Thread: Eurasia Topics

Originally Posted by panama hat

That'd be the one . . . Bavarian, I heard

OK then, maybe

I don't think that it is his to spend, although he is having a go at it

Originally Posted by OhOh

Chinese company begins construction to expand Colombo Port terminal

Is that the one they grabbed off Sri Lanka with a bit of "debt diplomacy" a.k.a. "Belt and Owed".

How much are Sri Lanka being forced to borrow for this then?

Mind you this president loves the chinkies, he must have millions stashed away by now.

The chinkies have got so many government bullshitters making up stories about this, they can't even get their stories straight.

Depending which chinky liar you read, the Wuhan virus originated in the US, Italy, Spain and now India.

Everywhere except Wuhan.

Ever since China’s Wuhan was believed to be the source of Covid-19 pandemic, the country has deliberately lied, suppressed crucial information and destroyed evidence related to the coronavirus outbreak. More so, the country has censored academic research in an attempt to control the narrative and has also silenced doctors and whistleblowers. Also Read - Shifting The Blame: New Chinese Research Claims Coronavirus Originated in India in Summer 2019

Now, new leaked documents from China has revealed that the country mishandled the early COVID-19 pandemic through misleading public data and three-week delays in test results, CNN reported Monday. Notably, 117 pages of internal documents from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were leaked by a whistleblower and obtained by the CNN.

The files showed how the region struggled to manage the coronavirus between October 2019 and April 2020- a critical time period in which the virus spread from China to cause a worldwide pandemic, as per CNN.

-On February 10, China publicly reported 2,478 new confirmed cases while privately reporting 5,918 new cases – a 139 per cent difference and almost double the official the public number of confirmed cases.

-A week later, China publicly reported 93 deaths in Hubei province, while privately reporting 196 – a difference of more than double.

-On March 7, China publicly reported the death total in Hubei at 2,986 while privately reporting 3,456.

The documents also reveal that Hubei was enduring an influenza epidemic in late 2019, which led to cases being 20 times higher than the previous year.

Meanwhile, China has indulged in another round of blame game and has repeatedly all accusations that it deliberately concealed information relating to the virus. Recently, Chinese researchers also claimed that the deadly virus originated in India in the summer of 2019 — jumping from animals to humans via contaminated water.

Earlier, Chinese authorities have tried to shift the blame to Italy, the US and Europe — largely without evidence.

More Lies Exposed: Leaked Documents Reveal China Lied About Covid-19 & Mishandled The Pandemic

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Is that the one

The governments of each country agreed and signed government to government binding agreements.

Rules "arry not reneging on previous international agreements, as some countries practice.

Originally Posted by OhOh

The governments of each country agreed and signed government to government binding agreements.

Rules "arry not reneging on previous international agreements, as some countries practice.

I notice you deftly avoided answering my question:

How much are Sri Lanka being forced to borrow for this then?

We already know the President borrowed more than his country could afford (including his commission). That's why they had to hand their major port over to the chinkies in the first place.

And he obviously likes the backhanders:

COLOMBO, Nov 27 — Fitch today became the latest ratings agency to cut Sri Lanka’s credit score, expressing fears over Colombo’s ability to repay its foreign debts.Fitch said Sri Lanka’s 2021 budget unveiled last week foreseeing a US$8.45 billion (RM34.4 billion) deficit in 2021 lacked a “credible fiscal consolidation strategy”.
The international ratings agency downgraded Sri Lanka by one notch to “CCC” from “B”, denoting that a debt default is a “real possibility”.
The downgrade came a day after the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said it had estimated the country’s GDP would shrink by 1.7 per cent this year, but Fitch said it was less optimistic and forecast a contraction 6.7 per cent.
The central bank announced yesterday that it hoped the country could save about US$4.0 billion this year as a result of a ban on non-essential imports such as vehicles.
The import restrictions which were due to lapse at the end of this year are now being extended for another year, the bank said.
Two months ago, Moody’s had downgraded Sri Lanka’s sovereign credit rating by two notches, saying Colombo would struggle to secure funding to service its large external debt.
At the time, the central bank called Moody’s downgrade “unwarranted” and its analysis erroneous.
Both ratings agencies say Sri Lanka will be hard pressed to raise the US$4.0 billion required annually in the next five years for foreign debt servicing amid a budget deficit of 8.9 per cent of GDP next year.
“I believe that we can manage this budget gap, due to enhanced opportunities to reissue local and international currency denominated debt at maturity,” Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said.
During his previous tenure as president from 2005 to 2015, Rajapaksa borrowed heavily from China for infrastructure projects, some of which ended up white elephants.
His government insists that they were not caught in a Chinese debt trap as alleged by Western nations, though Colombo has announced plans to raise more loans from China as well as India. — AFP

I particularly like that bit about "insisting he hasn't put his country in a Chinky debt trap" when the country had to start handing over national assets to the chinkies because it couldn't pay its debts.

