Video: U.S. struggles with tough decision, countries including allies are selling U.S. Treasuries 美國陷艱難決定 各國包括盟友拋售美債
https://rumble.com/v1dnsqp-u.s.-struggles-with-tough-decision-countries-including-allies-are-selling-u.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/757422152147779/?d=n
Video: Good explanation why China is a civilization state and not a nation state throughout 5000 years of Chinese history.
https://rumble.com/v1dly1b-good-explanation-why-china-is-a-civilization-state-and-not-a-nation-state-t.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/757162828840378/?d=n
“Take a look at Qing (Manchu), and Yuan (Mongol) dynasties that once became rulers of China who identified themselves as Chinese not Mongol or Manchu, they adopted Chinese Civilization, Language and Culture.
A civilization-based state like China (the only one that has lasted 5,000 years and still going strong), and unlike the Roman Empire, does not use brut forces to conquer and rule. China may have ups and downs but it will never vanish like the Roman Empire. Unlike AngloSaxon nations such as the United States which proclaims “in God We Trust” when its elites are really just using God to brainwash people to rule.
Civilization is something you adopt, grow up with, translates your daily life through foods, rituals such as Chinese New Year, Moon Festival, remembering your Chinese roots, not to shame your family name and so on, with no preaching or brainwashing needed. It is observed by all 56 races in China united as one nation under one civilization.
For the same reasons, 50 millions overseas Chinese holding foreign passports from more than 100 countries identify themselves as Chinese held together by Chinese civilization and not by their passports.
That is why throughout modern Chinese history, when China needs help, overseas Chinese always responded readily, no exceptions.
There is no nation, ethnic group or races could imitate or copy the Chinese.
That is why Henry Kissinger said don’t make China the US enemy, the US will not win.
That is also why Napoleon said when China wakes up she will shake the world.
Throughout 5,000 years of Chinese history, unlike the AngloSaxons, Chinese don’t go out to take colonies, no slaves, no robbing of poor nations, no stealing of weaker nations natural resources, no gunboats policy, won’t interfere with the internal affairs of any nations, etc. That is just part of the Chinese civilization and culture.
When US accuses China with all the fake news and propaganda it is merely looking at herself in the mirror. For all the horrific things Americans have done it assumes that China would do the same. How wrong and foolish could that be!?
‘Unprecedented, foolish, dangerous’: Paul Keating attacks Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan. Paul Keating is the only Australian PM with common sense. 史無前例、愚蠢、危險”：基廷抨擊佩洛西計劃的台灣之行。 保羅·基廷是唯一有常識的澳大利亞總理。 The Sydney Morning Herald By Eryk Bagshaw July 25, 2022
Former prime minister Paul Keating has accused US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of inflaming tensions with Beijing and risking a military conflict by planning to visit Taiwan next month.
Pelosi, who sits behind President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in American political seniority, would be the highest-level serving US official to visit Taiwan since the White House established diplomatic ties with Beijing in 1979.
Paul Keating has accused Nancy Pelosi of inflaming tensions with Beijing.
Paul Keating has accused Nancy Pelosi of inflaming tensions with Beijing.
Keating said in a statement on Monday evening that it was hard to imagine “a more reckless and provocative act”.
“Across the political spectrum, no observer of the cross-straits relationship between China and Taiwan doubts that such a visit by the Speaker of the American Congress may degenerate into military hostilities,” he said.
“If the situation is misjudged or mishandled, the outcome for the security, prosperity and order of the region and the world (and above all for Taiwan) would be catastrophic.”
China views neighbouring Taiwan as a province of the mainland even though it has never been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. It has vowed to unify the island with China by 2049 and has engaged in a decades-long campaign of hybrid warfare to undermine the country’s defence systems. On Monday, Taiwan ran air raid drills in Taipei to guard against missile strikes – one of hundreds of measures it takes each year to prepare for the threat of invasion from the mainland.
Keating has been critical of US and Australian policy toward Beijing, arguing that Taiwan’s future was a civil matter for China, and it was not “a vital Australian interest”. But that argument has been resisted by the Coalition, Labor and Taipei which have developed stronger unofficial ties in the past decade through trade offices, while officially maintaining Australia’s “one-China policy”.
