Anyway, this one was not.
Oh you get to decide that, huh? Ma faute, didn’t realize I was talking to the UN General Secretary here.
Reread your own citation. The press release is quoting the US ambassador who claims it is “non-binding.” The UN press office is allowed to publish partisan and deceitful material so long as it is attributed and not in the UN’s own voice.
The Arab group statement in no way insinuates the current resolution is “non-binding.” It is comparing the resolution to an ideal resolution not based on prisoner exchanges or time-limited, as the current resolution only demands a ceasefire until after Ramadan.
China has additionally stated that the UNSC resolution is binding. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/un-resolution-in-gaza-is-binding-china-challenges-us-at-security-council/
Yes it represents the leftist fetish for unilateralist martyrdom.
(I believe it’s a conch shell)
The only lesson that people in the West would learn is this:
UNSC resolutions are prima facie binding unless stated otherwise. It’s a opt-out circumstance. Article 25 of the UN Charter simply states: “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.” See this post for the legal explanation: https://verfassungsblog.de/why-todays-un-security-council-resolution-demanding-an-immediate-ceasefire-is-legally-binding/
The US claim that the resolution is “non-binding” is simply the expression of a cynical disdain for the real international legal order under the UN Charter prevailing for once over the interests of its “rules-based order.”
The US position is simply trying to eat its cake and have it too: they want to escape the international notoriety of imposing yet another veto, thereby forcing them to abstain, and yet “narratively veto” the resolution by claiming it’s actually “non-binding” and thus as worthless in promulgation as it would have been if it was actually vetoed by the US.
I’m not sure I follow.
It’s not necessarily relevant in this particular instance since the source is straight from the horse’s mouth. Every once in a while, they brag about things like this because they understand there will be no recourse from their own side on the hypocrisy and belligerency of what they did. The conversational register they’re aiming for isn’t the crowd that thinks this is wrong, but those that would be delighted that the CIA and Trump were taking action to be “tough on China” and trying to “regime change it.”
The journalistic paradigm you’re referring to is the “anonymous source says they personally saw Stalin eating all the grain with a big spoon” skit where they use the “unverifiability gimmick” to attack an adversary. It’s not a reporting tactic done against one’s own side. Reuters would have never published this if it could not verify the sources.
Except we already have the conclusive natural ontological symbol for “family” right here: ☭
It’s nearly impossible to get a factual grounding of the status of LGBT peoples in China through English media, since rainbow imperialism has been fully weaponized against designated enemy regimes. Western media describes China’s official policy as “no approval; no disapproval; no promotion.” I can’t find any literature that actually attests to this as written policy, but even if true, this position has given relatively meager ammunition for atrocity propaganda so far compared to other fronts of propaganda assault against the country. China is the chief designated enemy regime today and the only major thing I’ve seen thrown is primarily the “muh censorship” shtick. There is an undeniable fact that organized LGBT groups can and have been appropriated by Western interests in terms of NGO collaboration with Western funding and support, however. The chief obstacle to securing LGBT rights in China will never be the allowance of these dubiously affiliated groups, but overall societal reception. With the latter, wholly independent and organic means of collective organization will naturally form.
Through my personal trawling, the current situation as I understand it is that the more conservative elements of Chinese society see it as a foreign intrusion, similarly to how reactionaries in Russia view LGBT there. Uniquely, however, the main hurdles are mainly cognitive however and can be overcome by LGBT allied advocacy:
That’s how it usually goes, either the outer circuit of the circus and amphitheaters are used as support walls for housing, the entire thing is turned into a ramshackle fortress for a feudal petty noble or the flat space is used for farming by local peasantry who don’t need to clear any rubble.
Here’s a visual reconstruction for comparison of the city during Roman times by archaeologist Jean Claude Golvin
Also, for an interesting historical sweep of where things turned out, here’s a pictoral map made of the city in 1953, still largely bombed out following WWII.