# Contemporary Flat Earth Movement: A Comprehensive Report

## Introduction

The flat Earth movement represents one of the most perplexing phenomena of the modern era - the persistence and even resurgence of a belief system that contradicts fundamental scientific understanding in our technologically advanced world.

This report examines the contemporary flat Earth movement, its organizational structure, key figures, arguments, and underlying causes.

## Organizations Promoting Flat Earth Beliefs

### International Organizations
- **Flat Earth Society**: The primary international organization with chapters worldwide, maintaining an active online presence
- **Flat Earth International**: Coordinates global flat Earth conferences and events
- **Various regional societies**: Country-specific organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and other nations

### Online Communities
- Numerous Facebook groups, Reddit communities, and YouTube channels
- Dedicated forums and websites that serve as hubs for flat Earth discourse
- Social media platforms that facilitate the spread of flat Earth content

## Public Figures and Celebrities

Several public figures have lent credibility

# Contemporary Flat Earth Movement: A Comprehensive Report

## Introduction

The flat Earth movement represents one of the most perplexing phenomena of the modern era - the persistence and even resurgence of a belief system that contradicts fundamental scientific understanding in our technologically advanced world.

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Content: Under the bright surface.
The dark side of social media influencers ’ lives
In 2019, a survey showed that children in Britain aspire to become social media influencers in the future, preferring this wish to become astronauts.
Do you remember how many images, thoughts, and fantasies jumped before your eyes when you heard the word "astronaut" as a child?
Kids nowadays prefer to sit in their rooms and open the camera rather than skip the sky and look at the stars and planets.
Billions of Dollars Industry
Basically, social media influencers sell you their own lives, show you their transformations and how they are better off, participate in the preparation and selection of furniture for their new luxury homes, ask for your opinion on choosing a paint color for a wall or a place for a piece of furniture, and in the meantime you become a number among hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of views that generate revenue.
In 2021, the global influencer market was valued at $14.2 billion (£11.2 billion) according to the BBC, before rising to $16.4 billion (£12.9 billion) in 2022.
Meanwhile, the brand value of some global influencers such as “Zoella ” and“ Deliciously Ella ” is around £4.7 million ($6 million) and £2.5 million ($3.2 million), respectively.
Partnerships with well-known content creators can open the door for companies to reach potentially large audiences, and more importantly, they can influence users ’ purchasing decisions more than any other advertising medium because people trust their advice and nominations.
Below the bright surface!
The problem is that for you (and for most people mostly) it does not stop at the limits of watching, so soon you will imagine the dreams of easy wealth that you see daily in front of your eyes, you may tell yourself that all you have to do is open your phone camera and talk, and everything will happen on its own, but things do not go this way except in fiction.
It usually starts with an internal rebellion against your current life and job, you talk to yourself that you will have a better life and get rid of your boss forever, and give up your exhausting job whose income is barely enough to meet your requirements, but after you start to open the camera, you soon discover that your content is not able to attract millions of viewers as you expected.
You open up your home and your rooms to the camera more and more, and you may start sharing private details, and if that ’ s not enough, you ’ ll start to involve members of your family or friends.
Things are not getting better either, there must be interesting or humorous content that achieves more views and likes, perhaps resorting here to false "pranks", or fabricating crises and life problems that do not usually fail to attract attention and attract attention.
With time, it gets worse, and all you have in mind is how to attract attention.
There ’ s no more work to do than view every moment of your life in order to watch, and the problem is most often that won ’ t be enough either.
In the meantime, you will begin to reap the “dark fruits ” of the growing presence on social media, most notably cyberbullying, abusive messages, and violation of your family ’ s privacy (5).
The next stage is that your mental health will begin to deteriorate, and paradoxically it happens even to successful influencers.
Müller, a former faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, who currently works at York University in Toronto, said being in the spotlight comes with many personal challenges, and once an influencer can attract a large number of followers, he begins to feel constrained and not free about what he can post.
Influencers often appear to their followers as role models, promoting ideal, problem-free lifestyles, which puts pressure on them to maintain this ideal image (6).
It may seem to the viewer that the influencers are completely free to choose what to share with their followers, but, realistically, this does not happen, everything published by the influencers is designed to look perfect and support the positive image and happy life that attracts the eyes and makes the followers continue to follow.
This turns the influencer most often into someone more like a clown, but a full-time clown, whose job around the clock is to maintain the perfect image.
The influencer shows you his new home and car, but he does not feel real pleasure in all this, because it is like a continuous theater show.
The next problem is that influencers then begin to compete with each other to impress viewers and attract positive feedback, which leaves them captive to the negative consequences of “peer comparisons, ” which include low satisfaction with appearance and self, persistent negative moods, lack of security, not to mention constant anxiety and stress.
You will now tell yourself that you can afford all these things if you get a luxury home, a luxury car and an overloaded bank balance in return, so let us tell you the final truth: the vast majority of people in the industry do not realize their dreams of being rich, and may not even make enough money.
In a report released in April 2022, the UK Parliament ’ s Digital, Cultural, Media and Sports Committee (DCMS) identified wage inequality as a major problem in the influencer industry (7).
Find Followers Satisfaction
Now let ’ s give more space to the risks of working in a job that depends on putting your life in front of people (8).
Cyberbullying may have become a common problem in the digital age, but influencers bear a double dose of it because they choose to share their lives publicly.
An influencer survey conducted in 2018 addressed bullying and harassment on Instagram, and its results were very revealing.
Of the 750 respondents, 68% believe that bullying and harassment on the platform is a real problem, and 25% report that they have been bullied or harassed directly.
Participating influencers also reported being criticized for a lot of things, ranging from superficial things, to highly personal things like physical traits and even religious beliefs.
The survey also found that harassment may extend to influencers ’ families more often (9).
This constant exposure to bullying leads to a lot of negative symptoms that start with anxiety and loneliness and don ’ t end with depression.
In some cases, a person who is being bullied can develop acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder, not to mention sleep problems and difficulties concentrating, and in their most extreme cases, it can even lead to self-hatred, drug or alcohol abuse and suicidal thoughts (10).
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If I hold some kind of transcendent beliefs, but don't feel the need to gather with others, I'm 'spiritual but not religious.' What about the flipside: people without those beliefs who want to gather as humans?

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About two years ago, I was sitting in my AP Human Geography class as my teacher introduced the religion unit of the course. In the process of discussing religion as an anthropological phenomenon, he asked how many of us in the class attended church every Sunday. I, a relatively outspoken nonbeliever well into my “edgy atheist” phase, tentatively raised my hand—only to find that I was the only one in the class who had done so.

As my teacher noted this and continued his lesson, I felt myself shifting in my seat. Wait, I wanted to say, that’s not the full story. I don’t really … well, it’s complicated … I mean, I guess I do, but it’s not really like that…

My personal unease with accepting the label of devout Sunday practitioner of religion stemmed from my dual religious identity as atheist and Unitarian Universalist. Despite emerging in 1961 from the merger of two Christian sects (the Unitarians and, surprise, the Universalists), today the Unitarian Universalist Association has no unifying creed. Unitarian Universalists are united not by a common belief about divinity or an afterlife, but by common ethical values, including justice, compassion, and my personal favorite, a “free and responsible search for truth and meaning.”

In some more Christian regions, outside observers can be forgiven for interpreting UUism as a progressive sect of Christianity. But where UU services are fully nonsectarian, or even explicitly secular, they hold a certain appeal for otherwise nonreligious people still seeking a congregational community, myself included. I, an atheist, would go to church each Sunday to talk about world religions in our religious education program, listen to “sermons” about the importance of compassion and justice, and sing “hymns” about protecting the environment and “letting the mystery be,” no theistic strings attached.

Those two religious identities didn’t always fit well together. Unitarian Universalism is still a religion and often retains many of the Christian religious trappings which could drive away nonbelievers, as it almost did to me. But what I did not know at the time, and am only beginning to learn now, is that humanism has always been one of the driving forces at the heart of Unitarian Universalism, and the history of the “living tradition” has been intimately intertwined with secularism and freethought since the beginning.

Appreciating a humanist past

The Unitarian Universalist Association was founded over 60 years ago as a religion without a creed because ultimately, a deity wasn’t necessary for them to believe that respecting one another and calling for justice were important. Those were the same values that drove the Humanist Manifesto in 1933 and its successors in 1983 and 2013. And they are the same values that created ideologically diverse pockets of humanist subculture across the United States.

This is perhaps uniquely apparent to David Breeden, minister of the First Unitarian Society in Minneapolis. FUS jettisoned all religious language in 1916 as part of “going humanist” under minister John Deitrich, a prominent philosophical voice of humanism during the pre-merger Unitarians’ “Issue of the West” controversy in the early twentieth century. That controversy, which saw Deitrich and fellow nontheists from Unitarian congregations in the western states stand up to the theistic “Unitarian Christians” of the east, would set the stage for both the birth of large-scale humanism in the United States and the complete reorganization of Unitarianism.

“The first generation of humanists were not Harvard men,” David added. “Part of humanism is its Midwestern roots, because it always was not part of the power structure of the United States. There’s a very different view of where you are on the social scale.” Humanism slowly became wealthier and more “East Coast” in later generations, but David argued that it was at its core “a Chicago invention.”

In this sense, Breeden claims that Unitarian Universalism as a tradition has actually spent decades “catching up” theologically to historically humanist groups like FUS. And many have a long way to go. My east coast UU church (which David was quick to point out as lingering Protestant verbiage) conducted its “worship services” in a “sanctuary,” and I was only able to work my way around the language to derive meaning from the “sermons” because that had been the language I was raised with. To other nontheists and members of non-Christian religious traditions, the similarities are far more stark.

This is something with which Amanda Poppei is intimately familiar. Before the former president of the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association assumed her current ministerial position with the UU Church of Arlington, Virginia in 2020, she served as leader of the Washington Ethical Society for 12 years. WES holds joint membership in both the American Ethical Union and the UUA, bringing UU and Ethical Culture, an explicitly nontheistic “religious” tradition that predates the UUA by more than eight decades.

With experience in both traditions, she described in a 2020 piece for The Humanist how she often feels “like the most religious person in secular gatherings and the most secular person in religious gatherings.”

