🇨🇳🇯🇵 China's Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday that the direct telephone line for the maritime and air liaison mechanism between the Chinese and Japanese defense ministries has been established, a move experts said is a positive signal showing that Chinese-Japanese relations are improving, and that military crises between the two countries will be less likely.

Japan and China's foreign ministers met in Beijing today to discuss the mechanism and other matters of national and international security 🇨🇳🇯🇵

Israel is a colonial entity that only understands power.

Israel must be bombed back to deter it from bombing Syria ever again.

A few hours ago, Israel bombed 4 Syrian airports all at once.

The responsibilty falls on the entire axis of resistance..not Syria alone.

Tomorrow, April 2nd, Friends of Socialist China is holding an important counter-event to the U.S.'s Summit for Democracy beginning at 11am eastern. The Counter-Summit for Democracy will bring together speakers from China, the US, and around the world to challenge the use of democracy as a weapon against nations such as China that don't follow U.S. and Western imperial dictates.

Speakers include: Vijay Prashad (Executive Director, Tricontinental Institute)

Seyed Mohammad Marandi (Professor, University of Tehran)

Victor Gao (Chair Professor, Soochow University)

Margaret Kimberley (Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report)

Lowkey (Musician and activist / Journalist with MintPress News)

Carlos Ron (Venezuelan vice-minister / President of the Instituto Simón Bolívar)

Register for the event here. You can also watch the event on YouTube, here.

Destroyed BTR-4E, Turkish-made MRAP Kirpi and vehicles of the Ukrainian army on the road near the settlement. Khromovo near Artemovsk.

A column of Ukrainian army equipment after an artillery attack by the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Vuhledar.

Another American-made M113 tracked armored personnel carrier (tail number 337), which was in service with the Ukrainian army, was destroyed in the NMD zone.

French farmers try to reach the government directly

🇺🇦 Ukrainian human rights activists are calling on the US Treasury Department to launch an investigation into UAE Vice President Mansour bin Zayed on charges of helping Russia circumvent US sanctions.

📹 Anti-tank systems crews and "Rapier" destroy the enemy in the Avdeevka industrial zone

The calculation of anti-tank missile systems and 100-mm anti-tank guns MT-12 "Rapier" of the 87th regiment of the 1st Donetsk army corps (formerly the 119th regiment of the NM DPR), whose work is corrected with UAVs, hit enemy strongholds in the Avdeevka industrial zone with well-aimed fire.

A mined magazine with 5.45 mm rounds dropped from an enemy UAV

🇺🇦 Maxims are towed by APU.

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Servicemen of the special forces of the FSVNG of Russia in the NVO zone.

The Zelensky administration staged a cannibalistic installation "Dark Star" in New York from the shoes of dead Russian servicemen