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Bit like Mr. Shithole seeks "complete" power.

Originally Posted by OhOh

FIFY

Except it isn't . . . and you didn't.

Originally Posted by OhOh

China seeks ‘complete’ economic self-reliance and domination over all the world's squirrels to shove up Xi's arse

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China Focus: A glance at drafting process of CPC proposals for China's new development plan

Source: Xinhua| 2020-11-05 2021|Editor: huaxiu

"BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) --

The Communist Party of China (CPC) on Tuesday unveiled in full text the Party leadership's proposals for formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035.

It is a major document to guide the development of the world's second-largest economy for the next five to 15 years.

So, how was it drafted? According to people familiar with the drafting, the process featured both top-level design and public opinions.The process officially kicked off on April 13 when a drafting group headed by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, held its first plenary meeting.

At the meeting, Xi highlighted 38 important issues for the drafting group to begin with. Two days later, the group swung into action in full throttle.

On June 17, Xi convened the group's second plenary meeting, where the structure of the document was discussed.

Shedding light on the document's title, Xi said combining the five-year plan and the long-range objectives through 2035 will give the document a stronger sense of direction, as well as historical and strategic importance

Taking the details into consideration, Xi divided the group into task divisions and proposed seven specific highlights for the draft, including placing an emphasis on doing China's own things well, upholding reform and opening-up, and prioritizing technological innovation.

Xi stressed the importance of hearing people's voices. On Sept. 17, he presided over a meeting with grassroots representatives and talked with the speakers from a broad spectrum of professions: rural teacher, migrant worker, truck driver, etc.

Between July and September, Xi presided over seven symposiums to solicit opinions and suggestions from entrepreneurs, non-CPC personages, experts in economic and social fields, scientists as well as experts in education, culture, health and sports.

Comments were also solicited online, and in just two weeks, over 1 million pieces of comments were collected.

Xi asked relevant departments to sort, analyze and absorb the comments, and urged further efforts to use the internet to listen to the people's voices.

"The task of collecting suggestions for the development plan proposals has been unprecedentedly extensive," said a member of the drafting group.

Xi convened a series of high-level meetings, including three meetings of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and two meetings of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, to review the draft document, before it was submitted to the fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

On Oct. 26, Xi made an explanatory speech on the draft to the session before deliberation started. Almost all attendees spoke during the discussions, putting forward more than 290 suggestions.

Based on their opinions, the drafting group made 31 modifications.

In the evening of Oct. 28, Xi presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to review the revised draft.

The next morning, the revised draft was submitted to the session for another deliberation, and the drafting group made modifications according to new suggestions of the attendees.

The document was finally adopted in the afternoon of Oct. 29.

Xi said the document will serve as a guide for China's development course in the next five years and beyond. "It is a guiding document for the march toward the second centenary goal," he added."

China Focus: A glance at drafting process of CPC proposals for China's new development plan - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Originally Posted by OhOh

China Focus: A glance at drafting process of CPC proposals for China's new land and sea encroachment plans

FTFY


(Yes, I see how easy it is for you to do that)

Thank you for commenting on the article.

Most informative.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Thank you for commenting on the article.

Most informative.

Gracefully more informative than yours

If you have one of those chinky "TCL" televisions, whatever the fuck you do, do not connect it to the Internet. It's even worse if you have one with an inbuilt camera and mic.

Not only did they have the entire Filesystem visible to them (with the ability to read and write), but also a terminal manager and code to allow them to manipulate the device.

The conniving little chinkies closed the door that was discovered by security researchers, but you know they will have others.

Extraordinary Vulnerabilities Discovered in TCL Android TVs, Now World’s 3rd Largest TV Manufacturer. - Sick Codes - Linux, NetSec, VPS, Arch, Debian, CentOS Tweaks & Tips!

What you might not have known is that the chinkies also now own Alcatel and Blackberry Mobile. They are bound to have built backdoors into that shit as well, so if you have it, dump it.

