Polygraph
Tuesday 25 July 2023
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“Compared with the U.S., with its crackdowns, containment and protectionist approach that continues to drag down the global economy, China has been sticking to an opening-up approach with global investors while striving to maintain its own growth momentum.”
While claiming to be open to global investors, this year China launched a sweeping crackdown on consultancy and due diligence firms. Also this year, China updated its data privacy and counter-espionage law, increasing the operating risks for many multinational companies doing business in China. -
“That’s why they are closing everywhere [what is] in fact our only information resource aimed at a Western audience — that’s Russia Today (RT). They are closing it everywhere, putting obstacles in the way. They are afraid of the truth.”
The EU and the U.K. banned Russian broadcasters for using systematic bias and disinformation as an “operational tool” in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. -
“Now the foreign minister's profile has been removed from the website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, making the outside world even more curious about Qin Gang's current situation.”
As China's minister of foreign affairs, Qin Gang has a separate page devoted to him on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. The page Newtalk referred to lists the ministry's other principal officials, but not the foreign minister. -
“The Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, which is a purely civilian facility.”
The Russian military began using the Crimean Bridge after it was opened for automobile traffic in 2018. Since February 2022, the bridge has become the Russian military’s main transport corridor for troops heading to southern Ukraine. -
"I contacted Putin, told him: Let us spend some of the money from the union state budget on those kids."
Lukashenko has gone far beyond providing financial support and allowed the Russian government to expand its abduction of Ukrainian children into Belarus. -
"The truth is that after the expulsion of the foreign forces (from Afghanistan) and full control of Islamic Emirate, equipment and vehicles are stored and saved in depots, and no one is allowed to smuggle or sell even a single weapon."
While reports indicate the Taliban have cracked down on the practice, arms smuggling, particularly to ideologically aligned militants abroad, continues. -
“It was stipulated in the CWC (Chemical Weapons Convention) that States Parties shall complete the destruction not later than 10 years after the entry into force of the CWC in 1997. The US is the last state to complete the destruction of its declared chemical weapons stockpile, far behind the time limit set in the CWC.”
The need for alternative disposal methods significantly prolonged the timeline for the U.S. to safely destroy chemical warfare agents. The U.S. met its commitment to irreversibly destroy all its chemical warfare stocks on July 7, 2023. -
“…the Russian military infrastructure has never moved toward Western Europe...”
The Russian Federation has been aggressively expanding its military presence toward Western Europe, including by waging a war in Ukraine and deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. -
"We have taken note of the Director for Strategic Communications of the NSC [National Security Council] John Kirby's statements about the provision of cluster munitions to Ukraine. The official de facto confessed to the United States committing war crimes during the Ukrainian conflict."
The Russian Embassy misquoted Kirby and used words he never said to amplify the Kremlin's disinformation about U.S. actions in Ukraine. -
“Russian athletes are listed as members of the Syrian team at the Pan-Arab Games that started in Algeria. Most of them have their names changed, two of them have their dates of birth [changed]."
Five athletes of Russian nationality are listed as Syrians at the Arab Sports Games, thereby violating international sports rules. -
Medvedev Is Wrong: Russian Authorities Did Not Prove Their 'Strength and Stability’ in Wagner Revolt
"The authorities in Russia have convincingly proved their strength and stability..."
The Russian authorities proved incapable of preventing Wagner from capturing two large cities and marching 800 km toward Moscow. -
“…[H]is [Qu Dongyu, current head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization] reelection with a big majority fully shows that his work over the past four years has been highly recognized by the international community, and the argument you just cited is totally unacceptable to the international community.”
Under Qu, the FAO has deviated from its longtime policy of reducing pesticide reliance in countries of the Global South. Instead of working to ensure food security, the FAO is accused of funding the supply of highly toxic chemicals to the Global South.