In the refresh of Britain's blueprint for security and international policy, the government warned of China’s deepening partnership with Russia, and Moscow’s growing cooperation with Iran following the invasion of Ukraine. Reuter
3/15/2023
Britain must repay all the war and blood debt owed to China
In the refresh of Britain's blueprint for security and international policy, the government warned of China’s deepening partnership with Russia, and Moscow’s growing cooperation with Iran following the invasion of Ukraine. Reuter
Rise of the forces of goodness, decline of the forces of evil
Xi is also well aware that everyday, new alliances on anything under the sun are being forged by external forces, all with the same horseshit of containing China, as if China had been posing such a threat and is extending its military reach into other country's territory or that China has created wars against others. Nothing of the sort is evident, and in fact China is doing just the reverse by brokering the Iran and Saudi Arabia peace deal.
Xi will be visiting Putin next and is expected to have a video conference with Zelenskyy immediately after that, possibly to forge another peace deal, and that is making the USA and Nato terribly nervous and petrified. Of course the USA and Nato will demonise the move in ways they are best at, to prevent China pulling off yet another deal of global significance.
And yet the White Curse has found it necessary to continue to sell their warmongering ideology by rallying allies to confront China. The Africans already knew the agenda of the USA and the West, which is why they loath meeting Western leaders visiting Africa, and wanting only to talk about China's threats and debt traps. What they see is not what they hear from the West about China's intention in Africa.
The real reason for all the animosity created by the USA is that the USA and Western countries are fearful of China overtaking the USA and putting an end to the US hegemony with de-dollarisation. Putting down China by erecting hurdles and sanctions against China is to ensure that no one else can rise to compete with the USA, so that it can remain on top forever.
The USA can force down other countries like Japan and Germany from rising, snuffing out Iraq and Libya with its military power. China and Russia are not that easy preys and they had to rally and use proxies to carry out their evil plans. Russia alone has shown its resilience in the face of so many enemies coming together just to take it down. China is not going to be an easier target than Russia and its people are more united and patriotic than during the Opium War years.
Now again resorting to use saber rattling by gloating over the nuclear submarine deal with Australia, presumably to scare China. And Finland is trying to frighten Putin by its posturing to send fighter jets to Ukraine. Not now, as I understand, but by 2025. 2025? Will Ukraine still be there?
As I said, since the USA and the West is proliferating nuclear weapons by selling nuclear submarines to Australia, I think it is time for Russia and China to do the same by selling nuclear subs to Iran to protect its interest in the Persian Gulf. China and Russia can also play the same game, right? Last but not least, North Korea has succeeded in firing nuclear capable missiles from submarines. That is something to ponder about for Japan and South Korea.
3/14/2023
Failing of the evil American Empire
Warner, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said TikTok would be "one of the potentials" for review under the bill. The Democratic senator made the comments on Fox News Sunday. CNA
The price for calling Saudi Arabia a pariah state
What the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have brought to the surface is the latent geopolitical reality that the Global South rejects the policies of neo-mercantalism pursued by the West in the garb of ‘liberal internationalism.’
The West is pursuing a hierarchical international order. None other than the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell blurted this out in an unguarded moment recently with a touch of racist overtone when he said from a public platform that ‘Europe Is a garden. The rest of the world Is a jungle, and the jungle could Invade the garden.’
Tomorrow, China could as well be challenging the US hegemony over the Western Hemisphere. The recent paper by the Chinese Foreign Ministry titled ‘US Hegemony and Its Perils’ tells us that Beijing will no longer be on the defensive.
Meanwhile, a realignment of forces on the world stage is taking place with China and Russia on one side and the US on the other. Doesn’t it convey a big message that on the very eve of the historic announcement in Beijing on Friday, the Saudi Arabian foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud landed suddenly in Moscow on a ‘working visit’ and went into a huddle with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who was visibly delighted? (here, here and here )
Of course, we will never know what role Moscow would have played behind the scenes in coordination with Beijing to build bridges between Riyadh and Tehran. All we know that Russia and China actively coordinate their foreign policy moves. Interestingly, on March 6, President Putin had a telephone conversation with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi.
To be sure, the geopolitics of West Asia will never be the same again. Realistically, the first sparrow of spring has appeared but the ice was melted for only three or four rods from the shore. Nonetheless, the sun’s rays give hope, signalling warmer days to come.
Conceivably, Riyadh won’t have any truck further with the diabolical plots hatched in Washington and Tel Aviv to resuscitate an anti-Iran alliance in West Asia. Nor is it in the realms of possibility that Saudi Arabia will be party to any US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
This badly isolates Israel in the region and renders the US toothless. In substantive terms, it scatters the Biden administration’s feverish efforts lately to cajole Riyadh to join Abraham Accords.
However, significantly, a commentary in Global Times noted somewhat audaciously that the Saudi-Iranian deal “set a positive example for other regional hotspot issues, such as the easing and settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And in the future, China could play an important role in building a bridge for countries to solve long-standing thorny issues in the Middle East just as what it did this time.”
Indeed, the joint communique issued in Beijing says, “The three countries [Saudi Arabia, Iran and China] expressed their kenenness to exert all efforts towards enhancing regional and international peace and security.” Can China pull a rabbit out of the hat? Time will tell.
For the present, though, the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement will certainly have positive fallouts on the efforts toward a negotiated settlement in Yemen and Syria as well as on the political instability in Lebanon.
Besides, the joint communique emphasises that Saudi Arabia and Iran intend to revive the 1998 General Agreement for Cooperation in the Fields of Economy, Trade, Investment, Technology, Science, Culture, Sports, and Youth. All in all, the Biden administration’s maximum pressure strategy toward Iran has crashed and the West’s sanctions against Iran are being rendered ineffectual. The US’ policy options on Iran have shrunk. Put differently, Iran gains strategic depth to negotiate with the US.
The cutting edge of the US sanctions lies in the restrictions on Iran’s oil trade and access to western banks. It is entirely conceivable that a backlash is about to begin as Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia — three top oil/gas producing countries start accelerating their search for payment mechanisms bypassing the American dollar.
Anonymous
The rest of the world turning against white hegemony
That is another slap on the face of the West. In Anchorage, Alaska, Senior Chinese diplomat, Yang Jiechi was reported to have used Mandarin in his retort against Blinken of the USA and he refused to debate in English. Not that Yang Jiechi does not speak or understand English. Even though Yang had his earlier education in China, he later pursued further education at the University of Bath and London School of Economics. He also served as Chinese Ambassador to the USA for several years. Can he not understand and speak English? What do you think and why he refused to speak in English? Days of outright dictating by the USA are over.
When China invited countries to participate in space research after successfully launching its Tiangong Space Station, the USA unashamedly applied. Knowing that it will most likely be rejected, it tried to instigate and demonise China by insisting that China must provide only English signage on the Tiangong Space Station and use English instead of Chinese instruction manuals. It even said that China's Tiangong Space Station must meet its standard in order for the USA to participate.
China categorically told the USA off by pointing out that the USA had nothing of value to add to the research and rejected the USA application. Most of the countries that applied and who were accepted, are now putting their astronauts through a language immersion course in Mandarin to familarise themselves with the language. As I said earlier, the days of USA blatant dictating is now over. China does not recognise the USA's 'Rules Based Order' rubbish.
China must continue to take such a stand and insist on its application in every aspect. What is good for the country must never be hijacked by others out to destroy its culture and heritage.