Image is of Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, delivering a speech at the Munich Security Conference in 2023.
China has put forward a quite general peace proposal, which I imagine is both for Ukraine and also meant to be a general guide for solving conflicts in the future, with 12 points. Unfortunately it has no lobsters, nor dragons of chaos.
These 12 points are, as follows: respect the sovereignty of all countries and all countries are equal; abandon Cold War mentalities; cease hostilities; resume peace talks; resolve humanitarian crises; protect civilians and POWs; keep nuclear power plants safe (what a jab!); reduce strategic risks (that is, nuclear war); facilitate grain exports; stop unilateral sanctions; keep industrial and supply chains stable - the economy is not a weapon; and promote post-conflict reconstruction.
TeleSUR goes into more depth on each point for those interested.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
Here is the archive of important pieces of analysis from throughout the war that we've collected.
February 27th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
February 28th's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 1st's update is here on the site and here in the comments.
March 3rd's update is here in the comments.
March 4th's update is here in the comments.
Links and Stuff
American anti-war rally on March 18th by left groups!
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources. Beware of chuddery.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
:agony-acid:
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1630621020393553943
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/28/gaetz-hearing-global-times-china/
this article is wild around the halfway point it goes 1. The article was not Chinese propaganda but derivative of other research 2. Yes, Western sources corroborate our involvement with Azov 3. Yes, we vote against the anti-nazi glorification resolution 3. Because its a freedom of speech issue in Ukraine, actually 4. Therefore pay no mind
The global times piece https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1254217.shtml
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ACKTSHUALLY, Israel is sending Azov nazis weapons, not the US! :very-intelligent:
Not gonna lie, Seeing how quickly Americans will hold water for literal nazis that they’ve condemned less than a decade ago while screaming at me for being “antisemitic” for saying Israel shouldn’t enact progroms makes me distrust the majority of white people in the country lol
Here’s an idea: reposting liberal western reports on azov verbatim but under a Chinese name. See how fast they start calling it fake news and propaganda
this new cold war already fucking sucks, if the end result is gonna be America nuking everything because it can't have the freedom to dronestrike children playing tag in the streets anymore then maybe let's just get it over with and hope Posadas was right
Honestly your not wrong this does suck, I miss the dick flexing of the first cold war gotta lot of cool tech out of it, now we get article heads telling us how to thonk.
I honestly think we are just waiting Europe cant hold this insane position of not trading with Russia or China in the future they have no resources as it is. This whole thing is either gonna be fail sons not knowing what to do and turning the key or more likely the boring slow then rapid decline.