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Sri Lanka Succumbs to China

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From the start, Sri Lanka bought into Xi’s Belt and Road vision enthusiastically. The nation welcomed infusions of Chinese cash to build several infrastructure projects including the Hambantota Port on Sri Lanka’s southern coast. But it didn’t take long for Sri Lankans to see that they couldn’t repay the loans on Beijing’s terms.

In 2017, they determined that their only option was to hand China a controlling stake in the Hambantota Port for a period of 99 years. This transfer set off alarms in Sri Lanka and beyond with China facing accusations of setting a “debt trap” to give itself a potential military footing in Sri Lanka.

“The acquisition provided Beijing with a deepwater port in the region in which it can dock its navy off the coast of its key regional competitor, India,” Foreign Policy wrote on Oct. 29, 2018.

But the leadership in Sri Lanka seems not to have been worried by this handover of a vital national asset to China. And now it is happening again.

“… China has already pumped millions into the project,” World Is One News wrote. “They reclaimed the land and built the high-rises. So, expecting them to give up control is futile.”

The publication continued: “Beijing is not looking for a partnership in Sri Lanka. Instead, it wants an overseas province. … It began with the Hambantota Port and has now spilled into the port city of Colombo.

“Sri Lanka is on a highway to becoming a Chinese colony.”

China Strategy to Erase Tibetan Culture

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The oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese government is well documented – but new reports show that it’s getting worse.

China is ramping up its abuses and 500,000 Tibetans are now being held in labor camps as part of a systematic genocidal campaign that has one aim. “They want to make Tibet into a Chinese province and they want to make Tibetans into Chinese,” outgoing Tibetan president-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, told Fox News.

The Chinese military has recently increased its presence in the country; forced sterilization is being reported, while people are routinely arrested and known to be tortured and killed. Sangay said it must be stopped.

Biden trusts WHO to investigate origins of Virus

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Biden asked U.S. intelligence agencies to report back within 90 days. He directed U.S. national laboratories to assist with the investigation and the intelligence community to prepare a list of specific queries for the Chinese government. He called on China to cooperate with international probes into the origins of the pandemic.

US government sources have said there is still no proof the disease originated at the Wuhan lab.

During an interview on 24th May, Jen Psaki (White House Press Secretary) said “We’re hopeful that WHO can move into a more transparent, independent, phase II investigation.”

Really? Wasn’t WHO the one’s who dropped the ball in the first place?

As coronavirus started seeping from its origins in a Wuhan wet market in China late last year, the information coming from the World Health Organization (WHO) was one of dismissal, in line with the Chinese Communist Party’s muzzling of the disease’s potency.

WHO has been trying to be politically correct by underestimating the extent of the threat. They lost credibility when they stated in late January that the global risk assessment was moderate. For an international body that people (and) governments and the business community looks to for advice, they are simply too slow, burdened by bureaucracy and political correctness.

Some critics have also charged that WHO has acted as an arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Biden had promised Unity

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In his inaugural address, Joe Biden devoted his presidency to healing a country divided by culture and race.

Tucker Carlson speaks to Kirstie Alley about politics in entertainment on Fox.

Biden Waives Sanctions for Russia

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Remember when the Democratic party wasted so much time and money chasing a Russian Collusion claim, that turned out to be false.

Remember when Biden revoked permits for the Keystone XL Pipeline, resulting in massive job losses. Biden achieved this through an Executive Order that he criticized Trump doing, saying that only dictators would resort to such actions.

Well, the US President Joe Biden has delivered a “massive win” to the Russians after waiving sanctions on the Russian company in charge of building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

President Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have previously been ardent OPPONENTS to the building of the natural gas pipeline connecting Russian and Germany.

Secretary Blinken expressed his determination to block the construction of the pipeline during his Senate confirmation hearings. “I am determined to do whatever we can to prevent that completion of Nord Stream 2,” he said.

President Biden this week waived sanctions on the company building the pipeline, giving way for the pipeline to go ahead.

BONUS: Included in this clip is Biden copying a quote from Ronald Reagan, resulting in silence to a non-responsive group.