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Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines announced on January 26 that according to the travel reminder issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in order to assist affected passengers in better arranging their travel, free refunds and changes can be carried out for tickets for inbound and outbound flights of the above-mentioned airlines on Japan routes purchased before 12 o’clock on January 26 and travel dates from March 29 to October 24.
Meanwhile, my partner – who works in the NHS – had to go to work with NO PPE (face-masks, aprons, and screens). Our friends in China were so shocked that Gee’s life was being risked – that they paid for a supply of masks to be sent from China to our home. These masks saved Gee’s life when people were dying around her (she later won a Medal for Bravery for volunteering to work on the front-line with No protective clothing). The Tories said we had to “buy” our own protective clothing – but there was none left to purchase. The Tories had listened to far-right thugs like the individual featured in this article – who said (as they still do today) – that there was never a pandemic and that it is all a lie. This man above is the tip of the iceberg. There are many more fools like this in the Western world and are still a danger to our collective health.
However, Biden’s policy has back-fired as the poverty and suffering did not remain only in Europe but has spread to the US – whilst the intended victim – Russia – simply redirected its economic alliances elsewhere, with its economy now booming. Russia has basically reinvigorated its old Soviet alliances – despite rejecting them after 1991. Russia has also cosied-up to China. The problem the US has – is that it has nowhere to go – except down. There are no alternative alliances – it is domination or collapse. Trump’s tariffs are exactly the wrong policy as the US is losing dominance and other countries are following the example of Russia!
Natural climate change has always happened – and is happening now – with the caveat that certain Environmentalists now suggest that the agency of human behaviour also contributes to the process of climate change. Indeed, it has become stylish in certain quarters for climate change (natural or unnatural) to be blamed for environmental alterations that cannot be readily or conveniently explained. Until recently, the dominant hypothesis – presented as fact – was that the ancient (Pre-Colombian) City of Cahokia (located in the region of St Louis) had disappeared in the 1200s (13th century) exclusively due to climate change. New academic research, however, has provided reliable (objective) academic evidence that climate change was not partially (or entirely) responsible for the demise of Cahokia.
“The years of relentless, global BDS pressure on PUMA and the damage to its image should be a lesson to all companies supporting Israeli apartheid, that complicity has consequences. It is also a lesson to the deeply complicit, Western-dominated FIFA, which continues to shield Israel from accountability despite the settlement teams violating its own statutes,” said PACBI in a statement.
“We thank the hundreds of grassroots solidarity groups, athletes and teams across the world who supported the call from 215 Palestinian teams to boycott PUMA,” it added.
“This boycott win is a bittersweet victory as Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues. But it gives us hope and determination to hold all genocide enablers and apartheid supporters accountable until all Palestinians can live in freedom, justice and equality,” PACBI concluded its statement.
Some biased Western media sources promoted the spread of the “forced labour” accusation by employing several tactics, including “criminalizing” the Chinese government, demonizing China’s poverty alleviation policies, stigmatizing assistance measures for transfer employment, distorting service work for labour transfer employment, and attacking China by citing misleading and tendentious claims, according to the article.
Tuersun Aibai also found that when hyping up the “forced labour” smear, a considerable number of the Xinjiang-related stories cited anti-China politicians and scholars to support their narratives, while lacking field research and in the absence of first-hand information.
“Their stories and quotes, without investigating the actual situation on the ground in Xinjiang, lack verifiability,” the expert wrote.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 