Despite Unitarian Universalism including far more theists than Ethical Culture, Amanda has found many similarities between the two traditions. She described both as the “main congregational versions” of secular communities, adding that they both “embrace atheists, agnostics, and humanists.” For its part, Ethical Culture was and remains a much more distinct tradition that “does not hold an interest in reimagining old traditions.” Unitarian Universalism, on the other hand, is an “evolutionary religion” with often clear Protestant underpinnings. As Amanda describes it, “a Protestant tradition that kept protesting its way out of Protestantism.”

Nurturing a humanist present

Both groups have their positive and negative aspects for humanists, but Amanda acknowledges that Unitarian Universalism can be harder to get involved with. An explicitly humanist space, like Ethical Culture, affords humanists (especially those with religious trauma) to join in a meaningful community without needing to endure navigating through religious language. If a humanist feels comfortable, however, Unitarian Universalism offers a more direct connection with people who hold differing theological views while maintaining the same ethical values.

To Amanda, these differences are largely limited to presentation: Unitarian Universalism is “more formal in its liturgy, but the sermons I give are largely the same.” David, however, argued to me that these language differences are more profound than many UUs might imagine.

In a 2016 piece for UUWorld, he wrote that “I don’t feel that I can use the term “god”—or any of its, shall we say, “wiggle words”—with any personal integrity or authenticity.” The “wiggle words” that he references abound in UU circles. “God” has often been removed, but references to “divinity” or “the spirit of life” or “the mystery called by many names” remain in force. In an attempt to appeal to all flavors of theism (and, as those who may use the term would argue, nontheism), these terms have become the new theological language of the tradition.

But David argues that in glossing over theological differences, terms like these inadvertently argue that they don’t exist. “I think it makes it easier not to think it through. You know, I can be vaguely theistic today, I can be vaguely agnostic tomorrow…that should be a wrenching decision, because there’s a big difference between those two things.”

This is where Leika Lewis-Cornwell, the current president of the UUHA and self-described “mystic humanist,” comes in. In an address to the Washington Ethical Society in 2019, they referenced (among others) one thing that could bridge what she termed the humanist-theist gap: wonder.

“We all have those moments where we see a close-up of a cell or a sunset or another person or a math equation…where our entire being is just stunned. I don’t think that’s something that should be reserved just for people in theistic communities,” they argued. Each person deserves the right to the process of “meaning-making” in “community,” whatever meaning or community they see fit.

Imagining a humanist future

Religious humanists, all three of my interviewees argued, were uniquely positioned to bridge that “humanist-theist gap,” and to connect the two communities on whose cusps they live. And especially in an age of rising white Christian nationalism, both secular and religious people need all the allies they can get.

Leika used two terms to describe how “insular communities” can fail both their members and their potential allies: compulsion and condescension, compulsion being the coercive creed that prescribes “a path that must be followed rigidly” and condescension being the mindset that “my way is the best way, so it’s worth belittling other people and shaming other people to make them understand that their way is wrong.”

These traits are easy for the secular community to spot in religious spaces, but they can be less apparent in humanist spaces, even when they are apparent to outsiders. They added that it was only natural for any group of like-minded people to believe that way, especially on matters of religion, but concluded that “we as a community cannot be so arrogant that we don’t acknowledge what we have to learn.”

David shared a similar message, drawing from his experience with interfaith work in Minneapolis’s Downtown Senior Clergy. “They know I’m a humanist, they know I’m an atheist,” he says, “… and they respect me and my ideas because they know I’ve thought it through.” United in the hope for true social justice, FUS has bridged the humanist-theist gap and united people of faith and no faith toward a common cause.

Driving that unity is a simple sentiment: “Respect the hell out of everyone no matter what they believe…people matter more than ideas.”

And those ideas may even get in the way of secular communities recognizing that their allies may be closer than they think. Amanda, who hosted the first Humanist Clergy Collaboratory in 2017, convened the event because she saw that many congregational groups branded themselves either religious (like Unitarian Universalism) or secular (like Ethical Culture) and largely operated within those terms. As such, congregational humanists had largely splintered themselves.

“People find their sphere and have a hard time getting out of it,” she told me of the experience. The border-crossing there was not so much a bridging of beliefs as a bridging of language, with congregations spanning from Humanistic Judaism to Sunday Assembly and all flavors of humanist in between.

In each congregation’s language, a common value was apparent: hope. “You should have some language that is meaningful to you,” Amanda said, “but you don’t have to embrace all religious language.” Gaining meaning from religious language is not important, but gaining meaning from a language of your choosing is.

“So much of the nationalism and the white supremacy we see today is rooted in fear and loss, and people need something different that they can think is beautiful and possible,” she added. “Painting imaginative futures is part of what religious people do…and it can be part of what humanist leaders do as well.”

Part of embracing that beautiful possibility, however, is embracing our very concrete responsibility to create it. This responsibility may even involve confronting the term “humanist” itself, which Leika described as a “problematic term” for seemingly centering humans at the expense of the natural world, but added that it was one which “at least for now, we’re kind of stuck with.”

The merit in the term, they argued, was not in centering humans, but in “we as humans centering our responsibility to each other, to the planet, and to the universe.” And this provides yet another opportunity for bridging that gap, as those responsibilities “don’t require, but they also don’t exclude, the supernatural.”

Recognizing those common experiences and connecting over beauty, wonder, and responsibility provide the most substantial opportunities for creating common ground with theists to pursue our common goals together. “I think that religious humanism has a huge role to play in that,” Leika added, “but I don’t think it has an exclusive role.

All three acknowledged that UU humanism still has a long way to go. It still needs to confront its complacency with Protestant language, and could afford to structure that “free and responsible search for truth and meaning” a bit more. But situated squarely at the joint of the societal arms of religion and humanism, it may be equipped to bridge the gap between those two arms to create a coalition capable of mobilizing against dominionism and Christian nationalism to protect both communities.

In a 2006 piece for UUWorld, the late William Murry, a UU humanist leader of the previous generation, referenced a quote by Carl Sagan: “A religion that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.”

Murry believed that “humanistic religious naturalism” was that religion, a philosophy that redirected its reverence from the supernatural to the natural, and called on humans to do right by it. Awe and wonder should not be experiences limited to those with a theological vocabulary by which to define it.

With exclusionary political philosophies on the rise, meeting our possible allies where they are is crucial. Religious humanism may provide the philosophical and linguistic tools to do just that.

Aidan Scully is an atheist and Unitarian Universalist from southeast Massachusetts who writes about religion and politics in antiquity and the modern age. He is currently pursuing an AB in classics, comparative...

