EU Diplomatic Representative, Josep Borrell Fontelles, briefed the European Parliament on Tuesday about the EU-China summit held on April 1. He pointed out that the video conference between EU leaders and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “deaf dialogue” and said there are doubts about China’s willingness to cooperate in ending the war in Ukraine, the Chinese Edition of Radio France Internationale (RFI) reports.
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Today, the whole world is in mourning, sympathizing with the Ukrainian people, who are dealing with a war started by an enemy many times more powerful than theirs — and praying to God that a similar fate should not befall them.
Every year the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) issues the “Global Peace Index” (GPI), the purpose of which is to score 163 nations according to their levels of peacefulness. The overall GPI score for 2021 indicates that the global situation – as a result of the coronavirus pandemic among others – has once again deteriorated.
Yesterday, the Russian airstrikes killed five people in the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. The infamous ravine saw 33,771 Jews killed by the Nazis in 24 hours during WW2.
“What is genocide?” According to Zhao Li Jian, the Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, “the U.S. policy toward Native Americans is the ‘real’ genocide.”
How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs
by Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
June 23, 2021, 5 a.m. EDT
The task of a foreign news correspondent has become increasingly difficult in China when covering issues that China deems sensitive.
Chinese officials recently shared their anti-Western views with millions of viewers on Dong Fang TV (东方卫视), one of the most popular satellite TV channels in China. The hosts of ‘This is China’, the channel’s flagship show, claimed the western culture to be evil by its very nature.
A shocking Twitter thread is circulating online: A Chinese senior health official Huang Jiefu, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Central Health Commission, admitted on camera that the Chinese government has been harvesting organs from criminals on death row.
China says it has managed to gain support from some Persian Gulf States on its treatment of Uyghurs, following talks between their foreign ministers. Beijing invited ministers from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Kuwait, and the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to discuss further cooperation, The Times (UK) reports.