Originally Posted by Cujo

FFS can someone ask that dick where he thinks the U.N gets their figures?

From the CIA yearbook ?

It has information on the 'electorial college' aswell

The US plan for weakening Hezbollah: a Civil War and the Exodus of the Christians


Hezbollah and its differences with the Christians of Lebanon


By Elijah J. Magnier: @ejmalrai


"The Christian political and religious leaders of Lebanon are theologically distant from Twelver Shia; they have political and ideological objectives that fundamentally differ from those of Hezbollah. Gebran Bassil, the Leader of the larger Christian Parliamentary Group “Al tayyar al-watani al-Hurr” (Free Patriotic Movement – FPM) made this clear last Sunday in a televised statement in response to US sanctions over alleged corruption and his close political alliance with Hezbollah. However, these differences of ideology are a kind of insurance, a guarantee which prevents civil war in Lebanon and the exodus of Christians from the Middle East. “This (a civil war in Lebanon and the exodus of Christians) is what Israel wishes to see, a desire expressed overtly by US officials during private meetings,” Bassil revealed. Thus, questions have to be asked: what are the fundamental differences between Lebanese Christians and Hezbollah, and what does the US want from the Christian Lebanese so as to weaken Hezbollah?

Just after the day of the Presidential election, on the fourth of November, the US administration announced- in a move that seemed incomprehensible and without strategic or tactical benefit either to Israel or the US- that it was sanctioning the MP Gebran Bassil. Bassil said that the US ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea, visited him to give him an ultimatum and warned him of the start of US sanctions if he didn’t terminate the Hezbollah FPM alliance. Bassil rejected the threat, and President Donald Trump’s administration sanctioned him. Bassil decided to reveal the content of his meetings with the US officials to strike a balance between his relationships with Hezbollah and with the west. The Christian leader detailed the points of difference with Hezbollah in terms of “thinking, language and ideology”.

The Shia Hezbollah consider the US as “the great Satan, the head of the snake”, and as far as Israel is concerned, their objective is to end its existence. Hezbollah’s aim is clearly stated: to liberate Palestine. The Christians are not the only group who don’t share the same goal as Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Shia group of Amal led by Speaker Nabih Berri, considered to be the closest ally of Hezbollah, doesn’t share Hezbollah’s slogans and objectives. Berri, unlike Hezbollah, has excellent relationships with the west and with the Gulf states.

Furthermore, Bassil has said that the Christians of Lebanon believe the relationship with the US is essential- and that it should be treated accordingly. He said that he believes that Israel has the right to live in security when the guaranteed safety of Arab territories is also provided for, and the rights of the Palestinians are guaranteed based on King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia’s peace plan. Bassil here meant the return of the Syrian occupied Golan Heights and Lebanese territories, the right of return of the Palestinian refugees, and a state for Palestine in exchange for normalisation with Israel, as stated in the Saudi King’s initiative.

This same initiative was agreed to by the late President Hafez Assad prior his meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Barak in the year 2000 – but it failed at the last minute. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, both close allies of Hezbollah, agreed on King Abdallah’s peace plan initially proposed in December 2002. The Palestinian Authority (PLO) and Hamas are both calling for the right of return of refugees and two states in Palestine to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

https://ejmagnier.com/2020/11/11/the...he-christians/

US De-Lists Uyghur Terrorist Organization Aimed at China

11.11.2020 Author: Brian Berletic


"AFP in an article titled, “US removes group targeted by China from terror list,” would report:

The United States said Friday it had removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region.
In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and rules, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was revoking the designation of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (Etim) as a “terrorist organization”.

The AFP article also claims:

“Etim was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that Etim continues to exist,” a State Department spokesperson said.

Yet this – according to US State Department-funded sources themselves – is entirely untrue. This includes articles as recent as 2018 from the Department’s own Voice of America admitting the ongoing threat the group still poses not only to China but to the world.VOA’s 2018 article titled, “Uighur Jihadis in Syria Could Pose Threat,” admits that:

Analysts are warning that the jihadi group Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) in northwestern Syria could pose a danger to Syria’s volatile Idlib province, where efforts continue to keep a fragile Turkey-Russia-brokered cease-fire between Syrian regime forces and the various rebel groups.

