| INTERNATIONAL
The Saudi night of the long knives was followed by the sudden appearance of Saad Hariri in the Kingdom, announcing that he was resigning as prime minister of Lebanon. Then came the news that the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas had been summoned to Riyadh. independent.co.uk/
The clarity and coherence of a deep strategic thinker like President Xi Jinping contrasts to the improvised, contradictory and incoherent utterances from the US President and Congress. This is not a matter of mere style but of substantive content. unz.com/
China’s president Xi and Peoples’ Bank of China chair, Zhou, have announced, post-convention, that China’s real growth will slow and have warned a global ‘Minsky Moment’ (i.e. financial crisis) may be brewing. globalresearch.ca/
Xi Jinping has been consecrated as China’s most powerful leader since Mao  Zedong after a new body of political thought carrying his name was added to the Communist party’s constitution. thenextrecession.wordpress.com
Millions of Chinese this week have been scrambling to apply to take China’s annual civil service exam, dubbed one of the most grueling exams in the country, with the most popular position on offer being the China Family Planning Association (CFPA). globaltimes.cn
Police claim that she had tweeted, “We are being led by a selfish man and a sick man,” and charged her under Zimbabwe’s new cybercrimes law. latimes.com
V enezuelan officials reported Saturday that Twitter has suspended about 180 accounts linked to the government of President Nicolás Maduro following a diplomatic flare–up between Maduro and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. splinternews.com/ |
The Federation of South African Trade Unions reaffirms its total support for the demand for free, universal and decolonised education. In particular SAFTU pledges its solidarity with students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology against the continued use of the paramilitary security company Vetus Schola. 
On Monday October 30, an historical protest took place in front of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. Approximately 100 people gathered to protest the sale of arms and military training by Israel to Myanmar, where these weapons and tactics are being used in the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in the west of the country. 
