China’s ambassador to Washington, D.C., Qin Gang, sounded a more ominous note when he suggested that future routine transits of the Taiwan Strait by U.S. naval forces may provoke a response from the People’s Liberation Army.
“We have noted what the U.S. military has said about the U.S. military exercises and navigation [in the Taiwan Strait], but I call on the U.S. to refrain and exercise restraint and not do anything to escalate tensions,” Qin said. “If there are any moves to violate China’s territorial integrity, China will respond.”
That warning is notable given China’s unilateral declaration in June that it had sovereignty over the entire Taiwan Strait.
Kurt Campbell, the National Security Council’s Indo-Pacific coordinator, announced Friday that U.S. naval units will conduct “freedom of navigation” exercises in the Strait in the coming weeks.
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PS. The world's number one terrorist nation and troublemaker is desperate to want to start a war in Taiwan knowing those killed would be Chinese on both sides of the Straits. Hope the clowns in Taiwan would be responsible enough not to fall into the trap of the evil Americans to start a war with China.
The constant provocation and harassment by the troublemaking Americans and Japanese have hardened China's stand and it would stop its appeasement towards these international gangsters and warmongers. China is ready to take them head on.
ReplyDeleteAny attack on the Chinese mainland would be reciprocated with attacks on the American and Japanese homeland. Any mischief in the Seas of China would be met force with force.
Taiwan would be locked down. Taiwan sea and airspace would come under China's control.
Intrusion and aggression in the Taiwan Strait would face serious military consequences.
China has no choice but to strike back at the intruders and aggressors, to be carried out by the US military and Japan. Now even the Germans are going to get involved.
ReplyDeleteThis will be like World War 2, with Germany and Japan against everyone else, except now it will include the Number One Gangster, the Evil USA and the Evil British fading Queen-dom.
It will be the same as worldwide war - with Evil USA leading the Axis of Evils against the Russians, India, China and the rest of the World.
The US military is a joke. Not only being infected by Covid, their men wear lipsticks as part of their uniform and organises drag parties and smoking marihuana.
ReplyDeleteI would not trust the South Asian Indians joining up with Russia and China against the Axis of Evil. They will probably wait by the sidelines for the Russians and Chinese to fight the Axis of Evil and destroying each other.
ReplyDeleteThen India can become the next superpower, unchallenged. India is so anxious to take over the world, but right now, whether militarily or economically, lack the essentials to do so. But still posturing. Still dreaming big. Still bragging with little bragging rights.
Would they create a false flag? Maybe, this is one area they have in mind against their Naval Forces. The desperate measures that they went through, to want the war to start, makes me think this is a possibility, since provocation is not going anywhere.
ReplyDeleteAs in Ukraine, they are now trying to create false flag by using USA made Himars System to strike the Nuclear Power Plant in order to blame the Russians. The USA has been caught red handed with war crimes in Ukraine, by operating such weapons to target the Nuclear Power Plant, as only they have that knowledge of using such weapons, not the Ukrainians. Targeting the Nuclear Power Plant is a war crime, clear and undeniable.
The biggest game changer is the coming visit by Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia. It would be a rude shock to the Americans on how closed the Saudis and Chinese are in military and economic cooperation. The Americans would fell out of their beds. Biden won't. He does not know what is happening. He has dementia.
ReplyDeleteThe Muslim and Arab world would also be in a state of shock. China is the closest friend of two of the richest and most powerful Arab/Muslim countries, ie Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The Saudis have quietly been purchasing advanced weaponry from China since the 1980s, knowing that the Americans would not sell to them to outdo the Israelis. Whatever the Saudi needs, transfer of military technology, China would oblige, a true friend indeed.
The Saudis started with DF3s in the 1980s and now have DF21s. Also drones and in the process of acquiring J31s with the right to manufacture them, like the DF21s, in Saudi Arabia, to make them. The Saudis are no fools and know that the Americans would never allow them to have anything better than the Israelis.
