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[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

One of the VERY rare Western politicians who gets it and rejects U.S. imperialism to preserve his country's sovereignty, the immense Paul Keating, 24th Prime Minister of Australia https://t.co/yAuCZgxcY0

“You see, we're going to get AUKUS but not the submarines. What we're going to get is what Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State has said: 'We're going to tie these guys up for 40 years'.

What AUKUS is about in the American mind is turning the suckers in Australia, locking us up for 40 years with American bases all around. I mean what this report today tells you, they can have American bases all around Australia. American bases! Not Australian. All around Australia. So AUKUS is really about, in American terms, the military control of Australia.

I say this: the Albanese government with their policy is likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States.”

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

PLOT TWIST: Athletes around the world were shocked today when the world anti-doping agency said the US, not China, had been illicitly putting guilty athletes into races against innocent competitors

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Here Israeli lawmakers are debating if it's okay for Jews to sodomize nonjewish prisoners

This is where our tax dollars go

[Rakkasan @kingd0m2k]

@nikstankovic_ China is building trains to the middle east. Oil from Iran or Central Asia will replace any short fall China needs

[Orikron 🇵🇹 骆培思 @orikron]

Full opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The fun starts at 2:00.

Look forward to seeing what they do in 2036 if Chongqing wins the bid.

[Dmitry Polyanskiy 🇺🇳 @Dpol_un]

Thanks God we are not part of this disgrace! 🤢 #ParisOlympics

[Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill]

US Congress' history book-destined performance we shall never forget.

[Dan Collins @DanCollins2011]

That rat behind the DNC coup

[Rakkasan @kingd0m2k]

@richimedhurst post more this is so entertaining😁

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Another COVID "conspiracy theory" becomes reality as a bombshell study CENSORED by The Lancet has now been peer-reviewed.

What were they trying to hide, you ask?

Lots and lots of vaccine deaths.

After analyzing 325 COVID vaccine autopsy cases, the now peer-reviewed study found that “a total of 240 deaths, which is 73.9%, were independently adjudicated as DIRECTLY DUE to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.”

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

Against all odds - 🇨🇳China's Space Exploration program 1994 - 2024🚀🛰️

1994 - China applied to join the International Space Station, but was denied and declared "untrustworthy" by the U.S.

1993 - The United States shut down their GPS targeting the Chinese container ship Yinhe, leaving the ship stranded at sea and unable to navigate for 33 days - after being falsely accused by the US of carrying chemical weapons precursors to Iran

1996 - The United States turned off its GPS in the South China Sea, forcing China's missile tracking to fail

2003 - China applied to join the EU's Galileo global satellite navigation system, paid €230 million but was eventually forced out by the EU

2011 - The United States passed the Wolf Amendment Law, which prohibits NASA from cooperating with China in space

Despite being stigmatized and isolated, Chinese scientists and taikonauts remained determined and worked hard to become self-sufficient

1999.11.20 - Shenzhou 1 - China's first spacecraft - where the dream began!

2000 - The first experimental BeiDou Navigation Satellite was launched

2003 - Shenzhou 5 - China's dream of flying into Space came true! Taikonaut Yang Liwei (杨利伟) was blasted successfully into space as part of China's Shenzhou 5 mission. China became the third country to launch a person into space independently, after the Soviet Union and the United States

2005 - Shenzhou 6 - Fèi Jùnlóng (费俊龙) and Niè Hǎishèng (聂海胜) launched into space aboard the Long March 2F carrier rocket. It marked the official second launch of China's manned spaceflight program and the start of crewed scientific research in space

2007 - The first lunar exploration probe Chang'e 1, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, was launched and successfully orbited the moon, marking the third milestone in China's space program

2007 - The BeiDou-1 navigation system was completed and began operation in China. The fourth positioning system, next to the American GPS, Russian GLONASS, and European Galileo

2008 - Shenzhou 7 - Taikonauts Zhai Zhigang (翟志刚) and Liu Boming (刘伯明) completed China's first "Spacewalk" extra-vehicular activity (EVA)

2011 - The Tiangong-1 prototype space station was launched, marking the start of construction on China's first space station

2016 - marks the launch of Tiangong-2, China's first space laboratory. Tiangong-2 was not constructed or planned to be permanent, but rather as a test-bed for critical technologies utilized for the final Tiangong Space station

2020 - Chang'e 5 marks China's first lunar landing retrieving lunar soil. For the first time in 44 years, humans have brought back rock and soil samples from the moon

2020 - China's BeiDou-3 navigation system provides complete full global coverage

2020: Mars - here we come! China launched Tianwen-1, China's first Mars probe

2022: China completed construction of its permanently crewed Tiangong space station

2024 - Chang'e 6 mission: China became the first nation to land and return lunar soil samples from the far side of the moon

It took China 28 years and the sacrifice of countless heroes risking their lives working day and night to overcome China's Western-imposed isolation and construct its own space station and global navigation system, and to become a leader in space exploration 🇨🇳🫡

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

BETRAYAL AND INTERFERENCE

DURING THE 1989 protests in Beijing, student Kong Qingdong came across two undergraduates using a mimeograph machine to makes copies of personal documents.

One of them looked up. “Kong, have you nabbed a passport yet?” he asked.

“What passport?”

“Feng Congde, Chai Ling—they’ve both got American passports!”

