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CCTV reports he suffered a heart attack just months after retirement HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -- China's former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack in the early hours of Friday, according to state media. He was 68. Li suffered heart failure on Thursday evening while vacationing in Shanghai and passed away just after midnight, CCTV reported. He had served as premier for a decade, from 2013 until his retirement this year. — A year ago, in October 2022, he stepped down from the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee. He took his final bow as premier in March, when his parting comments...

The Russian military in Syria reporting 12 violations of airspace in the last 24 hours by the US-led coalition... More than 300 arrests at the US Capitol as Pro-Palestinian protesters... At the US House today 22 Republican members refusing to support Jim Jordan... US politics two new polls on the Presidential race... Here in the US at least 189 bodies discovered... A supplier of fruit to grocery store chains including Kroger, Walmart, Wegmans and Whole Foods filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy... In France the "Council of State" which acts in part as a Supreme Court ruling against a systematic ban...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s planned meeting with Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok, as revealed by US intelligence, gives us a new insight into Russia’s strategy in Ukraine as well as a warning of wider dangers for the world.As Kyiv’s offensive wears on into its fourth month, with only limited success and a few Russian counter attacks, it is becoming clear that Moscow’s plan may be to allow Ukraine to exhaust its men, tanks, shells and missiles against the Surovikin Line’s hardest edge. The thinking could be that, once Ukraine’s Western equipped and trained manoeuvre forces have been ground down, Russia...

The BRICS summit is taking place in South Africa this week. BRICS started out as BRIC for Brazil, Russia, India and China but has since added South Africa. The group of nations doesn’t have much in common except a generalized sense of grievance over the US being the most powerful country in the world.The other BRICS nations have offered little to no protest of the Kremlin’s decision to rush to war. China and India stepped up purchases from Russia as Western sanctions started to bite. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suggested that the West was at least partially...

HONG KONG — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger in Beijing on Thursday, calling him an “old friend,” Chinese state media reported. Xi said the visit by Kissinger, who has been to China more than 100 times and recently turned 100, had special significance because of the two “hundreds.” Kissinger, who was Richard Nixon’s national security adviser, made a secret trip to China to 1971 that laid the groundwork for a historic trip by the president the following year and the formalization of relations between the United States and China in 1979. “It not only...

President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry broke with the commander-in-chief on Thursday and refused to refer to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator” during a hearing on Capitol Hill. “There’s no question at all that President Xi is the major decider of the direction and of the policies of China,” Kerry, 79, told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s oversight and responsibility subcommittee. When pressed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who asked Kerry if Xi was “in fact, effectively a dictator,” the former Secretary of State stammered and said that it wouldn’t be “useful” to say that. “​​He...

Almost exactly two years ago RedState broke the story of the defection of CCP counterintelligence official Dong Jingwei to the United States. The “terabytes” of data Dong, the highest-ranking Chinese defector ever, brought with him to the United States included information and data showing “that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade and leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in addition to evidence confirming that the People’s Liberation Army managed the Wuhan bioweapons program (and others).” While it was essentially ignored by the mainstream media and dismissed by the professional former spook crowd, it was a huge story – so huge that RedState...

China is adding to Xi Jinping's vast powers with a new law that will assert Beijing's interests on the world stage. The law threatens to punish entities that act in ways "detrimental" to China's interests but does not specify which lines should not be crossed. Experts say the law underscores China's aggressive diplomacy, but how actively it will be enforced when it takes effect on 1 July remains to be seen. After all, China has been keen to court foreign investment post Covid. Jacques deLisle, a law and political science professor from the University of Pennsylvania, said much of the...

Visit shows prime minister has other diplomatic options, Israeli source says, as US Biden has made clear he won't invite premier in near future. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit China next month, signaling growing impatience with Washington, as Beijing increasingly throws its weight around in the region, Israel sources said Monday. While there, the premier is slated to meet with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders. Advanced contacts have been held in recent days between the two leaders offices to arrange the visit, the sources said...

VIDEOWho wants to be the first to tell him? Bill Gates thinks he heard via interpreter what President Xi said to him on his recent visit to China. In this video, we reveal what Xi really said to Gates.

