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Xi🇨🇳's diplomacy is increasingly about #struggle #斗争
Wang Yiwei, a top intellectual on Xi's Thought, says:
📍West misrepresents China’s struggle as aggressiveness
📍Goal: change international order
📍It's a historical necessity
With whom & how does #China want to struggle?🧵
Wang Yiwei, a top intellectual on Xi's Thought, says:
📍West misrepresents China’s struggle as aggressiveness
📍Goal: change international order
📍It's a historical necessity
With whom & how does #China want to struggle?🧵
2/14
📌WHO IS HE?
📍Vice Pres. of Institute of #XJP Thought on Socialism with CN Characteristics for a New Era, #Renmin Uni
📍Dir. of Institute of International Affairs and EU Research Center at Renmin Uni
📍Major voice on #BRI
📍2008-11 - diplomat at China Mission to the #EU
📌WHO IS HE?
📍Vice Pres. of Institute of #XJP Thought on Socialism with CN Characteristics for a New Era, #Renmin Uni
📍Dir. of Institute of International Affairs and EU Research Center at Renmin Uni
📍Major voice on #BRI
📍2008-11 - diplomat at China Mission to the #EU
3/14
📌3 POINT READOUT
⭐️Geopolitical dialectics – Wang says there's a struggle:
China's thesis of remodeling international order in line with historical trends (ideally with developing countries buy-in)
vs
"West's" reactive anti-thesis of maintaining 🇺🇸 favourable status quo
📌3 POINT READOUT
⭐️Geopolitical dialectics – Wang says there's a struggle:
China's thesis of remodeling international order in line with historical trends (ideally with developing countries buy-in)
vs
"West's" reactive anti-thesis of maintaining 🇺🇸 favourable status quo
7 STEPS FROM DEMOCRACY TO DICTATORSHIP
"Democracy doesn't disappear over night. RW populism doesn't goose-step into power fully formed, it CREEPS!"
7 SIGNS
1. Create a populist nationalist MOVEMENT #Brexit
Target the 'left behind'
Erdogan called it 'the will of the REAL people'😲
"Democracy doesn't disappear over night. RW populism doesn't goose-step into power fully formed, it CREEPS!"
7 SIGNS
1. Create a populist nationalist MOVEMENT #Brexit
Target the 'left behind'
Erdogan called it 'the will of the REAL people'😲
2. Ignore rational EXPERTS: infantalize language eg simple slogans & post-truth politics! #LiarJohnson
3. Immorality #ToriesDevoidOfShame eg #ToriesPartiedWhilePeopleDied
4. Dismantle political/judicial mechanisms eg #RuleOfLaw
Install your own people & toy with institutions!🔥
3. Immorality #ToriesDevoidOfShame eg #ToriesPartiedWhilePeopleDied
4. Dismantle political/judicial mechanisms eg #RuleOfLaw
Install your own people & toy with institutions!🔥
5. Design your own Citizen!
#JohnsonRegime eg Heaton-Harris dictating how academics lecture on #Brexit & Education Sec says students can't criticise PM!
(Erdogan now arrests critics!)
6. Laugh at the Horror! Inhumane cruelty RE refugees, Afghanistan, kids in poverty! #PartyGate!
#JohnsonRegime eg Heaton-Harris dictating how academics lecture on #Brexit & Education Sec says students can't criticise PM!
(Erdogan now arrests critics!)
6. Laugh at the Horror! Inhumane cruelty RE refugees, Afghanistan, kids in poverty! #PartyGate!
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 11/25/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dai…
Millions of crabs shut down the streets on Australia's Christmas Island
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#RedCrabs #australia #ChristmasIsland
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#RedCrabs #australia #ChristmasIsland
The impact of flowering plants on the evolution of life on Earth
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#evolution #FloweringPlants #impact #ResearchResults
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#evolution #FloweringPlants #impact #ResearchResults
March 2015 email: Flynn, along w retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, acted as matchmaker for Palantir & Eastdil Secured, a real estate investment banking firm owned by Wells Fargo.
Flynn & McChrystal & Palantir 👀
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Flynn & McChrystal & Palantir 👀
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Eastdil Secured had been “working on organizational & technology improvements/reforms,” said Doug Philippone, the head of Palantir’s global defense program, in the email.
#Technocracy #autocracy #Trump #kleptocracy #bestfriends #irregularwarfare #Dystopia
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#Technocracy #autocracy #Trump #kleptocracy #bestfriends #irregularwarfare #Dystopia
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SM MF
SM MF
1) The song says, "Each quiet act of dignity is the one that fortifies." America voted soundly in favor of a man of quiet dignity to preclude the seditious intent of a loud, lying,
criminal buffoon. Mr. Biden began day one, signing orders of quiet dignity.
@dccra @elhombrelibre1
criminal buffoon. Mr. Biden began day one, signing orders of quiet dignity.
@dccra @elhombrelibre1
2) Mr. Biden continues restoring America's global presence
and influence with, in his words, "quiet, relentless diplomacy." He isn't hampered, as was his predecessor, by being a bad
actor, leveraged by our adversaries. He works in quiet purpose--understanding America's big stick.
and influence with, in his words, "quiet, relentless diplomacy." He isn't hampered, as was his predecessor, by being a bad
actor, leveraged by our adversaries. He works in quiet purpose--understanding America's big stick.
