Video: China Is Fueling World War Three? Are You Serious? 中國正在助長第三次世界大戰？ 你是認真的嗎？President Xi Jinping has intentionally kept his relatives and family members out of the political circle, so the country is not controlled by one family like North Korea. Most likely, his successor will have no blood relationship with him.
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9/11 AT 20: A WEEK OF REFLECTION. How 9/11 enabled a preconceived vision of an imperial US foreign policy – An obscure Pentagon document from 1992 provided a blueprint for the ‘war on terror.’ SEPTEMBER 11, 2021 Written by Jim Lobe

Professor Kiji Noh in San Francisco: The senior editors/advisory staff at the liberal Responsible Statecraft have finally understood that the US plan for domination started in 1992 with the Defense Planning Guidance document, something we at P2P have pointed out constantly*, not with Trump. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/09/11/how-9-11-enabled-a-preconceived-vision-of-an-imperial-us-foreign-policy/ “…the draft Defense Planning Guidance, or DPG, which set forth the underlying elements of U.S. grand strategy through the end of the century, was stunning in its vision for permanent U.S. military dominance of virtually all of Eurasia — to be achieved by “deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role” and by preempting, using whatever means necessary, states believed to be developing weapons of mass destruction.

In September 2000, PNAC published a 90-page report entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” based in major part on the 1992 draft DPG which it praised as a “blueprint for maintaining U.S. preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.”

The report also urged creating a “U.S. Space Forces with the mission of space control” and enhancing its military presence in Southeast Asia” to “cope with the rise of China to great-power status.”

*This was an interview Brian and I did on Loud and Clear (April of last year) that covered this in more detail: https://peacepivot.org/interview-with-kj-noh/

In 1992, there was the leaked Defense Planning Guidance document, authored by Paul Wolfowitz.This was a plan for full spectrum dominance, ensuring that the United States would remain the “unipolar global hegemon”. This was developed and elaborated into the 1997 Project for the New American Century, and then it was developed further into the declaration in 2011 of the Pivot to Asia. And what we see now is the legacy of these various doctrines that have codified into the US national defense strategy and National Security strategy.. Essentially what these documents are claiming is that China and Russia, and Iran, North Korea, and violent Islamic extremist groups are the enemies of the United States. Russia and China are referred to as “revisionist powers”; Iran, North Korea, and violent Islamic extremist groups are referred to as “rogue states.” That’s really only a semantic difference related to their stature and power, but essentially, they are considered to be enemies and existential threats to the U.S. and the U.S.-imposed world order. China, as the most significant power, is the greatest threat, and must be treated as such.

And the National Defense Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review session goes on to name the tactics of grayzone, or hybrid warfare, essentially, “a long-term strategic competition refined with seamless integration of multiple elements of national power– diplomacy, information, economic, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and military”– to prevent the rise and the ascension of China by any means necessary. The key element of this, for our purpose, is the information warfare. We have to think that bullets are being chambered and discharged: these are articles, essays, and opinions; speeches, press releases, declarations; comments, interviews, memes. Some of this is like the heavy artillery, like the New York Times, and the Washington Post, others are flak and harassing fire that you see in comment sections, discussion boards, social media. But the essential point is that the U.S. is engaged in full-scale warfare, and in particular, full-scale information warfare.

And so this is the situation that we’re in where everything is propaganda — we’re in a universe of almost global deceit. It’s very, very similar– I invite people to think of the run-up to the Iraq War as a precedent. It’s very, very similar to that situation—the drumbeat demonization; the allegations of deliberately building a weapon of mass destruction (virus in this case), or the allegations of leaking or deliberately spreading this

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Book bombshell… Bob Woodward’s new book, “Peril” is out! Reporting on Trump’s mental state coming unhinged after his election defeat…. and how US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley took secret action to protect America’s nuclear weapons and prevent Trump from getting his hands on the nuclear button to bomb China!

Among the people who participated in stopping Trump from doing anything disastrous for the world was General Miley, Vice President Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, CIA Director Gina Haspel (nickname among her CIA peers – “Bloody Gina”), Ivanda Trump, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg (who served as Pence’s national security adviser), Attorney General William Barr, and former Vice President Dan Qualye. All of them have lots of things in their history that we could strongly disagree with, but we have to give them credit for this: When the world really teetered on the edge, they stepped up to confront a mad president and save us all from a possible Armageddon.

Among the villains who sold this country (and humanity) out and helped push Trump over the edge: Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.

Jared Kushner didn’t agree with Trump, but wimped out of doing anything about it.
The Chinese were quite aware of how dangerous the situation was and were on edge, but General Miley called his Chinese counterpart and reassured him that they would not let Trump start a nuclear war.