Now he's at it again.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I notice you deftly avoided answering my question:

Nothing deft about it . . . he's as thick and subtle as a . . . well, a Mainlander can be

Originally Posted by panama hat

Nothing deft about it . . . he's as thick and subtle as a . . . well, a Mainlander can be

He's off right now scouring Peoples Daily, Xinhua and other Mr. Shithole publications for an article that says why the chinkies plunging third world countries into debt and plundering their assets is a *good* thing for the victims.

Hey HooHoo, just in case you and your little puppy want to books some flights:

Can a foreigner come to Russia to receive a Sputnik V vaccination?

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Watch out for all those Myanmar returnees.... Anyone can have "0 cases" if they do fuck all testing.

India’s Gulf strategy is chasing Chinese phantoms


December 8, 2020 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

"The Chinese statement of December 2 at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the ‘Question of Palestine and the Situation in the Middle East’ should trigger introspection in New Delhi. Without doubt, this must be one of the most forceful endorsements of the Palestinian cause in recent times by a great power.

It comes at a time when the narrative in India, scripted by the pro-US, pro-Israeli lobbyists in the media, has crystallised that Palestine cause is dead and India must ‘move on’. The government, of course, indulges in dissimulation, paying lip service to the Palestinian problem but it cannot deceive onlookers.

Beijing, taking a diametrically opposite stance, places the Palestine cause “at the heart of Middle East situation,” impacting regional peace. The Chinese statement hails President Xi Jinping’s congratulatory message on the occasion of the International Day of solidarity with Palestinian people on December 1 reiterating that “China firmly supports the just cause of the Palestinian people to restore their legitimate national rights, as well as all the efforts conducive to the peaceful settlement of the Palestinian issue.”

Has Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the Palestinian people? Doubtful. Certainly, it was no less important to do so than telephoning Boris Johnson, the prime minister of Britain, our erstwhile colonial master, to personally invite him as the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations in January 2022.
Contrary to the Indian narrative, in the Chinese understanding, Palestine-Israel relations are “becoming increasingly tense and the peace process is dragging on in difficulty, and the risk of regional conflict is on the rise.” There is a fundamental divergence here between the Indian and Chinese reading of the Middle Eastern tea leaves.

The Modi government identifies the Abraham Accords as a defining moment. The External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar went out of the way to hail the Abraham Accords and to follow up with a tour of Manama and Abu Dhabi last week. He literally followed the US Secretary Mike Pompeo’s footfalls.
However, China insists that the “two-state solution is a bottom line of international justice, there’s no going against the tide of history… The relevant UN resolutions, the land for peace principle, and the two-state solution… are important parameters in the Middle East peace process… (and) are the basis for solving the Palestinian question, and should be duly observed and implemented.”

The Chinese statement calls on both sides to “seek an early solution to the issue of the occupied Palestinian territory pursuant to the relevant UN resolutions, delineate the final Palestine-Israel border through peace talks, and refrain from any action that might fuel the tensions.”
China has welcomed the proposal of President Abbas to convene an international peace conference early next year. Indirectly referring to the killing of the Iranian scientist recently, the Chinese statement concludes,

“The tension has flared up back again in the Gulf, causing grave worries and concern. China is against any act that aggravates the regional tension and undermines regional peace and stability. China urges the parties concerned to make joint efforts to ease tension and maintain peace and stability in the region.”

The contrast couldn’t be sharper. There is deafening silence in Delhi apropos of the state-sponsored terrorism by Israel in Iran, notwithstanding the chorus of condemnation by India’s extended neighobourhood of the killing of the Iranian scientist — Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, etc.

This stunning silence grates against breast-beating by the Modi government over recent killings in France. On December 7, Modi telephoned French president Emmanuel Macron to convey his condolences for the “terror attacks” in France and to reiterate India’s “full support” to that country in its “fight against terrorism, extremism and radicalism.”

