The Boston Celtics majority ownership group, led by Wyc Grousbeck, is planning to make the franchise available for sale. News of the plan to sell comes two weeks after the Celtics won their record 18th NBA title.
If Warriors don't do it, they don't get anything back. Since Warriors are already at the 2nd apron, they will do it.
Chin Forces Seize Matupi, Advance on Myanmar Junta Ordnance Factories
Chin Brotherhood claims control of entire strategic town but locals worry about potential conflict with rival resistance group.
This seals Paul George exit from Clippers
South China Sea: Chinese academics urged to ‘construct narratives’ to defend maritime claims by China
China faces ‘an increasingly arduous battle’ to win over public opinion in the disputed waters, speakers tell an academic seminar in Hainan.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/309474
> Archived link > > Addition for clarification: The "South China Morning Post"(SCMP) is a state-controlled Chinese media outlet. Sometimes they appear to publish articles like this one that are, at least to some degree, critical of the CCP, although the article increasingly reiterates the CCP's stance as you read along. The post provides a rare glimpse into the Chinese propaganda machinery, however, which is why I posted it here. In general, however, one should be very careful using this source. > > - “Narrative construction and discourse building are essential if we are to effectively defend our rights and interests in the South China Sea – both in the present and in future,” Wu Shicun, founder of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, told a seminar held in Hainan province last week. > > - Without naming any country, Wu said China faced “an increasingly arduous battle over public perception and opinion”, adding that “rival claimants” were “stepping up cooperation with extraterritorial forces in the study of historical and legal issues” concerning the South China Sea. > > - Beijing lays claim to much of the South China Sea, citing historic activities and records in support. > > - Its claims were rejected by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 2016 in a case filed by the Philippines. > > - Beijing has dismissed the Hague ruling as “null and void” and continued to build up its infrastructure and troop presence in the South China Sea. But the Philippines and other claimants – which include Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei – along with the United States and its allies have repeatedly urged China to abide by international law. > > - Yi Xianliang, a former ambassador to Norway who previously served as deputy director of the foreign ministry’s boundary and ocean affairs department, also spoke at Tuesday’s seminar and dismissed the 2016 ruling as a “bad joke”. > > - But Yi warned “we have to ask why the ruling is flawed” and ask if it “will happen again and how we can prevent it from happening again”.
One goal in the Copa America group stage was enough for Canada to reach the quarterfinals in its tournament debut.The Canadians sealed second place in Group A with a gritty goalless draw against Chile on Saturday. Canada, which played against 10 men for a second consecutive game after Gabriel Suazo ...
[Thai] Banks deny they helped Myanmar junta buy weapons
The Thai Bankers’ Association (TBA) said on Friday that it stood firmly against facilitating transactions for the procurement of weapons for Myanmar’s military junta.
Dig further into the story - the Indian group is an ethnic chin group aligned with one Chin guerilla army in Burma who are rivals to the Chin guerillas aligned with Arakan Army. This is the complexity of the situation in Myanmar. There are splinters within different ethnic groups, and they are all fighting each other for territory.
An ethnic Chin group on India’s border has cut off Rakhine’s last major supply route and issued an ultimatum to Myanmar’s Arakan Army.
Historic alliances have prevented tensions between armed groups from boiling over in Myanmar’s northern Shan State, but overlapping territorial claims and ethnic sensitivities keep them at a constant simmer.
We got a draft pick and a better player out of this lol.
Lots of immigrants who go back to live and work back there.
It really is sad that in the last 20 years under libs and conservatives the best things about Canada are slowly being whittled away. The compassionate egalitarian society is being torn to shreds.
Ethnic army and PDF allies capture two dozen junta bases in three days of fighting in townships along the road linking Shan State’s northern capital to Mandalay Region.
Basically Jimmy is saying, don't trade for me. Or is suppressing the trade value for Miami. lol
Meanwhile, billions of narco money from golden triangle and their warlords and former warlords are living in Singapore as Singaporeans. This is just show.
SINGAPORE - Singapore has seized S$6 billion (US$4.4 billion) linked to criminal and money laundering activities over the past five years, of which about half of these illicit assets were from last year’s record scandal.
Hello? The average income of this district is twice that of the province, and of the city. Half the residents live in the wealthy neighbourhoods in the district. This is our 1%. Inflation doesn't impact them. Higher capital gains tax does. The other half are in apartment buildings along yonge in mid-town. Fashionable and desirable area. The north boundary of district is called "young and eligible". Rising cost of homes impact their home ownership aspirations. Some of these apartment dwellers have swung to cons. Libs have fucked up big time.
Given the location of this voting district which straddles some very nice neighbourhoods (and some middle-class ones), I'm not surprised this turned conservative.
The operation 1027 was started with Chinese blessings. It was stopped with Chinese intervention. It has now resumed again likely with Chinese blessings. This operation declared 6 objectives at the start : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_1027 which oddly included eradication of online scam centers and gambling dens on Chinese border. It's not so odd when this was known to be an irritant to the Chinese and Junta had done nothing about them despite Chinese requests.
After the ceasefire, the Myanmar Junta was seen carrying out arrests and deportation of gambling and online extortion fraud bosses to China. What are the Chinese objectives this time? Are the Chinese not satisfied with the action taken against online fraud? Is this meant to help Arakan Army make further gains in the west by drawing Junta's resources away from there? Arakan Army has surrounded the key strategic Chinese project in Arakan - the deep sea port project that will link southwestern China to Indian Ocean providing a much shorter route to Africa, Middle East, Indian and European markets. It's also meant to create a second "shore" in the less developed more impoverished areas of China. China is playing both sides here. Who do they trust more?
What this poorly written article doesn't say clearly is that these are Burmese REFUGEES who have ran from the war-mongering military junta to India. India does not recognize refugees and have jailed them.