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  • Demand For Russian Rail Cargo Surges After Houthi Read Sea Attacks - Reports

    03/11/2024 3:38:49 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 7 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 3/11/24
    MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Demand for transporting goods from Asia to Europe by rail via Russia has increased by an average of 30% since the start of the Red Sea crisis, the Financial Times newspaper reported, citing logistics companies and rail operators. German shipping company DHL said that requests to transport goods on Russian railways have increased by 40% since container ships began traveling along alternative routes following the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, the report said on Sunday. At the same time, Netherlands-based Rail Bridge Cargo said that rail freight traffic via Russia was 31% higher this year compared...
  • Balochistan can be freed, if US stop supporting Pakistan:

    10/26/2015 9:27:24 PM PDT · by Cronos · 4 replies
    Times of India ^ | 24 Oct 2015 | IST
    Balochistan can be freed if US stops supporting Pakistan, feels Baloch activist Ahmer Musti Khan who earlier heckled Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif speech."I must assure you our Baloch people are so confident of victory that they believe that once US stops supporting Pakistan, we can force them out of Balochistan," Musti Khan said in an exclusive interview with ANI....Musti Khan demanded freedom of Balochistan provinces where Pakistani army has been engaged in torture and killings of Baloch people demanding freedom. The activist also called Sharif a 'friend of al-Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden.'
  • As China Backs Hamas, Israel Finds Out Who Its Friends Aren’t

    11/01/2023 9:55:28 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 11/01/2023 | Helen Raleigh
    Israel’s representative in Taiwan, Maya Yaron, recently called communist China’s response to Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel “disturbing” while praising Taiwan for its unequivocal support of her country.When the government of Taiwan learned about the atrocities committed by Hamas, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately posted a statement: “Taiwan strongly condemns the indiscriminate attacks against the Israelis carried out by Hamas. We stand in solidarity with Israel and denounce all forms of terrorism.” The ministry also posted an image on X, formerly Twitter, showing the top of Taipei’s tallest building lit with blue and white light, representing Israel’s flag. Taiwan,...
  • China's Belt and Road Initiative: Kenya and a Railway to Nowhere

    10/14/2023 11:35:42 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 13 replies
    BBC ^ | 10/13 | Anne Soy
    The first section of Kenya's Chinese-built railway was opened with much fanfare in 2017 - but two years later work on the tracks stopped in the middle of the country and the master plan of linking it to other landlocked countries in East Africa seems to have derailed.This means the project is not bringing as much money as was hoped at this stage, while Kenya is left servicing loans totalling around $4.7bn (£3.9bn), mainly borrowed from Chinese banks. Yet it is hard to believe that Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is not a success when passengers disgorge from a packed...
  • "Severely Punish Perpetrators": China To Pak After Its Citizens Attacked

    08/13/2023 4:19:17 PM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 12 replies
    NDTV ^ | 8/13/2023
    The Chinese embassy "strongly" condemned the terror attack on the convoy carrying 23 Chinese engineers in Balochistan and warned Pakistan to take effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again. China further demanded a thorough investigation into the attack and severely punish the perpetrators. "The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan strongly condemns this terrorist act.The Embassy and the Consulate General in Karachi launched emergency response immediately, requesting the Pakistani authorities to conduct a thorough investigation on the attack, severely punish the perpetrators, take practical and effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again," the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan said...
  • Giorgia Meloni pulling Italy out of Belt and Road pact with China

    08/07/2023 10:17:51 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Hotair ^ | 08/07/2023 | Beege Welborn
    Holy smokes, I love the cut of this girl’s jib!Since profiling her in February – and the atrocious way she’s been treated by the elitist cabal that runs the EU – Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy has done nothing but move her country forward. Isn’t that delightful?In fact, there are a lot of things looking rosy about Italy that can’t be said for the powerhouses of the E.U. and they still treat Meloni as if she had shown up to their ball uninvited and in a tracksuit (That would be Zelensky’s uniform, but everyone in the EU has a...
  • Italy Looking to Leave China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Global Domination Scheme