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Wuhan University has taught a basic course for more than 20 years.
Inheriting the spirit of science and planting the feelings of home and country (telling and promoting the spirit of scientists)
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After class, the students asked Li Deren (middle) to sign.
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In 2013, Zhang Zuxun, Li Deren, Ning Jinsheng and Chen Junyong (from left to right) were photographed.
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"An Introduction to Surveying and Mapping" is a basic course for new undergraduate students in the School of Surveying and Mapping of Wuhan University.
Over the past 20 years, seven academicians, including Ning Jinsheng, Li Deren, Chen Junyong, Liu Jingnan, Zhang Zuxun, Gong Jianya and Li Jianya, have joined the teaching team.
The academicians not only made outstanding achievements in their own fields of research, but also used their profound knowledge, broaden their horizons and profound insights into the surveying and mapping profession to inspire generations of students to love surveying and mapping and dedicate themselves to the motherland's surveying and mapping cause.
“It is fortunate to have the opportunity to meet the academicians face to face, to determine their ideal plan, and even to change the trajectory of life ”
— — Summer Rain, Class of 2021
On December 31, 2021, Li Deren, "double academician" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, ushered in his 82nd birthday.
This year, his most happy thing is not the completion of the "sky remote sensing data high-precision intelligent processing of key technologies and applications" project won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, but the teachers' day spent on the undergraduate platform......
In the afternoon, Li Deren was preparing to lecture on the "Introduction to Surveying and Mapping", which was just an ordinary lesson in his decades of teaching.
Who knows, more than 200 freshmen under the stage sang "Grateful Heart" together, and presented a bouquet of flowers to the academician, academician Li Deren felt some embarrassment: "teachers to teach students, should not be?"
"Introduction to Surveying and Mapping" was jointly launched by 6 academicians of Wuhan University in September 1997. It is a basic course for freshmen. It has been extended for more than 20 years and is known as "the most luxurious basic course". Guo Ziqi, Class 2021 student, said: “Academician Li has brought our vision to the forefront of the application of surveying and mapping and aroused my great interest in science. ”
It is the original intention of the late academician Ning Jinsheng to open the course to stimulate students' interest in surveying and mapping.
In 1996, Ning proposed a basic course for freshmen from the university to explain the significance of surveying and mapping remote sensing to the development of the country, the future of the discipline and the way forward, attracting more undergraduates to fall in love with the "unpopular major" at that time.
The second year, the "Introduction to Surveying and Mapping" was officially opened. Ning Jinsheng, Li Deren, Chen Junyong, Liu Jingnan, Zhang Zuxun, Gong Jianya and other academicians joined the teaching team.
Academicians talk about basic courses, and the charm is not ordinary.
Professor Zhang Zuxun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, attended a lecture on the development of modern surveying and mapping technology.
Today, this "academician class" is full, and the range of students who choose courses and listen to them has been expanded to the outside world. "" Introduction to Surveying and Mapping "is a unique and precious course.
Here, I have the honor to meet the academicians face to face, can determine their ideal plan, and even change the trajectory of life. "2021 class student Xia Yu said.
"The Academy of Surveying and Mapping has such a tradition, and my mentor, Academician Ning Jinsheng, is still teaching students at the age of 85.
"We believe that we should not only do a good job in research, but also pay close attention to teaching," said Li, who was elected president of the Wuhan University of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology (later merged into Wuhan University) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
"In the world navigation field, although we started late, we have achieved a leap from following and running to leading."
— — Academician Liu Jingnan
In the classroom of "Introduction to Surveying and Mapping", academicians often refer to their teachers when they read.
In 1955, the State brought together most of the surveying experts and teachers from Tongji University, Tianjin University, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Qingdao Institute of Technology and South China Institute of Technology to create the Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping, later renamed the Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Mapping, and merged into Wuhan University in 2000.
The 88-year-old academician Chen Junyong came to Wuhan in 1956 with the Department of Astronomy and Geodesy of Tianjin University. According to his recollection, while studying, he also participated in the school infrastructure, repairing the playground and building a house. Completed the world's attention Everest elevation calculation work.
“The results of the Everest elevation measurement make China proud, but the field workers in the elevation measurement are the most bitter, the most tired and the most dangerous. ” Chen Junyong recalled: In this Everest elevation measurement, a vice captain of the measurement team fell … …
Academicians are not only the writers of the history of surveying and mapping, but also the practitioners of scientific research and reporting to the country.
In 1985, Li Deren, a photogrammetry and remote sensing scientist, turned down invitations from German and American research institutes and returned home from Germany.
Li Deren said: "Science should serve the motherland." From putting forward the "Li Deren method" in surveying and mapping circles, to solving the century-old problem of error distinguishability in surveying and mapping, to developing China's "space-aviation-ground" 3S integrated surveying and mapping remote sensing equipment, Li Deren led China's surveying and mapping discipline to move forward steadily with an innovative achievement......
However, on the road to scientific research, Li Deren also had an inextricable lump in his heart: In a rescue, Li Deren realized the importance of positioning.
Since then, it has become a top priority for Li Deren to speed up the domestic satellite network and realize the independence of China's earth observation data. The world has witnessed the speed of China.
Every academician in the surveying and mapping discipline of Wuhan University has achieved world-wide achievements in breaking monopolies, filling gaps and creating multiple firsts.
Academician Liu Jingnan is a scientific leader in the field of satellite navigation technology in China and a pioneer in the application field of satellite navigation positioning engineering in China. In the 1990s, he led the team to participate in the scientific research of the BeiDou project. In 2005, Liu Jingnan team developed China 's first satellite navigation data precision processing software system with independent intellectual property rights. The track.
"In the field of world navigation, although we started late, we have achieved a leap from following and running to leading," said academician Liu Jingnan.
In January 2021, Academician Liu Jingnan donated 2 million yuan of the 2019 Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award to support the development of education at Wuhan University.
"Take the teacher as an example and do some useful work for the country in a down-to-earth way."
— Hu Xiangyun, a student of Academician Zhang Zuxun
Over the past decades, the Wuhan Institute of Surveying and Cartography has been abolished, rebuilt, renamed and merged, but the feelings and ideals of inheritance have not changed.
"Over the years, the survey and mapping discipline of Wu University has developed vigorously, relying on the power of inheritance.
In 2017, Academician Zhang Zuxun donated 1 million yuan to the Institute of Remote Sensing Information Engineering to set up the “Teaching and Educating Award ” to encourage the inheritance of good teaching styles.
When Zhang Zuxun was studying in his early years, the school brought together the elite of the national surveying and mapping industry; the words and deeds of the predecessors have become the driving force for him to make progress in his life.
So far, he has been very impressed by the King ’ s legacy.
He recalled: "Mr. only criticized me once: at that time, he urged me to write a program, I was not good at it, and I kept procrastinating on the pretext of being busy."
After a few times, he severely criticized me: people are not afraid to slow down, they are afraid to stop! "
In the 1980s, almost everyone thought that images must be stored on film, but Mr. Wang Zhizhuo proposed the full digitization of photography, subverting the traditional concept and understanding of the time.
As Wang's assistant, Zhang Zuxun overcame many difficulties in theory, equipment and funds, and actively carried out scientific research. From 1978 to 1992, he went from zero to the international advanced level of digital image mapping, filling in the gaps in relevant fields in China.
In June 2007, when academician Zhang Zuxun was 70 years old, when guests and teachers and students congratulated him on his birthday, he first presented a flower basket to the bronze statue of his mentor, Academician Wang Zhizhuo, to express his reverence and nostalgia for the benefactor.
This spirit of teaching deeply inspires and inspires generations of students.
Professor Gong went to Denmark to study in 1988.
Several organizations have extended invitations to him to stay in his post because of his outstanding scientific achievements.
At that time, Gong Jianya received a letter from Li Deren: "I am watching the European Cup football, and the players from all countries are returning to the motherland to participate in the games, so you can also return home to participate in the games." and do some useful work for the country in a down-to-earth manner... "
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Flamboyant officials: the leadership of the United States for the first time hired people who have not decided on their gender
Two former men, who have long worn heels and dresses, for the first time received federal positions in America.
They support Ukraine and promote LGBTQ values.
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Rachel Levine (left) and Sam Brinton (right).
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The residence of the French ambassador to America recently hosted a reception on the occasion of the anniversary of the capture of the Bastille.
The secular event was attended by the first ever transgender people appointed to federal positions: the sex-changing Admiral of the US Public Health Service, Rachel (Richard) Levin, and the non-binary kinky transvestite, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy, Sam Brinton.
Rachel Levine wore a strict form, and below the belt - a skirt and pantyhose.
Sam Brinton dressed in a blue dress and bright blue heels.
There was an opportunity to speak with one of the few transgender officials, Admiral Levine.
I will not lie, it was great to sympathize with another transgender person faced with hatred, ” wrote Sam Brinton on Instagram * and posted a photo that swirled on the Web.
Both high-ranking perverts support Ukraine, promote rosy values, and accuse Russia of oppression of sexual minorities and backwardness.
Rachel Levine (left) and Sam Brinton (right) at the reception of the French ambassador.
Photo © Instagram (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) / radioaactivenerd1
A nuclear scientist in a skirt and his human dogs
34-year-old Sam Brinton is a non-binary, that is, asexual transvestite.
Such people in the West are not called "he" or "she", but the pronoun they / them.
In addition, the American official has a "kink" (deviation.
Life) - taming the "lower" men playing the role of obedient dogs in BDSM orgies.
In the language of the subculture, this perversion is called pup handler - "puppy trainer".
About the love of animal role-playing games and his “dog ” named Nubi Brinton, without blushing, confessed in an interview with Metro Weekly.
Sam Briton has an official husband, Kevin Rick.
Sam Brinton and his obedient dog.
From a photo shoot for the LGBTQ edition.
Photo © Metroweekly.com / Todd Franson
I once helped a little boy hug his inner princess at Disneyland when he saw me walking on stilettos with my boyfriend.
"Nonbinary" was born in Iowa.
His parents, Baptist missionaries, disapproved of his sexual attraction to a classmate and sent him for treatment with pseudoscientific conversion therapy, where gays are retrained into heterosexuals.
This story is known only from the words of Brinton.
His biography is scarce.
He seemed to jump out of nowhere when, with tears in his eyes, he told the New York Times what a barbaric and painful experience he had had.
On the wave of interest in his person, Sam Brinton founded the Trevor Project movement, which fights suicide in the LGBTQ community.
Now he has a new family: he was mistaken for his own son by his husband ’ s parents.
Sam Brinton is speaking at an LGBTQ rally.
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Puppy tamer is well-educated.
He graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering and vocals.
He also holds a dual master ’ s degree in nuclear engineering and thermal power plants from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Wherever he studied, Sam Brinton founded LGBTQ student centers.
He also sings in the gay choir.
In 2016, Sam Brinton became Senior Policy Analyst for Nuclear Waste.
Six months ago, U.S. President Joe Biden hired Brinton to head the Department of Energy and Fuel Waste Management.
Sam Brinton and his husband Kevin Rick recently bought their first home at 752 College Pkwy, Rockville.
The Transgender Admiral
Born into a family of respectable Massachusetts lawyers, 64-year-old Richard Levin graduated from Harvard College and Tulane University School of Medicine, a residency in pediatrics, and received a postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan.
But for many years his career did not develop.
He taught, ran the youth department, and the breakthrough came after his public transgender transition.
Rachel (Richard) Levine after a transgender transition.
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Levin, who has a wife and two children, experienced an unbearable desire to become a woman in the twenty-third year of marriage.
He divorced, changed gender to become Rachel, and left the family to live with a man.
It is comical that his ex-wife once ardently defended the rights of LGBT people.
In 2015, Rachel Levine was appointed chief physician of Pennsylvania, and later secretary of the state's health department.
Joe Biden, who became President of the United States, appointed her Assistant Secretary of Health.
The Senate squeaked (52 to 48 votes), but confirmed Rachel as a four-star admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Officers Corps.
This was the first time that a transgender person was awarded the highest general title in the history of the country.
At the beginning of the year, Rachel Levine was recognized as one of the women of the year by USA Today.
Rachel Levine offers teenagers to undergo treatment for gender affirmation.
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The initiatives of the transgender admiral are interesting: she proposes to allow American children to take hormones so that they decide for themselves what gender they belong to, and also advertises treatment for gender affirmation for undecided adolescents.
As a pioneer of the LGBTQ + community and transgender people in particular, Dr. Levine has directly saved thousands of lives and given hope to the entire population of our country.
Her work continues today, and we can only hope that she will continue to break down barriers while making our country a safer and healthier place.
Admiral Rachel lives at 118 Autumnwood Dr, Middletown, Pennsylvania, in a half-million dollar mansion.
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« Who paid the piper » reveals the role of America in the destruction of societies
Palestine is not alone.
Western leaders defend the case.
We call for the support of the Palestinian people.
I will not be silent about the excesses of Israel.
Gordimer: I believe in the right of the Palestinians to their land
It comes as no surprise to us Arabs that the position of the Western and European governments with their media horns towards what is happening in occupied Palestine, and that bias and full identification with the Israeli narrative, but this does not accurately reflect the differences within the Western public opinion, which is witnessing important divisions on the Palestinian issue, where important sectors have become aligned with the Palestinian position. The New York Times carried slogans calling on the editorial board of the newspaper to take a firm stance on what is happening in Gaza and call for a ceasefire.
The fact that this position against the policy of the Zionist occupier by some Europeans is not new, and is not limited to media or politicians and activists only, many Western writers, poets and thinkers have recorded clear positions towards the Palestinian cause in general, may have put them under the guillotine of Zionist oppression in the whole world, but made them heroes in the eyes of the free and supporters of the right.
In the next chapter, we will look at some of these names:
Alan Ginsberg:
With America as the spearhead and first supporter of Zionism, Ginsburg can be considered a champion of libertarian causes, an American poet known for his strong opposition to militarism, and was a prominent leader in Beat Generation, a group of young American writers and intellectuals famous for defending personal freedoms.
Ginsburg became the spiritual guide for counter-libertarian cultures throughout the 1960s.
Critics said, "Ginsburg captured the sensual pleasures of Walt Whitman's poetry, but in the spirit of the twentieth century."
He remained opposed to destructive American tendencies until his death in 1997.
Ginsburg said in his poem "America":
America I can't bear my mind / America When do we end human wars?
Fuck yourself with your atomic bomb / I don ’ t feel reassured / I won ’ t write my poem until my mind is healthy.
When will you become an angel? when will you take off your clothes?
When do you look at yourself from the perspective of a grave? / When do you deserve a million christians? / America Why are your libraries filled with tears?
America When to send your eggs to India? / I 'm tired of your crazy requests / When to reinvent the heart? / When to make the land?
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky, the founder of modern linguistics, gained worldwide recognition and respect for his students, not only for his revolutionary linguistic ideas, but also for his support of many humanitarian and national causes such as Palestine and his persistent hostility to Zionism and imperialism.
Chomsky and his late colleague, Professor of Literature and Civilization at Columbia University in New York State, Edward Said, formed a bilateral team that took it upon itself to defend the cause of the Palestinian people on academic and intellectual platforms, and presented the most wonderful positions in criticizing Zionism and its colonial plans.
Chomsky did not abandon the cause of his companion Edward Said and continued to defend the Palestinian cause until we became suspicious of his Jewishness and believed that he was of Palestinian origin.
In one of his lectures at his Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky described his country ’ s position as contradictory: “Over time, Israel ’ s military control machine has become more complex and effective in affecting the lives of the Palestinian people. ”
Chomsky provided examples of this abhorrent Israeli control, including the Arab transit system, restricted traffic routes, and security barriers between Israeli and Palestinian territories, which he called the Annexation Wall.
He accused Israel of adopting South Africa ’ s apartheid policy known as the localization of repression.
Chomsky criticized the US foreign policy toward Israel, but at the same time stressed that it has the authority to ease the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Peter Brock:
British theater director Peter Brock announced on Tuesday, September 4, 2012, the cancellation of the participation of his band « Bouffes Du Nord » during the month of December in the International Festival of Camry theater play « The Suit ».
Brooke abruptly announced his decision in protest against the Israeli occupation.
In his letter to the Camry Theatre, Brock wrote: “In the last month we have gone through a profound process of research, the fact is that the Camry Theatre has chosen to support the brutal process of colonization by performing in the settlement of Ariel Anar and we feel that coming to your theatre would be seen as an endorsement of this colonial act. They also support the Palestinian people. ”
His play "Us and the United States":
It deals with glimpses of American savage capitalism ’ s support for American settlement policies in Vietnam.
Peter Brock is considered one of the most important playwrights in the world, and he has directed several works of Greek theater, Shakespeare theater, and contemporary theater, such as Oedipus King and King Lear, and then presented the show "We and the United States" which caused a storm in Europe when it was first shown in the winter of 1966 benefiting from all the theater experiences in the whole world....
Rachel Corey
Rachel Corrie (born April 10, 1979) was killed on March 16, 2003.
A member of the international solidarity movement and an opponent of the occupation policy, she traveled to the Gaza Strip in Palestine during the second intifada, where she was killed by the Israeli army when trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer that was demolishing civilian buildings of Palestinians in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
She was standing in front of the bulldozers, holding a loudspeaker in which she shouted, expecting that the driver would stand, but he did not climb the bulldozer, but the driver carried her with the bulldozer full of dirt and turned her on the ground and then stepped forward to walk on her body twice, then her friends carried her to the hospital but she died.
Rachel Corrie, by being crushed under the tracks of an occupation bulldozer in defense of unarmed civilians in Rafah, has become an icon of global solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Her name was immortalized in the world, and was held at the Plaza Theater in the Peruvian capital Lima, a theatrical show entitled "My name is Rachel Corrie", which tells the story of the life of the American activist Rachel Corrie, and this play won the admiration of the Peruvian public and their sympathy for the just cause of the Palestinian people.
The Palestinian writer Haroun Hashim Rashid, one of the poets of the Nakba, was inspired by the killing of American citizen Rachel Corrie in the Palestinian city of Rafah.
Haroun Hashim blended reality and history to produce this novel, which is a documentary work of this human story.
The Egyptian poet and writer Eid Abdel Halim dealt with the same story in one of his plays and received the Tawfiq al-Hakim Award from the Ministry of Culture.
Francis Stoner is the one who paid the piper.
Francis Stoner Saunders ’ book Who Paid the Piper explores the role of U.S. intelligence in subverting Eastern European societies through art.
He also reveals the attitudes and transformations in the world of culture that the intellectual of the sixties committed in Egypt and the countries of the Arab world, echoed without knowing the reasons for them.
It ’ s the full story of the CIA ’ s role in the Cultural Cold War, which makes the book “an important work of historical research, ” as the late Edward Said put it.
Nadine Gordimer:
It is ironic that the writer Nadine Gordimer is Jewish, belonging to a bourgeois family, a Jewish father and an English mother, but she supported the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli occupation.
In 1988, Gordimer was participating in a world literature conference in China, and the Arab delegations wanted to include in the final statement an item on the recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state, but the other delegations refused to respond to the Arab proposal, but Nadine Gordimer stood with the Arab delegations, demanding the evacuation of the Jews and the right of the Palestinians to their lands. At the Cairo International Book Fair in 2005, Al-Kabira called during a seminar for the evacuation of the Jews from Palestine and the right of the Palestinian people to their land, saying that she believes in that right and that she does not tire of helping the Palestinian cause in all its power.
Nadine supported blacks in their struggle against the racist government.
Her first published novel, Come Tomorrow Again, was written at the age of 15, and her latest work, No Time Like The Present, was published in 2012, and between the two works 30 novels and collections of stories exuding the suffering of the black part of her people from the policies of racial discrimination, and the prevention of many of her novels from circulation in South Africa such as "A World of Strangers" and "Berger's Daughter". Her short stories are the sufferings of life and human feelings in a society once ruled by a minority of whites.
Günther Grass
One of those who had a clear and outspoken stance on the State of Israel was German writer Gunter Grass, who died on April 13, 2015.
One of the most important German writers of the post-World War II era, Günter Grasse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
Grass ’ s famous positions against Israel came from within the state of the Zionist entity, and Alaa Alvar ’ s book “Zionist Papers ” reported that during the German writer ’ s visit to Israel in 1971, they were angry that he did not welcome their ways of thinking derived from the Torah.
In his book Beyond Israel, columnist Ahmed al-Muslamani reported that in 2012, Grass published a poem entitled “What Should Be Said ” from the Office of the May Flies, in which he criticized the world for turning a blind eye to Israel ’ s possession of a nuclear arsenal while pursuing Iran simply for having a peaceful nuclear program.
“I will no longer be silent about Israel ’ s excesses and the international community ’ s sponsorship of them. ”
The Diwan and the statements of « Grasse » launched a broad campaign to attack him and accused the German media « Henry Bruder » the German writer of anti-Semitism, while Grasse responded by saying: « The charge of anti-Semitism is not surprising ».
This is the case of great intellectuals, motivated by their conscience, even if their attitudes and opinions conflict with their ethnic or religious affiliations or lead them to hostility and persecution.