Due to the sensitivity of travelling to Taiwan – which neither America nor Australia officially recognises diplomatically, no serving president, vice president or prime minister has visited the democratic island of 24 million people.
Biden last week publicly rebuked Pelosi’s plans for the trip. “The military thinks it is not a good idea right now,” he said.
‘Playing with fire’: Why might Taiwan be the next global flashpoint?
Keating said a visit by Pelosi would be “unprecedented – foolish, dangerous and unnecessary to any cause other than her own”.
“Over decades, countries like the United States and Australia have taken the only realistic option available on cross-strait relations. We encourage both sides to manage the situation in a way that ensures that the outcome for a peaceful resolution is always available,” he said.
“But that requires a contribution from us – calm, clear and sensitive to the messages being sent. A visit by Pelosi would threaten to trash everything that has gone before.”
The Powerless Superpower 韓國、越南、伊拉克、敘利亞，都是平局或輸球。 美國有能力摧毀事物，但無法實現戰略目標，甚至沒有為了利潤而進行破壞的戰略。 美國在阿富汗部署了 20 年，花費了數万億美元，但仍然不知何故輸給了地球上一些最貧窮的人。 所有的血，所有的寶物，都白費了。 這一切都只是在他們的戰神雷神和洛克希德馬丁的祭壇上獻祭
https://indi.ca/how-russia-is-stronger-than-america/
How long can an empire keep losing wars without losing power? As Andrei Martyanov asks “where are the tangible results in what throughout human history has served as the most important test of power: victories in wars?” This is a question America has been violently, rudely asking for decades, and the answer has long been ‘no’. Now it’s just becoming obvious.
Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, all draws or losses. America is capable of destroying things, but not achieving strategic objectives, or even having a strategy beyond destruction for profit. In Afghanistan, America deployed for 20 years, spent trillions of dollars, and still somehow lost to some of the poorest people on Earth. All the blood, all the treasure, it was all for nothing. It was all just human sacrifice on the altars of their war gods, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
In Ukraine, NATO trained a large Ukrainian force and flooded the place with billions of dollars in weapons. And it’s all getting ground up in Putin’s cauldron. America screamed propaganda about how dangerous Russia is to the world, but then did nothing about it besides profit from the suffering of Ukrainian people. Now they just look impotent.
An empire can’t take L after L like this and not one day be deemed a loser. America’s military actually sucks, and Andrei Martyanov called it in 2018, in his book Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning. In that book, he talked about the current conflict with Russia before most of us perceived it happening (though it was happening).
From the film Patton. “The vast majority of the Germans simply didn’t know why General Patton rated a film. For Russians, the film raised the inevitable question of why so much pathos would be generated about a general who commanded a single army at the Western Front in the last year of WWII”
World War II
The last war America really ‘won’ was World War II, and they didn’t really win it. As Carl von Clausewitz said about actual victory:
“What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means — either completely or enough to make him stop fighting…The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements… Direct annihilation of the enemy’s forces must always be the dominant consideration.”
By this measure, the USSR did 80% of the winning of World War II. The brutal, methodical grinding up of the Wehrmacht was accomplished on the Eastern Front, not the Western.
“For most of the war, 75–80 percent of the Wehrmacht had to be deployed in the East, a preponderance dictated by the sheer size of the front, and 80 percent of German war dead perished there: about four million of the five million German soldiers killed in World War II.” (WWII Museum)
This is the bloody point of war, not retreats like Dunkirk or finding random privates named Ryan. The point is killing your enemy in such numbers that they submit to your will. And the USSR did most of it.
Americans especially have no idea about that side of the war. As a schoolchild in America, however, I was not taught about the Soviet contribution at all. The Americans swooped in, kicked ass, Hitler was bad, the end. The Soviets somehow randomly ended up in Berlin, around the same time, walking in the back door.
As Martyanov said (quoting a 2015 survey) “an overwhelming majority of the American public, 55%, think the US contributed the most to the defeat of Germany with only 11% thinking it was Soviet Union, as one of many similar polls testify. If those astonishing numbers are not the result of propaganda, one is then forced to contemplate how, other than due to propaganda, such a complete obliviousness to the basic facts of WWII could have been achieved.”
