T. Belman. And yet the Biden administration would have us believe that Russia, and not China, is the enemy of the US. Its time for the US to get Russia and Ukraine to cut a deal.
China’s GDP is 4 times that of Russia and its population almost 10 times that of the Russia. In the last 20 years China’s GDP went from 1.7 Trillion USD to 14.3 Trillion USD.
The communist regime’s plan to become the world’s leading superpower.
By Michael Ledeen, FRONT PAGE MAG
Red China constantly rethinks how it will become the world’s leading superpower, and plans accordingly. The Epoch Times has just published a detailed plan delivered in a speech in July, 2016, laying out how the People’s Republic can overtake the United States as the world’s leading nation. Professor Jin Canrong, from the School of International Studies in Beijing, explained how the PRC, following Xi Jinping’s call for a national rejuvenation, could accomplish it.
The speech, kept secret until now, combined four elements: 1) weakening the United States by becoming increasingly involved in American affairs, and 2) infiltrating Chinese agents into the U.S. political system. The object would be to control the outcome of American elections. Jin calculated that it is possible to bring pro-Chinese candidates to power in House elections to ensure pro-Chinese policies. Although difficult, Professor Jin believed it was doable.
The speech made this explicit: “The Chinese Government wants to arrange Chinese investments in every single congressional district to control thousands of voters in each district…” This would give Beijing effective control of the House of Representatives. “If China has thousands of votes on hand, China will be the boss of the candidate.”
The Chinese have long pursued control over American politics, and direct control over American corporations was one of the most obvious and attractive routes. Not only were such investments likely to be profitable, they were also a key step to putting Beijing in charge of the U.S. economy. Beijing and Washington worked for more than a decade to arrive at a Bilateral Investment Treaty, but failed to reach agreement. Trump then put an end to the process.
President Biden seems inclined to resume the search for such a treaty.
At the same time, China 3) increased its theft of advanced American technology. Professor Jin made it clear that Beijing had stolen technology for its J-20 fighter jet and DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile, and that illegal theft was the only way to accomplish it, since the United States did not sell such technology to China. Meanwhile, 4) the Beijing regime expanded its control over nearby real estate, such as by building artificial islands and constructing military outposts on them.
No doubt, the Chinese have paid a great deal of attention to DARPA, the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon’s ambitious and highly successful research and development project. Although DARPA developed breakthrough technologies, the really important inventions were not what the agency set out to find. As David Goldman notes, virtually every technological breakthrough in the digital age started with a DARPA mission, and ended with an unimagined something totally unique. We were blessed with political leadership that challenged America across the board, with leaders such as Kennedy and Reagan. In Goldman’s words, our political leaders gave us challenges that inspired Americans to create things and ideas that none of us had imagined before.
The Biden administration does not seem to be THAT sort of government. But then, Beijing isn’t all that inspirational, either.
From today’s Zero Hedge:
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, APR 14, 2021 – 08:54 AM
China is holding provocative new military exercises just off Taiwan on Wednesday which it described as “combat drills”. The drills are considered to be sending an especially ‘threatening’ message as they come a mere hours ahead of the arrival of a US delegation in Taipei headed by senior former US officials.
The drills appear to be Beijing’s ‘counter signal’ to Joe Biden’s “personal signal” of support to the democratic island, also a mere days after the White House published new guidelines which greatly loosen prior long-standing restrictions on American officials’ ability to meet with their Taiwan counterparts.
Prior PLA military drills, via Deutsche Welle
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“United States President Joe Biden sent an unofficial delegation of former high-level officials to Taiwan on Wednesday in a signal of support for the democratic island, which China claims as its own,” Al Jazeera reports.
It’s being called Biden’s “unofficial delegation” to Taiwan, and is led by the following Americans:
former Senator Chris Dodd
former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and
former US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg
“The selection of these three individuals – senior statesmen who are longtime friends of Taiwan and personally close with President Biden – sends an important signal about the US commitment to Taiwan and its democracy,” a US statement said.
The PLA combat exercises come a day after China’s air force sent a whopping 25 military aircraft to breach Taiwan’s airspace in the ‘largest ever’ such breach.
Senior U.S. officials arrived in Taiwan as China steps up what it calls ‘combat drills’ around the island https://t.co/D3pOlhsSpt pic.twitter.com/bpHMydTnpk
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 14, 2021
And here’s how Beijing described the rationale for its new combat drills in the area on Wednesday:
Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office claimed Taiwan’s government and alleged “separatists” were “colluding with external forces” and trying to undermine peace and stability.
