What really happened to USS Connecticut? US said hit an undersea mountain and Unconfirmed Source from China said otherwise, you be the judge.

According to this article, China punched USS Connecticut literally on the nose and figuratively a bloody nose for Uncle Sam. I happened to have lunch with someone from Beijing today and I asked him as to the authenticity of this China side of the story on what happened to the submarine. He said this Chinese version is as “unofficially official” story you’ll get.

Drone story on USS Connecticut. Try https://metallicman.com/USS-connecticut-black-operations-submarine-south-china-sea-ram-mountain-what-really-happened/

What REALLY happened with the collision of the USS Connecticut in the South China Sea

The official American story is that the USS Connecticut rammed into an unmarked undersea mountain.

Since the Navy revealed this week that the fast-attack submarine Connecticut struck an undersea mountain in early October while operating in the South China Sea, one question springs to mind: how could this happen?

How could a $3 billion Seawolf-class boat, considered one of the Navy’s most formidable and advanced, crash into an undersea landmass?

-NavyTimes

Which is pretty strange as the locations of all undersea mountains has been well mapped for decades. You can see them on Google Earth for goodness sakes!

It’s a very questionable conclusion.

And you know, what makes it even more questionable is that the United States navy has been flying their radiation detection aircraft all over where the USS Connecticut was running operations. Which is abnormal.

Radiation detection aircraft flight path…

But then if you couple the United States silence to the Chinese inquiries as to whether or not nuclear payloads, equipment, and fissionable materials entered Chinese waters.

There are absolutely zero answers from the United States government to very serious questions asked by China.

The official Chinese story is something else. Here we will tell the Chinese side of the story.

Believe it or not. It’s up to you.

Here’s another post that you simply will not find anywhere else on the Internet. And, you know, I tire of my own sluggishness in trying to understand the great failure of the American “free media”.

Even I realize that there is no such thing as actual “news” in the West, but really guys it’s not too FUCKING DIFFICULT.

Beware of any “news” that you WANT to believe.
Look for what IS NOT being reported in the mainstream or conservative media.
Take particular note when the official narrative is absurd.
Be especially cautious of “seeded“ narratives that you get in emails, or in alternative websites.
That being said, let’s dive in…

From my email 17NOV21

I had a little message from one of my friends regarding the Connecticut incident. FYI, it seems the following message was approved by Beijing so I will just tack it on here. It has been translated from Chinese, with some clarifications to the machine translations by MM.
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The Chinese military authorizes the disclosure of the truth about the accident of the Seawolf class nuclear submarine on the USS Connecticut.

16 November 2021

How the Chinese People’s Liberation Army hunted and sunk the (state of the art) USS Connecticut Seawolf-class attack nuclear submarine in the South China Sea.

-October 2-
The British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, the American aircraft carrier Nimitz, the American aircraft carrier Roosevelt, and the Japanese aircraft carrier Izumo entered Chinese waters. It dis so with 17 other warships. They hailed from the United States, Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and Australia. This 4 aircraft carrier armada represented the Western power of six nations.
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The South China Sea armada begins to conduct large-scale military exercises against China. This was done off the Chinese coast and within Chinese territorial waters.

October 2 to 4-
The People’s Liberation Army dispatched a large number of military aircraft to the South China Sea to conduct simulated attack exercises against these uninvited warships. The armada came from six countries. they were the United States, Britain, Japan, Holland, Canada and Australia.

October 2-
China’s Guanlan Marine Science Guard observed the approximate position and depth of the USS Connnecticut Seawolf class nuclear submarine when it entered the South China Sea. It followed it as it approached the South China Sea, and conducted operations South of Taiwan. It then observed it creep up the coast and operated near the Chinese shoreline and conduct surreptitious and illegal operations (inside of Chinese territorial waters as defined by the UN) of an unknown nature.
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The Guanlan satellite sent the data to the Super Measurement Center in Jinan to estimate the position of the Connecticut.

China’s special detection device captured the ultra-low frequency sonar from the bow of the Connecticut spherical boat and transmitted the data to the Sonar Analysis Center in Shanghai to accurately locate the position and depth of the Connecticut. It was operating at 1500 meters [?] making and conducting obvious operations and drills inside of the Chinese coastline.

