🇹🇼❌🇨🇳 — 🇹🇼 President of Republic of China (Taiwan) Tsai Ing-wen: No one can change the status quo in the region using force.

🇹🇼❌🇨🇳 — 🇹🇼 President of Republic of China (Taiwan) Tsai Ing-wen: The world's support for "democratic Taiwan" is unprecedented.

🇹🇼❌🇨🇳 — 📰 Reuters: Taiwan president vows to keep status quo of peace and stability
— "Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Saturday to maintain the status quo of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait amid high tensions with China, which has stepped up military pressure on the democratically governed island.

Taiwan will not provoke and will not bow to the pressure, Tsai said in a speech marking the seventh anniversary of her governance in the presidential office in Taipei."

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https://archive.is/e3uK2

🌐❌🇨🇳 — 📰 AFP: G7 leaders vow that attempts to "weaponise" trade and supply chains will "fail and face consequences" in a Saturday statement seen as a thinly veiled warning to China over its economic practices

https://fxtwitter.com/AFP/status/1659800641064300545

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Footage shared 1 hour ago on Ukrainian channels purposedly shows an panting Ukrainian Army Soldier, clearly inside a vehicle

According to him, he and Ukrainian troops inside Bakhmut are being hastily evacuated from the city

Such thing happens as Russia's Wagner mercenaries moved into the last fortified zone under Ukranian control inside the city last night, with help of incendiary artillery rounds

🇺🇸💸📉 — 📰 AFP: US President Joe Biden tells reporters at G7 summit he still thinks his country will "avoid a default", as debt ceiling crisis remains on a knife edge.

https://fxtwitter.com/AFP/status/1659798398093107200

🌐❌🇨🇳 — 📰 Sky News: G7 opposes China's militarization of the Asia-Pacific region

🌐🤝🇺🇦 — 📰 Sky News: G7 confirms Ukraine's support "no matter how long it takes"

🌐❌🇷🇺 — 📰 Sky News: G7 calls on China to put pressure on Russia to seek an end to the crisis in Ukraine

🇨🇳❌🇨🇳🇹🇷 — 📰 RFA: Blinken remarks on mass DNA collection in Tibet, Xinjiang spark backlash from China
— "U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed concern over the collection of DNA from Tibetans and Uyghurs by Chinese authorities, sparking a vehement reply from Beijing.

Speaking at a Freedom House awards event in Washington on Tuesday, Blinken said access to human genomic data opens up more human rights concerns because advances in biotechnology have enabled genomic surveillance based on DNA, potentially facilitating rights abuses. He is the senior-most U.S. official to raise the issue.

“We’ve seen some of those, for example, committed by the People’s Republic of China against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang,” he said. “We’re also concerned by reports of the spread of mass DNA collection to Tibet as an additional form of control and surveillance over the Tibetan population.”"

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https://archive.is/TebGu

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🇺🇸 US State Dept | Secretary Blinken remarks at the Freedom House 2023 Annual Awards Ceremony | 10-05-23
— https://youtu.be/OHdEdJ25PbU | https://archive.is/gRUEO

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🇨🇳❌🇨🇳 — 📰 The Economist | China’s government is mass-collecting DNA from Tibetans | 13-09-22

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https://archive.is/gBI0L

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 — 🇨🇳 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People's Republic of China on May 10, 2023 on Twitter:
— "Pentagon has reportedly made plans for hitting opponents with genetically engineered weapons.

The genomic data of Asian Chinese, European Aryans and Middle Eastern Arabs all on a list to be collected by the US military."

https://archive.is/GeMh8
🔗 Spokesperson发言人办公室 (@MFA_China)

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Today, May 20, 2023, the official medias of the Russia's Wagner Group PMC CEO Prigozhin published a footage showing him alongside his mercenaries claiming the total capture of the settlement of Bakhmut by the forces of the Wagner PMC from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and its allies

According to him, the full video of the hoisting of the flags, due to the limited possibilities of the Internet, will be shown from 18:00 to 20:00 moscow time

This so to speak marks the end of the iconic battle for the fortified city which lasted 9 months and 2 weeks, in its entirety 292 days between the Private Military Company and the troops of the Ukrainian Army