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Post by jdredd on Feb 13, 2014 2:13:30 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/12/inside-the-ring-obama-pushback-against-china-is-pr/"The Obama administration appears to be launching a new diplomatic push to prevent China from imposing another destabilizing air defense zone over international waters. China watchers say the administration’s pushback against China is probably too little, too late, as China reportedly is making legal preparations for the new air defense zone over the South China Sea." "Recently, U.S. intelligence agencies warned that China appears to be readying another zone over the South China Sea, a move that is expected to set off further confrontations with Southeast Asian states including Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia, which use the waters for fishing and are eyeing undersea oil and gas deposits. On Monday, Air Force Gen. Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, commander of U.S. air forces in the Pacific, bluntly stated that China’s imposition of a South China Sea ADIZ would be a “very provocative act.” “The risk from miscalculation is high. It’s greater than it should be,” Gen. Carlisle told Bloomberg News in Singapore." Oh, it's not just the Navy stirring the pot. Here's a General spouting off. Gee, lets go to war over some fishing spots and possibly maybe could be oil deposits. And who are these mysterious "China watchers" criticizing Obama?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 13, 2014 17:52:47 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/opinion/tangling-with-china.html?module=WelcomeBackModal&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region®ion=FixedCenter&action=click&pgtype=article"The Philippines is resisting China’s claims in the South China Sea by filing its case with the United Nations arbitration tribunal of judges, which has agreed to hear the case in March at The Hague. President Benigno S. Aquino III has appealed to the international community to support his effort to settle the territorial dispute through rule of law. China claims sovereignty over almost all of the South China Sea, which is resource-rich with fish and potentially oil and gas, while the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan make partial claims. The Filipino foreign affairs secretary, Albert del Rosario, said the Philippines took its case to United Nations arbitration as the only viable option after exhausting all diplomatic avenues with China. Following the filing by the Philippines in January last year, China has kept paramilitary ships on station in the disputed area, harassing Filipino fishing and commercial boats." Looks like the so-called "liberal" New York Times has jumped on the China-bashing bandwagon. Not too surprising, libs tagged along with the right during the Cold War too.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 28, 2014 21:48:33 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/27/inside-the-ring-b-2-bombers-messages/"Three B-2 strategic nuclear bombers completed a tour of duty in Guam this week, as tensions remained high between the United States and China over what the Pentagon called a “dangerous” Chinese fighter-jet intercept of a U.S. surveillance plane last week. “This training deployment demonstrates continued U.S. commitment to global strategic bomber operations throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and exercises the president’s credible and flexible military options to meet national security obligations for the U.S. and its allies,” said Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney, commander of U.S. Strategic Command." Even with IS and Putin on the rampage, we can't forget our other kettles on the stove, such as those annoying Chinese, and their alleged "territorial ambitions". Damn, it's good to be the Pentagon right now, not to mention a defense contractor shareholder.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 15, 2014 3:44:50 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-chinas-creeping-invasion-on-the-global-order/2014/09/14/91275a9e-3a60-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html?hpid=z2"A few months ago it looked like East Asia might be the place where the crumbling global order of the past quarter-century, centered on U.S. power and values, would face a decisive crisis. Chinese boats, planes and oil rigs were pressing into territories claimed by Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines; there was anti-Japanese fervor in the Chinese media and disturbing nationalist gestures from the most hawkish Japanese government in years. Instead, it was Vladimir Putin who launched a frontal military assault to stop the spread of Western influence and institutions to Ukraine, and the Islamic State that forced President Obama to reverse the U.S. retreat from foreign military commitments. In Asia — to which Obama promised to shift U.S. attention and security resources — tensions are, somewhat surprisingly, inching downward." "Without exception, Japanese officials and analysts I spoke to here over a week believe China has not moderated its ambition to replace the United States as the dominant power in Asia. But it aims to avoid the sort of crisis — and Western pushback — Russia has provoked by moving in small increments, interspersed with tactical retreats when necessary. The result, over time, could be as momentous as a war. “Some people call it the creeping invasion,” said Akio Takahara, a China expert at Tokyo University. Lest we forget- If ISIS suddenly crumbles, and Putin gets cold feet, we still have China to fall back on as the necessary nemesis to fuel those big defense contracts. And if China doesn't work out either, we have Iran as a last resort. But we can't allow an outside power like China to contest our domination of ASIA, can we?
Of course, I am old enough to remember when it was "Creeping Communism" that was the big bogeyman.
