Dozens of African leaders are arriving in Beijing this week hoping the recent rebound in Chinese lending for key projects isn't just a short-term blip, by Alexander Onukwue for Semafor Africa semafor.com/article/09/03/…

Everyone has a plan for Africa, except Africa? A record 53 African countries represented in China at #FOCAC2024

I had two Uyghur interviews last week with Radio Free Asia about my mother's imprisonment. This is the first one where I talked about how more steps are needed from human rights organizations for our loved ones to be freed. #FreeRahileDawut

We didn’t

The girl in this poster is Kamile Wayit, a #Uyghur who turned 21 today and is imprisoned by the #CCP for sharing a video on #WeChat about the White Paper movement. She was only 19 when she was arrested. 1/4 Solomon Yue Tyranny Fighter Debyanne 🇺🇸 Salih Hudayar (سالىھ خۇدايار)

Its closest pass yet and its first-ever views of Mercury's south pole – last night was quite a night for #BepiColombo! Enjoy this taste of our fourth Mercury flyby. Details & images 👇esa.int/Science_Explor…

María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, discusses Bitcoin as a "vital means of resistance" for Venezuelans suffering from hyperinflation under the Chávez and Maduro regimes in an exclusive interview with the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡. More: bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/venez…

🇻🇪 María Corina Machado propone usar Bitcoin como activo de reserva nacional: Bitcoin es un "salvavidas" y un "medio vital de resistencia"

That's correct. Publishers removed '1984' from our library. 🕳️

Great image here from the Digital Assets Research Institute showing how Bitcoin misinformation gets propagated. De Vries' work has now been debunked across multiple counts in peer review study, but not before he poisoned the well, getting cited and quoted by countless others.

They also removed ‘Fahrenheit 451’ 🔥 List of the 1,300 banned books the publishers removed from our library linked in this FAQ: help.archive.org/help/why-are-s…

This was a productive conversation with my colleagues QnA and Dee -- worth a listen if you're keen to learn more about multi-vendor, multi-signature cold storage.

Taiwanese activist Yang Chih-yuan (楊智淵), who was detained by authorities in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province on Aug 3, 2022, has been sentenced to a nine-year prison term on charges of separatism/secession by the Wenzhou Court. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Tunisian police re-arrest presidential candidate minutes after his release reut.rs/47eL3RU

This is perfect representation of the old and common trope that IMF loans are “wasteful” or “reckless” This totally misses the larger point that the true purpose of these loans is to push political influence, shape economic policy, create debt traps, and reinforce USD dominance

The first genocide of the 20th century, which is nonetheless missing from our history books, is that of the Herero and Nama in Namibia. On January 12, 1904, the Herero people rose up against the German colonizers, killing a hundred German men but sparing the women and children.

simplex.chat

Beita is the Palestinian village overtaken by the Israeli settlement Evyatar, recently Legalized by Netanyahu government, after several years in which Palestinian unarmed protests were met with IDF fire, killing at least 7 Palestinians.

"If you harm an American, we will respond." — Joe Biden