-The Type 927 underwater acoustic detection ship stationed on Yongshou Island and the anti-submarine helicopter stationed on Yongxing Island are dispatched for detection.

The Yun-8 military plane took off from the Hainan Air Force Base and carried out a “sonic bomb” on the Connecticut.
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This technology (a “sonic bomb”) causes the submarine’s personnel to be extremely uncomfortable due to the sonic shock. It does not injure or kill anyone. It simply makes all their pain receptors ignite on their bodies.
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This terror and discomfort forced the submarine to try to escape from the targeting cone of effect.

While it was trying to exit the cone of effect, the AI controlled robotic Chinese HSU001 unmanned submarine slipped silently to the nuclear submarine Connecticut. Where it attached itself to the bow of the ship.
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This was an intentional placement. This locations was as far away as possible from the nuclear power plant for a close local directed-explosion attack.
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It was then ignited, and ended up causing serious damage to the bow of the boat and a complete loss of sonar sensing ability.
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The navigation capabilities and the nuclear power plants were not affected, preventing nuclear leaks from polluting the fishing waters off the Chinese coast.

The Connecticut nuclear submarine, which lost its underwater submarine capability, was forced to float up and surrender. As it broke the surface, it was met with Chinese PLA Naval vessels who took no overt action.
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Due to the close surveillance of the navy and air force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, military aircraft and ships from the six countries of the United States, Japan, Britain, Australia, Holland, and Canada dared not come to rescue the submarine in the South China Sea exercise.
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The Chinese military forced the submarine to float up and surrender.”

The submarine was “escorted” by the Chinese Navy and Air Force while in the South China Sea and the submarine was directed to follow the ships to docking facilities on the Chinese mainland.
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Where it then again submerged. Further contact with the submarine was then lost.
-October 7th-
The United States announced the Connecticut accident by the United States.
-October 7-
The Chinese Foreign Ministry frantically questioned the ins and outs of the USS Connecticut incident to the Biden administration, but did not obtain any answers or explanations.
-October 22-
The Chinese monitoring system detected a US nuclear submarine entering the South China Sea again near Huangyan Island.

A final update by the source

The PLAN would be messing around with USN at this point.

1500 meter depth misinfo probably planted deliberately to taunt them because if the Drone sub did find the Connecticut, they definitely knew the actual depth it was running.

From the questions subsequently posed by the Chinese, it does seem they knew there was no nuclear leak.

China is playing around but It’s like a cat with a mouse it caught.

The whole thing has Donald Cook vibes. Morale can’t be good atm.

Added youtu.be link. You might like. https://youtu.be/VeJLwUfLcEU.
Conclusions

Interesting version of events. This certainly makes far more sense that “accidentally” hit an “unmarked mountain”. But whether or not it is actually true is unknown and will stay that way forever.
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So, I do not know how true it is. We must always be aware of propaganda consisting of what we want to believe. The aspects of this particular narrative that makes sense is that it is in alignment with current Chinese technology and military doctrine.
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It is obvious that the Chinese do not want radioactive waters near the Chinese coast, so they only damaged the sub, not sunk it completely. For after all it is a nuclear sub carrying nuclear torpedoes. But we cannot expect this behavior and “safety rules” to continue with the pushing by the United States towards war. This is an aspect of war that I hadn’t thought about previously, but makes complete sense. This is why New Zealand absolutely refuses any nuclear vessels in and near it’s waters.
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I presume there is video footage of the sub surfacing and it’s surrender. The PLA Navy seem to be toying around with the US navy like a cat would with a mouse. Seeing this video footage would greatly substantiate this narrative, but as in all things Chinese PLA, access and dissemination are tightly controlled.
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It’s difficult for me to accept the American narrative that the submarine not only collided with an uncharted mountain, but that the Chinese just stood by and did nothing while a four aircraft carrier armada conducted missile drills simulating an attack on China. There are NO uncharted undersea mountains in the South China Sea. Hasn’t anyone watched the 1980’s Tom Clancy movie “Red October”? The entire ocean has been mapped.
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It is also difficult for me to believe that the Chinese with all their advances and lead in military technology are thwarted by the American Navy. It just doesn’t stand up to the “sniff test”. At least not to us “technology wonks“.
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True or not, you can rest assured that this release of this information would have been war gamed and factored into the AI computations that will figure predominantly in the events of the future.
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If the provocations continue, we can expect China to sink the submarines completely. The impression that I have is that they are “being gentle” at this moment in time. Let’s see what happens next.
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Interesting read never the less.

