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Post by jdredd on Jun 4, 2020 18:10:37 GMT -5
So you don't think America is trying to dismember China? We already did it once. It's called Taiwan.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 19, 2020 14:46:31 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/world/asia/india-china-border.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"For years, the United States and its allies have tried to persuade India to become a closer military and economic partner in confronting China’s ambitions, painting it as a chance for the world’s largest democracy to counterbalance the largest autocracy. This week, the idea of such a confrontation became more real as Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed in the worst violence on the countries’ border in 45 years, leaving 20 Indian troops dead and causing an unknown number of Chinese casualties. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has publicly reveled in the prospect of a more muscular role for India in the region and the world. But analysts say the new tensions with China will be the starkest test yet of whether India is ready — or truly willing — to jostle with a rising power bent on expanding its interests and territory." What are China's ambitions? Could it be not to be under America's thumb? But America is fighting back to keep it's world dominance, and India would be a good lackey. I would think this confrontation would concern the Millennials, but maybe fighting racial injustice at home is a priority. Foreign policy is so often used as a distraction.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 30, 2020 18:32:18 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/russian-bounties-afghanistan-intelligence.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"American officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency to a Taliban-linked account, evidence that supported their conclusion that Russia covertly offered bounties for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence. Though the United States has accused Russia of providing general support to the Taliban before, analysts concluded from other intelligence that the transfers were most likely part of a bounty program that detainees described during interrogations."
Uh-oh! This could be a distraction from the ongoing demonization of China! Our hatemongering could be diluted if we go after China and Russia at the same time. So I expect this to blow over rather quickly.
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Post by Turk on Jun 30, 2020 18:39:13 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/russian-bounties-afghanistan-intelligence.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"American officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency to a Taliban-linked account, evidence that supported their conclusion that Russia covertly offered bounties for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence. Though the United States has accused Russia of providing general support to the Taliban before, analysts concluded from other intelligence that the transfers were most likely part of a bounty program that detainees described during interrogations."
Uh-oh! This could be a distraction from the ongoing demonization of China! Our hatemongering could be diluted if we go after China and Russia at the same time. So I expect this to blow over rather quickly. Fake news. The Defense Department said late Monday that there is “no corroborating evidence” to support the explosive New York Times report last week that said the Russian military offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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Post by Turk on Jun 30, 2020 19:12:15 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jul 2, 2020 10:36:51 GMT -5
Who should I believe? The NYT, which lies some of the time, or say Newsmax, which lies all of the time IMHO. I take all news sources with a grain of salt. This blowback on the Russian bounty story makes me suspicious. I'm not much on conspiracies, but as I said earlier, this story could distract from the ongoing demonization of China. And we all know how fond Trump is of Putin.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 4, 2020 21:14:53 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/politics/south-china-sea-aircraft-carrier.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — Two American aircraft carriers sailed to the South China Sea on Saturday for what Navy officials described as a freedom-of-navigation operation while China’s military conducts exercises nearby. The carriers — the Ronald Reagan and the Nimitz — deployed “in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” according to a statement by the Navy’s Seventh Fleet. It said that the ships, which were accompanied by warships and aircraft, were conducting exercises to improve air defense and long-range missile strikes in “a rapidly evolving area of operations.” Beijing has staked claim to much of the South China Sea, a strategic waterway through which one-third of global shipping flows, over the objections of other regional powers and an international tribunal that has rejected China’s assertions." Here we are neck-deep in Covid-19 alligators and we still have the foolishness of sabre-rattling against China.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 14, 2020 10:57:19 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/world/asia/cold-war-china-us.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"One by one, the United States has hit at the core tenets of Xi Jinping’s vision for a rising China ready to assume the mantle of superpower. In a matter of weeks, the Trump administration has imposed sanctions over punitive policies in Hong Kong and China’s western region of Xinjiang. It took new measures to suffocate Chinese innovation by cutting it off from American technology and pushing allies to look elsewhere. Then, on Monday, it challenged China’s claims in the South China Sea, setting the stage for sharper confrontation. “The power gap is closing, and the ideological gap is widening,” said Rush Doshi, director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Brookings Institution in Washington, adding that China and the United States had entered a downward “ideological spiral” years in the making." One more milestone in the manufactured confrontation with China. The Millennials can thank us Boomers later.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 29, 2020 13:31:14 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/opinion/russia-china-nuclear-weapons.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage" A Pentagon leader argues that as Beijing’s weapons grow in size and sophistication, the U.S. and Russia will have to reassess their own arsenals." "Nuclear arms control is at a crossroads — not because we are approaching the deadline on an extension of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, but because China’s nuclear expansion threatens to upend decades of relative nuclear stability between the United States and Russia. The United States and Russia have been reducing their strategic nuclear arsenals since the end of the Cold War. The 1991 Start Treaty allowed each side 6,000 deployable strategic nuclear warheads; the 2010 treaty, known as New Start, lowered that limit to 1,550 operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads. But stability at these lower force levels will be challenged by China’s nuclear ambitions. China is clearly moving away from the small, limited nuclear force of its past. It is fielding modern land- and sea-based strategic systems and plans to introduce an air-launched ballistic missile delivered by heavy bombers in the near future, achieving its own strategic nuclear triad." Today's headline in the NYT's daily campaign to whip up anti-China paranoia. This is by an "acting under secretary of defense for policy", in other words, some Pentagon bureaucrat.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 9, 2020 23:12:21 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/world/asia/taiwan-us-azar-china.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"TAIPEI, Taiwan — The United States’ top health official lauded Taiwan’s democracy on Monday as he met with the island’s leader for a visit laden with symbols of stronger ties between Washington and the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing as tensions with China mount. Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health, is the highest ranking American official to visit Taiwan since Washington severed official ties with the island in 1979 and established formal diplomatic relations with the Communist government in Beijing. Mr. Azar landed on Sunday at Songshan Airport, in downtown Taipei, and was met by Brent Christensen, the de facto ambassador, and Taiwanese officials." America doubling down on it's first effort at dismembering China, a successful one.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 11, 2021 14:02:19 GMT -5
I’ve been reading about the Uyghur situation in China recently, and so far I’ve had two questions: Should the world be concerned about what has been called “genocide” in Xinjiang? I think so. Should it be used as a tool to inflame tensions between China And America? Sounds like bad idea.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 21, 2021 0:17:12 GMT -5
While we are trying hard to dismantle China, are they returning the favor? I wouldn’t be surprised. Would it be in their interest to turn Red states against Blue, perhaps a even second Civil War? I don’t know.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 14, 2023 9:52:23 GMT -5
I’m moving the posts about the war drums against China here instead of the Chinese Century thread. It seems to me that this is not gong to be The Chinese Century. China has too many problems.
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