🔊 ‘It leaves a vacuum in which the risk … is that each side will basically have to proceed on the basis of worst case assumptions about what the other is doing.' On Reuters World News podcast today, we discuss the expiration of the U.S.-Russia nuclear pact reut.rs/3O4MaOv
Read @robbiebarnett.bsky.social’s #borderization case study investigating PRC cross-border villages in #Bhutan turquoiseroof.org/forceful-dip... #grayzone #不丹
China’s #grayzone playbook in the Himalayas: military–civil fusion + roads, rail, airfields & border villages. Slowly eroding India’s edge & mirroring tactics from the South China Sea. www.isdp.eu/publication/... Shinji Yamaguchi/ @isdp-sweden.bsky.social #不丹
Reuters story which is headlined: White House moves forward on plans for a Department of War, By Reuters August 30, 2025
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
Xi’s rare Tibet visit was a high-profile display of CCP control emphasising stability, hydropower expansion, & countering the Dalai Lama’s external influence, while sending a strategic signal amid India border talks/Wang Yi in Delhi:
thediplomat.com/2025/08/xi-j...
(orcasia.org/article/1346...)
The US sanctions Canadian judge on International Criminal Court, freezing her assets. The same US that says war criminal Putin is dreamy and handsome and rolls out the red carpet. #cdnpoli #uspoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Putin’s triumph was evident from the very start of the summit where U.S. troops literally rolled out the red carpet for a dictator, indicted as a war criminal by the ICC in 2023, who cannot risk journeying to most countries for fear of being arrested. wapo.st/4fE9Cfj
Jerusalem Post - Trump, Netanyahu today discussed Israel's plans to take over the remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza.
A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.
He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.
Speechless.
Hundreds sit on the ground in Parliament Square with Big Ben in the background. They are holding placards which read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
According to Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and the Met Police, this was the largest, co-ordinated terrorist incident in UK history.
(📸 Press Association)
A stain on humanity
FRIEDMAN: “If the behavior this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.”
‘1984’ is upon us.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Video shows Israeli forces firing at Palestinians in Gaza who were gathered near an aid distribution site at the Netzarim Corridor.
BEIJING, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The discovery of the next Dalai Lama will be carried out by the Chinese government, and not under the current Dalai Lama's directions, a Chinese Communist Party committee official for Tibet said on Tuesday. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Rushali Saha: Beijing’s rhetoric seems to be dictating how the US should deal with the Dalai Lama & challenges the moral standing of DC’s historic position. Will Trump derail ongoing trade negotiations with Beijing over the Tibet issue? Seems unlikely...
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
China says the dams are a win-win solution that generates clean energy while uplifting #Tibetans. But activists have told @tessawong.bsky.social that the dams are the latest example of Beijing's exploitation of Tibetans & their land - & past protests have been crushed:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every decent person everywhere in the world recognizes that Israel is committing genocide with US support. And then there are a small handful of comfortable liberals who would rather see the collapse of democracy and free speech than acknowledge this basic fact. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
A diplomat's expertise is built over decades, not hired overnight. When the Trump admin purges our most senior diplomats, it’s not just firing people-it’s erasing a generation of knowledge and relationships. This is a self-inflicted wound that weakens America for decades to come.
“Will the United States and India forever refuse to endorse a successor handpicked by Beijing? Their past behaviour does not encourage optimism.”
Given that Trump has already reneged on the USMCA, the Ukraine arms for resources deal, and the promise to leave Medicaid alone, I would say the chances of his reneging on any new trade deal with Canada are over 80%.
The Dalai Lama’s statement regarding who holds authority for decisions about his next incarnation.
Athiest China must approve a buddhist reincarnation?
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, has often called himself a simple monk, but for more than 60 years armed with little more than charm and…
Thupten Jinpa has been the Dalai Lama’s principal translator for more than 40 years. Now a professor at Montreal’s #McGillUniversity, Jinpa shares his thoughts. share.google/bCm9HCIYOY3j...
For those who argue that trump has stopped calling Canada the 51st state….
Hundreds killed seeking aid in Gaza as famine deepens and limited food access leaves hundreds of thousands starving.
How could you possibly miss the wonderful 60’s band Fairport Convention?? Loved Sandy Denny! Yes she died too young! @gavinkilty.bsky.social #mattygroves
