China Daily EU Bureau Chief/columnist. Ex-DC, NY chief correspondent. Knight Fellow Stanford, WPI Fellow Macalester, Freedom Forum Fellow UHManoa Views My Own!!
@RepStefanik
First in what? Covid infections and deaths? Gun violence? Prison population? Number of homeless people? Bombs dropped in foreign countries? National Debt of $30 trillion? Number of idiot politicians like you?…
Joe Biden didn’t mention the deaths of Palestinian civilians even once in his 15-min speech. The U.S. government completely lost its credibility when it failed to condemn the killing of civilians by all sides. He didn’t call for immediate ceasefire and he literally endorsed more…
Just read that Chinese medical team sent to Italy to fight Covid-19 comprises mostly experienced doctors from Sichuan. Sichuan folks still remember how Italy rescue team during the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake saved many lives. The world needs more help with each other
@SecBlinken
More journalists were killed in Gaza in the last two months than any conflicts in recent decades according to CPJ. And the U.S. was partly responsible because of its full endorsement of Israeli military operation and the weapons/bombs it provided and the ceasefire it vetoed.
@trussliz
But it’s okay for UK to challenge China’s sovereignty in the South China Sea by sending navy vessels? At least China has not sent its navy near the Malvinas, or what you call the Falklands.
@realDonaldTrump
Such a loser. The whole world knows how incompetent and anti-science you are in pandemic response. No one would believe you at all. In fact, the more you talk like this to distract people, the bigger the failure you are.
Interesting development in the last few days. 1. The U.S. and its puppets have realized that they are losing the global public opinion battle on the Middle East crisis due to their bias. 2. Some in the U.S. finally confessed that their treatment of Muslims after 911 was so…
Can’t leave Belgrade without paying tribute to Chinese journalists and diplomats killed by NATO missile bombing of then Chinese embassy to the former Yugoslavia on May 7, 1999. Condemn the barbaric war machine NATO.
@washingtonpost
When Brazilian President Lula carries out an independent foreign policy and not be a U.S. vassal state, Washington issues warning and intimidation. They forget that Latin America does not believe in Monroe Doctrine anymore. They are full sovereign nations.
@trussliz
Right. Then lift US and European sanctions against Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela…. Even African Union is telling Europeans to let them pay for food imports from Russia through the SWIFT system.
@MarshaBlackburn
Wonder why the US Congress would have approval rating as low as 9% (according to Gallup)? It is because people like lowlife Marsha Blackburn were there.
Breaking News: US State Department gag order. No one should talk ceasefire. All those US puppets must have received the same talking points. That is probably why when I asked EU spokesman why EU does not call for immediate ceasefire, he won’t answer it. Is it hard? Scandalous.…
The West says Hamas is responsible for the thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza. I guess they will say Saddam Hussein was responsible for all the Iraqi civilians killed during U.S. invasion and occupation, and Gaddafi should be responsible for all the Libyan civilians killed by…
CNN reporter criticizes Chinese netizens for their strong criticism of Israeli military actions in Gaza, which killed 25,000 civilians including more than 10,000 children. Is this CNN’s official endorsement of the Gaza atrocities????? We know U.S. provided all the bombs dropped…
CNN told many tragic stories of Israeli civilian deaths, sometimes with the reporters and anchors in tears. But I don’t see the same coverage of Palestinian civilian deaths, such as the 19 members of the same family killed in Gaza bombings and the 1,600 Palestinian children…
Wars are horrible & should end. But for CNN using words like “genocide”, “disregard for human life” to call Russian actions in Ukraine raise the question why CNN never used such words to call US bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, drone strikes in a dozen Muslim nations.
@TheGrayzoneNews
@MaxBlumenthal
The spokesman was basically saying that only countries which are not US allies will be accused of genocide. That is the State Department metrics, with or without evidence.
Washington enjoys political masturbation. It’s easy to point fingers and blame everything on others than facing the huge mess, failure and dysfunction at home.
