Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022-03-10: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-03-10). China offers to mediate talks between Russia and the Ukraine. wsws.org Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's comments come amid mounting pressure from the US and its allies demanding that Beijing condemn the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and impose sanctions on Moscow.

ecns.cn (2022-03-10). Xinjiang representative says women's rights are lawfully guaranteed. ecns.cn Women in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are guaranteed of their lawful rights, including participation in democratic decision-making and personal reproductive autonomy, a Xinjiang representative said on Tuesday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). Wild lilies in full bloom as snow melts in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Wild lilies, also known as the top ice flowers, the first flower of spring in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, bloom in Qapqal county, Xinjiang.

_____ (2022-03-09). The American Empire Self-Destructs. popularresistance.org The basic assumption of economic and diplomatic forecasting is that every country will act in its own self-interest. Such reasoning is of no help in today's world. Observers across the political spectrum are using phrases like "shooting themselves in their own foot" to describe U.S. diplomatic confrontation with Russia and allies alike. But nobody thought that The American Empire would self-destruct this fast. | For more than a generation the most prominent U.S. diplomats have warned about what they thought would represent the ultimate external threat: an alliance of Russia and China dominating Eurasia. America's…

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). China provides humanitarian aid supplies for Ukraine. ecns.cn At the request of the Ukrainian side, the Red Cross Society of China will provide humanitarian aid supplies to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.

2022-03-11 02:00 | 22:00 EST | jz | 7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 

2022-03-09: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). China provides humanitarian aid supplies for Ukraine. ecns.cn At the request of the Ukrainian side, the Red Cross Society of China will provide humanitarian aid supplies to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.

ecns.cn (2022-03-09). Wild lilies in full bloom as snow melts in Xinjiang. ecns.cn Wild lilies, also known as the top ice flowers, the first flower of spring in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, bloom in Qapqal county, Xinjiang.

New Atlas (2022-03-08). US-funded Uyghur "Right Org" Hires Advocate FOR Genocide in Xinjiang. newatlas.report March 9, 2022 (The New Atlas) — The US accuses China of "genocide" in its western Xinjiang region. However, China had been reacting to US-sponsored separatism including a years-long campaign of deadly terrorism and militancy. So-called "human rights" groups funded by the US government are in fact separatist organizations sponsored by Washington hiding behind the …

New Atlas (2022-03-08). How to Debunk the West's Xinjiang "Genocide" Lies in 2 Minutes. newatlas.report March 8, 2022 (The New Atlas) — Just how hard (or easy) is it to cut through Western propaganda and daily headlines accusing China of "genocide" in Xinjiang against its ethnic Uyghur minority? Very easy. In fact it takes less than 2 minutes to actually follow media citations to what are ultimately dead ends or …

_____ (2022-03-08). Will ASEAN Survive the China-US Confrontation? journal-neo.org China has been actively pushing the US out of its place as "world hegemon" for a number of years now. Through soft power — lucrative trade agreements, economic aid, generous loans and investments — the PRC gains partners and allies across the world. The scale of China's "offensive" is such that the PRC is cooperating …

2022-03-09 22:14 | 18:14 EST | jz | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 

2022-03-08: News Headlines

New Atlas (2022-03-08). How to Debunk the West's Xinjiang "Genocide" Lies in 2 Minutes. newatlas.report March 8, 2022 (The New Atlas) — Just how hard (or easy) is it to cut through Western propaganda and daily headlines accusing China of "genocide" in Xinjiang against its ethnic Uyghur minority? Very easy. In fact it takes less than 2 minutes to actually follow media citations to what are ultimately dead ends or …

_____ (2022-03-08). Will ASEAN Survive the China-US Confrontation? journal-neo.org China has been actively pushing the US out of its place as "world hegemon" for a number of years now. Through soft power — lucrative trade agreements, economic aid, generous loans and investments — the PRC gains partners and allies across the world. The scale of China's "offensive" is such that the PRC is cooperating …

