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Labelling every socialist country 'undemocratic' based on Red Scare propaganda is sad and pathetic. Oh, and there was no Tiananmen Square 'Massacre'.

Meme aside, tomorrow is June 4th, or the Reddit Memorial Day™ for the Tiananmen Square 'massacre'. I thought I might give a heads up for people who are not feeling like stepping into radio active waste tomorrow.

Political economist Radhika Desai discusses how capitalism is inherently imperialist, what the class struggle looks like at the international level, and how "the dominant ideas are the ideas of the ruling classes of the dominant nations".

This is a discussion of chapter 3, "The geopolitical economy of capitalism and socialism", from Radhika's book "Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy".

source https://historyinpieces.com/video/footage/science-spying

The military countermeasures China has taken around the Taiwan region are aimed at separatist activities seeking "Taiwan independence" and foreign interference, which are fully justified and beyond reproach, Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, said in response to repeated false accusations made by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Jing made the remarks on Saturday at a briefing for media held by the Chinese delegation at the 20th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.

The United States is stirring up confrontation for its selfish purposes by making false accusations against China at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a Chinese military official said on Saturday.

At a briefing for media held by the Chinese delegation, Lieutenant General Jing Jianfeng, deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, said U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is trying to consolidate the U.S. hegemonic position and provoke bloc confrontation by advocating the Indo-Pacific strategy in his speeches.

China's senior military expert Zhang Chi said, "During the past 40 years, the U.S. and NATO caused a series of conflicts, turmoil, and even wars in the Middle East and Europe, resulting in severe humanitarian crises and disasters. We have reasons to be concerned that the U.S.-led NATO intervention in the Asia-Pacific region may bring about instability and unrest, and may even lead to conflicts and chaos."

Any Germans want to weigh in on this? I believe the AfD is, like, super far right and it has 18%? That seems like a lot of support…

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BRICS nations announced a new currency designed to replace the dollar.The creation of this new gold and commodity backed currency will be discussed at the BRICS summit this August.

BT's Kei Pritsker explains how this new currency could overturn the hegemony of the US dollar.

Fuck I hate this country.

Brian Berletic of The New Atlas and Mike Jones of iEarlGrey joined the program to discuss the growing unrest in Serbia and NATO's role in fueling it.

As you can see on Lemmy dev parentis_shotgun's profile, they were very active plugging Lemmy and answering questions in the Apolo dev's thread about Reddit's API pricing, with 120 total comments made in that post.

They were well-received, with 3 of their comments getting over 400 upvotes. However, reddit admins must have noticed that reddit is bleeding users to Lemmy, because all but 2 of parentis_shotgun's 120 comments (one about Beehaw and one about Microsoft) in that thread are removed.

Conclusion: We need more Lemmyposting on reddit so people know to join

Edit: @dessalines@lemmy.ml posted about it

Twelve-year-old Bangladeshi girl Alifa Chin has a unique story. In 2010, her mother was diagnosed with a serious heart disease. Local medical conditions were poor but luckily a hospital ship from China visited Bangladesh at the time, and they managed to successfully deliver the baby.

Sheng Ruifang was one of the Chinese doctors who treated Alifa's mother. She now works at No. 1 Hospital Affiliated with the Naval Medical University in Shanghai. Alifa calls Sheng her "Chinese mom."

This March, Alifa wrote a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, telling the story of her birth. At the Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh, Alifa received a reply from President Xi.

In his letter, Xi encourages Alifa to work hard and study medicine in China in the future.