In essence – the US State Department is simply removing a known and still very active terrorist organization from its lists to both politically attack and undermine China further – but to also likely provide more direct support to the group and those affiliated with it in Washington’s widening conflict against Beijing.

ETIM has carried out bus bombings, shootings, suicide bombings, mass knife attacks, and other forms of terrorism stretching across a period of more than 20 years. It has been listed by the UN Security Council as a terrorist organization for nearly as long and is still designated as such to this day.
A post on the UN Security Council’s official website titled, “Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement” notes that:

The Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement was listed on 11 September 2002 pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 of resolution 1390 (2002) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf or in support of” or “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” Al-Qaida.

Similar patterns by the US were seen in relation to proxy warfare waged by Washington against the nations of Libya and Syria. Terrorist organizations like the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) were likewise removed from US terror lists despite at the time the group still openly carrying out armed violence.
The US State Department – according to its own statements – de-listed LIFG in 2015. The UK also de-listed the terrorist organization.

Yet as recently as 2017, terrorists linked to LIFG continue to carry out terrorism internationally.

The Guardian in its article, “Reading terror suspect came to UK as refugee from Libyan civil war,” would note:

The backwash from the 2011 intervention led indirectly to the Manchester bombing. Abedi, 22,, whose parents fled Libya in 1994, returned to the country after Gaddafi’s fall in 2011 only to come back to the UK as the fighting continued in Libya. Abedi and his family developed links to the Libyan Islamic Fighting group, an Islamist group that helped oust Gaddafi.

While the US and its partners remove terrorist organizations from terror lists, claiming it is because the threats from these groups are subsiding – in truth – it is because the US and its partners simply seek to aid and abet their violence further and much more directly.

Just as the US and UK used LIFG to overthrow the Libyan government in 2011 and create social division and fear within their own societies from 2011 onward – the US is removing the East Turkistan Islamic Movement for the very same reasons.

The ETIM serves US interests in many ways – from providing foot soldiers for Washington’s proxy war against Syria to carrying out terrorist attacks against disobedient nations like Thailand (the 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing in downtown Bangkok), to creating violence, unrest, and even fuelling separatism inside China itself. The US is not taking ETIM off its lists because it no longer poses a threat – it is taking it off its lists to sharpen this weapon for further use."


https://journal-neo.org/2020/11/11/u...imed-at-china/

Putin creates conditions for ending bloodshed in Caucasus


November 12, 2020 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

"The trilateral Armenia-Azerbaijan-Russia statement of November 10 on Nagorno-Karabakh is a major development in regional and international security. A daring attempt is afoot to tamp down an ethnic conflict with political overtones by redrawing territorial boundaries.

The agreement bears the imprimatur of President Vladimir Putin. Putin’s separate statement attests to it. Broadly, under the deal, Azerbaijan will hold on to areas of Nagorno-Karabakh that it has taken during the 7-week old conflict. Armenia has also agreed to withdraw from several other adjacent areas over the next few weeks. Nagorno-Karabakh stands truncated. Russian peacekeepers have taken charge of contact lines and communication arteries.

The deal can only be read as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia. Importantly, though, it constitutes a diplomatic masterstroke for the Kremlin. Russia returns to the centerstage of Transcaucasian politics.

A defining moment came on November 9 when Azerbaijan gained military control over the strategically important hilltop town known as Shusha, a natural fortress perched in the mountains and bordered by sheer cliffs, at a commanding height overlooking Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital, Stepanakert (just 10 kms away), and considered a linchpin to military control of the region.

The town’s capture effectively meant that Azerbaijan had overrun a main road (called the Lachin Corridor) connecting Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, which was critical for Armenia to send military supplies along switchbacks over a mountain pass.