    05/11/2023 10:50:29 AM PDT · by rktman · 9 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 5/11/2023 | Kurt Zindulka
    The Italian government of Giorgia Meloni is reportedly preparing to leave Communist China’s Belt and Road global domination scheme within the coming months. In 2019, under the stewardship of then-technocratic Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Italy became the first, and so far only, G7 nation to sign up to Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, which Beijing uses to ensnare nations throughout the world under its boot through debt trap diplomacy tactics. Now the populist-minded government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni faces a decision on Italy’s continued participation in the Chinese scheme, with the country’s membership set to automatically renew itself...
  • ‘Missing’ Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president’s family in extraordinary video

    07/06/2023 4:07:32 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 18 replies
    NY Post ^ | July 5, 2023 | By Miranda Devine
    The “missing witness” from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while on the run. In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence, and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy...
  • How the BRI (China’s Belt and Road Initiative) train took the road to Shangri-La

    06/13/2023 10:28:17 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    TheCradle.co ^ | June 12 2023 | Pepe Escobar
    It is important to recognize that the US/NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is simultaneously a war designed to interrupt the progress of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As we approach the 10th anniversary of the BRI, to be marked by the third Belt and Road Forum later this year in Beijing, it is clear the original Silk Road Economic Belt – announced by President Xi Jinping in Astana, Kazakhstan, in September 2013 – has traveled a long way. By January this year, 151 nations had already signed up to the BRI: No less than 75 percent of...
  • Overseas, China springs the debt trap on loans to a dozen countries

    05/22/2023 9:43:42 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 05/22/2023 | Thomas Lifson
    Even as high debts are impoverishing its local governments, China is playing hardball with foreign borrowers, many of them participants in the Belt and Road Initiative, who incurred massive debts to build infrastructure projects to connect their economies to China. Fortune Magazine, drawing on reporting from the AP, writes:A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China.An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia,...
  • China tightens stranglehold on Latin America and Caribbean... as Biden dithers: Generals warn that Beijing has built a SPACE STATION in Argentina that could blind US, signed 21 countries up to trade pact and bought key ports on Panama Canal

    05/14/2023 11:35:36 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 36 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | May 14 2023 | LEWIS PENNOCK
    As headlines about the frosty relationship between China and the United States are dominated by spy balloons, Taiwan and botched attempts at diplomacy, commanders in the Pentagon are increasingly worried by a more insidious threat: Beijing's growing stronghold on Latin America. From tens of billions of dollars in funding for key infrastructure projects across the region to its own secretive, military-run space station in Argentina that could target American satellites, China's presence has grown. Some 21 countries in Latin America are signed up to Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative - a defining policy introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013...
  • China spent $240 billion bailing out 'Belt & Road' countries, study shows

    03/27/2023 9:30:41 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 37 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 27, 20237:49 PM CDT | Rachel Savage
    JOHANNESBURG, March 28 (Reuters) - China spent $240 billion bailing out 22 developing countries between 2008 and 2021, with the amount soaring in recent years as more have struggled to repay loans spent building "Belt & Road" infrastructure, according to a study published Tuesday. Almost 80% of the rescue lending was made between 2016 and 2021, mainly to middle-income countries including Argentina, Mongolia and Pakistan, according to the report by researchers from the World Bank, Harvard Kennedy School, AidData and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. China has lent hundreds of billions of dollars to build infrastructure in developing...
  • China’s Belt and Road to Nowhere: Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy is a “shadow of its former self.”

    02/24/2023 8:16:35 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Foreign Policy ^ | 02/13/2023 | Christina Lu
    Nearly a decade after its inception, momentum behind China’s sweeping Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to be slowing as lending slumps and projects stall—forcing Chinese President Xi Jinping to again rethink a floundering initiative that he once hailed as his “project of the century.” After doling out hundreds of billions of dollars, experts say China’s lending for BRI projects has plummeted, largely a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s own economic slowdown. Support has also waned as partner countries drown in debt and fractures emerge—literally—in projects, fueling uncertainty about the future of the sprawling initiative. In 2022,...
  • Can Any of These Countries Replace China as the Factory of the World?

