One more war – the planning …

 

aimed directly at at China. The US and the collective West are not going to for one moment accept equality and multipolarity with the ultimate guide of the UN Charter as legal guidance. They will fight until they get annihilated or until they annihilate. This is not a task that anyone wants to take on, or something anyone wants to do with any amount of relish.  Then again nobody wants to kill the whole of Gaza and yet it is happening in front of our eyes.

China never called America the “greatest enemy” or the “biggest threat.” China didn’t build military bases around the US. So, Americans start the trade war, Americans start the tech war, Americans start the propaganda war… but eventually China is the evil one! The atrocity and other propaganda is in full swing.

Those of us who watch China are identifying the process of setting up proxies and the preparations for either a hot war with China or using proxies to create a situation that can’t easily be managed – the old chaos routine. We see that in the Ukraine today. The more the war cannot come to an end, the more chaos there is. It does not matter that Russia won the Ukraine war and the US ran out of Afghanistan and we know the very poor history of the US and the collective West not having won a peer war in their natural lives. I always get a little hot under the collar if that is used as a method to disrespect the US. It is what they want people! They are successful in their objectives. Who says they are interested in winning peer wars? It is too difficult and too expensive and people must actually die. They are only interested in war by recruiting proxies and having the proxies die for them. This takes shapes from color revolutions to the currently increasing meddling in Latin America and what we are talking about here, the increasing assault on China. Why proxies? They don’t want anyone to know what they are doing. They cloak their nefarious activities in a bright light show of being the ‘do-gooder’. “What about our freedom and democracy? We are simply working for it.”  This preparation of the potential of the China theater is in full swing now. You may tell me these are empire fever dreams. It does not negate the fact that it is in preparation and just that alone must be evidence that there are plans on the drawing board. What is also evidence, is China’s growth of its military potential. If one does not feel under threat, one doesn’t build out your armed forces massively.

Yes, we know that it is said that it is a war against Belt and Road or kickback against BRICS and all of this may be true. These are simply manifestations that we can get our thinking and our arms around the various empire activities and break them down into bite-sized pieces, empire having a liability against joining or building a peaceful world and active everywhere. Their lands, their country, and their people are built to make war via proxy, and their systems are designed to hide this. This is the massive secret that broke loose and gained prominence in our world in the last number of months and a few years. More and more I see that they are going to require a kick up the yahoo right back to their borders for the rest of the world to have an opportunity to build out that ‘shared future for mankind’.

It is not such a bad vision, no? The  Head of the SVR Sergey Naryshkin considers 2024 as “the year of geopolitical awakening.”

China still speaks softly and with respect. But militarily, they are growing at the fastest rate since World War II. http://eng.mod.gov.cn/xb/News_213114/NewsRelease/16275286.html 

Proxies that are being prepared right now: Berletic and Guiliani talk about the US using Myanmar and the Philippines to encircle and contain China’s and Asia’s Rise. To those two countries, we have to add South Korea. (Nation-size human shields, Berletic aptly calls these countries.) 

So, the US is going up the escalation ladder with each of its proxies.  

▪️US is destabilizing Myanmar and backing militants physically attacking the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure while using its political capture of the Philippines to transform the nation into a Ukraine-style battering ram against China;

▪️Along with a large and growing US military presence in Asia and other forms of political interference in the region, the US seeks to create a united front against China or destabilize the region to deny China’s and Asia’s continued rise;

▪️Current US foreign policy regarding the containment of China is a continuation of a decades-long policy articulated in US memos, cables, and documents stretching back to the end of WW2;

▪️The US is not building up its “partners” in Asia-Pacific, but rather preparing them to suffer a similar fate to that of Ukraine in Eastern Europe;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlHa0xwlq1c

Despite empty diplomatic rhetoric, everything (including the recent “defense” budget) the US is doing indicates it continues down the path of military aggression against China in Asia-Pacific within and along China’s borders, especially in regards to China’s island province of Taiwan

S 2024 Defense Bill: Major Highlights

🚀 Total Budget: An eye-opening $886 billion approved by Congress for 2024! Awaiting President Biden’s signature.

🔍 Key Points to Note:

Pacific Strategy: A substantial $14.7 billion dedicated to the ‘Pacific Deterrence Initiative’ against China.

Supporting Allies: Enhanced training for Taiwan and a significant $300 million annual aid to Ukraine until 2026, with added oversight.

Under Wraps: $11.5 billion earmarked for mysterious “defense-related activities.”

Nuclear Capabilities: Navy’s Sea-Launched Cruise missile nuclear program receives funding.

Arming Up: Expanded munitions procurement and arms supply to include Israel and Taiwan.

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Russian President Putin also said a few days ago that “we see attempts by the West to shift NATO activities to Asia and towards Asia, which clearly go beyond the charter goals of this organization.”

Mao Ning from the Chinese Foreign Office commented as follows: “NATO’s attempt to make eastward inroads into the Asia-Pacific is not consistent with its mandate as a regional defensive organization and will only bring bloc confrontation into Asia and sabotage regional peace and stability. The China-Russia relationship rises above the model of military and political alliance in the Cold War era and is fundamentally different from the exclusive groupings and bloc confrontation practiced by NATO.”

So, here we see that Russia and China are fully aware of what is happening here. Besides being aware, what can they do?

Triggers

– The US officially recognizes China’s sovereignty over Taiwan through its “One China” policy, yet unofficially undermines it at every juncture; – Upcoming elections in Taiwan are subject to US political interference, which is extensive and undermines claims of Taiwan’s “political independence;” – Taiwan’s economy depends heavily on the rest of China for continued prosperity and future opportunities the US is incapable of providing alternatives to; – China is exercising patience to prevent conflict and the destruction of Taiwan which is an admitted objective of US foreign policy;

▪️The US is provoking China over the island province of Taiwan by placing troops on the island, arming the administration in Taipei, and increasingly encouraging separatism;

▪️The US officially recognizes China’s sovereignty over Taiwan through its “One China” policy, yet unofficially undermines its at every juncture;

▪️Upcoming elections in Taiwan are subject to US political interference, which is extensive and undermines claims of Taiwan’s “political independence;”

▪️Taiwan’s economy depends heavily on the rest of China for continued prosperity and future opportunities the US is incapable of providing alternatives to;

▪️China is exercising patience to prevent conflict and the destruction of Taiwan which is an admitted objective of US foreign policy;

A Very important thread was published by Graham Allison – the legendary Harvard professor who coined the “Thucydides trap” which was not really applicable – where he lambasts “the current demonization of China”. He says he is “convinced that the current demonization of China confuses more than it clarifies” because the result is that “Americans [do not] understand our competitor as it is”. He gives as an illustration of this demonization effort the recent utterly ridiculous – and anonymous! – Politico piece (https://politico.eu/article/chinas-paranoid-purge-xi-jinping-li-keqiang-qin-gang-li-shangfu/) that claims that “China’s Xi goes full Stalin with purge”, which is filled with demonstrable falsehoods and fear-mongering fabulations (some of which Allison lists in his thread). There is an absolute IMMENSE gap between China depicted in the media and the reality, so much so that most people outside China have almost zero understanding of the country. The China they have in their mind is a mirage that bears almost no resemblance to reality. Why? Why do we systematically see coverage like this Politico piece on China? Some comments from various commentaries on Allison’s thread: “Why here on Twitter are accounts like

@songpinganq,

@WallStreetSilv or

@jenniferzeng97

that systematically peddle fake news on China so popular? Or Serpentza and Laowhy86 on Youtube? I think a lot of it has to do with human nature, we kind of need a “bad place” to feel reassured we live in the “good place”. So we’re naturally attracted to stories that confirm this. And given the fact that China is so unknown to people to begin with, they have no intellectual baggage that enables them to understand they’re fed nonsense. And if you add racism bias on top of it – the infamous “yellow peril” – it makes it even easier for people to believe the wildest stuff.

This all is to my mind looking for excuses and painting lipstick on pigs.