And it is indeed propaganda. Americans have made countless movies about finding random privates, hidden art, and minor generals like Patton. The British made movies about their retreats, speeches, and code-breaking. These are all interesting stories, but none of them are the real story of war, which is encountering the enemy and killing them in numbers.
The Russians knew this quite viscerally and thus the stories they tell their schoolchildren are quite different. As Robert Skidelsky wrote in the intro to a book on Russian textbooks, “The Russians believe, quite rightly, that it was they who bore the brunt of the fighting and the horror. They also claim, in my view rightly, that it was they who defeated the Germans with rather minimal help from the Western Allies.”
This is undeniably true, but even when it is acknowledged in the west, it is portrayed as mindless human sacrifice, with no regard for human life. As wildly racist American war hero George C. Patton said:
“The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European but an Asiatic and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese and, from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other amiable characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all-out son of a bitch, a barbarian, and a chronic drunk.”
This of course sounds wildly racist, but western attitudes towards Russia haven’t changed. In 2016 the Boston Globe said “Putin’s Russia is a poor, drunk soccer hooligan.” You get Economist covers like this all the time:
Look at New York Times sour notes on China’s space achievements. NYT hate news on China and Chinese is a 24/7/365 days event funded by the military industrial complex 看看《紐約時報》對中國太空成就的負面評論。 紐約時報關於中國和中國人的仇恨新聞是由軍工聯合體資助的 24/7/365 天活動
Banned by Ukraine as Putin propagandists: my friend in SF, George Koo made the list! He did such a good job to debunk fake news by Ukraine and US Gov’t on Asian Times 被烏克蘭禁止為普京宣傳員: 我在舊金山的朋友顾屏山上榜了! 他在亞洲時報上多次揭穿烏克蘭和美國政府的假新聞做得很好
George Koo: I see that I am higher up on the list than many more distinguished and prominent than me. That counts for something–I guess.
Scroll down to see George’s entry.
Congratulations, George!!
Russian https://cpd.gov.ua/reports/спікери-які-просувають-співзвучні-ро/
English: https://unherd.com/thepost/ukraine-government-issues-blacklist-of-russian-propagandists/
Video: China is thriving, smashing the industrialized countries of the US, Japan and Germany. Japan, the clown who jumps on the beam, a vassal State of US will not have its share in the future 中方一枝獨秀 吊打美日德工業國 小日本這個跳梁小丑將來沒有它的份永遠做美國奴才永無翻身之日
https://rumble.com/v1dkbp1-china-is-thriving-smashing-the-industrialized-countries-of-the-us-japan-and.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/756957615527566/?d=n
China warns of military response to Pelosi’s Taiwan trip – Financial Times . Beijing has reportedly told US officials that a visit by the House speaker to Taiwan could trigger a forceful reaction. 中國警告對佩洛西台灣之行的軍事反應 – 金融時報。 據報導，北京告訴美國官員，眾議院議長訪問台灣可能會引發強烈反應.
US may deploy aircraft carriers for House speaker’s Taiwan trip
Nancy Pelosi could do a zoom meeting, saving 12 hrs of travel & jet fuel, or she could precipitate WWIII.
Any bets on which choice the Biden-CNAS-Blue team warhawks are likely to make?
Wall Street Journal https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/25/ooce-j25.html
The US military is considering “moving aircraft carriers or sending fighter planes for close air support” as part of a potential trip by US house speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
The Wall Street Journal wrote, “And now that both she [Pelosi] and Mr. Biden have raised the prospect of a military threat, any decision to stay home would look like a retreat under Chinese pressure. Mrs. Pelosi almost has to take the trip now.”
