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Earlier this month, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy promised to release all the footage of the January 6 riot at the Capitol to the public.

McCarthy said of the footage.

"I watched what Nancy Pelosi did, where she politicized it. For the first time in the history — as a speaker — not allowing the minority to appoint to a committee. We watched the politicization of this. Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks."

Carlson has been a massive skeptic of the Democrat's claims surrounding the January 6 riot and he's spent a good deal of time addressing the holes in the left's narratives surrounding the event. This has naturally been met with fury and derision by mainstream news outlets and leftist organizations like the ADL.

To be sure, the Democrats have attempted to use the January 6 riot as a political tool to paint Republicans as insurrectionists and people who question Democrat narratives as "truthers." All of this while developing narratives around select pieces of footage.

[...] China will reiterate that a nuclear war must never be fought and cannot be won, Wang said, adding that China also urges efforts to ensure the security of civil nuclear facilities, stands against attacking nuclear power plants, and will advocate joint efforts to oppose to the use of biochemical weapons.

The more complex the situation, the greater the need to remain cool-headed and pragmatic, Wang said, stressing that China is willing to join hands with all parties to continue the efforts for realizing peace at an early date.

The document will highlight China's active role in pushing for a peaceful settlement that hopefully will bring an end to the conflict [in Ukraine] which has been dragging on for a year, Wang Huiyao, president of nongovernment think tank the Center for China and Globalization, who is also attending the Munich Security Conference, told the Global Times.

Currently, it is difficult for all parties involved in the conflict to reach a consensus, but this conflict is wrecking havoc on the world, said Zhang Hong, an associate research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He noted that China's proposals at the Munich Security Conference, as well as the about to be published document, tells the world that "China has been actively seeking a solution for the crisis. We are trying to bringing relevant parties to the negotiation table, and China is not sitting idle."

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China always stands alongside peace and dialogue, and push for peace talks. "We don't want to see a prolonged and enlarged Ukraine crisis, and along with the international community, we're willing to prevent the situation from further escalating, Wang Yi noted, according to a readout released by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday.

[...] China and Ukraine have maintained communication the whole year, and Ukraine attaches great importance to China's international status and influence, takes seriously China's stance on solving the crisis via political ways, and is looking forward to China's constructive role.

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Bilateral relations between China and Russia are within the sovereignty of two independent countries, and that we never accept US finger-pointing or pressure on China-Russia relation. The US, as a big country, should rationally promote political solution of the crisis, not add fire to the fuel and seek benefits from the conflict, said Wang.

"The US doesn't really care about if the crisis will be ended in peace or not. It so badly wants Russia to lose that it doesn't care whether such wish will be at cost of Ukrainian people's lives," said Zhang, comparing the crisis to a wound on the arm, "China's proposed solution is put some Chinese medicine to heal the bleeding wound, whilst the US wants to cut off the whole arm."

China's President Xi Jinping will deliver a 'peace speech' on the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Italy's foreign minister said on Friday, citing top diplomat Wang Yi.

Wang Yi "told me that Xi will deliver a peace speech on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine" on February 24, 2022, Minister Antonio Tajani told Italian radio RAI, the day after he met the top Chinese diplomat in Rome.

Tajani said that in the meeting with Wang Yi, he called for China to use all its powers to persuade Russia to sit at the peace table to ensure Ukraine's independence and bring the war to an end.

Asked about Italy's partnership in China's Belt and Road Initiative trade project, Tajani said Rome was assessing the issue and would decide what to do "at the appropriate time."

Italy, in 2019, became the first major industrialized nation to sign up for the initiative - a colossal project designed to improve Beijing's trade reach.

Little has so far come of the pact, signed during a state visit to Italy by Xi Jinping.