Simply put, the jingoistic Armenian leadership of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stared at the stunning reality that the fall of Stepanakert was imminent and understood that the judicious course would be to salvage a ceasefire with Russian help.
The Kremlin was anticipating this to happen, as evident from the phone conversation Putin had with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on November 7, which was followed up with two calls with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

France is a co-chair of the Minsk Group (along with Russia and the US) and international legitimacy would be crucial for Moscow’s intervention in the conflict, whereas, Turkey needed to be “managed”, given its aspirations as a Black Sea power and its special ties with Azerbaijan.

Erdogan keeps inserting Turkey as peacemaker in the Caucasus (which Moscow is unlikely to concede, given his sponsorship of jihadi groups.) The readout from Ankara following a phone call to Putin on November 10 said:

“President Erdoğan noted that since Turkey will also carry out monitoring and overseeing activities for the ceasefire together with Russia through a Joint Center to be set up in a location, which will be determined by Azerbaijan on its lands that were saved from Armenian occupation, a great responsibility falls to the Russian side, too, at this stage.”

But the Russian readout ignored the Turkish interpolation and simply recapped that Putin “informed” Erdogan of the November 9 agreement on a complete ceasefire and the related “arrangements” and “agreed to continue working together to implement the package of measures set forth in the Statement.” The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov subsequently denied any such Russian intention to partner with Turkey in peacekeeping.

The November 10 trilateral agreement heavily borrows from Iran’s peace plan. (See my blog Iran has a plan for Nagorno-Karabakh.) Tehran is plainly jubilant. The Iranian Foreign Ministry, while welcoming the agreement, has offered Tehran’s

“readiness to assist in the deployment of peacekeeping forces of the Russian Federation along the contact lines in accordance with clauses 3 and 4 of the ceasefire agreement.”

With a Joe Biden presidency on the horizon, Moscow has a sense of urgency to bring the conflict to an end and take charge of peacekeeping. Moscow expects Biden to step up US engagement dramatically in Russia’s “near abroad” which could assume the complexion of a confrontation with major geopolitical implications.

Biden can be expected to be far more active than his predecessor in promoting democracy throughout the former post-Soviet space. Biden is deeply enmeshed in East European politics, having led the Obama administration’s policies toward Russia and Ukraine. An acrimonious relationship between the Biden White House and the Kremlin is on cards over issues of democracy.

Putin dwelt on this topic at the summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on November 10. Putin said, “One more open challenge to our common security is the increased number of attempts of direct foreign interference in the internal affairs of states that are involved in SCO activities. I am referring to the blatant infringement on sovereignty, attempts to split societies, change the countries’ path of development and sever the existing political, economic and humanitarian ties that took centuries to develop.

“An attack of this kind has been directed by external forces against Belarus, an observer country of the SCO. Following the presidential election, our Belarusian friends have been put under unprecedented pressure and had to repel sanctions, provocations and an information and propaganda war waged against them.

We regard this as unacceptable that external forces are trying to enforce any decisions on the Belarusian people. They must be given time to sort things out and take whatever steps may be necessary. The same is true of the recent developments in Kyrgyzstan and the unfolding internal political fighting in Moldova.”

The chaotic situation over transfer of power in Washington has presented Moscow with a free hand in its highly strategic Transcaucasian backyard. Macron has been Putin’s key western interlocutor all though the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh since September.

In the case of Turkey, Putin kept Erdogan informed and consulted him in an implicit acknowledgment of that country’s aspirations as a regional power and its importance to Russia as partner in regional security and stability.

Iran, indeed, falls in a unique category, given its growing convergence with Russia on regional issues. The level of mutual understanding is steadily transforming their relationship and imparting a strategic character to it. Tehran has unequivocally backed Putin’s initiatives on Nagorno-Karabakh.

The agreement of November 10 is going to endure for sometime at least. The task ahead will be the return of the 100,000 Azerbaijanis who were displaced in the 1990s from the occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the return of upward of 100000 Armenians who have been displaced from Karabakh region in the latest round of fighting.