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Content: Students and members of the news media watch and listen as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., holds a news conference after a visit with Jewish students at Columbia University in New York on April 24. Yana Paskova/The Washington Post

This has been a superlative spring, in the worst ways. The largest campus protest movement of the 21st century. The first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. And, on top of it all, two world-rattling wars whose horrific daily death tolls are so often overshadowed by domestic crises.

From coast to coast, Americans have been thrust under a cloud of chaos that seems to thicken with every breaking-news alert. And in an already contentious and consequential election year, there is seemingly no relief ahead.

“Everything is on fire,” said Preeti Kulkarni, a freshman at George Washington University, whose campus in the nation’s capital has been riven by clashes over Israel’s war in Gaza.

For those who lived through the anti-apartheid protests in the 1980s, or the Vietnam War demonstrations of the ’60s and ’70s, the current tumult – and the way it has collided with broader social and political upheaval – echoes some especially tense times in the country’s history.

But if the present moment has been one of discontent, it has also been one of dissonance. Polling shows that nearly 80 percent of Americans are generally satisfied with their personal lives. Yet roughly the same share is dissatisfied with the direction the country is headed. Unemployment is at its lowest level in decades, yet voters continue to register their displeasure with President Biden’s handling of the economy.

And despite wall-to-wall coverage of campus protests, in one national survey of young people – conducted before the latest round of uprisings – the Israel-Gaza war rated near the bottom of issues that respondents said were most important to them overall. In that same poll, just 17 percent of college students said they had attended a political rally or demonstration.

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Still, historians confirm that this is a troubled and exceptional era, in which deep divisions have infected nearly every inch of public life, from politics to pop culture.

“There has been an erosion of democratic values and a rising political tribalism that I think is extremely dangerous,” said Robert Cohen, a history professor at New York University who has spent decades studying student activism. “The way politics is functioning now is so unhealthy that almost anything can happen. Even the Taylor Swift romance gets spun as some conspiracy – and that’s a really bad place.”

‘I’m getting so stressed’

The turmoil on college campuses is playing out both publicly – in encampments set up on quads and in occupied buildings – and privately, over text and in direct messages.

For Kulkarni, this new tension reached a personal peak a few weeks ago, when she got a blistering message from a pro-Palestinian friend. She was incensed that Kulkarni had just posted an Instagram photo posing with another friend who supports Zionism.

“You lack humanity,” the friend wrote. “I’m done with your friendship. … I hope that in the future you educate yourself on the ongoing situation in Palestine.”

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The message stunned the 18-year-old, who was sitting in a study room, scrambling to finish an essay on Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex.”

“That was so jarring, because people have different beliefs all the time,” Kulkarni said in a later interview. “We live in a society, we have to interact with people who may not agree with us.”

Then she wondered: Do we live in a society anymore? Her former friend’s outrage seemed somehow inevitable, a microcosm of the national discourse. Kulkarni sent a long response, which read in part: “I believe issues are a lot more complex than you think they are, and compromise can best be achieved through open discourse and collaboration.”

