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China pitches greater regional integration at the ASEAN summit at Kuala Lumpur
Timor-Leste became the 11th member of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in its first expansion since 1999. The regional economic and trade grouping was first formed in 1967.
In a farce of transatlantic subservience, the Netherlands booted a Chinese CEO via a 1952 Cold War law, bowing to US pressure over dishwasher chips. Europe’s “independence” peaked when it traded industrial autonomy for American nodding, triggering Chinese retaliation and European carmakers’ meltdowns. All while leaders hailed the chaos as strategic alignment. If this is sovereignty, no wonder Europe’s a punchline.
https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/europes-obedience-test-one-chinese-company-one-us-order/
Let's be clear, I'm not spinning a yarn where Xi Jinping and the CCP are the good guys. The Marxist left made that mistake with that old fascist Stalin and the USSR, and it's not a mistake this old anarchist intends to repeat.
What I'm saying is that Chinese foreign policy is self-interested, but *not* expansionist in a military conquest sense. This does not appear to have helped the people of Ukraine much. But in a world where Pax Americana is clearly over, it may be a ray of hope.
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This analysis fits the pattern of a US whose power on the world stage is in decline. While China is ascendant, but just taking care of business, not showing any expansionist ambitions (unlike Putin);
#Sudan #paramilitary forces killed hundreds including patients in a hospital after they seized #elFasher city in western #Darfur over the weekend, acc/to the #UN, displaced residents & aid workers, who described harrowing details of #atrocities.
WHO dir gen Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 460 patients & companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher. He said the WHO was “appalled & deeply shocked” by the reports.
#terrorism #RSF #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-hospital-rsf-darfur-fasher-who-3ac305299da5ee388429f3352ca5c6fa?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-29-Breaking+News
Witnesses told the AP that #RSF fighters—on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles—went from house to house, beating & shooting people, including women & children. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, witnesses said.
“It was a like a killing field,” Tajal-Rahman, a man in his 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. “Bodies everywhere & people bleeding & no one to help them.”
Both Amena and Tajal-Rahman said that #RSF fighters tortured & beat the detainees & shot at least 4 people Monday who later died of wounds. They also sexually assaulted women & girls, they said.
Giulia Chiopris, a pediatrician at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical group in Tawila, said they received many patients since Oct 18, suffering from injuries related to bombing or gunshots.
#SVAC #CRSV #LawsOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics #Sudan #Darfur #elFasher #WarCrimes
The #UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled #elFasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN #refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic & politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, & others shot as they tried to escape.
Witnesses told the AP that #RSF fighters—on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles—went from house to house, beating & shooting people, including women & children. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, witnesses said.
“It was a like a killing field,” Tajal-Rahman, a man in his 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. “Bodies everywhere & people bleeding & no one to help them.”
“The Janjaweed showed no mercy for anyone,” said Umm Amena, mother of 4 children who fled the city Monday after 2 days, using a Sudanese term for the #RSF.
Amena was among 3 dozen people, mostly women & children, who were detained for a day by RSF fighters in an abandoned house close to the Saudi Hospital in #elFasher.
AP spoke w/ Amena & 4 others who managed to flee el-Fasher arriving exhausted & dehydrated early Tues in nearby town Tawila, ~60km west of el-Fasher, which hosts >650k #displaced.
The #UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled #elFasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN #refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic & politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee, & others shot as they tried to escape.
#Sudan #paramilitary forces killed hundreds including patients in a hospital after they seized #elFasher city in western #Darfur over the weekend, acc/to the #UN, displaced residents & aid workers, who described harrowing details of #atrocities.
WHO dir gen Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 460 patients & companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher. He said the WHO was “appalled & deeply shocked” by the reports.
#terrorism #RSF #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-hospital-rsf-darfur-fasher-who-3ac305299da5ee388429f3352ca5c6fa?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-29-Breaking+News
#Sudan #paramilitary forces killed hundreds including patients in a hospital after they seized #elFasher city in western #Darfur over the weekend, acc/to the #UN, displaced residents & aid workers, who described harrowing details of #atrocities.
WHO dir gen Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 460 patients & companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher. He said the WHO was “appalled & deeply shocked” by the reports.
#terrorism #RSF #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/sudan-hospital-rsf-darfur-fasher-who-3ac305299da5ee388429f3352ca5c6fa?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-29-Breaking+News
Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir aren’t donating out of love for ballroom dancing 💃.
This is about access, influence, and alignment with power by Big Tech and the surveillance and war industry even as the shutdown costs billions and military families line up at food banks.
Not illegal, perhaps, but it says plenty about their opportunism and how quickly they’ll turn regime-friendly under pressure.
#bigtech #geopolitics #ballroom
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors
China’s economic successes are reshaping the Western media narrative.
A Chinese analyst recently did a study comparing coverage of China in major Western news outlets between 2019 and 2025: back in 2019, nearly 70% of stories covering China’s economy, technology, or environment had a negative tone, but by 2025, the share of negative stories had dropped to around 40%, with significant increases in neutral and positive coverage.
China’s unprecedented scale of modernization that lifted 800 million from poverty, made great strides in renewable energy, and built world class infrastructure challenges Western-centric narratives of progress.
Much of Western discomfort stems from the erosion of assumptions about liberal democracy’s exclusivity in driving prosperity and innovation. China provides a viable ideological alternative that demonstrably works better.
Carney announced he is going to sign massive trade agreements with China and other Asian countries.
He also added that Canada must reduce export dependence on the US after Trump out of nowhere imposed massive tariffs on Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-departs-indo-pacific-summits-9.6951021
Interesting talk on the Bank of International Settlements... I figure it might interest some of you too.
The video ends with some earlier cuts repeating, but the first 45min is worth the listen if you don't already know of the BIS.
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