China’s defense minister Li Shangfu is speaking, piling into the United States — though not mentioning the US by name — for its hegemonism and selective approach to international norms #SLD23 "So-called rules-based international order never tells you what the rules are and who made these rules," Li says. And argues that this order "only follows the interests and rules of a small number of countries." #SLD23

In Singapore, @SecDef begins speech shouting out his Ukrainian counterpart. #SLD23 Austin is delivering what sounds almost like a valedictory speech, hailing the "historic progress" made in the region by the Biden administration #SLD23

The Chinese embassy in Washington just emailed journalists a five-chapter pamphlet on "US Hegemony and Its Perils" Pretty thin gruel, culminating with this doctrinaire conclusion that rings quite hollow coming from a regime that is entertaining the invasion of Taiwan, has "bullied" Hong Kong's democrats into submission and turned Xinjiang into a dystopian experiment in surveillance & control.

"Hungary is the lone-star state of Europe," Orban says in English to @CPAC. Orban says that Hungary is "a nation of 15 million people" in the heart of Europe. For a leader who supposedly obsesses over national borders, he sure doesn't mind counting those outside of his.

Biden's up, talking about the pandemic. "We're mourning more than 4.5 million people" — though the real number is certainly far higher. #UNGA Biden warns of "universal principles being trampled in the pursuit of naked political power... We stand in my view at an inflection point in history."

Bolsonaro is opening the #UNGA session with angry attacks on socialism and the legacy of his political rivals. Bolsonaro touts a new railway permit system akin to the "US model" — does he know the state of the US train system?

Some personal news:
🎶This land is your land, this land is my land🎶 I'll have more to say later. I've lived here for three decades, but didn't naturalize earlier in part out of a kind cosmopolitan privilege and reticence to surrender my Indian citizenship (India does not allow dual-nationality). But this is my home, who I am and where I belong.

Trump says "peace transcends politics" because both Gantz and Netanyahu are happy with his proposed plan. Trump says previous plans were "light" on "factual details" and "heavy on conceptual frameworks." But still dubs it a "realistic two-state solution."

Bolsonaro is up. Says Venezuela is "experiencing the cruelty of socialism" and that "socialism is working" given that Venezuelans are "poor and deprived of freedom." Ideological point scoring, check.

Hard right Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, who believes climate change is a Marxist conspiracy, is speaking at @heritage right now. Currently complaining about left "infiltration" in the system. @Heritage Araujo says @jairbolsonaro is creating "a liberal-conservative amalgam" on top of "nationhood, family, traditional ties" and opposed to "globalism."

My latest: The massacre Trump’s envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/… The Post’s Alma Guillermoprieto, who reached El Mozote in January 1982, found “dozens of decomposing bodies,” left to molder for a month in the ruins of the flattened village and adjacent fields washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/…