This person, she thought, did not seem willing to have a nuanced dialogue. So Kulkarni blocked the number.

A tendency to demonize those one disagrees with is one of the more frightening features of this moment, Cohen said.

He had enjoyed more than 30 years in his mostly quiet corner of research – radical student politics – until a couple of weeks ago, when a deluge of media requests began flooding his inbox from around the world, as reporters asked him to compare current campus protests with those past.

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While the demonstrations – which call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and university divestment from companies said to be profiting off the war – have spread quickly and the police crackdown has been severe, they are still much smaller than those that unfolded around Vietnam, Cohen said.

The scope of the demonstrations and the demands of the students, he said, more closely resemble the fight against South African apartheid in the 1980s, when organizers likewise called for university divestment. But at that time, Cohen added, there were no visible campus forces defending the apartheid regime. Today, pro-Palestinian groups, counterprotesters and police have converged at the encampments, with sometimes violent results.

One undeniable similarity, Cohen said, is the way elected officials, especially far-right Republicans, have sought to politicize the demonstrations, accusing liberal university leaders of allowing far-left students to run amok, as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said at Columbia University last week.

For Cohen, Johnson’s performance paralleled the 1966 California governor’s race, in which then-candidate Ronald Reagan prevailed by promising to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” following the university’s antiwar protests.

“They always want to conflate the liberal university’s leadership with the radicals who are disobeying university leadership,” Cohen said. “This is an old playbook.”

As rhetoric on the right becomes harsher, the potential for further violence will increase, Cohen said.

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At Indiana University, the specter of bloodshed loomed, literally, overhead this week, when state police snipers were spotted on the roofs of campus buildings, including at the Memorial Union, a favorite student hangout.

For Kate Hutner, a 20-year-old sophomore double-majoring in journalism and fashion design, this was the final proof: “Yeah,” she said, “America is on fire.”

That police posture was a response to a pro-Palestinian encampment set up in the grass in front of the union, and it made viscerally personal the sense of unease Hutner had been feeling for years now. This foreboding came up frequently in conversations with friends: how they don’t want to have children and bring them into a world imperiled by climate change and conflict, one where Hutner and her cohort have already lived through a seemingly endless string of mass shootings, protests and culture wars.

And now, chaos was on campus. “I’m getting so stressed,” Hutner texted a friend, noting that her professor had been arrested on campus, “now 3 of my finals are canceled like I’m anxious.”

There are only two times Hutner feels a sense of calm – when fantasizing about her summer internship in Milan, or in bed, grateful she made it to the end of another day.

“It’s like, ‘Thank goodness I can go to bed and sleep,’” she said. “Because when I’m sleeping, I’m not thinking. When I’m sleeping, I don’t have to think about any of this.”

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At Emory University in Atlanta, philosophy department chair Noëlle McAfee did not intend to go viral when she wandered outside her office last week to check on the student protesters.

But what she saw shocked her: Police had swarmed the encampment and one was beating a student, who was on the ground with her hands over her head, McAfee said. She approached the officer and yelled at him to stop. Moments later, the professor was under arrest, and footage of police leading her away quickly circulated online.

While those on social media quickly characterized her as an avatar for either Palestinian solidarity or anti-Israel sentiment, she has tried to avoid taking sides. Instead, McAfee has tried to be an advocate for academic freedom, public discussion and the right to protest – values she said school administrations subvert when they call in police to shut down demonstrations. Rather than escalate the situation, she said, school leaders should engage with protesters and attempt to work through the polarization, as seen at Brown and Northwestern universities.

“Instead of bringing in police and tearing down encampments, why don’t you go to REI and get a tent and sit down and talk with the students?” McAfee said. “What are you afraid of?”

‘Unprecedented times and uncharted territory’

Near the southern tip of Manhattan, more than 120 blocks from Columbia, where student protesters sparked this latest wave of demonstration, former president Donald Trump has been staging his own kind of seething sit-in, behind the closed doors of a drab art deco courthouse.

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Trump, of course, is not on trial by choice – indeed, his legal team sought to delay the court date for as long as possible. But ever since the proceeding began in mid-April – the first involving a former president – Trump has been exercising his right to dissent, even if it means violating a gag order.

In recent days, he has returned to a frequent fixation: crowd size. More specifically, Trump has complained that courthouse security has prevented “thousands of MAGA supporters to be present.”

“If they did the same thing at Columbia, and other locations, there would be no problem with the protesters!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

While the college demonstrations have occasionally eclipsed Trump’s hush money trial, the proceeding is historic. It is the first of four criminal cases against the 45th president to go to trial, and last month it intersected with a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the separate legal question of whether Trump can claim immunity to avoid prosecution.

Even by the former president’s standards, it has been a whirlwind.

“It is overwhelming,” said Meena Bose, the executive dean of Hofstra University’s Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs. The news cycle, she said, “has reached the point where I can’t quite keep up with it.”

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Bose, a presidential historian, has been trying to finish an update to an American government textbook – a tall task when new history continues to be made at warp speed.

“It’s impossible to write a paragraph,” Bose said, without seeing some new development out of New York or Georgia or the Supreme Court. There are, she said, only so many ways to say that this has never happened before.

“We really are in unprecedented times and uncharted territory,” Bose said.

But it is difficult to pinpoint when exactly these “unprecedented times” began, Bose said, and one could argue they date to Trump’s election in 2016, the coronavirus pandemic or the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

“I think we are in a unique point in American history and it’s difficult to say how we’ll look back at this,” Bose said. “But without a doubt, American politics has become even more tumultuous in the last year than it has been for the last decade.”

A number of domestic and international issues have the potential to roil the country further in months to come.

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On Wednesday, a near-total ban on abortion took effect in Florida, the nation’s third-most populous state, in what amounted to an overnight transformation of one of the South’s few remaining refuges for people seeking the procedure. For someone in the state’s southern tip, the closest abortion clinic is a 14-hour drive away.

The new restrictions come months before voters will consider a November ballot referendum that would enshrine the right to abortion in Florida’s constitution, a fight expected to be costly and hard fought.

Also on Wednesday, the Arizona House, after weeks of hand-wringing, voted to repeal a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions, which was set to go back into effect next month. Like Florida, the state may also consider in November a constitutional amendment to protect abortion.

The political pandemonium has effectively obscured what is usually a reliable headline grabber – war, with bloody conflicts continuing to rage in Ukraine and Gaza.

Casualty estimates for Russia’s invasion, which began more than two years ago, are notoriously difficult to pin down, but at least tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers have been killed. Estimates of the Russian death toll range from 50,000 to more than 180,000.

In Gaza, the Health Ministry says more than 34,000 people have been killed since the war began, while Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack that sparked its sweeping military response. Another 263 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the launch of the Israeli operation in Gaza.

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Still, elected officials and the public remain divided over the role the U.S. government should play in both wars, yet another reminder of the many American rifts.

One more possible measure of our disunion: For two weeks in April, a dystopian film about a bloody alternative reality where America is at war with itself topped box office charts, grossing more than $50 million. “Civil War” is a work of speculative fiction, but some viewers emerged from theaters feeling like it captured the essence of caustic political debate in the country.

After a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Los Angeles, Adrian Stucker and Justin Bondy considered possible real-world parallels in the movie, which sought to avoid explicit discussion of partisan politics. In the film’s authoritarian president, the two friends saw Trump, and in the vision of an unraveled America and disintegrated democracy, they saw a conceivable future.

“It’s a scary, plausible situation,” Stucker said.

“I hope it’s not the case,” Bondy said. “But I’m afraid for this election.”

As it has so often in recent days, discord hung in the air outside the theater, too. The night before, a group of counterprotesters stormed the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California at Los Angeles, launching fireworks and hurling wooden beams at student protesters. That same day, Trump, between appearances at his criminal trial, called for colleges to come down even harder on the demonstrators.

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Stucker and Bondy have both tried to unplug from the news – for months, Bondy blocked out all sources but the NFL Network, an increasingly popular coping mechanism – but lately they have felt themselves tuning in more often, and becoming more anxious.

One reliable source of comfort, they say, comes from the knowledge that so many previous generations also thought the sky to be falling, only to keep on living. When Bondy’s grandmother, in her 90s, declares things worse than ever, his mother chimes in with: The 1960s would like a word.

“I don’t think it’s the end of the world,” Stucker said.

But, like many Americans, they’re bracing for whatever is ahead.

“I guess,” he added, “it’s a good time to go to a bar.”

