Daily Archives: February 15, 2022

2022-02-15: News Headlines

Lyn Neeley (2022-02-15). China holds first-ever carbon-neutral Olympics. workers.org This year's Beijing Winter Olympics is the first in history to be carbon-neutral. This includes renewable energy in all game venues, introducing new low-carbon technologies and using transportation fueled by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity. China completed the Zhangbei power grid station in time for the Olympics. That's the world's . . . |

WSWS (2022-02-15). US secretary of state visits Fiji, escalating confrontation with China. wsws.org Blinken's visit was a significant event, designed to advance the strategic interests of US imperialism across the Pacific amid escalating war tensions.

teleSUR (2022-02-15). Su Wins Men's Snowboard Big Air Gold as China Soars New Olympic Heights. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Su Yiming claimed the Olympic gold medal in the men's snowboard big air with a stylish show, adding to his silver medal in the slopestyle event. Mons Roisland (Norway) took the silver, while Max Parrot (Canada), who took gold in the slopestyle, finished third. | RELATED: | Su's success at Big Air Shougang has lifted China's haul of medals to 12, includin…

teleSUR (2022-02-15). Globalink | Beijing 2022 One of the Most Beautiful Events in My Life: Ecuadorian Alpine Skier. telesurenglish.net The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is one of the most beautiful events in her life, Ecuadorian Alpine skier Sarah Escobar has said. | Sarah Escobar presents a Chinese knot, which is given to her as a birthday gift.

_____ (2022-02-14). Why QUAD Is Irreplaceable. strategic-culture.org QUAD provides an umbrella to huddle together behind closed doors and give vent to their grouse against China in hushed tone — a safety valve for pent-up frustrations. | The scheduling of the QUAD ministerial meeting in Canberra on February 9 right in the middle of the Ukraine crisis and cascading U.S.-Russia tensions served to highlight that China remains Washington's top foreign policy priority. | Possibly, Washington also gave a nuanced message that it has the capability to simultaneously tackle China and Russia. Washington probably hoped that such messaging would resonate in the Asia-Pacific region, whic…

Brian Becker (2022-02-14). The West covered sports in 2008, but politics in 2022 — What changed? liberationnews.org U.S. media coverage of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics was accompanied by a barrage of non-stop political attacks against China by US commentators and the mainstream media.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-02-14). Along the Belt and Road: Breaking the Cycle of Underdevelopment in Latin America. libya360.wordpress.com Carlos Martinez The following article by Carlos Martinez was commissioned by the Taihe Institute for the January 2022 edition of its monthly magazine, TI Observer. Carlos gives an overview of the history of European and North American subjugation of Latin America, and explores the ways in which the expanding relationship between China and the region is…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-14). Chinese-Russian Text on Constructing a Community of Common Destiny for Mankind — A Crucial Peacebuilding Approach. transcend.org The presence of the Russian President to the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics led to an important Joint Statement that stresses current proposals of the two States meriting close attention. It highlights the concept of the community of common destiny for humankind and sets out the political framework for its proposals.

_____ (2022-02-14). The China-Russia Meeting on 4 February Sets Out A Clear Alternative for the World. journal-neo.org On fourth of February 2022 an important meeting took place in Beijing., China between the leader of China Xi Jin Ping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Putin was in China at Xi's invitation to attend the opening of the Winter Olympics. The reason for his visit however, went far beyond celebrating the opening of …

Taylor Young (2022-02-14). GWU president defends anti-China hate posters. liberationnews.org University president supports ant-Chinese posters as 'free speech' but university prohibited display of Palestinian flag.

Kim Petersen (2022-02-14). Western Media Continues to Flog a Dead Anti-China Horse. dissidentvoice.org When it comes to the ever ascending techno-economic colossus of China, it is year-round open season in the West for monopoly media and government officials to invoke whatever opprobrium, throw it against the wall and hope it sticks, if not repeat the defamation. Evidence does not matter. It can be cooked up. And the same …

Callum Wilson, Liu Xuegang (2022-02-14). Uyghur torchbearer and ethnic diversity at Beijing Olympics upset media's 'genocide' narrative. peoplesworld.org "Fifty-six constellations, fifty-six flowers in bloom; Fifty-six ethnicities, brothers and sisters in one family…" — Lyrics from Áà±Êàë‰∏≠Âçé (We Love Our China), theme song of The 4th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities, 1991, China. Thirty-one years after this wildly popular Chinese song for another nationally-celebrated sporting event, these same 56 brothers and sisters were …

teleSUR (2022-02-14). Beijing 2022: China Equals Best Record in Olympic Golds. telesurenglish.net After Xu Mengtao's win in the women's aerials freestyle skiing, China has won record-equalling five gold medals at Beijing 2022; French pair crowned in ice dance. | Xu Mengtao of China celebrates after winning the gold medal in the freestyle skiing women's aerials final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, north China's Hebei Province on Feb. 14, 2022.

New Atlas (2022-02-14). Myanmar's Terrorists Nominated for "Nobel Peace Prize" to Prop up Western Regime Change Proxies. newatlas.report February 14, 2022 (The New Atlas) — The US-backed opposition in Myanmar continues pressing on with the division and destruction of the Southeast Asian country — and key player in China's Belt and Road Initiative. Let's take a look at how bad the propaganda is and how directly the West is involved in creating a …

Editor (2022-02-14). US vs. China in Laos: Two Nations, two approaches, one obvious difference. mronline.org The United States has elected to lock itself in a zero-sum conflict with China, attempting to stop China's inevitable rise as the world's largest, most powerful economy and thus nation.

teleSUR (2022-02-14). China, Mexico Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Diplomatic Ties. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) exchanged congratulatory messages to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the two countries' diplomatic relations. | RELATED: | In his message, Xi noted that both China and Mexico are countries with time-honored civilizations and history, and the friendly exchanges between their people date back to ancient times. Since Ch…

_____ (2022-02-14). Washington Rolls Out a 'New' Approach to Encircling China. journal-neo.org The Joe Biden administration's 'new' Indo-Pacific strategy document contains nothing 'new' insofar as the cardinal objective of this strategy is concerned i.e., 'encircling China.' Interestingly enough, the strategy has been revealed despite the Biden administration's various rhetorical claims that the administration is not seeking to build up a global coalition against China, or that they …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-14). Tibetan Buddhism: Instructions for Life in the New Millennium. transcend.org 1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. | 2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

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