China and Russia are not dumb or naive

China and Russia know where the USA Achilles Heel is, and the only way to bring the USA to its knees is to target that.

The US$ hegemony is the USA's Achilles Heel. It is pointless to go head on militarily against the USA's military might, with over 800 military bases worldwide. It is costly and just falling into the trap set by the USA's Military Industrial Establishment.

The formation of BRICS, the de-dollarisation moves, the peaceful soft power approach in Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Central Asia, are all steps to marginalise the military power of the USA. China will not fall into the provocative traps set by the USA and Japan over Taiwan. China will study the situation carefully, calibrate its responses and apply the coup de grace for maximum effect, not acting on the spur of the moment. The BRI, the peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia are not plucked out of thin air. Nothing like those sanctions on Russia, which were lifted from some people's wet dreams and implemented to fail.

The former Soviet Union tried to match the military spending of the USA and went bankrupt. Russia and China learned their lesson and tempered their military spending, not trying to match the USA.

Targeted military spending on weapons upgrade and not having to maintain all those military bases and personnel is one great advantage that the Russians and Chinese have over the USA. Therefore, even though the USA has a defence budget that is bigger than the next ten countries combined, the bang for the buck is not wisely cost effective. While the Russians and Chinese have smaller defence budget, they are able to concentrate their smaller budget mainly on weapons upgrading, instead of paying US$640 for a toilet seat in those overseas bases. That is where most of the USA defence budget goes, not to mention the US$ trillions unaccounted for at the Pentagon. Corruption at the highest level?

Anonymous

Indian Media Fabricates Non-Existent Think Tanks, Journalists to Churn Anti-China, Pakistan News

A recent report by a European organization investigating fake narratives of Indian media exposes the Indian government's vast smear campaign against China and Pakistan.

The latest investigation report, titled "Bad Sources - How Indian news agency ANI quoted sources that do not exist," by independent non-profit organization EU DisinfoLab, published in February 2023, exposes more details and evidences to prove that Asian News International (ANI), an Indian news agency, has been quoting a number of non-existent organizations, journalists and bloggers to spread disinformation that attacks and smears China and Pakistan.

The report further uncovered that India has long been building a huge anti-China and anti-Pakistan disinformation network and that Indian media outlets have built a sophisticated assembly line of fake anti-China and anti-Pakistan news.

In the report, researchers write that ANI has been repeatedly quoting articles and reports issued by a think tank named the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS).

ANI has quoted IFFRAS more than 200 times from May 2021 to January 2023, and "in most instances, it was not only quoting but using the IFFRAS 'reports' as the backbone of the articles," said the report.

EU DisinfoLab further investigated whether the conference attendees at the think tank quoted in the articles actually exist. The investigation report pointed out that more than 70 speakers mentioned in the fake conferences of IFFRAS did not exist at all.

Apart from IFFRAS, the researchers also looked into another think tank frequently quoted by ANI, the Policy Research Group (POREG), in which the researchers found no sign of the existence of three new members who had reportedly joined the group in the last two years. The three people had been quoted by ANI numerous times on topics such as Pakistan's army doctrines and China's "wolf warrior diplomacy," according to the investigation report.

These fabricated figures are used as experts to provide opinions and analysis to further mislead readers and reinforce the false narratives. ANI's articles, containing the disseminated disinformation, are reproduced and shared across various well-established media outlets in India. This amplification of the false narratives through multiple platforms increases their reach and potential impact, potentially influencing a wider audience and shaping public opinion.

The IFFRAS think tank mentioned in the lab report was also found to be linked to the Srivastava Group, as the researchers found that IFFRAS has been registered by using a well-known email address from the Srivastava Group.

The latter is a notorious Indian shell corporation, and the EU DisinfoLab pointed out in its 2020 report that nominally, the group's main business is news media, with offices in Brussels and Geneva, and registrations of more than 750 media, think tanks and more than 550 domain names in 116 countries and regions around the world.

However, the researchers investigated and found that there was no profitable business under the Srivastava Group, and the media and think tanks related to the group basically only had a name but no actual business.

The group is a representative of the disinformation war launched by India against China. Under the lead of the Srivastava Group, which is based overseas in Geneva and Brussels, an information warfare network has been woven, with a number of fake media, think tanks and NGOs all over the world.

The fake news produced by the fake media under the group is also published and reprinted by some Indian media websites such as ANI which increases the reach of the disinformation.

Analysts pointed out that the production of fake news by Indian media not only discredit China and Pakistan, but can incite nationalist sentiment within the country and distract people from the real problems of the country and the poor performance of its government.

Anonymous

Chinese military presence in Cuba versus American military presence in Taiwan

 China is dicussing plans jointly with Cuba to build a military training camp on the Island. Those plans are said to be 'at an advanced stage and just not concluded'. This is China's way of hitting back where it really hurts. And this is sparking alarm in the USA with the fear that China's next step could be the stationing of Chinese troops on Cuba. After all the accussations against China of building a spying network on Cuba, China is now telling the USA we are going to do more than that. After what the USA did in Taiwan, many are urging and speculating that China will some day pay the USA back in its own coin. It really is coming to that.

