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Xi Jingping is the name that is trending in all the countries from past few days. Here is a thread on the timeline of the events so that you can ultimately judge what is going on.
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Mass slaughtering of #China's prominent leaders started just before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
8 prominent faces received severe sentences including death sentence just a day before. @TGTM_Official Read here.
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8 prominent faces received severe sentences including death sentence just a day before. @TGTM_Official Read here.
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Xi’s participation in the SCO meeting ends a 1,000-day period in which he did not leave China due to “zero COVID” policy.
The COVID policy that has resulted in mass unemployment, deaths, suicides, mental health issues and over 450 protests this year.
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The COVID policy that has resulted in mass unemployment, deaths, suicides, mental health issues and over 450 protests this year.
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1. My #SamarkandSummit orientalist🧵on its toponym and etymology. Incorrect is #Wikipedia's #Samarkand etymon entry and false analogy to #Tashkent. Both #Samarkand, like neighbouring #Bukhara, remain extensively debated in eastern #MiddleIranian #philology.
2. #Samarkand, contra #Wikipedia, is not 'stone city'. The first element /sm’r/ remains unexplained. On #Sogdian sm’rknδh [Ancient Letters], cf. Chin. Samojian 颯秣建 Gr. Μαρακάνδοι, scholarly consensus exists only on second compound, #Sogdian 'town, city'.
3. #Sogdian knδh 'town, city' > #Christian #Sogdian qθ; /sm’r/ element unmentioned in Gharib 1995 [Sogdian #Dictionary], @iranicaonline, or EI2 [Enc. of #Islam) entries. See @Brill_ME_Africa EI2, VIII/1995: 1031-032, s.v. #Samarkand Schaeder (rev. Bosworth).
In the speech where Putin called the collapse of USSR "a major geopolitical disaster," he also said that "the civilizing mission of the Russian nation" in Eurasia must continue." V. Vereshchagin captured the encounter of #Samarkand with Russia's mission civilisatrice this way: 1/
The painting was part of the series "The Barbarians," which represented the "backward" nature of the Orient that civilization, carried on the backs of the Russian troops, was meant to salvage. "Civilizing mission" was a key term of the 19-c. vocabulary of colonialism. 2/
It was widely used as a justification of colonial presence across the globe. Even though it implied that empire was here to uplift the "indigenous" population, it also created a fundamental divide between the colonizer and the colonized. 3/
The procedure for Belarus' accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO) will be launched at the organization's summit in #Samarkand. This was stated at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
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The signing of a memorandum on Iran's obligations in order to obtain the status of a SCO member state is expected as well. This will allow #Tehran to join the founding documents and international treaties of the organization.
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In addition, memoranda have been prepared to formalize the status of dialogue partners for #Egypt, #Qatar and #SaudiArabia, and the process of granting dialogue partnership to #Bahrain, #Maldives and a number of other states will also begin.
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