But it remains to be seen how many displaced people will want to move back. Then, there is the return of displaced Azerbaijanis to Nagorno-Karabakh proper. Shusha is regarded as a cradle of Azerbaijani culture and the resettlement of this town will be a highly emotive and political experience.

The accord ends the bloody and devastating war but it doesn’t have anything on the politics of the conflict. On the other hand, it introduces a security architecture and stipulates communication measures to stabilise the ground situation.

The ethnic polarisation is such that the two communities are far from ready to embrace each other. However, this is a 5-year agreement and will roll over for another 5 years. And time is a great healer. "

https://indianpunchline.com/putin-cr...d-in-caucasus/

China being on the UN's Human Rights body is like appointing OhOh and Klondyke to being editors for US and Western News

China's human rights record slammed after UNHRC reelection


Human rights groups say China's dismal record means Beijing should have no place on the UN's top human rights body, arguing Chinese activists will now be deterred from reporting violations.


Following China's reelection to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian told reporters the decision reflected the "international community's high recognition of the development and progress of China's human rights cause."
Human rights groups, however, have a different opinion of Beijing's record. China has drawn widespread criticism for the mass-internment of Uighur Muslims, a crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong, widespread domestic censorship and arbitrary arrests of political dissidents.
Sarah Brooks, Asia program officer for the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), told DW that China's reelection has made the UNHRC's credibility "hard to swallow."
"The idea that the council can be the world's highest human rights body […] when China is on the council and actively engaged, imperils a whole range of efforts to use the council to address violations worldwide," Brooks said.


China's Uighurs: Imprisoned for their faith and culture

More support for Chinese activists

On September 9, over 300 human rights groups, including Amnesty International, sent a joint letter to the UN Secretary General and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for an international mechanism to address the Chinese government's human rights violations.
According to Amnesty, the letter said that China was seeking to "distort the mandate" of the UNHCR, by "persecuting activists from China" who use UN mechanisms to bring scrutiny of human rights violations in countries around the world.
Brooks said that Chinese activists need to be supported and encouraged to use the UNHCR system to report human rights violations.
"We need to make sure that there are costs for China trying to block those individuals from coming to the UN. And that there is a response when China seeks to shut the door in the face of civil society or block an activist from getting on a plane," said Brooks.

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Doesn't mean anything, I think Saudi had the chair once.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Doesn't mean anything, I think Saudi had the chair once.

Saudi and China . . . two stalwarts of freedom

UN body probes U.S. rights record

Representatives of more than 110 countries spoke at the session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group

" The United States’ human rights record was reviewed by a working group session of the UN Human Rights Council where many countries criticized the US human rights situation and proposed recommendations to the country.


Representatives of more than 110 countries spoke at the session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, urging the United States to eliminate all kinds of discrimination based on race, religion and gender, combat hate speech and religious intolerance, reform the judiciary, eliminate police violence, change the policy of isolating migrant children from their parents, and protect the right to health of the public during epidemics.


Return to Paris deal

They also suggested that the United States should return to the Paris Agreement on climate change and ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other international human rights conventions as quickly as it can.


Meanwhile, countries including China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and Syria urged Washington to immediately lift all unilateral sanctions and embargoes on developing countries, stop carrying out torture in its anti-terrorism moves and end its practice of interfering other nations’ internal affairs on the pretext of human rights."


UN body probes U.S. rights record | World | Daily Tribune

The ver-sensitive whiny little bitches:

China gloats over exclusion of Taiwan from WHO

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday (Nov. 10) heaped praise on the World Health Organization (WHO) for excluding Taiwan from the resumed session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), alleging Beijing had been providing information about the Wuhan coronavirus to the "Taiwan region" since the beginning of the pandemic.

