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Victor Gao offers a staunch defense of China’s development model and foreign policy, positioning it as a pragmatic and stabilizing force in an increasingly multipolar world.

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Victor Gao contrasts China’s infrastructure-focused outreach to under-developed nations with what he sees as the West’s history of neglect or exploitation of such nations. Gao frames China’s engagement in Africa, Latin America, and Asia as a non-colonial, sovereignty-respecting alternative rooted in mutual development. He dismisses criticisms of China — such as claims of resource extraction in Zimbabwe or coercive diplomacy — as either hypocritical or unfounded, emphasizing that “permanent development achievement is the hard truth.”

Other obvious hard truths that US leaders are not facing: Multipolarity is already here. The use of the US dollar in International trade is no longer mandatory. The Swift System that once tracked all foreign trades, became a sanctions-abuse machine for the US. Swift has now been has been replaced with alternative forms of trade settlement that are much less costly.

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(NewsNation) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted to lawmakers that the U.S. is not currently in negotiations with China when it comes to tariffs.

Acting as Our Russian historian and war correspondent, Dmitry Orlov, is writing today from St Petersburg, Russia, to give interested Westerners a recap of the communications and activities surrounding the conclusion of both the Russian SMO, and the US Proxy War, both taking place in Ukraine. The battles and fighting have entered their final weeks; the only possible outcome has long been known. The terms and conditions for a stable and peaceful future between the two Superpowers are now being discussed, defined, and drawn up by the United States and Russia — the Superpowers that represent and control the two principal sides of the conflict.

Special Military Operation Progress Report

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This is just a progress report, for it is still too early to tell what the ultimate conclusion of Russia's SMO in the former Ukraine will look like and, most importantly, where Russia will choose to draw the line between the Russian World it holds sacred and the Wild Field to the west of it, which it will decide to be of no interest. But it is not too early to say that the operation appears to be a success.

The main goal of the SMO was to protect Russian people on former Ukrainian territory, who had no wish to accept neo-Nazi ideology of the Banderite junta.

...innovating where no man has gone before. Will China's latest innovations trigger a new level of trade wars and toilet-tariffs from their geopolitical rivals in the West?

Smart Toilets: the final frontier, helping all humankind to live long and prosper.

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....that Has Taken Place Right Under Our Noses.

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There's a very good chance you might suddenly 'know' and understand that you are living in a world where you have no input at all. The coup government exists, with or without your consent or participation.

After a month-long journey covering events in Russia, Pepe Escobar has returned with a deeply-felt message of the utmost importance.

Below, I’ve excerpted some of the highlights of his Diary; the bolded emphases are mine. With every word, one can sense the intensity with which Escobar is addressing us. He wants us to feel and understand the emotions and courage shown by the leaders and representatives of the Global South and Eurasia — a majority of the world population — as they come together to actively organize their independence from the cruel, psychopathic domination of the United States.

During these past four weeks, a firm line has been drawn in this World.

During this same four weeks, our rogue Federal Government has continued to smear its twisted propanganda, bullying and demeaning resistant nations, and launching its world-wide covert missions of destabilization and chaos in order to protect its greedy hegemony, all the while imposing the dystopian dictatorship of the elite upon all nations of the world.

Escobar's Diary also answers the question, "What happened when XI travelled to Russia to meet Putin?" The question was never answered in Western media. The American people were misdirected to believe that the meeting was about Ukraine, and included wild speculation that Xi would tell Russia to end the war, or Xi was there to help Russia win the war. The most depraved among the US and EU politicians used the moment as a publicity stunt, where they sternly warned XI not to sell weapons to Russia. As if.... The State Department created a counter publicity stunt where the President of Taiwan was invited to the White House to meet with the sloganized, mentally-impaired US President. Desperate times, indeed.

Appararently, if you took Biden’s Philadelphia speech seriously, and thought, perhaps, you were hearing a totalitarian doctrine scripted by his Neocon handlers and advisors, then you missed the practical joke.

If you saw Biden’s lips reading the telepromptor and it sounded like a right-wing Democratic President delivering threats to silence or criminalize dissenters and truthtellers, who object to the Presidential empowerment of neoliberal economic policies, or international war-mongering provocations against nuclear enabled superpowers — well, you missed the clever trick.

Enter desk-bound journalist, David Frum, who has jotted a few paragraphs at the Atlantic, that completely explain how Biden’s speech wasn’t what you thought it was. Biden’s speech, according to Frum, was actually an elaborate sting operation. It was designed to trap Donald Trump into an angry response — and at the same time prove to the world that he is an important member of the Republican Party!

After months of media and opposition accusations suggesting that former President Donald Trump was mentally unfit to hold the office of President of the United States, President Trump finally agreed to submit to a cognitive test. In 2018, the White House Physician
administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) to President Trump. He handily passed the test.

Now, the same demands are being made of President Joe Biden. in a letter written by Texas Rep. Dr. Ronny Jackson, and signed by 37 of his Republican colleagues in Congress, Jackson warns that, "President Biden's mental decline and forgetfulness have become more apparent over the past two years." He urges the 79-year-old President to take a cognitive aptitude test (just as former President Trump did).