#peoples republic of china

[workersolidarity]

[photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC]

🇨🇳🇹🇼 CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN RESPONDS TO TAIWANESE LEADER TSAI ING-WEN COMMENTS ON TAIWANESE INDEPENDENCE

Responding to a question Tuesday from Agence France-Presse about Tsai Ing-wen's recent comments that Taiwan would remain democratic for generations despite Chinese pressure towards reunification, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin told reporters that the biggest threat facing the Taiwan Straights came, not from China, but from the "separatist persuit" of "Taiwan independence" and from seeking foreign help to support this cause.

"There’s only one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory—this is the true status quo across the Taiwan Strait," Wenbin told Agence France-Presse.

"The DPP authorities still cling to the separatist pursuit of 'Taiwan independence' and seek foreign support in achieving that agenda and making provocative moves—this is the biggest threat facing peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait."

Wenbin told reporters the key to peace and stability in the region was to uphold the one-China principle and oppose Taiwanese independence.

"Whatever the DPP Authorities say or do, it does not change the fact that Taiwan is part of China, still less the trend towards China's unification."

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[shirtandties]

Smart Chinese lady military officer

[giannic]

Commentary, by blogger gianni_c

17 March 2024

It's 5:55 p.m. on a Sunday evening,

as this journalist watches & listens.

Where is Amnesty International?

Do they no longer exist in the world 🌎🌍🌏 ?

Why doesn't PEN help these journalists?

Who are the police who brutalized the witnesses?

Where are they now?

Please, anticipate answers to these questions. Any information you have, gentle readers, is much appreciated.

gianni creighton y padilla

[the-leegend-99]

"Where there is oppression, there must be rebellion" - 130 years of Mao Zedong.

Happy birthday to the man whose teachings lead the chinese masses in rebelling and triumphing against colonialism and exploitation. The man under whose leadership land was expropriated from landlords and big businessmen and redistributed to the people who worked it, while alfabetization rose from 20% to 65.5% and life expectancy rose from 35 to 63 years from 1949 to 1963.

[kevinmmiller]

Considering the beginning of a US-Russian-Sino period of contestation for Hegemony, and Dominance

For its part America must wade into these difficult times with caution and a combination of carrots and sticks for all parties involved. This has already been shown with the heavy handedness that the administration has rebuked countries such as Russia, an

Photo by Дмитрий Трепольский on Pexels.com For its part America must wade into these difficult times with caution and a combination of carrots and sticks for all parties involved. This has already been shown with the heavy handedness that the administration has rebuked countries such as Russia, and North Korea with sanctions targeting their elite. Beijing’s increasing power and influence in…

[defencecapital]

US, India ‘can’t take eyes off ball’ on Chinese aggression at LAC, says American defence attaché

By N. C. Bipindra New Delhi: India and the United States can’t afford to take their “eyes off the ball” when it comes to Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a senior US defence official posted at its embassy here said today, as he made it clear that Washington remains watchful of Beijing‘s moves. Rear Admiral Michael L. Baker, the United States defence attaché in India,…

[ultradude13]

Street Fighter Masters Chun-Li by GENZOMAN

[barcobeb]

tiktok fun as hell without a dissenter of the glorious ccp telling you its brainwashing you 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[channeledhistory]

[workersolidarity]

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RUSSIA, CHINA AND BRICS PREPARE MASSIVE BLOW TO US DOLLAR DOMINANCE WITH LATEST CURRENCY MOVES

The BRICS trade organization, with the backing of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, is preparing a major blow to U.S. dollar dominance in the global economy with an expanded payments system for trade between nations that will not be pegged to the U.S. dollar, according to reports in the Russian media.

The report, published in Russian news outlet Ria Novosti, stated that a new decentralized, blockchain-based international payment system, known as BRICS Pay, will make it possible to bypass Western sanctions while boosting the economic influence of BRICS, BRICS member states, as well as developing countries that trade with BRICS nations, while accelerating efforts to create a new international trade currency.

The United States sees these developments as a direct threat the U.S. dollar and its status as the World's reserve currency, according to the news outlet, with one of the main goals of the BRICS organization being the avoidance of International dependency on the U.S. dollar for trade outside the Western sphere of influence.

Already, 95% of trade between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China is conducted in Yuan and Rubles.