Make no mistake, China is positioning itself on the right side of history even as a US retrenchment is commencing in the Middle East. What the one-dimensional policymakers in Delhi fail to grasp is that China is crafting a ‘win-win’ approach.

It is no secret that China is discussing the draft of a 25-year strategic cooperation deal with Iran envisaging cooperation to the tune of $400 billion over a twenty-five year period. Essentially, China has a significant economic incentive and is quietly preparing itself to play a larger role in the Middle East diplomacy that explicitly rejects US unilateralism abroad.

Given the serious doubts over the capacity of the Joe Biden presidency to push through a game changing accord with Iran, China hopes to get space to get more directly involved in Tehran’s diplomatic affairs. This is one thing.

Again, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently unveiled an initiative to help resolve security issues facing the Gulf region and the Middle East through political and diplomatic means while also safeguarding the Iran nuclear deal. Wang did this after meeting with the visiting Iranian counterpart Javed Zarif at Tengchong, Yunnan province, on October 10.

This proposal devolving upon a regional multilateral dialogue platform is intended as a key template of a series of rapid Chinese policy shifts towards diplomatic intervention in the Middle East in the recent period, which, while implicitly competing with the US’ recent moves, such as the Abraham Accords, outflanks them. Interestingly, Wang underscored that nations taking part in the new Middle East forum would be required to sign onto the Iran nuclear deal.

Now, all this must be seen in the backdrop of the Middle Eastern leaderships increasingly pivoting towards China as a strategic partner, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE. China’s achievement of diversified regional partnerships is astounding — in terms of planned investments to support ambitious infrastructure and technology initiatives in the region.

Reports have appeared that in October, Saudi Arabia’s National Centre for Artificial Intelligence signed agreements with Chinese companies Huawei Technologies Co. and Alibaba Cloud as part of its new AI strategy. At the other extreme, China is widely perceived as the leading candidate to rebuild Syria’s drastically damaged infrastructure after the long years of war. Estimates of the cost of rebuilding Syria range from from a modest $200 billion to more pessimistic forecasts in the region of $1 trillion.

Indeed, China continues to deepen its reliance on the Middle East’s energy supply, which is an anchor sheet of its regional diplomacy. Meanwhile, the China-Arab States Political Parties Dialogue is a relatively new platform that includes 60 leaders from political parties across the Arab states, including Assad and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, which meshes with a larger matrix that China hopes to lead.

Fundamentally, China’s diplomatic exchanges in the Middle East are motivated by its long-term economic rise. Put differently, China’s economic ambitions remain the backbone – rather than an accessory – to its foreign policy decision-making.

Quintessentially, this is the difference between the Indian and Chinese approaches to the Gulf. The China-Middle East forum projects a diplomatic agenda rather than advancing a geopolitical agenda.

Jaishankar’s exciting trip to Manama, Abu Dhabi and Victoria, on the other hand, was directed against China’s perceived interventionist agenda in the Arabian Gulf and western Indian Ocean, where none really exists, which essentially views the region as a proxy for US-China tensions. It is deeply flawed and is fated to be wasteful, unproductive and ultimately unsustainable — and cannot be any different in its outcome from the predicament that the US is encountering vis-a-vis the ASEAN.

The text of the Chinese statement at the UNGA is here."

https://indianpunchline.com/indias-g...nese-phantoms/

Beijing’s Not the Only One: Vietnam’s South China Sea Island Reclamation Expanding, Think Tank Says

"A Beijing-based think tank has called attention to extensive land reclamation efforts and military upgrades on a set of islands in the South China Sea controlled by Vietnam. While China is often faulted by the US and its allies for similar efforts aimed at solidifying its claims over the area, Hanoi or Taiwan aren’t given the same attention.

Vietnam’s land reclamation on several South China Sea islands has continued in recent years, and reclaimed land is being fitted out with new military installations, too, the South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI), a think tank connected to Peking University, has revealed.

A set of recent tweets by SCSPI has brought attention to recent changes on Sand Cay and Storm (Spratly) Island, two islands occupied by Vietnam in the Spratly Islands archipelago.

Since 2011, Vietnam has doubled the size of both islands, adding 9 acres to Sand Cay and 40 acres to Storm Island. In all, Hanoi occupies 27 “features” in the Spratly Islands, 10 of which are islets; the rest are platforms mounted on submerged rocks and reefs, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, DC think tank.

The islands are two of the largest in the Spratly Island chain, a set of tiny islands that span the central South China Sea. Several nations have laid claim to all or part of the Spratlys, due to the valuable fishing waters surrounding them and the high possibility of petroleum deposits under the seafloor, including Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China, better known as Taiwan.

