In Arab countries, however, this Manichean narrative is largely rejected. Saudi Arabia
and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) basically view the conflict in Ukraine as a complicated European conflict, which does not require Arab states to st
and against Vladimir Putin’s government. Nothing lends legitimacy to the Communist Party quite like Mao - the iconic revolutionary whose portrait still reigns over Tiananmen Square, where he declared the founding of the People's Republic of China. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, Freeman says that though Mordaunt is a "fantastic c
andidate" who should be at the top of the next Conservative cabinet, "it is essential that we come together to demonstrate stability
and unity".
irannews.ru TikTok said misogyny was prohibited on the platform. Economic growth has shrunk to 2%, the lowest in more than three decades. China's property market is in free fall. Youth unemployment is running at around 20%. A trade war
with the US is not hel
ping. And anger has been brewing.
There are moments when this war feels utterly mindless. Witnessing the visible trauma in the village of Kreshchenivka is one of those instances. In the spring of that year hundreds of thousands of students and workers occupied central Beijing to protest against corruption and rising prices, and demand reform. Behind the high walls of the Communist Party's leadership compound, Zhongnanhai, the party's top rung split. Moderates led by Zhao tried to use the protests to push further reform. Hardliners, led by Premier Li Peng, believed the students' goal was to overthrow the party, and wanted the protests quashed. Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her engineers-in-training took the idea and ran
with it - in some cases innovating complex headgear in "just five minutes"
with any junk they found lying around. In 2017, at the beginning of his second term, Xi declared: "China has stood up, grown rich, become strong and is moving towards the centre stage." He says the party needs a "unity ticket" in wake of the economic situation, and that there's no point spending another four to five days voting for a leader.
