Commentary: China’s divide-and-conquer strategy isn’t fooling anyone anymore
Recent
actions involving Australia and New Zealand reveal the country’s modus
operandi can be effective but will have broader, corrosive implications
for China, says Christian Le Miere....
A PATTERN OF COERCIVE DIPLOMACY
Beijing
uses a range of tools and tactics to divide and conquer. This consists
of economic and diplomatic levers to punish states that have
transgressed unwritten red lines and market-based enticements for
smaller, weaker states to cultivate influence.
Many such
tactics are not unique to China. It is commonplace for countries,
particularly larger ones, to sanction others in tits-for-tats to shape
behaviour and maintain state-to-state relations on an even keel in
protecting domestic interests and pursuing national goals.
But Beijing is relatively unusual in the manner in which it undertakes this coercion, using disproportionality, extra-legal processes, and deniability....CNA
Why would CNA regularly put up such
silly articles written by the white men to demonise and attack China?
The divide and conquer strategy has been the hallmark of western
imperialism and colonialism for centuries when they divided and
conquered the whole world. Many countries are still under the controls
of the white men, including large swathe of land mass like the USA,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many parts of the world. No, not
true? Cannot see? These lands belong to the white men, they never
conquer them? Practically every country in the world was, and some
still, conquered by the white men.
Many countries in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia are living still under this divide and conquer strategy. Japan and South Korea are still semi colonies of the white men. Europe, with the EU countries in general and Germany in particular, are still controlled by the American Empire. Needless to say what is happening in the Middle East and Africa and Latin America. No, no, not true? Come off it you silly twits. Open your eyes and stop deluding yourself.
China conduct divide and conquer
diplomacy? Which country has China conquered? Fucking liars. China
dividing and conquering Australia and New Zealand? What the fuck are you
talking about? The current diplomatic rift with Australia is caused by
the Australians taking all kinds of punitive economic and political
measures and pot shots at China before China started to kick their arse.
China did not start this. China was happily trading with Australia for
decades, throwing billions of dollars into the Australian economy before
the current spat. There was absolutely no coercion or threats of any
kind from China. If Australia did not gang up with the USA to attack
China, would this happen, would China cut off trades with Australia,
stop buying Australian produce, coal, iron ore, wines etc etc?
Where is this shit called divide and conquer Australia and New Zealand coming from? Smoking too much grass or popping too much ice pills?
What does this writer think of what the Americans are doing with their warships all over the world and daily attacks against China?
What would China perceive if Singapore's media continuously published such silly biased western articles to attack China? Do the Singapore media really think such silly articles are objective read for its readers?
Which country has been conquered by China? I know that the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many others around the world are conquered and occupied by the Europeans till today. And many still in the process of being conquered, occupied with American and European soldiers in their land.
Think Iraq, Syria, Libya. Also think Germany, Japan, South Korea, Falkland, Hawaii, ....
China is still trying to recover its lost territories in Taiwan and many pieces of land on its borders and the South China Sea and East China Sea. There were China's territories conquered by foreign powers and it is China's legitimate right to take them back, not divide and conquer.
PS. The main media are controlled and managed not by stupid people. Did they not know the implications of publishing such hostile and negative articles smearing China and what the Chinese govt would read of the intent and agenda for doing such things?
Virgo49 commented on "More silly western articles attacking and smearing China in local media"
ReplyDelete31 mins ago
Mr RB Though this is your today 8 March postings. Straits Times now so many Foreign Talents journalists on the political scenes. Whereas ours wrote on dogs and cats and wild boars and big rats. Cheers
Yes, wrote it earlier and the date was not changed and came out as an older post. Have reposted.
Does the govt think China isn't watching the local media scene or can be fooled that we have a free uncontrolled press?
DeleteEven the ST's China corresponents are writing whth alot of hubris and smugness abeit not in the totally bias one sided view about China.
RB soly someone in cna needed to be sodomized jialat jialat to wake up
DeleteSingapore was founded by Stamford Raffles ....hahahahha.
ReplyDeleteAre our students still being taught this silly stuff?
The Whites are the evil ones who have been dividing, invading and conquering.
ReplyDeleteThe existence of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and many other countries previously colonised by the British and the Europeans are testimony to their divide, invade and conquer.
