WARNING AND THREAT BY MS. KALLAS ARE DISRESPECTFUL AND I STRONGLY OBJECT TO THEM.

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, is warning EU leaders against participating in the May celebrations of Victory Day in Moscow. She claims that such participation will… pic.twitter.com/KsHGJtOVRO

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Russia has slammed the EU for warning candidate states against attending WWII celebrations on May 9 | Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday that the EU’s attempts to pressure candidate states not to attend the 80th anniversary of victory in World War II in Moscow are tantamount to a revival of Nazism. ● On Monday, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, warned the leaders of EU members and candidate states against taking part in the event in the Russian capital on May 9. British daily The Telegraph later wrote that candidate states such as Serbia could be barred from joining the bloc if their leaders attend the Victory Day celebrations. [...] The Telegraph wrote that EU officials warned Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who has indicated that he would attend the May 9 parade, that the visit would derail his country’s accession to the bloc. [...] Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, the only EU member state leader who has indicated he will attend, slammed her statement as “disrespectful” and potentially a form of blackmail.

■ EU pressuring Serbia’s Vucic not to visit Moscow (RT)
■ ‘It’s 2025, not 1939’ – Fico challenges EU’s warning against Moscow trip (RT)

■ Zakharova brands Ukraine’s bid to host EU leaders on May 9 'theatre of absurd' (TASS) | Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Ukraine’s possible invitation of European Union leaders to Kiev on May 9 a "theatre of the absurd." Zelensky stated that he was ready or could invite representatives of the European Union countries or heads of the European Union countries to Kiev for the event.

US President Donald Trump has again threatened China with increasing duties, this time to 245%. This statement was published on the official website of the White House. | According to the source, Trump imposed a 10% duty on all countries and set higher individual tariffs for those with the largest trade deficit with the United States. ● More than 75 countries have approached the White House with proposals for new trade agreements. As a result, the imposition of individual increased tariffs was temporarily suspended, with the exception of China, which responded with similar measures. (Translation: DeepL) (Original)

■ US threatens China with 245% tariff (RT)
■ US Playing Hardball: Restrict China’s Access in Exchange for Fewer Tariffs on Allies (Sputnik)
✅ War by other means — Trump’s tariffs and the empire’s final gamble (Thomas Fazi)

Iskander Lutsko, the Dubai-based head of research and portfolio management at Istar Capital, noted a visible thaw in relations between Moscow and Washington, which, in his view, also played a role in making the Russian currency more attractive to investors | The Russian ruble has strengthened against the dollar by 38% in over-the-counter trading since the beginning of the year, becoming the world's most profitable currency due to the US dollar weakening amid new American duties, Bloomberg reported, citing economists. ● "Unlike many emerging-market currencies, the ruble is not facing pressure from capital outflow, caused by global investors’ retreat from riskier assets," Sofya Donets, an economist at T-Investments, told the agency.

■ WHO conducts a two-day pandemic simulation, Exercise Polaris, involving over 15 countries and 20 health agencies.
■ The exercise tests a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies, bringing together predatory public health officials and organization that seek to implement a bio-surveillance state.
■ These simulations, advertised as preparedness, actually mask global bio-terror propaganda campaigns and totalitarian pursuits.
■ These simulations are designed to maximize compliance with predatory vaccine programs that are already in development.
■ Psychopaths at WHO failed to get their bird flu pandemic in 2024 and 2025, and are trying to come up with new ways to submit populations to their plans.

A senior Chinese official warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs would backfire and that soon, “those peasants in the U.S.” would “wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.” | The remarks are the latest Chinese repudiation of Trump’s global trade war as Beijing shifts gears from attempting to communicate with the White House to hitting back frequently and forcefully in an effort to cast the United States as an irresponsible global power. ● China’s top official overseeing Hong Kong and Macao, Xia Baolong (shown above), lashed out at the U.S. during a speech on national security, in which he linked 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong with what Beijing sees as continued U.S. efforts to suppress China. Xia called the U.S. decision to levy a tariff of 145 percent on all goods from Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China...

💬 “...brutally unreasonable and extremely shameless.” ● “The U.S. isn’t after our tariffs but our very survival,” he said. “The U.S. has repeatedly contained and suppressed Hong Kong … and this will eventually backfire on itself.”

Since Trump took office in January and set about remaking the global trading system, the world’s two largest economies have levied import duties on each other that are now so high they amount to a trade embargo. ● China has countered Washington’s latest levies by imposing a tariff of 125 percent on all U.S. goods while Trump has maintained 145 percent taxes on all Chinese imports, with temporary exceptions for semiconductors and consumer electronics.