Growing up watching so many mafia and triads movies in Hong Kong till today. For a declining mafia and triads empire desperately trying to stay in power. US is a perfect example.
President Biden’s Putin speech in Poland is a catastrophe
https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/president-bidens-putin-speech-in-poland-is-a-catastrophe/

The second black box from China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 was found 40 meters southeast from the crash site, buried under 1.5 meters of soil, CMG reported. Check out the video to see how search and rescue workers clean the box.

How Chinese companies beating currency control moving money overseas illegally 中國公司如何打破貨幣管制，將資金非法轉移到海外

Asia Weekly – The double-edged sword of Biden’s Ukraine war games 亞洲週刊 – 美國在烏克蘭設的局是一把雙刃劍，最終是害人終害己 3-28-22

The United States wants to turn Ukraine into a power grinder, exhaust Russia’s national strength, and reap diplomatic interest. However, since indiscriminate sanctions violated the principles of property rights and the rule of law, the momentum of global de-dollarization has been triggered. The Saudis fired the first shot; the White House’s double-edged sword hurt others as well as itself.

There are more and more signs that the White House is setting up a plan to turn Ukraine into Russia’s Vietnam. President Biden believes that facing Putin’s internal backlash and internal and external difficulties, Russia is bound to repeat the curse of history, making foreign wars the fuse of internal unrest. White House advisers believe that from the Crimean War to World War I to Afghanistan, the internal regime in Moscow was unstable due to external wars, and eventually ushered in a “regime change”.

Is this the wishful thinking of the White House? What is certain is that the longer the bloody killing of the Ukrainian war lasts, the better it will be for the United States, because the European Union, which had been estranged from the United States in the past, has all turned to the United States under the fire of Russia. NATO was originally regarded by French President Emmanuel Macron. Already “brain dead”, but now back to life with extraordinary vitality. Germany announced an increase of 100 billion US dollars in military spending, Finland, Sweden and other countries also announced to give up their neutrality and demanded to join NATO. Even Switzerland, which has always been neutral, also joined the sanctions against the rich Russians and frozen their assets. This allows the United States to easily kidnap Europe and replace Germany as the ultimate hegemon of Europe.

U.S. military-industrial companies also immediately became popular, and all kinds of stocks were on the rise. F35 fighter jets are hot, and European countries are snapping up to ensure strong air supremacy in future conflicts. Anti-tank shoulder-launched missiles, this time in the Ukrainian battlefield, smashed more than 1,000 Russian tanks. Although the Ukrainian army did not have a large-scale battle with the Russian army, all kinds of weapons came in handy, making the battlefield a testing ground for new weapons. This is also the highlight moment for the American arms dealer, who not only made huge business, but also won the positive image of “defender of the free world”, breaking the infamy of being ridiculed as “death merchant” in the past.

U.S. President Eisenhower pointed out in the 1950s that U.S. politics was originally controlled by military-industrial enterprises, because it has too much money and too many interest networks, which are intertwined and extend the tentacles of interests into capillaries of power. It has been transported to key parts, changed the constitution of the country, and also influenced foreign policy. Therefore, in his farewell speech leaving the White House, Eisenhower pointed out earnestly that American politics must be wary of the “military-industrial complex.” But as soon as the gunfire of the Ukrainian war rang, the military-industrial complex became the protector of American politics and the protector of Biden’s campaign.

At the same time, the United States also won the oil hegemony in the Ukrainian war and took over the energy business in Europe. For a long time, Russia has been the main supplier of the European energy market, but now due to the US sanctions, European business has immediately shifted from Russia to the United States. The Texas shale oil business can just make up for the huge German demand after the cut off of Nord Stream II. . Many U.S. political donors are shale oil business owners. In recent years, they have been restricted by environmental protection forces and have difficulty developing. Oil prices have been hovering at low levels for a long time, which also makes shale oil unable to improve. Now that there is a sudden shortage of oil in Europe, oil prices in the United States are also soaring, and shale oil has immediately risen, becoming the darling of Wall Street.

Ukraine has become a “meat grinder”, draining Russia’s national strength. It not only strangled the six generals of the Russian army, but also strangled the foundation of Russia’s rule. Biden made Ukraine a “borrowed battlefield” for the United States, fighting an “outsourced war” of the United States, borrowing the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, winning the tears of global sympathy, and reaping the diplomatic interest of the United States.