Whoever thinks and suggests that China is dividing and conquering must have his head examined. Perhaps, he has forgotten to take his medication?
The Men-in-White also learnt from the Whites, especially the evil British Empire, the tactic of divide and rule. We can see it being applied in Singapore.
Birds of the same feathers fly together. That's why Singapore leaders continue to allow the Government mouthpiece, the Straits Times, to publish Anti-China and Anti-Chinese articles almost on a daily basis.
China and Chinese must take note.
They are doing it because got no choice, forced to publish, or they really want to publish such articles to smear and antagonise China?
ReplyDeleteThe editors cannot plead ignorance that they did not know the intent and purpose of such biased articles. The agenda is obvious.
ReplyDeleteSingapore is being used by Westerners as a stooge to make China its punching bag. One of these days, China is going to punch back.
ReplyDeleteSingapore leaders have brushed aside the Terrex incident as non-consequential?
Being too cocky, arrogant and over-confident, Singapore will pay for it dearly.
China has many cards to play against Singapore whenever she feels like it. However, at present, China's main attention is to build up its military forces and space technology. Singapore is chicken feet to China. When the time comes, Singapore will get its just desserts.
ReplyDeleteThe silly and arrogant Americans think they could sail their warships into the South China Sea and China could not do anything to them. And a few silly European countries, and Australia is doing likewise thinking South China Sea is very safe. And silly little Asean countries may also be tempted to do so, very safe.
ReplyDeleteWhen war breaks out, it would take minutes before every one of the ships were sunk. That is how formidable the Chinese are today. DF 21s and 26s, H6 bombers, nuclear submarines, drones armed with anti ship missiles, fast missile gun boat operating like wolf packs.
The American soldiers in the aircraft carriers would be first to be hit and sent to the bottom of the sea. Still thinking their aircraft carriers are unsinkable and a threat to China. The attacks would come from space, air, land, sea and under the sea and electronic and quantum tech jamming devices to cripple all their weapon systems.
China now have absolute control of the South China Sea.
South China Sea is China's front yard. Anyone will know that front yards are controlled by whoever owns it.
ReplyDeleteThe USA fought two wars away from home and lost both. North Korea did their battle on home ground and did not fall. North Vietnam had almost home ground advantage by infiltrating the South and despite the disadvantage of air power, they still won the war. How did the USA differentiate North and South Vietnamese anyway? They couldn't and this is one great advantage the North had over the USA and the South Vietnamese.
As I said before, the USA did not defeat the Germans. History had been written to give that credit to them and the allies. The USSR defeated the Germans but were written out of the history books.
LKY saw the rise of China and invested heavily in building trust and good relations with the Chinese leaders. But he did not forsee China taking over the Americans during his time and thus put a hedge on the US.
ReplyDeleteIf LKY is still alive today, the picture would be clearer to him that the US is history in the making and would have put more eggs into the Chinese basket. The imbeciles are still sleeping and could not see the change and still doing what LKY did then, thinking China still has a long way to catch up with the Americans and still hedging on the sinking American ship.
By the time they woke up, it would be too late. The American ship would have been sunk and leaving them hanging on a buoy in the South China Sea. At the same time, the other Asean leaders have grown smarter and have seen the trend. Duterte has made his move and all in on China. Malaysia and Indonesia and even Thailand are wisening up and chose to be on the side line, only to take sides when the victor is declared.
They would not be caught with their pants down. Anyone caught with their pants down in this game for world supremacy would only be screwed real and good for betting the wrong horse.
The writing is on the wall.
The USA was caught overconfident and arrogant, thinking they have solidified their 'exceptionalism' with the US$ Hegemony and escalating military spending.
ReplyDeleteThey had all the while the mentality that Communism will forever play second fiddle to democracy and that China will remain poor and backward like the days of the Opium War. How they have misread the situation.
The USA had a GDP eight times that of China in 2000. In 2020 the USA GDP was only 1.4 times bigger and will be overtaken by China between 2026 and 2028. Comparisons of other relevant statistics also shows that China is closing in or have overtaken the USA. These are telling comparisons that foretell the decline of the USA.
