Syria rejects Blinken’s remarks on occupied Golan Heights Wednesday, 09 June 2021 4:32 PM
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The photo shows part of an Israel military drill near Kibbutz Merom Golan in the occupied Golan Heights on June 9, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Syria has categorically rejected remarks by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, reiterating that the land was and will remain a “Syrian Arab” territory.
“The Syrian Arab Republic absolutely rejects the statements of the US Secretary of State regarding the occupied Syrian Golan which come in the context of the persistent American support for the Israeli occupation entity and its ongoing aggression,” a source at the Syrian Foreign Ministry told Syria s official news agency SANA on Wednesday.
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Politicians push Beijing Winter Olympics ‘diplomatic boycott’ across 11 Western countries Finbarr Bermingham finbarr.bermingham@scmp.com The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach (left), during the handover ceremony of the Olympic flag to the mayor of Beijing, Chen Jining, in 2018. Photo: AFP
A group of politicians across Europe and North America launched coordinated legislative actions on Monday, calling for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Spanning 11 countries and parliaments, the actions look to pressure governments, elected officials and heads of state to decline invitations to next year s Games, citing gross violations of human rights by the Chinese government.
World leaders call diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
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07 Jun 2021, 12:18 GMT+10
Hong Kong, June 7 (ANI): Amid the growing calls for a shunning 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a group of politicians from countries across Europe and North America launched coordinated legislative actions on Monday, calling for a diplomatic boycott of games citing gross violations of human rights by the Chinese government.
This action is aimed to mount pressure on governments, elected officials, and heads of state, to decline invitations to next year s Olympics, South China Morning Post reported. This coordinated effort by legislators in multiple democratic countries sends a message the IOC cannot ignore: if it can discuss postponing the Tokyo Games over public health concerns, it can certainly move the China games over the mass incarceration of millions in concentration camps, said Tom Malinowski, vice-chair of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, in a statement.
Why does the US advocate a free market while doing its utmost to stifle it? The current US-China economic war is a perfect example of this perplexing question. The legacy of Milton Friedman, the founder of America’s modern political economy, was .
June 4, 2021 at 1:00 pm
Why does the US advocate a free market while doing its utmost to stifle it? The current US-China economic war is a perfect example of this perplexing question.
The legacy of Milton Friedman, the founder of America s modern political economy, was a representation of this very dichotomy: the use, misuse and manipulation of the concept of the free market. Through the Chicago School of Economics, whose disciples have proved most consequential in the formation of the US approach to foreign policy, especially in South America, Milton constantly championed the virtues of the free market, emphasising a supposed link between freedom and capitalism, and insisting that governments should not micromanage markets.