But this is a double-edged sword. At first glance, the layout of the United States is surprising, but due to the excessive force, there is an unexpected rebound. The United States sanctioned the rich overseas Russians (many of them are Putin’s enemies) and confiscated their property, which violated the basic principles of capitalism and the rule of law society, and destroyed the sanctity of property rights. quit. But the deeper impact is the international credit of the US dollar. Biden self-destructed the Great Wall, and the national debt, securities and assets of various countries in the United States became precarious overnight. The protection of property rights, which was once regarded as the cornerstone of a society governed by the rule of law, was utterly destroyed under the sudden expansion of administrative power.

This also made the first crack in the global credit wall of the dollar. Saudi Arabia fired the first shot. Not only did it reject the call from Biden, but it also immediately reached an agreement with Beijing that oil exports to China would be settled in RMB in the future, and the first step in “de-dollarization” was implemented.

This has shaken the U.S. long-held petrodollar hegemony. Since the United States has long abandoned the gold standard, the value of the dollar is anchored by petrodollars. Now the United States has taken the initiative to tear open a hole, and the embankment of a thousand miles has collapsed in the ant’s nest. In recent years, the United States has been criticized for printing money aggressively in the name of “quantitative easing”. Now the petrodollar is facing the challenge of unstable foundation, which is harming the core interests of the United States.

India, South Africa, and Central Asian countries have also turned to the process of “de-dollarization”. In the face of the “swift” sanctions imposed by the United States, they are increasingly moving closer to China’s “cips” system, trading in their own currencies, connecting with the RMB, and even Enter the “electronic RMB” system to avoid being made money by the United States, and to avoid being “stuck in the neck” by the United States.

This is equivalent to touching the “lifeblood” of the United States and hitting the key to American hegemony. The U.S. dollar, U.S. debt, and the U.S. military are the “three treasures” of U.S. hegemony, but this time the dollar and the “two treasures” of U.S. debt were slashed by Biden, and the U.S. military faced the fate of being alone.

This is a double-edged sword wielded by the United States in the Ukrainian war. It slashed at Russia, and it also tried to slash at China, but it did harm to itself before harming others. This is the essence of a double-edged sword and the latest lesson in the martial arts of international politics. ▇

美國要將烏克蘭變成權力絞肉機，將俄羅斯國力消耗殆盡，收割外交利息。但是由於無差別制裁違反產權與法治原則，觸動了全球去美元化的勢頭。沙特已經開了第一槍; 白宮的雙刃劍害人也害己。🥵
越來越多跡象顯示，白宮正在設局讓烏克蘭成為俄羅斯的越南，泥足深陷，折損軍力也消耗國力。這是否白宮的一廂情願？可以確定的是，當前鳥戰的血腥殺戮，時間拖得越長，對美國越有利。因為過去與美國離心離德的歐盟，都在俄羅斯的炮火下紛紛投向美國。🍒
美國的軍工企業也立刻爆紅，各類股票也在上升。F-35戰鬥機炙手可熱，歐洲各國都在搶購，確保在未來的衝突中保持強大的制空權。反坦克的肩射飛彈，這次在烏克蘭戰埸大放異彩，摧毁了逾千輛俄國坦克。🌞
如今歐洲突然出現石油短缺的局面，美國的油價也在飆升，頁岩油立刻水漲船高，成為華爾街的寵兒，捐贈給拜登政府的政治獻金也立刻升高，成為民主黨今年選舉的重要助力。🍅
拜登讓烏克蘭成為美國「借來的戰埸」，借用烏克蘭軍民的死亡，贏得全球同情的眼淚，收割美國外交的利息。但這是一把雙刃劍。美國的佈局乍看讓人嘖嘖稱奇，但是由於用力過猛，產生了意想不到的反彈。🥳
美國制裁了俄海外富豪，没收他們的財產，違反了資本主義的基本原則，破壞了產權神聖不可侵犯的倫理，出現了寒蟬效應，讓全球很多富豪要從美國退出。更深一層的影響是美元的國際信用，被拜登自毁長城。😡
這也使得美元的全球信用高墙，出現了第一道裂缝。而沙特阿拉伯也開出了第一槍，立刻與北京達成協議，輸出石油到中國今後都用人民幣結算，落實「去美元化」的第一步。這也令美國長期以來所擁有的「石油美元」霸主地位，開始動摇。由於美國早就放棄了金本位，錨定美元價值就是靠石油美元，而現在美國則自己撕開一個缺口。😢
印度、南非、中亞諸國也轉向「去美元化」的進程，面對美國的SWIFT的制裁狂飆，越來越多的向中國的CIPS 系統靠攏，用本國貨幣交易，與人民幣對接，甚至進入「電子人民幣」系統，避免被美國賺錢，也避免被美國「卡脖子」。🍻
這等於觸動美國的「命根子」，擊中了美國霸權的關鍵。美元、美債、美軍是美國霸權的「三寶」，但是這次「美元」與「美債」二寶已經被拜登自砍一刀，美國就得面對孤掌難鳴的命運。👏👏

