On this day in 2013, Xi Jinping is named the new President of China🇨🇳. Since then:

-100 million lifted out of extreme poverty

-extreme poverty completely eliminated

-GDP grew 6.4% a year from 2013-2020, accounting for 30% of global economic growth

-From 2013-2020, total trade volume between China and the 147 countries+territories part of the Belt and Road Initiative amounted to $9.2 trillion

-China’s installed renewable energy capacity of 895GW by 2020, larger than the next five nations combined (🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇳🇩🇪🇯🇵=809GW)

Ukrainians in the city of Kherson rallied to protest against occupying Russian soldiers this weekend

Surely with this much public resistance, an occupation of Ukraine is completely untenable and a major miscalculation by the Russian government?

#Ukraine🇺🇦 #Russia🇷🇺

Kiev, Ukraine🇺🇦: One person was killed and 6 injured after the remains of an alleged Russian rocket fell in Kurenivka district in the Ukrainian capital, according to Kiev's Mayor Vitali Klitchko.

Unilateral invasions violate the UN Charter, but surely a question worth asking?

#Ukraine #Russia

‘We realized that #Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. We understand this, we are adequate people…Kiev needs new formats of interaction with the West and separate security guarantees’

-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Palestine🇵🇸: Anger erupts in Qalandiya after UK-US-EU-armed Israeli forces shot 3 Palestinians dead.

OTD in 1988, Saddam Hussein carried out the Halabja chemical attack, killing up to 5000 people on the day

The CIA aided Saddam's chemical attacks in the Iran-Iraq war, two-thirds of chemical attacks happened in the last 18 months of the war when CIA-Iraq cooperation peaked.

Photo: Donald Rumsfeld meets Saddam Hussein, he was acting as an envoy of US President Ronald Reagan at the time.

#Iraq #History

Fans of Red Star Belgrade, Serbia’s🇷🇸 most popular football team held banners showing a list of US interventions since WW2 with the phrase ‘give peace a chance’ at the end of the long list.

19 years following the invasion of #Iraq

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who said the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children caused by US sanctions was a price worth paying, has died.

Ukraine- sacrificed by NATO for the principle™️ of being allowed to join an alliance, that they wouldn’t actually let Ukraine into?

The US & Europe confused as to why global south countries refuse to condemn Russia, a country which as the Soviet Union aided many anti-imperialist and independence struggles.

BREAKING: Assassination attempt on Pakistan’s🇵🇰 former Prime Minister Imran Khan who accused the US of aiding the efforts to oust him from power earlier this year.