By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, August 1 – When China took over presidency of the UN Security Council on August 1, 2022 its Ambassador Zhang Jun first said he gave a fan to his 14 counterparts to cool things off. Then he said any response by China's military to a Nancy Pelosi visit to Taiwan would be legitimate. Inner City Press video here.
He started late and by the 5 pm deadline took only six questions, two from Chinese state media and one from Russia. The other three were hardly better, with Zhang Jun predicted, correctly, that the question(s) would be friendly.
There was nothing on the UN's "peacekeepers" killing civilians in DR Congo. Zhang Jun bragged about just meeting with Antonio Guterres and having a "common agenda." Common indeed.
Inner City Press tweeted the month's Program of Work, here - nothing on Ukraine, not even in the footnotes, much less Cameroon or Haiti.
Inner City Press will be covering the month.
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