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Once able to lay credible claim to the title ‘America’s most beautiful city’, since the pandemic it has degenerated into the poster child of American inner-city degradation, with iconic neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and South of Market swamped by the tented encampments of the homeless and the attendant rampant drug use, shootings, stabbings, ubiquitous street filth and general lawlessness, while city authorities and police have looked the other way.

Suddenly the squalor has gone – at least for now.

Streets and sidewalks were steam-cleaned, public spaces tarted up, police patrols multiplied. Public defecation ceased, needles no longer littered the streets. Legal impediments previously cited as a block to doing any of this mysteriously evaporated, like San Francisco fog when a strong sun comes up.

There is something hugely comical about all this, something distinctly third world for a city – for a country – which is meant to be one of the most sophisticated, prosperous, and high-tech on the globe.

For decades squalid capitals in developing nations carted off the poor and gave their street fronts a fresh lick of paint before visiting US presidents and other world leaders cast their eyes on them. The communist bloc was a dab hand at doing the same before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. And now San Francisco has joined their ranks.

Comical. But also pathetic.

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~ Tucker Carlson

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China, France call for peace in Ukraine as Macron wraps up visit to Beijing

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China, France call for peace in Ukraine as Macron wraps up visit to Beijing

Beijing (The Times Groupe) – As French President Emmanuel Macron wrapped up his three-day visit to Beijing, both China and France called for the peace in Ukraine. WAR

They agreed to strengthen political dialogue, foster mutual political trust, jointly promote world security and stability, and respond to global challenges jointly, according to a joint statement released by Macron and Xi Jinping.

“Both sides support all efforts to restore peace in Ukraine on the basis of international law and the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter,” they said in a joint statement.

Following Macron’s meeting with Xi in Guangzhou, the statement was released.

In the meeting, Xi reiterated China’s call for a cease-fire in Ukraine, emphasizing that China would welcome concrete proposals from France for a diplomatic solution.

No party would benefit from the continuation of the war, according to Xi.

The French president also addressed students at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou.

In his speech, Macron underlined that the war in Ukraine was a clear violation of international law and called for joint efforts for the preservation and reconstruction of the international order focused on peace and stability.

China has avoided using the words “war” and “occupation” for the conflict that broke out in February last year and it also abstained in a UN Security Council vote about Russia’s annexations of parts of Ukraine.

China was among the few countries that did not condemn Moscow.

On the anniversary of the war, China released a statement outlining Beijing’s position on a political settlement to the war in Ukraine in 12 points that included respecting the sovereignty of all nations, ceasing hostilities, resuming peace talks, and resolving the humanitarian crisis in the region.

The plan also called for the safety of nuclear power plants, the facilitation of grain exports, and the cessation of unilateral sanctions, stressing that “dialogue and negotiation are the only viable solutions to the Ukraine crisis.” TIMES OF OCEAN

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Decoding China’s Neo-Colonist practices in Africa

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Chinese President, Xi Jinping (PHOTO/File) China’s interest in the African continent has been decades in the making. The Asian giant’s increased economic activities in African countries have raised significant concerns about the nature of its engagements in the continent, with many analysts and civil society groups drawing attention to worrying trends in China’s engagements in the continent.…

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Disappointment as Chinese President Xi Jinping Skips G20 Summit: Latest News

President Joe Biden expresses disappointment as Chinese President Xi Jinping decides not to attend the G20 summit in India, impacting efforts to improve Washington-Beijing relations. Learn more about this latest news.

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President Xi Jinping en die gewaagde besoek aan Xinjiang

Chinese president Xi Jinping het 'n ongewone reis na die Xinjiang-streek onderneem waartydens hy amptenare gevra het om "swaar verworwe sosiale stabiliteit" in die Oeigoerse outonome streek te bewaar waar Beijing, vir sy bekroonde dade van intimidasie teen Moslem-etniese minderhede, beskuldig is van ernstige menseregteskendings. In sy toespraak wat vandag in die hoofstad Urumqi gehou is, het die president die noodsaaklikheid beklemtoon om anti-terrorisme maatreëls te handhaaf en om voort te gaan met 'n verdere "sinisisering" van Islam wat "verdiep moet word om alle soorte onwettige godsdiensaktiwiteite effektief te bestuur". Die Chinese regering het 'n dekade lange veldtog gevoer teen wat hy noem Islamitiese terrorisme en ekstremisme in die land se noordwestelike streek, en het groot getalle Uyghurs en ander Moslems tronk toe gestuur. 'n Verslag van die Verenigde Nasies van 2022 het aan die lig gebring dat die Chinese regering se optrede in Xinjiang op misdade teen die mensdom kan neerkom, terwyl die Verenigde State en ander lande regeringsbeleide in die streek as "volksmoord" bestempel het - bewerings wat Beijing herhaaldelik ontken het.