Despite a virtual news blackout, information on America’s damaged Seawolf Class attack submarine, USS Connecticut (SSN-22), is starting to leak out. While details are scarce, the Pacific Fleet’s latest operational debacle has left the U.S. without a key undersea combatant. At a minimum, the USS Connecticut will be out of service for years, and there is a creeping realization that the damage may be significant enough to force the USS Connecticut into a premature retirement.

It is time for the Navy to start talking. Regardless of the outcome, the fate of the USS Connecticut has enormous ramifications for virtually every facet of America’s maritime industrial base. Given the extended news blackout and the fact that the submarine hasn’t budged from Guam yet, indications suggest the USS Connecticut is badly hurt.

This is no time to smother a potentially uncomfortable debate under an over-classified blanket; the USS Connecticut’s mishap is a big deal and no longer a cozy internal Navy matter.

With the Command Investigation nearing completion, the Navy’s continued silence is doing more harm than good. China is gleefully hammering away at America’s sullen silence. And every day spent keeping the USS Connecticut under wraps is one less day for America to debate and prepare a viable path forward. Geopolitics aside, the United States needs to know just how the USS Connecticut’s accident is likely to stress America’s undersea industrial base. And if this mishap is a self-inflicted wound, stemming from longstanding but long-unfixed problems within the Navy, then real changes must be made.

There is no more time for the Navy to indulge in a long, leisurely study into root causes before deciding on the way ahead. Somebody, somewhere in the Navy Department needs to take what data is available today and use it to lead. Decisions on the stricken sub need to be made quickly, dispassionately, and with a rigor that an emotional Navy will be loathe to deliver.

This crisis is now the defining challenge for Carlos Del Toro, the new Navy Secretary. America can only hope he is stern enough for the task ahead.

It Doesn’t Sound Good

While the “silent service” is living up to its name, information on the submarine’s condition is gradually leaking out. Over at the U.S. Naval Institute (USNI), the indefatigable Sam LaGrone is hearing whispers of damage. Two defense officials told USNI that the impact “damaged the submarine’s forward ballast tanks.” Others told USNI News that the submarine had hit and grounded upon an uncharted seamount in the South China Sea.

The last time the Navy publicly reported a submarine had damaged their forward ballast tanks was in 2005, when the USS San Francisco (SSN-711) suffered a catastrophic collision with a seamount. While nobody is saying that the USS Connecticut suffered as extensive damage in the current incident, the USS Connecticut likely won’t be returning to service anytime soon.

Submarine repairs take a lot of time. The USS San Francisco was stuck at Guam for seven months and needed four years of work before returning to service.

To get the USS San Francisco’s back in a timely fashion, the Navy resorted to cannibalism, taking a bow from the retiring USS Honolulu (SSN-718)—a similarly-aged sub that, due to budget cuts, was being prematurely retired. The “nose job” was complex enough, requiring 285,000 worker days to complete, but the task of appropriating the old bow and aligning and mating internal systems was a whole lot easier than repairing and restoring damaged external hull structures from scratch.

Working from scratch is what the Navy will likely need to do if it wants to repair the USS Connecticut. As the Navy has little in the way of spare Seawolf Class parts sitting around—and no older boats to cannibalize—rehabilitating and re-certifying the USS Connecticut may be a far more time-consuming and expensive engineering challenge than either the U.S. Navy or U.S. taxpayers expect.