China would offer them everything they need. The trip by Xi would not just be the using of RMB to buy oil, but the building of the largest and most modern eco city for Saudi Arabia in the state of Neom costing billions.
The Arab and Muslim countries are the good friends of China and vice versa. China would help them to be rich and strong, not to manipulate them to fight each other, not divide and rule by the white men and controlled and bullied by the white men.
Wake up Indonesia and Malaysia. Look at the Arab and Muslim countries and know who are your true friends. The evil white men are anti Arabs and anti Muslims.
Today, a Japanese in cahoot with the Americans are claiming violations of human rights in Xinjiang in a fake report. If they care so much about Muslims, why are they not saying anything about the massacres of Palestinians everyday by the Israelis/Americans? Evil hypocrites of the same order.
Dump the Dollar
ReplyDeleteChina's holdings of US Treasuries fall to 12-year low, gold imports jumped to 5-year high, signaling de-dollarization
The Chinese mainland's holdings of US Treasury debt hit a fresh 12-year low of $967.8 billion in June, down further from $980.8 billion at the end of May, according to statistics from the US Department of the Treasury.
The reduced holdings of US government debt makes room for China to increase holdings of other assets. Indeed, China shipped in more than 80 tons from Switzerland in July, according to Swiss Federal Customs Administration. That’s more than double the previous month and eight times more than in May.
As China trades more using RMB or other currencies and not the dollar, there is less need to hold more US dollars. When the deal with Saudi Arabia goes through to buy oil in RMB, China would dump more dollars in its reserves.
ReplyDeleteThis dumping of the dollar would apply to other countries when oil is no longer traded in dollars.
Then there will be plenty of excess dollars that nobody wants. All will go back to the USA.
The white men would use and exploit them when they needed them. Once they are no longer useful, they would be eaten alive by the white men.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment they feel so good and so important when the white men comes along to humour them, whispering to them all the things they want to hear and flattering their ego.
One day they would also become like Iraq or Syria or Iran. Look at how they treated Najib and the 1MDB case.
The Saudis have had enough of the white men treachery after being made use of and exploited by them for so many years.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs came from an ancient civilisation and are not lack of wisdom. They knew what the white men were doing to them and quietly went ahead to cooperate with the Chinese to get the best deals they could and the best weapons systems they needed to protect and defend their national interests against their hostile neighbours, esp the Israelis.
They knew the Americans are in cahoot with the Israelis to control and suppress the Arab/Muslim countries and would sell them out to Israel and white men's interests at their detriment.
They are charting their own future, decide what are best for them, not to be decided by the Americans and white men. The white men have been treating them as fools for too long.
The rise of China and Russia have given the Arab countries and countries of the world a breathing space to be free from white men's control and oppression. They can now to break free to decide their own future. North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, the central Asian countries, Africa, Latin America, Asean and Pacific Islanders now have an alternative choice in China and Russia.
ReplyDeleteThe Americans and white men cannot take them for granted, cannot ignore them as China and Russia would step in to give them what they want. Argentina would soon be taking back the Falkland Islands from little Britain with Chinese and Russian help. China is selling them warplanes that the Americans and the West refused to, to keep them weak and powerless against the Brits.
The whites now have to curry favour the Pacific islanders, coming with gifts and aids, however small and insincere. They must do much better than what China and Russia could offer or be ignored.
Welcome to the new multi polar world.
Blinken went to South Africa trying to curry favour and talk about treating them with 'equality' with the USA, attempting to turn South Africa around after Sergei Lavrov's visit earlier. Blinken was obviously trying to feign ignorance after centuries of mistreatment of the Blacks in Africa at the hands of the Whites.
ReplyDeleteSuffice to say, Blinken was given a lesson in history and was lectured by the South African minister, Nadeli Pandor in a speech tainted with sarcasism and telling the Whites not to force countries to pick alliances and telling them how to conduct diplomacy.
Blinken must have been taken aback by her blunt and factual language that reminds him of Yang Jiechi's lecture in Alaska.