from Global Hook
(full text of Ambassador Sun Lei statement after the break)
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AntiWar https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/05/iran-allows-number-of-chinese-vessels.html
Kurilla https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/05/ex-centcom-chief-headlines-lavish.html
Middle East Eye https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-settlers-are-in-control-how-west.html
al Jazeera https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/05/trump-xi-summit-china-us-disagree-on.html
al Mayadeen English https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/05/brics-calls-for-israeli-withdrawal-from.html
PressTV https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2026/05/iran-fm-transfer-of-enriched-uranium.html
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from AntiWar
Iranian media reported on Thursday that Tehran has approved the transit of a “number” of Chinese vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, as President Trump is in Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“Following requests by the Chinese foreign minister and the country’s ambassador to Iran, facilitation of the passage of Chinese ships was pursued based on the deep relations and the strategic partnership between Tehran and Beijing, and it was decided that a number of Chinese ships requested by the country would transit this waterway after reaching an understanding about the Iranian management protocols of the strait, and this passage began Wednesday night,” Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.
from al Jazeera
United States President Donald Trump left China on Friday following a two-day summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
While Washington touts wins in terms of bilateral trade agreements, Beijing has warned the US against overstepping on the issue of Taiwan and stated that the US-Israel war on Iran should have never started.
Both sides have released statements detailing what Trump and Xi discussed, but they only overlap in limited areas. The two White House readouts published on Thursday addressed issues not mentioned in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs statements, and vice versa.
We break down what these issues are, what each side said and where they do align.
Only TrumpyBear Can Go to China: Why are they there? What is at stake?
NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/musk-flies-china-trump-ongoing-openai-trial-rcna344981?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Breaking Points https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0znSuXcn9TU&t=905s
al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/14/who-are-the-us-ceos-in-china-with-trump-and-whats-in-it-for-them
Netanyahu https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eFH8u-_SAGk
JINSA https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/holding-china-accountable-for-iran/
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(Plus, the DELIBERATE targeting of leading figures when they are with their families sends a strong message... if you oppose us we will kill you AND YOUR FAMILY. It is beyond thuggish.)
from al Mayadeen English
China condemned on Thursday the killing of Iranian national security chief Ali Larijani in an Israeli airstrike, describing the assassination as an "unacceptable" escalation in a war that has increasingly targeted Iran’s political leadership.
Larijani’s martyrdom marks a significant loss for the Islamic Republic since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on February 28, during which several senior Iranian figures, including Iran's leader Ali Khamenei, were killed in a sustained campaign of high-level assassinations.
The strike, which also reportedly killed members of Larijani’s family and close aides, is widely seen as part of a broader strategy aimed at dismantling Iran’s leadership structure through targeted killings...
read more here
by Scott Creighton
There wont be Shock and Awe in Venezuela. It's not going to happen no matter how bad TrumpyBear and Little Nazi Marco want to do it oh behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You see...
... a funny thing happened on the way to regime change.
Donald Trump has been steadily trying to improve access to something called rare earth elements (REE) since he returned to office in Jan. of 2025. Why? Because China placed severe restrictions on such exports (samarium, graphite, tungsten, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, yttrium, antimony, gallium, germanium and others) back in Dec. of 2024 as a response to the U.S. placing harsh sanctions on Chinese semiconductors. China added several more elements to their sanction list in Jan. when Trump came to power and continued with the semiconductor restrictions.
These REEs are critical in the development of everything from cellphones to armor piercing ammunition and AI missile guidance systems. Without them the MIC's endless money glitch grinds to a halt. Now do you understand why he's been so focused on these silly little rocks? Greenland is supposedly full of some of these REEs which explains why TrumpyBear wanted to invade them early on. How's that working out?
In April China made it even worse by adding even more restrictions and elements to the list.
(Did China oppose the creation of South Sudan or Rojava or the breakup of Yugoslavia?)
from Daily Sabah
China on Monday joined a growing list of countries opposing Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian saying Beijing is concerned by the move and firmly rejects it.
Recalling rejection and condemnation of the move by various nations and multinational blocs, Lin said China "firmly supports Somalia’s sovereignty, reunification, and territorial integrity," as Somaliland is an "inalienable part" of the country.
Beijing opposes any move that splits Somalia’s territory. The Somaliland question is entirely Somalia’s internal affair and should be resolved by the Somalian people in a way that fits Somalia’s national conditions.
Lin said countries "outside the region should stop inappropriate interference. No country should aid and abet separatist forces in other countries for its own selfish gains."...
read more here
(Color Revolution in India in... 5... 4... 3...)
from al Maydeen English
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, August 31, stressing New Delhi’s commitment to improving China-India relations.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, where leaders from Asia gathered in a display of Global South solidarity.
Modi’s first visit to China in seven years came shortly after Washington imposed steep 50% tariffs on Indian goods over New Delhi’s continued purchases of Russian oil. Analysts say both leaders sought to present a united front against Western pressure.
According to India’s Foreign Ministry, Modi told Xi that the relationship should be based on “mutual respect, trust and sensitivities” and not viewed through the lens of a third country...
