This is because of the destruction those 8 words 光復香港 時代革命 (Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times) brought to our city in 2019. It is therefore necessary to ensure it never happens again →
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Arizona State University filed to use eminent domain to steal a 124 year old Phoenix home from a senior homeowner
The man who owns it is a 89 year old senior citizen who’s owned the home for 50 years
ASU says they need the land for their downtown health campus
ASU made multiple purchase offers, they’ve offered up to $850,000 for the home. The homeowner keeps refusing. So now they plan to just take the home with eminent domain
If eminent domain goes through he’ll be forced to accept the appraisal price
Big Brother Trump doesn’t want you seeing other people’s luxuries. If they don’t have it in the USA, Americans won’t know how advanced other countries are & will still think they are no.1. Let them keep thinking Chinese people still don’t have running water or flush toilets 🤭
TRUMP SUPPORTER: “I think bombing Iran is absolutely in the American people’s interest...”
GREENWALD: “You seem like a young guy to me. Have you ever thought about going and fighting in this war that you’re cheering on?”
For GEO Group, the company that runs the Delaney Hall detention facility, it’s all about profit over people.
What I saw there this weekend was absolutely corrupt and cruel.
India calls America out for Trump’s racist comments and Rubio calls Americans stupid.
President Trump amplified a post last month referring to India as a “hellhole.” So when Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited New Delhi, he was confronted directly about remarks viewed as offensive toward Indians coming from the United States.
Rubio responded: “Every country in the world has stupid people who say dumb things.”
The State Department initially posted the exchange online, but later removed it after people pointed out that Rubio’s answer appeared to indirectly characterize Trump’s comments as “dumb.”
⚠️A CHAT WITH LIU XIN @LiuXininBeijing
A must-watch discussion on media freedom, cultural differences, system accountability, and the path toward better mutual understanding between China and the West.
Full of eye-opening insights you won’t hear in mainstream coverage.
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟.
A Palestinian farmer working his field in the occupied West Bank refused to leave for an armed Israeli settler.
So the settler took him hostage, blindfolded and humiliated him while IDF soldiers stood guard protecting the abuser.
@mikepompeo Remind me of the no. of unhoused people in the USA now? The no. of “illegal immigrants” locked up in God knows where? How many school kids are killed by gun violence on an average day? Oh and how much is gas again? Maybe you should put out the fire in your own backyard first.
Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
Reporter: ‘Did you talk to Xi Jinping about the cyber attacks that he's done in the US?’
Trump: ‘I did. And he talked about attacks that we did in China. What they do, we do too.’
The one saving grace about Trump remains his transparency & lack of performative outrage.
Americans started confiscating water bottles after 911 and the world followed suit. 🫣
I’ve been to concerts of Japanese artists where water bottles are confiscated despite the 36C heat.
🚨 CHAOS BEHIND THE SCENES OF TRUMP’S CHINA SUMMIT: Multiple incidents erupted as President Trump was meeting with Xi Jinping.
REPORTER: "Do you understand that we are in the motorcade with the President?"
CHINESE REPORTER: "This is my country, the security on our side, do not allow you, sir, to leave this area."
REPORTER: "WE GOTTA MOVE!"
Chinese reporters trampled a White House aide, a Secret Service agent being blocked over his firearm, and U.S. journalists being held in a side room and prevented from joining the motorcade.
Reporters also faced strict controls — limited bathroom access and confiscated water bottles in 80+ degree heat.
🇨🇳🇺🇸 State Banquet or a very expensive waiting room?
After watching the the Xi–Trump state banquet my initial impression is that; Beijing treats it like diplomacy; Washington treats it like a school trip 🎒
Xi’s team works the room, building quiet rapport over drinks and small talk. The US delegation mostly clusters with… the US delegation! Hanging out in their "American Bubble"
The one person who looks like they understand “state visit = networking” is Jamieson Greer the trade rep.
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio looks less like a Secretary of State and more like he's wandering a museum looking for the exit, instead of engaging with his Chinese counterparts.
Elon Musk spends most of his time starring at his phone in “doomscrolling at a state banquet” mode
Time in Beijing is scarce, but they act like there’s a Part Two. There isn’t...
The state banquet is supposed to be where you build personal trust, read the room, test ideas informally. Instead, large chunks of the US delegation look like they’re at an airport lounge: talking to each other, scrolling their phones, barely engaging Chinese officials who are literally seated within arm’s reach
This banquet is a perfect case study in why US diplomacy keeps misreading China. This is how you can “visit China” and still learn nothing about China!
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