The statement of Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro just this week, where he said that entering into bilateral negotiations over the dispute in the South China Sea (SCS) between the Philippines and China will just be playing into China’s playbook, is quite perplexing. Teodoro says bilateral talks with China on the issue over the SCS dispute will only hamper and strangle the Philippines’ rights and position. This is one of the reasons why the Philippines is seeking multilateralism.
Negotiating the Tide: The Vital Role of Bilateral Talks between PH & CN in Steering Through the SCS Dispute
Tag: International Relations
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary
The Primary Sources on Kissinger’s Controversial Legacy
Archive Obtained and Published Previously Secret Records on Kissinger’s Role in Secret Bombing Campaigns in Cambodia, Illegal Domestic Spying, Support for Dictators, and Dirty Wars Abroad
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary
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Henry Kissinger, world-shaping diplomat who was revered and reviled, dies at 100
Henry Kissinger, the toweringly influential former secretary of state who earned a reputation as a sagacious diplomat but drew international condemnation and accusations of war crimes for his key role in widening the American presence in Vietnam and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, died Wednesday.
Henry Kissinger, world-shaping diplomat who was revered and reviled, dies at 100 🎉
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Biden’s America is now losing three wars simultaneously.
Because of Joe Biden’s career-long consistent neoconservatism — he never met a U.S. invasion or coup that he didn’t didn’t like and didn’t assist to happen — he is losing all three of America’s current wars, and each one of them (each of which he inherited from the prior Administrations, because at least since 1980 all U.S. Presidents have been neocons) is a proxy-war by a U.S. client-state or “colony” against an enemy that the U.S. Government has long wanted to “regime-change” (i.e., to take control over):
Biden’s America is now losing three wars simultaneously.
H/T: Unorthodox Truth
Pepe Escobar: Russia-China Partnership Defangs US Empire
China’s State Council has released a crucial policy paper titled ‘A Global Community of Shared Future: China’s Proposals and Actions’ that should be read as a detailed, comprehensive road map for a peaceful, multipolar future.
Pepe Escobar: Russia-China Partnership Defangs US Empire
Xi, Assad announce China-Syria strategic partnership
Cooperation to help improve livelihood of Syrian people after turmoil
Xi, Assad announce China-Syria strategic partnership
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Leaders of Syria and China announce strategic partnership as part of Asian Games diplomacy
Assad’s visit parallels in some ways that of Russian President Vladimir Putin last year for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
AP trying to draw parallels between Russia-Ukraine and China-Taiwan.
Putin’s speech at the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg
TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar
Today’s Trump-inspired “America First” faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it may lean that way because its chief rival faction is so enthusiastic about foreign adventurism is hardly a firm assurance that it will remain antiwar in the future.
TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar
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The derangement of the American mind
America is out of control, and is the main threat to the world’s peace, security and civilizations.
The derangement of the American mind
US Interferes in Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election
(Bloomberg) — The top US liaison to Taiwan asked the opposition’s presidential candidate about how he would navigate relations with Beijing if he wins next year’s election, according to people familiar with the meeting, as polls show a tight race between the key parties.
US Presses Taiwan Opposition Candidate Over Likely China Plans
H/T: Emil Cosman
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