Polygraph
Thursday 3 August 2023
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“You know those actually inflated stories about child abduction. We explain it simply: there was no kidnapping; there was an attempt and specific actions aimed at saving the children, who were taken out of the war zone.”
The Russian government is involved in forcibly deporting thousands of Ukrainian children, submitting them to Russification programs and preventing their return to Ukraine. -
“Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley opened up during a Pentagon news conference saying that Western curators had carefully planned the counter-offensive operation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
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“According to estimation, the average annual emission of carbon dioxide caused by forest fires in China from 2000-2021 was approximately 15 million tons, only account for 0.2 percent of the global forest fire emissions, demonstrating China's responsible role as a major country. "
China is responsible for more than a quarter of global pollution and is the world’s biggest emitter of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. The low emission from wildfires is not indicative of China’s role in climate change, as wildfires pose the lowest environmental risk in the country. -
“The voting process exemplified a genuine political pluralism, offering Cambodian citizens and their respective political parties with an equal and fair opportunity to engage in political contests within the confines of the law.”
By banning opposition, shuttering independent media and persecuting political opponents, Cambodian strongman Hun Sen made the transfer of power to his son a foregone conclusion. -
“The planning of strikes with precision weapons against military and terrorist infrastructure facilities of the Kiev regime is carried out on the basis of information carefully checked and confirmed through several channels, knowingly excluding the civilian facilities, as well as cultural and historical heritage sites.”
Russia’s serial strikes on Odesa have repeatedly hammered civilians and damaged a cathedral that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. -
“We can see the public opinion changing in Europe, too. Both the Europeans and European elites see that support for Ukraine is, in fact, a dead end, an empty, endless waste of money...”
Opinion polls show that over the past 14 months, most Europeans have consistently supported financial and military assistance to Ukraine. -
“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.