Polygraph
Friday 30 June 2023
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“The IPR rhetoric is just one of the many disguises that the U.S. employs to conceal its real intention to crack down on emerging economies like China, whom it perceives as a potential threat to its economic hegemony.”
U.S. legal action against China for economic espionage is a response to Beijing’s large-scale theft of intellectual property. -
The Russian Federation does not strike at civilian infrastructure. The strikes are at objects that are in one way or another connected with the military infrastructure.
Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk hit a restaurant and killed at least 12 people, including children. -
“Any ship that wants to pass through the Strait of Hormuz must inform us of its nationality, type of cargo, and destination in Farsi, and if it does not do this, we will definitely go after it.”
International maritime laws govern the passage through the Strait of Hormuz. As coastal states, Iran and Oman can impose local regulations but complying with them is advisable, not mandatory. -
“The U.S., on the other hand, has chosen to ignore the facts, deliberately distorted China’s efforts as something sinister and even resorted to judicial action. China firmly opposes this.”
Beijing’s accusations against the U.S. are merely attempts to justify the People’s Republic of China (PRC) illegal operations on American soil to force expatriates to return to China. -
“As of tonight ... our guys have nailed 245 enemy tanks and about 678 armored vehicles of different types.”
Putin’s claim that Russian forces have destroyed 923 Ukrainian tanks and AVs since June 4 is not supported by any independently verified data. -
“China is a country under the rule of law and relevant cases are handled in accordance with the law. There isn’t an issue about individuals being ‘wrongfully detained.’”
China’s government is holding at least three wrongfully detained Americans in prison. -
“Now the conscripts. As mentioned earlier, in the zone of the special military operation, which is taking place in Novorossia and Donbass, as we have said, we are not planning to deploy them there, and this is still the case now.”
There is ironclad evidence that Russia sends conscripts directly into combat in its war in Ukraine. Often with little training and poor supplies. -
“[Since the counteroffensive began] something like 40,000 Ukrainians have perished and more than 100,000 have been irrevocably injured. In total, that’s almost 120-150,000.”Lukashenko’s claims are not supported by evidence, are unverifiable and lack credibility.
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(Referring to the U.S. rejoining UNESCO) “International organizations are not parks. Countries can’t just come and go as they please.”
United Nations membership includes a state’s right to be a UNESCO member. Any UN member can withdraw and rejoin UNESCO if it pays the membership fee. In addition, the U.S. is a UNESCO founding member. -
“We [the United States] put a new government in [Ukraine] that immediately makes a civil war against the Russian population of Donbas, bans the Russian language, kills 14,000 of them...”
The U.S. did not put Ukraine’s government in place in 2014, and that government neither launched the war nor banned the Russian language in Donbas. The 14,000 killed represent the total estimated losses on both sides between 2014 and 2022. -
“All publicized military and government exercises and activities always provide cover for other activities that are less well publicized, as we have seen with last summer BALTOPS 22, and the subsequent remote detonation of pre-planted explosives designed to sever both Nordstream gas pipelines.”
The investigations into the Nord Stream bombings are ongoing, thus Kwiatkowski’s claim is based on groundless assertions. -
“According to estimates by international arms control experts, the weapons-grade nuclear materials the U.S. and the U.K. plan to transfer to Australia would be sufficient to build as many as 64 to 80 nuclear weapons.”
China’s estimate is based on two assumptions: first, that Australia will receive eight submarines under the AUKUS deal; second, that their reactors contain between 1.6 and 2 tons of highly enriched uranium. Neither of those assumptions can be verified.