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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 27, 2021, 11:19 pm
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All cooperation between Iran and China that leaves out Russia is
a step in the correct direction. China's objective should be to
ensure that, in any hypothetical future situation in which Iran
must choose between China and Russia, Iran will choose China.
Conversely, Iran's objective should be to ensure that, in any
hypothetical future situation in which China must choose between
Iran and Russia, China will choose Iran. In this way, we can
chip away at the postmodern depiction of "China, Russia and
Iran" as one bloc, and in its place begin to build back up the
coalition from ancient times when Russia did not even exist yet:
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US imposes new sanctions on Russia, expels diplomats
By: guest5 Date: April 15, 2021, 9:22 pm
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US imposes new sanctions on Russia, expels diplomats
[quote]United States President Joe Biden has signed an executive
order that imposes a slate of new sanctions against Russia, as
well as expelling 10 diplomats from the US, in response to a
massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal
agencies, as well as for election interference.
The sanctions, foreshadowed for weeks by the US administration,
represent the first retaliatory action announced against the
Kremlin for last year’s hack, familiarly known as the SolarWinds
breach.
In that intrusion, Russian hackers are believed to have infected
widely used software with malicious code, enabling them to
access the networks of at least nine agencies in what US
officials believe was an intelligence-gathering operation aimed
at mining government secrets.
The order “sends a signal that the United States will impose
costs in a strategic and economically impactful manner on Russia
if it continues or escalates its destabilizing international
actions,” the White House said in a statement.[/quote]
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: acc9 Date: April 21, 2021, 8:17 am
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HTML https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/04/new-zealand-uncomfortable-invoking-five-eyes-to-speak-up-on-issues-beyond-intelligence-matters-nanaia-mahuta.html
[quote]It now appears New Zealand will take a more cautious
approach to China, with Mahuta telling reporters on Monday she
wants to see the scope of the intelligence network stay narrow.
"We are uncomfortable with expanding the remit of the Five
Eyes," she said. "We would much rather prefer to look for
multilateral opportunities to express our interests."[/quote]
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 23, 2021, 12:38 am
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Our plan is working:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/australia-zealand-diverge-over-china-183116551.html
[quote]Australia and New Zealand diverge over China
...
New Zealand has declined to join in multiple joint statements
that criticized China, though the government has at times raised
concerns about China’s human rights record.
Former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer noted that
New Zealand had also strengthened its trade pact with China
earlier this year while Australia was facing Chinese sanctions.
"Used to be our best mates. Not now," he tweeted.[/quote]
If Aotearoa can start thinking of itself as a non-Western
country, in particular as a victim of British colonialism, this
will get even better. Because:
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 24, 2021, 2:32 am
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HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9488373/Imran-Khan-calls-Muslim-countries-lobby-West-criminalise-insulting-Prophet.html
[quote]Pakistan's prime minister has called on Muslim-majority
countries to lobby Western governments to criminalise insulting
the Prophet Mohammed.
'We need to explain why this hurts us, when in the name of
freedom of speech they insult the honour of the prophet,' Imran
Khan said in a televised address on Monday.
'When 50 Muslim countries will unite and say this, and say that
if something like this happens in any country, then we will
launch a trade boycott on them and not buy their goods, that
will have an effect.'[/quote]
Non-Muslim countries should also be invited to join in! Who says
that only Muslims consider it unacceptable for Westerners to
insult Mohammed? All former victims of Western colonialism
should support Muslims against Westerners by default!
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Kerry faces calls to step down over leaked Iran tapes
By: guest5 Date: April 27, 2021, 12:32 am
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Kerry faces calls to step down over leaked Iran tapes
[quote]John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy for climate change, is
facing calls for his resignation from Republican lawmakers and
pundits for reportedly discussing Israeli military operations
with Iran’s foreign minister when he served as then-President
Obama’s secretary of State.
Republican blowback is running the gamut from calling for Kerry
to leave his position as the top official addressing climate
change to calling for an investigation and his prosecution.
Biden administration officials are dismissing the allegations,
saying the information Kerry allegedly shared was widely known
at the time.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called for Kerry’s resignation in a
floor speech, one of several senators to do so Monday.
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“I don’t do this lightly. In my entire time in the Senate, I’ve
never called for anyone’s resignation,” Sullivan said. “But his
record, John Kerry’s record, of undermining working families and
working against American national security interests was too
much to bear. He needs to go.”
“When I read this today, I was astonished as well that a former
secretary of State, now a member of President Biden’s National
Security Council ... would reveal the secrets of one of our most
important and enduring allies in the region to an avowed enemy,”
he added. [/quote]
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Reminder:
The Day Israel Attacked America | Special Series
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[quote]I agree with everything you say
5 years ago
What's even more obscene is that some high ups wanted to sink
the Liberty so that the public wouldn't turn against israel. We
really are just numbers to these people[/quote]
Rightists either cannot figure out how to use a search engine on
the internet correctly or they are intentionally lying for the
devil Yahweh, which is it?
