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‘I don’t want to contain China,’ Biden says in Beijing’s backyard
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And he repeated that phrase — again and again.

“I don’t want to contain China,” he said during a news conference in Hanoi shortly after elevating the U.S.-Vietnam relationship and palling around with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We’re not trying to hurt China.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikki-haley-says-she-views-151214599.html

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Nikki Haley says she views China ‘as an enemy’ in pointed rebuke

Is China paying attention to the difference between Red and Blue attitudes?

‘I don’t want to contain China,’ Biden says in Beijing’s backyard
...
And he repeated that phrase — again and again.

“I don’t want to contain China,” he said during a news conference in Hanoi shortly after elevating the U.S.-Vietnam relationship and palling around with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We’re not trying to hurt China.”

Nikki Haley says she views China ‘as an enemy’ in pointed rebuke

Leaders of the BRICS group of nations are meeting in Johannesburg. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are home to 40 percent of the world's population. President Putin is not there, though. Russia is being represented by foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, since Mr. Putin is subject to an international arrest warrant for war crimes related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
BRICS leaders will discuss a possible expansion of the five-nation bloc. Some observers believe China is keen to develop a global counterweight to the western-led G7 group of leading democracies.

00:00 Putin not at BRICS summit due to Ukraine war
01:30 China pushes for BRICS expansion

Ali Wyne is a senior analyst, focusing on US-China relations for Eurasia Group's Global Macro-Geopolitics practice. Professor Oliver Stunkel is a political analyst at the School of International Relations in São Paulo, Brazil.

The upcoming G20 New Delhi Summit assumes extraordinary significance as leaders from across the world converge in the midst of shifting power dynamics, notably amid a new Cold War between China and the USA. India, emerging as a powerhouse, takes center stage in this high-stakes international gathering. U.S. President Joe Biden, who will visit India next month to take part in the summit, has called India his "most important country in the world." Molly Gambhir tells you more

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Leaders of the BRICS group of nations are into their second day of meetings in Johannesburg. They're using the summit to demand changes to international institutions.

The heads of government of Brazil, China, South Africa and India, as well as Russia's foreign minister, are talking about expanding the bloc and using a currency other than the US dollar, to reduce western economic dominance. The group has set itself the goal of increasing the political weight of countries from the global south in international affairs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not present in Johannesburg but he is taking part in the summit by video link. In an address to the delegates, he said Russia wants to end the war that has been "unleashed by the West and its satellites in Ukraine".

Once their influences fade

The Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE) issued on Tuesday a guiding document to incorporate Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into the curriculum.

Incorporating Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into the curriculum is significant in helping teenagers establish Marxist beliefs and strengthen confidence in the path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, according to the guiding document.

The guiding document requires that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era be integrated into the curriculum covering basic, vocational and higher education, and be integrated with various subjects, said Han Zhen, a member of the National Textbook Committee, media reported.

Primary schools will focus on cultivating love for the country, the Communist Party of China, and socialism. In middle schools, the focus will be on a combination of perceptual experience and knowledge study, to help students form basic political judgments and opinions. In college, there will be more emphasis on the establishment of theoretical thinking.

Studying Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the primary political task of the Communist Party of China and of the country, read a statement published on the MOE website on Tuesday. To cultivate the builders and successors of socialism with an all-round moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic grounding and a hard-working spirit, we must arm students' minds with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, said the statement.

The teaching materials must grasp the essence of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, systematically summarize its content, and clarify the scope of learning, read the statement. Also formulated are guidelines on labor education for students to cultivate their hard-working spirit, and on education of national security.

Tian Huisheng, a ministry official, said that the guidelines require continuous education of these major thematic contents among all students.

The ministry is working on the inclusion of other major thematic contents, such as Party leadership, national defense education, education on life safety and health, among others, Tian added.

Energy Sec Granholm secretly consulted top CCP energy official before SPR releases
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Granholm's previously-undisclosed talks with China National Energy Administration Chairman Zhang Jianhua — revealed in internal Energy Department calendars obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT) and shared with Fox News Digital — reveal that the Biden administration likely discussed its plans to release oil from the SPR with China before its public announcement.

According to the calendars, Granholm spoke in one-on-one conversations with Jianhua, who is a longstanding senior member of the Chinese Communist Party, on Nov. 19, 2021, and two days later on Nov. 21, 2021. Then, on Nov. 23, 2021, the White House announced a release of 50 million barrels of oil from the SPR, the largest release of its kind in U.S. history at the time.

"Secretary Granholm's multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raise serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration’s energy agenda," APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News Digital.

"Instead of focusing on creating real energy independence for America, Granholm has been too busy parroting Chinese energy propaganda and insisting ‘we can all learn from what China is doing,’" Sutherland continued.

China’s ambassador to the U.S. suggested Thursday that those in Washington who support closer ties with Beijing are “hiding in the darkness” because American “political correctness” makes them reluctant to come forward.

Xie Feng, who took up his post as ambassador in late May amid heightened tensions between the two superpowers, said at the Aspen Security Forum that he has found the “political correctness” of American society to be “a little bit surprising.”

“I think there are still a large number of supporters for this relationship, but they seem to be under pressure,” Xie said. “They seem to be reticent under the recent chilling effect, and they tend to restrain from making their views out under the so-called anti-China chorus.”

“There are some hiding in the darkness, afraid of being crushed. So one of my jobs here, I think, is to seek them out,” he added. “I am one, but we are many. So I hope that all of you will join hands with me to seek them out and to contribute together to this relationship.”