Leaders of every country on the planet other than maybe the United States during the unipolar period are force by the nature of their jobs to compromise. Compromise is part of what diplomacy is.
Media information in a free country is a counterbalance against entrenched power, not just government power but the economic power. If sources of information media outlets align with entrenched power then you have a powerless population and it's totalitarian, and it is very quickly the direction the United States is headed. And I do think that technology abets this progression and machine learning especially. So it is a perilous moment if you know we're a democracy purportedly and a prerequisite for democracy is information so that the electric can make up its mind and decide who to choose and so if you don't have access to information you don't have democracy.
We are in this sort of weird spiral where our leaders lecture us ever more about democracy and how sacred it is even as they choke it off, choke it to death. So I think the people who provide information who bring the facts to the public have a critical role to play, and right no it's difficult I don't mean to cast myself as a hero but I do think it's tougher and tougher to do that and that means we have a greater obligation to do it.
The western media has been reporting negative news on China that China is collapsing for many years using property sector bubble, Huawei 5G posts security issues, COVID, Xinjiang, Taiwan independence, Hong Kong riots, etc. Let's compare some statistics between China and USA. Contribution by Tik Tok.
I feel that rational understanding of #China in #Europe is increasing, recognizing that China's development is in line with historical logic. Europe should neither fear nor reject this. The European side is positive about enhancing exchanges at all levels with China and enthusiastic about deepening pragmatic cooperation. China will continue to make efforts in relaxing market access, aligning with international trade rules, and removing barriers for foreign nationals coming to China: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in summarizing his latest trip to Europe https://globaltimes.cn/page/202402/1307434.shtml
The UK of today is no longer the British Empire of the past. But the UK hold a big negotiating power over China.
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618-907) to bronze vessels dating to the dawn of China's civilisation.
A British law enacted in 1963 prohibits the museum from repatriating objects.
Most Chinese collections were certainly looted or stolen by Britain when it created and later took advantage of China’s crisis, or even directly robbed China.