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Burkhard Maria Zimmermann

'#China has confirmed that the head of the #British military paid an unannounced visit to the country this week, where he met his counterpart at a time when #Beijing’s trade dispute with the #US was intensifying.

#London did not publicise the visit, but China’s #defence ministry said Adm Sir Tony #Radakin had discussed strengthening military cooperation with a country that the UK officially describes as posing a “systemic challenge”.'

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

The Guardian · UK trade minister visits China at same time as head of British militaryBy Eleni Courea
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RTE News Headlines

[10:13] New Zealand rejects push to redefine founding treaty

Politicians in New Zealand have voted overwhelmingly to reject the contentious "Treaty Principles Bill", which sought to redefine the principles of the country's founding document that was signed between Maori chiefs and British representatives in 1840.

rte.ie/news/world/2025/0410/15

#NewZealand #TreatyPrinciplesBill #Maori #British #1840

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shikhar

I have spent the last 2 years focusing on waste management, especially that of Electronic Waste—from the mining of the resources to the discarding of the commodities, and while we are well aware of the pattern of disparity between the over-consumption in the Global North and overproduction in the Global Majority parts of the world, the problems largely still exists. Who to blame, somebody is surely making profits from this trade deal.

Anthropocene is a (Poubelle)ocene.

Certain headlines, like the one below, always make me feel disgusted, knowing that the patterns of dreadful and atrocious colonial practices are still prevalent. I am so perplexed as to what design thinking hat to put on or what circular economy principles to explain the exporting of trash to their previous colonies.

Not only that, but in a recent survey commissioned by the Repair Campaign (repaircampaign.org/), more than 2,000 people in the UK found that 85% did not know that more than 3 million people had been forcibly shipped from Africa to the Caribbean by British enslavers. It also found 89% were unaware British merchants had enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years.

As Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned various times, "And LOOT, a Hindi word which the Britishers took into their dictionaries as well as their habit" (Link below of the talk of Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India at the University of Edinburgh)

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1. bbc.com/news/articles/c14jy2dd
2. theguardian.com/world/2025/mar
3. youtu.be/OB5ykS-_-CI?si=iczPAn

#anthropocene#recycling#hoax
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