🇺🇸 Kamala speaks to Biden over phone at campaign HQ: "It is so good to hear our President's voice. Joe, I know you're still on the reco... on the call... and we've been talking everyday..."

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🇺🇸 🇮🇱 U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will both hold Separate Meetings at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later in the week, after his Address to Congress on Wednesday. Biden and Harris will reportedly not be in Attendance for his Congressional Address, with Harris’s Campaign stating she has a “Prior Commitment to Attend” on July 24th in Indianapolis.

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🇺🇸⚡️- Kamala Harris has secured 3/4 of the delegates needed to be the Democratic nominee .

🇺🇸 Biden cancels nine trips, extends Delaware stay after dropping out of 2024 race

🔶️ President Biden has canceled nine trips that were scheduled for the next two weeks after suddenly dropping out of the 2024 race, The Post can reveal.

🔶️ Biden was scheduled to leave Monday for the West Coast, where he was to make stops in California, Denver, Houston and Austin – but all of those trips have been suddenly canceled, a White House source told The Post.

🔶️ Biden, who has been isolating with COVID-19, was set to leave his home in Rehoboth, Del., on Monday, but extended his stay until Wednesday after announcing the end of his campaign the night before.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/22/us-news/biden-cancels-nine-trips-extends-delaware-stay-after-dropping-out

🇺🇸 Biden scheduled to return to the White House tomorrow

After Isolating at his Family Home in Delaware for 6 Days, following a Positive Test for COVID-19 last Wednesday; U.S. President Joe Biden will Return to the White House in Washington on Tuesday Afternoon.

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☢️ 🇨🇳 Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof

🔶️ The first ever full-scale demonstration of a nuclear reactor designed to passively cool itself in an emergency was a success, showing that it should be possible to build nuclear plants without the risk of dangerous meltdown

🔶️ A large-scale nuclear power station in China is the first in the world to be completely impervious to dangerous meltdowns, even during a full loss of external power. The design can’t be adapted to existing nuclear reactors around the world, but could be a blueprint for future ones.

🔶️ A relatively new kind of reactor design, called a pebble-bed reactor (PBR), has the advantage of being passively safe, which means that if power for cooling systems is lost, then the reactor can safely shut down by itself. Rather than use highly energy-dense fuel rods like many other reactor designs, PBRs use a large number of low-energy-density “pebbles” as fuel, which contain a small amount of uranium surrounded by graphite. This can help slow the nuclear reaction and withstand high temperatures.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2440388-chinese-nuclear-reactor-is-completely-meltdown-proof/

https://archive.ph/QXXTY

🏭 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 China’s leaders are steering the nation into a de facto “war economy” － with Chinese characteristics, of course. | Thomas Hon Wing Polin

🔶️ That means it can also serve the 1.4 billion Chinese well if war didn’t break out.

🔶️ For if war did erupt, “economic, tech and military power” would precisely be the priorities. And that’s exactly what the just-finished CPC Central Committee Third Plenum has ordered.

🔶️ Given the US Empire’s relentless besiegement and persecution since 2018, Beijing’s decision was almost unavoidable... and essential.
As Master Sunzi (Sun Tzu) advised

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3271317/chinas-third-plenum-sees-communist-party-double-down-economic-tech-military-power

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🇦🇪 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Ebrahim Hashem on X:

🔶️ Analyzing the recent Chinese Third Plenary Session on the one hand and the American political events on the other hand, one can easily see which side is demonstrating leadership, unity, a clear sense of direction, confidence, steadfastness and optimism.

🔶️ They also provide ample evidence about which side is exhibiting absence of leadership, fragility, lack of consensus, paralyzing infighting, dangerous incompetency and pessimism.

🔶️ The recent events clearly show which side is practicing real democracy, trying to address the interests of the majority, and which side is pretending to be a democracy, while being captured by special groups that try to primarily serve the interests of a minority at the expense of the majority.

🔶️ While one side is strengthening its national identity, consolidating its regional and global role, and boosting its image as a responsible great power, the other side is in a major crisis of national identity, self-confidence, legitimacy and credibility.

