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China is the only country in the world that produces all categories of goods classified by the World Customs Organization (WCO). This gives it a key advantage when it comes to end prices: when you want to build something in China you can literally find the entire supply chain for it at home. Bertrand: “China has become an innovation powerhouse. In 2023 it filed roughly as many patents as the rest of the world combined and it’s now estimated to lead 37 out of the 44 critical technologies for the future. All this too has implications when it comes to the final prices of its products.”

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NAILING SHUT THE COFFIN ON ‘UYGHUR FORCED LABOUR’ citizenparty.org.au

The Australian Alert Service reported at the time that the OHCHR’s Assessment suffered from several serious deficiencies, among them that it omitted countervailing opinions from other UN experts and international envoys who had visited Xinjiang, including diplomats from dozens of Muslim-majority nations; incorporated no input from any local organisation representing the supposedly persecuted communities; deliberately misrepresented Chinese laws, law enforcement procedures and government policy statements to make them seem far more draconian than they actually are; and in the place of any actual evidence of wrongdoing, had relied largely upon recycling allegations by US government-funded Western think tanks and “human rights” pseudo-NGOs, despite most of those allegations having long since been debunked and their proponents thoroughly discredited.

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Alex de Waal and Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe co-authored an article for the powerful Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs magazine titled “Ethiopia Back on the Brink: How Abiy’s Reckless Ambition—and Emirati Meddling—are Fueling Chaos in the Horn”. As the title suggests, they argue that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is a dictator who aspires for regional hegemony, egged on by his Emirati ally. The reality couldn’t be more different, however, as present analysis will explain.

Zelensky stated earlier this week that Ukraine is planning another counteroffensive against Russia. He inferred to western proxy partners to build up their military-industrial capacity ahead of that event. He also urged the US to break its Congressional deadlock on Ukraine aid in order to help his country prepare for this next campaign. However, there’s no iota of possibility in launching a counteroffensive because Ukraine is now completely lacks the manpower and arms.

Russia already won the “race of logistics”/“war of attrition” with NATO by far, which has dawned on many in the West over the past nine months, hence the renewed interest among some from that bloc for freezing the conflict. Warmongers still want to perpetuate the NATO proxy war, which is why peace talks have yet to resume…………

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44% of PALESTINIANS KILLED BY ISRAELIS IN GAZA WAR ARE CHILDREN peoplesdispatch

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ISRAEL’S AI WAR in GAZA counterpunch advent of AI-driven, automated systems in war has already become a cold-blooded reality, deployed conventionally, and with utmost lethality by human operators.

ISRAEL’S END GAME IN GAZA Killing Humanitarian Workers as a Strategy just as the United States dispatched its top military commander for the Middle East to Israel on Thursday whence U.S. support for Israel “is ironclad” in the event of an attack by Iran…….When for months, Palestinians in Gaza have experienced catastrophic hunger, eating animal feed and boiling weeds to survive Israel’s military campaign. Only now that US official is publicly confirming that famine has officially arrived in northern Gaza….