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Post by jdredd on May 30, 2015 13:29:32 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32941829"The US has called for an "immediate and lasting halt" to land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea. US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that China's actions in the area were "out of step" with international rules. China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, resulting in overlapping claims with its neighbours. Chinese officials have described US remarks on the South China Sea as "groundless and not constructive". Other countries have accused China of illegally taking land to create artificial islands with facilities that could potentially be for military use." The headline for this article on the BBC website is "America DEMANDS Halt to China Reclamations". There is a great difference between "demands" and "calls", you morons. And why should we let pipsqueak countries like the Phillipines and Vietnam dictate our relations with China? It can only be ideological fringe Americans looking for trouble.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 19, 2017 12:41:36 GMT -5
I'm shocked Trump did not call China "The Yellow Peril" in his speech yesterday.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 4, 2018 2:10:49 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/politics/china-pence-trade-military-elections.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence will signal a far tougher American line on China on Thursday, delivering a speech in which he is expected to accuse the Chinese of aggressive moves against American warships, of predatory behavior against their neighbors, and of a sophisticated influence campaign to tilt the midterms and 2020 elections against President Trump. “To put it bluntly, President Trump’s leadership is working,” Mr. Pence is to say, according to excerpts from his speech provided on Wednesday night. “China wants a different American president.” Mr. Trump accused China last week of meddling in the midterm elections, saying at the United Nations in New York that it was retaliating for his imposition of tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods. But the president was careful not to antagonize China’s president, Xi Jinping, with whom he has cultivated a personal relationship. Mr. Pence, however, will broaden the attack on China to encompass its rapid military buildup in its coastal waters; its use of debt financing to corrupt financially vulnerable countries; and its influence campaign in American news media, at think tanks and on college campuses, which he will claim is more extensive than that deployed by the Russians in 2016." Oh boy, Pencey is going to turn up the heat on the boiling contrived rivalry of the US and China. It's money in the bank for defense contractors.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 4, 2018 2:11:13 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/politics/china-pence-trade-military-elections.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence will signal a far tougher American line on China on Thursday, delivering a speech in which he is expected to accuse the Chinese of aggressive moves against American warships, of predatory behavior against their neighbors, and of a sophisticated influence campaign to tilt the midterms and 2020 elections against President Trump. “To put it bluntly, President Trump’s leadership is working,” Mr. Pence is to say, according to excerpts from his speech provided on Wednesday night. “China wants a different American president.” Mr. Trump accused China last week of meddling in the midterm elections, saying at the United Nations in New York that it was retaliating for his imposition of tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods. But the president was careful not to antagonize China’s president, Xi Jinping, with whom he has cultivated a personal relationship. Mr. Pence, however, will broaden the attack on China to encompass its rapid military buildup in its coastal waters; its use of debt financing to corrupt financially vulnerable countries; and its influence campaign in American news media, at think tanks and on college campuses, which he will claim is more extensive than that deployed by the Russians in 2016." Oh boy, Pencey is going to turn up the heat on the boiling contrived rivalry of the US and China. It's money in the bank for defense contractors.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 26, 2019 22:51:15 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/huawei-china-us-5g-technology.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Politics"Britain is not the only American ally feeling the heat. In Poland, officials are also under pressure from the United States to bar Huawei from building its fifth generation, or 5G, network. Trump officials suggested that future deployments of American troops — including the prospect of a permanent base labeled “Fort Trump” — could hinge on Poland’s decision. And a delegation of American officials showed up last spring in Germany, where most of Europe’s giant fiber-optic lines connect and Huawei wants to build the switches that make the system hum. Their message: Any economic benefit of using cheaper Chinese telecom equipment is outweighed by the security threat to the NATO alliance. Over the past year, the United States has embarked on a stealthy, occasionally threatening, global campaign to prevent Huawei and other Chinese firms from participating in the most dramatic remaking of the plumbing that controls the internet since it sputtered into being, in pieces, 35 years ago." This is hilarious. Not that America continues to pick fights with China, but that Poland is hot to host an American base nicknamed "Fort Trump"!
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Post by jdredd on Mar 18, 2019 0:06:31 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/china-uighurs.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Editorials"The Trump administration may not be the most unimpeachable source when it comes to human rights, but the head of the State Department’s bureau for human rights, Michael Kozak, was dead on when he said China’s mass incarceration of Muslim minorities was “just remarkably awful.” Mr. Kozak made the comments on Wednesday as the State Department presented its annual report on human rights around the world, an event at which his boss, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, declared that China was “in a league of its own when it comes to human rights violations.” Writing in The Times, Mustafa Akyol, a senior fellow on Islam at the Cato Institute, described camps at which “people are forced to listen to ideological lectures, sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write ‘self-criticism’ essays.” He said survivors told of sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, beatings and torture." The China bashing continues apace, and will continue until we have new Cold War (or even hot one) with them. Here we have the "liberal" NYT quoting a Trump administration hack and a bozo from the Libertarian wacko Cato Institute, and of course Tea Party Mike, about what baddies the Chinese are. Whatever. As always, the question is, will the Millennials buy this story from the Boomers?.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 24, 2019 15:51:52 GMT -5
Changed the name of this thread to point out what seems to be the goal of the USA: Doing to China what we saw happen to the Soviet Union. We've kept Taiwan apart from China for 70 years now. I suspect we would love to see Hong Kong stay separate forever, and see Tibet independent and well as the Muslim areas.
