Politics
Sunday 28 April 2024
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“On Ukraine, China’s position has been just and objective. The United States keeps making groundless accusations over the normal trade and economic exchanges between China and Russia... China firmly rejects this."
There is significant evidence documenting how China has gone beyond “normal trade” to supply military equipment and components to Russia. In addition, China's Defense Minister pledged Chinese support for Russia in the war and expanded military cooperation. -
"In Kenya, we see our President talk about fertilizers for our farmers. In Uganda, they do not use fertilizers. Their land is very fertile and there is enough rain.’’
Uganda has been using fertilizers since World War II. The first lady's comments came amid a fake fertilizer scandal unfolding in Kenya's presidential administration. -
“…Unlike Western troops which were always often on the opposite side of the fighting in the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Russian troops have helped various states to regain the territory.’’
The U.S. invested more than $3 billion in Sahel’s security and trained nearly 86,000 counterterrorism troops in the region over the last two decades. Russia’s military presence is linked with aggravated violence and war crimes. -
“Russian delegation in the UN Security Council left the meeting before Israel's speech.”
Russia’s top diplomats walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting when Israel’s representative took the stage. -
"…I and many residents, and even the majority of residents of Gagauzia, and even of Moldova, are against Moldova joining the European Union.”
Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for the nation's accession to the European Union. -
“The Philippines keeps accusing China of ‘intimidating smaller countries’ without mentioning at all the Philippine occupation and encroachment on China’s territory in Nansha Qundao. That is a real propaganda ‘trap.’ The Ren’ai Jiao issue is not a case of the big bullying small but unfulfilled promises and deliberate provocations…”
There is no official “promise” between the Philippines and China. Tensions have grown due to “gray-zone” activities by China in the Philippines' EEZ. The sovereignty claims made by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson openly ignore the PCA at The Hague's 2016 ruling on the South China Sea. -
“…. Why are we being accused of supporting M23. ... For those accusing us, actually, I should accuse them of not supporting M23 because it is as if they agree with the injustice that is being done to this community.’’
Kagame is condoning and supporting a group that stands accused of serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The U.S. and the U.N., both of which have sanctioned the M23 militants, have accused Kagame’s government of supporting the group. -
"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks, or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products,” such as books, songs, and films, in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
“I come from the distant regions of Iran, from the mountains of the Hindukush and Panjshir."
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“Women received political rights in 1918, but they received real power only now, under President Putin and United Russia’s majority ... previously, all this was more for decoration.”
The United Nations recommends that women hold at least 30% of political leadership positions so that women can influence decision-making. Russia is far below the UN threshold. -
"The FSB had received certain information from US intelligence services that, unfortunately, such [an attack] was possible. But, as our Russian counterparts have said, that information was very vague and it did not allow us to identify those behind the deadly crime."
The U.S. warned Russia that Crocus City Hall was a potential target of a terror attack weeks in advance, officials say. -
Blue-checked X user misrepresents police brutality video as display of Pakistan–Afghanistan tensions
There is no evidence the video shows Punjabi police officers. Reliable news outlets reported the police officers in the video were from Peshawar. The reports do not mention the nationality of the alleged criminal.