“The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls ‘re-education centers.'”
“Despite condemnations from China, the US continues to sell advanced weapons to the island under the Taiwan Relations Act for its self-defense against a much bigger Chinese military.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/asia/us-taiwan-de-facto-embassy-china-intl/index.html
“This is the unintended output of regime change, of toppling a tyrant and attempting to socially engineer a foreign society. Once the war begins, once society is destabilized, the chips fall where they may.”
Read more: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-was-the-point-regime-change-iraq-26135?page=show
“The two men ensnared in Ukraine’s ‘clever’ ruse to weed out Putin’s assassins have turned out to be former Ukrainian counterintelligence officials, who despise Russia, and pledge allegiance to radical, ultra-right neo-Nazi group ‘Right Sector’.”
“The idea that Russia would be cutting its military spending seems counterintuitive to us. But that’s just what Vladimir Putin is doing with his new budget.”
“Trump is not fighting the US deep state by advancing longtime US deep state agendas, and anyone who thinks that he is has had some very bad luck with thinking.”
“The bottom line is that no one – not the United States, not Israel, not the International Atomic Energy Agency – ever really believed Iran was developing nuclear weapons.”
“The ultimate goal of countries like Venezuela, Iran and Russia seems to be to create a parallel financial system under a new alliance of nations.”
Read more: https://moneyandmarkets.com/iran-russia-launching-cryptos/
“Under the deal, the payments for oil will be made through India’s state-run UCO Bank, which has no US exposure.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/business/428245-india-iran-dollar-rupee-oil/
“There can be few more glaring examples of ‘fake news’ than the deliberate misreporting by a sovereign government of a prominent journalist’s death.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44307611