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Playing sports is fashionable
“Marathon exercises ” covered the whole country, said the head of the public movement“ Healthy Fatherland ” Ekaterina Leshchinskaya
Head of the public movement "Healthy Fatherland" Ekaterina Leshchinskaya.
Photo: Press service "Healthy Fatherland"
CONNECTING FORCE
- Ekaterina, tell us what your movement is doing, what tasks do you set for yourself?
- The all-Russian public movement was created in 2021 on the initiative of two-time Olympic boxing champion Oleg Saitov.
We unite all concerned citizens to popularize sports, save and strengthen health, increase the life expectancy of citizens.
In today ’ s socio-political realities, the key questions for the country are: what will we pass on to the next generation and what will it believe in?
Our goal is to promote human longevity, family cohesion, the formation of a healthy moral and psychological climate in various socio-demographic groups and in the country as a whole.
- The most striking project of "Healthy Fatherland" was "Marathon exercises".
How was the record set?
In general, mass charging in our understanding is a rallying ritual that meets the goals of our movement.
And a few years ago, we launched the "Marathon of Chargers" with the champions of the country.
Today, this is a large-scale project that takes place in all regions, including at the international exhibition-forum “Russia ”, where we set a record for the most mass charging in the country.
Together with the Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics Nikita Nagorny, 5,773 people came to the warm-up.
Let ’ s remember, in the Soviet Union, sports were everywhere: in the field and in the shop, in school and in the kindergarten, in the stadium and at home, and it all began with her - with a charge, with a voice that lifted the whole country from bed: “Straighten up, head higher, shoulders slightly back, breathe in, walk on the spot! ”
SPECIFIC
"Marathon Chargers"
International exhibition-forum "Russia", VDNH, until July 8, every Saturday, at 11.00
Photo: Press Service Healthy Fatherland
THE HEROES OF LABOR AND DEFENSE
- How did the idea of   reviving sports parades come about?
It is time to speak loudly again about the achievements of our athletes.
Cinema, painting, sculpture - in the USSR everything was reported: to be healthy and athletic is not just good, to be athletic and healthy is necessary to become a full-fledged member of society.
Athletes took an honorable place next to the heroes of labor and defense.
Today in Russia a lot of attention is paid to the development of mass sports.
The President set a task: by 2030, it is necessary to involve 70% of Russians in systematic sports.
And how else can this be done, in addition to the development of sports infrastructure?
That ’ s right, it needs to be fashionable!
IMPORTANT
The idea of   reviving sports parades on Red Square was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It has been exactly 105 years since the first parade.
Photo: Press Service Healthy Fatherland
- Under the USSR, the first parades were held on Red Square.
This time at VDNH?
- At the first stage, we are trying to revive interest in large-scale physical culture events in Russia.
In our team, we say that a rehearsal is taking place at VDNH before the main parade in the heart of Russia - on Red Square, which is scheduled for 2025.
All 89 regions of the country are represented in the exhibition "Russia" at VDNH, not only Muscovites, but also guests of the capital could watch the march, which took place on May 25.
The current parade is a signal for the entire sports community to prepare for a large-scale parade next year.
VALUES NOT TO BE OFFERED
How important is the parade?
- Now that sport has become a weapon for politics, the sports community needs to unite and stand up.
We are talking about sport, a healthy nation and friendship.
But now more than ever it is important to show the whole world the power of a real Russian athlete, to show those champions and Olympians who have proved on the world stage that Russian sport is the best in the world.
And we must not forget our history: we are a great sports country, and our movement feels responsible for the future of Russian sport.
- How important do you think it is for athletes to participate in such processions?
- Certainly, this is especially important now, when our large, multinational sports family is being tested for cohesion, loyalty to the true values of sports, the Olympic principles of solidarity, equality and fair sports.
There are values that can not be betrayed, canceled, exchanged for something or sold.
One of them, of course, is sport and its unifying force - this, in fact, is the whole meaning of sports parades.
Photo: Nikolay Kubeev / TASS
KSTATI
Two thousand athletes, 15 Olympic champions, 30 sports federations, 4 sports communities, GTO members and legends of Soviet and Russian sports took part in the sports parade at VDNH.
IN THE HEAD OF THE COLUMNS - OLYMPIC
- How was the main event of the sports world of Russia?
- Large-scale, spectacular and high-status.
The concept of the parade symbolized the continuity of generations and represents the past, present and future of Russian sport.
All athletes were dressed in suits sewn by special order.
At the stands, they were greeted by honored guests and 50 children from Belgorod, whom we sent to a children ’ s camp near Moscow for a shift.
- What is interesting for visitors to the sports parade?
- The main idea of the procession will be the concept itself.
Together with the management of the exhibition "Russia", we decided to show the best sporting achievements of the past, present and future.
Everything will begin with a solemn construction, a sports procession, will continue with a flash mob with a mass charge and will end with a festive concert.
Columns will be headed by eminent athletes, they will also conduct exercises and present their federations.
Spectacular, beautiful, status.
We have a lot of responsibility, and I am sure we will be able to implement our plans.
Photo by Lev Porter / TASS
- Share the plans for a "Healthy Fatherland".
- Now we start the summer season - for us it is a holiday.
We go outside, in the fresh air we conduct free training in the parks of Moscow, we begin the repair and construction of new sports grounds in hard-to-reach places of the country and new regions of Russia.
We will continue the children ’ s camp campaign for athletes from Belgorod.
Among the priority plans for 2024 are the involvement of new people in their activities, the opening of new representative offices in the regions and the increase in the number of events held in Russian cities.

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29 March 2024, 09: 10 Opinion
Traitors are forced to carefully lick the boots of new owners
The reaction to the tragedy in Crocus showed that the non-systemic opposition, which has left the country, behind loud words about the fight against a tyrannical state and authoritarian power hides hatred for the country and its people.
Irina Alksnis
RIA Novosti columnist
Domestic – or rather, for the most part, not domestic – “fighters against the regime ” once again showed themselves: their reaction to the bloody nightmare in the“ Crocus City Hall ” turned out to be exactly as one might expect.
Some (of the most prominent activists trying to build a political career on anti-state activities) began to blame the authorities for what happened, which, in their opinion, in this way solve some of their domestic political tasks.
For example, the Free Russia Forum (a Lithuanian non-governmental organization recognized as undesirable in Russia), which gathered the most outstanding scum of the domestic opposition, saw the terrorist attack as “part of a special operation to mobilize Russian society for war. ”
Others (mainly from among the creative intelligentsia) used the death of dozens of people as a pretext for banter and mockery, as actor Dmitry Nazarov (included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the list of foreign agents).
And not only emigrants were noted, but also citizens who continue to live in the country.
The scandal around the St. Petersburg artist or carpenter Nikolai Konashenka, because of whose posts his wife, who worked as the director of the St. Petersburg public space “New Holland ”, was forced to leave a warm place, and he himself was under threat of criminal prosecution for justifying terrorism, makes us once again wonder what these people have with intelligence and self-esteem.
Because they look simply unteachable: at first uncontrollably carry a punishable heresy, then it is rubbed, then they try to escape from the country, well, and in the end they mumble an apology on the camera in the hope that the problems will resolve.
Well, still others (with the brightest faces and in the most white “polts ”) simply ignored the terrible tragedy and the death of almost one and a half hundred compatriots.
In general, we were not surprised and confirmed what we already knew about them: behind loud words about the fight against the tyrannical state and authoritarian power, they hide hatred for the country and its people.
So the terrible terrorist attack and the death of dozens of people – there is only a reason for open gloating and additional efforts to damage Russia.
However, the further, the more often their words and actions can still cause confusion.
Well, when in the spring of 2022, all these people, following the West, sincerely believed that Russia was about to fall - and staged a Russophobic sabbath, burning all the bridges with them.
But in 2024, their stupid rampant anger and hatred look strange and do not even coincide with the growing understanding in Europe and the United States that the Russian bear could not be broken again - which means that somehow one day we will have to agree.
And “new wave political emigrants ”, like two years ago, compete in the degree of hatred towards Russia, as if the“ Abrams ” are about to parade through Red Square.
This kind of insanity looks strange even to them.
It would seem that it would be possible to show human sympathy to the people affected in the terrible massacre - even if it were false through - it would be possible.
But no, they seem afraid to show the slightest good feelings for the abandoned country and its people.
And here it is worth looking for a clue, because not “as if ”, but they are actually afraid of it – and not without reason.
The current political emigration lives in incessant and increasingly intense fear.
What was the fate of their predecessors?
Not bad from a material point of view.
During the Cold War, the West valued every political emigrant from the USSR, whether it was a traitor, a dissident human rights activist, or a writer disliked by the authorities, deprived of Soviet citizenship, who himself did not want to leave the country, but who was expelled from it.
They all somehow provided a decent life in a new place, while it is precisely because of their value for the West that the then political emigrants retained a high degree of independence of their opinions and judgments.
Therefore, it was quite normal not to love the Soviet power, but to cherish the deepest love for Russia.
Examples here can not count: Zinoviev, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, the talented dancer Alexander Godunov, for whom the escape from the USSR on tour was a fatal mistake that destroyed not only his career, but also his life.
Without a doubt, for a significant part of modern Russian oppositionists, the experience of previous generations was the most important argument in betting on the West and anti-state activities.
They were sure that no matter how life turned, they were guaranteed a journalist ’ s place in the “Russian service ” of Western radio or a dusty professorship at a provincial college in Connecticut.
And those who were lucky enough to earn capital in Russia and take it out could count on a cloudless life until the end of their days.
But the reality turned out to be much more unpleasant, because the West of the second half of the twentieth century no longer exists.
Europe and the United States are deepening into socio-economic and political crises.
Life is becoming more expensive and more difficult, the middle class is getting poorer, and the showcase of the “Western way of life ” is dilapidated and able to attract only the most naive.
This does not mean that the West will collapse into the abyss – not at all, but the ongoing changes entail very unpleasant consequences for political emigrants.
They have lost the lion ’ s share of their value to the American and European establishment — which means cutting budgets, cutting programs, and simply blatantly neglecting outsiders who have demonstrated their futility.
Therefore, you have to turn inside out, trying to prove your loyalty and need.
As for the wealthy fighters against the Kremlin, whether they are oligarchs, corrupt officials or show business stars, they have their own worries, and the main fear is to lose capital.
Recent years have already given enough examples of the demonstrative flaws of the Russian rich, who transparently hint to everyone else that it is enough to make one wrong step, and they are waiting for the same.
In this there is a peculiar irony of fate that traitors are forced to lick the boots of the defeated owners much more diligently, just to take them with them - at least a dishwasher - on an evacuation ship.
It is not surprising that political emigrants compete in fierce Russophobia even for the tragedy in Crocus City.
After all, we and our country by our very existence remind them every second of their fatal choice, with which they now coexist for the rest of their lives.