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from PressTV
International pressure is mounting on Israel over its persisting genocidal war in the besieged Gaza Strip as the United Kingdom, the European Union, and China warn the occupying entity over “unacceptable” situation in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
On March 18, the Israeli regime broke a 42-day-long ceasefire with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement and resumed its deadly strikes on Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment and ground aggression by the occupation forces since October 2023.
To further exasperate the situation, and despite international outcry, Israel, for almost two months, blocked the flow of humanitarian aid into the territory, where its two million inhabitants, particularly children, struggle daily to combat starvation.
The dire situation in Gaza and the daily killing of its inhabitants by Israeli forces led British and European Union leaders on Monday to urge the occupying entity to allow humanitarian aid to flow back into Gaza immediately, slamming the current situation in the war-torn territory as “unacceptable” and “intolerable.”...
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from al Mayadeen English
The United States is set to reduce the de minimis tariff on China shipments from 120% to 54%, while retaining a $100 flat fee, according to a White House executive order issued Monday.
The updated policy will take effect at 12:01 a.m. (0401 GMT) on May 14, 2025.
This revision alters an earlier order by the Trump administration, which had planned to impose a flat $200 duty or a 120% tariff starting in June. The change affects shipments valued up to $800 sent via postal services, which previously benefited from minimal inspections and duty-free status...
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by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: 3:22 mark of this video talks about Chinese exporters deciding to withhold products from U.S. markets and just before that it talks about China making arrangements to sell to other nations. Seems like China has decided to deny the Glorious Trump the 145% tax he intends to collect from the American people on Chinese goods.
(In Nov of 2024, Lashkar-e-Taiba (The Resistance Front) used grenades to attack target in India: 12 people were injured. On April 22 2025, the same group killed killed 28 people in yet another destabilization attack called 2025 Pahalgam attack.
On Monday, the 21st day of April 2025, JD Vance arrived in India to hold high level talks with Modi in an effort to lock in that country's allegiance to Donald Trump and his trade war with China and the other BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) nations.
Pakistan is being blamed in Indian media for the attack in Pahlgam. Pakistan is seeking BRICS membership AND is a member of the SCO.
Lashkar-e-Taiba has been linked to al Qaeda, al Nusra and ISIS in the past in that it is believed to be, like the rest are, controlled by U.S. Special Operations forces as a proxy army.
It is not a coincidence that this attack took place the day after Vance arrived in India. The implication we are meant to read into it is that Pakistan doesn't want India to take sides with the U.S. in this global trade conflict.
That is ridiculous because the only result that could possibly come from this attack would be to drive India further from Pakistan and China and the SCO and BRICS rather than bring them together.
Which is why it is painfully clear who is really behind this brutal attack.)
from Asia Times
US President Donald Trump’s tariff war has sent shockwaves across the global economy, but no leader has felt its sting more keenly than India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Caught in a high-stakes geopolitical bind, India is grappling with an existential dilemma: balancing its vital economic ties with China against the allure of the American market.
On April 2, 2025, the Trump administration slapped a 26% “reciprocal” tariff on Indian goods, forcing New Delhi into fraught negotiations to preserve access to the American market, its largest export destination.
Despite the Indian media’s portrayal of Modi as a “Vishwaguru” (world leader) and indomitable strongman, India’s response has betrayed a surprising deference, seen in fast and big import duty cuts on Harley-Davidson motorbikes and American-made bourbon whiskey amid a broad pledge to tear down trade barriers. New Delhi has also announced plans to buy more US energy and defense products in a bid to placate Trump.
from al Jazeera
At least 19 people have been killed in Chad where security forces said they had prevented an attempt by armed fighters to storm the presidential complex in the capital N’Djamena.
At least 18 of a force of 24 armed men were killed in the failed assault on the president’s office on Wednesday evening, the government said, and one member of the security forces also died in the gun battles.
“There were 18 dead and six injured” among the attackers “and we
suffered one death and three injured, one of them seriously”, Chad’s
foreign minister and government spokesman Abderaman Koulamallah said...
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(Seems like our USSOCOM proxies are busy in Chad trying to keep their government from getting closer to China)
from RT
Tanks have been deployed on Wednesday night to the streets of Chad's capital N’Djamena and heavy gunfire can be heard in the heart of the city, as the presidential palace has reportedly came under attack by unidentified militants, sources have told RT.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited N’Djamena earlier on Wednesday to discuss “advancing bilateral cooperation” with Chadian President Mahamat Deby.
The French news agency AFP first reported “heavy gunfire” on Wednesday evening. AFP cited a Chadian security source, who said that “armed men had attacked the presidential palace.”...
read more here
(archived from December 16, 2011)
by Scott Creighton
It’s one thing when the corporate media refuse to cover a story because it makes the globalist’s actions look bad or it highlights something that they would rather not have exposed. That’s bad enough. But when the media actually makes stories up out of whole cloth and they are never held accountable for it, then you have serious problems with far reaching implications. Unfortunately we have been seeing this trend developing more and more as of late.
CNN has a story out about how Batman actor Christian Bale and a CNN “news” crew went to visit a Chinese activist and was assaulted by “plain clothed” Chinese military police and then they were involved in a “high speed chase” which the news crew won, somehow, and they escaped. A CNN cameraman outran Chinese authority’s radio in a minivan? Really?
That’s the “news” according to CNN.
Here’s what really happened.