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[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@MadnessWatcher Basically "you shall arrange your affairs according to my needs on my say-so", yeah a M-16 or two are definitely called for

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

📚📕 NEW BOOK ALERT 📕📚

China’s Foreign Policy and the Making of a Multipolar World: Changes unseen in a century

Edited by Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez and published by Praxis Press.

This volume sets out the broad contours, historical background and theoretical underpinnings that shape and guide China’s practice on the global stage. What are the historical roots of China’s foreign policy? What are its theoretical foundations? How has it been applied in practice, across radically different historical circumstances? Is China an imperialist power? Is its foreign policy “good enough”? And what does China’s rise mean for the rest of humanity – for the Global South, for peace, and for the struggle to build a just world order?

The ten essays collected here approach these questions from a range of angles, but they share a common premise: that China’s emergence as a global power, far from being a threat to humanity, offers the best hope for a peaceful, multipolar and ultimately socialist future.

CONTENTS

• Foreword – João Pedro Stédile @stedile_mst

• Introduction – Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez

• Understanding the changes unseen in a century – Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez

• Change and continuity in China’s international relations, 1949-2025 – Ken Hammond

• China, Cold War and empire – Andrew Murray

• Is China imperialist? – Carlos Martinez

• Taking the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence as a guide – Jenny Clegg

• Is China’s foreign policy “good enough”? – Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH

• How China’s peaceful rise is changing the world – Cheng Enfu

• The principal contradiction in the world and China’s pursuit of socialism – Torkil Lauesen

• Why Chinese and Western visions of world order differ and why the difference matters – Michael Dunford

• The four global initiatives and the political meaning of a community of shared future for humanity – Carlos Martinez

Features endorsements by Zhang Weiwei, Gerald Horne, @georgegalloway, @martjacques, @Mushahid, @RadDesai, @BenjaminNorton, @GabrielRockhill, @RamzyBaroud, @pawelwargan, @BrianBeckerDC, @haugejostein and many more.

Purchase the paperback: https://t.co/0qtuFfo0Rv

Purchase the eBook: https://t.co/oXFXq3dZ1i

Read the first book review, by the legendary @chenweihua : https://t.co/Cz0XMgu58b

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@NerdAthleticz @alreadydawn Watching live Magnus Carlsen win the chess esports world cup with a darn queen sacrifice two weeks ago was something else. But alas, chess is pretty niche to begin with

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

RIP Dolly Parton, one of the greats.

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@alreadydawn "Same bull, different bullies", Iranians are born to be shitposters! https://t.co/yt6JU26eHO

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

14 years ago: “Most crippling sanctions in history.” Failed.

8 years ago: “Maximum pressure.” Failed.

5 months ago: “Unconditional surrender.” Failed.

Today: “Most crushing economic operation ever.” Bound to fail.

We have seen this movie before. Same bull. Different bullies.

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@MadnessWatcher Dude also got a banking license for his crypto company, there can't be more naked a grift than that. "The best way to rob a bank is to own one", let's put this saying to the test!

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@mike95271314 Back to the future 三部曲？老少咸宜

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@agent_of_change Also saw report about a back channel between ICE and Iran to deport specific people. In light of this letter, it feels like some coordinated effort to me

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@MadnessWatcher Self awareness and self-preservation instinct: big fat zero

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@W_T_Han She knows who to cater for, I'll at least give her that

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@Slim_Picken @Z_Rex2017 同样是今天，恒大许家印被判无期，剥夺政治权力终身，一个时代的终结。

已经有英文推友在臆想，2008年华尔街崩盘，要是奥巴马救人不救市，并且同样严惩肇事的华尔街大佬，肯定会是另外一个世界。2008年刚好是这35年的中点

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@Slim_Picken @Z_Rex2017 巧了，1991年的8月19号，也就是昨天，苏联的一个委员会宣布软禁戈尔巴乔夫，防止他解散苏联，此举却加速了解体。

当时应该没有人会想到，“区区”35年之后，世界会是现在这个样子

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@Z_Rex2017 在上百年的大国起落周期面前，人人都是三季之虫。于是认知成型时的环境偶然性，很大程度上决定了立场，也不奇怪

[DataLust @DataLust_xyz]

Things are moving so fast now people are getting married with the niu lai movie

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@Bluebearmonkey Not ai? I was almost choked lol

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@WinstonyinWU @Z_Rex2017 那就再送你一句话，笨蛋如果能认识到自己笨，也就不笨了

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@WinstonyinWU @Z_Rex2017 就别骂你自己了，这么明显的诡辩逻辑都分辨不出来？

从地球上，确实可以了解月球的地表状况；但只有去过月球带回了月壤，才让学者提出月球起源的合理假说。也就是远古地球被撞击，月球是撞击后分离的产物，完全融化并慢慢冷却才能解释月壤的构成

这些所谓中国专家，根本就是连看一眼月球表面都懒得做

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@worldpeople2019 不要说国内的自由派了，哪里的自由派都是这样：平常同理心爆棚，但那只是为了占据道德高地；一旦要动到他们的蛋糕，底色就露出来了。

更不用说这几十年来的轨迹是自由派 → 新自由派 → 法西斯。说自由派赋予了资本主义一些合理性，续命的结果就是最终导致法西斯也不为过

[sagittarius* @tedwardw]

@AngelicaOung For me, one aspect of a multipolar world has to be the end of exorbitant privilege of dollar. As one Chinese scholar puts it, now the golden 1B can fly by printing money while others can't even be normal human beings. A multipolar order says let's change that