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  Palestine:

Double Down News (UK): David Hearst, who worked for the Guardian for 29 year and later became co-founder and editor-in-chief of «Middle East Eye»:
Netanyahu's Gaza Disaster (8 min. video) (29/1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq4BzXkLQ3M

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Tibetan dance «Qingke Wine» at Roman Holiday Square, a public space in the heart of Chengdu city in Sichuan province. Qingke wine is a wine made of highland Tibetan barley (4 min. video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3FLk03LtI Peng Jingxuan performs «Hungarian Street» on guzheng (plucked zither) in France (short video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmZIjIhD3n0 South China Morning Post (SCMP): Chinese villagers help neighbour move house (short video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to-8oO6tWw0 The 9th Asian Winter Games officially opened in the host «Ice City» of Harbin on February 7th. The games also highlight the snow and ice culture of Harbin, capital of China's northeast Heilongjiang province (3 min. video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOe1wVkQqM The Asian Winter Games medal table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Asian_Winter_Games_medal_table «Stats Media» (US): Largest hydro-power generation by country (4 min. video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo0WLxS4yL0 Tourism: The Great Wall of China (3 min. video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-JnV8IodNU The Forbidden City in Beijing was completed in 1420 after 14 years of dedicated building efforts. It boasts some of the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden buildings in the world (5 min. video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCay-i1z1CQ

Longer videos: Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area (28 min. video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc3apQhhYek

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  FOR YOUR INFORMATION

CCTV: Norway’s Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre meets China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing (3 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wptU82g2HCg

Tourists arrive Shanghai North Bund International Passenger Center Cruise Terminal in Hongkou District, Shanghai. The tours are called Cruises along China’s coast, operated by China Discovery Voyage, and in China by Viking Cruises (Viking Yidun) (3 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb220qffm8w

‘The Sky Eye’ of Qixing Mountain in the northwestern part of Hunan province. The platform is located 1,528 meters above sea level, in a giant ‘karst’ (limestone) mountain area, which is part of Wulingyuan Scenic Area, 18 km away from Zhangjiajie City (urban population 225,000) (short video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uCxdIkQ2-w&t=1s

A drone video showing Nanjing city, population of 9,4 million, and situated in the Yangtze River Delta (4 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FS3OVkL6Dw

Basketball synchronized drills and yoga exercises in a primary school in Dalian city, Northeast China’s Liaoning province (short video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zokRdW4xX5k

A group of Chinese shuffle dance: The dance was developed in the 1980s. It is improvised dancing where the person repeatedly ‘shuffles’ the feet inwards, then outwards, while thrusting their arms up and down, or side to side, in time with the beat (short video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPnYaXQG73o&t=27s

‘The beauty of the clouds and rivers’ interprets the ‘Liuhe big gun’ (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x24pe28ZSEk

Longer videos:

‘Shanghai City Night’, Shanghai’s 35th Tourism Festival, with 5 teams, 25 floats, and 16 overseas folk art performing troupes – from the United States, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Croatia, Chile, India and 9 performing squads from Shanghai’s sister provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, such as Xinjiang, Tibet, Jilin, Yunnan, Henan, Shaanxi (11 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1PnGCG_MI

Celebration of 70 years of development in the Aba and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (population 895,200) in northwest Sichuan province (13 min. video)

The parade is held in Barkam town, 马尔康市 Ma'erkang shi, a county level city at 2,664 m.a.s.l. with a population of 58,390. Some of the national costumes shown are by Amdo Tibetans (mainly from 壤塘县 Zamtang County), Qiang people (from 茂县 Maoxian and 黑水县 Heishui counties), Bai people (from 九寨沟县 Jiuzhaigou county), and also Manchu, Yi, Miao, Tujia, and Zhuang. The song is «Gratitude», and the singer is Angsa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbSTotBQh4&t=1s

How much it cost to live in China’s most expensive cities (12 min. video)

A well presented, articulate, and well-edited video about the living standard in Guangzhou (Canton)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLXmiln-10Q

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Information for this monthly mailing list is collected by Rolf Melheim, co-author of «Høyhastighetslandet. Historier fra det moderne Kina» (China’s modern history and development). 

More info in Norwegian: http://www.newchinasite.wordpress.com

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 FOR YOUR INFORMATION

 German police chase a 10-year-old boy with Palestinian flag (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPuBmHdzZw

«India & Global Left» interviews Chris Hedges on Israel-US war on Iran; Palestine. Hedges is an American journalist, author, and Presbyterian minister (19 min. video from April 2024)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ekt01NoUc

Nima Alkhorshid interviews Dmitry Orlov on Palestine, Lebanon, Ukraine, and more.

Orlov was born in Leningrad, Russia in 1962 and moved to the United States at the age of 12. He has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. (44 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpt-YtnaOjk

Wikipedia on Hezbollah (Ḥizbu llāh, lit. 'Party of God’): «Hezbollah not only has armed and political wings – it also boasts an extensive social development program. Hezbollah currently operates at least four hospitals, twelve clinics, twelve schools and two agricultural centers that provide farmers with technical assistance and training. It also has an environmental department and an extensive social assistance program. Medical care is also cheaper than in most of the country's private hospitals and free for Hezbollah members.»

Vladimir Brovkin: Trump, Harris and Putin: Russian-American Relations After November. Brovkin is a Russian-born American historian (15 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IorFc884i8&t=1s

Europe at a Crossroads (5 min. video)

Shahid Bolsen from Malaysia and a political commentator on global Muslim affairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV06nIkIy5M

President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso on how the West through its 3 Axis controls the World (10 min. video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Q8_BWrrik&t=1s

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  For Your Information

Palestine:

TRT, Istanbul: Besieged Gaza (animated video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE_wO0DqBTA

Al Jazeera, Doha, Qatar: Satellite images reveal the destruction of hospitals in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/4/18/satellite-images-reveal-israeli-destruction-of-hospitals-in-gaza

Neutrality Studies (USA): Retired British Ambassador Craig Murray (April 2024): «These Western countries have been planning this genocide» (main part: 0:45–13:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2juV794znnI

Vice News (USA): Why Evangelical Christians Love Israel (12 min. 2018 video)
Armageddon is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for the battle during the end times (main part: the first 7 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo77sTGpngQ

World politics:

Prof. Mearsheimer analyses the differences between Trump and Harris foreign policy and many other subjects (starts at 00:00) (unfortunately with some sound problems)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYWVPELXbU0

Dialogue Works (Brazil): Gilbert Doctorow, an American citizen and a resident of Brussels, on Russian politics etc. (43 min. video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp7FTbYbFl0

N E D: What it is and what it does
https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/wjbxw/202408/t20240809_11468618.html

Courtesy of 

<rolf.melheim@gmail.com>