As he listened, Kong, a core member of the group in Tiananmen Square protesting against corruption, found himself becoming filled with fury. The protests were about standing up for China—not grabbing passports handed out by a foreign power.

He later described that moment to an interviewer: “My anger wasn’t jealousy, because I’ve never thought going to America would be a good thing. My place is in China. In China, I wanted to study hard and help build the country.”
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TRUE SOCIALISM
The international media presented the student protesters as wanting to bring American “freedom and democracy” to China, but that had never been true, as many protesters said.

The protesters’ focus at that time was to rid the country of corruption to implement true socialist democratic representation, so the Four Modernizations could get underway – this was a Deng Xiaoping project to push for world-class development in certain areas: science/ technology, industry, agriculture, and defence: THAT was China’s future.

To Kong, like most students, the modernization project was “the most exciting prospect”. They wanted the government to stamp out corruption so that China could develop on its own path.

“I never wanted to pass [a language teaching qualification] and go wash dishes in America,” Kong said.
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FOREIGN MEDDLERS
The problem was that there was an extraordinarily level of hostile foreign involvement in what was supposed to be an important debate within the Chinese community.

Eventually, Kong went to speak to a pair of other students, Shen Tong and Wang Chiying. “The struggle for democracy in China must rely on the Chinese people,” Kong told them. “It can’t depend on foreign powers.”

Outside, foreign reporters lined up to speak to the student protesters. “Quite early on, I noticed how biased they were,” Kong recalled. “I can’t say for sure that the ones I met were spies, but in my estimation some foreign journalists were. For one thing, when they interviewed me—reporters from Hong Kong, America, Japan—they didn���t publish my words as they were spoken. They distorted and embellished them.”
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A FALSE NARRATIVE
He also became aware of a very different narrative being imposed on what was happening, as if the students were calling on China to become like America. “During the interviews, they tried to encourage me to criticize the party, to praise America.” He said they continually asked him “whether or not I wanted to ‘go to America and experience true freedom and democracy’”.

Kong didn’t know how to answer. The problem was that it was true that the students had taken a position against the Chinese government, so it was complicated.

But reporters made simplistic assumptions which students struggled to correct.
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SOWING DISCORD
“It was embarrassing but at the time my thinking wasn’t so clear,” Kong said. “All I knew was that it was an incredibly complex situation, so what the government had been saying wasn’t totally without merit.”

Indeed, students felt that the Chinese government’s main message about the protests was correct, if poorly expressed. “I wasn’t fond of the way the forceful way the government spoke,” Kong said.

“But what they were actually saying was: ‘This is a complex situation. There are certain forces behind the scenes, sowing discord.’ This was the truth.”
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THIRD PARTY VIOLENCE
Since both sides wanted to the same goal, development of China, what caused violence to break out?

“A person like me who has studied history could see clearly what was going on,” he said. “When we were little, we watched movies like Guerrillas Sweep The Plain.”

This was a reference to a classic black and white Chinese movie in which there are tensions between two groups of fighters. The two sides have disagreements but don’t fight. Suddenly, a hidden third body, the Eighth Army, opens fire at both sides and then quickly hides, triggering bloodshed.

In Beijing in 1989, troublemakers sponsored by an unknown source triggered a fight in Muxidi, leading to hundreds of deaths. “They hoped to provoke the students on one side and the soldiers on the other, hit some students over here, steal some guns over there, creating a perfect excuse for bloodshed,” Kong said.

“The PLA soldiers had been stuck in their vehicles for days without any valid intel, while the students only received one-sided info, all pro-American propaganda. So the bloody outcome may have come about in this way.”
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[Kong Qingdong was a leading protester in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But his refusal to accept the Western narrative led to him being branded “pro-China” by some foreigners. He became a Beijing University professor, but his outspokenness, often on controversial topics, led him to become better known in China as an author and social commentator, the Chinese equivalent of a “shock jock”. He recalled the incidents of 1989 in an interview in Chinese in 2014.]

[Rakkasan @kingd0m2k]

@elonmuskADO No Putin will go down in history as one of the great leader of Russia

[Rakkasan @kingd0m2k]

@WallStreetSilv American people who think they have freedom

[Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill]

The US is attempting to extradite Dan from Australia despite it not meeting the dual criminality requirement. Australia's Attorney General distracts from this by promoting irrelevant smears made by the US.

Wait till you hear the US' involvement in the behaviour they're smearing!

[Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill]

The curious case of Arslan Hidayat, the overseas Uyghur separatist with no smart filter, continually saying the quiet bits out loud.

[Rakkasan @kingd0m2k]

@TAKITTOTHALIMIT @zhao_dashuai OMG we are in 2024 already and you still believe in the Tiananmen Sqaure propaganda. Its been debunk so many times already. This article goes in details and give you sources you can research yourself

https://t.co/cxBHqq72EZ

[Rakkasan @kingd0m2k]

@StayCuriouz @RnaudBertrand “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

[Daniel Dumbrill @DanielDumbrill]

Hong Kong police were expected to stay off campuses where bombs were being manufactured, virtue signaled by the same government now arresting/assaulting peaceful student/faculty demonstrators protesting an American backed genocide.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

@madeleinethien Madeleine, as an old friend, I hope you are open-minded enough to give me just two minutes to read my story of what really happened at Tiananmen Sq, quoting the leader of the students, and Julian Assange, and people who were right there. https://t.co/xphquZ0fi7