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 27, 2021, 1:18 am
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In short, Kerry is being asked to resign for behaving like an
American, instead of like a Westerner.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations
[quote]Initially, while Persia was very wary of British and
Russian colonial interests during the Great Game, the United
States was seen as a more trustworthy foreign power, and the
Americans Arthur Millspaugh and Morgan Shuster were even
appointed treasurers-general by the Shahs of the time.
...
Until World War II, relations between Iran and the United States
remained cordial. As a result, many Iranians sympathetic to the
Persian Constitutional Revolution came to view the US as a
"third force" in their struggle to break free of British and
Russian dominance in Persian affairs.[citation needed] American
industrial and business leaders were supportive of Iran's drive
to modernize its economy and free itself from British and
Russian influence.
...
After the Iranian parliament appointed United States financier
Morgan Shuster as Treasurer General of Iran in 1911, an American
was killed in Tehran by henchmen thought to be affiliated with
Russian or British interests. Shuster became even more active in
supporting the Constitutional revolution of Iran
financially.[27] When Iran's government ordered Shu'a
al-Saltaneh (شعاع
السلطنه), the Shah's
brother who was aligned with the goals of Imperial Russia in
Iran, to surrender his assets, Shuster moved to execute the
seizure. Imperial Russia immediately landed troops in Bandar
Anzali, demanding a recourse and apology from the Persian
government. Russia's General Liakhov subsequently shelled Iran's
parliament in Tehran as part of actions to protect Russia's
interests during the chain of events, and Morgan Shuster was
forced to resign under British and Russian pressure. Shuster's
book The Strangling of Persia is a recount of the details of
these events and is critical of Britain and Imperial Russia.
...
Iran's long border with America's Cold War rival, the Soviet
Union, and its position as the largest, most powerful country in
the oil-rich Persian Gulf, made Iran a "pillar" of US foreign
policy in the Middle East.[31]
...
In the 1970s, approximately 25,000 American technicians were
deployed to Iran in order to maintain military equipment (such
as F-14s) that had been sold to the Shah's government.[32]
Additionally, from 1950 to 1979, an estimated 800,000 to 850,000
Americans had visited or lived in Iran, and had often expressed
their admiration for the Iranian people.[8]
...
The U.S. helped Iran create its nuclear program starting in 1957
by providing Iran its first nuclear reactor and nuclear fuel,
and after 1967 by providing Iran with weapons grade enriched
uranium.[50][51] Iran's nuclear program was launched in the
1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms
for Peace program.[51][/quote]
The sooner the US gets back to the Cold War mentality, the
sooner it can see Iran as the anti-Duginist ally it needs.
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Re: China and United States Relations
By: acc9 Date: April 29, 2021, 3:39 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeGipO6-gU
Three ambassadors respectively from Palestine, Pakistan and
Syria come together to The Point to be interviewed on Xinjiang.
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 3, 2021, 3:56 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/why-african-countries-back-china-231453121.html
[quote]"Some Western forces hyping up the so-called
Xinjiang-related issues are actually launching unprovoked
attacks on China to serve their own ulterior motives," Adama
Compaoré, Burkina Faso's ambassador, was quoted as saying at the
event in March dubbed Xinjiang in the Eyes of African
Ambassadors to China.
The event was also attended by Sudan and Congo-Brazzaville,
whose envoy Daniel Owassa reportedly said he supported what
China has called a series of anti-terrorism measures in the
region, saying he appreciated "Xinjiang's great development
achievements in various fields in recent years".
...
Increasingly Africa's largely pro-China position is pitting the
continent against the West when it comes to human rights.
During a vote in June 2020 at the UN Human Rights Council in
Geneva about the controversial Hong Kong national security law,
which imposed harsh penalties on political dissent and which
effectively ended the territory's autonomy, 25 African countries
- the largest grouping from any continent - backed China.
Months later in October no African country signed up to a
stinging rebuke of China's human rights violations in Xinjiang,
Hong Kong and Tibet, which was backed by Western nations.
...
"For 30 years now China has made it a tradition that its foreign
minister visits Africa first every new year - this is not just
symbolic but signals that they are invested in a long-term
relationship and this makes a big impression on
Africans."[/quote]
All good to see.
(Now imagine if the US stopped being part of the West and joined
this bloc instead.....)
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Re: Diplomatic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 4, 2021, 1:57 am
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HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asean-plus-china-japan-south-092007129.html
[quote]ASEAN plus China, Japan, South Korea vow to boost
financial ties amid pandemic
...
China, Japan and South Korea said they would explore "new
initiatives" to strengthen the regional financial safety net at
the virtual meeting with the Association of South East Asian
Nations (ASEAN).
ASEAN includes Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand,
Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.
...
At their last virtual meeting in September, the financial chiefs
from Japan, South Korea, China and ASEAN, a group known as
ASEAN+3, promised to boost the Chiang Mai Initiative
Multilateralisation (CMIM).[/quote]
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