Some of the agreements reached at the China-Central Asia Summit in Xi'an:

▪️ Simplification of visas for business travel, speeding up customs clearance for agricultural products from Central Asia to China, joint construction of smart agriculture and increased cooperation in traditional energy sources: oil, gas and coal.

▪️ China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have approved steps to build a railway bypassing Russia.
The route would connect China with Europe. A project office has opened in Bishkek to co-ordinate construction.

The feasibility study for the project was proposed by the Chinese side - more than 200 specialists from China came to the Central Asian country to conduct an assessment of the forthcoming work on the 454-km-long railway.

According to preliminary estimates, the traffic volume could reach 5 million tonnes per year. The railway will be part of a route that goes on to the Persian Gulf countries, Turkey with a terminus in the European railway system - about 900 km in total.

The total transport volume along the route is estimated at 15 million tonnes a year, and the transport time to Europe will be reduced by 7-8 days. (Source: Nikolai Vavilov) @LauraRuHK

- di Elena Panina

Vertice del G7 a Hiroshima: i tentativi di isolare la Russia avvicinano il crollo dell'Occidente

I leader del G7, o, meglio, i "sei" di Washington allevati nell'incubatrice del sistema politico americano, sono andati a Hiroshima. Lì, con cinismo a sangue freddo, sulle tombe di centinaia di migliaia di vittime del bombardamento atomico statunitense, alla presenza del presidente del Paese assassino, hanno discusso di "pace". Più precisamente, di "un mondo senza Russia".

▪️ Lo scopo del raduno è fermare la Russia a tutti i costi, isolarla definitivamente con le sanzioni, tagliare i flussi finanziari che permettono ai russi di sopravvivere, commerciare e vincere.
Come al solito, l'arsenale dell'Occidente è costituito da una carota e da un bastone. Il primo è per i recalcitranti che non hanno paura di rimanere in contatto con la Russia. Alcuni di loro potrebbero anche non essere passibili di bastone ma di proiettile, come è successo al precedente primo ministro giapponese, Shinzo Abe. Non è mai stato un amico della Russia ma un politico di orientamento nazionale al cui confronto Kishida oggi è un cretino.
Ma c'è anche una carota. L'Occidente la sta usando per conquistare le parti vacillanti, dal Brasile, all'India, al Vietnam, all'Unione Africana. Washington promette un posto al sole per ciascuno di loro nel "nuovo ordine mondiale". Il presidente brasiliano Lula da Silva è stato persino invitato a Hiroshima: che gioia se i Brics si spaccassero.

▪️ E' chiaro che ogni tentativo di isolare la Russia è destinato a fallire. Inoltre, non fanno altro che avvicinare il crollo del loro stesso "ordine basato sulle regole".
L'Occidente minaccia di disconnettere i partner della Russia dallo SWIFT? Ma non fa altro che incoraggiare la creazione di sistemi di pagamento internazionali alternativi. L'Occidente agita il dollaro come un'arma? Non fa che accelerare la de-dollarizzazione del pianeta. L'Occidente sta cercando di tagliare i flussi energetici attraverso l'Eurasia? Nuovi corridoi di trasporto appaiono sul continente, da est a ovest e da nord a sud.
La Russia non può essere esclusa da questi processi. In questo momento il nostro Paese sta costruendo nuovi progetti di sviluppo che coinvolgono Cina, Iran, Turchia, OPEC+ e il Sud globale. La Russia si è rivelata troppo grande per "entrare nel cappello" di un egemone degradato.

▪️ Naturalmente, questo non è l'ultimo tentativo dell'Occidente di prendere l'iniziativa. Il prossimo sarà il vertice NATO di Vilnius a luglio, dove si deciderà come ribaltare la situazione in Ucraina.
L'Occidente, guidato dagli Stati Uniti, non ha bisogno di pressioni militari, ostacoli finanziari e sanzioni economiche contro la Russia di per sé. Capiscono che se vinciamo, l'intera Pax Americana si sgretolerà come un domino. Il mondo volterà le spalle alla perdente "civiltà dei colonizzatori", che ha torturato l'intero pianeta per mezzo millennio.
Ma questo è domani. Oggi il mondo guarda speranzoso mentre anche la Russia difende i suoi interessi.

▪️ Indubbiamente, per la vittoria della Russia, i successi nel teatro di guerra ucraino sono fondamentali. Ma ancora più importante - e questo è il vero scopo della SMO - è il giusto mondo multipolare che la Russia sta costruendo. Senza il dominio globale dell'Occidente, con un'autentica sovranità dei Paesi e l'uguaglianza dei popoli.

La vittoria sarà nostra, ma è ancora lontana. Nel frattempo, in tutti i continenti divampa la "guerra mondiale fredda", in cui non ci saranno paesi neutrali e non allineati.

Biden prende per mano Giorgia Meloni al G7 di Hiroshima con un compiaciuto Trudeau al fianco. All'elettorato di Fratelli d'Italia i media di regime lanciano il bocconcino di una leader che difenderebbe i valori tradizionali dopo essere stata criticata da Trudeau, portabandiera delle peggiori distopie partorite dal WEF. Puro teatro e specchietto per le allodole. Trudeau e Meloni sono pupi perfettamente intercambiabili a seconda delle preferenze del pubblico, e il puparo e' sempre lo stesso. @LauraRuHK

Division of labour between US and UK in Ukraine. The US has outsourced black ops to the MI6. https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/25491

BRICS eclipsed G7 in 2020, and the trend is ‘catastrophic’ for the fading unipolar hegemony of the West.

So #EmpireAtAllCosts has started the hybrid war against Russia, China, BRICS, Asian Century and the Multipolar World.

