2022-02-25: News Headlines

Dongsheng News (2022-02-25). News on China | No. 88. dissidentvoice.org This episode looks at the historic rapprochement between China and the United States when president Richard Nixon met Chairman Mao Zedong, the growing need for lithium, technological cooperation and competition between rural and urban China, the high cost of raising a child in China, and its declining birth rate.

Xiaolu Sun (2022-02-25). See how China's presence at U.N. paved way to thawing relations. america.cgtn.com February 21 marks the 50th Anniversary of President Nixon's trip to China. The trip began the process of normalizing relations between China and the U.S. See how this trip has changed the United Nations.

Alasdair Baverstock (2022-02-25). Children Learn Chinese in Mexico. america.cgtn.com With the development of relations between China and Latin America, Mexican children at the Queen Elizabeth School in Mexico City are now choosing to learn Mandarin as their second language. Find out more.

David P Goldman (2022-02-25). China's SWIFT alternative may undercut US sanctions. asiatimes.com Washington's new sanctions against Russia were no match for President Biden's rhetoric, leaving out the most obvious measure that the United States might take to hurt Moscow, namely exclusion from the SWIFT international payments system. Banks conduct virtually all hard-currency transactions via SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. But a new Chinese …

ecns.cn (2022-02-25). China to seek political settlement of Ukraine issue: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn China has always stood on the side of peace and justice and will continue to promote a political settlement of the Ukraine issue, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Friday.

WSWS (2022-02-25). New Zealand government aligns with US against Russia. wsws.org With Europe on the precipice of war, the minister is using her visit to solidarise New Zealand with imperialist operations against both Russia and China.

Ediz Tiyansan (2022-02-25). Qin Gang celebrates 50th anniversary of Nixon's visit to China. america.cgtn.com On Thursday, Chinese Ambassador to the United States visited the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum to commemorate the 50th year of Nixon's historic visit to China.

sputniknews (2022-02-25). China Fends Off Australia's Criticism of Beijing's Decision to Continue 'Normal Trade' With Russia. sputniknews.com Earlier on Friday, Australia said that China's move to ease restrictions on Russia's wheat exports at a time when a Russian military operation in Ukraine is underway is unacceptable.

Staff (2022-02-25). Russian athletes 'allowed' at Paralympics despite Russia's breach of 'Olympic truce'. rt.com Russian athletes will compete at the Paralympics in Beijing despite the IOC's condemnation of the military operation in Ukraine | Russian Paralympic athletes will compete at next month's Paralympic Games in Beijing despite the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) condemnation of the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine. | The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has arranged for a team of 71 competitors to travel to the Chinese capital for the event which begins on March 4 — and after talks between representatives of Ukraine and Russia, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) appears to have r…

ecns.cn (2022-02-25). Winter Paralympic villages open to welcome 48 delegations. ecns.cn With the success of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Beijing and co-host city Zhangjiakou in Hebei Province are transitioning to better serve the Winter Paralympics from March 4 to 13.

ecns.cn (2022-02-25). Beijing Winter Olympics a great success: president of MNOC. ecns.cn The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have been a "great success" amid the difficult time of the coronavirus pandemic, said Choijgavaa Naranbaatar, president of the Mongolian National Olympic Committee (MNOC).

Andy Kroll (2022-02-24). China Is Digging Its Own Grave (and Ours as Well). tomdispatch.com Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the middle of this century, we will be living under such radically altered circumstances that the present decade, the 2020s, will undoubtedly seem like another era entirely, akin perhaps to the Middle Ages. And I'm not talking about the future development of flying cars, cryogenics, or even as-yet-unimaginable versions of space travel. After leading the world for the past 75 years, the United States is ever so fitfully losing its grip on global hegemony. As Washington's power begins to fade, the liberal international…

_____ (2022-02-24). Olympic Hanbok Scandal, or Two Types of Nationalism. journal-neo.org In his previous material about the tricky relations between China and South Korea this author already mentioned how a demonstration of the traditional Korean clothes was viewed in South Korea. However, this is worth telling in greater detail as this story illustrates the conceptual difference between the two countries' national policies. So, South Koreans took offence …

_____ (2022-02-24). Diagnosis: Why the China Containment Policy is Failing. journal-neo.org For the past 4 years — especially since the US 'trade war' on China started by the Trump administration in 2017 — Washington has been seeking ways to contain, roll-back on its gains and encircle China. The US 'trade war' was not something entirely new; in fact, it was a continuation of the Obama administration's …

Tom Engelhardt (2022-02-24). Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, A Planet on the Brink. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. We're in a time of growing belligerence of a kind unknown since the Cold War. It's already taken us to the edge of conflict with nuclear-armed great powers, whether in Ukraine or Taiwan and the South China Sea. …

Luis Chirino (2022-02-24). See how Nixon's 1972 China trip affected Latin America. america.cgtn.com 50 years ago, U.S. President Richard Nixon made a historic trip to China. The impact of Nixon's trip and the establishment of ties were felt around the world. A number of Latin American countries watched the events unfold with keen interest.

Editor (2022-02-24). Mitigating global food waste: Does China provide lessons? mronline.org Apart from the fact that China's food system offers lessons that could improve policy-making in both high and low-income countries, the world's most populous country is also one of the world's major producers of food despite having less cultivated land.

Staff (2022-02-24). China comments on Russian operation in Ukraine. rt.com The Chinese Foreign Ministry says Moscow does not need Beijing's backing | The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Moscow does not have or need the backing of Beijing for its military attack on Ukraine. | "As for the US suggestion that Russia has China's backing to act, I believe Russia will be very unhappy to hear such a statement," ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told the media during a regular press briefing. | Hua said that Russia is both an independent power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. She claimed that Moscow's action is based entirely on its own judgement and national…

WSWS (2022-02-24). US warns Nepal of serious consequences if aid program not ratified. wsws.org US threats are part of its ongoing efforts to lock the strategically-located Nepal into Washington's war preparations against China.

WSWS (2022-02-24). Beijing condemns Washington's "irresponsible and immoral" behaviour in the Ukraine crisis. wsws.org Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the US was "raising tensions, creating panic, and even playing up the schedule of war."

_____ (2022-02-24). WWII Redux: The Endpoint Of US Policy, From Ukraine To Taiwan. popularresistance.org "This is not going to be a war of Ukraine and Russia. This is going to be a European war, a full-fledged war." So spoke Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky just days after berating the U.S. for beating the drums of war. | It is not hard to imagine how Zelensky's words must have fallen on those European ears that were attentive. His warning surely conjured up images of World War II when tens of millions of Europeans and Russians perished. | Zelensky's words echoed those of Philippine's President Rodrigo Duterte on the other side of the world at the Eastern edge of the great Eurasian land mass: "When elephants f…

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