Of course there are always those who refuse to see the big picture and still insist that for China to overtake the USA is an impossibility. Does the GDP figures tell the truth? Who would have betted on and believed that China could close the wide gap within a space of two decades? It was a shocking revelation to the West and the USA. They are now in desperate straits trying to tame the dragon.
While the West invaded and conquered the rest of the world through wars and destruction, China has stepped in to rebuild these impoverished countries plundered and looted to poverty by the West. China is rebuilding Latin America, Africa, Central Asia and South East Asia, rebuild their infrastructure and economies, to prosper and give their people a better life.
ReplyDeleteLook at how China is sharing its Covid19 vaccines with all the developing and poorer countries to save them from this scourge developed in Fort Detrick and planted all over the world, as in Bill Gates's plan, to reduce the population of the world to 1/4 of its present number.
And China is helping to lift the rest of the world from poverty to prosperity, without wars, without having to fire a bullet, without having to kill innocent people on fabricated lies and pretexts.
China is the benign super power that has arrived to save the world from the warmongering and murderous West led by the evil Americans. The Americans only know wars, wars and wars and nothing else.
Look at China, no wars but trade and economic growth.
Singapore got Uncle Sam lah.
ReplyDeleteSome more has US Navy at Changi Navel De-based. Where have to scare of China one.
China is easy peesy to Singapore lah.
Singapore can send Fuck-35 bought from UAsses to attack China can already.
Plus, Ah Loony can ask his Jinx to write on Facebook to show Ah Meng's middle finger to China mah, right or wrong?
No need afraid of China lah.
Plus Singapore also got India at the back helping to run the banking and banging systems.
So, how can the Paper General be afraid of China?
Singapore has failed its people miserably.
ReplyDeleteEven a domestic worker was being tortured and starved to death in a deliberate, premeditated and prolonged, 10-month slow-death murder, the police wasn't the wiser until she was already dead.
And on the one side a minister declared that the full force of the law would apply on whoever the culprit(s) was/were, yet on the other hand the culprit(s) was/were not charged for murder. Instead, they were given lighter charges to escape the gallows.
China must destroy the USA, or else the USA will destroy China.
ReplyDeleteChina does not need to destroy USA. USA will destroy itself.
ReplyDeleteWhen a country's fortune is on the wane, whatever it does or wanted to do will fail. This is the fortune of a declining empire, the USA.
ReplyDeleteAnon 5.02 may be right.
ReplyDeleteUSA will self destruct. Racial splits, political turmoil, escalating poverty and homelessness time bomb, and the COVID19 virus will do the job.
China should hasten the self-destruction of the USA.
ReplyDeleteYes, USA will self-destruct. However, the trouble with evil forces is that before they are destroyed, they will bring others down with them.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, the rest of the world has to be prepared for the Third World War, irrespective of whether they like it or not, irrespective of whether they are neutral or not, irrespective of whether they believe it or not.
A nuclear war is inevitable. Don't ever brush it aside and pretend to think that it is not possible.
99.99% a nuclear war will take place in the future.
ReplyDeleteExactly when, nobody can predict.
It happened before. It will happen again.
The evil, murderous USA was the one and only one that has ever dropped the Atomic Bombs on an Asian country (Japan). That evil deed killed millions of innocent people. Until today, the Japanese people are still suffering from the after-effects of the Atomic Bombs attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Generations down the road are still struggling against the aftermath and side-effects of the horrendous radiation and poisoned atmosphere and environment.
The evil USA has done it. Who dare to say that this monstrous devil in disguise will not do it again?
I think a nuclear world war is 100% sure, but only a question of when.
ReplyDeleteWith all the money spent on acquiring nuclear weapons, what is the purpose if those are not used eventually on others?
But whether one is aware of the inevitable or 'ignorance is bliss' there is little that common people can do. Even if the cream of the power brokers and smartest could find another planet to run to, probably 99.99999% of earth's inhabitants will be here to be incinerated or radiated to death.
When that time comes, I believe it will be the end of humanity. All odd survivors hiding in rock caves will be living in hell. No winners and no losers.
Then those who fled to Mars or any other planet can start the same old contest on their new found planet. Perhaps even with the Natives on those planets.
Just thinking!