The satellite images show both islands are still being expanded and built upon, with a helipad and wharf appearing on Sand Cay in the last few months and continued harbor dredging, a large 3D radar station and a missile launch site being built on Storm Island.

rung Nguyen, international relations dean at Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities, told US state-owned Voice of America in 2019 that Hanoi has deliberately kept its actions quieter and smaller in scope. “The Vietnamese government has made it very clear they just reclaim the islands for self-defense, and they do not expand massively for other purposes,” Nguyen said. “I don’t think the Vietnamese government wants to draw a lot of attention from other countries on their reclamation, so that’s the reason they want to do it quietly.”
Similar Behavior, Dissimilar Treatment

China, too, has moved to solidify its claims in the region, building up nearby islands such as Fiery Cross Reef, 90 miles northeast of Spratly Island, and several others across the South China Sea with reclaimed land and military installations. Taiwan’s claimed Taiping Island, 115 miles northeast of China’s Fiery Cross Reef and just 7 miles west of Vietnam’s Sand Cay, is the largest in the Spratly chain and has been similarly fortified. Last week, Hanoi protested after Taiwanese forces conducted live-fired drills near Taiping Island, which they call Ba Binh Island."

Beijing’s Not the Only One: Vietnam’s South China Sea Island Reclamation Expanding, Think Tank Says - Sputnik International

Originally Posted by OhOh

"A Beijing-based think tank

Sputnik International . . . oh WahWaaaaah , you're such a dolt

A Beijing-based think tank has called attention to extensive land reclamation efforts and military upgrades on a set of islands in the South China Sea

... because they didn't get there first.

Huawei aren't testing AI to alert authorities when a Uighur is spotted. They are not a surveillance tool for Mr. Shithole.

Oh, hang on, they are!

UIGHUR ALERT! We can't have them running around outside the concentration camps now, can we?

GUANGZHOU, China – Huawei, in collaboration with one of China’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies Megvii, has tested a facial recognition system that could be used to detect members of a Muslim minority group and send messages alerts to authorities, according to a new report.
The Uyghur ethnic minority is a repressed Muslim group often targeted by the Chinese government, who live mainly in the western region of Xinjiang.
An official 2018 document produced by the two Chinese companies showed that Huawei tested Megvii’s software on its video cloud infrastructure. The document was discovered by IPVM, a United States-based research company specializing in CCTV analysis. IPVM shared their discovery with The Washington Post, which on Tuesday was the first media organization to report on its content.
The test was carried out to see if Huawei’s hardware is compatible with Megvii’s facial recognition software, the IPVM report says. Huawei provided hardware such as cameras, servers and cloud computing infrastructure, while Megvii provided the software, he added.
As part of the trial, a feature called “Uyghur Alert” was tested. Another feature of the software was to determine “ethnicity” as part of its “facial attributes analysis,” according to the IPVM report.

Huawei tested AI software capable of identifying Uyghurs: report - Inverse Zone

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

huawei tested ai software capable of identifying Doubting Thomas's: Report - inverse zone

fify.

Originally Posted by OhOh

fify.

Nah, not really. You just waffled your usual irrelevant shite again.

Slow trains boost local incomes

Xinhua | Updated: 2020-12-10 08:23

"
Train No 4319 stops at the Shicheng station for about 17 minutes. The stop is long enough to allow some nearby farmers to carry their goods onboard.
Inconvenient transportation once hampered the economies of many villages in Shicheng, a township in Fengcheng, Liaoning province.
But the situation has improved since the slow-train service started in 2012.

"There are only three ways out of the village. One is a winding foot path in the village, the second is a mountain trail behind the village and the third is the train," says Wang Yunlong, who has lived in Shicheng for more than 60 years.

"Thanks to this small, slow train, we can sell goods produced in our village to the outside world and make more money."

The train runs for 321 kilometers between Tonghua and Dandong cities, completing the journey in six hours and 17 minutes.
The 17-minute stop at the station has put Shicheng's villagers' lives on the fast track.

They pick seasonal wild plants, yams, walnuts, mushrooms and other mountain products, and take the train to sell them elsewhere.
Liu Ende plants corn, soybeans and other crops on less than 1 hectare of land. He used to earn 10,000 yuan ($1,530) a year from his plot, but the train had helped to boost his income.

