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Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’

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  Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’ Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, February 4, 2022. A senior Chinese Communist Party official publicly praised Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent Taiwan visit as “a carefully planned provocation.” Beijing’s show of support for Putin follows the recent  announcement  of joint Sino-Russian military exercises on Russian territory. Putin made his first public remarks on the heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait during a global-security conference in Moscow earlier this week. “The American adventure in Taiwan wasn’t just a trip by an irresponsible politician. It was part of a deliberate and conscious U.S. strategy intended to destabilize the situation and create chaos in the region and the entire world, a blatant demonstration of disrespect for another country’s sovereignty and its own international
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Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’

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  Putin Gets Chinese Plaudits for Calling Pelosi Trip ‘Planned Provocation’ Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, February 4, 2022. A senior Chinese Communist Party official publicly praised Vladimir Putin after the Russian leader criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent Taiwan visit as “a carefully planned provocation.” Beijing’s show of support for Putin follows the recent  announcement  of joint Sino-Russian military exercises on Russian territory. Putin made his first public remarks on the heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait during a global-security conference in Moscow earlier this week. “The American adventure in Taiwan wasn’t just a trip by an irresponsible politician. It was part of a deliberate and conscious U.S. strategy intended to destabilize the situation and create chaos in the region and the entire world, a blatant demonstration of disrespect for another country’s sovereignty and its own international
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Imran Khan's PTI Hires Lobbying Firm for 'Good Relations' With US, Pakistani Diaspora

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Imran Khan's PTI Hires Lobbying Firm for 'Good Relations' With US, Pakistani Diaspora By:  Manoj Gupta CNN-News18 Last Updated:  AUGUST 12, 2022, 11:07 IST Islamabad, Pakistan   Former prime minister Imran Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has hired a lobbying firm in Washington DC at a cost of $25,000 per month to support its “goals for good relations with the United States and the Pakistani diaspora in the US”. According to documents viral on social media, PTI has engaged Fenton/Arlock LLC, which was also hired by the Pakistan Embassy in United States in March 2022 for $30,000 a month. The documents were unearthed by Uzair Younus, Director of the Pakistan Initiative at the South Asia Center. Younus also shared a link to where the documents are publicly available on a US website. When he was confronted by PTI supporters that the agreement involves the PTI USA and not the PTI Pakistan, he shared a screenshot of the document to corroborate his claim that the
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Pakistan 'happy to play positive role' to bridge differences between US, China: PM

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  Pakistan 'happy to play positive  role' to bridge differences between  US, China: PM (L-R) Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and US President Joe Biden. — Reuters PM Shehbaz says "world can ill-afford descent into another era of Cold War or bloc politics". Calls for unfreezing of Afghan assets. Says present government "truly national in nature". Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered Pakistan's services as a mediator to bring together US and China as it did decades ago. In an interview with  Newsweek , published on Monday, the prime minister said: "If China and the US so desire, Pakistan would be happy to play a positive role to bridge their differences, as we had done in the past." The interview revolved around national, regional and global issues and focused in particular on the role Pakistan could play in "preventing the world from sliding into an ever deeper set of crises", as put by the publication.
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China conducts fresh drills around Taiwan as US lawmakers visit

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  China conducts fresh drills around Taiwan as US lawmakers visit AFP   Published   August 15, 2022     Updated   about 11 hours ago . A helicopter and boat under the Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army take part in a maritime rescue drill, as part of military exercises in the waters around Taiwan, at an undisclosed location on August 9. — Reuters Amphibious armoured vehicles under Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theatre Command take part in an assault wave formation training exercise in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, China, August 14. — Reuters A helicopter and boat under the Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army take part in a maritime rescue drill, as part of military exercises in the waters around Taiwan, at an undisclosed location on August 9. — Reuters Amphibious armoured vehicles under Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theatre Command take part in an assault wave formation training exercise in Zhangzhou, Fujian province,
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