Anyone who can’t see America’s true colours by now is simply refusing to look

amid fears it will escalate following Ukraine’s first use of US-made long-range missiles on targets inside Russia

Well who would have thought, eh?

Escalation is clearly what they are hoping for.

much as we are not used to hearing international bodies inviting China to lead.

There is much you don’t hear about China because it doesn’t fit the official narrative, and much you do hear which is distorted and/or unsubstantiated and/or simply untrue from western corporate media.

We could make considerable progress by treating each other as partners and friends, Xi told Biden

“We don’t have more than that. We don’t have clear evidence of what’s going on,” said a high-ranking EU official, speaking on Friday on condition of anonymity.

But if we say it loudly and often, spreading it through friendly news outlets and social media it will magically become true.

Well at least you won’t have to waste money on expensive bombs and stuff. Just give the money to your oligarchs and send your troops off to breath on the enemy.

China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia and Taiwan all claim parts of the South China Sea

Funny how it is only the US backed places are stirring up shit.

A hundred years ago Sigmund Freud’s American nephew, Edward Bernays, discovered you could make people buy things they didn’t need by appealing to their emotions. It had political ramifications too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

Because we, in the western media, are always right and anyone who criticises us are wrong. We don’t have an agenda, honest, just check out our coverage of of the genoci I mean war in Gaza.

However, it was misrepresented by many major media outlets in their reporting.

No surprises there

I’m sure I read elsewhere recently that the Ukrainian army was killing 17, 000 Russian troops a day. Fifty thousand wont last long

He may not care about the Palestinian issue but he may feel a little different about Israeli expansion

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Slavery, human trafficking and child labour: >https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara

Cobalt Red: a regressive, deeply flawed account of Congo’s mining industry https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/cobalt-red-siddharth-kara-democratic-republic-congo-book-review/

Toxic waste killing animals: >https://www.afrik21.africa/en/niger-chinese-gold-mines-closed-after-the-death-of-around-fifty-animals/

According to local livestock farmers

No further investigation? Certainly not, the US government just passed a bill dishing out $325 million a year of tax payers money for anti-China propaganda stories https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1157/text

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20240505-chinese-owned-gold-mines-in-niger-ordered-shut-after-herders-report-animal-deaths

The same story as above but it added the line:

French company Orano (formerly Areva), which has been extracting uranium in northern Niger for more than 40 years, is regularly accused by NGOs of polluting the environment.

The French have been doing it for 40 years and only now it gets a mention, a throwaway sentence at the end of an article criticising China.

Was there a follow-up? Did the mines reopen? Did the government send in the army, or allow private militias to quell restive natives as they would have to if the West were “protecting its interests?”

Labour violations, stealing land: >https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/locals-slam-zimbabwe-for-turning-a-blind-eye-to-chinese-miners-violations/

Zimbabwe has been cut off from global financiers over failure to service its debts. The country was also hit by sanctions and trade embargos by the European Union, U.K. and U.S. over serious human rights violations.

They conveniently forget to mention how it got into debt and why the country can’t service it. Go look up the country’s history, it might give you a clue as to why they might prefer doing business with China instead of the West.

Of course, mining is a dirty, filthy business. It fucks up the land and is really shitty for anyone who lives nearby. There are bound to be accidents and there are bound to be people who are upset.

That doesn’t alter the fact that China is also building infrastructure, creating jobs and giving them the tools they need to develop thus creating wealth.

I know Americans think Africans still live in mud huts and beat drums at dinner time but they are not so stupid that they keep doing business with people who routinely rip them off.

You will, of course, cry “China bad, China worse.” It seems a lot of African countries are willing to take that risk. After all, the railways that China has built in Southeast Asia, which the West insisted were doomed to fail, are doing extremely well indeed.

That is not proof. It is also a cropped photo. The uncropped version shows Tiananmen Square at the top but it doesn’t show what your propagandists want it to show. I’ll post it for you when I get home.

Prove me wrong

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They are all over social media and news aggregators pushing nakedly pro-US narratives about everywhere the west doesn’t like, feverishly downvoting anyone who has the temerity to offer a different point of view

Perhaps you could share some details

China’s engagment in Africa is just as neocolonial as Western engagement if not more

How so?

China is building infrastructure, creating jobs and giving African nations the tools they need to develop thus creating wealth. What does China get out of it? Markets - a place to sell the products the make. That is quite a bit different from the western policy of enriching despots, plundering mineral wealth and leaving the countries to fester and rot.