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11·2 days ago… Blackrock CEO Points to Pensions and Retirement Savings
So he wants to copy China’s playbook?
52·2 days ago… Blackrock CEO Points to Pensions and Retirement Savings
So he wants to copy China’s playbook?
3·2 days ago… Blackrock CEO Points to Pensions and Retirement Savings
So he wants to copy China’s playbook?
12·2 days agoThis Hampton ‘Think Tank’ holds ML views and spreads its propaganda, we know that, thanks.
I also commented on Li Rui here is in this thread, a former CCP senior official. Read his original statements (the links are in the comment).
If you continue spreading this bullshit propaganda, I won’t respond anymore.
Can’t read the article as it’s paywalled. But the headline alone fits OP’s desired propaganda narrative, no content needed.
Can’t read the article as it’s paywalled. But the headline alone fits OP’s desired propaganda narrative, no content needed.
For example there were no international reporters on the scene.
They [foreign media] included correspondents from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Voice of America (VOA), Cable News Network (CNN), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) […] Others included correspondents from then British-controlled Hong Kong and Taiwan […] Many of the correspondents were in China to report on the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev or were covering the Asian Development Bank meeting that was happening in Beijing […] Foreign media coverage of the protests became a popular source for news after martial law was declared on May 20 and the government “imposed strict control over the Chinese media” […]
Foreign media faced many restrictions when covering the Tiananmen protests […] As the military entered the square and violence erupted, there was confusion as different outlets were isolated between east and west Beijing […] Correspondents faced detention, […] including numerous Hong Kong correspondents […] and a CBS correspondent […] Journalists were also reportedly beaten […] Dan Rather of CBS was confronted by Chinese security personnel during a live broadcast.
The iconic ‘tank man photo’ was made by photojournalist Jeff Widener.
‘No one expected AK-47s’. wrote Canada’s CBC Journalist Jan Wong in 2019 in remembrance of his reporting from the Tiananmen Square massacre.
This is a TINY sample of international reporters on the scene. You’ll easily find more on the web.
The Tiananmen Mothers have been working painstakingly to locate victims’ families and collect information about the victims, despite the Chinese government’s crackdown and interference. Their list had grown from 155 in 1999 to 202 in 2011, where it remains in 2026. Here is the list (in Chinese). The real number is likely higher, many eye witnesses and historians say.
China I’m not sure about, but since their industrial base is moving towards climate sustainability …
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s recently released 15th five-year plan, China’s annual green energy additions will fall by more than half compared to the 14th FYP. At the same time, fossil fuel energy consumption will increase by 8-10%, reversing the slow-down in fossil fuel energy consumption during the 14th FYP period.
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/
The rest of your remarks makes even less sense imo, except maybe part on Russia. Here I could agree.
The Tiananmen Mothers have been working painstakingly to locate victims’ families and collect information about the victims, despite the Chinese government’s crackdown and interference. Their list had grown from 155 in 1999 to 202 in 2011, where it remains in 2026. Here is the list (in Chinese). The real number is likely higher, many eye witnesses and historians say.
Some points, such as EU disintegration, fully aligns imo with the goals of the Chinese government and its proxies, the European far-right and far-left (although the latter appears to be less of a threat, at least at the moment).
The diaries of Li Rui, a former senior CCP official, are considered to be one of the most important artefacts of unvarnished modern Chinese history.
Li kept detailed records of his life at the heart of elite politics, including his observations about 4 June, 1989, which he witnessed from the balcony of his home overlooking Tiananmen Square. As one report says,
For weeks, up to a million protesters had been gathering peacefully in Beijing’s plaza [in 1989], demanding political reform. But they failed. Instead, as Li observed from his unique vantage point, troops opened fire, killing an estimated several thousands of civilians. It was the worst massacre in recent Chinese history. “Soldiers firing randomly with their machine guns, sometimes shooting the ground and sometimes shooting toward the sky,” Li wrote in his diary. A “black weekend” […]
Li Rui, a top official known for his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his later years as he fought for a more liberal society in China, died in 2019 at the age of 101, The diaries are now housed at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in the U.S. They were transferred there by Li’s daughter, Li Nanyang, who says she was carrying out her father’s wishes.
But following Li’s death, his widow and Li Nanyang’s stepmother, sued for the documents to be returned to Beijing. However, as one lawyer for Stanford has argued, “By all indications … the PRC [People’s Republic of China] is running this litigation behind the scenes." [See the quote in the linked article above.]
In March 2026, a court ruled to uphold the expressed wishes of Li Rui, the former personal secretary to Mao Zedong, to have his personal archives made publicly available for preservation and study at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University.
The diaries of Li Rui, a former senior CCP official, are considered to be one of the most important artefacts of unvarnished modern Chinese history.
Li kept detailed records of his life at the heart of elite politics, including his observations about 4 June, 1989, which he witnessed from the balcony of his home overlooking Tiananmen Square. As one report says,
For weeks, up to a million protesters had been gathering peacefully in Beijing’s plaza [in 1989], demanding political reform. But they failed. Instead, as Li observed from his unique vantage point, troops opened fire, killing an estimated several thousands of civilians. It was the worst massacre in recent Chinese history. “Soldiers firing randomly with their machine guns, sometimes shooting the ground and sometimes shooting toward the sky,” Li wrote in his diary. A “black weekend” […]
Li Rui, a top official known for his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in his later years as he fought for a more liberal society in China, died in 2019 at the age of 101, The diaries are now housed at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in the U.S. They were transferred there by Li’s daughter, Li Nanyang, who says she was carrying out her father’s wishes.
But following Li’s death, his widow and Li Nanyang’s stepmother, sued for the documents to be returned to Beijing. However, as one lawyer for Stanford has argued, “By all indications … the PRC [People’s Republic of China] is running this litigation behind the scenes." [See the quote in the linked article above.]
In March 2026, a court ruled to uphold the expressed wishes of Li Rui, the former personal secretary to Mao Zedong, to have his personal archives made publicly available for preservation and study at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University.
it’s not completely unreasonable to assume that those protesters are indirectly manipulated or motivated by US or foreign interests to destabilize China.
The same ml community that criticizes the West for is now justifying a 10-year sentence for organizing a peaceful candlelight vigil in China, and all you have is an absurdly weird rant that makes no sense,
12·5 days agoThis is not a proof but a continuation of a smear campaign using half-truths and disinformation. You pick and choose details to form a anti-Western, anti-democratic narrative while in other threads you are downplaying atrocities by China and similar regimes.
As a European, I am not happy how governments in Europe respond to Israel, but what you are doing is authoritarian propaganda.
As an addition: It’s not only one of the most iconic photos, but also among the most censored (video, 3 min).
As far as I know, there is indeed also a photo. It was made by photographer Jeff Widener. Here is also a story with more photos by him made on 4 June 1989.
But I agree that the video makes a much different impression.
Addition: It’s not only one of the most iconic photos and videos, but also among the most censored (video, 3 min).
The EU is doing the opposite. France is fast-tracking laws to penalize pro-palestinian speech and protests as “extremism”.
EU approves new sanctions on Israeli settlers over West Bank violence
France joins EU sanctions pressure on Israel
France bans Israeli minister Ben-Gvir from entering country
This is a small sample from the last few weeks. What European governments and the EU are doing against Israel is by far not enough, but your statements are outright wrong and misleading. The EU is not “doing the opposite.”
This problem is not limited to Australia, unfortunately, as the article also says. It’s a global issue. Local retailers in Australia and other democracies will have to shut down immediately if they offered such items.