3) Our new president recently used that stick in vigorous, punitive sanctions against #Belarus, its Putin-backed
dictator who forced the interdiction of an airliner to apprehend a dissident journalist, and wisely extended penalties to
pro-Russia #oligarchs and business interests.
dictator who forced the interdiction of an airliner to apprehend a dissident journalist, and wisely extended penalties to
pro-Russia #oligarchs and business interests.
@GovParsonMO As detailed by the gov after Greitens
sheer stupidity that truly frightens.
Show me incompetence:
Parson’s claims make no sense. His
feigned ignorance surely enlightens.
@BluebirdsofMO @classEireland
@EnglishTeach07 @jzikah
@LottaFightLeft @PhyllisMarion7
sheer stupidity that truly frightens.
Show me incompetence:
Parson’s claims make no sense. His
feigned ignorance surely enlightens.
@BluebirdsofMO @classEireland
@EnglishTeach07 @jzikah
@LottaFightLeft @PhyllisMarion7
@GovParsonMO @BluebirdsofMO @classEireland @EnglishTeach07 @jzikah @LottaFightLeft @PhyllisMarion7 Parson’s tweet makes it patently clear
Donald’s virus won’t soon disappear.
As Mike plays it both ways
many eyebrows we raise.
His mixed messages ring insincere.
We can vote #LIBERTY,
or vote death — we must #VOTE
like it impacts our breath. 😷
🗽 @nicolergalloway
⚰️ @mikeparson
Donald’s virus won’t soon disappear.
As Mike plays it both ways
many eyebrows we raise.
His mixed messages ring insincere.
We can vote #LIBERTY,
or vote death — we must #VOTE
like it impacts our breath. 😷
🗽 @nicolergalloway
⚰️ @mikeparson
@GovParsonMO @BluebirdsofMO @classEireland @EnglishTeach07 @jzikah @LottaFightLeft @PhyllisMarion7 @nicolergalloway @mikeparson County Hickory’s dithering dork to
instruct sex ed would draw a stork.
Science ain’t his forte;
later victims will pay,
but at least he’s an expert on pork.
So to no one’s amazement or shock every county went red on Mike’s clock.
#mogov 🔥 #GovernorArson
instruct sex ed would draw a stork.
Science ain’t his forte;
later victims will pay,
but at least he’s an expert on pork.
So to no one’s amazement or shock every county went red on Mike’s clock.
#mogov 🔥 #GovernorArson
(1/x) Day 7: Pinch hitting for @BonuraErin on this tweetatorial for the #COVID intercession she masterfully designed! On 5/6, we had me discussing the international pandemic responses (2-9) & Dr. Kelsey Priest (@kelseycpriest) talking #syndemics Re addiction dz & COVID19 (10-18).
(2/x) Session 7.1 (Strnad): COVID - Comparing the World’s Responses: We attempted to discuss this topic w/ language highlighting the ways that understandable and changeable actions that countries, businesses, & people perform have influenced different national stories of COVID.
(3/x) Comparing data like national deaths, or even national deaths/per capita can be misleading during a pandemic that is influencing different countries at different times. When did #COVID really hit the countries? Where are you in the epidemiological curve? Eg)
#Racism #Xenophobia #FarRight #Antisemitism #Islamophobia #Bigotry #Racists #BrexitBritain #Tories #Johnson #AltRight #Fascism #Fascists #Autocracy #CONservatives #HostileEnvironment #HumanRights @JCWI_UK @the3million @InLimboBrexit #InLimbo #CitizensRights #EU #HopeNotHate
Many of us have known this for a while now but it's quickly becoming apparent that, especially after the recent #GeneralElectionResults2019, #Racism in the UK is, not only going to increase, but become even more brutal, widespread & acceptable, as #racists become emboldened by /1
the fact that the Gov itself & those right in the heart of it, not only don't *effectively* condemn #racism but are, in fact, guilty of it *themselves*.
Get ready to see A LOT more (and a lot WORSE) than the examples below, in the future (near & otherwise) against *every /2
Get ready to see A LOT more (and a lot WORSE) than the examples below, in the future (near & otherwise) against *every /2
1. Secret trials in 🇦🇺? Surely not. Expunging the convicted's name from public record? It couldn't happen here could it?
READ ON... It happened to @WitnessJ8
"Who is Canberra’s mysterious ‘secret prisoner’?" By Robert Macklin
#Auspol @OZloop #WintessJ
citynews.com.au/2019/who-is-ca…
READ ON... It happened to @WitnessJ8
"Who is Canberra’s mysterious ‘secret prisoner’?" By Robert Macklin
#Auspol @OZloop #WintessJ
citynews.com.au/2019/who-is-ca…
2. Author ROBERT MACKLIN finds himself drawn into murky, security intrigue as Canberra’s “secret prisoner”, an Australian soldier stripped by the government of his real name, takes on the Alexander Maconochie Centre in court. Who is this man and what is his story?
#WitnessJ
#WitnessJ
3. THERE is no end to the cost of war. The battlefield casualties grab the headlines, but so many of its crises take place behind the darkened shutters of our hospitals and, occasionally, our courtrooms.
One occurred in Canberra’s Supreme Court 4 last Friday (November 8).
One occurred in Canberra’s Supreme Court 4 last Friday (November 8).