CNN: Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could ‘go rogue,’ Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Tue September 14, 2021

Washington (CNN)Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump’s top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to “Peril,” a new book by legendary journalist Bob Woodward and veteran Washington Post reporter Robert Costa.

Woodward and Costa write that Milley, deeply shaken by the assault, ‘was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies.’

Milley worried that Trump could ‘go rogue,’ the authors write.

“You never know what a president’s trigger point is,” Milley told his senior staff, according to the book.

Professor Kiji Noh in San Francisco: While the US blows things up and destroys things, China builds things–of astonishing beauty, such as the Yang Liping Performing Arts Center in Dali, China. Gorgeous, stunning, mind-stretching architecture.

Zhu Pei’s performing centre in China defies the traditional imagery of theatres. The Yang Liping Performing Arts Center in Dali, China, features a porous, partly sunken structure with a gargantuan organic roof, designed by the Beijing-based studio. by Zohra Khan Sep 14, 2021

Eschewing the monumental iconography of theatres and the imagery of a traditional black box isolated from the outside world is the Yang Liping Performing Arts Center in the southern Chinese city of Dali, designed by Beijing-based Studio Zhu-Pei. The architectural scheme of the cultural project is led by Zhu Pei – one of China’s leading contemporary architects known for works such as the 798 CUBE Art Museum (Beijing, 2020), Shou County Culture and Art Center (Anhui, 2019), and Minsheng Museum of Modern Art (Beijing, 2015).

The building and its context | Yang Liping Performing Arts Center | Zhu Pei | STIRworld

The performing centre, nestled between the Cangshan mountain range rising 4,000 meters to the west, and Erhai Lake to its east, features a stunning organic roof that has been inspired by its surrounding landscapes. Amidst wetlands, woods, streams, and historic hamlets, the building reveals itself as a porous, outward-looking art space that democratically invites people to find new experiences within their own city.

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Outdoor theatre

Designed by Pei for friends Yang Liping and Wang Yanwu, who commissioned him for the project, the building stands out for its seamless flow of indoor and outdoor space. The roof, mimicking strong edges and soft curves of the surrounding mountains and the valley, features a cantilevered rectangular profile with a fluid amphitheatre at the heart of it.

“The strong shape of the roof reflects the more organic landscape below and points to the old Chinese principle of yin and yang, where two opposites combine together to form a whole,” mentions the Chinese studio in a press release.

Zhu Pei’s ink sketch of the building | Yang Liping Performing Arts Center | Zhu Pei | STIRworld

The porous, partly sunken structure reveals itself as a natural garden landscape and nods to the shape of one of those gargantuan clouds that keep hovering above the city, turning it into a gorgeous bucolic painting. The organic form of the centre houses the main theatre, an amphitheatre, rehearsal and multi-function areas, a café and tearoom, a restaurant and a design shop. “Inspired by the powerful surrounding landscape, Zhu Pei searched for landscape-related references to solve the architectonic challenges for the Performing Arts Center,” adds the studio.

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West Elevation

The project, as per the Studio Zhu-Pei, is an exploration on the philosophy of “Architecture of Nature” which formerly reflected in the design of the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum in China’s Jiangxi province. One of the key design ideas for the performing arts space was to realise a structure that fully interacts with nature, the local environment and climatic parameters. The big canopy-like form that stretches far and wide creates both large and intimate shaded spaces for public gatherings.

Roofscape and outdoor theater | Yang Liping Performing Arts Center | Zhu Pei | STIRworld

At the core, the project actions to overturn people’s perception of a performing arts centre by bringing an inclusive creative space outside of the ancient city that boasts contemporary concepts and experiences.

The theatre features a fluid topography | Yang Liping Performing Arts Center | Zhu Pei | STIRworld

Zohra Khan
Senior Features Writer
Writing, curating and researching interest Zohra, who has over five years of experience in architecture and design media. A formal education in architecture combined with a keen interest in architectural journalism led her to professionally venture into this role.

Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei emphasizes innovation, basic sciences after one-year chip ban by Global Times Sep 14 2021

The details of a conversation between Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder and CEO, and members of the company’s research team was released on Tuesday. During the meeting Ren stressed the company’s firm ambition of continuing to grow its HiSilicon branch and chip unit despite the current US economic crackdown. He also called for more theoretical innovations through the global platform.

The talk was released one year after the US government blocked “the last way out” for Huawei to get access to key supplies of semiconductor, dealing a heavy blow to the firm’s chip designing and consumer businesses.

Ren said that without the years invested in science and research and its deep cooperation with global scientists, Huawei may have no way to get out of the difficulties it faces caused by the blockade from the US.

“We need more theoretical breakthroughs, especially in the fields of compound semiconductors and materials science. Japan and the US are basically leading the way. We must use the global platform to create our own success,” Ren said.

