I just arrived in Xinjiang for our family holiday and the one thing that immediately strikes me is that, so far, there seems to be virtually no foreign visitors (other than myself).
We're in one of THE most touristic spot in the entire region, the central bazaar in Urumqi (which has great food, by the way, offering full refunds if the food doesn't taste good, see picture 👇), and it's fully packed but only with local Uyghurs and visiting Chinese tourists - not a single foreigner around!
This is pretty crazy to me: there's so much being said about Xinjiang but obviously people don't bother coming here to check things with their own eyes. Despite there being absolutely zero restrictions to do so: as a French man I can even stay here 30 days visa-free, I just need to book a flight and show up, that's it 🤷♂️
I know I sound like a broken record on this but that's the biggest illness affecting commentary on China: people simply speak about it in the abstract without engaging with the reality of the place.
🇻🇪 Heartbreaking footage from Venezuela shows stacks of coffins growing.
50,000 people are reportedly still trapped beneath the rubble and the USA stole all the country's money.
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Oh gee, another coincidonk!!
Just after Indonesia says ‘NO’ to US military flight access over Indonesian territory, guess what, US funded student groups start up street riots again.
Just like clockwork.
This time the theme colour is YELLOW — for this latest in orchestrated US-sponsored Colour Revolutions!
Watch for more reporting of the ‘chaos’ in Indonesia, until the US gets its own way and gets its flight access — so it can squeeze the Malacca Strait closed to choke Chinese trade.
https://t.co/E6P5y96hRn @abcnews
🇺🇸🇮🇩NEW VIDEO: Anticipated US-Backed Protests in Indonesia Begin & How it fits into US Desire to Contain China
On YouTube: https://t.co/95gvZZFQr3
▪️While protests may believe they have legitimate anger and causes, the fact that US-funded organizations are directing and promoting the protests indicates yet another case of hijacked-grievances;
▪️The US just demanded Indonesia open its airspace to US military aircraft, a demand Indonesia rejected;
▪️US-funded media operations in Indonesia just 2 weeks ago attacked alternative media outlets who exposed US interference last year in Indonesia as a means of "pre-bunking" attempts to expose it again ahead of protests this year they knew were coming;
▪️The protests are enhanced by the global energy and economic crisis deliberately created by the US war on Iran in West Asia;
▪️US control over Indonesia would threaten the Malacca Strait, further constricting Chinese maritime shipping of both imported energy and exported goods;
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Caspian lifeline redraws the Iran–Russia war map:https://t.co/Dhtc2pAoNX
ワシントンとテルアビブがイランを南から締め付ける中、カスピ海は西側諸国の手の届かないユーラシア大陸の補給網における北の動脈となりつつある
Accountability for the massacre of 168 schoolchildren at an elementary school in Minab, Southern Iran, by two American Tomahawk missiles is long overdue. Here is the account of that day: