ByteDance alone ordered US$1 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs in 2023 (www.digitimes.com)
China remains Germany's main trading partner for seventh year (www.reuters.com)
European Parliament recognized the demolition of the Kakhovska dam as a Russian war crime (news.yahoo.com)
Access, Equity, and Solidarity: The Foundations of Cuba's Health System (peoplesdispatch.org)
Russia admits to running low (www.politico.eu)
Good.
Conservatives Are Running Out of Things to Eat (newrepublic.com)
Guatemalan journalist faces decades in prison (www.ft.com)
One of Guatemala’s best known journalists is facing up to 40 years in prison on Wednesday in a case that has raised alarm about a squeeze on democracy in Central America’s largest economy....
Trump finds no new lawyers in time for Mar-a-Lago documents arraignment (www.theguardian.com)
China-Swiss chip deal shows not everyone in the West is willing to ignore business opportunities simply on Washington’s say-so (www.scmp.com)
China plans to ban rare earth magnet exports (americanmilitarynews.com)
A New Study Quantifies The Extent of Extractive Capitalism’s Colonial Violence Against Indigenous Peoples Worldwide (www.thecanary.co)
Taiwan’s US Representative Not ‘Satisfied’ with Biden’s Support (popularresistance.org)
Fighting Remilitarization in Japan (peoplesdispatch.org)
Republican official appears to have moved $1.3m from nonprofit to own law firm (www.theguardian.com)
San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is a fixture on Fox News who has garnered support from the likes of Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham; she also helms a nonprofit that appears to have directed more than $1m into her law firm, Dhillon Law Group....
Iranian President Visits Latin American Countries in an Attempt to Strengthen Multipolar World Order (peoplesdispatch.org)
US blacklists flight schools across world for training Chinese pilots (www.firstpost.com)
Brazil: Lula to Launch Social Programs as Part of Stopping the Deforestation of the Amazon by 2030 (resumen-english.org)
Daily Wagers Suffer the Brunt of Heat Wave in Pakistan (peoplesdispatch.org)
'Dead' woman found breathing in coffin at own funeral (www.bbc.com)
Extremely dry spring leaves southern Albertan farmers on the road to ‘zero production’ (globalnews.ca)
The "Uyghur genocide" allegations are popping up again, here's why they make no sense and what the actual end goal is. (twitter.com)
Ukraine war: Kyiv claims first victories of counter-offensive - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Ukraine says it has liberated four villages in the south-east, calling these the first settlements won back from Russia since Kyiv’s counter-offensive began...
Native Hawaiʻian navigators to begin four-year voyage around the Pacific by canoe (nativenewsonline.net)
They’ll be stopping at dozens of locations and will have a rotating crew. The journey will be made by both a double-hulled canoe and another canoe with an engine. The entire route will be 43,000 nautical miles. Very cool!