@vonderleyen
One by one, Western politicians received instruction from their master in Washington to condemn. They remained dead quiet when Iranian consulate was attacked by Israel. Again it has become the West vs the Rest in this world. 40: 150
CNN talked in length about the Israeli civilians being held hostages and interviewed several family members. But they did not interview any Palestinians and spent zero minute talking about the casualties of Palestinians, including what AP reported today the 19 members of the same…
When asked where is his outrage regarding the killings of tens of thousands of Palestinians, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken retorted by asking the journalist “where is the world’s outrage over Hamas?” This is indeed becoming the U.S. (UK and some other Western nations)…
I welcome independent investigation of any war crimes, and you certainly should not exclude war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Not sure what those few who claim to represent the int’l community would say?
So disgusting to hear Western politicians’ BS that “a ceasefire will only benefit Hamas”. For most people in this world, an immediate ceasefire will help save countless innocent lives, including the lives of many women and children. Half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are…
Wars are horrible. Journalism school students could be busy studying how Western media covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan vs their coverage of the current one in Ukraine. Shocking contrast.
@danharris
@Twitter
Thanks for promoting me to the “diplomat”rank. I attended at least 1,000 seminars in Washington think tanks over the years and no one asked such a stupid question as yours. It is low.
Former Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo blasts European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “rubbish” talk on countering China in Africa. Africans don’t have good memory of Europeans who enslaved and colonized them and they don’t want to be told by Europeans how to…
US has 6,000 nukes and is the only country which used nukes, against civilians, right in Hiroshima where G7 is meeting. China has 300 nukes and is the only country pledging no first use of nukes. G7 leaders want to express concern about China’s nuke arsenal. Quite shocking!
Shocking that BBC and CNN (and indeed most Western media) have not shown any of the enthusiasm about the Nord Stream explosive news as they displayed in the Chinese weather balloon.
All wars are barbaric. CNN called Russia barbaric in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. But I don’t remember CNN ever called US and NATO wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya barbaric. To me, the U.S. embargo on Cuba is much more than barbaric.
@PressSec
If China or Russia had done anything remotely like this, Psaki, Blinken, Biden, Sullivan, Rubio, Cotton, Hawley... would all go berserk. Now they are all pretending brain dead.
@elonmusk
In fact these two were not guilty in the first place, they were heroes. Those who hunted them down are guilty of various war crimes and mass surveillance as exposed by the two.
Those who accuse China being on the wrong side of history don’t know what they’re talking about. China was so on the “wrong” side when it opposed and condemned wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, regime change in Libya, drone strikes in sovereign nations, embargo on Cuba. 2-1
No Russian news organization was allowed to ask questions at Biden press conference. But Putin let CNN ask multiple questions. Isn’t that about freedom of the press?
NATO members like to say “Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine” as if NATO is totally innocent. But would they use that word every time they mention their wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc???? All 100% unprovoked. Typical double standards and propaganda.
The 20-year-long US-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan killed more than 110,000 Afghans. Yet no one called it a genocide, massacre, war crime and crime against humanity. WTF. And what about Iraq, Libya, Yemen...
Maybe GM, Starbucks, Boeing and Apple should be sold to Chinese owners because they have such a huge presence in China and access to Chinese personal data, according to the logic of Washington Mafia politicians.
@GretaThunberg
I agree with many of the comments. Maybe it’s time to focus just on climate. That itself is a big enough topic for you and going to college would certainly help. For the moment, please stay out of the subjects you have very little or no knowledge at all.
On this day in 1991, the U.S. bombed the Amiriya civilian air raid shelter in Iraq, which was sheltering a thousand sleeping civilians, massacring 408 Iraqi civilians (261 women and 52 children).
@RepAOC
Such an idiot AOC. Just you in case you are so ignorant. The truth: 99-100% of Tibetans speak their own language. What’s the percentage of Native Americans speak their own language? 2%??