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What to know as Trump visits Xi in China

US President Donald Trump is in Beijing on the first trip to China by an American leader since in his own previous visit, during his first term in 2017.

He was given a spectacular welcome at the Great Hall of the People. The two leaders shook hands on the red carpet before entering a room for their bilateral meeting.

The talks lasted around two hours, longer than expected. Trump called the talks “great”, but there are few details on whether any progress was made on key issues.

BBC has a live feed.

Canada can’t even close them down – US citizen convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 14, 2026•0•"China eats weird animals disease", USA

The world order has changed. Now comes the hard part

It is now commonplace to say that the international rules-based order is dead. Indeed, in his speech at Davos in January, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney not only pronounced its death but outlined a strategy for middle powers to adopt in response.

There are two elements of the rules-based order that have been challenged by recent events. The first is that there can be no changes to borders through the forcible annexation of territory or unilateral secession. This is one of the main pieces of the international order that appears to have fallen. The first serious brick in the wall was removed in 2014, with general acquiescence to Russia’s takeover of Crimea and eastern Donbass. It was also challenged more recently by the United States’ stated desire to purchase Greenland, as if it was a piece of real estate, and against the wishes of both Greenlanders and Denmark.

Carney does not “matter” in the old or new world order.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Europe’s sleeping giant rearms

The smell of oil and scorched metal lingers in the workshop where the world’s most widely used submachine gun is made.

As workers armed with blowtorches pore over aiming sights and cocking tubes, row upon row of robotic arms are forging and drilling gun barrels on the factory floor.

This is the secretive manufacturing hub of Heckler & Koch, the German firm perhaps best known in Britain for supplying MP5 submachine guns to UK special forces.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•Germany

Muslim Association director who called Oct 7 a lie refused entry to Canada

A leading figure in the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) who defended Hamas’s hostage-taking in its Oct 7 attack on Israel has been refused entry to Canada.

Dr Anas Altikriti, who is listed as a director of the association, had planned to attend and speak at a Muslim Association of Canada convention in Toronto on May 16-18.

However, he was held and questioned for 11 hours on arrival in Montreal before being escorted back on to a plane to London.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 14, 2026•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Zelensky’s Former Aide on Trial in Major Money-Laundering Case

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former right-hand man, Andriy Yermak, appeared in a Kyiv court on Tuesday after being named by Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies as a suspect in a money-laundering scheme.

Yermak’s lawyer had earlier denounced as “baseless” the allegations that the former head of the presidential office had been caught up in a corruption scandal surrounding a €8.9m ($10.5m) luxury construction project outside Kyiv.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

‘We have a lot to lose’: Will Trump’s visit to China threaten Carney’s diversification?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump is in Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — their first meeting of 2026 after a year of tariff escalation and just months after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s own trip to China.

The talks begin on Thursday on issues ranging from Iran and Taiwan to trade.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Brigitte Macron slapped French hubby over flirty text, ‘relationship’ with Iranian actress: report

Slap-re bleu!

French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped by his wife during a foreign trip last year after she found a steamy message from a younger actress on his phone, according to sensational claims in a new book.

Brigitte Macron’s viral attack on her husband — which was caught on cameras — was a result of the steamy messages allegedly sent between her former student, 48, and Iranian-born Golshifteh Farahani, 42, journalist Florian Tardif claimed in an interview with RTL France.

Brigitte dominates Macron with a slap.

Time to slap down his open border disasters?pic.twitter.com/XyX6K1UFoE

— Defend the West (@real_DefendWest) March 31, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 14, 2026•0•WTF?

CBC under fire as fake documentary sting targeting activists draws widespread backlash

CALGARY — Questions are being asked about taxpayer-funded activism and media ethics after former Mount Royal University professor Dr. Frances Widdowson and author Lindsay Shepherd alleged they were specifically targeted in an elaborate prank operation.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Government Owned News Media, CBC Scandals

WTF?

Diversity Our Strength! @fancypants_s https://t.co/2iNAcLnTzY

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) May 13, 2026

h/t Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•WTF?

WTF?

When I was a kid, the RCMP had to be clean-shaven. Now that women are joining, they're more lax. pic.twitter.com/ooblaCQiaU

— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) May 13, 2026

h/t Patti Jo

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•WTF?

Canadians split on floor-crossing MPs, poll suggests

Canadians are split on what they think should happen when a member of Parliament decides to change political parties, a new poll suggests.

The survey of just over 1,000 people was conducted by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail shortly after the Liberals secured a majority government in April, following three by-elections and five MPs crossing the floor since November.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics"

Britain is Now Policing Thought Crime

If you want a snapshot of how far Britain has drifted from its liberal inheritance, consider the spectacle of a 78 year-old grandfather and retired pastor being warned by police that he must not preach from the Bible within a public area. His offence was not harassment, obstruction or intimidation. It was reciting and commentating on a verse many learned as children: “For God so loved the world…”

Clive Johnston’s alleged crime was breaching a ‘buffer zone’ around a hospital which houses a sexual health clinic where abortions are performed – despite the fact it was a Sunday afternoon when there were no scheduled abortions, and he made no reference whatsoever to abortion, nor motherhood, nor babies.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•Thought Crime

NDP’s Jenny Kwan Demands Ottawa Release Secret Police Deal With Beijing, Calling Continued Secrecy a Threat to Diaspora Safety

OTTAWA — A senior New Democratic Party parliamentarian has formally demanded that the Carney government release the full text of its secret law enforcement agreement with China’s Ministry of Public Security, echoing a set of facts The Bureau has been reporting for months, while warning that Ottawa’s continued refusal to disclose the deal is fueling legitimate fear among diaspora communities who have experienced or fear transnational repression by the Chinese state.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Starmer’s tyrannical overseas speaker bans will only reinforce Tommy’s Saturday rally

THERE’S a perverse irony in that a notorious hate preacher heading for the Finsbury Park Mosque or Darul Uloom in Bury to pray for the eradication of the Jewish race will have a UK immigration officer stamp his passport with a welcoming smile and wave him merrily on his way.

Arrive at the same desk as a cultured, civilised Christian democrat, hoping to share a message of hope, brotherhood – and perhaps warning – with a vast crowd of British patriots? Prepare yourself for several silent hours in a stark, locked room before being marched by grim-faced British oberleutnants and thrust on to a return flight home.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Ontario’s new freedom of information restrictions ‘reduce transparency by half’

In less than four minutes on a Thursday afternoon, Ontario lawmakers voted to drastically restrict more than 40 years’ worth of government information that had previously been routinely available to reporters, researchers and the public.

I know, because a provincial officer told me as much last week.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2026May 13, 2026•0•Ontario, WTF?