Video: BBC interview – US is the obstacle to peace in Ukraine / BBC 採訪 – 美國是烏克蘭和平的障礙
https://rumble.com/vymk44-bbc-interview-us-is-the-obstacle-to-peace-in-ukraine.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/680697876486874/?d=n

Video: Chinese is Civilization States (not Western’s Nation States), Our Chinese Roots, Inseparable, Disregarding Where You Live & How Many Foreign Passports You Held! 中國是文明國家 (不是西方的地源體制國家), 不管你住在哪裡, 你持有多少外國護照, 我們的中國根, 形影不離.
https://rumble.com/vymdtq-chinese-is-civilization-states-not-westerns-nation-states.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/680674286489233/?d=n

Video: Cute “live” public service announcements for those refused to wear face masks in China 為那些在中國拒絕戴口罩的人提供可愛的現場公共服務公告
https://rumble.com/vym5o4-cute-live-public-service-announcements-for-those-refused-to-wear-face-masks.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/680642166492445/?d=n

Video: God is good to China, Dedollarisation is taking another steps forward. Oil & gas payment in rubles will cause a global capital reshuffling benefiting Chinese and Russian currencies 天助中華, 去美元又再走前一步. 用盧布支付將造成 全球資金大搬風 有利中俄貨幣 3-26-22
https://rumble.com/vylw1q-god-is-good-to-china-dedollarisation-is-taking-another-steps-forward.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/680591356497526/?d=n

Russia says 1,351 of its soldiers killed; Ukraine puts number above 16,000 (typical of Western media report exaggerated by 10x like they did in HK said protesters 2 millions but in fact only 200k) 俄羅斯稱有 1,351 名士兵喪生； 烏克蘭的人數超過 16,000 （西方媒體報導的典型情況，就像他們在香港所做的那樣誇大了 10 倍，說抗議者有 200 萬，但實際上只有 20 萬）

NATO bombing of Serbia: Tragedy in three acts. It is a travesty of international justice that the 1999 bombing remains unrecognized by the perpetrators and unpunished 北約轟炸塞爾維亞：三幕悲劇。 1999 年的爆炸事件仍未得到肇事者的承認和懲罰，這是對國際正義的嘲弄 by Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump.’ He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.

Twenty-three years ago, NATO bombed Serbia. This act was the opening round of what was to become a 78-day illegal war of aggression, the repercussions of which haunt the world to this day.

Act One: The Encounter

It was a chance meeting – two men who had crossed paths in Iraq two years past, now running into each other on a stretch of highway connecting Kosovo to Macedonia. The date was March 20, 1999. Monitors assigned to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) were in the process of being withdrawn from their assigned areas of responsibility to the town of Ohrid, in Macedonia, due to the collapse of diplomatic talks with Serbia about the devolving situation in the Serbian autonomous province of Kosovo, where Albanian separatists were engaged in a quasi-civil war with the Serbian authorities.

The British contingent of the KVM was stopped at the border between Kosovo and Macedonia, awaiting final clearance to cross the border. Among the British observers was a former Royal Marine officer who had previously served with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq, helping oversee the dismantling of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. While he and his fellow observers waited, he watched as other vehicles driven by members of the US observer contingent drove in the opposite direction – into Kosovo. At the wheel of one of these vehicles was a familiar face – a man who was known as ‘Kurtz’.

Kurtz was a man of tremendous experience who was brought into UNSCOM in mid-1997 for the purpose of providing operational planning and leadership. ‘Kurtz’, of course, was not his real name, but rather a nickname derived from the fact that with his shaved head, walrus mustache, and weathered face, he looked like a combination of Robert Duvall’s Colonel Kilgore and Marlon Brando’s Colonel Kurtz in the movie ‘Apocalypse Now’. With a wide-brim Stetson, cowboy boots, and an ever-present wad of chewing tobacco stuck in his cheek, he looked every bit the part.

Kurtz was picked for this job in part because of his background, which was embedded in the world of covert special operations. His most recent assignment prior to coming on board at UNSCOM was preparing diplomats for E&E – escape and evasion – from hostile situations. Given the sensitivity of some of the UNSCOM operations taking place in Iraq at that time, it was thought that such training might be ideal for situations the inspectors might find themselves in.