We will live dangerously for a while now. Years of turbulence lie ahead.

Zelensky didn't have the decency to be with his soldiers during the hardest days of the war. We all knew that Bakhmut's liberation was imminent. Western intelligence knew that Prigozhin was bluffing and distracting the enemy all the time with his public disputes.

But Zelensky preferred to tour. He saw the end of the bloodiest battle of the century from a safe distance. He didn't even order a retreat to save the lives of the soldiers left in the city. He simply ignored the frontlines and evaded. He let his compatriots burn - literally - while he paraded his green shirt to his sponsors.

Lukashenko is right: Zelensky is just scum.

DER SPIEGEL: EUROPE LOSING INFLUENCE IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER

"The rise of the Global South, the new Cold War - these are factors contributing to a change in the world order that was established at the end of the 20th century. Do the G7 countries have an answer?" @LauraRuHK

DER SPIEGEL: L'EUROPA PERDE INFLUENZA NEL NUOVO ORDINE MONDIALE

"L'ascesa del Sud globale, la nuova guerra fredda - sono fattori che contribuiscono a cambiare l'ordine mondiale stabilito alla fine del XX secolo. I Paesi del G7 hanno una risposta?" @LauraRuHK

The US has trouble delivering F-16 jets that Taiwan bought in 2019! https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/05/04/702727/US-delivery-of-F-16-jets-to-Taiwan-delayed-again--Taipei

🇧🇬 Thousands of citizens take part in a march for peace and neutrality in Bulgaria, where at the same time signatures are being collected for a referendum on the country's military neutrality.

The largest action is taking place in Sofia.

@ukraine_watch

🤣🤣🤣 Dasha Navalnaya, whose only claim to fame is being Alexey Navalny's daughter, has been invited to speak at Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service, a highly prestigious left-liberal institution.

The students, however, did not appreciate the decision, and launched a petition against her presence, threatening to disrupt the event. The students are unhappy that the daughter of a "controversial politician", who made racist and homophobic remarks, has been invited. And of course, Ukrainian students have a beef with her too due to her nationality. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/19/georgetown-invited-navalnys-kid-to-commencement-chaos-followed-00097954

🤡 ⚡️Clown Alert ⚡️

"The EU needs to offer a real alternative to China’s economic projects for the countries of the Global South", Ursula von der Leyen said at the G7.

“We want to put a better offer on the table. If we are in a race, we are in a race to the top.” She added that the EU is rolling out 90 “flagship projects” on different continents as part of its Global Gateway investment scheme. @LauraRuHK

Davison L Budhoo is a whistleblower everyone should know. The Caribbean economist, trained at the London School of Economics, in 1988 had accused the IMF of using statistics as ‘lethal’ weapons, elucidating how, on behalf of the Fund, he had been involved in ‘statistical malpractice‘ to inflate the numbers in IMF documents to present Trinidad & Tobago – a country endowed with oil resources – as an unstable economy. He exposed the IMF greed, corruption and massive exploitation of the Global South in a long and very passionate resignation letter addressed to his boss Michel Camdessus then managing directory of the IMF. "Today I resigned from the staff of the International Monetary Fund after over twelve years, and after 1000 days of official Fund work in the field, hawking your medicine and your bag of tricks to governments and to peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa. To me resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind’s eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. Mr. Camdessus, the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers. It dries up too; it cakes all over me; sometimes I feel that there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did do in your name and in the names of your predecessors, and under your official seal." You can read the full letter here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJzvpfFzIKu76oE1CkzZlarRiVpYIggFMFzSt6OgHx0

Ukraine's irrecoverable losses in and around Bakhmut since February 2022 amount to 55,000 dead. That is three times what the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan. (Eduard Basurin) @LauraRuHK

A seriously entertaining account of his adventures at a business gathering in Ibiza while leaders of Central Asia met in Xi'an, Russia hosted a Muslim world forum in Kazan, the bunkered elites of the Global North held the G7 meeting in Hiroshima and a witches' sabbath took place in Lisbon. By the one and only Pepe Escobar. https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/05/20/adventures-in-natostan-sparks-flying-in-ibiza-locked-down-bilderberg-in-lisbon/

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the highland region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory that had been part of Azerbaijan before the breakup of the Soviet Union, but which was primarily populated by ethnic Armenians, broke out in February 1988 after the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region announced its withdrawal from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Renewed clashes erupted on September 27, 2020. On November 9, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on a complete ceasefire. Azerbaijan and Armenia maintained the positions that they had held, some districts were handed over to Baku and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the line of contact and the Lachin Corridor. Later, the three countries’ leaders adopted several more joint statements on the situation in the region. Last year, Azerbaijan and Armenia began peace treaty talks. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

Nagorno-Karabakh - Until a document is signed, there is no final decision. The majority of Armenians consider Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan a disgrace to their nation, his popularity is now extremely low and he has no chance to remain in power.

Many Armenians disagree with the decision to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, so mass protests are expected. But on a positive note, peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh means a source of conflict that could be exploited by the West to create chaos in the region has been removed. @LauraRuHK

⚡️Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group entered Grayvoronsky District in Russia’s Belgorod region, elimination process is underway, governor says. The purpose of diversions like this is to draw attention from the loss of Bakhmut, which we can officially call Artyomovsk again, and minimize the negative political effect of such loss for the Kiev regime. @LauraRuHK

The West insists on "de-risking", that is forcibly reducing demand for Chinese exports? Well, China can de-risk too. China has shown the sword to US chipmaker Micron with a ban on its chips, opening the door to local players to fill the gap. China's cyberspace regulator said that Micron, the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, had failed its network security review and that it would block operators of key infrastructure from buying from the company. @LauraRuHK