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TOKYO: The Philippines is considering a tripartite agreement with its two close allies, the United States and Japan, amid the "dangerous situations" the country faces, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said. Interviewed by Japan's Kyodo News Friday, the President said one of the "many...

Sanctions against Syria, which are supported by a number of countries and regions, including the Arab League and Syrian neighbor, Turkey, is wrong. Especially two decades after the Arab Spring. You are in a propaganda over-drive. Main belligerents of the Libyan civil war: The United Nations...

Sanctions against Syria are a series of economic sanctions and restrictions imposed by the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the Arab League, as well as other countries, mainly as a result of the repression of civilians in the Syrian civil war from 2011 onwards...

More than half of nearly 40000 gun related deaths are suicides, by the way. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

I believe another big issue here is the question of media reporting and individual caring. In unfree countries, everything is subject to approval. One cannot report freely, ask questions freely, face the official narrative freely. Censorship and control go extreme. Absolute power does not rest...

Anonymous man in US walked into Turkish embassy and donated $30 million to quake victims, Pakistani PM says From CNN’s Sahar Akbarzai An anonymous man in the United States has donated $30 million to earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, according to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2023/02/05/how-vietnamese-refugee-david-tran-became-americas-first-hot-sauce-billionaire/?sh=54ab57ac3f0a

If one's success is conditioned on other's failure, then one has already lost.

Some claimed the Party had begun to tame the off-the-hook wolf warriors and recalibrate diplomatic discourse and reaction. And seriously tone down the abject propaganda and cheap politization. Yet, it seems old habits die hard. It's amazing that the blow back cannot be realized.

Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu (seated) signs the book of condolence for victims of the devastating earthquake at Turkish Trade Office in Taipei Feb. 9, extending heartfelt sympathies on behalf of the government and people of Taiwan. (MOFA)...

Syrian Sanctions Regulations Article 4. AUTHORIZED OR EXEMPT TRANSACTIONS EXEMPT TRANSACTIONS Certain types of activities and transactions may be exempt from the prohibitions of the SSR and the Executive orders. For example, nothing in sections 1 and 2 of E.O. 13582 prohibits transactions...

"While U.S. sanctions programs already contain robust exemptions for humanitarian efforts..." I think there was nothing preventing governments to deploy aid and rescue teams to Syria. The problem is complicated because the affected region is not Syrian state control, mostly. And, many...

Indeed, without hypocritically politicizing the earthquake, countries which seems to oppose the sanctions can provide assistance to Syria. If they can provide weapons and spare parts to Russia, they can provide disaster help to Syria. I Not that the US will stop if a country dispatches rescue...

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1261 Treasury Issues Syria General License 23 To Aid In Earthquake Disaster Relief Efforts February 9, 2023 WASHINGTON – Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License (GL) 23, which authorizes for 180...

Looks like governments will be extra jittery from now on about such unnotified flying objects in their air space. Shoot first, ask later. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-alaska-senate-appropriations-committee-hearing/ Military commander tells Senate panel on Chinese spy...

Strong, all powerful, life-tenured, unchecked and unrestrained leader is not always a good omen for a society in the long run. Trump wanted to be one. But he was eventually controlled, checked and balanced, and democratically removed from power. Weak societies lead to strong leadership...

Smashed By Ukrainian Mines And Artillery, Russia’s Winter Offensive Just Ground To A Halt Outside Vuhledar https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/02/08/smashed-by-ukrainian-mines-and-artillery-russias-winter-offensive-just-ground-to-a-halt-outside-vuhledar/?sh=136952b65558

That's a propaganda officer's world view: Either love fanatically or hate fanatically. Don't know why you can't think that people may criticize without having strong emotions, but rationally. For you, criticism is hate. That's in itself suspect. Ha ha. Love to hate. Hate to love.

In this forum, it is only you, as far as I know, that, for reasons people are suspicious of, are turning a natural disaster with immense human cost into a propaganda contest to harvest political points. That's in itself bad morals. As I told you, it blows back. No one is stupid. Your...

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202302100012 89 hours after quake, Taiwan team in Turkey rescues woman Taipei, Feb. 10 (CNA) Members of the Taiwan Search & Rescue Team miraculously pulled a woman from a collapsed residential building in the Turkish province of Adiyaman on Thursday (local...