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Mar 20 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Genuinely stunned that Blinken now admits this, he's basically saying a genocide IS happening:

"According to the most respected measure of these things, 100% of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That's the first time an entire population has been so classified. We also see that 100%, the totality of the population, is in need of humanitarian assistance."

If a 100% of a population is being starved and treated in such a way that they ALL need humanitarian assistance, it's textbook genocide.
Maybe could be of interest to @24hPujadas, France's leading news show, who shamefullt did a 6min segment yesterday to explain the famine was "disinformation" 👇


Their "proof"? They found some photos of food from Gaza. Saying this somehow disproves famine is just as retarded as posting a photo of an unburned house from a city that just suffered a devastating fire and say "look the city didn't burn" 🤦
Reminder of course that it's the US State Department - i.e. the very same Blinken - that took the lead to defund UNRWA, Gaza's main lifeline, especially for the distribution of food. He's absolutely 100% fully complicit.
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Feb 15
ROC (Taiwan) coastguards killed two mainland fishermen, which I believe are the first such casualties in the Taiwan strait in many years, if not decades.


They died off the coast of the Kinmen archipelago, which belongs to the ROC but which itself is just a couple of miles away from the Chinese mainland. Kinmen was in the news recently as Taiwanese media reported the US had dispatched special forces on the archipelago on a permanent basis (), which is extraordinarily provocative.

So far PRC authorities have been extremely restrained in their response, just condemning the "malignant incident" and asking for an immediate investigation by the ROC. Which goes to show that China is NOT looking for a confrontation in the Taiwan strait, as this is the type of incident that could be a casus belli.

Just imagine for a minute the worldwide outcry if those fishermen had been from the ROC, and killed by the PRC... We just wouldn't hear the end of it.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…
newsweek.com/american-speci…
This 👇 is also an interesting coincidence, just as these fishermen were being killed...
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
I think this is my 1st ever community note, and quite a ridiculous one.

If the coastguards made a boat capsize whilst chasing it (I doubt it magically capsized on its own and the sea is anything but rough there), and 2 people died as a result... then the coastguards killed them. Image
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Feb 2
This is quite something! This is John Lander - Australia's former ambassador to Iran and Deputy Ambassador to China - explaining what the "rules-based order" actually is.

In his words it's "a set of ever varying, constantly vacillating rules devised by the United States for the benefit of the United States and its Western allies." He points out that "one of the most difficult thing about the rules-based order is finding out what the rules are!"

Link to the whole interview at the end of the thread.
On this topic I've been making the point since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza that if one takes a step back, it's really at heart a war of the "rules-based order" against international law 👇. And I really believe that's a key prism to view the war.
In the same interview Lander also speaks about the war on Gaza from an international law perspective:

"The Palestinians don't have a state... [They're] under forceful occupation by Israel so the actions by Hamas - as horrendous as it was - is more in the character of a rebellion against the oppression of an occupying power than an invasion of one state by another. [It's] a paradox because [Israel] claim that Gaza and the West Bank do actually belong to Israel and that the Palestinians have no right to it, so on the one hand they say 'it is ours' and on the other hand they say 'we've been invaded' from within our own territory..."
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Jan 30
This is a absolutely fantastic example of data manipulation. Credit to @nikstankovic_ for spotting it (you can see his reply to @AgatheDemarais's post).

Not surprising coming from The Economist but the manipulation is still quite insane once you understand it.

Let me explain 🧵
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So what you understand from The Economist's graph is exactly what @AgatheDemarais understood: "oh my god, Japan has been 'derisking' from China for years, their economic reliance on China is low, Germany is so behind!".

Right? Well, it's TOTALLY wrong.
As a matter of fact Japanese exports to China are 26% higher than German exports to China 👇. 153B in exports to China from Japan in 2021 vs 121B from Germany.

Those are the actual numbers.
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Jan 30
This is one of the best talks I've heard in a while on China's economy, by Eric Li, a famous Chinese VC and political scientist.


I summarize the main points in a short 🧵
First of all, he argues there was a fundamental misunderstanding of China by the US. The US convinced itself China would stay in the "peripheral" forever 👇 whilst China's objective was always to move up and be part of the "core". Image
This is how he describes the "first phase of China's globalization", with the "3 pillars" of its market economy being real estate, consumer internet and industrial capacity & global supply chain (on top of infrastructure building handled by the state). Image
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Jan 29
"Democratic" Europe... where if you express a legitimate dissenting opinion as a country - and the interests of your citizens - a revengeful EU commission will cause your economic collapse.
Yup, not their first rodeo
More on this by @philippilk
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Jan 12
This is huge:

Top Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth confirms Israel used the "Hannibal directive" on Oct 7th, which calls to kill Israeli hostages along with their captors.

This is the exact quote from the paper:

"At midnight on October 7, the IDF ordered all of its combat units in practice to use the 'Hannibal Directive', although without clearly mentioning this explicit name. The order was to stop 'at all costs' any attempt by Hamas terrorists to return to Gaza, that is despite the fear that some of them have hostages.

It is estimated that about a thousand terrorists and infiltrators were killed in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. It is not clear at this time how many of the hostages were killed due to the activation of this command. In the week after the attack, soldiers of elite units checked about 70 vehicles that were left in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. These are vehicles that did not reach Gaza, because on the way they were shot by a combat helicopter, an anti-tank missile or a tank, and at least in some cases everyone in the vehicle was killed."ynet.co.il/news/article/y…
Not sure if you remember these photos of burned vehicles reported by all the media as "destroyed by Hamas" (here Reuters 👇)? Well the Yedioth Ahronoth investigation now confirms they were in fact destroyed by the IDF... Image
Sorry, Google translation mistake apparently: this part should read "One of the revelations exposed in the investigation is that at noon on October 7th, the IDF instructed all its combat units in the field to implement 'Hannibal Directive'


This is because apparently the phrase "שבחצות היום של 7" in Hebrew translates to "at the midnight of the 7th" or "at noon of the 7th," depending on the context.
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