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Post by jdredd on May 19, 2020 16:44:33 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/business/economy/china-taiwan-huawei-tsmc.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"The Trump administration has for years sparred with China over tariff threats, technology and the terms of their trade deal. But in a pair of actions last week, the administration escalated those economic tensions in a way that comes close to touching a red line for Beijing: its contentious relationship with Taiwan. One of the world’s leading computer chip makers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or T.S.M.C., said Thursday that it would build a factory in Arizona, a move heralded by American officials as a first step toward relocating a vital supply chain to the United States. The next day, the Department of Commerce announced a rule change that could stymie the business the Chinese tech giant Huawei does with T.S.M.C. and other global chip manufacturers. The administration has been working on multiple fronts to isolate Huawei, a major global smartphone brand and the planet’s largest producer of the equipment that powers mobile networks. But simultaneously undermining Huawei and bringing T.S.M.C. closer into the American orbit is a one-two punch of industrial policy that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago, one that raises the prospect of a more serious conflict between China and the United States." American aggression continues. "Force for good" my ass."
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Post by jdredd on May 28, 2020 12:20:15 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/china-hong-kong-law-protests.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Then there’s Mr. Trump himself. Though he and his lieutenants have made China-bashing over the coronavirus outbreak a central theme in their re-election campaign, and Mr. Trump said last week he’d react “very strongly” to any power grab, the president has never shown much concern for Hong Kong protests against China. Of his many tweets over the three-day Memorial Day weekend, when the Hong Kong issue was at the top of the news, none was about Hong Kong. During the Hong Kong protests of 2014, Mr. Trump tweeted one of his few clear statements on the plight of the territory: “President Obama should stay out of the Hong Kong protests, we have enough problems in our own country!” Mr. Trump may not be able to stay out for long if the protests are more violently suppressed. And it is not only the yearning for democracy among the people of Hong Kong that is at stake here. If Mr. Xi’s calculus is borne out and he weathers the outcry over Hong Kong, he will continue pursuing his ambition to extend his control to Taiwan and the South China Sea. America and its allies may not have the levers to stop the new China in its tracks, but they do have ways to let Mr. Xi and his comrades know that they will exact a price for limiting freedoms in Hong Kong." Here is the "liberal" NYT chastising Trump for not being tough enough on China. Which probably means Biden will attack Trump for the same reason. And another reason why Biden will not get my vote, not that my vote matters. And China wants to extend "control" to Taiwan and the South China Sea? Who gives a f**k?
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Post by jdredd on May 29, 2020 20:06:02 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/china-hong-kong.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Analogies between these past episodes and China’s decision this week draft a new national security law on Hong Kong aren’t perfect. Hong Kong is a Chinese port, not a faraway foreign one. Hong Kong’s people have ferociously resisted Beijing’s efforts to impose control, unlike the Rhineland Germans who welcomed Berlin’s. And the curtailment of freedom that awaits Hong Kong is nothing like the totalitarian tyranny that Joseph Stalin imposed on Warsaw, Budapest and other cities. But the analogies aren’t inapt, either. Beijing has spent the better part of 20 years subverting its promises to preserve Hong Kong’s democratic institutions. Now it is moving to quash what remains of the city’s civic freedoms through a forthcoming law that allows the government to punish speech as subversion and protest as sedition. The concept of “one country, two systems,” was supposed to last at least until 2047 under the terms of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. Now China’s rulers have been openly violating that treaty, much as Germany openly violated the treaties of Locarno and Versailles." Oh yeah, China is the big boogeyman, yada-yada-yada. The question is always, will the Millennials buy this manufactured confrontation with China? Young people today are not the Boomers who bought the Cold War with Russia 40 years ago. Do they really give a sh*t about Hong Kong when Minneapolis is burning because of oppression here at home? I'm not sure our biased media can suppress outrage against our racist system forever. Execution over a fake $20 bill?
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Post by jdredd on Jun 3, 2020 17:24:47 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/business/china-hong-kong-damage.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"HONG KONG — China long depended on Hong Kong to be everything it was not. The city’s freewheeling capitalism and personal freedoms, both absent from the mainland, made it one of the world’s premier financial hubs. Together, they flourished for decades. Now China is doing what was once unthinkable: imposing its will on Hong Kong in a way that could permanently damage the former British colony economically and politically. In pushing for a new national security law that many fear will curtail the city’s liberties, the Chinese Communist Party is calculating that control and stability outweigh the benefits the city has long provided. Other countries are threatening to retaliate in ways that could leave Hong Kong a shadow of its former self. The United States has vowed to end the special economic treatment it has long granted the territory. Britain has said it could open its doors to three million Hong Kongers, laying the groundwork for a severe brain drain. But Beijing sees its position as strong while the rest of the world is divided and still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. The United States will hurt itself more by coming down hard against Hong Kong, officials believe. Hong Kong’s protest movement, at least for the moment, seems demoralized." Looks like China might be thwarting America's attempt to break off Hong Kong from China. Sorry, CIA. And are Britain's Deplorables ready for 3 million more Asians? Poles bad, Chinese good?
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