2022-03-08 23:54 | 19:54 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 

2022-03-07: News Headlines

_____ (2022-03-06). US is Trying to Lure Central Asian Countries into Opposing Russia. journal-neo.org Against the background of the developments in Ukraine in recent days, the US, in the context of adjusting its policy in Central Asia (CA), urgently convened a C5+1 online meeting on February 28, with the participation of foreign ministers: Kazakhstan's Mukhtar Tileuberdi, Kyrgyzstan's Ruslan Kazakbaev, Tajikistan's Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Turkmenistan's Rasit Meredow, Uzbekistan's Abdulaziz Kamilov, and US …

_____ (2022-03-06). Putin, Lenin, Imperialism And The (Real) History Of Ukraine. popularresistance.org The people of this country suffer, I've always thought, from a general ignorance of history. This is because with vast oceans for borders, and ever-friendly neighbors, and no experience of being invaded, living in a country that has always urged assimilation including the acceptance of "American exceptionalism," schooled through an educational system that avoids teaching U.S. history with any degree of credibility so as not to upset anybody, they've never been encouraged to think critically about the past. To ask questions. To raise objections—not necessarily about what happened, but about how to interpret…

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

2022-03-08 03:56 | 23:56 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 

2022-03-06: News Headlines

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

2022-03-07 00:19 | 20:19 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 

2022-03-05: News Headlines

Editor (2022-03-04). Western Media accuse China of wanting to do what U.S. does to other Countries. mronline.org A flurry of recent newspaper articles have denounced what they describe as Chinese imperialism. Such texts are part of a new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves U.S. imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.

ecns.cn (2022-03-04). New species of stegosaur identified in China. ecns.cn Chinese and British paleontologists have identified a new species of stegosaur from China, the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia and one of the earliest unearthed anywhere in the world.

2022-03-05 13:55 | 09:55 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 

2022-03-04: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-03-04). New species of stegosaur identified in China. ecns.cn Chinese and British paleontologists have identified a new species of stegosaur from China, the oldest stegosaur ever found in Asia and one of the earliest unearthed anywhere in the world.

_____ (2022-03-03). Western Media Accuse China Of Wanting To Do What US Does To Other Countries. popularresistance.org Last month, the Washington Post (2/15/22) ran an opinion piece by David Von Drehle claiming that, "in a sense, the alliance of democracies" (by which he means the US and its partners) fell "into a fitful sleep" at the end of the Cold War. "What began as a happy dream of perpetual peace," he contended, "changed in recent years to a nightmare," featuring "Communist empire-building in China." | The notion that there was a "happy dream of perpetual peace at the end of the Cold War" that only recently became a nightmare because of international bad guys like China suggests that Von Drehle himself has been not merely s…

2022-03-05 00:26 | 20:26 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 

2022-03-01: News Headlines

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-02-28). Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War. fair.org The US government in 2020 declared five Chinese media entities to be "not independent news organizations" but rather "effectively controlled by the [Chinese] government" (Politico, Most nations have some form of state media. These days, it's pretty easy for Americans to access any number of foreign state media outlets, and many of them have journalists covering US affairs. Some of those journalists must register as "foreign agents" with the US government. But others don't have to—a distinction that h…

Anonymous103 (2022-02-28). War In Ukraine, The West's Propaganda War Is The End Of Democracy. southfront.org Tianjin explosion in China | Written by Piero Messina | Vladimir Putin has become "Putler", something halfway between Putin and Hitler. For the less aggressive, the Russian president is Vlad the Mad. "There has never been a genocide against the pro-Russian populations in Donbass. Nazi formations do not exist and have never existed in Ukraine and there has been no massacre in Odessa. Putin threatens the world and must be stopped." Western media is treating the Ukrainian crisis as if it were selling soap bars w…

2022-03-01 14:58 | 16:58 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0