This is the important part for the US and has to do with foundational values. Also, it has to be said, that there’s a whole industry out there of people paid to write negative stuff on China. You have your anti-communist organizations (like the “Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation”), your think tanks funded by the US State Department and the weapons industry (like ASPI), your various separatist and dissident movements funded by Washington to try to destabilize China, your “human rights” organizations that have been so weaponized they actually harm human rights, and so on and so forth. And all their content – each for their own purpose – participates in this great demonization effort. But I think it’s also much deeper than this. For literally thousands of years proselytism – the notion that we have such superior values and beliefs that we need to convert others to them – has been foundational to our culture. We’re programmed to absolutely loath difference, so much so that we need to erase it. We’re led to believe we “celebrate difference” but we only celebrate the very artificial differences within our societies, differences between people who essentially buy into common beliefs and values. As soon as we encounter actual meaningful difference – which in the case of China is extremely profound – we find it absolutely intolerable. Which by the way is quite unique to our culture: to my knowledge, no culture in Asia thinks this way for instance. In fact the very notion that a foreigner could be converted to become Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese is not even comprehensible in these countries. To them foreigners aren’t inferior or superior, but they’re different, and that’s ok... there’s no need to go around the world to try and convert them to adopt “socialism with Chinese characteristics” or start celebrating the Moon festival. To us it’s very much not ok: if someone doesn’t buy into whatever our set of beliefs and values is at a given time (it used to be Christianism, now it’s liberalism) they ARE inferior, deemed “oppressed” and in need of “liberation”… All this didn’t harm us much when we were superior technologically and economically because we could afford to not understand others. In fact it was even helpful: it provided an ideological basis for our subjugation of the rest of the world. We didn’t do it to exploit them for our selfish interests or to appropriate their resources but to “liberate” them… But today, as Allison rightly points out, this kind of thinking actively harms the West. We cannot anymore subjugate countries like China, they’ve become our peers in all respects: technologically, economically, militarily, etc. So to coexist and compete it is now vital that we “understand them as they are” to take Allison’s formulation. Because they certainly do: hundreds of thousands of Chinese students have gone to study in the West every year for decades whereas the US estimates there are currently only 211 American students in China (https://scmp.com/news/china/article/3241168/number-americans-studying-mainland-china-falls-sharply-chinese-students-still-flock-us), which is insane! This places China at an immense competitive advantage: they understand the West intimately whereas we don’t understand China, at all. Very concretely it means that whenever we make a decision that relates to China, our decision is likely to be completely inappropriate because informed by a miraged notion of China and made by people who just don’t get the country. Examples abound: the recent semiconductors sanctions is a good one. Made for the purpose of stifling China’s technological development it has resulted in giving it an unprecedented boost.

This transition to humbleness, accepting others and their difference, stop vilifying and demonizing them but instead seeking to understand them will be exceedingly hard. Frankly, I think that it’s all so deeply rooted that we’re incapable of it. But it is nonetheless absolutely vital because if we persevere we will isolate and eventually destroy ourselves.”

This is the kind of soul-searching that the American people will have to do before being allowed back into the real world assuming we get to kick them out pretty soon! and we have to.

The following is what China and Russia are doing together. The ‘brilliant idea’ to continue with the dreams of fighting China, or one or another way, getting control over China will either way cause our world to explode even more spectacularly than what it is doing now, and the rest of the consequences are such that one does not want to spell those out because we get an immediate brain freeze! and cogitively can’t deal with those. But, at this stage, bring it on if this is what it will take to remove the empire. I can say so, because, for all intents and purposes, I am outside of any fray that will ensue. If I was living on the US East Coast, I would be worried.

China agrees with Putin that “NATO is creeping into Asia.”

“The Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China published a video of a joint patrol of the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea by strategic missile-carrying bombers Tu-95MS of the Russian Aerospace Forces and long-range bombers Xian H-6K of the PLA Air Force. Fighter air cover was provided along the entire route of joint patrol by Su-35S aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces and J-16 of the PLA Air Force.”

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

NATO’s eastward march into the Asia-Pacific region contradicts the alliance’s positioning as a regional defense military organization.

These actions will only lead to confrontation between camps in Asia and undermine regional peace and stability.

China-Russia relations are based on the principles of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties. The relationship goes beyond the model of a military-political alliance from the “Cold War” era, differing fundamentally from NATO’s “small circle” and bloc confrontation.

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/32575

Philippine actions in South China Sea ‘extremely dangerous’ – Chinese state media

Chinese state media accused the Philippines on Monday of repeatedly infringing on China’s territory in the South China Sea, spreading false information and colluding with extraterritorial forces to cause trouble.

The Philippines has relied on US support to continually provoke China, with such “extremely dangerous” behavior seriously harming regional peace and stability, the People’s Daily wrote in a commentary on Monday.

Washington has frequently used its defense treaty with Manila to “threaten” China, blatantly supporting Philippine violation of Chinese sovereignty and “peddling security anxieties”, the People’s Daily said.

China never called America the “greatest enemy” or the “biggest threat.” China didn’t build military bases around the US. So, Americans start the trade war, Americans start the tech war, Americans start the propaganda war, Americans start feeding the proxies … but eventually China is the evil one! USA, the insane.

I guess .. this is what we get https://twitter.com/i/status/1737823628253647115

Office of the Special Envoy for Iran (US style good wishes to Iran)

@USEnvoyIran

On this Yalda night, we want the people of Iran to know that the United States will continue to support your aspirations for a free and democratic future. We are confident that Iran will overcome this period of darkness, and that brighter days are ahead. My statement:

Office of the Special Envoy for Iran

 

@USEnvoyIran

After that, all we can say is you are a dead dumbidiot that has no understanding of where in the world you are and who you are talking to! (I’m for a moment channeling one of our friends!)