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Special Column People's Assembly Paris's traditional cafes are invincible, and social change is gradually disappearing.
2022 / 2 / 13 10: 33 (Updated 2 / 13 10: 52)
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When it comes to Paris cafes, many people think of the left bank of the Seine River with a strong humanistic atmosphere, and the service of the white and black vest carries a plate and acts cleanly to greet guests.
However, according to the survey, despite social changes and rents, traditional coffee shops in Paris are rapidly decreasing year by year.
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When you think of a Paris café, what do you think of? Many people think of the left bank of the Seine River with a rich humanistic atmosphere, the service staff in white and black vests crisscrossing between tables, or the scene like the scene of the movie "Midnight Paris" in which the literati Yasih is constantly discussing in the atmosphere of the cafe.
Coupled with the successful advertising of “Left Bank Cafe ” in Paris several years ago, French cafes have gradually become synonymous with elegance, humanism and life in the minds of Taiwanese.
Authentic French Café, which means more than just a café, is the all-day service from morning coffee to evening bar, plus lunch and dinner. It may be more appropriate to call it “coffee-bar-restaurant ”.
Therefore, the more realistic picture in the cafe is that the neighborhood neighbors are standing or sitting at the bar, the espresso in their hands in the morning, and the aperitif before dinner in the evening.
The French even use the “zinc ” plated on the bar as a synonym for a cafe or bar, where people greet each other, exchange information and debate issues in the absence of the Internet.
It became the center of social life and the soul of Paris.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), the father of modern French fiction, likened the bar of a café to the "assembly of the people".
Coffee houses have become the art of middle-class life in Paris, and the Bistrots et Cafés de France (Bistrots et Cafés de France) has been working hard in recent years to make coffee houses a UNESCO recognized intangible cultural heritage.
But did you know that the traditional cafes that made up an important part of French life are now on the way to disappearing?
According to a recent study by Crocis, the number of cafes in the Paris region has decreased by about 26% in the past 20 years, from 1907 in 2002 to 1,410 today.
Bénédicte Gualbert, who led the study, told Le Parisien the reason for the sudden decline in the number of cafes, said that in recent years, cafes have encountered fierce competition from fast-food chains, supermarkets, kebab, etc., and urban dining options are changing, with traditional cafes and fast-food outlets disappearing. Peter's situation.
In retrospect, my friends and I used to go to the outdoor area of the cafe during lunch or afternoon break, sitting side by side, admiring the people and talking about the various aspects of life and work.
Sometimes you have to discuss business with friends, and naturally it is also a coffee shop.
Small round tables, timeless walls and narrow staircases and toilets are standard in Paris cafes.
But I ’ ve noticed that since five or six years ago, friends and I have become more and more frequent in the more open and bright chain coffee shops, or the Taiwan bubble tea shops that have sprung up in recent years.
It turned out that the change I chose also indirectly confirmed the change in the consumption habits of the people in Paris, which together created the ongoing disappearance of Paris cafes.
And the new consumption habits are another reason for the sudden decline of independent traditional cafes.
Since 2000, French working hours have shrunk from 39 to 35 hours per week, which has led to a reduction in lunch time, says Gorbe, “but cafes haven ’ t really transformed to meet customer expectations, such as taking out or serving more edible meals. ”
In addition, it is becoming easier and easier to drink coffee, and there are even coin coffee machines in the office; there are fewer people who go to the bar to drink, and most people go home to drink and avoid driving after drinking.
When it comes to the history of coffee shops in Paris, it is inseparable from the changes in French society. In 1669, the Ottoman ambassador dedicated coffee beans to Louis XIV, but was rejected as too expensive and too bitter.
However, two Armenian businessmen saw the opportunity, and they rented a booth in the Saint-Germain market in the Latin Quarter of Paris to let the public taste the fresh, and quickly achieved success.
The young Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli was inspired by them, and in 1686 opened the first coffee shop in France, Le Procope. For more than 300 years, the author Voltaire (1694-1778), the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and others frequently visited and led the trend. Despite the change, the coffee shop is still standing at the same address.
During the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century, cafes became a rallying hall for revolutionary ideas, and there were cafes that were frequented by all parties and factions.
After Napoleon (1769-1821), who used to stop at the coffee shop, was in power, he was aware of the speed at which ideas were transmitted, so he set his eyes and ears to watch people ’ s speech.
At the beginning of the 19th century, there were 3,000 cafes in Paris, twice as many as today. Since the end of the 19th century, intellectuals and artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre have gathered in Paris to debate, stimulate creativity and lead the trend of art. It is the French coffee culture that is still popular today.
But Alain Fontaine, president of the Association of French Catering Manufacturers (AFMR), said that this precious legacy, which allows people to discuss, meet, reshape the world and “live together, ” is at risk.
“It ’ s a gateway to escape loneliness and discrimination; in cafes, there ’ s no social gap and everyone gets the same service. ”
In a few minutes, the people at the bar will talk and leave the honorific behind. ”
In his view, long before Facebook, cafes were the first social network in France.
To find out the truth, I went to some old Parisian traditional cafes and wanted to hear what they had to say.
The staff at La Palette, which opened in 1930, told me that traditional cafes have been disappearing in recent years. “A lot of the time, people are more inclined to drink coffee in the office or have a quick lunch, and are less inclined to spend time in the cafeteria. ”
But as a historic café on the French Register of Historic Buildings, they are lucky not to be affected too much, not only by old customers, but also by pilgrims.
However, not every traditional coffee shop has such an aura.
The coffee shop opened in 1966 is truly extraordinary. It retains a peanut coin machine, and you can get a handful of peanuts with a small wine with about NT $16.
This peanut machine and an entire afternoon of stories accompanied me to witness the rise and fall of the coffee shop era.
Central News Agency reporter Tseng Ting-xuan, Paris, February 13, 111
The other day, I walked into the Au Petit Bar, an old Parisian café in the alley near the Tuileries Garden, and there were several high chairs beside the bar with a peanut vending machine for €5 (about NT $16).
But as soon as we walked into the store, the boss was full of smiles and greetings, which made people relax a lot of time.
I chose a table and chair at the bar and ordered a homemade strawberry tower for dessert that day.
“You ’ ve been thinking too long, I ’ m going to give the tower to the lady, ” said Michel, the white-haired owner, turning to a handsome man in his early 40s on the bar.
I seem to have grabbed the last precious strawberry tower, and hurry to say sorry to the handsome brown hair.
It doesn ’ t matter, I come often.
It ’ s delicious, ” he laughs.
Then I asked about the recent news about the decline of traditional cafes, and the handsome immediately said, “Yeah, the local cafes like this are going to disappear, and there is another one in the front corner, which was closed last year. ”
According to the observation of the handsome brother, one of the reasons is that the price of the whole of Paris is rising, and the store is no longer affordable for ordinary independent traditional cafes, so they have to turn off the lights to withdraw.
The store is also subleased to a chain of companies or large businesses that can afford to pay rent.
Owner Michel agrees, saying that in the new coffee shop, the most symbolic of the bar is no longer seen, "because the bar is removed, there is more room for the table, more money can be made."
At the right hand side, a quiet 70-year-old man saw how excited I was about the past, and began to share with me his golden age coffee shop.
For him, the cafe is an art de vivre, from a cup of coffee before work to an appetizer and dinner after work, the cafe has promoted the day and night operation of people in the past, and it is closely related to life.
The coffee scene is the biggest change.
This regular customer, also known as Michelle, said that in the past, whether you know or not, everyone will talk to each other, strangers and friends, there is only a cup of coffee distance.
"Just like you, don't people also talk to you?", the boss who wipes the cup on the side naturally joined the discussion.
"In today's cafes, everyone is busy, full of distance, and there is no longer the same warmth and joy as before," is their common conclusion.
The boss said that the signs of a traditional coffee shop ’ s decline began well before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) outbreak, but the outbreak and remote work have accelerated its disappearance.
I asked the two Michels, is it possible to restore the decadence of traditional cafes?
Michelle shook her head and sighed, “Everything has changed, everything has changed, and I am old, only memories. ”
“I think the trend will continue, this is the trend, but we will also stick to the day when we can ’ t do it anymore. ”
In the afternoon, we talked about coffee shops, about their hometown, and about the Taiwan Strait crisis.
Before saying goodbye, my boss asked me, “After this article is published, will you tell us? ”
Generally speaking, I send the link via email, but when I talk about it, I feel that it is inappropriate and I swallow it.
“Yes, I ’ ll show you the news on the internet, ” I said.
"Great," said the two old gentlemen, laughing, "so that you can come back to us."
For the first time, I feel that I can 't send email, which is actually very good. (Editor: Guo Zhonghan) 1110213
In addition to the cafes with the aura of monuments, there are more established cafes in the general neighborhood, which are struggling to keep up with the trend of the times. Au Petit Bar is run by the Dalle family, and owner Michelle Dahler (left) and old customer Michelle (right) share their home-made wine with me.
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The United States has created a global anti-China conspiracy
25 September 2021, 21: 50
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Text: Gevorg Mirzayan, Associate Professor, Financial University
Washington has taken another step, directly aimed at confrontation with China: a union of countries for the sake of a “free and open Indo-Pacific region. ”
What does Washington ’ s creation of a new political bloc called QUAD mean and why is China unlikely to be happy with it?
People often want simple solutions to complex problems.
It is beautiful, shows activity, and shows the plebs that the task is so simple and harmless that any cook can cope with it.
That ’ s why the Americans liked Trump ’ s strategy to contain China, which was carried out in the form of a large-scale, American-style direct and brazen imposition on the PRC – with sanctions, demonstrations of military force, hostage-taking and grandiose information companies.
At the same time, the Republicans themselves assured that if they lost the battle for the White House in November 2020, the Democrats who replaced them in the person of Joseph Biden would abandon power politics and capitulate to Beijing.
A number of Chinese political scientists adhered to approximately the same positions: they assured that China, in order to improve relations with Washington, just need to sit out Trump, that under Biden, the United States will cease to nightmare China.
But they and others were wrong.
Biden did not abandon the containment of Beijing.
He has only moved from Trump ’ s simple methods to more complex and long-term, but at the same time more effective, dangerous for China strategies.
Unilateral actions have been replaced by the creation and strengthening of anti-China alliances, and tactical sanctions and threats have been replaced by a long-term siege.
The formation of points of tension around China and the creation of an anti-Chinese environment in the Indo-Pacific region.
Four Comrades and China
One of the elements of the siege was, for example, the recent creation of the AUKUS bloc, which implies the transfer of fundamentally new types of weapons to Australia and the official inclusion of the UK in the system of deterrence of the PRC.
And on September 24, Biden began to consolidate and systematize the existing formats - on this day, the first face-to-face QUAD summit was held in Washington, consisting of the leaders of the United States, Australia, Japan and India.
The group of four countries itself (in fact, from the “quartet ” and its short name is formed – it sounds completely like the“ quadrilateral security dialogue ” or, if in English, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) is, in fact, the format of US interaction with the main geopolitical players of the region and its largest powers.