The simultaneous escalation against Russia and China comes three weeks after New York City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) released a 90-second public service announcement (PSA), giving instructions to city residents on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack on America’s largest city. The video begins with the narration, “So there has been a nuclear attack. Don’t ask me how or why, just know that the big one has hit.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s announced plans to visit Taiwan in August risks triggering a war with China. Starting with President Richard Nixon’s visit to China and the resulting Shanghai Communique, for fifty years, the United States, China, the government of Taiwan, an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations, and the United Nations have all officially agreed that there is only “One China,” that Taiwan island is a province of China, and that the issues between them should be settled by the Chinese themselves. This has been the bedrock foundation of peace between the US, Taiwan, and mainland China all these decades. This “One China policy” would be blatantly violated by the visit of such a high profile American official such as Pelosi, who is third in the line of succession to the presidency of the United States. Both the United States and China recognize the seriousness of this proposed trip; the US is talking about moving aircraft carriers to the region to provide security, and Chinese sources are talking about having China’s own aircraft escort Pelosi’s plane. The US and Chinese militaries have been holding rival military exercises and playing games of “chicken” with each other for years, but now there are warnings from prominent persons in both nations that this trip risks a serious and possibly deadly clash. Chinese spokesman Zhao Lijian said China was “seriously prepared” and “If the U.S. side is bent on going its own way, China will take strong measures to resolutely respond and counteract…. The United States should be held responsible for any serious consequences.” A former top Obama White House China expert, Evan Medeiros, recently said,“The Taiwan issue… could spark war—including nuclear war—between the two largest economies in the world.” Pelosi herself said, “… maybe the (US) military was afraid our plane would get shot down or something like that by the Chinese.”
At the same time, several key pieces in Asia have fallen into place for America to start a war there. President Yoon Suk-yeol was recently elected the new president of South Korea (by a thin margin and almost certainly with US and Korean CIA involvement), and he is a far right crazy of the John Bolton mode. Shinzo Abe, the immediate past prime minister of Japan was just assassinated, becoming a martyr whose death only strengthens his right wing party’s (the LDP) hand. They now have the votes, for the first time, to change Japan’s peace constitution and go to war. And President Tsai is a right winger in Taiwan who dances to America’s tune. Both the new leaders of Japan and South Korea are calling for their countries to participate in war if it should break out over Taiwan. And now the US has gotten NATO to name China as a threat and commit to support action against China.
The only piece not in place for war is Taiwan itself; polls show the majority of people just want to maintain the status quo, which was working for both sides, the mainland and Taiwan. Prior to the pandemic, trade and tourism both ways had been increasing continuously, and both sides benefited without either side having to give up anything. It was win-win and most people on both sides, and the mainland CPC government, would like to keep it that way. Also, Taiwan’s military is not ready for war, they have a draft but it only requires four months of service, then they just go into the reserve, which doesn’t even conduct regular training. Retired San Francisco judge Julie Tang, originally from Hong Kong and a cofounder of Pivot To Peace (https://peacepivot.org/ ) reported, “The loudest voice of opposition to her Taiwan trip is from Taiwan’s independent press. They are outraged. These folks understand how devastating it may mean to Taiwan.”
But internal conditions in Taiwan are not likely to change in the foreseeable future, so this is as good as it gets for the US, if war is the goal. Biden, Brinken, Nuland, and company can’t get it any better. They didn’t learn from their defeat in Afghanistan, seem blind to their impending disaster in Ukraine, and they continue to press on China. So while a war is not certain, the possibility of it is increasing.
At the same time, the White House is wavering on Pelosi’s visit, and different voices from the establishment are saying conflicting things and giving conflicting signals. With the US establishment divided, this is a critical moment in which a large peace movement push for peace – peaceful demonstrations at congressional offices and the White House, letters to editors of local newspapers, and other peace actions – may make a critical difference in tipping the balance towards peace rather than a devastating, possibly nuclear war. I urge all peace organizations and leaders to step boldly forward at this critical moment in time. Now is the time to take action to pull our country and our world back from the blink of war.
Resources for more information:
Mike Wong
Vice President, Veterans For Peace, San Francisco Chapter #69
Co-founder, Pivot to Peace: https://peacepivot.org/
Co-chair, Veterans For Peace China Working Group: https://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/working-groups/china-working-group
US is upset that China defense capability substantially increase in 5 years against US hegemony and aggression towards China. 美國對中國在5年內對抗美國霸權和侵略中國的防禦能力大幅提升感到不安.
Video: Hong Kong Doctor use BNO moved to UK not happy with life and culture there 香港醫生使用 BNO 移居英國 對那裡的生活和文化不滿意 早知有今日何必當初呢!
https://rumble.com/v1djltd-hong-kong-doctor-use-bno-moved-to-uk-not-happy-with-life-and-culture-there.html
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