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Beijing Welcomes Palestinian Leader with Offer of ‘Chinese Wisdom’ to Broker Peace

After meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping announced a new “Chinese-Palestinian strategic partnership,” and presented China as an impartial broker for peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. Xi’s foreign minister Qin Gang said a dash of “Chinese wisdom” might be just what the stalled “peace process” needs.

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping after a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 14, 2023. (Photo by Jade Gao - Pool/Getty Images)

World Health Organization Grants North Korea Spot on Executive Board

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) concluded its annual meeting on Tuesday with the astonishing spectacle of electing North Korea – among the world’s deadliest regimes, a psychopathic nuclear-armed dictatorship that routinely murders dissidents and has deliberately starved a sizable portion of its population – to a seat on the ten-member W.H.O. executive board.

The World Health Organization's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus // Inset: North Korea's Kim Jong-un