Praeses Xi Jinping et audacia visitatio Xinjiang

Primus chorum civis Popularis Reipublicae Sinarumiter President Xi Jinping insolitum fecit ad regionem Xinjiang in qua magistratus rogavit ut "durum-victum socialem stabilitatem" in Uyghur Regio autonomo conservaret, ubi Beijing, ob acta terroris adversus musulmanos ethnicos minoritates acclamata, gravis accusata est. iurium humanorum violationes. In oratione hodie in urbe Urumqi habita, praeses necessitatem confirmavit mensuras anti-terrorismi ponere et procedere ulteriorem "sinicizationem" Islam, quae "altior debet esse ad omnia genera actionis religiosae illicitae efficaciter administrandi". Imperium Sinensium decennium expeditionem diuturnam gessit contra id quod terrorismum et extremismum islamicum in regione septentrionali patriae, magnum numerum Uyghurs et aliorum Muslimorum vinculatum est. A 2022 Referunt Nationes Unitae retulisse actiones regimen Sinensium in Xinjiang sceleribus contra humanitatem valere posse, dum Civitates Foederatae et aliae nationes politicae gubernationis in regione "genocidal" - allegationes Beijing saepe negaverunt.

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World: A Key U.S. Ally Wants To Walk Back Its 'Atrocious' Embrace of China

Italy was the only G7 Nation to sign on to China's Belt and Road Initiative. Now it says it wants to quit the plan and pivot back to Washington.

— August 6, 2023 | By Alexander Smith

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Rome in 2019. Christian Minelli/NurPhoto Via Getty Images

It has long been a sore spot for the Western alliance: Italy, a key partner of the United States, cozying up to China.

But now Rome is trying to back away — without angering the Asian giant 10 times its economic size — and Washington will be watching the balancing act closely as it pushes allies to reimagine their own delicate ties with Beijing.

The U.S. was deeply critical of Italy's decision in 2019 to become the only major Western economy to sign on to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The BRI, as it’s known, is an unprecedented global infrastructure project that critics see as Beijing’s attempt to gain influence abroad and make smaller countries financially dependent on Chinese investment.

But this week Italy gave its strongest signal yet that it planned to pull out of the project.

Signing the deal four years ago was “an improvised and atrocious act,” Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto told the Corriere della Sera newspaper on Sunday. “We exported a load of oranges to China, they tripled exports to Italy in three years.”

Crosetto added a more measured coda: “The issue today is, how to walk back without damaging relations? Because it is true that while China is a competitor, it is also a partner.”

These remarks followed months of reports that Italy planned to quit the BRI. Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s far-right prime minister, said her government would make a decision by December, when the pact between Rome and Beijing is due to renew.

Italy wants to walk back its 'wicked' embrace of China's Belt and Road! Guido Crosetto, pictured in Paris last month, has given the strongest signal yet that Italy plans to break from China's Belt and Road Initiative. Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP via Getty Images

Whichever way Rome goes, it has already become a test case for today’s Western dilemma over China: How to continue tapping into the lucrative Chinese market while restricting certain areas, such as microchips, and holding Beijing to account over human rights — all without provoking a backlash (Human rights are questionable in these ‘Fake Democracy Preachers Western Hypocrites’ as well).

Four years ago, Italy’s allies “thought we were selling our soul to the devil” by signing up to the BRI, said Filippo Fasulo, an expert in Italian-Chinese relations at the Italian Institute for International Studies, a think tank based in Milan. Today Italy wants to show it is “closely aligned with the U.S., Western camp” while keeping a “stable relationship with China,” Fasulo told NBC News. “The problem is, how to explain that to China?”

China’s hawkish Global Times newspaper on Monday derided the Italian defense minister's comments as resulting from “mounting pressure from the U.S. and the E.U.” as well as Italy's right-wing politics.

“The current government is quite Pro-U.S.,” Wang Yiwei, a professor at the Center for European Studies at China's Renmin University, said of Italy. "It's their decision, but we feel regret."

Asked about the Italian defense minister’s comments, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday that the BRI “unleashed great enthusiasm and potential for bilateral cooperation.”

They added that some forces had “launched malicious hype and politicized the cultural exchange and trade cooperation between China and Italy under the Belt and Road framework in a bid to disrupt cooperation and create division.”

Indeed this was the future that successive Italian leaders dreamed of before the country signed up. They saw the boom in Chinese goods through Greece’s Port of Piraeus after it was acquired by China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO in 2016.

Greece China Port of Piraeus Belt and Road! Xi and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis shake hands at the Chinese-owned Port of Piraeus in November 2019. Orestis Panagiotou/AFP via Getty Images file

There was also an alluring historical narrative. The BRI is based loosely on the ancient Silk Road trade route, the same that was traversed by the medieval Venetian explorer Marco Polo. When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Italy to sign the deal in 2019, he described Polo as a “pioneer of cultural exchanges between East and West” and an inspiration for centuries of friendship since.

