Alert the Commonwealth: China in jeopardy of violating contractual agreement over Hongkong just moments away!

The rule of law has been a principle sacrosanct: enunciated and upheld through the Commonwealth and because of this universal understanding, international agreements are enforceable  The UK entered into contractual arrangement with China to cede Hongkong through such an arrangement, bearing the rule of law, that nations in international contractual arrangement will abide by it .

Now, Beijing has before it a proposal that will bypass Hongkong--its people and government--to impose its own will upon Hongkong without any say or deliberation with Hongkong in this matter of critical importance to the region and to international trade in general.  This violates the contract between the UK and Beijing-China; and, significantly, imposes a Communist way of doing business upon the Hongkong Chinese territory and contradicts this very principle of international laws.

For Beijing to proceed upon this course of action will necessitate a negative response from the UK and those other members of  the Commonwealth of Nations.  This response must make clear that China is risking its reputation as a responsible member of the international trade community to make good its obligations under the terms of an agreement by which it has bound itself with its contractual participants. 

Whack-O Theory of 5/18/20: President XI and President Trump in war of words over WHO support!

Paraphrasing...

President XI today to the WHO: 'As President of China, I promise $2 billion in our united fight against Covid-19 virus.'

President Trump: 'As President of the United States, I won't, maybe, allow the United States to continue support of the WHO in its battle against the virus.  I, as the Supreme Leader, have spoken for the USA; and I will not have my word contradicted by Congress or any IG official!  You hear that?'

"NOW HEAR THIS!"  (AND, PLEASE REMEMBER IT AT THE VOTING BOOTH THIS NOVEMBER.)

Opportunity knocks for the UK after Brexit

I'll be working on a series of blog items in the ruminations blog dealing with what I conceive is "Opportunity Knocking for the UK" after the country's historic departure from the EU.

I was encouraging the UK in my modest way to see its way through the ordeal that saw Prime Minister May replaced and Johnson struggling bravely to the goal.  But now, the UK is launched on a new beginning, taking with her the many series of accomplishments to be proud of.

In my series of blog items, I will draw upon its history ever-present in its manifest allegiance of nations known as the British Commonwealth. or simply, the Comonwealth of Nations.  Composed of over 50 nations worldwide, the Commonwealth is an institutional embodiment of  the lasting values for which England has stood as a bulwark through times of war and peace, a beacon lighting the way for other countries to come, participate.

But its past embodied in the lives and memories of those who are become apart of the Commonwealth experience is only, to my mind, a promise of long-range changes it can lead the world to enter as latter's own history soon--because the UK has just achieved its Brexit.

   

SOS from Lebanon: famine; devastated economy.

Once beautiful Lebanon is crumbling.  Is it time for the Hezbollah to go?  Its leaders are evidently more concerned to protect the interests of Syria's Assad than to see a prosperous Lebanon.  And that's a real shame!

Add Lebanon in the Middle East to the list of the countries in South America and in Africa lacking food, clean water and a humane environment.  Meanwhile, sadly, in the US, farmers are finding it expedient to plow under what crops are laying waste in their fields. 

The pandemic is a worldwide natural catastrophe in our midst!