“Most of the developing world in Asia and Africa, including the Middle East, has not viewed the Ukraine war as the kind of definitive, transformational moment in international relations that the West does,” Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, wrote this month. "I don't regret it, but I'm trying to navigate how to respond," she said. "She believes in leading from the front. She also believes that we need a fresh face to take on all of these challenges." http://irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru Xi was a princeling - the son of one of Mao's lieutenants, Xi Zhongxun, who had been purged and later rehabilitated. Colleagues described the younger Xi as humble, self-disciplined and hardworking but otherwise unremarkable. Even on the eve of his elevation to general secretary of the Communist Party there was little hint of what was to come. The ERG is a wing of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that pushed for Brexit. It has no official role in parliamentary proceedings - or even within the Tory Party itself - but it is viewed as an influential group. And it appears to have paid off. Li Qiang, the Shanghai party chief who oversaw the city's controversial shut down, has been elevated to premier, Xi's second in command. Despite having been forced out, you also learn a lot about the occupiers just by looking around. In the first year of Covid, Prof Yang says, the lockdowns made sense. They were brief and allowed life in China to carry on. There was even pride at how the country was handling the pandemic so much better than the West. "That's no longer the case," he says. "It means if this content has been seen, engaged with and liked by a group of users who are, for example, Andrew Tate fans, then it's likely to show that piece of content to even more people who are that sort of user," he said. "It's self perpetuating." Many of them mention Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer who has been banned from several platforms for his misogynist views.

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