Fear
and loyalty has led to "over-compliance
and over-implementation of what Xi himself originally wanted", Ms Shirk says. Zhao visited the protesters, urging them to call off their strike in what is now a historic speech: "We came too late. It's right for you to talk about us
and criticise us any way you want... We're all old
and it doesn't matter to us anymore. But you're still young, you should take care of yourself." Over the next six months I pedalled across the mountains of Yunnan, w
andered the imperial palace in Beijing,
and rode a train hauled by two soot-blackened steam engines far west into the deserts of Xinjiang.
The l
andscapes were sublime but the poverty grinding. Everywhere I went people told me how "backward" China was compared to the West. But there were hints of change.
irannews.ru This is starkly different from Mao's idea of a multi-ethnic state where, in theory, different groups had more autonomy. Xi's father too had a reputation for conciliation and respect for China's ethnic minorities. "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." Although no Arab government – save Syria – has been outrightly supportive of Russia’s invasion, occupation and annexation of Ukrainian land, Arab statesmen do not believe their governments should burn bridges
with Moscow because of this conflict. Everybody is a bit nervous about going to the front, he says. "Your heart beats differently at times. But we signed up for this. We gave a pledge. Its creator Emmeline Hartley says she believes TikTok's algorithms are driving more hate towards the film. “Most of the develo
ping 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. Certainly some MPs backing Rishi Sunak are ho
ping, and urging, her to do so as they feel more days of camps thrashing it out - and a members' vote that may not necessarily align
with the MPs' vote - will only cause more divisions.