In these situations, the Navy’s instinctual bias is almost always slanted towards saving the damaged craft—regardless of whether it makes fiscal or operational sense. In the USS San Francisco’s case, the Navy had two obvious options—either repair the newly-refueled USS San Francisco or retire the USS San Francisco and refuel a similarly—aged submarine, USS Honolulu. To support the decision the Navy estimated that the repairs would cost $79 million, about half the $170 million needed to refuel the Honolulu. But the Navy’s initial repair estimate was inaccurate, and the fix became a relative “wash,” with the final bill for the USS San Francisco clocking in at $134 million—barely a 20% difference.

Neither option is available today—the choice is either to retire the sub or try to fix it. But again, the bias will be towards saving the sub. For the Navy, the political cost of losing the USS Connecticut will be enormous, and, frankly, Congress may expect naval leadership—from the Chief of Naval Operations on down—to pay for it with their careers. But with few spares and no prior hulls to cannibalize, repairing the USS Connecticut risks becoming a complex, sprawling affair that the Navy simply cannot afford to endure. There are no good options.

Is the Juice Worth The Squeeze?

Depending upon the damage, retiring the USS Connecticut early and turning it into a “parts barn” for the USS Seawolf (SSN-21) and USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) may well be the only sensible path.

The USS Connecticut is a unique “Cold War” fighter, endowed with enviable capabilities, but it is—to put it bluntly—also a middle-aged representative of a boutique and hard-to-maintain three-submarine class. Presently 23 years old, and with an expected service life of about 40 years, a pricey, four to five-year availability may not be worth the total cost—not just in repair dollars necessary for the USS Connecticut itself, but in the toll deferred maintenance on other platforms will inflict upon the rest of the Navy.

Time is the enemy here. Submarines have a finite lifespan. In the case of the USS San Francisco, the years spent inactive in the repair yard didn’t translate into extra service life. The USS San Francisco ultimately retired after 40 years while the submarine’s undamaged but similarly-aged peers left the service at 38 years.

The same will be true with the USS Connecticut. Even if repaired, the USS Connecticut may emerge with numerous operational restrictions and only enough formal service life to offer America a mere handful of patrols. The long refit may leave the sub’s reactor with an enormous amount of energy left to offer, but, to leverage that power, the USS Connecticut’s hull and associated structures would need very thorough—and expensive—analyses to keep the boat safe and certified for operations. Once operational, added maintenance and safety checks would eat away the boat’s remaining time forward.

Again, the unique nature of the Seawolf Class—a thicker hull built with harder steel—is a problem. The Navy’s 62 Los Angeles Class attack submarines offered numerous opportunities to harvest condition-related data collection and conduct hull performance studies. But the three Seawolf boats (and a few Los Angeles Class subs that trialed the high-strength steel) just cannot generate the necessary data in an efficient fashion.

It is unfortunate that the USS Connecticut suffered the maritime equivalent of a controlled flight into terrain after being, in effect, conserved for just the type of challenge China presents. But the faster the Navy and Congress realize that the USS Connecticut, if repaired, will never be a true Seawolf again, the faster America can move forward—either by buying more subs, accelerating the development of a new attack submarine design or by repairing the USS Connecticut and shunting it into a less demanding support role, serving as, say, a battery pack and test platform for undersea systems.

The Navy Is At Crush Depth

Deciding the fate of the USS San Francisco was hard enough. But this time, with the USS Connecticut, the trade-offs will be far tougher to map out. The strategic challenge with China, coupled with the Navy’s fiscal, operational, and maintenance crises at home make the path forward far more challenging.

But this is where Del Toro can make a difference. It is the Secretary of the Navy’s job to hold the institution’s feet to the fire, and Congress has empowered Del Toro to make hard decisions on accountability and on the way forward. Hopefully he is up to the task.

Xi Jinping’s 3 Principles, 4 Priorities and 3 bottom lines working with United States.

3 principles:
mutual respect;
peaceful coexistence and
cooperation to achieve win-win solutions

4 priorities:

1. exhibit the qualities of a major nation in the world and lead the world to cooperate for tackling urgent challenges;
   2 push for exchanges on different levels and different areas of society based on the spirit of equality and mutual benefit;
2. control differences and sensitive issues in a constructive manner; and
3. strengthen coordination and cooperation on major international issues and hot regional issues.

