2021-05-28: Social Media Postees

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"Xinjiang in My Eyes": Debunking the Lies and Anti-China Propaganda Focusing on China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-28
This article is …
globalresearch.ca/xinjiang-eyes-debunking-lies-anti-china-propaganda-focusing-china-xinjiang-uyghur-autonomous-region/5746431

Red Capital, Red Baiting, Yellow Peril
John O'Kane | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-28
For many Americans China has been such a perpetual threat that when Covid arrived it could easily become the "China Virus" even for those who weren't avid Trumpers. China-the-enemy has been secure in our collective minds ever since the 1949 revolution brought communism to power, piling on a menace that the Soviets had already managed…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/28/red-capital-red-baiting-yellow-peril/

Bizarre propaganda offensive begins against New Zealand
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-28
The Five Eyes is an "intelligence alliance" compromising of Canada, the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand that began as a World War 2 tool but for most of its existence been a weapon against socialist states. | Its primary function currently is to compile resources for propaganda attacks on China and supposedly validate a whole range of hyperbolic claims about Beijing. | With the population of New Zealand being only about 2% that of the United States' alone, many would correctly assume that Wellington's contribution to this arrangement isn't substantial. A paper from the small country's government estimated th…
challenge-magazine.org/2021/05/28/bizarre-propaganda-offensive-begins-against-new-zealand/

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden to meet in mid-June
wsws.org | 2021-05-28
The summit comes amid high bilateral tensions and ongoing discussions in Washington about the orientation of US foreign policy in light of the growing conflict with China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/28/russ-m28.html

Senate clears passage of economic warfare legislation directed at China
wsws.org | 2021-05-28
The bipartisan legislation would spend more than $200 billion to boost US manufacturers of semiconductors and fund research on other strategic goods.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/28/bill-m28.html

The China-Pakistan Love Affair
L. Ali Khan | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-28
May has been the lovefest month for China and Pakistan. Criticizing legalism, moralism, and sentimentalism of American politics, Hans Morgenthau (1904-1980) argued for a policy based on national interests in foreign affairs. In theory, emotionality is rarely part of any bilateral calculus. However, Pakistan and China have forged a geopolitical romance, frequently reaffirmed in magniloquence…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/28/the-china-pakistan-love-affair/

Estados Unidos y China: Urbanidad e intervencionismo
Julio Yao Villalaz | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-28
Podemos entender que el presidente Bolsonaro irrespetara y atacara al presidente de la República de Corea, Moon Jae-in, al confundirlo con el presidente de la RPD de Corea, Kim Jong-un, y que se burlara del primero llamándole una y otra…
globalizacion.ca/estados-unidos-y-china-urbanidad-e-intervencionismo/

White House embraces "Wuhan Lab" conspiracy theory
wsws.org | 2021-05-27
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden publicly embraced the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 may have been released from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, ordering the US intelligence agencies to produce a report within 90 days into the potentially man-made origins of the disease.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/27/pers-m27.html

Dr. Monica Gandhi on the Origins of COVID-19, Vaccine Equity, the Debate over Masks & More
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-05-27
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of COVID-19 as new questions are being raised over whether an accidental leak from a Chinese virology lab is to blame for the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal reports three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019 and were hospitalized in November of that year, before the first recorded case of COVID-19. China has criticized the Biden administration's call for a new probe, saying the lab leak hypothesis is a "conspiracy created by U.S. intelligence agencies." In March,…
www.democracynow.org/2021/5/27/covid_19_origins_wuhan_lab_leak

The US Appoints Temporary Chargé D'Affaires in El Salvador
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-27
The U.S. State Department (DoS) on Wednesday appointed Jean Manes as Chargé d'Affairs ad Interim to El Salvador, following almost four months without a designated ambassador to this Central American nation. | RELATED: | El Salvador's Parliament Ratifies Cooperation Deal With China | The DoS said Manes' experience would serve to improve negotiations to tackle irregular migration to the U.S., an issue that has become a cornerstone of President Joe Biden's political agenda with cen…
telesurenglish.net/news/The-US-Appoints-Temporary-Charge-DAffaires-in-El-Salvador-20210527-0010.html

Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-27
By Jeremy Kuzmarov — May 21, 2021 | A Review of Vijay Prashad's book, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, with foreword by Evo Morales (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020). | [Source: monthlyreview.org] | During his confirmation hearing in February, the CIA's latest director William J. Burns continued a long Agency tradition of playing up the threat from Russia and China along with North Korea, and said that Iran should not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon. | Vijay Prashad's new book Washington Bullets: A…
orinocotribune.com/manufacturing-consent-for-war-70-years-of-cia-coups-assassinations-false-flag-operations-and-mass-murder/

Infectious Disease Expert: Only Way to Get to Immunity Is to Vaccinate the World
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-27
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of COVID-19 as new questions are being raised over whether an accidental leak from a Chinese virology lab is to blame for the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal reports three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019 and were hospitalized in November of that year, before the first recorded case of COVID-19. China has criticized the Biden administratio…
truthout.org/video/infectious-disease-expert-only-way-to-get-to-immunity-is-to-vaccinate-the-world/

Headlines for May 27, 2021
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-05-27
Transit Worker Fatally Shoots 9, Then Himself, at San Jose Rail Yard, Senate Republicans Blast Biden's ATF Nominee over His Support for Gun Controls, Texas "Constitutional Carry" Bill to Allow People to Openly Carry Handguns Without Permits, Dutch Court Orders Shell Oil Company to Halve Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030, Australia Orders Coronavirus Lockdown for 7 Million; Taiwan Battles Its Worst COVID Outbreak, Biden Orders Probe into COVID-19 Origins; States Offer Prizes to Vaccinated Residents, Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Offer Hope as IAEA Head Expresses Concern over Uranium Enrichment, Another Political Candidat…
www.democracynow.org/2021/5/27/headlines

Eisenhower rejected military chiefs' demand for nuclear war on China, classified account of '58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2021-05-27
Fearing a new conflict over Taiwan, Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China. A previously censored account of the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis that was sponsored by the Pentagon has been published in full by the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg. The report provides a hair-raising portrait of a reckless US military leadership relentlessly pressing President Dwight Eisenhower for the authority to carry …
thegrayzone.com/2021/05/27/eisenhower-military-chiefs-nuclear-war-china-classified-taiwan-strait/

Eisenhower rejected military chiefs' demand for nuclear war on China, classified account of '58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2021-05-27
Fearing a new conflict over Taiwan, Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China A previously censored account of the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis that was sponsored by the Pentagon has been published in full by the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg. The report provides a hair-raising portrait of a reckless US military leadership relentlessly pressing President Dwight Eisenhower for the authority to carry …
thegrayzone.com/2021/05/27/eisenhower-military-chiefs-nuclear-war-china-classified-taiwan-strait/

All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-05-27
2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China's commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left–and the right–were willing to take him seriously. | May 27, 2021…
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CPEC Speeds Economic Development for Pakistan and Region: PM
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-27
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will bring economic development not only for Pakistan but also for the entire region, according to the Prime Minister Office. | RELATED: | Pakistan-China Cordial Relations Growing: Pakistani PM | The all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between Pakistan and China is unprecedented, the prime minister said while chairing a review meeting here on the progress of the CPEC projects an…
telesurenglish.net/news/CPEC-Speeds-Economic-Development-for-Pakistan-and-Region-PM-20210527-0023.html

From Xinjiang to Mississippi: Terror Capitalism, Labour and Surveillance
Darren Byler | zcomm.org | 2021-05-27
In both Xinjiang and elsewhere, the labour of populations controlled by surveillance infrastructure is devalued and becomes a source of heightened exploitation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/from-xinjiang-to-mississippi-terror-capitalism-labour-and-surveillance/

South Korean president backs US war plans in summit with Biden
wsws.org | 2021-05-27
Biden used the meeting with President Moon to shore up the US-South Korean alliance as Washington continues to threaten China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/27/uskr-m27.html

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