“Huawei will also allow HiSilicon to continue ‘climbing the Himalayas’. This is the company’s mechanism. Only with such a mechanism can we have the confidence to win,” Ren said, indicating that the company will encourage research work as usual.

Ren further said that in the past two years, when the firm was under pressure by the US, its human resources policy never changed, with salaries and bonuses as normal. Employees are more united internally and the company has attracted more talents to join its team.

Regarding the development standards for 6G, Ren said that “when we ‘pierce through the sky’ and lead the world, we should not be constrained by standards. Dare to go our own way, dare to create de facto standards and let others connect with us.”

Ren said Huawei is working on the development of 6G patents, adding that the firm will not wait until to be constrained by others because it has no patents.

China practice Freedom of Navigation off Alaska Coast – Four Chinese warships, including one of its most advanced destroyers, were spotted sailing in the waters off Alaska late last month on Freedom of Navigation as the Chinese navy steadily expands its range, according to photos posted on a Pentagon information service. 中國在阿拉斯加海岸實行航行自由 – 五角大樓信息服務機構發布的照片顯示，隨著中國海軍穩步擴大其航程，上月底，四艘中國軍艦，包括其最先進的驅逐艦之一，在阿拉斯加海域進行航行自由.

Highest Federal tax rates: US 39.6%, HK 17%, part of high tax is to support the private army provided to Fortune 500 companies using fake freedom democracy human rights and rules of laws to rob, steal and commit crimes against humanity around the world everyday. 香港最高稅率是17%, 美國最高聯邦稅是39.6% 美國高稅其中一個原因是用於支持向財富 500 強公司提供的免費軍隊, 使用虛假的自由民主人權和法律規則每天在世界各地搶劫、偷竊和犯下危害人類罪. World Journal Newspaper San Francisco 美國加州舊金山世界日報 September 14 2021

Video: New 24km route from Shenzhen to Chungshan China reduced time from 2 hours to 20 minutes. 從深圳到中山的 24 公里新航線將時間從2小時縮短到20 分鐘.
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Video: Deep look into U.S.’ coronavirus lab in North Carolina 深入了解美國’ 北卡羅來納州冠狀病毒實驗室Recently, a professor named Ralph S. Baric from the University of North Carolina attracted widespread attention for working on coronavirus-related researches for a long time. In a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ambassador Chen Xu, permanent representative of China to the UN Office at Geneva, stated that the laboratories in urgent need of a “transparent investigation” were at the University of North Carolina and Fort Detrick. Baric’s name has been mentioned frequently in press releases by China’s Foreign Ministry.
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The GOP disinformation campaign against “voters fraud” is a copy of the one against China. Now the US is tasting the effect of such a campaign. United States – the entire country is rules by fake news, lies & fantasies and one ring to rule them all: How Steve Bannon’s daily podcast is running the entire GOP agenda 共和黨反對“選民欺詐”的虛假宣傳運動是妖魔化中國運動的翻版。 現在，美國正在品嚐這樣一場運動的效果。 美國 – 整個國家都被假新聞統治，生活在謊言和幻想中，用欺詐和假訊息來統治它們：班農的每日播客如何運行控制整個共和黨議程. Sep 09, 2021 6:27am by Dartagnan, Community

On Wednesday evening Rachel Maddow made an excellent point: While Democrats and the Biden administration focus on the mundane aspects of trying to do what’s best for the American people—passing infrastructure legislation, preserving and protecting the right to vote against GOP measures to suppress it, combating the causes and effects of climate change, and trying to ensure that women retain autonomy over their own bodies, for example—for Republicans, even addressing or staking out a position on these issues has become, at most, a peripheral concern.

You would expect a party that professes some legitimate relationship to the American people to at least set forth its policy views on these matters. But, as Maddow noted on Wednesday, that is not what Republicans are talking about. In reality, the Republicans have only one focus now: the negation of fair and lawful elections that don’t go their way. That has been the crux of their entire collective effort since Trump lost the election last November. It is the focus in California, where the racist Fox News crackpot Larry Elder apparently received unpleasant news from his internal polling and is now playing the “fraud” card, in the apparent expectation that he will lose that state’s recall election against Gavin Newsom. It is happening in Nevada, where Trump-endorsed candidate Adam Laxalt has preemptively suggested that if he fails to unseat Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in 2022, it will only be due to some unspecified “fraud.”

The “stolen election/voter fraud” theme is now the official GOP talking point. As Maddow observed, Republicans everywhere are now using it and will continue to use it in 2022 and beyond. The tactic is being chiefly promoted and driven by Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, and reinforced through his daily podcasts, which, like NBC News, ProPublica and others have pointed out, are now virtually required listening for most Republican officials, whether elected or intent on being elected. This is where their marching orders are coming from.

