Chen Weihua (陈卫华)

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Chen Weihua (陈卫华)

Chen Weihua (陈卫华)

@chenweihua

Veteran journalist/columnist. Formerly, China Daily EU Bureau Chief, Chief DC, NY reporter. Knight Fellow Stanford, WPI Macalester, Freedom Forum UH. Fudan Alum

Landing in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for a driving tour to see the beautiful landscape and friendly people. It is said that people don’t know how big China is until they get to Xinjiang, the size of three France.
Chinese won’t believe that Amtrak train from LA to Seattle (1,800 km) would take 35 hours. I couldn’t believe it when told by one who just rode on the beautiful route. China’s high speed train will get you there in 5-6 hours. I did ride from Chicago to San Francisco 20 yrs ago.
Chinese honesty: I was “shocked” dining with friends when the restaurant owner asked how was the food. My instinct response was “great” based on my 16 yrs living abroad. It’s the polite words to say. But my friends started a review like a food critic. Reversed culture shock😂
Zunyi in Guizhou is incredibly affordable. One liter wheat beer, plus another glass of beer (all from its own microbrewery) and self-cooked meat and veggie kebabs cost only 64 yuan. Less than US$10. The liter of great beer in my home city Shanghai would cost 100 yuan or more.
Notice how quickly all that bullshit about liberating Iranians disappeared, and now it's all about bombing them back to the Stone Age, destroying their bridges and universities, poisoning their air and water, and stealing their oil.
Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully
Does threatening to send an entire nation back to the Stone Age mean anything other than a massive war crime? This was the question I asked my Finnish counterpart, who is a jurist. History is full of those who paid a heavy price for their silence in the face of criminals.
Ukrainian consular attaché working at the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Poland detained at the border. He tried to smuggle out: $140,000, €68,000, 12 kg of gold, 13.8 kg of jewelry. “Rats are abandoning ship” – as you can see, this applies to diplomats too.
Incredibly, our Atlanticist 🇪🇺president is still blaming only Iran for the current crisis. She cannot bring herself to even mention 🇺🇸🇮🇱. How much longer will Europeans put up with this?
At the end of the day it does not matter. NATO is already dead, because with his "paper tiger" comments Trump has confirmed that there is no longer a US security umbrella. A protectorate without its protector is illusory, even if it still exists on paper.
CNN drops a brutal reality check: American credibility is completely dead. Fareed Zakaria exposes how Trump treats a catastrophic global war like a cheap reality TV show, constantly contradicting himself while the Middle East burns. The world is laughing at Washington.
Iran, with a relatively modest economy and a military budget of roughly $8 billion, is confronting the combined power of the United States and Israel with remarkable courage and resilience. In contrast, the EU - with an economy comparable in size to the U.S. and hundreds of
Multiple attacks on health have been reported in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in recent days amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East. The Pasteur Institute in Iran sustained significant damage and was rendered unable to continue delivering health services. The Institute