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#BreakingNews: After saying he'd end the mask mandate if 70% of state was vaccinated, Gov Inslee is now reimposing an indoor mask mandate statewide. Your vaccination status doesn't matter.
And, now, all school staff (of all grades + college + private) must be vaccinated.
Joe Biden’s China Policy Coordinator co-authored a 2015 paper with a major Chinese Communist Party (CCP) United Front Work Department (UFWD) organization, one that has served as a vanguard in subverting U.S. entities such as media, universities, and think tanks, advocating for “China-U.S. Cooperation” in the Middle East, notably Afghanistan
During her time with the Center for American Progress (CAP), Melanie Hart and the CAP worked with the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) to author the 2015 report Exploring Avenues for China-U.S. Cooperation on the Middle East, self described as “A comprehensive exchange of ideas on areas of potential cooperation and common interest between the United States and China on the topic of the Middle East,” penned by the CAP, the CUSEF, and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.
The Introduction of the 84-page report notably states, “The two countries recently worked quietly together on efforts to enhance stability and progress in Afghanistan, and these efforts could serve as a model for how the United States and China might work together throughout the Middle East and South Asia
Authors complained projects initiated by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Asian Development Bank projects in Afghanistan were “proceeding slowly” as the CAP and CUSEF advocated for Washington and Beijing to, “Align their support within these organizations to urge action” at the same time as they promoted the similarities of CCP’s hegemony project, the Belt and Road Initiative, to the U.S.-organized New Silk Road (NSR) project established in 2011 “to integrate Afghanistan into the region” via energy, transport, border security, and connectivity.
And more bluntly, they called for the NSR to pave the way for the CCP’s BRI, “The NSR’s north-south work should serve as a foundation and opportunity for the Belt and Road projects in Central Asia, as well as in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
China has been waiting to do BRI deals with Kabul for the past five years. It is said that the Ashraf Ghani regime is already considering tying up with the China-funded US$ 62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. One of the projects envisaged is a road between Kabul and Peshawar in Pakistan.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, had confirmed that China was having discussions with Afghanistan on various projects. If Afghanistan comes under the ambit of the BRI, it will provide China economic and strategic access to the Middle East and Central Asia.
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originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: RookQueen
Plague as in Bubonic Plague. There are cases of that nasty little bug every year in the US and other countries, but did the people who contracted it last year get treatment, and was it ever listed as Bubonic Plague or just labeled "covid"?
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: PokeyJoe
Sounds like a diversion away from Kabul.
Oh what timing, VP Harris to visit Vietnam...reminiscence of GI Jane.