These are common sense, basic, fundamental principles that any reasonable person would agree to: respect, peace, cooperation.

They could also be seen as the positive framing of Wang Yi’s three No’s/three bottom lines delivered to Wendy Sherman earlier:
No subversion of Chinese socialism
No obstruction of development
No infringement of sovereignty/territorial integrity.

National Endowment for Disgrace trashes good name of democracy by Xin Ping Nov 17 2021

NGOs often conjure up the images of activists getting busy banning ivory trade, waving BLM banners or alerting people to climate change. Although it is not always certain what their ulterior motives are, they always seem to make things appear bright and beautiful.

This is why it puzzles me when it comes to the categorization of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) of the United States, a self-claimed “NGO” whose establishment was approved by the US Congress. For one thing, by using state funding, the agency has been faithfully preaching hegemonic doctrines of the US government. For another, by guiding and financially supporting separatist rebels in countries deemed detrimental to American dominance, this pair of Uncle Sam’s white gloves is instigating instability, terror and even wars worldwide.

How could such an agency be labeled an NGO? It would probably be too much to say that the NED stands for being Notorious, Egregious and Disrespectful. But the organization can be compared to the foolish emperor in Andersen’s fairy tale “the Emperor’s New Clothes”. Everyone is crystal clear who is naked with nasty intent, yet the evil-doer continues to stand still, awkwardly pretending nothing ever happened.

NED has claimed that “from time to time, Congress has provided special appropriations to the Endowment to carry out specific democratic initiatives in countries of specific interests”. The reason why it never bothers to hide its goals is that for US politicians, “democracy” has been such an overwhelmingly persuasive pretext to justify all their wrongdoings in a flagrant way, including meddling with other countries’ internal affairs, triggering wars and conflicts. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” said Allen Weinstein, one of the founding members of NED, when introducing the tasks assigned to NED. Thanks to such honesty, if Daniel Craig must drop his 007 career after No Time to Die, Agent NED could be recommended to succeed him in a film called No Time to Lie.

For many, including many Chinese, NED is nothing but an obnoxious pest. According to Asahi Shimbun, as of 2016, NED had provided some $96.52 million to at least 103 anti-China entities, including the notorious separatist groups, such as World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC). NED has provided the WUC and its affiliations with millions of dollars in funding, including $1,284,000 since 2016. This money goes to train activists and media influencers and lobby for support for Uygur separatists. In Hong Kong, NED has been in connection with several notable destabilizing forces and individuals. Reports have revealed that the NED offered over HKD13 million to the so-called Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, led by Lee Cheuk-yan, to organize illegal separatist campaigns. In 2019, NED invited several notorious Hong Kong “independence” preachers for speeches, including Lee Chu-ming, who was dubbed by Ta Kung Pao as a “Hong Kong traitor” and won the NED annual prize in 2004; as did Lee Cheuk-yan and Nathan Law. The mobs keep begging for their sugar daddy “no money, no honey”, so NED keeps feeding them greenbacks paid by American taxpayers in the name of “democracy”. Such an “unofficial” NED price acts consistently with the official remarks out of State Department spokesperson Ned Price. Together, these twofold American prongs encourage mobs to act out for Uncle Sam’s expectations.

NED’s victim list worldwide also includes America’s allies. According to the New York Times, NED provided French right-wing groups with $1.4 million to organize campaigns against former president François Mitterrand. In Eastern Europe, millions of dollars have been spent by NED in support of the shock therapy in the 1990s. In Caribbean countries, NED has actively engaged in the conspiracy of overthrowing elected governments, with Haiti and Nicaragua being the most prominent examples. In Arab countries, NED sponsored numerous riot organizations and remained a crucial “contributor” to the collapse of the Mubarak and Khadafi administrations and the subsequent chaos. In Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Belarus, NED has been amplifying its voices by hiring Western media to relentlessly fire against the countries’ leaders. It did so while interfering with their domestic election processes by politically and financially supporting the opposition forces.

