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I had the pleasure of interviewing Chinese journalist and social media legend Chen Weihua on the streets of Brussels about his background and the growing tensions between the collective west and China, Russia and the multipolar world.

By Derek Cai BBC News

US President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraiser in California.

His remarks come a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mr Xi for talks in Beijing, which were aimed at easing tensions between the two superpowers.

Mr Xi said some progress had been made in Beijing, while Mr Blinken indicated both sides were open to more talks.

China is yet to respond to Mr Biden's comments.

President Biden, at the fundraiser on Tuesday night local time, also said Mr Xi was embarrassed over the recent tensions around a Chinese spy balloon that had been blown off course over the US.

"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset, in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it, was he didn't know it was there," Mr Biden said.

"That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened."

Mr Blinken's visit to Beijing - the first by a top US diplomat in almost five years - restarted high-level communications between the two countries. Both Mr Biden and Mr Xi hailed it as a welcome development. But Mr Blinken made clear that major differences remain between the two countries.

Washington and Beijing have long locked horns over an array of issues including trade, human rights, and Taiwan.

But relations have especially deteriorated in the past year. With the US election looming and tensions with China emerging as a political issue, some Republican senators have attacked the Biden administration for being "soft" on China.

Never been this excited for a countdown.

• Two terrorist attacks this month (June 2023) in Southeast Asia have been carried out by groups backed by the United States government and its allies for decades;

• This includes a singer murdered in Myanmar and a series of armed attacks carried out on police stations in Vietnam killing 9 including several civilians;

• British state media, the BBC, and US government-funded media platform Radio Free Asia have attempted to spin and even justify this terrorism as part of a much wider pattern promoting and defending terrorism as a means to counter China’s rise and punish nations working closely with China;

• The opposition in Myanmar has openly been backed by the US and UK for decades - fighting to reinstall Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy back into power;

• In Vietnam, the ethnic Montagnards had fought alongside US invaders in the Vietnam War, and since then have worked closely with the US through the National Endowment for Democracy toward separatism;

• Much of this context is omitted from Western state-media accounts of the terrorism;

• Both Myanmar and Vietnam’s current governments have close relations with China. Vietnam, while depicted in the Western media as “anti-China,” has worked with China to build infrastructure within its borders and access Chinese rail projects to bring their products all the way to Europe;

End of Wolfowitz doctrine! End of unipolarity! We win!

Polymatter has made some state departmenty videos in the past but finally a decent video on "social credit score"

Would be nice if more Billionaires end up sinking into the Atlantic if you ask me.

Check out what residents had to say to BreakThrough reporter Luis De Jesus when he asked "Have you seen any Chinese here?

Came across this on Twitter

Summary so far:

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met China's President Xi Jinping as he wraps up a two-day visit to Beijing
• Blinken says he and Xi had "robust conversation" about global affairs, including Russia's "war of aggression against Ukraine"
• He says he has been seeking to "disabuse" China of the notion the US is "seeking to economically contain them"
• Blinken reiterates that the US does not support Taiwan's independence - stating it does not wish to change the status quo
• Alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, as well as the issue of North Korea, were also raised
• Blinken says some parts of the talks were "constructive", but adds there is "work to do" in other areas
• Blinken earlier spent hours in meetings with Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi and Foreign Minister Qin Gang
• China-US ties have steadily declined due to trade conflicts, tensions over human rights, and Taiwan - among other issues

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My name's Lilly Wachowski.

I'm out here on the picket line to support my fellow union, brothers, sisters, and siblings, for better wages, for a better future. And I'm also here because I think that this is a microcosm of a much larger issue.

There's a correlation between what's happening here and what's happening in the world in terms of the flow of wealth in the world. It's like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The middle class is getting squeezed out, and a lot more of them are living on the margins of society than ever before.

If we can start pushing back on these oligarchs, we can start to rearrange how, not just in this industry, but all industries, are ordered.

I just read "In Defense of Self Defense" on the marxist website. Huey was a total badass. I really like this part...

• When a mechanic wants to fix a broken down car engine he must have the necessary tools to do the job. When the people move for liberation, they must have the basic tool of liberation: the gun. Only with the power of the gun can the black masses halt the terror and brutality perpetuated against them by the armed racist power structure; and in one sense only by the power of the gun can the whole world be transformed into the earthly paradise dreamed of by the people from time immemorial. One successful practitioner of the art and science of national liberation and self defense put it this way: “We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.” (Brother Mao Tse-Tung)

Huey was one of the co-founders of the black panther party. He was known for being an advocate of self-defense and used his position as a leader within the Black Panther Party to welcome women and LGBT people into the party, holding the belief that homosexuals "might be the most oppressed people".

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that he hopes China will play a role in promoting reconciliation between his country and Israel.