🇷🇺🇨🇳🇵🇱⚡- Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister, has urged China to "bring real value to the global order" by "forcing Putin to end his colonial war in Ukraine".

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine is open to any format that leads to a ceasefire and real peace—but stopping the killings is task number one. Ukraine insists on a full, unconditional ceasefire. Peace can begin in silence, and the first sign of silence is the end of terror," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "Europe will insist on full respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity in any peace agreement. No compromises on sovereignty," - France's Presidential Office.

France joins the rest of the EU and Ukraine in rejecting Trump's peace plan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡- "Ukraine is heroically defending itself today, receiving military and financial assistance from its allies, and therefore has no reason to surrender," - Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Palestinian Authority President Abbas calls Hamas 'sons of b*tches' and demands they release all Israeli hostages immediately. Abbas also blames the war on Hamas for giving Israel an excuse to attack the Palestinian territory.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "We are trying to prevent a war with China. A war against China would be a terrible thing," - Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State.

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that China realizes its need for economic change, and sometimes that requires external pressure.

He emphasized that President Trump’s push to reorganize the global trading system marks the beginning of engagement with China.

Bessent also highlighted a significant opportunity to strike a major deal between the United States and China.

@wfwitness

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "EU and China are ripping the US off," - Donald Trump, US President.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "We will have a fair trade deal with China," - Donald Trump, US President, after Xi won the tariff war, with Trump backing down first earlier today.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine must ultimately decide its own future. We will never leave Ukraine," - Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the UK, commenting on US Vice President Vance's statements that the US will withdraw from talks if Kiev refuses to accept Trump's peace plan.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "The Trump administration is considering reducing high tariffs on Chinese imports to 50%-65% instead of the previously imposed 145%," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- The meeting between UK's Foreign Secretary Lammy and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Sybiha has ended.

"We’re working at pace with the U.S., Ukraine, and European allies to end the war and secure a just, lasting peace," - David Lammy.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "I would not be surprised if tariffs with China went down in a mutual way," - US Secretary of Treasury Bessent says the US is hoping China will in turn reduce their imposed tariffs on US goods too.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China talks will have to take place at lower levels than Trump and Xi," - Scott Bessent, US Secretary of Treasury.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Trade war with China is not sustainable," - Scott Bessent, US Secretary of Treasury.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 - Chinese right-wing media is having a field day after the US succumbed.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Regarding the tariff war launched by the US, China's position is clear: we are unwilling to fight, but not afraid to fight; if fought, we will fight to the end. The door to dialogue remains open," - China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: India suspends the Indus Water Treaty signed in 1960.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- India has closed the Wagha Attari crossing on the Amritsar-Lahore (India-Pakistan) border.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- India withdraws all diplomatic staff from its High Commission Office in Islamabad.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Meaning the US will fold without even getting a phone call from China. Here in China, we're happy that our enemy is making the strategic blunder of the century.

This strategic own goal is so stupid, some of us actually feel the second hand embarrassment for them.

Art of the deal? Art of a clown show," - Zhao Dashuai, China's right-wing media personnel.