“The People’s Liberation Army’s organizing of actual combat exercises in the Taiwan Strait is necessary action to address the security situation in the Taiwan Strait and to safeguard national sovereignty,” spokesman Ma Xiaoguang said.
Given that China just appears to have greatly ramped up its threat level around the island, now would likely be a less than ideal time for the US navy to do one of its warship “freedom of navigation” sail-throughs of the Taiwan Strait, however, something like this will probably happen in the coming weeks as Washington will feel the need to “answer” Beijing’s growing and tightening presence.
Interesting to know if China is planning an attack on Taiwan in the near future. Not only are they carrying out increasingly menacing military drills, but they are harassing Chinese companies and businessmen, such as Jack Ma and his trading empire, who do a lot of business in the United States. A warning to them to pull their assets out of the U.S. and repatriate them to China, to avoid a possible U.S. freeze on Chinese assets if China invades or blockades Taiwan?
@ Ted Belman:
News to me about the other two provinces. Who lives there and what’s the situation?
@ peloni1986:
I am in full agreement.
It is true that Russia is not a military threat to the US. This fact has, however, never stayed Russia’s hand in acting when they sense weakness on the part of the US – especially as it relates to strengthening their long-term strategic goals as regards Crimea/Ukraine. Putin was both savvy and bold enough to know he could challenge Obama whereas he did not so brazenly do so with Trump. In truth, Trumps failure to achieve an accord of common goals with Russia, and thus isolate China, was one of his most fundamental failings. His inability to even approach this policy was, of course, due entirely to the China-Class led opposition enacting the Russia Hoax which, as a consequence, rendered impossible the planned overtures with Russia of which Trump often spoke of on the campaign trail. As a further consequence, it left Russia isolated and forced them to take the only road open and moved closer to China. This was not in Russia’s long term interest and, also, was not in the US interest at all. It did, however, greatly benefit Chinese interests. Specifically with China in mind, it would be strategically prudent for the US to move towards a settlement of their issues with Russia in a way that would generate opportunities of common aspirations that would both support the two countries while concurrently working towards the consternation of Chinese objectives. This, however, would of course require us to believe that the US was not being managed by the Chinese led junta now occupying the White House and their China-class corporate/political allies. Unfortunately, the junta’s devotion and allegiance to their Chinese masters has been made clear for all to see. Thus, I suspect that the day in the sun for the US-Russo relations is, sadly, still nowhere to be seen in our immediate future.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Russia is not a military threat to the US. The US should stop poking the bear. Find ways to de-escalate and to compromise.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
For starters, I think that the US should cede Crimea to the Russians hopefully to get Russia to back off the eastern two provinces of Ukraine. If they refuse that work off a compromise in Ukraine.
The deal doesn’t matter. What matters is that the US can honorably exit its stand.
What sort of deal might they cut? Crimeans voted to secede and rejoin Russia, after they lost their autonomy in the Obama-inspired 2014 coup. The international community is denying the same right to self-determination they accord to Puerto Rico, which has similar plebiscites every so often that end in a stalemate. Ukraine does not have the right of self-determination to colonize Crimea against the will of the people who live there. And Russia has bases there, which they always had.
Russia is said to have recently increased its massing of troops on the Ukrainian border next to the two pro-Russian secessionist provinces. The Biden administration has “warned” Russia not to occupy these two provinces, which contain strategic manufacturing plants and mines. The U.S. has troops on a “training mission” for the Ukrainian army in-country . If Rssia does move troops into the two disputed territories, and the U.S. beefs up this” training” force in Ukraine, the risk of direct armed clashes between Russian and American troops will be high.
China is the principal economic and political threat to U.S. independence and sovereignty. But both China and Russia are military threats.
The recent modernization of the Russian armed forces, including the development of extremely advanced missile systems that can evade American aircraft, and jet aircraft with take-off and flight capabilities exceeding even the best u.s. jets. And Russia retains a large number of nuclear weapons.
China has of course also rapidly expanded and modernized all branches of their armed forces, including weaponrey, and has substantially increased their supply of nuclear weapons. Armed conflict could occur with either of these two great powers over the next twenty years, during periods of tension and disputes over speheres of influence. China is more likely to take aggressive actions that would force a U.S. military response. But the U.S. could also respond strongly to an aggressive Soviet act, possibly in Ukraine or Syria, setting in motion an increased risk of armed conflict.