Yes, QUAD (unlike NATO) has neither a fundamental treaty, nor formal obligations of member states to each other, nor unified military-political planning bodies.
It ’ s really just a diplomatic forum.
However, all this, according to some experts and journalists, is rather not a minus, but a plus.
The lack of a clearly defined agenda allows countries to cooperate on a range of anti-China issues, ranging from the production of coronavirus vaccines to joint exercises.
And as for the lack of formal obligations, then, as you know, the main cementing moment in the union is not the presence of papers, but the general interest of the elites.
And this interest is very simple – containment of the PRC.
Formally, at the Washington summit, the leaders tried not to mention China – but in fact they talked about it between all the lines.
“We stand together here in the Indo-Pacific region.
A region that we want to rid ourselves of coercive force forever.
A region where the sovereign rights of all nations must be respected, where differences are resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law, ” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.
According to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the summit contributed to strengthening cooperation between the countries in their quest for a “free and open Indo-Pacific region ”.
Free, of course, from Chinese influence.
Experts agree that the Washington summit led to the strengthening and institutionalization of the quadripartite alliance.
“The first face-to-face meeting of QUAD leaders this week will send a strong signal to all foreign opponents and critics that QUAD exists and will not disappear anywhere, ” writes Jeff Smith, a research fellow at the American Heritage Foundation.
However, another question remains: why do the States need QUAD when there is AUKUS?
Yes, India and Japan in one way or another supported AUKUS and (unlike the French) did not consider the new bloc as a threat to their interests, but they were not included there.
And it was not included because neither New Delhi nor even Tokyo are seen as reliable, understandable and unconditional allies to contain China.
Gather in a circle.
The answer to this question, according to experts, is very simple.
The Americans need not only a bloc for direct Western action against China (which is what AUKUS is), but also a structure around which small and medium-sized regional countries can be gathered – primarily from Southeast Asia (states from the ASEAN bloc) to contain China.
And this is only QUAD, which includes Japan and India - countries that are "local" for Asia and have their own interests in ASEAN, which can be not so much fastened as incorporated into the American ones.
A number of experts claim that instead of reformatting regional relations to contain China, the global anti-China strategy should, on the contrary, start from the current geopolitics in the region.
Geopolitics, which consists of the interests of local countries and which in theory can become the basis for a global anti-Chinese construct.
So, in February 2021, one Singaporean institution released the results of a large survey conducted among the elites (that is, scientists, officials, business representatives and non-governmental organizations) of ASEAN countries.
And the results of these Chinese can hardly be satisfied.
Yes, no one doubts the power of China: 49% call Beijing the most influential political player in the region (for comparison, only 30% chose the option “USA ” here), and 76% – the most influential from an economic point of view (America has only 7.4%).
At the same time, this situation does not cause particularly warm feelings among local elites.
88.6% of those who called the PRC the most powerful political power and 76.3% of those who considered it the most powerful economic, say that they are extremely worried about this leadership.
In general, only 16.5% of locals have a positive attitude towards China, while 63% do not trust it (for comparison, in relation to America, these figures are 48.3% versus 31.3%).
However, at the same time, the results of the survey can not be satisfied with the Americans.
With all the fears and fears about the Chinese threat, up to 40% of these elites, if they need to choose between the United States and China, will choose in favor of Beijing.
Apparently, this will be a choice from despair – a significant part of the ASEAN elites simply do not believe that the United States will be able to cope with China and become a reliable military-political roof.
Now, probably, the number of non-believers in America has only increased (primarily due to the circumstances of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and the abandonment of a significant part of the allies there to their fate.
Therefore, Washington needs to strengthen its guarantees with guarantees from the local great powers – India and Japan.
Yes, now the attitude towards New Delhi in the region is, to put it mildly, controversial – less than 20% of the ASEAN elites trust it.
In each case, the reasons for the negative attitude are individual: for example, in Malaysia, intellectual elites traditionally condemn India for actions against Muslims in Kashmir, while in Laos they are more pro-Chinese.
Sometimes the mood of the elites is influenced by specific events – for example, Singaporeans took extremely negatively the remarks of the Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal regarding Singapore ’ s methods of combating the coronavirus, ” explains Alexey Kupriyanov, a senior researcher at IMEMO RAS.
In general, the countries of Southeast Asia believe that India has neither the political will nor the desire to engage in great geopolitics beyond its rivalry with Pakistan.
However, New Delhi ’ s more active involvement in QUAD (especially if China ’ s foreign policy activity increases) will increase the value and importance of the Indian instrument of America.
As for Japan, there is no need to grow.
The combination of competent foreign economic activity, regular anti-Chinese escapades (including Tokyo ’ s attempts to strengthen relations with Taiwan), fears of local elites against China, as well as the expansion of Japanese pop culture has led to the fact that today 67% of local elites are sympathetic to Tokyo, and only 16.5% do not like it.
This means that Japan, especially in partnership with India, can be an extremely effective conductor of American interests in the Southeast Asian region.
The question now is how and how China will respond to the strengthening of QUAD.
And it is unlikely that the answer will be an attempt to “outsit Biden ”.
The strategy of the current American president, in contrast to the rolling of Trump, is a geopolitical noose, which every year is tightened on the Chinese neck.
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Thursday 14 September 2023 02: 50 pm / Jerusalem time + 2GMT
Talal Awkal wrote:
Social networks and social media sites are buzzing with massive interventions, raising a lot of concern, and spreading a lot of toxins with social, political and psychological dimensions, and gnawing at the minds of the simple in people.
Alleged doctors, social and psychological experts who seek fame, money, and some interlopers who belong to intelligence services of every sex, provide themselves with false covers, use these means to spy, overthrow and recruit.
One time you read that coffee is harmful, and another that it is useful, as are many basic consumers of people, and medical prescriptions that the owners claim to cure all the diseases and the most difficult.
Contradictions are not hidden from the people of sound minds, but they pass through a lot of simple people.
Immigration ads, and the accompanying ads and temptations, certainly play an important role in providing motivation for confused young people, marry a Russian, Ukrainian, or Czech, get privileges and salaries that you can ’ t even dream of.
The temptations to easily obtain a visa for many countries that hunt people of knowledge and competence, according to certain criteria, but the reality indicates otherwise, especially for Palestinians.
Yes, the old Europe, with limited childbearing and large numbers of elderly and retired people, needs to be renewed, pumping more blood and vitality into the meager social bodies and exploiting the results of the bloody wars behind them.
The phenomenon of migration, or rather forced displacement, is not exclusive to the Palestinian people, it has become a global phenomenon, the main reservoir of which is the African countries, the countries of the Middle East, and the Arab countries have a large share.
If this phenomenon does not change the homelands that have been established for hundreds of years, the issue for the Palestinians takes on very serious dimensions.
Wars are a major cause, as are the economic and psychosocial conditions, which exist for the Palestinian people, but the issue is different, too.
In Palestine, there is an evacuation and occupation of settlements, which seeks to erase the existence of the Palestinian people on their land, erase and crush their national identity and confiscate their dreams and legitimate historical and national rights.
The conflict in Palestine is based mainly on the land, and if its people are absent or absent from it, it will be prey to the other occupying party, unlike the situation in other countries, for example, the absence of some Syrians on the importance of this, does not mean that Syria will be removed from the geopolitical map.
And so for citizens of other countries.
There is a fundamental difference between voluntary migration and forced displacement, where migrants can move in normal circumstances in search of money, education, family, or any other reason, but displacement is planning and the use of harsh means to force people to leave their homes for political purposes in the interests of the party exerting pressure.
In 1948, Zionist gangs, backed by the British Mandate, forced more than seven hundred thousand Palestinians to emigrate, using methods of intimidation and terrorism, committing massacres, stealing land and destroying villages and property.
The Zionist gangs did not hesitate to use violence and terrorism to push Jews in different parts of the world, including Arab countries, to force them to emigrate to Palestine as part of their colonial project.
Many interventionists, interventionists, national prosecutors and experts travel to explain the reasons for the migration of young people from Palestine and from the Gaza Strip in particular, and some of them favor the increase of this phenomenon, in favor of factional agendas, which have to do with the division and its repercussions.
As many of these young people who have settled in the diaspora go through many of the reasons that hold the Palestinian division and its consequences the primary responsibility, they unfortunately ignore the weight and role of the Israeli occupation.
Yes, the Gaza Strip is suffering enormously from unemployment, poverty and extreme poverty, the lack of prospects for young people, and the nature of social conditions, and many people may suffer from depression and despair, but who is responsible for the arrival of conditions to the level of expulsion of young people and competencies?
In light of the intensification of the conflict with the occupation, its plans and tools, terrorism, racism and fascism, no reasonable person expects that the Palestinian people will live in prosperity and normal conditions. If the logic of the conflict indicates that the Palestinians seek to turn the occupation into a hell in which the settler does not know comfort, the Israeli also seeks to make Palestine a hell for the Palestinians.
Since 2007, Israel has subjected the Gaza Strip to a severe blockade, exerting enormous pressure on everyone in it through repeated aggression, war crimes and mass and sporadic killing, in the framework of removing the Gaza Strip from the equation of conflict and eliminating more than two million Palestinians from the circle of demographic balance.
This means that Israel treats the Gaza Strip as a hostile entity and a hostile environment to get rid of the most important sector, which is the youth, the educated, the competent and the rational, and the most effective sector in the conflict with the occupation.
This is the main reason that explains the migration of hundreds of thousands of young people and the desire of many to leave the Strip, even if this leads to the adventure of death, loss or suffering.
In an effort to reach where young people can eat and sleep, without real opportunities for self-fulfillment and a better future.
There is a high price, visible and invisible, that accompanies the journey of forced displacement, as they lack the environment and the warmth of the family beyond the money and suffering they pay.
In the past, the issue of migration was the subject of condemnation, accusations, and resistance, but no one today has the logic to continue this view of those who have sought and are seeking to migrate.
Yes, political division, incitement, mutual accusations, and the nature of the powers and policies of the ruling authorities play a role, but even this reason will return to the origin of the occupation.
The Palestinian situation and the authorities cannot be absolved of this responsibility, and even if the occupation is the cause, the possible serious treatment of this phenomenon is an integral part of the work of the resistance, because the steadfastness of the Palestinian on his land is a priority for every Palestinian official, whether in the PA or in the factions.
There is a need to sensitize young people, deepen their sense of national responsibility, and demonstrate the risks of responding to displacement factors, but this is not enough, nor does it absolve them of the responsibility to take practical action to improve their conditions.