But . . . still whiny little bitches with their Winnie The Pooh references

WHO lifts ban on 'Taiwan' in Facebook comments

WHO said censorship a response to 'onslaught of cyber attacks,' bans mention of 'Winnie the Pooh'


TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has defended its decision to censor comments containing keywords such as “Taiwan” on its Facebook video — though it later unlocked these while filtering out “Winnie the Pooh.”
Taiwanese netizens were shocked earlier this week after finding they could not leave a comment containing the word “Taiwan” on the WHO’s Facebook page. The World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, resumed virtually on Monday (Nov. 9), and the U.N. health agency has been streaming meetings via the social media platform.
Netizens bombarded the WHO’s Facebook with comments such as “Taiwan can help,” a mantra used to promote Taiwan’s international standing. Commenters then began to change the keywords slightly by using special characters in order to evade censorship.
The health body later confirmed it had blocked some keywords from its Facebook page, including “Taiwan” and “China,” as a “practical measure” as it “faces an onslaught of cyber attacks.” Reuters reported the agency as saying its social media team had applied content filters to “enable our users to avoid being spammed through cyber attacks, including from bots, and to find a balanced way to keep information and conversation flowing.”
The WHO later said it had adjusted the settings to allow users to once again leave comments containing “Taiwan” and “China.” Even so, posting “Winnie the Pooh” — a mocking reference to China’s leader Xi Jinping (習近平) — is still not allowed.

What a bunch of whiny little children

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Banners promoting this week’s Asean Summit line the street in Hanoi, Vietnam. Regional leaders will meet virtually and focus on an agenda that includes the completion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership deal and the launch of the region’s reserve stockpile of essential medical supplies.

'Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will meet his regional counterparts virtually for this week’s Asean Summit and related meetings, during which the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal is expected to be signed, after years of negotiation. Other items on the agenda include the official launch of the region’s reserve stockpile of essential medical supplies, as well as the Asean Comprehensive Recovery Framework to help countries rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic.

In line with this year’s theme – Cohesive and Responsive Asean – regional leaders will also discuss the public health and socioeconomic challenges posed by Covid-19, and chart a path to recovery, said the Prime Minister’s Office in a statement yesterday.

“The leaders will also exchange views on regional and international issues, and continue discussions on how to strengthen regional cooperation, reinforce Asean centrality and promote regional peace and stability,” it added.
This week’s meetings will be chaired by Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, whose country holds the rotating chairmanship of Asean this year.

The conclusion of the region-wide trade deal, which is set to be signed on Sunday, has been a key goal of the grouping this year. If everything falls into place, the RCEP will be the world’s largest trade pact, even without the inclusion of India, which pulled out last year.

The deal involves 15 countries: Asean’s 10 member states, as well as China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Together, they contribute about one-third of the world’s gross domestic product.

Asean alone has a population of nearly 640 million people and a combined gross domestic product of US$2.57 trillion (S$3.47 trillion). Some suggest that it is poised to become the fourth-largest economy in the world by 2030.

Senior Indonesian trade official Iman Pambagyo, who chairs the RCEP Trade Negotiating Committee, told The Straits Times that participating countries hope the agreement will drive economic recovery in the next two years in the region, where a regional supply chain has been built, thanks to existing free trade deals between Asean and its trading partners.

Ministers from the RCEP participating countries noted in June that the coronavirus pandemic has added the importance of the deal.

Yesterday, Mr Iman added: “Against the backdrop of low confidence in the multilateral trading system, ongoing trade tensions amongst a number of countries, rising protectionism and the impact of Covid-19, the signing of the RCEP is a signal to the world and businesses that countries in this region remain optimistic and have a forward-looking orientation in terms of deepening and expanding regional economic integration to play a bolder role in the global value chain.”
The twice-yearly meetings of regional leaders officially start today and will end on Sunday.

Today, Asean leaders will have their annual summits with China, India, Japan and South Korea. The Asean-Japan Summit will see the launch of the new Asean Centre for Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases. The inaugural Asean Women Leaders’ Summit will also take place this evening.

On Saturday, Asean leaders will have summits with the United States, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Asean Plus Three Summit with China, Japan and South Korea. The East Asia Summit (EAS) will cap that day’s meetings.