Now, the 74-year-old has a profitable sideline selling his products. In his spare time, Liu climbs the mountains to pick wild edibles and sells them in the city on weekends.

"I set out in the morning to sell mountain products and return home at night. I can earn more than 200 yuan," says Liu.
"Walnuts and hedgehog mushrooms are the most popular. I earned over 10,000 yuan from them last year."
For some villagers along the railway line, the train is the only way to communicate with the outside world when the mountains are snowbound in winter.

"One year, our village was cut off by heavy snow for more than a month. But thankfully, meat and vegetables were brought in by the train," says Ye Wei, who lives along the railway in Fengcheng.

"We don't have a school in our village. Children have to go to other places for education, and the train is their only way to travel. Every weekend, the children travel home by train. If we hear the train whistle, it means the kids are back," says Liu.

The train provides transport for more than 1,200 children along the route. Since it started, 132 high school graduates have been admitted to university.
Tourism has also boosted the local economy, as tourists can take the train to nearby scenic spots and enjoy local food.

There are more than a dozen pairs of "slow trains" like this operated by China Railway Shenyang Bureau Group.

"Slow trains are necessary amid high-speed rail development because they make many stops along the rails," says Li Xiangjun, chief conductor of train No 4319.

"This accommodates people in poor areas and helps improve their situations."

Slow trains boost local incomes - Chinadaily.com.cn

Singapore expands Global Innovation Alliance network to China's Shenzhen

(Xinhua) Update:2020-12-09

"Enterprise Singapore, the government agency championing enterprise development, said in a media factsheet Tuesday that the Global Innovation Alliance network has been expanded to include Shenzhen, which will be the fourth GIA node in China.It said that the addition of Shenzhen brings the total GIA network to 15 cities globally and will now enable Enterprise Singapore to support the foray of Singapore innovative startups and small and medium enterprises into China through Shenzhen.

The government agency said it signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Shenzhen Municipal Service Bureau for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in June 2020, to promote cooperation in innovation and entrepreneurship activities between Singapore and Shenzhen, as part of the Singapore-China (Shenzhen) Smart City Initiative.

Under the MOU, the Shenzhen authority will also establish a landing pad in Singapore to run innovation activities in Singapore for Shenzhen-incorporated entities.

According to the media factsheet, GIA was launched in 2017 as part of the Committee of the Future Economy recommendations to strengthen Singapore's connections to major innovation hubs around the world.

The 15 GIA node cities are Shenzhen, Beijing, Suzhou and Shanghai in China; Manila in the Philippines; Jakarta in Indonesia; Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam; San Francisco in the United States; Berlin and Munich in Germany; Paris in France; London in Britain; Tokyo in Japan; Bangalore in India; and Bangkok in Thailand."

Singapore expands Global Innovation Alliance network to China's Shenzhen

Originally Posted by OhOh

Slow trains boost local incomes

So what does your slow brain boost?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

So what does your slow brain boost?

Kloondyke's hopes of catching up.

PH: "I open Teak Door, what I see: Klondyke"
"I open my eyes, what I see: Klondyke"
" I open my fridge, what I see: Klondyke"
"I open can of sardines, what I see: Klondyke"

(Pity him...)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Klondyke

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Klondyke

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Klondyke

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Klondyke

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Pity

Yes, pity poor self-obsessed Kloondyke

An opinion on the topic that some countries inability to manage.

Reminiscence of the Future...

Matt Purple Begins To Suspect Something.

Matt Purple of The American Conservative concludes that:

Our Elites Couldn’t ‘Reset’ a Wall Outlet, Let Alone the Global Economy

"Ah, lovely. Some messages finally begin to trickle down and make Purple, using the example of the founder of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, question competence of Western elites. Purple delves into Klaus Schwab's background and ideas, such as proverbial 'Reset':

Some explanation is in order. Back in 2014, an economist named Klaus Schwab emerged out of the hive of sentient buzzwords that is Davos to declare that it was time for an elite-engineered “Great Reset” of capitalism. There was just one problem: the little people who inhabit economies had been through quite enough disruption of late and weren’t especially keen on more. Schwab’s idea found little purchase outside of the global Gulfstream gentry. ...Just who is this Schwab? You will be relieved to learn that he’s a lifelong academic and founder of the World Economic Forum. And yet, you wonder, does he have any honorary doctorates? He does, in fact, no fewer than 17 of them. Yet it’s here that we damn him with robust praise. Back in parts of the world where bacon-wrapped scallops are not instantly available upon request, policy doesn’t trickle down from globe-girdling theorists; it comes from elected leaders and national civil servants. (What’s the one thing that might make Angela Merkel belly-laugh? Try telling her Jean-Claude Juncker used to run Europe.) And while politicians are occasionally tempted towards radical change, they’re also accountable to voters, whose lives they can’t afford to blow up by, say, holding down the economy’s power button for 10 seconds. Progress has to be more gradual and piecemeal than that. Disruption even amid a pandemic can garner serious pushback.

