. First, so-called independent researchers or institutions release a report making accusations against China; then certain Western politicians quickly follow up and make statements citing the report; next, media outlets report the news; last, certain Western governments take advantage of the media's leverage as tacit approval for further actions such as passing legislation to ratchet up pressure on China.” Zhibin Zhu
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10ºWhy does America focus only on Ethiopia's Tigray Region? What about the voiceless Amhara people who have been killed and displaced for 27 years by TPLF when it was in power and also the Amhara people that have been massacred and displaced by the Oromo Prosperity Party since it held power three years ago? There are nearly 2,000,000 Amhara people including children who have been displaced from their homes in Metekel, Benshangul, Ataye, North Shewa, Yifat, Kara Korie, Wolega, Wollo, Shashemene, Mojo, Assela, Arsi, Asasasa, Gedio, and others after their houses and churches were burned down. They lost their families due to killings by armed groups supported by government officials. Many of those that escaped the killings are now in tents at the Changi Center and other areas. Once productive members of the society, now their properties have been destroyed due to ethnic-based attacks. They are now out in the streets begging to feed their families. They need help. If you would like to help them you can go to Changni Center. You can also contact people that have provided them temporary shelter in other areas of the Amhara region. If you want to be helpfull then please expose the suffering of the amhara people in ethiopia for the past 30 years. To this day more and more people are being slaughtered and mutilated.