"China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War" (subtitles).

[Ponce]

The second salvo has been fired, the first one was when China sent their ships into the area.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugq-KleU8IA

[Neuro]

Why is the station called "China Forbidden News"?

[DMac]

Why is the station called "China Forbidden News"?

Good catch. I found their website, the about says this:


http://chinanews.blog.ntdtv.com/



About

Overview of NTD Television

Headquartered in New York City, New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television serves more than 100 million potential viewers in China and around the world.

Founded by Chinese Americans, and rooted in traditional Chinese culture, NTD serves as a unique bridge between the East and the West.

NTD News, the company’s flagship program, strives to provide insightful coverage of China with the highest ethical standards of Western journalism.

NTD News broadcasts directly into parts of mainland China via satellite, providing a truthful, uncensored Chinese-language alternative to China’s state-run media.

NTD News also provides its global viewers with important news about China and the rest of the world in more than a dozen non-Chinese languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Persian, and Hebrew.

In addition to news, NTD promotes traditional Chinese arts and culture through a wide variety of TV shows and events.

NTD is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization primarily funded by individual donations.

Mission & Background

NTD’s mission is to:

• Bring truthful and uncensored information into and out of China

• Promote traditional Chinese culture

• Facilitate mutual understanding between the East and West

NTD seeks to be the world’s most trusted authority on news and information about China.

Besides NTD, no major Chinese language television network reports with complete independence on China. The Chinese communist regime has long dictated politically related content for all TV stations inside mainland China. And starting in the 1990s, it began using its economic and political clout to pressure Chinese TV stations outside China to avoid reporting on the most “sensitive” China-related topics.

In 2001, NTD was founded with the goal of reporting on what other Chinese TV networks would not. NTD fills an important void in Chinese language media, boldly investigating topics like abuses of power and human rights violations, and making this information available both inside and outside China.

In 2002, NTD was the first Chinese TV station to report in depth on the Chinese regime’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual group.

In 2003, NTD reported on the spread of SARS in China a full three weeks before Beijing—and hence Chinese state-run media—acknowledged the outbreak.

NTD continues to report on the Chinese regime’s ongoing suppression of Christians, Tibetans, democracy advocates, and other dissidents—as well as other issues affecting Chinese people such as food safety and political corruption.

[Neuro]

They seem to have an agenda against CCP, with a bias like that I wouldn't trust them on this assessment. I think China would not be too unhappy with the West overextending their military in Iran, they'll provide Iran with weaponry, but not much more... Same with Russia.

A war with Iran would speed up the decline of the West!

[DMac]

They seem to have an agenda against CCP, with a bias like that I wouldn't trust them on this assessment. I think China would not be too unhappy with the West overextending their military in Iran, they'll provide Iran with weaponry, but not much more... Same with Russia.

A war with Iran would speed up the decline of the West!


And with it collapse the paper tiger China. I also think Russia would not benefit from a global war, they are starving for working men as it is in that country.

PDF:
Russia's Population Crisis: The Migration Dimension (http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/pm_0118.pdf)

Summary:

Since the Soviet collapse, Russia has experienced a number of unfavorable demographic
developments:
• Falling fertility. The crude birth rate (births per 1000 population) declined from
12.1 in 1991 to 8.6 in 1997. Although some of the decline can be attributed to the
changing age structure of the population, falling age-specific birth rates suggest
that Russia's post-Soviet economic and social difficulties are the primary causes.


• Increasing mortality. The overall death rate grew steadily from 1991 until peaking
in 1994, then gradually abating. This reflects the well-publicized increase in male
(and, less markedly, female) mortality during the first half of the 1990s. The male
death rate jumped from 11.6 per thousand in 1990 to 17.8 per thousand in 1994,
then declined somewhat to 15.0 per thousand in 1997. The mortality increase has
been attributed to a host of factors associated with the political and economic
changes following the Soviet collapse: economic and social distress, deterioration
of the health care system, widespread alcoholism, and growing homicide and
industrial accident rates.


• Negative natural increase. The combination of the two preceding developments
has produced annual natural decreases in Russia's population. Positive inmigration
rates have offset the natural population decline somewhat, but not
enough to prevent Russia from becoming one of the few countries with a
shrinking population. From 1992 to 1998, Russia's population declined by
approximately 1.4 million.


The flight of working-age Russians from northern and eastern regions could seriously undermine the successful
exploitation of Russia's natural resources and further erode economic conditions in the
affected areas. The concentration of immigrants from abroad in high-unemployment
regions along Russia's borders exacerbates the poor labor market conditions there and
endangers social and political stability.

More:
http://rt.com/news/prime-time/emigration-russia-statistics-trends-045/
New brain drain: labor crisis looms in Russia