But Kurtz’s background had been his undoing. He was, so to speak, too ‘black’, or covert, for his own good. Even though he was performing wonderfully in Iraq, his managers in Washington began to panic when the situation in Baghdad began to deteriorate in October 1997. The decision was made to pull Kurtz out of Iraq. It was bitter irony – the one man who was best equipped to deal with a hostage situation, to keep not only himself but other, less fully-trained personnel alive and well, was being withdrawn in haste out of fear of his being taken hostage.

Once Kurtz was assigned to UNSCOM, he was technically UN property for the duration of the assignment, and the US could not just simply snap its fingers and bring him home. But snap, they did, with the US ambassador, Bill Richardson, summoning the Australian diplomat who headed UNSCOM, Richard Butler, to the US Mission in New York for a meeting. “One of the personnel provided to you [Kurtz],” Richardson said, “is a bit too exposed by the current situation, and we feel that it would be best for us all if he were withdrawn at this time.”

I oversaw the team in Iraq that Kurtz and the British officer were assigned to. Butler called me up to his office after his meeting with Richardson. “The man’s CIA,” he told me. “The Americans want him out.”

Now, as the Kosovo Monitoring Mission was departing Kosovo, Kurtz was back in action. The Americans, it seemed, wanted this man with the impressive covert operations skill set back in.

The role played by the CIA in the OSCE KVM is quite controversial – at a time when the US and NATO were accusing the Serbian government of committing atrocities, the CIA was using the cover provided by the OSCE observer mission to coordinate with fighters from the Kosovo Liberation Army who were engaged in a guerilla war with the Serbian military. Serbian operations in response to CIA-directed KLA attacks were being characterized by the West as ‘genocide’, and used to justify a planned NATO aerial bombardment of Serbia.

These facts, however, ran counter to the narrative of a Serbian-initiated campaign of ethnic cleansing which the US and NATO were spinning. The British OSCE observers were well aware of the complex reality of what was transpiring inside Kosovo, where legitimate Serbian military operations against known KLA forces were being described as “massacres of innocent civilians” by the Western media. The truth, however, was often inconvenient, which is why at that moment in time, on March 20, 1999, the British observer contingent found itself exiting Kosovo at the same time Kurtz and his fellow CIA officers were going in.

Act Two: The Phone Call

March 24, 1999. 9:20am. In the White House Situation Room, an aid places a phone call to the Kremlin, where Russian President Boris Yeltsin is waiting. The call goes through, and the aid hands the phone to Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. The conversation started off with a grim notification: The leaders of NATO, including himself, Clinton said, “have decided we have to launch air strikes against military targets in Serbia soon.”

The problem, Clinton noted, was the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic. “He has displaced 30,000 more people just since last Friday,” Clinton said. “He is killing innocent people. We have reports of summary executions.” Left unspoken was the role played by Kurtz and his fellow CIA operatives in creating the conditions for such actions. Clinton continued. “He [Milosevic] has basically told Russian, EU, and American negotiators that he doesn’t care what any of us think.”

Clinton was getting worked up by the consequences he had triggered by unleashing the CIA on Kosovo. “My God, they [the Europeans] have nightmares they’ll [the Serbs] repeat Bosnia and all the instability and all the problems, and it will spread from Kosovo to Macedonia to Albania and engulf all of their southern flank. They are very, very worried about it. They are right to be worried about it.”

Again, left unsaid was the fact that the very scenario that was giving the Europeans nightmares had been carefully crafted by the CIA, at Bill Clinton’s direction.

Yeltsin wasn’t buying any of it. “It is easy to throw bombs about,” he said, dismissing Clinton’s characterization of the problem and proffered solution. “It is intolerable because of the hundreds of thousands of people who will suffer and die.”

The consequences of any NATO strike, Yeltsin warned Clinton, were dire. “In the name of our future, in the name of you and me, in the name of the future of our countries, in the name of security in Europe, I ask you to renounce that strike, and I suggest that we should meet somewhere and develop a tactical line of fighting against Milosevic, against him personally. And we are wiser, we are more experienced, and we can come up with a solution. That should be done for the sake of our relationship. That should be done for the sake of peace in Europe.”