In Thailand, the NED aimed at students and youngsters while launching its brainwash campaign through social media, just as it did in Hong Kong. In many ways, those methods were adopted together, enabling NED to meddle with the domestic issues of countries or administrations that it deemed “challenging” to American dominance under the cover of democracy promotion.

The US has always been strangely egoistic to seek a monopoly for the definition of “democracy”. In this way, NED serves as a channel for it to achieve “democracy hegemony”, claiming, “I’m the beacon of light, and those who don’t listen to me are certainly autocratic”. With that solid reason, NED could feel free to interfere with other countries’ domestic issues, infiltrate into other countries for subversive purposes, and ultimately promote riots and rebels.

Under the disguise of democracy and for the purpose of conspiracy, NED is indeed an abbreviation for “National Endowment for Disgrace”. NED as a tool of the US Empire has only disgraced what democracy is all about.

The author is a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly for Global Times, CGTN, Xinhua News Agency, etc.. He can be reached at xinping604@gmail.com.

After meeting with Xi Jinping, Biden decided to visit his fortune teller in Washington DC who has been 100% correct last 40 years. 拜登會見習近平後，決定見他在華盛頓認識了40年的算命小姐, 40年來一直都是100%準確的.

Have you notice the communications after the meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden are so different. You thought they had never met. 你有沒有註意到習近平和拜登會晤後的向國民報告如此不同。 你以為他們從未見過面.

The communication from Joe Biden is the same old same old fake news since Obama such as Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, South China Seas, Taiwan and etc pretending that America like God could do no wrong. 喬拜登的通訊是奧巴馬以來的舊假新聞，新疆、西藏、香港、南海、台灣等假裝美國像上帝一樣不會做錯, 祇有美國説了算.

US need to wake up, China is not your vassal states like Japan and S Korea, nor your disposable chess like Taiwan and Afghanistan. 美國需要醒醒，中國不是像日本和韓國是你的附庸國，也不是像台灣和阿富汗那樣的你可以隨意下的棋。

The US Empire mouthpiece such as NYT, Fox News, CNN, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and etc have been repeating the fake information non-stopped to brainwashed Americans. 紐約時報、福克斯新聞、美國有線電視新聞網、華盛頓郵報、華爾街日報等美帝國喉舌不斷向被洗腦的美國人重複虛假信息.

What US Government should do is to tell Americans the truth that US is not God nor the ability to go out to steal, rob and turn nations not willing to kowtow into modern day US colonies or face destruction like Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and etc. 美國政府應該做的是告訴美國人一個真相，美國不是上帝，再也沒有能力出去偷竊，搶劫和把不願意磕頭的國家變成現代美國殖民地或面臨像伊拉克、利比亞、敘利亞、阿富汗和阿富汗等地被美國任意破壞.

Majority of the Americans still lives on cloud nine not knowing the nation is start falling apart. 大多數美國人仍然生活在雲九，不知道這個國家正在開始分崩離析.

How could US compete with China when Americans are being lied to everyday? 美國人天天被騙，美國怎麼能和中國競爭？

China on the other hand tells her citizens the truth, the challenges they faced and the nation must unite to work together, work hard, innovative and smart to compete and overtake US with defined goals, objectives and business plan. 另一方面，中國告訴她的公民真相，他們面臨的挑戰，國家必須團結一致，共同努力，努力工作，創新和聰明，以明確的目標和商業計劃與美國競爭並超越美國.

China will overtakes US including decoupling with US on key technologies within the next 3-5 years, US has no one to blame but herself. 中國將在未來3-5年內超越美國，包括在關鍵技術上與美國脫鉤，請美國不要怪別人祇可以怪自己.

San Francisco Bay Area China Group: I think the Xi-Biden meeting is a significant event in US-China relations. For the first time since the end of the last cold war around 1990, the US is treating another country as its equal. As Xi said in the meeting, “China and the US should respect each other.”

