🇨🇳⁉️🇧🇷 — 🌎 Chinese President Xi Jinping cancels his trip to Brazil for the BRICS summit and sends the Prime Minister in his place. If confirmed, this will mark the first time Xi has missed a BRICS summit

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) has not officially confirmed his absence, but according to sources, China’s ambassador to Brazil, Zhu Qingqiao, visited the Presidential Palace to communicate the likely cancellation.

➡️ Xi Jinping has attended all previous editions, including the virtual summits held during the pandemic. In 2023, in South Africa, he left the country shortly before his speech but still met with other leaders. Xi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) met twice in recent months: in November, during the G20 in Rio, and in May, at the China–CELAC Summit in Beijing.

🇮🇷 His absence comes amid the ongoing crisis between Israel and Iran. The two nations announced a ceasefire. Iran joined BRICS in 2024. In a statement, BRICS expressed “deep concern” over the bombings of Iranian nuclear facilities “of a peaceful nature.”

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🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈❌🇭🇺 — President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen pressures Orban's Hungary to allow Gay Pride Parades in Budapest, encouraging the Homosexuals and Transexuals to defy the ban on Pro-Sodomy Events made by the conservative Central European country's government

🇪🇺 In Statement on X, the Eurocrat said:

I call on the Hungarian authorities to allow the Budapest Pride to go ahead.

Without fear of any criminal or administrative sanctions against the organisers or participants.

To the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary and beyond:

I will always be your ally.

🔗 Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen)

🇭🇺❌🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 — Prime-Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, calls on European Commission to refrain from meddling on EU Member countries internal affairs and focus on things that actually matters for the average European citizen, as energy and economy

Dear Madam President,

I urge the European Commission to refrain from interfering in the law enforcement affairs of Member States, where it has no role to play.

I also call on the Commission to focus its efforts on the pressing challenges facing the European Union—areas where it does have a clear role and responsibility, and where it has made serious mistakes in recent years, such as the energy crisis and the erosion of European competitiveness.

Respectfully,
Viktor Orbán

🔗 Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban):

🇹🇭🪖📝 — The Thailand Defense Ministry and the Thai Army Chief of Staff held an emergency meeting.

The council has prepared emergency response plans to prepare for a possible climbing on the border between Thailand and Cambodia.

🇵🇱🛠🤝🇺🇦❗️🇷🇺 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Poland's Latest Megaproject Has Long-Term Anti-Russian Implications | Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack | June 22, 2025:

"Its successful implementation will help optimize the “military Schengen”, bring about a windfall of profits from facilitating the EU’s trade with Asia that could then be reinvested in its ongoing militarization program, and thus altogether pose a very serious national security concern for Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced late last month that his country will invest €1 billion into expanding the Euroterminal Slawkow railway facility in southwestern Poland, which is significantly the EU’s only cargo hub adapted to handle broad-gauge trains from the former Soviet Union. The plan calls for expanding the existing terminal’s capacity from around 285,000 standard containers per year to half a million and building another terminal to boot, while the long-term plan is to build five of them in total.

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Either Tusk expects a thaw in EU-Russian tensions or he expects that this trade will be conducted along the multimodal “Middle Corridor” (MC) linking together China and the EU via Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, the South Caucasus, the Black Sea, and then Odessa in this context. About that city’s port, former Polish Deputy Minister of Agriculture Michal Kolodziejczak informally proposed leasing at least one wharf there in April, which was followed by Ukraine inviting Poland to help rebuild its maritime sector."

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🇺🇸🗯🇪🇸🙂🇺🇸5️⃣🔣 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Will Make Spain "Pay": Trump Threatens Tariffs Over NATO Defense Spending Holdout | Jun 25, 2025:

"Update(1145ET): Among the most important, and somewhat surprising, things asserted by President Trump during his NATO summit presser Q&A, is that he's demanding Spain to pay twice as much in a trade deal - which he plans to personally negotiate and broker. Trump lavished rare praise on NATO members for reaching an agreement for each country to hit the 5% of GDP on defense spending target over the next ten years. Spain has been a notable hold-out and resistant. He used the opportunity to make clear his intention to make Spain "pay".

And Trump let it be known in front of the NATO audience: "I think Spain’s terrible what they’ve done. No, I do. They’re the only country that won’t pay the full — they want to stay at 2 percent," Trump answered a question posted by a Spanish reporter. He laid out his response will be to make Spain "pay twice as much" as part of a trade deal. But this raises the difficulty of how could the US directly tariff Spain?... given that of course Spain is part of the European Union and Washington is negotiating with the EU as a trading bloc. Still, he said this:

“Spain is the only country refusing to pay (for defense – ed.). So I will make you pay for trade. I think we will double the tariffs on Spain. We will make you pay.”

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As expected, NATO members have agreed to new commitment to significantly boost defense spending, aiming to raise military budgets to 5% of GDP over the next decade—more than double the current 2% benchmark—at the ongoing major annual summit being held in The Hague. NATO's 32 leaders proclaimed Wednesday: “Allies commit to invest 5% of GDP annually on core defense requirements as well as defense-and security-related spending by 2035 to ensure our individual and collective obligations.”

The Trump-backed decision is being finalized in Netherlands this week, with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte having hailed the proposal as a "quantum leap' during a press briefing. Trump declared Tuesday that we're with NATO "all the way". And on Wednesday he's expected to give a big address, as all eyes are focused on the Iran bombing and what's next."

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🇭🇺🚫🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸 — 📰 Remix News on 𝕏:

"🇭🇺🇺🇦 Orbán: "NATO has no business in Ukraine. Ukraine is not a member of NATO. My job is to keep it as it is."

🔗 Remix News & Views (@RMXnews)

🇺🇸💬🇺🇸💬🇮🇷 — 📰 ZeroHedge | US Meeting With Iran Next Week, Trump Says, While Suggesting Nuclear Deal Is No Longer Necessary | June 25, 2025:

"Do the Iranians themselves know this? President Trump says Tehran and Washington will meet next week about a potential nuclear agreement. 

"We’re going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We may sign an agreement, I don’t know. To me, I don’t think it’s that necessary. I mean, they had a war, they fought, now they’re going back to their world. I don’t care if I have an agreement or not," Trump said during a news conference at the end of Wednesday's NATO summit in The Netherlands.

But it appears Trump is sticking by his 'no enrichment' demand, at a moment the world doesn't really know precisely where Iran's stockpiled of enriched uranium is located. Only thing is... now there's not supposed to be any enriched uranium stockpiles in the country to speak of, after US was bombs away on it.

"The only thing would be asking for is what we were asking for before," Trump emphasized - though importantly he added that such an agreement is probably not necessary given the claim that the US successfully destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

"We want no nuclear, but we destroyed the nuclear. In other words, it’s destroyed. I said ‘Iran will not have nuclear.’ Well, we blew it up. It’s blown up to kingdom come, and so I don’t feel very strongly about it. If we got a document, it wouldn’t be bad. We’re going to meet with them," the president said."

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