The USA really has no reason to be alarmed and should be expecting this. After all, it is a well known fact that USA military personnel, openly touted, are already in Taiwan training the Taiwanese soldiers. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. In today's evolving multi polar world, there is no more exceptionalism in what the USA can do and not others.

It is now up to Russia and China together to decide just how far they need to go to tolerate the USA if events go out of hand. Tit for tat and an eye for an eye is the only language that the USA will understand. In the past, the USA will just invade and take down countries like Iraq and Libya. The Soviet Union had been forced to relinquish its military connections in Cuba, in a position of weakness, in what is called 'The Missiles of October' in 1962. Russia today is different, with so much support that is growing under BRICS.

In fact, there is more to come if the USA is intent on stirring up the Taiwan independence issue and escalating the war in Ukraine. China and Russia may even see it fit to foray into Venzuela and even Central America sooner or later with tactical nuclear weapons, if the USA keeps up the escalation in Ukraine and provocation over Taiwan. Russia already took the first step of moving tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus, with eyes on Poland.

Anonymous 

PS. The Americans also have military bases and soldiers in South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines and Guam, all on the periphery of China. What the Americans can do, China and Russia can do also. 

In the Cuban Crisis, the American media played up like issue that the Russians backed down but did not mention about the Americans having to pull out nuclear weapons from Turkey in return.

Visit to Beijing - Biden slams the door into his own face

SAN FRANCISCO: US President Joe Biden equated his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with "dictators" on Tuesday (Jun 20) as he addressed a Democratic Party donors reception in the presence of journalists.

Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in northern California, Biden said Xi had been angered over an incident in February when a Chinese balloon - which Washington says was used for spying - flew over the United States before being shot down by American military jets.

"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment is he didn't know it was there," Biden said.

"I'm serious. That was the great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn't know what happened.

"That wasn't supposed to be going where it was ... and he didn't know about it," Biden said of Xi. "When it got shot down he was very embarrassed and he denied it was even there."  CNA

This is the latest provocative and silly remark by this demented old man that is hoping to be invited to Beijing.  It comes one day after Blinken's meeting with Xi and is terribly uncalled for. The door to Beijing is closed to him for good. He can forget about going to Beijing till his term ends. And he got the cheek to claim that China 'wants to have a relationship again' when it was the Americans desperately knocking at China's door and going to Beijing without an invitation.

Biden now can end his term as president without being invited to Beijing. Trump would be laughing at this silly old man for being snubbed by Xi. In his bid for a second term, if they allowed him, he would not be able to brag about having a relationship with Xi and can talk to Xi over the phone. China has just cold storage the hotline and would not pick up the phone if Biden calls. Maybe everything that was agreed in Blinken's meeting would be flushed down the toilet bowl. Everything back to square one and Biden can practise shooting down more balloons while Xi would be practising shooting down RC 135 spy planes or warships in the South China Sea.

Keep talking big and tough, old man. But don't trip and fall.

Ukraine - Cemetery for American tanks

The Department of Defense said it can’t corroborate the demise of at least 16 M2 Bradley vehicles in Ukraine

Still from a video shows multiple Bradley infantry fighting vehicles knocked out on the Zaporozhye front, June 2023. © Russian Defense Ministry


The US military has refused to confirm the destruction of American-made armored vehicles during Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia. The statement came after Moscow released videos of charred M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles abandoned by Kiev’s troops.

“I’ve seen the reports but I can’t corroborate some of the video and imagery coming out of that,” Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters on Tuesday. “I just wouldn’t be able to confirm the reports .. at least what we're seeing from [the] Russians.”

Tuesday’s announcement that the US will be sending more Bradley and Stryker armored vehicles to Kiev – as part of a $325 million package drawn from the Pentagon stockpiles – was not a response to battlefield losses but planned in advance, Singh insisted....

Russian President Vladimir Putin told a group of Russian war correspondents on Tuesday that Ukraine lost “at least 160 tanks and 360 armored vehicles” during its recent counteroffensive.  RT

The picture above shows how the Ukrainians used the American tanks in the war. It seems that the lifespan of such tanks would not be more than a week in the battle field. The picture shows what a disaster it was, so many tanks being ambushed and destroyed in one goal, like entering a mouse trap. 

Ukraine would need more tanks, and many more tanks if this is how the tanks would end up in the hands of the Ukrainians. Ukraine would be the final resting place for these tanks.

PS. 

US demanding big results from Ukraine’s counteroffensive, soon – Politico
Without major gains, Ukrainian officials fear the flow of Western weapons may dry up.

US officials are telling their Ukrainian counterparts that Washington’s support for their war effort hinges on the success of the ongoing counteroffensive against Russian forces, Politico reported on Thursday. The offensive has failed so far, with Ukrainian losses counted in the thousands.  RT