The Associated Press, however, quoted an unnamed UN official as saying distribution of the shipment had not begun as of Friday afternoon.

The Guardian changes titles more frequently than you change underwear.

According to Allen Weinstein, the founder of the NED, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA”.

The NED is not the CIA (and the degree of inter-agency cooperation is likely not much greater than that between the CIA and NSA), but it serves the same purpose as an arm of the US intelligence apparatus. This is indisputable, as admitted directly by the founder of the NED.

IIRC with the pending fall of the Soviet Union (the primary counterweight to US influence) the US no longer saw a need for covertly influencing governments.

ETIM is the Uyghur nationalist terrorist group

Usually not the biggest fan of bellingcat because they tend to be overconfident (and often wrong as a result), but when you have a surplus of information like in this case there’s little they can deny…

April Fools right guys? Haha… ha…

The US claims ETIM and Uyghur terrorists don’t exist.

The line between joint counterterrorism and an invasion is drawn with chalk in a rainstorm.

Bigoted against freedom and democracy

Funny how ETIM is only a problem when it helps your argument. Otherwise, it’s “I can’t imagine why the Sea Sea Pea would do such a thing to poor innocent Uyghurs.”

The lack of terrorist attacks and mass shootings in China recently shows that whatever they’re doing, it’s working. China won the War on Terror.

China and Taiwan is a domestic issue stemming from civil war, which you’d know if you ever picked up a history book. There’s a reason Taiwan’s current territorial claims are larger than the entirety of mainland China’s (China signed some treaty with Vietnam, which Taiwan does not recognize).

China doesn’t typically intervene in clearly foreign affairs unless Chinese citizens are harmed. This is as true in Sri Lanka as it will be in Pakistan. Balochistan’s days are numbered.

Edit: isn’t it just a little odd that Russia, Iran, and Pakistan (but really China) just conveniently got hit by terrorist attacks in the first 3 months of 2024?

Real “cultural genocide” is when your schools have specific halal canteens in the dining hall.

Freedom and democracy is when you outlaw Islamic schools.

Weirdest ISIS attack in a while for sure. The Iranian attack was via suicide bombers, which is at least ideologically consistent.

Following the fall of the Qing Dynasty (and the ensuing Kuomintang government led by Sun Yat-sen and then Chiang Kai-shek), Tibet separated from China (an de facto independence which was never recognized by either China, Britain, or India) and began negotiations with the British to demarcate the line separating Tibet from India. In an effort to gain de jure recognition of the Tibetan state, Tibet gave up Arunachal Pradesh (among other territories) to the British. China at the time has bigger issues to worry about (internal turmoil from regime change, the Japanese threat, and then the civil war that saw the formation of the PRC), and while it never recognized British-Tibetan negotiations it took no action against it. In 1949, the PRC officially supplants the ROC and by 1950, Mao Zedong annexes Tibet with less than 300 total casualties from both sides.

The British negotiated with a government they didn’t recognize to take territory away from a government they did. Sounds familiar? Maybe it’s understandable, since Britain had more pressing concerns in Europe at the time.

Gee it sure sucks that Evergrande collapsed. What a horrible sign for the Chinese economy!

Instead of evil Russian fossil fuel producers, you now have very nice very cool very reliable American fossil fuels producers.

Exxon Mobil publicly denied global warming for years but quietly predicted it

‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says

They cleaned up BP’s massive oil spill. Now they’re sick – and want justice

Recession is a fact. PMI contraction is a fact. When your government has taken on debt with the assumption that number keep go up, that’s a problem.

The third holiest site in Islam. Access restricted.

Huh.

Aww is your poor sacred freedom of speech being attacked by checks notes your President?

Interesting receipts you provide… Receipts with zero evidence actually provided.

OP is correct. The fact is that Chinese cars sold for export are substantially more expensive than those sold for domestic consumption. Unless your argument is that they’re… Dumping domestically?

Better tell all the investors, then.