🇨🇳 According to Al Manar, a Chinese delegation visited Lebanon before the 17th of October and offered a 5 billion dollar loan with low interest.

The Chinese also offered construction project, however the Lebanese didn't give any information reply.

🇮🇷 This isn't the first time the Lebanese avoid giving a reply. An Iranain delegation last year also offered building tunnels and help solve the traffic issue in Lebanon but didn't get an answer

🇷🇺 Russia happens to have offered tanks and bullets, but Saad Al Hariri Refused them. Hariri wanted to give the bullets to the security forces, but the Russians insisted they go to the army.

MTV correspondent, citing a source in Washington, who is following up on the prisoner swap file: Lebanese Kassim Tajideen, who is imprisoned in the United States, will be released within a few weeks.


Note: His five years sentence was already going to end soon anyways. He is a Lebanese millionaire illegally kidnaped by the CIA in Morocco.

Update: 2 Syrian refugees living in Beddawi camp in N Lebanon confirmed to have COVID-19 UNRWA is now warning of health crisis

The AUB University that has paid for several TV ads, aired for days, to share the news of the "generous" 20 million USD donation by the USA to help thousands of students, announced today its intentions to fire 1,500 employee at least.

This will badly affect thousands of families

The Lebanese Pound is trading around 6000 to $1 on the black market today - a new record low.

Minimum wage of 675,000 pounds is nearing the equivalent of $100 per month.

The currency had hit 5000 to $1 on June 11.

So, no one will start making any thread and analysis about the power plant and chemical plant that exploded in the US? Or are we just focused on Iran?

Not that I'm saying any of these fires in either country is sabotage. https://t.co/ltFImlXnX7

“This was tit for tat,” the US official, speaking under condition of anonymity, told the New York Times.

18-July-2012 https://t.co/aHsTHyNuOn

Technically this is not true at all, throughout history it was seen by the USA as intellectual property and soft power, back since the days of the Othoman empire.

Back in WW1, Wilson refused to announce hostiles towards the Othomans to ensure the safety of the University, etc. https://t.co/V6UBppv27a

There is a detailed story of why that happened and what the USA aimed regarding its institutes in Lebanon and Syria in this book.

The book is recommended, it teaches a lot. https://t.co/JnKlD4HfIx

And I wonder what kind of "private" educational institute gets millions of USAID and adheres to US State Department orders.

https://t.co/IwLdrIsmKq