    10/17/2022 4:57:34 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 65 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 10/17/2022 | John Mac Ghlionn
    China is losing its influence; it’s in decline. At the same time, however, China, ruled by a despotic regime, is responsible for 28.7 percent of global manufacturing output (more than 10 percentage points ahead of its No. 1 rival, the United States). This utter dependence on China for manufacturing must be stopped. As I write this, three countries are working to siphon customers away from China. Will their efforts prove to be successful?I speak from experience when I say the following: communist China is not a fun place to live in. Moreover, with its frequent power cuts and the Chinese...
  • The world's biggest rotten-tail project: Xiongan's failure is destined under the CCP red system

    10/18/2022 2:39:27 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies
    YouTube ^ | Premiered October 15, 2022 | China Insights
    This is arguably the world's biggest rotten-tail project, a place called Xiong'an that was considered a partial replacement for Beijing. It’s located in Hebei province, a neighboring province to Beijing, and was a personal dream of the Chinese Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping. Unfortunately, the project, which was billed as a "millennium project and a major national event," fell apart after only five years, demonstrating a complete crash of Xi's dream.The world's biggest rotten-tail project:Xiongan's failure is destined under the CCP red systemChina Insights | Premiered October 15, 2022
  • South Africa Confirms Likelihood of Saudi Arabia Joining BRICS Economic Alliance

    10/17/2022 1:39:51 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 85 replies
    Conservative Treehouse ^ | 10/17/22 | Sundance
    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held a two-day summit with Saudi Arabia on mostly economic matters. At the conclusion of the summit, he confirmed the intent of Saudi Arabia to join the BRICS economic coalition, which should not come as a surprise given the previous statements by Saudi leader and Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (MbS).
  • Stefanik: Biden impeachment ‘on the table’ for Saudi oil ask, Hunter biz

    10/17/2022 4:40:30 PM PDT · by deplorableindc · 74 replies
    NY Post ^ | Oct. 17, 2022
    WASHINGTON — Upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican, has said GOP lawmakers could move to impeach President Biden next year after investigating his family’s foreign consulting businesses and his “illegal” request that Saudi Arabia delay oil production cuts until after the Nov. 8 midterm elections. “When there’s an egregious abuse of power and high crimes and misdemeanors, that means anything is on the table,” Stefanik told The Post Monday, adding that the White House’s admitted request that the Saudi-led OPEC+ cartel delay oil output cuts until after Americans vote was a “very egregious, inappropriate and illegal action...
  • Saudi prince sends threat to the West after Biden warns of consequences for kingdom

    10/17/2022 3:11:34 PM PDT · by Hojczyk · 54 replies
    Fox News ^ | October 17,2022 | By Michael Lee
    A Saudi prince related to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's seemingly took aim at President Biden and the U.S., warning leaders not to threaten Saudi Arabia. "Anybody that challenges the existence of this country and this kingdom. All of us, we are products of jihad, and martyrdom," Saudi Prince Saud al-Shaalan, who is married to one of the grandaughter's of the late King Abdulaziz Al Saud, said in a video that was posted to Twitter Saturday. "That's my message to anybody that thinks that it can threaten us." King Abdulaziz Al Saud founded Saudi Arabia. The video comes amid a...
  • THE BIDEN LEGACY: South Africa Confirms Saudi Arabia Will Join BRICS Alliance with China and Russia and Move Away from US with Explosive Consequences

    10/17/2022 8:03:57 PM PDT · by bitt · 38 replies
    GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 10/17/2022 | JIM HOFT
    Saudi Arabia, the largest U.S. export market in the Middle East, invited Chinese President Xi to visit Riyadh in March as relations with the U.S. have faltered since Joe Biden was elected, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to a report from CNN, U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China, a relationship that could lead to domino effects across Middle East countries. Under Biden, the US leader who suffers from severe dementia is openly mocked on the international stage. U.S. allies are now aligning with China....
  • Now Putin has to listen to lectures from the President of TAJIKISTAN: Central Asian Republic boss berates Russian leader and tells him: 'We want to be respected'

    10/15/2022 2:08:23 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 31 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10/14/2022 | Walter Finch
    Vladimir Putin was given a stern dressing down by the president of Tajikistan in another indicator that the Russian dictator has lost respect and influence in his own backyard. Fellow longstanding dictator Emomali Rahmon, ruler of the Central Asian state of 9 million since 1994, seized upon Putin's woes back home and in Ukraine to give him a piece of his mind and tell him how he really feels during a summit in the Kazakh capital of Astana. A glum and awkward looking Putin slouched back in his chair and took the seven minute tirade as a host of Central...