Not that the US wants to, but it is forced to do so. The US lost the tariff War with China. Its tech war against China has achieved some results, but this is spurring China to become adequately self-sufficient in tech and supply chains and may cause western firms to lose a big part of the China market. Just ask Ericsson. The US discovers that it needs China’s cooperation to solve its own problems, such as its high inflation (high tariffs on Chinese goods being one reason) and supply chain issues, in addition to world problems of climate change  and the pandemic. Remember the disastrous Alaska meeting where Blinken and Sullivan tried to dress down China, and the Wendy Sherman July meeting “speaking from a position of strength,” according to our state department. So the US has changed its attitude towards China within 9 months. Blinken also promised that the US would not try to change China’s political system. While it is doubtful whether the US will keep this promise, at least it has drawn a line in the sand, which the US refused to do until now.

This does not mean things will be hunky dory going forward. As you pointed out, the US is talking about boycotting the Beijing winter Olympics. I am sure the US will still confront China (phrased as “fierce competition”) as it has been doing over the Taiwan and human rights issues and selectively cooperate with China when it is in its interest to do so. I agree with Joseph Leung of Singdao that the US does not know how to handle China, and is improvising as it goes. Confrontation has not worked to US’s expectations, but it retains the illusion that it can still trip up China’s progress by various tricks. This may be the reason why there are many mixed and inconsistent signals from the Biden administration. Biden had also to contend with the box Trump has locked him in with respect to the US’s China policy. The public atmosphere in the US about China after Trump is so toxic now that it will be difficult for Biden to cooperate with China. So he is caught in a rock and hard place. He has to seek China’s help, much as Obama had to in 2009, but he cannot appear to be appeasing China.

Boycotting the Beijing winter Olympics, as you said, is the low hanging fruit for Biden. Biden could very well forbid all US officials to attend the event while leaving it up to the US Olympic committee and the athletes to decide whether to attend or not. Given the toxicity around China in the US, Biden will run into much trouble if he sends US officials to the event.

Chinese sources watching the western governmental pronouncements think that the China policy of allies of the US may be changing after the Xi-Biden meeting and the Joint US-China Declaration on climate change . The allies may be thinking that since the US now acknowledges China as a great power, consulting and cooperating with China at least in some areas, why should they go all out to attack China? I guess we will see. This is the lesson Japan learned when it was broadsided by Nixon’s visit to China in the 70’s without informing it beforehand.

China, on the other hand, is hunkering down for the long haul and it knows that the standoff with the US will last years, if not decades. It is tackling many of the tough problems left over from prior years. I do not need to describe these measures, since they have been discussed in our group.

So to conclude, what we will see will be a situation where the US and China will confront each other on some matters while working together on others in a complicated relationship. Whether confrontation dominates or cooperation dominates the relationship depends on the relative strengths of the two countries at the time. There appears to be no simple way to gauge. The US and China are off to a race. At the end of the day, the country with the best governance and makes the fewest mistakes will win. Unless, of course, the US gives up on its hegemony over the world, an unlikely event, in which case the two countries can cooperate without confrontation.

Video: Reporter’s visa not renewed? Here’s what you’re not being told. 記者簽證不續簽？ 這是您沒有被告知的內容.
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https://youtu.be/1QFpLBQ9doU
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How did China dig a tunnel underneath the Himalayan Mountain? 中國是如何在喜馬拉雅山下挖隧道的？
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Video: The thousand years China’s Kesi Culture 中國千年的緙絲文化

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Australian War Propaganda Goes Off the Rails – In a blatant advert for arms sales masquerading as news, 60 Minutes tries to tie Taiwan to the fantasy of China randomly invading a continent of white foreigners thousands of miles away, writes Caity Johnstone. 11-17-22

60 Minutes Australia has churned out yet another fear-mongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting.

This round of psychological conformity-making features Australian former major general Jim “The Butcher of Fallujah” Molan saying that in three to ten years a war will be fought against China over Taiwan and that Australians are going to have to fight in that war to prevent a future Chinese invasion of the land down under.

He argues Australia will need to greatly increase its military spending in order to accomplish this, because it can’t be certain the United States will protect it from Chinese aggression.

