"To that end I shall support Rishi Sunak." "My first introduction to China was in the 1980s, when the debates about China's future were huge, significant, and consequential," Prof Karl says. "The party itself was involved in those debates. But 1989 shut that down." "Those Russians said they were liberators, they just started robbing us!" says a tearful Fedir. He says they took his car, furniture and mattresses. Nearly every house on his street has been damaged.
irannews.ru "In the past, we could always count on China's leaders to be pragmatic about economic policy, and prudent in their foreign policy. We don't see that now," Ms Shirk says. Mark Francois says Rishi Sunak did not commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence when he met the group earlier. But his son is driving a strident ethno-nationalism that seeks to unite the Chinese at home and drive away foreign powers who are, in Beijing's view, trying to encircle and weaken China. Down the street we meet Alyona in the kindergarten she used to run. She lived under occupation for two months before having to escape. As Russia's grip on Kherson continues to weaken, fears grow of it deploying a "scorched-earth" policy. The truth is Xi's path to power was far from inevitable. And it's defined as much by his ambition as it is by the party's failure to prevent what they did not want - a repeat of Mao's disastrous one-man rule.