While Germany focuses on issues like market access, supply chain security, and industrial competition, China likewise places great importance on a fair business environment and the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. What both sides need is to establish more effective communication and coordination mechanisms to identify a new balance of interests in areas such as industrial upgrading, technological innovation, and economic and trade rules.

‘Consistency is valuable in governance’ – this ancient saying is worth heeding by the German side

By Global Times

John Menadue writes of the ethnic cleansing of Christians from the Holy Land and the shameful silence of Australian Christian leaders.

They are the oldest Christian communities in the world. They have endured Roman persecution, Byzantine decline, the Crusades, Ottoman rule and British colonialism. What they have not survived is the state of Israel.

John Menadue

When senior Defence bureaucrat Celia Perkins shocked senators by demanding that they not post public evidence on social media, she had cover from the highest levels of government. Rex Patrick reports on a contemptuous plot by Executive Government to ‘manage’ committees of the Senate.

On September 4, Defence Deputy Secretary Celia Perkins appeared before a Senate Committee. At the end of her opening statement she tried to impose censorship on the senators.

Cover-up. Government conspiracy to ‘manage’ the Senate revealed

by Rex Patrick

Young people are protesting across Germany on Saturday over the cost of living, underfunded education, and the possible reintroduction of military conscription. Organizers expect more than 170,000 participants, with demonstrations planned in 34 German cities including Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Munich. 

The demonstrations continue last week’s unrest across Europe, where protesters clashed with riot police over rising living costs and government policies. In France, rallies that began in September with students demanding lower education costs, more teachers, and better school facilities have since escalated into broader anti-government protests across the continent. 

Delegations from 48 African countries, including 21 leaders, gathered in Moscow for the third Russia-Africa Summit under the motto “For Peace, Security and Development.” The gathering concluded on Thursday with a final declaration and a new cooperation plan. Organizers reported 146 documents signed across the Summit and its accompanying economic, humanitarian and media forums, comprising 92 agreements and 54 memorandums.

More than 3,500 participants from 74 countries attended, including over 1,200 business representatives from around 630 companies.The forum hosted more than 40 sessions.

The word ‘Gallipoli’ evokes memories of Britain’s greatest military disaster in the First World War. The objective was to clear the Dardenelles – the straight between the European and the Asian part of Turkey, South of the Sea of Marmara – to enable the Russian fleet to pass from the Black Sea to the Mediteranean. According to US author Richard Poe, in his book ‘How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews)’, “If the attack were successful, Constantinople would fall, and the Ottoman Empire with it. But the attack failed. Catastrophically“.

FROM TIME TO TIME, ONE NEEDS TO EXPOSE OUR — WELL NOT OURS [WE DON'T HAVE ANY], BUT THAT OF OUR GOVERNMENT[s] — HYPOCRISY... FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU NEED TO BE FED, LIKE THE DOG OF THE FABLE, YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED TO BE TIED UP TO POLICIES THAT ARE — LET'S BE FRANK — REVOLTING AND DEGRADING...

IN THE FABLE, THE LONE WOLF STARVES... IN THE WILD, THE WOLF IS INDEPENDENTLY SMART...

SO WHAT ARE THE POLICIES AUSTRALIA HAS TO BE TIED UP WITH?: AUKUS, AMERICA'S PRESIDENT LOONITUDE, ENGLAND'S KISSING OF ZELENSKY's BUTT... EUROPE's FASCSIM, ETC.

AMONGST ALL THIS, ARE TWO MAIN CONTRADICTIONS:

FIRST, CHINA IS OUR BEST CUSTOMER BUT WE HAVE TO HATE IT, TO PLEASE OUR US MASTERS...

Pope Leo XIV has become the first ever pontiff to vote in a United States general election after submitting a mail-in ballot ahead of November's midterms, the Vatican confirmed on Friday.

The 71-year-old US citizen, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, as Robert Francis Prevost, applied for a postal vote on October 3, according to US media.

The Holy See's press office said in a statement that the pope "has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen" and has done so "whenever he was eligible to do so."

“The Soviets allowed reunification {of Germany} because the Allies had promised they would not expand NATO eastward, inside Germany or beyond,” Scott Horton explains near the beginning of “Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine,” his recently released diatribe [sic] on how the West, and especially the United States, precipitated the current situation in Ukraine. “Of course, the various administrations and their partisans have lied about it snice[sic], at times claiming this pledge either never happened, or that it only ever applied to NATO forces within Germany, but not the rest of Eastern Europe.”

‘Provoked’ a fascinating read for those into politics

Posted: Sunday, June 15, 2025

Regulation was once a dirty word in tech companies around the world. They argued that if people wanted better smartphones and flying cars, we had to look past dusty old laws dreamed up in the pre-internet era.

But something profound is afoot. First a whisper, and now a roar: the law is back.

Ed Husic, Australia’s federal minister responsible for tech policy, is leading a once-in-a-generation review of Australian law, asking Australians how our law should change for the AI era. He recently told the ABC, “I think the era of self-regulation is over.” 

Do we need a new law for AI? Sure – but first we could try enforcing the laws we already have

THE CONVERSATION

France will deploy some 70,000 police officers in Paris and other cities ahead of a new round of nationwide protests on Saturday, with Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez warning of "very high risk of public disorder". The minister pledged an "extremely firm" response after mass protests on October 17 degenerated into rioting and looting.

French minister warns of 'very high' violence risk as country braces for Halloween protests

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has canceled a planned trip to Senegal and is returning to Poland after Prime Minister Donald Tusk ordered a raid on the country’s top court. The court has described the raid as a “coup.”

Riot police surrounded the headquarters of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw on Friday night, and judges Bogdan Swieczkowski – the court’s president – and Bartlomiej Sochanski were suspended and had their profiles scrubbed from the court’s website.

Shortly after officers cordoned off the building, the court’s official X account claimed that the website had been subjected to an “unlawful takeover,” and that the two justices had been wrongfully removed. “All persons participating in these actions are committing the crime of a coup d’état,” the court stated.

Too often, the Global South is portrayed through crisis and through outsiders’ eyes. In this speech to the Belt and Road Journalists Forum, Gordon Joseph details how stronger media partnerships and fairer access to technology could put local voices in control.

Gordon Joseph
The Global South doesn't lack stories. It lacks the power to tell them

Let me begin with a question.

Who has the right to tell our stories?

Who decides which suffering deserves international attention? Whose tears make the headlines? Whose voices are trusted to explain a crisis, a conflict, a struggle for human rights or the everyday realities of ordinary people?

Atlanta: The US was forced to cancel the traditional “family photo” of foreign ministers at the G20 in Atlanta after diplomats from around the world refused to appear alongside Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, who is attending at the invitation of the American hosts.

The photo had been scheduled for 10am Friday (Atlanta time) but did not take place. There was no statement from the US about the cancellation, but an official said they did not want the issue to become a distraction.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong made it known she would not participate in a photograph with Lavrov, a source with knowledge of the matter said. Reuters reported Canada also objected, citing a diplomat familiar with the situation. Wong was contacted for comment.