This kind of trade, conducted outside the U.S. dollar, "increases solvency and economic resilience to uncertainties and external shocks," says Shen Yi, the Chief of the BRICS Research Center at the Development Research Institute of Fudon University, as quoted by Ria Novosti.

“Objectively speaking, the diversified development of the international monetary and payment systems is consistent with the changing trends in the distribution of power and the general direction of evolution of the global system,” Yi noted in an interview with the Russian news outlet.

The news agency says the next step in this development is "our own system of international payments."

Recently, Russian Presidential Assistant, Yuri Ushakov, announced the intention of the BRICS commonwealth to create a payment system using a blockchain-based digital currency, with the purpose of developing a modern, effective payment service (BRICS Pay) intended to make international payments between countries "convenient, cost-effective, and most importantly, free from political influence."

"We need to completely move away from the peg [of international trade] to the dollar and Western instruments like [the] SWIFT [payments system]." Ushakov added.

Experts point to a BRICS payment system as a method of avoiding the sanctions of the United States and its Western allies, emphasizing that BRICS countries, and countries trading with BRICS member-states, will be able to perform mutual payments while avoiding the U.S. dollar, weakening the currency's role as the backbone of international payments and the world reserve currency.

The report also adds that a decentralized cryptocurrency payment system based on blockchain technology would be far more difficult to track, helping countries to avoid secondary sanctions while trading with nation-states under economic assault by the West like the Russian Federation.

Furthermore, a BRICS payment system will become a direct competitor to the Western-dominated and controlled SWIFT payment scheme, strengthening multipolarity in global finance and undermining the dictats of the United States and the European Union, while increasing the financial and political heft of the BRICS organization and its members.

According to Yaroslav Ostrovsky, a specialist in the strategic research department at Total Research, “If this project is implemented, its participants will switch to their own currencies in international payments, without the dollar and SWIFT terminals. At the same time, it is planned that countries outside the bloc will also be able to use the new system. The synergistic effect from such interaction will strengthen the position of BRICS in the global economic system."

Setting up such a payment system will take time, with financial experts suggesting it could take upwards of a year for debugging and implementing the payment scheme, while some experts say the system could become the basis for a future, single, BRICS supranational currency, and perhaps even a direct challenger the U.S. dollar's position as the world's reserve currency.

The new payment system, as well as any future BRICS currency, are a part of a process for which BRICS aims to become a global organization, trade union, and international financial association in direct competition with the Western-dominated international trade system, based on the U.S. dollar, that is currently wielded as a weapon against the adversaries of the West through its sanctions regime and it's control over International institutions.

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[degeneratedworker]

"Victory will surely belong to the Palestinian people" People's Republic of China c. 1970s

[brother-emperors]

cassius: bhe, you are so so lucky that your mom is sleeping with caesar. never gamble. you've used up all your luck here.

Brutus: The Noble Conspirator, Kathryn Tempest

anyway, the Vettius affair sure was something. also! Cassius here is echoing what Confucius has to say about revenge! unfortunately, neither of them got the memo on the other part of that

Zi-xia asked Confucius, saying, 'How should (a son) conduct himself with reference to the man who has killed his father or mother?' The Master said, 'He should sleep on straw, with his shield for a pillow; he should not take office; he must be determined not to live with the slayer under the same heaven. If he meet with him in the market-place or the court, he should not have to go back for his weapon, but (instantly) fight with him.'

Liji [Book of Rites], Tan Gong Part I, trans. James Legge

to be clear, this is a very unserious comic, I do not think that Brutus immediately throwing down with Pompey after making eye contact in the streets would have fixed anything, HOWEVER. it WOULD be extremely funny. to me.

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

[antiwaradvocates]

Soviet poster (1950): "The front of peace is invincible!"

[gregor-samsung]

少年的你 [Better Days] (Derek Tsang, 2019)

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[defencecapital]

Navios Amaryllis: Reflection of China’s approach to diplomacy

Navios Amaryllis: Reflection of China’s approach to diplomacy

By N. C. Bipindra An old adage goes, “it’s hard to see things when you are too close – take a step back and look – you may discover a larger plot”. The adage has been proven true, yet again. More than a year after the ill-fated grounding of Navios Amaryllis off Maldives, investigators have discovered a plausible cause. They believe that a cyber-attack on the ship’s systems, originating from…