ReplyDeleteRB, I wish more Singaporeans read your blog to be better informed. The saddest part in life when your loved ones especially stoopid ABC (American Born Chinese) nieces and nephews believe Biden is different and a "reset" is in the work after Trump "forced" out of office. Even my blood brother in Ozzie believe in Trump and Morrison - Trump lap dog. When Trump held out a bible in front of the church, my brother is so trilled and convinced Trump is a "good" man. My brother very religious - a church elder so are all my loved ones from JKT, Edinburgh, USA to HK.... The more I tried to explain the harder they dug in. Now we avoid talking or email... Fuck Trump, Biden..
Singapore is no different from SCMP, CNN or even Wall Street Journey... they are bias. Remember, Singapore is the only Asian nation hosting US Naval base. Sorrie RB, if there is gonna be a war, I sincerely hope they bombed the hell out of Singapore.
RB keep your eyes on Afghanistan, Trump made a deal to withdraw from Afghanistan by 1st May, if Biden dun withdrew it will be another Vietnam.
Kind Regards JC
For the unthinking believers, just tell them the Bible said there is no Christians in heaven. If they don't believe, then they don't believe in the Bible, they don't believe in what Jesus said ie they don't believe in what they believe in.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said... "China should hasten the self-destruction of the USA."
ReplyDeleteThat's why I wish Trump win earlier... not that I like him or believe in Trump. With Trump as president we will surely go to war with China and knowing history it's MAD!!
Kind Regards JC
When you watch those political hotshots speaking on TV, you could see the difference in attitudes between those from the USA and China.
ReplyDeleteUSA politicians and administration hotshots, when they opened their rabid mouths, are threatening in gesture with accusations galore, hype up invented issues, and any dirt that came out of their dirty mouths have not one iota of proof to back them up.
Contrast Chinese politicians like Wang Yi. They never use threats, always measured response to threats and always harking for co-operation.
But the unthinking bananas would parrot that the Chinese are aggressive and the Americans are peace loving. And all the whites would agree, they said so.
ReplyDeleteGoing to war is peaceful. Not going to war is aggressive.
That shows how blind people are, after all the centuries of brainwashing. How could starting wars by the USA be construed as an act of peace.
ReplyDeleteAnd the most ironic thing is that most elites are educated in the West and imported their attitudes, thinking and behavior, and came back to inplant those ideas onto the people they eventually were to lead.
In fact, in Red Dot it was the old man's imperial edit that sank the reputation of NUS, when he pronounced that any Minister to be must be Western educated. Jayakumar must have felt the effect of that slight, being from NUS. Did that policy change, I do not know.
They think, act, behave and look at the world like they are whites. So they could only look at the others and not at themselves and the whites, totally oblivious to what the whites are doing. It is always white centric, white is the law, is the master, white can doing anything, evil conducting wars of invasion and killing the innocents, others would be condemned for doing the same.
ReplyDeleteTalking about whites and white privilege , that privileged couple from royalty got triggered and escaped to the embrace of Uncle Sam simply because someone asked what colour their baby was going to be. An act of jumping from the frying pan into the fire when Uncle Sam had worse record in treating minorities especially in this pandemic. Same for all the Anglo white racist 5eye nations
DeleteThey are lucky their child has a lighter shade of black. If even there is a pigment of yellow,would their child be bashed up like what the China lecturer in Southamption suffered simply for responding to a group of cowards calling him 'China virus' ??
What is wrong with the colour of kopi susu?
ReplyDeleteHarry and Meghan are victims of white racists in the royal family.
ReplyDeleteHis mother Diana died for the same sin. Murdered because of ethnic cleansing?
Hahaha
ReplyDeleteConflict in Asia is not inevitable only if some leaders of the Eastern Pacific Ocean are not poodles of the USA
As it is, I can tell that at least five leaders in Asia are openly saying that they still prefer the USA to remain in Asia to counter China. Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the Philippines are those five. If I may add, Vietnam is also lingering in their preference for the USA to remain in Asia.
That said, how are the Asians going to do the impossible by telling the USA to scoot from this region? It is not going to happen soon or ever.
Anon 3.14
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right. Diana's death was no accident. But then, the rich can always get away with murder, not to say Royals.
Correction:
ReplyDeleteConflict in Asia is not inevitable only if come leaders of the Pacific Ocean region are not poodles of the USA
My apologies
Anon 6.26