The Russian leader’s pleas fell on deaf ears. “Well, Boris,” Clinton replied, “I want to work with you to try and bring an end to this, but I don’t believe there is any way to call off the first round of strikes because Milosevic continues to displace thousands of people every day… I don’t want this to be a great source of a split between Russia and Europe and Russia and the US. We have worked too hard. There are too many economic and political things for us to do together, and I regret this more than I can say.”

The American president was outright lying to his Russian counterpart – the events in Kosovo were unfolding along the lines of a carefully scripted game plan that had been in motion for some time. War was inevitable because the US, through the CIA, had shaped the narrative to make it so. Worse, the US president was willing to sacrifice relations between the US and Russia in pursuit of this NATO objective. This fact was driven home by Yeltsin in his closing remarks.

“[O]ur people,” Yeltsin lamented, “will certainly from now on have a bad attitude with regard to America and NATO. I remember how difficult it was for me to try and turn heads of our people, the heads of politicians towards the West, towards the United States, but I succeeded in doing that, and now to lose all that. Well, since I failed to convince the President, that means there is in store for us a very difficult, difficult road of contacts, if they prove to be possible. Goodbye.”

Act Three: The Bomb

On the evening of March 24, 1999, the secretary general of NATO, Javier Solana, a Spanish diplomat, authorized aircraft operating under the auspices of NATO to begin bombing targets in Serbia. It was no coincidence that the first aircraft to drop bombs on Serbia were F/A-18s belonging to the Spanish Air Force.

When examining the legitimacy of the use of force by Spain against Serbia in March 1999, several facts stick out. First is that Spain, as a member of the United Nations, is bound by its commitment to the Charter of that organization. When it comes to the use of force, the UN Charter is quite clear – there are only two acceptable conditions under which such force might be legitimately employed by a member state. One is an enforcement action to maintain international peace and security, carried under the authority of a resolution passed by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter. The other is the inherent right of individual and collective self-defense, as enshrined in Article 51 of the Charter.

As Spanish bombs fell on Serbian soil, two things were quite clear – there was no Chapter VII resolution in existence which authorized an enforcement action against Serbia, and Serbia had committed no act of aggression against either Spain or its NATO allies that would justify any claim of self-defense in explaining the Spanish (and NATO) military assault on Serbia.

In short, by dropping bombs on Serbia, the Spanish Air Force was initiating an illegal war of aggression. “To initiate a war of aggression,” the judges who comprised the International Military Tribunal convened in Nuremburg to judge the crimes of Nazi Germany, declared, “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulative evil of the whole.”

Spain wasn’t alone that night – aircraft from the air forces of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, and other NATO members participated in this “supreme international crime.” Viewed individually, there is no doubt that each nation involved in the attack on Serbia violated the UN Charter and, as such, is guilty of the crime of initiating an illegal war of aggression.

Not so fast! NATO, it seems, had crafted a novel legal argument built around the notion that it had a right to anticipatory collective self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and that this right was properly exercised under “normative expectation that permits anticipatory collective self-defense actions by regional security or self-defense organizations where the organization is not entirely dominated by a single member.” NATO, ignoring the obvious reality that it is, indeed, dominated by the United States, postulates that it is, indeed, such an organization, comprised as it is of “a number of powerful states, three of which are permanent members of the Security Council.”

The credibility of the NATO claim of “anticipatory collective self-defense,” however, arises from its characterization of the Kosovo crisis as a humanitarian disaster infused with elements of genocide which created not only a moral justification for intervention, but a moral necessity.

Tell that to Kurtz, the man who, together with his fellow CIA operatives acting under the authority given them by the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, worked to create conditions on the ground inside Kosovo that could then be used to manufacture the very narrative of a humanitarian crisis sufficient in scope and scale to allow NATO to craft its novel legal justification for attacking Serbia.

The problem for NATO is that its legal justification was built on a foundation of lies. The fiction that NATO is an organization not entirely dominated by the United States evaporates the moment one understands the role played by the CIA in preparing the script used by NATO to justify its actions. The fact that this script promulgated outright fabrications of alleged crimes perpetrated by Serbia to justify NATO military intervention only underscores the criminal nature of the entire NATO enterprise.

There is no escaping the fact that when the first bomb dropped by the Spanish Air Force on Serbia that evening 23 years ago to this date impacted on the ground, Spain and every other member of NATO had committed the “ultimate crime.”

That this crime remains unpunished is a travesty of international justice. That this crime remains unrecognized by those who perpetrated it is a testament to the hypocrisy of nations. That this crime set in motion the events that have led to the current state of affairs between the US and NATO on the one hand, and Russia on the other, is a global tragedy.