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OPINION: Beijing confirms a record 33 expulsions, and Party discipline serves one man
The Chinese Communist Party does not try its expelled members. It confirms them. On October 29, the plenary session confirmed 33 expulsions. It is a record, says the BBC. One sentence is enough.
OPINION: China learns drone warfare on Kyiv’s back, and Moscow lends it a wind tunnel
Researchers at the windows. A jump. On September 28, a Russian strike hits the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. Scientists jump out of…
OPINION: A tanker of Russian diesel sails for New York, and Kyiv pays the bill
The tanker is called Agioi Fanendes. Maltese flag. Greek operator. It left Primorsk on the night of October 22 to 23.
OPINION: Why Warsaw is right to shoot down what comes from Russia on the radar’s word
A Russian military helicopter spent 42 seconds in Polish skies on September 23, north of Braniewo, and nobody fired.
OPINION: Kitimat doubles its LNG, a good move with a cargo that isn’t ours
A tank that does not exist yet found its future buyers on September 28, 2026, in Kitimat, on the north coast of British Columbia.
OPINION: Wadephul was right to see Lavrov, who answered de-escalation with “to the end”
Johann Wadephul spent 22 minutes behind closed doors with Sergey Lavrov on September 26, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
OPINION: Tehran hanged Saleh Mohammadi five weeks after his arrest, and Ottawa must name the judges
The Islamic Republic hanged Saleh Mohammadi in public, in Qom, on March 19, about five weeks after his arrest, according to Human Rights Watch.
OPINION: Trump waves Lukashenko’s potash at Canada, then backs off beside Zelensky
Donald Trump announced on September 21 that the United States was negotiating a huge deal to buy potash from Belarus, at a price “substantially…
OPINION: Carney courts India and Manila; he is buying insurance, not a spare America
Mark Carney set a deadline in New York on September 22, 2026. Trade negotiations with India should wrap up by the G20 summit on…