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Myanmar’s frontier regions are largely lawless and exploited by drug producers and traffickers. In recent decades, it has become the region’s epicenter for illegal amphetamine products. A 2021 military takeover that unseated the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggered armed resistance nationwide further destabilized the country. https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/health-news/ap-east-southeast-asia-had-record-methamphetamine-seizures-last-year-profits-remain-in-the-billions/

September 2015, when Xi paid a state visit to the US as China's president, he first went to the state of Washington, and made a trip to Tacoma's Lincoln High School to talk to the students. Tacoma has had a sister-city relationship with Fuzhou, in East China's Fujian province, since 1994. Xi was the Party secretary of Fuzhou in the early 1990s and later became the governor of Fujian province. "But tonight we are here to sing Happy Birthday to Sister Cities International. It has been six decades, six wonderful decades of peace through people," Kane said. Her words were followed by song, and a birthday cake soon was cut by her, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and Minister Li Kexin of the Chinese embassy. The sister-city relationship has blossomed in the past four decades, with Chinese cities and provinces setting up 2,315 pairs of such relationships in 134 countries. That includes 258 with localities in the US. Bowser, who took office in January 2015, talked about how her first international trip was leading a DC delegation to Beijing last November. Beijing and Washington established their sister-city tie in 1984. "And I have to tell you that the mayor of Beijing, the Friendship Association, and all of the people in Beijing rolled out the red carpet for us," she said. "We are very keen on our relationship, the wonderful relationship with the city of Beijing," she said.

The relationship between China and the United States could often look depressing if people just read the headlines and listen to the rhetoric by US presidential candidates. But that clearly does not reflect the correct picture at the subnational level. When Sister Cities International (SCI), a Washington DC-based non-profit organization, celebrated its 60th anniversary in a grand reception at the Chinese embassy on the evening of July 15, it displayed an important dimension of the bilateral relationship that rarely makes for sexy headlines. Mary Kane, president and CEO of SCI, reminded the more than 400 participants from around the world of the story of one of its famous alumni, President Xi Jinping. Sister-city ties help put damper on campaign rhetoric Xi first visited the US in 1985 at the age of 27, going to Muscatine, Iowa, under a sister-city relationship between Iowa and North China's Hebei province. He was then the head of Zhengding county in Hebei and went to Iowa on an agricultural research trip. https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2016-07/18/content_26139522.htm

Rotary and Bill Gates. Where Gates is you bet you can find a PLANDEMIC and child trafficking!

Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation extending fundraising partnership to eradicate polio | Rotary International https://www.rotary.org/en/gates-foundation-extending-fundraising-partnership-eradicate-polio

The ousted Murfreesboro Town Administrator reportedly resigned from his position with the town of Kilmarnock, Va. and was terminated from his position with the town of Mt. Gilead, NC. Read more at: https://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2010/09/21/capps-no-stranger-to-controversy/ https://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2010/09/21/capps-no-stranger-to-controversy/

This week in 2005… It is now official! The documents sealing the sister city deal between Mt. Gilead and Losheim am See have been signed during a visit to Germany by a delegation from Montgomery County. https://www.montgomeryherald.com/not-so-distant_past/article_8ab0aa2c-d235-11e4-b3c7-6f2de78d4cc3.html

Who is funding the destruction of your small town? "Watson says she’s proud that the project focused on its grass roots, which was a requirement of the grant presented to Sister Cities International by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." https://www.ourstate.com/north-carolina-sister-cities/