economic aid. what more do we know? reporter: we ve asked the chinese foreign ministry for comment. we have not heard back. but i expect officials to stick to their usual talking points, stressing china s supposed impartiality in this conflict, and denouncing the u.s. for quote-unquote trying to smear china. and talking about eastward expansion as the cause of the conflict. but the timing of this from washington is very interesting. jake sullivan is meeting the country s key adviser to president xi in just a few hours in rome. the chinese have framed the meeting as long-planned, not something hastily arranged because of the situation in ukraine. and state media outlets may be
because he sees these very powerful, very advisable american voicers like tucker carlson and donald trump have his back? well i think that is very likely the case. there is a lot of reporting from different sources that putin s information flow is limited to putin both because he s in a bubble of advisers and people that he will speak to are already limited and that secondly a lot of those individuals are very fearful to give him information that might conflict with what he wants to believe or that will anger him. and so in that context, having people like trump say things like this, having the ability of statements by trump, by tucker carlson and being shown on those true russian controlled state media outlets that he does watch, adds to that ambiguity. so you have a number of dangers here. it is dangerous because it gives putin the wrong idea of the united states posture toward russia and it is dangerous
Netflix and TikTok suspended most of their services in Russia on Sunday, as the government cracks down on what people and media outlets can say about Russia’s war in Ukraine.
period in the mao revolution in the 60s and 70s, when political enemies were treated in this manner. this took place on tuesday with four suspects in full hazmat shoots with mug shots printed on plaque arlds hanging around their necks marched through the streets of a border town in southern china. their alleged crime was helping others to cross the border, obviously a serious offense by the local authorities as china continues to largely close its borders to the outside world and tightens its covid regulations. now, this incident obviously because of the striking visuals caused quite a stir online and with state media outlets starting to chime in as well. of course, there are supportive voices saying it is needed to act as a deterrence, but growing number of voices of opposition
voices of opposition even from state media outlets like beijing news saying this in is serious violation of the spirit of the rule of law and should never happen again. but so far local authorities stand firm behind this decision saying this was meant to send out a strong warning to the local population not to break any immigration and covid laws and regulations, and they see nothing inappropriate about this. but beijing leadership has been touting the effectiveness of their zero covid policy saying how it shows they always put people first. but incidents like this obviously expose a dark side of the covid policy and at least for local officials. many just have very little regard for human rights or human dignity in the name of covid prevention, paula. yeah, and that video is certainly disturbing. we ll continue to follow the case counts there. thanks so much. appreciate it. now, for a second day in a row india s seen an enormous increase in new covid cases. it reported more than 1