🇷🇺🇨🇳 What are the major takeaways from Putin's China visit?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has concluded his state visit to the People's Republic of China, which took place on May 16 and 17.

⏺Putin's China trip is his first foreign tour since his March re-election. Chinese Presidnet Xi Jinping also paid his first visit to Russia after re-election in March 2023, signaling the special nature of Russia-China relations.

⏺The solemn meeting ceremony between the two leaders took place in Tiananmen Square. The Russian president was accompanied by newly appointed officials including Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov.

⏺ Xi announced that "China and Russia have set an example for others to build a new type of interstate relations and relations between major neighbors."

⏺Putin stressed that Russo-Chinese bilateral turnover has grown by almost 25 percent in 2023 up to $240bn, according to Chinese data. The leaders agreed to step up deliveries of Russian gas to China, enhance cooperation in civil nuclear programs. Putin signaled readiness to provide investors from China with economic incentives and access to the technological base.

⏺Russia and China will continue de-dollarization with 90 percent of mutual settlements being carried out in national currencies.

⏺Putin stressed that Russo-Chinese cooperation is not aimed against other countries and condemned the formation of new military alliances in Asia-Pacific.

⏺Putin praised China’s approach to the Ukraine conflict and confirmed that preliminary Istanbul accords with Ukraine and the situation on the ground would be the basis for future talks. He stressed that future accords should be signed by a legitimate Ukrainian leader.

⏺Putin explained that Russia is not planning to take the city of Kharkov and its advance is meant to create a "safe zone" to shield Russian civilians in Belgorod shelled by the Kiev regime.

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The decision by the ICC to indict three senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for war crimes committed in Gaza is mooted by the simultaneous indictment of three Hamas officials, including Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, on similar charges.

Clearly the ICC cannot distinguish between the concept of occupier versus occupied.

This latest indictment comes on the heels of the ICC’s indictment of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova on charges of unlawful deportation of population. The baseless nature of the ICC Russian indictment was underscored when over 160 Ukrainian children believed by the ICC to have been kidnapped by Russia turned up in Germany.

While the ICC charges against the three Israeli officials are warranted, by including Hamas in the indictment the ICC proves that politics, and not the rule of law, are what drives its work.

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It turns out that Blinken was already threatening the UN, specifically the UN World Food Program, if they accepted Palestine as a member, thereby legitimizing it as a state.

"The world will have to starve like Gaza" is quite the threat coming from a man who won't even publicly admit that Gaza is starving. If he is willing to go to these lengths to prevent the mostly symbolic UN from acknowledging that Palestine exists, what will he do to protect the Zionist leaders?

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⁣Ben is finally waking up to the strategic intent behind October 7.

On October 6 no one was seriously talking about a Palestinian State.

Since October 7, everyone is.

All Hamas had to do was provide Israel the opportunity to show the world the true face of its genocidal existence.

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