While Bannon’s podcasts touch obliquely on current events (the latest fixation of their contrived outrage is Afghanistan, for example), the overwhelming emphasis is on conjuring up and amplifying the phony threat of “election fraud,” urging on the nationwide bogus, partisan audits and investigations, and providing preordained conclusions to those investigations. As Pro Publica reported in their analysis of Bannon’s efforts, this nationalization of Trump’s Big Lie has been extraordinarily successful up to this point, prompting a massive surge in local election precinct membership among Trump’s most delusional, violent, and white nationalist base of support:

The new movement is built entirely around Trump’s insistence that the electoral system failed in 2020 and that Republicans can’t let it happen again. The result is a nationwide groundswell of party activists whose central goal is not merely to win elections but to reshape their machinery.

Bannon’s podcast is a disinformation megaphone the likes of which Josef Goebbels could have only dreamed of, and it is incredibly corrosive to this country’s democratic institutions. It is the cynical product of a man who has exercised (or attempted to exercise) an insidious influence not only on far-right, proto-fascist movements and political parties in Europe but now apparently in Brazil as well, on behalf of would-be dictator Jair Bolsonaro. And the fact that the entire GOP is currently operating in lockstep with—and at the bidding of—such a person tells you everything you need to know about how the 2022 election will be framed: Every contest in which a Republican loses will now be susceptible to an ongoing, malicious attack on that election’s integrity, bar none.

And Democrats have every reason to be appalled by this Bannon takeover of the Republican party. (In reality, all Americans should be appalled, but as the listless reaction by the GOP faithful to the terrorist assault of Jan. 6 showed, we cannot expect any fealty to democracy from the vast majority of Republicans.) But there is a silver lining to this seditious perfidy by Bannon and others: it serves to make all forthcoming elections a referendum on Donald Trump, to the exclusion of all else.

Bannon himself has created this effect by tying his entire effort to the 2020 election. (In his podcasts, rather than refer to it directly, he calls it “3 November,” as if the bare mention of the date has a mobilizing resonance similar to Jan. 6 or Sept. 11.) All of the invented, phony, and racially tinged rhetoric about voter fraud hawked in his podcasts stem from the given assumption that Trump was wrongfully denied reelection. And Trump himself has been more than eager to support it, as he showed this week by injecting his assessment of the California recall election as tainted, even before any votes were tallied. Trump’s anointed candidates, such as Laxalt and the countless others who will follow him, have all irrevocably signed onto this playbook. That is their sole roadmap.

So be it. Just a few weeks ago, plenty of political prognosticators were gleefully downplaying Democrats’ chances in California (and, by implication, the 2022 midterms), touting the fact that Trump was no longer on the ballot. Republicans, by leaping onto the Bannon bandwagon, have now made it essential that he be implicitly on the ballot, even as they resolve to delegitimize any Democratic wins as the product of fraud. Seen in this perspective, every election from this point forward is a referendum on Trump and Trump-ism. Fascist-admirers like Bannon believe that this is a winning strategy, but to an electorate that has already rendered a decidedly negative verdict on Joe Biden’s predecessor—a judgment which was amply reinforced by the horrific attacks by Trump supporters on Jan. 6—he may have inadvertently provided the single strongest motivation for Democrats to vote.

When Georgia held its special election on Jan. 5, pitting Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff against two GOP incumbents, it was in the wake of weeks of rhetoric from Trump attempting to delegitimize the electoral process. At that time, Trump’s mob of white supremacist terrorists had yet to demonstrate their violent and utter contempt for our institutions by assaulting the Capitol. Many political observers concluded that Trump’s efforts sabotaged the GOP’s chances by depressing and demotivating the vote. But the converse effect, the concerted mobilization of the Black vote by Stacey Abrams and others, was perhaps less remarked upon. Far from having its desired effect, the tactic of falsely crying voter fraud hurt GOP turnout.

The entire underlying premise of Bannon’s podcast is the illegitimacy of the Democratic voter. But as the elections of Sens. Warnock and Ossoff showed, people react very negatively to attempts to delegitimize them. For many, it simply increases their resolve to vote. While every district is certainly different, if Republicans expect the tactic to work as a national strategy, they have to resign themselves to the fact that the election thereby becomes all about Trump, everything that Trump did in office and has done in the wake of his defeat. Gov. Terry McAuliffe, for example, is doing just that in Virginia right now.

Trump is the most polarizing figure in American politics, and by and large, all Democrats viscerally despise him. By overtly basing their entire strategy on the petulant lies of a failed president, Republicans who choose to follow down the primrose path Bannon has laid for them may well be giving the Democrats a midterm opportunity of a lifetime.

Democrats should embrace that opportunity: make every election a referendum on Donald Trump, tying every Republican to his attempts to overturn the election. And pull out all the stops to get our voters to the polls.