The EAS is a forum for the 10 Asean nations and their eight key partners – Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the US and Russia – to discuss political, security and economic issues affecting the wider Asia-Pacific region.
The various initiatives launched at the Asean summit will help chart the region’s recovery, said Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

At the close of the summit, Vietnam will hand over the Asean chairmanship to Brunei."

Asean on track to ink world’s largest trade pact at summit – RCEP

Originally Posted by OhOh

Meanwhile many of Asia/Oceania joins hands together. Except India who has chosen to opt out.

India’s farewell to ASEAN as it boards RCEP train

HooHoo appears to believe this fucking whackjob's nonsense despite the fact that India and Chinastan came near to all out war this year.

Originally Posted by OhOh

“The leaders will also exchange views on regional and international issues, and continue discussions on how to get more backhanders out of the chinkies in return for handing over their nations wealth

FTFY.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

how to get more backhanders

Backhanders or bombs "it' up to you".

Government Approves Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang Expressway

By
Latsamy Phonevilay -

November 13, 2020

"The Government of Laos has given the green light for a planned Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang expressway, reducing travel time between the two tourist towns.

Vientiane Times reports that the newly approved expressway, part of a larger scheme to link Vientiane with China by road, would see a 136.9km section from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang.

The joint venture company that will develop the section of road has reported the findings of its feasibility study to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and is awaiting approval.

The proposed expressway would significantly reduce travel time between the two tourism-focused towns of Vang Vieng and Luang Prabang. On the current road system, the trip takes approximately four to five hours, depending on road conditions. When the expressway opens, the travel time would be reduced to just 90 minutes.

The expressway will follow on from the existing Vientiane to Vang Vieng Expressway, which is 90 percent complete and expected to open by National Day this year (2 December).

Meanwhile, Laos has begun plans to build another expressway linking Luang Prabang with Oudomxay. The proposed expressway would link Luang Prabang District, Luang Prabang Province with Xay District, Oudomxay Province, stretching some 113.9 km.

The final section of the expressway would link Xay District, Oudomxay with Boten, Luang Namtha, culminating at the border between Laos and China. Once fully complete, the full expressway linking Vientiane to Boten would stretch some 460 kilometers with a one-way trip taking around five hours.

The Vientiane to Boten expressway would connect to ASEAN Highway AH12 and is expected to be part of the east Kunming-Bangkok highway, which is currently under development."

https://laotiantimes.com/2020/11/13/government-approves-vang-vieng-to-luang-prabang-expressway/


Laos is becoming connected.

We've already covered how "Belt and Owed" has left Laos in hock to the chinkies, and yet another bribe from the chinkies leads to another pointless loan and another chinky-built vanity project paid for by the average Lao citizen who hates the c u n t s.

You have to feel sorry for them.

Transmission Lines Connecting Laos to Cambodia Officially Launched

By
Phayboune Thanabouasy -

November 5, 2020

"A ceremony was held this week to mark the opening of a new 500 kV transmission line connecting Laos and Cambodia in Champasack Province. According to a report by Electricite Du Laos, the 500 kV transmission line construction project was built for the export of electricity to Cambodia in accordance with an agreement between Electricite Du Laos (EDL) and the Electricite Du Cambodge (EDC).

The 18-Kilometer transmission line, as well as a high voltage power station, is located in Had Village, in Khong District, connecting with the Cambodian power grid across the border.

The 500 kV of transmission line construction project was an investment by Electrictcite Du Laos, constructed by YEIG and CGGC companies of China.

The transmission line construction project commenced one year ago and now is complete and ready for the export of electricity to Cambodia.

EDL plans to upgrade the electricity station to 500 kV, allowing it to connect to other stations in Attapeu Province, under the energy and mine development plan for 2016 to 2020.

The launching ceremony took place on Sunday, attended by Minister of Energy and Mines, Dr. Khammany Inthirath, Champasack Governor, Mr. Vilayvong Bouddakham, and other invited guests."

Transmission Lines Connecting Laos to Cambodia Officially Launched - Laotian Times