That explains it a bit why this "scholar", pardon my insult to real scholarship, makes mutually exclusive suggestions in his grand idea of 'Reset'. This IS expected from Western "elites" and Purple's references to Merkel or manifest alcoholic Jean-Claude Junker hardly makes his case against contemporary Western elites stronger. I am not sure what is the reason behind Junker being drunk whenever dealing with the so called "global" and European economy--maybe the recognition of a deep shit this economy is in--but Merkel, far from laughing belly-laughing herself is a laughing stock of a stateswoman who must serve as an Exhibit A in any future school of government of how not to run the country.

But I generally agree with Purple, Western "elites", including most of Washington D.C. do not know shit from shinola, which is not that surprising when overwhelming majority of them are the products of humanities programs, which, basically, teach nothing about modern world other than moribund cliches about travails of electoral politics and simulacra of governing. And here is the point--the only skills Western elites have are those of how to run perpetual election campaigns to retain their place at the trough of government spending. Moreover, the United States is not-governable in principle, because it is nothing more than a geographic playground for a political power clans who see themselves only within the framework of monetarist policies and Wall Street's, and military-industrial complex' fat tit of contributions. What governing? What steering the ship of state in the right direction? You are talking about a bunch of white-board "academics" most of whose life experience was confined to comfortable offices of banks and law firms, with some breaks for lunch or dinners in upscale restaurants, and whose grasp of the geopolitical, economic, military and other relevant realities, or lack thereof, is conditioned by a bunch of "theories" which are nothing more than an excuse for the entrance into the clubs of Western "intellectuals", who, as Purple correctly wonders about Schwab:

I’m starting to wonder whether he could successfully back a car out of a garage.

He can't, neither can modern Western "elites" run anything complex in reality. What the fuck do you expect from some financier or "analyst" who saw CNC machining center on TV and thinks that war is just the matter of sitting at the monitor with joystick. Want to see a parade of morons--look no further than TV and main-stream media. One cretin after another selling you unreality and opinions on matters they cannot possibly have any opinions about. I write about stupidity of West's "elites" for years, decades really. It would have been comical if it wouldn't have been so dangerous because these people, as the irrefutable empirical evidence suggests, will continue to pretend, or believe sincerely, that they have what it takes to save what they themselves helped to run into the ground by their doctrine-mongering. Financial capitalism is not viable, as is not the whole concept of post-modernism and its ugly ejaculate of the white-board "academics"--post-industrialism. One cannot go against fundamental laws of physics and its underlying truism that development which matters for humanity IS energy. More energy--more real development, emphasis on real. Energy, all sorts of it, is material and it proved already that making money is not a substitute for a real technological development and new social reality which cannot be stopped, even by the invention of ANTIFA and BLM, and acts of political pedophilia Greta Thunberg embodies. Those are all acts of desperation by modern Western "elites", who are not ready to face history doing what she always does--continuing its unrelenting step. These "elites" have only two options--either get out of the way or be smashed by whatever method this history will chose, even after we were told that this history has ended."

Reminiscence of the Future... : Matt Purple Begins To Suspect Something.

Incredible bastardry . . . but to be expected - they neither value others' lives nor their own people's.

Chinese doctors admitted in undercover calls that harvested organs were available, informal tribunal finds


Doctors from leading Chinese hospitals admitted in undercover phone calls that organs harvested from Falun Gong detainees were available, an informal, independent “people’s tribunal” has disclosed.
The seven member panel concluded last year1 that mass forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China over years constitutes crimes against humanity under international law.
The tribunal has now released a more detailed body of evidence that it says supports its conclusion that China is guilty of a continuing, state run programme of forced organ harvesting from innocent prisoners of conscience.
Geoffrey Nice QC, the leading war crimes prosecutor who chaired the panel, said, “It is now the responsibility of all those who interact with …

Chinese doctors admitted in undercover calls that harvested organs were available, informal tribunal finds | The BMJ