One great thing I've learned from marrying a Chinawoman is that whereever they end up in the diaspora, the Chinese never consider themselves a marginal minority. Being Chinese means belonging to a huge ethnic juggernaut whose customs and values are the obvious normal baseline against which all other strange regional customs are measured. Hello cute little Sweden, pop. 10.6 million.
@palestine
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Call for UN peacekeepers in Gaza to halt Israel’s starvation policy
“Member states have a legal obligation and a moral imperative to stop starvation and genocide in Gaza,” the UN experts said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_377_(V)
https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/ufp/ufp.html
#English
https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ha/ufp/ufp_ph_e.pdf
#Arabic
https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ha/ufp/ufp_ph_a.pdf
#Chinese
https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ha/ufp/ufp_ph_c.pdf
#French
https://legal.un.org/avl/pdf/ha/ufp/ufp_ph_f.pdf
https://theconversation.com/decoding-hints-that-xi-jinping-may-be-under-pressure-to-relinquish-some-of-his-power-228240. Mmm... maybe. But "lacklustre performance of the #Chinese #economy?" Is 5% p.a. (2024, see https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=CN) "lacklustre", when the UK's was 1.1% for the same year (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=GB)?
EU imposes sanctions against Chinese banks for the first time despite Beijing's threats
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/eu-imposes-sanctions-against-chinese-banks-1752959785.html
#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Chinese #Banks #army #update #war #Russia #WarCriminal #Sanctions #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни
"So you can't trust the #chinese over #russia, is anyone surprised?"
From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en
#German Major General #Christian_Freuding: #Russia aims to be able to attack #Ukraine with 2,000 drones simultaneously.
#Russia is seeking to expand its drone production capabilities and make its drone strikes even more massive, Major General #Christian_Freuding said on the #Bundeswehr's #Nachgefragt podcast.
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From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en
#Xi_Jinping may have invited President #Trump to #Beijing to meet both him and #Putin for a summit – #The_Times.
A report by the #Japanese #Kyodo news agency claimed that a decision to invite #Trump had already been made. The #Chinese authorities didn't deny it.
From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en
"The #EU just approved one of its strongest sanctions package against #Russia to date." - #Kaja_Kallas.
105 vessels from #Russia’s "shadow fleet" have been targeted. The sanctions also restrict #Russian banks’ access to financing.
"#Nord_Stream pipelines will be banned. A lower oil price cap.
We are putting more pressure on #Russia’s military industry, #Chinese banks that enables sanctions evasion, and blocking tech exports used in drones," #Kaja_Kallas commented
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#DH2025: Xiaoyan Yang & @fpianz present a #multilingual #CLS pipeline comparing #English & #Chinese #fanfiction. Using #BookNLP, #ARMCC & #LLMs, they address #CoreferenceResolution, dialogue speaker & character feature extraction hot topics at this year's conference.
The Chinese Hospital, 東華醫院
the evolution of chinese names in singapore: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/community/whats-in-a-name-local-author-traces-the-evolution-of-singaporean-chinese-names
unlike *most* of my millennial peers, i have my passport chinese name NOT in mandarin / pinyin but in my dialect (teochew / chiu chow) name. i used to be ashamed of this (this was perceived to be deeply backward, in a time of mandarin hegemony and death to other chinese languages), but now i am very proud of it.
#Chinese #symphonic #folk #power #metal.
Just five words I strung together for no particular reason. Really. Trust me.
https://www.europesays.com/2242595/ Trump announces new tariffs on Brazil, Philippines, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Brunei and Algeria #Algeria #america #Bangladesh #Beijing #BosniaAndHerzegovina #Brazil #Brunei #Cambodia #Canadá #chinese #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #India #Indonesia #Iraq #japan #kazakhstan #Laos #Libya #Malaysia #Moldova #Myanmar #Philippines #RepublicanSenatorShelleyMooreCapito #RepublicanSenatorThomTillis #Serbia #SouthAfrica #SouthKorea #Taiwan #Thailand #Tunisia #UK #US #Vietnam #washington
#Littleproud disappointed #Albo is in #China but ‘hasn’t been to see #Trump’
Littleproud comments that Albanese had secured a meeting with the #Chinese president, #XiJinping, but “hasn’t been to give Trump a blowjob. It would be the first thing I’d do if I was PM” little to be proud of said. #auspol
Trump announces new tariffs on Brazil, Philippines, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Brunei and Algeria https://www.byteseu.com/1184573/ #Algeria #America #Bangladesh #Beijing #BosniaAndHerzegovina #Brazil #Brunei #Cambodia #Canada #Chinese #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #india #Indonesia #Iraq #Japan #Kazakhstan #Laos #Libya #malaysia #Moldova #Myanmar #Philippines #RepublicanSenatorShelleyMooreCapito #RepublicanSenatorThomTillis #Serbia #SouthAfrica #SouthKorea #taiwan #thailand #Tunisia #UK #US #Vietnam #washington