Footage posted earlier today on the Chinese social media site, WeChat, showing the collapse this morning of a large section of the Hongqi Bridge in the Sichuan Province of Southwestern China. The Hongqi Bridge, which was completed earlier this year and stretches roughly 758 meters, connecting the Chinese Heartland with Tibet, was closed by police on Monday after inspectors notice sizable cracks in the concrete structure, reportedly caused by worsening conditions and landslides on the nearby mountain, which appears to have led to its collapse on Tuesday, November 11.
MI HANNO ARRESTATO PERCHÉ CRITICO L’IMMIGRAZIONE
Per un post su TikTok sugli immigrati nelle città francesi, Jean-Eudes Gannat è stato fermato dalla polizia.
Questa è la libertà concessa in Europa.
@franborgonovo@gannat_JEG
Interesting: The U.S. is moving dozens of KC-135 and KC-46 tankers with fighters to the Middle East, some already landed at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
More are staged in the U.K.
In the near past, such buildups preceded U.S. airstrikes on Iran.
🚨🇨🇳 BREAKING: CHINA is launching a new visa to attract young foreign STEM professionals
The move follows the U.S. decision to hike H-1B visa fees to $100,000, sparking panic & locking out young researchers
🇲🇩 About a year ago, while I was stuck in Paris, the French intelligence services reached out to me through an intermediary, asking me to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels ahead of the presidential elections in Moldova.
After reviewing the channels flagged by French (and Moldovan) authorities, we identified a few that clearly violated our rules and removed them. The intermediary then informed me that, in exchange for this cooperation, French intelligence would “say good things” about me to the judge who had ordered my arrest in August last year.
This was unacceptable on several levels. If the agency did in fact approach the judge — it constituted an attempt to interfere in the judicial process. If it did not, and merely claimed to have done so, then it was exploiting my legal situation in France to influence political developments in Eastern Europe — a pattern we have also observed in Romania 🇷🇴
Shortly thereafter, the Telegram team received a second list of so-called “problematic” Moldovan channels. Unlike the first, nearly all of these channels were legitimate and fully compliant with our rules. Their only commonality was that they voiced political positions disliked by the French and Moldovan governments.
We refused to act on this request.
Telegram is committed to freedom of speech and will not remove content for political reasons. I will continue to expose every attempt to pressure Telegram into censoring our platform. Stay tuned. 🤝