Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo warned that Europe needs to act immediately to address the energy crisis or risk the kind of fundamental economic shutdown that the bloc would struggle to recover from.
“A few weeks like this and the European economy will just go into a full stop. Recovering from that is going to be much more complicated than intervening in gas markets today,” he said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg News. “The risk of that is de-industrialization and severe risk of fundamental social unrest.”
Her name is Segolene Royal. For many years she has worked in ministerial positions in the French government, representing the Socialist Party, she is the wife of François Holland, the former President of France, who signed the Minsk Agreements.
So for the first time in the EU at this level of politics she said Zelensky is a liar, the Mariupol maternity hospital story and Buča “tragedy” are falsies and it’s time to end Ukrainian military propaganda which is a complete lie.
One must be incredibly brave to say this publicly under the current anti-Russian European dictatorship. They will persecute her, that’s understandable, but that these words will find those who will support them is a fact.
Video: Xi Jinping’s visit to Kazakhstan has deep meaning, retired army lieutenant general in Taiwan: “prototype of a complete land power state (China, the Soviet Union, Iran, Turkey and other countries) UK & US sea power state finished” 習近平出訪哈薩克有深意 台灣退休陸軍中將帥化民:完整陸權國家雛形 (中國蘇聯伊朗土耳其等國) 英美海權國家玩完 栗戰書打前站 大國博弈有重大協議 https://rumble.com/v1jkcgx-xi-jinpings-visit-to-kazakhstan-has-deep-meaning.html
The new situation in the West: U.S. national policy: “Talk one thing, do another thing” Where the benefits lie, countries are divided and drifting apart. CIA playbook: “we lied, we cheat, we stole” 西方新形勢: 美國國策奉行: 「講一套 做一套」利之所在 各國分裂 漸行漸遠 美國 CIA 手冊：“我們撒謊、欺騙、偷竊” https://youtu.be/aCLGe4z8Sz4
It’s good that HK teachers who spread lies and sinophobia have left, such as the one who told his students that the opium war was fought because the Brits wants to help Chinese to stop opium smoking.
This is why you don’t mourn imperialists and colonialists. Roughly every 6 days in the world, a country celebrates its independence from Britain. It’s the most widely celebrated holiday in the world. 這就是為什麼你們不哀悼帝國主義和殖民主義。 世界上大約每 6 天，就有一個國家慶祝脫離英國獨立。 這是世界上慶祝最廣泛的節日
Why would Shanghai United Media Group, whose heritage is Liberation Daily 解放日报 and Wenhui Bao 文汇报 be promoting Western-oriented garbage like Sixth Tone? It’s definitely a Western-influenced operation.
The following comments are by contributors from SF Bay Area China Group
As a child in HK I learned the Chinese people felt humiliated and angry about the British rule. My father for example never stopped talking about the subjugated HK political system where all the best Gov’t jobs go to the most unqualified British white people.And how British police inspectors rained terror over their Chinese subjects and committed serious police brutality with impunity against HK demonstrators during HK riots in 1967. We were a degraded people born into an institutional second class citizenship. Our Chinese ethnic language and culture were considered inferior to our colonial master’s.
I am not surprised by the Six Tone article. Even recently, the People’s Education Press apologized for controversial textbook art accused of distorting kids’ aesthetic taste. See https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202205/1266605.shtml. Another history textbook from the People’s Education Press chose sports jerseys with the numbers “7”, “3” “1” on them. Two of the authors are Japanese nationals.
China has been heavily influenced by the west, especially the US, in the 1980s and 90s, in the social sciences and education. In the 1950s, China learned from the Soviets. In the 1980s and 90s, China learned from the west, in areas not only in market economics but in many areas. If you read or listen to Wen Tiejun, he will tell you that even now the many social science textbooks used in Chinese Universities are from the US. So this Six Tone article is not a surprise. While the influence of what is derogatorily called “公知 or Public Intellectuals” is declining in China, particularly among the Chinese young people, many of them are still around and are exerting their influence. Remember the May 2020 virus diary by well known writer Fang Fang that disparaged China’s efforts in controlling the COVID pandemic in Wuhan?
The reality is that it will take a long time for China and other countries of the global south to develop a system for replacing the Eurocentric narrative of the world that was built up in the last few hundred years.
John is right about the wide latitude for opinion in China, at least on some topics.
The UK New PM – What a curse! 48 hours after she saw the Queen, first job is the State Funeral for the Queen (生人勿近) 一上台剋死個事頭婆, 然後首要工作: 辦理喪事⋯災星? Queen Elizabeth II survived World War 2, Economic Crashes, saw plenty of terrorist attacks around the world, Survived COVID. But couldn’t Survive UK new prime minister.
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