“Australia is monstrously vulnerable at the moment; we have this naive faith that American military power is infinite, and it’s not,” says Molan, who is a contributor to government/arms industry-funded think tanks Lowy Institute and Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Decrying what he calls “panda huggers” (meaning people who aren’t China hawks), Molan claims that “the Chinese Communist Party’s aim is to be dominant in this region and perhaps dominant in the world.” Asked when war might break out, he claims “Given the power that they have in their military they could act any time from now on, and that’s what frightens me more than anything.”

“The next war is not going to be ten or twenty years away, it’s going to be in the next three to ten years,” Molan asserts.

“My estimate is that in a serious fight the Australian Defense Force only has enough missiles for days. This is not going to be resolved in days. And of course we’re not big enough. We should expand the defense force significantly… We should fund defense now based on our assessment of the national security strategy which is based on the war that we want to win.”

“In short do you think Australia needs to prepare for war tomorrow?” the interviewer asks Molan.

“Absolutely,” he replies.

Molan makes the ridiculous argument that if Australia does not to commit to defending Taiwan from the mainland then it won’t be long before they can expect a Chinese invasion at home, as though there’s any line that could be drawn between the resolution to a decades-old Chinese civil war and China deciding to invade a random continent full of white foreigners thousands of miles away.

“Suppose we said okay Taiwan you’re on your own up there and the Chinese snapped it up, and the Chinese started looking around the world and they might snap up other liberal democracies like Australia,” Molan argues. “And we might then turn to America and say America well could you give us a bit of a hand here? And the Americans might say what we said to Taiwan. Where do you draw the line? This situation that is developing now is an existential threat to Australia as a liberal democracy.”

Incredibly, the 60 Minutes segment then plunges into several minutes of blatant advertising for Australian defense technology company Defendtex which manufactures weaponized drones designed to be used in clusters, saying such systems could handily be used to defeat China militarily in a cost-effective manner.

The segment also promotes bare-faced lies which have become commonplace in anti-China propaganda, repeating the false claim that Chinese fighter planes have been “breaching Taiwanese airspace” and repeating a mistranslation of comments by Xi Jinping which it used in a previous anti-China segment made to sound more aggressive than they actually were.

This segment follows a cartoonishly hysterical fear porn piece on China put out by the same program this past September which featured Australian Strategic Policy Institute ghouls insisting that Australians must be prepared to fight and die in defense of Taiwan and that a Chinese invasion of Australia is a very real threat. That 60 Minutes segment was preceded by an equally crazy one in May which branded New Zealand “New Xi-Land” for refusing to perfectly align with U.S. dictates on one small foreign policy issue.

To be perfectly clear, there is no evidence of any kind that China will ever have any interest in an unprovoked attack on Australia, much less an invasion, and attempts to tie that imaginary nonsense threat to Beijing’s interest in an island right off its coast which calls itself the Republic of China are absurd.

As we’ve discussed previously, anyone who’d support entering into a war against China over Taiwan is a crazy idiot. In the unfortunate event that tensions between Beijing and Taipei cannot be resolved peacefully in the future there is no justification whatsoever for the U.S. and its allies to enter into a world war between nuclear powers to determine who governs Taiwan.

The cost-to-benefit ratio in a conflict which would easily kill tens of millions and could lead to the deaths of billions if it goes nuclear makes such a war very, very, very far from being worth entering into, especially since there’s no actual evidence that Beijing has any interest in attacking nations it doesn’t see as Chinese territory.

There’s so much propaganda going toward generating China hysteria in westerners generally and Australians in particular, and it’s been depressingly successful toward that end.

Watching these mass-scale psyops take control of people’s minds one after another has been like watching a zombie outbreak in real time; people’s critical thinking faculties just fall out their ears and then all of a sudden they’re all about cranking up military spending and sending other people’s kids off to die defending U.S. interests in some island.

Please don’t become a zombie. Keep your brain. Stay conscious.

Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who publishes regularly at Medium. Follow her work on Facebook, Twitter, or her website. She has a podcast and a book, “Woke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers.”

This article was re-published with permission.

Another US report adopted Nazi German tactics repeating lies to demonize Chinese, Chinese Americans and China. 另一份美國報告採用了納粹德國的策略，重複謊言來妖魔化中國人、美籍華人和中國.