The meeting follows an announcement by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that it would give US$50 million to support Chinese efforts to fight malaria and tuberculosis.Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his "old friend" Bill Gates on Friday (Jun 16) that China had always placed its hopes in the American people, after the Microsoft co-founder's foundation pledged US$50 million to help Chinese efforts to battle disease. Gates - one of the world's richest men - is the latest in a string of Western business leaders to visit China since the country ended strict COVID-19 controls that largely closed it off...

Is Xi Jinping about to say do svidaniya to Vladimir Putin? Or is China’s dictator following an opening set up by Emmanuel Macron to further insinuate Beijing into European security? Karen wrote earlier this morning about how one of Volodomyr Zelensky’s key advisers reacted to Macron’s efforts to get China involved in settling the war. Oleskiy Danilov ripped Macron for negotiating “behind the Ukrainian people’s backs,” and wondering aloud whether Macron would “give up Bordeaux” if invaded … an accusation that could hammer sensitive memories from 1940, and presumably Danilov knows it.Yet less than a day later, Zelensky himself took...

<p>BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping called Thursday for peace talks over Ukraine after French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to him to “bring Russia to its senses,” but Xi gave no indication Beijing would use its leverage as Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic partner to press for a settlement.</p>

National Security Council (NSC) Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told reporters in White House briefings on Monday and Tuesday that China could play a “constructive role” in the Russian invasion of Ukraine by reaching out to the latter nation’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and “press[ing] Russia to pull its troops out of Ukraine.” Kirby emphasized that if Zelensky “can get behind” a path to peace, even one promoted by China, “he’ll find no better friend in that effort than the United States.” The Chinese Communist Party began mounting a full-scale publicity effort in February to insert itself in the Ukraine...

Ukraine appears willing to engage China in mediation efforts to end the war, at a moment China's Xi Jinping is in Moscow discussing Beijing's own 12-point peace plan. With the main part of talks with Putin having been concluded as of Tuesday night, there's been no breakthrough among the "friends" to come of it thus far."We believe that many of the provisions of the peace plan put forward by China are consonant with Russian approaches and can be taken as the basis for a peaceful settlement when they are ready for that in the West and in Kyiv. However, so...

NEW WORLD ORDER The Biden Administration has obliterated: ** Our borders ** Our banking system ** The US oil reserves ** Our energy sector ** Our Justice System ** Elections ** US Foreign Policy ** Consumer prices through inflation ** American tradition – Leave no man behind! ** Women’s Sports ** US standing in the world ** US swagger on the global stage ** US leadership This was all the plan. This was purposeful. It’s as if George Soros and his minions are running the government and purposely running it into the ground. Read: One Way To Keep Your Family...

Update(1017ET): What's being described as an initial, informal meeting between Presidents Xi and Putin is underway at the Kremlin. While the expected cordialities and expressions of closer relations were exchange, among the most notable early statements came from Putin, who said he's "open" to peace talks with Ukraine and China's mediation efforts."We have a lot of joint tasks, goals," Putin told his Chinese counterpart while also congratulating him on re-election as the head of the Chinese state for a third 5-year term. Xi in return said "Russia succeeded in promoting prosperity under Putin’s leadership." Putin further expressed that "we will...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow today for a three-day state visit. The two powers will discuss the War in Ukraine, strengthening ties, and the emerging global world order. The two are expected to announce solidarity against Western hegemony. The current lack of US leadership on the international stage opened the door for this Russo-Chinese alliance. see tweets

"TRUMP WAS RIGHT," says Greg Kelly, as he reacted to former President Donald Trump calling out President Joe Biden in 2020 on the debate stage for receiving money from China. Three years later, the truth has come out - via. Greg Kelly Reports on NEWSMAX.

A Chinese spy balloon flew over Alaska, and we didn’t shoot it down. We didn’t even notice it at first, or so we’re told. The Canadians noticed it, but they didn’t shoot it down either. The Canadians just told the US government that it was on its way, and passed the buck. Or so we’re told. Finally, it entered the airspace of the 48 contiguous states. It floated over Montana, uninterrupted, and continued to float southeast, across the Plains states, across the Midwest, over the Southeastern seaboard, until it finally floated out to sea, and the US government finally gave...