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Hong Kong Media — Sliding Towards Irrelevance - The Wire China
Police officers stand guard in the Causeway Bay area on the 36th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown, in Hong Kong, June 4, 2025. Credit: Chan Long Hei via AP Images In May this year, I found out how in today’s Hong Kong, comments from one’s past can be dug up and abruptly used against you. People in Hong Kong march in protest of a proposed extradition bill, on June 16, 2019.
BRICS unity buttressed by Russia sanctions but China-India discord looms - Daily Friend
In 2001 Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC for four fast-growing economies that he predicted would attract big flows of foreign investment and become major players in the global economy. Brazil, Russia, India and China, O’Neill said, were economic winners who could usher in a new era of multilateralism. Embracing their stature as future stars, BRIC nations began meeting among themselves and held their first leaders’ summit in 2009.
G7 and China: Cold War II?
HIROSHIMA: Historian Niall Ferguson argues that the icy bi-lateral relations between the US and China in recent years have evolved into a new and dangerous conflict, what he calls Cold War II. Looking at what went on at the Hiroshima meeting of the Group of Seven countries (Western Europe, the US, Canada, and Japan), there is evidence that Ferguson is on to something. The principal focus was the war in Ukraine with G7 leaders expressing complete solidarity with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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