🔶️ One side is demonstrating how an overriding sense of community and domestic stability can be created to drive ambitious national agenda, while the other side is showing how destructive individualism, identity politics and internal chaos can be produced to destroy urgently needed national reforms.

🔶️ One can effortlessly conclude which side needs to keep up the momentum to further progress and which side needs immediate massive intervention to arrest decline.

🔶️ One can easily identify which side is on the rise and which side is in decline.

🔶️ Both countries are important to the future of the world. It’d be short-sighted to hope that the decline of either one is in the best interest of the world.

🔶️ Strong and prosperous China and US will help propel the world forward.

🔶️ While China has a clear sense of its evolving global role, the US is yet to redefine its place in the world, especially after the intoxicating and fleeting moment of unipolarity.

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🇵🇸 🤝 🇨🇳 Palestinian factions sign unity declaration in Beijing

🔶️ Representatives of Palestinian factions on Tuesday inked in Beijing a declaration pledging to end division and strengthen unity.

🔶️ The world has "worn to the thread," and China is quietly mending the holes. A popular phrase on Chinese social media.

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🏳️‍ 🇺🇸 Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns over Trump shooting outrage

🔶️ U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned following widespread outrage over how her agency failed to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally earlier this month.

🔶️ Cheatle's resignation came a day after she was blasted by members of a House committee at a hearing on the Secret Service's actions leading up to Trump's July 13 rally in Butler Township.

🔶️ At that hearing, Cheatle refused to resign, saying she was the best qualified person to head the Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting the president, vice president, their family members, and leading presidential candidates.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/secret-service-resigns-trump-shooting.html

📝 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 The end of West's ideological monotony | Robert Wu

🔶️ "As someone who travels 30 or 40 countries a year, when I come to the United States, and when I go to my hotel room in Charles Hotel and turn on the television, I feel I have been cut off from the rest of the world. Literally. The insularity of the American discourse is actually frightening. This is also true for the New York Times. This is also true for the Washington Post. This is true for the Wall Street Journal. There is this incestuous, self-referential discourse among these newspaper journalists, and they reinforce each others’ perspectives and end up misunderstanding the world.

🔶️ There is only one doctrine, one yardstick, and one principle to decide what’s good or bad: the Religion of Democracy and Freedom. Never mind about the importance of economic development. Never mind the importance of peace. Never mind deeper respect for rules and civility that may only flourish in an environment of stability and prosperity, and through good public education. All of these important topics pale in front the all-mightly Religion of Democracy and Freedom. You take this magic pill, you are cured. Refuse it? You are doomed.

🔶️ In this regard, Chinese propaganda and Western propaganda really don’t have much difference. The only difference is that Western propaganda is far more effective, that far fewer people question it, and that wars and suffering and human sacrifices could be brought about by this self-referential propaganda without people involved ever realizing it and ever regretting it.

🔶️ And here is another important fact I have come to understand about my own country over the years: for many people who only have one set of lenses to look at the world, one thing they still don’t understand is that China is not about anti-democracy. What China is about is finding and managing the right balance among many good value systems at the same time.

🔶️ This is, what I see, the ultimate force behind the rise of Trumpism and the ultra-right. Western elites have been for years living inside their own self-congratulatory ideological bubbles, blinding their view, fooling themselves into the idea that history has ended, and so for a long time, they have neglected the plight of the underprivileged, the hillbillies, the rednecks, the rust belt poverty, channeling energy into the swelling populist anger.

🔶️ At the risk of sounding overly ambitious, I sometimes also see my generation as potential preservers of the best of Western values, which are at the risk of falling victim to the West’s own over-stretch. Fake prophets of all stripes are taking center stage. The temple may fall in front of us at any minute. But not all should be lost. I believe that the best of the Western values, the ones that attracted me in the first place, would have to be rejuvenated and blended with other cultures and traditions to be great again. For a starter, the Chinese emphasis on maintaining the right balance among different values may be a cool idea that’s worthy of some consideration."

Full Article:
https://www.china-translated.com/p/the-end-of-wests-ideological-monotony