Though European countries had spoken warmly about the Chinese government in the years previously, by the time Italy inked its deal Western attitudes had begun to turn, with increased scrutiny on China's human rights record and President Donald Trump launching a trade war on Beijing.

At the time, however, Italy’s populist leadership “was a government of inexperienced people,” said Fasulo, the Italy-China expert. “They did not realize in time that the international scenario was changing so fast.”

The outcome — while not quite “a load of oranges” — has not been kind to Italy. Since signing the BRI, Chinese exports to Italy have risen 51%, but Italy's exports to China have gone up only 26%, according to Italian government figures.

Italy’s decision may not only be economic.

Some observers have questioned how Meloni — accused of anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ policies — fits with President Joe Biden’s attempts to corral a coalition of democracies against world autocracies. Nevertheless she has made no secret of her desire to be seen by Washington as a reliable partner when it comes to both China and Russia, at a time of swirling questions over the mettle of other powers like France and Germany.

To that end she was in Washington last week, touting her credentials as leader of a "center-right government" and brushing off "false propaganda" about her political leanings, as she told Italy's Sky Tg24, owned by NBC News' parent company Comcast.

During the visit, Biden praised Meloni's "very strong support" for Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

“Part of this is about trying to put bilateral relations with Washington on a sounder footing,” said Francesco Sisci, a senior researcher at the Center for European Studies at China’s Renmin University. “Withdrawing from it now is a signal of a change of heart in the Western approach to China.”

— Alexander Smith is a Senior Reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.

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India’s enemy Jinping made a new plan, will make the Chinese army ‘Great Wall of Steel’ The time has come to make PLA ‘Great Wall of Steel’. So that the sovereignty of the country can be protected. Xi Jinping made the remarks at the start of his unprecedented third term as president and army chief. Image Source: AP India’s enemy Jinping made a new plan, will make the Chinese army ‘Great Wall of…

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Xi Jinping address China's 20th Communist Party Congress: What you need to know, power struggle for the globe

Xi Jinping address China’s 20th Communist Party Congress: What you need to know, power struggle for the globe

China’s 20th Communist Party Congress got underway on Sunday, and Xi Jinping is expected to win a third five-year term as president, making him the nation’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. China is becoming more economically socially and environmentally developed at a rapid pace, especially under Xi Jinping. Deng Xiaoping, the most important leader in contemporary Chinese history, was the…

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CHINA CUTS ITSELF OFF FROM THE WORLD | OPINION

GORDON G. CHANG, AUTHOR, COMMENTATOROn the 12th of this month, five of China’s largest state-owned enterprises announced their intention to delist shares from the New York Stock Exchange. The announcements came amid the deadlock between American and Chinese regulators over the right of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to inspect audit work papers of Chinese firms listed on American…

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In call with Biden Xi warns against 'playing with fire' over Taiwan

In call with Biden Xi warns against ‘playing with fire’ over Taiwan

“Those who play with fire will only get burnt,” Chinese state media quote Xi as telling Biden. “(We) hope the US side can see this clearly.” By REUTERS Updated: JULY 28, 2022 20:24 US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a fifth call as leaders on Thursday, and Xi warned against “playing with fire” over Taiwan, as concerns mounted over a possible visit to Chinese-claimed…

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US President Joe Biden Is Going To Speak On Thursday With Chinese President Xi Jinping

US President Joe Biden Is Going To Speak On Thursday With Chinese President Xi Jinping On Thursday, US President Joe Biden will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the issues of Taiwan and the US-China relationship. #Joebiden #Biden #XIJinping #jinping #USA #China #Taiwan #USPresident #Chinesepresident #USChinarelationship #Thrusday #speak #Whitehouse #Beijing #NancyPelosi

US President Joe Biden will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday due to renewed tensions over Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter. After March, US President Joe Biden will speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday at a particularly difficult time for the US-China relationship. The team of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and security officials are not ruling out…

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कोरोना विस्फोट के बीच चीनी राष्ट्रपति ने दिए और सख्ती के संकेत, पहले से ही घरों में बंद हैं लोग

कोरोना विस्फोट के बीच चीनी राष्ट्रपति ने दिए और सख्ती के संकेत, पहले से ही घरों में बंद हैं लोग

नई दिल्ली. चीन में बुधवार को 6000 कोरोना के नए मामले आए हैं. इनमें सबसे ज्यादा मामले राजधानी बीजिंग और वाणिज्यिक राजधानी शंघाई में दर्ज है. लेकिन इतने से मामले के लिए चीनी सरकार का तानाशाह रवैया वहां के लोगों के लिए परेशानी का सबब बनकर टूट रहा है. दुनिया भर में इसकी आलोचना हो रही है. बीजिंग और शंघाई को एक तरह से नाकेबंदी कर दी गई है लेकिन चीन है कि मानता नहीं. आज चीन के राष्ट्रपति शी जिनपिंग (Xi…

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