By Godfree Roberts from his newsletter :
Today, moderate and nuanced views of China-US relations are less and less valued in the US. In a recent speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in California, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo portrayed the Communist Party of China (CPC) as a tyranny and called on the so-called free world to defeat it. This could be perceived as the “new cold war” declaration.
A good read from Andrei Martyanov on One Trick Ponies. Or On Cold War With China. http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/07/one-trick-ponies-or-on-cold-war-with.html
On this note, let’s go see what they are doing in China from Godfree Roberts’ Latest Newsletter.
‘The China-Iran tie-up underscores all that is wrong with India’s diplomacy,’ says Indian Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar. “India looks increasingly like a beached whale, while an exciting, transformative geopolitical landscape is appearing in the Indian Ocean. China sees seamless possibilities in strategic partnership with Iran”.[MORE]
Steelmakers pour more steel in June than the US produces in a year. Three million tons a day, for a 2020 total of one billion tons, amid booming demand from construction and infrastructure. Output for June was 91.58 million tons, up 4.5% year-on-year, putting six-month production at 499 million tons. [MORE]
China becoming Germany’s top export destination. China was Germany’s third biggest customer (after the US and France), with exported goods worth €96 billion ($109 billion), on trackto replace France as Germany’s second largest export market this year.. The export gap between China and Germany’s biggest export countries decreased “substantially” in the first five months of the year. [MORE]
International meeting: No to the New Cold War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz_u-ejEcmQ&feature=youtu.be
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
- Medea Benjamin (Co-founder, CODEPINK)
- Wang Wen (Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China)
- Martin Jacques (Author: ‘When China Rules the World’)
- Vijay Prashad (Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)
- Carlos Ron (Vice-Minister for North America, Venezuela’s Ministry for Foreign Relations)
- Qiao Collective
- Yury Tavrovksy (Author: ‘America Against China: Cold War in Times of Coronavirus’)
- Yang Hanyi (Senior editor, Guancha.cn)
- Ajamu Baraka (Black Agenda Report)
- Margaret Kimberley (Black Agenda Report)
- Max Blumental (Editor-in-chief, The Grayzone)
- Anya Parampil (Journalist and presenter, The Grayzone)
- Kate Hudson (General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)
- Radhika Desai (Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba)
- John Ross (Senior Fellow, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China)
- Elias Jabbour (Associate Professor, Rio de Janeiro State University)
- Jenny Clegg (Author: ‘China’s Global Strategy: Toward a Multipolar World’)
ROUGH JUSTICE: Huawei pushes court to reveal ‘sensitive’ evidence. Huawei wants to share the evidence with its Chief Financial Officer Meng Wangzhou but prosecutors have classified 21,000 pages of “sensitive discovery material” that can’t be shown to anyone beyond a group of US defense lawyers and must remain in the country to avoid the information falling “into the wrong hands” in China. Huawei says it is “both unseemly and improper” for the government to be dictating whom the defendants can speak with about central facts in order to defend a criminal case.[MORE]
Australia joins US in rejecting China’s claims in South China Sea. Canberra believes there is ‘no legal basis’ for Beijing’s claims to the disputed sea via its so-called nine-dash line. The move aligns Australia with the Trump administration, which earlier this month reversed a previous policy of not taking sides in such disputes. [MORE]
An Australian warship joined threee US Navy ships in Malaysian waters because an unarmed Chinese vessel was conducting routine seismic surveys there. The Australian warship did not come within 12 nautical miles of the contested islands, unlike American warships, which have recently conducted freedom of navigation exercises to challenge Beijing’s territorial claims.[MORE]
An Australian national security investigation targeting foreign interference is examining whether his parliamentary speeches and other representations were influenced by Chinese Communist Party agents. After raiding Parliamentarian Shaoquett Moselmane’s home, Australian Federal Police have spent two days in NSW parliament inspecting documents — speeches, petitions, questions on notice, committee papers and other material used in the drafting of these items — from Mr Moselmane’s office.[MORE]
A paper from the Australia-China Relations Institute found the proportion of Australian scientific publications involving Chinese researchers grew from 3.1 per cent in 2005 to 16.2 per cent last year, overtaking the US for the first time. The UK was third, followed by Germany and Canada. The strongest ties with China were in the fields of materials science, chemical engineering, and energy. In those three areas, a third of Australian-led publications involve Chinese scientists.[MORE]
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Tianwen-1 blasted off for Mars on last Thursday and NASA’s Perseverance will follow next week. The Tianwen-1 team said the probe will orbit, land and release a rover on the first try, and coordinate observations with an orbiter. If successful, it would signify a major technical breakthrough, sine no planetary missions have ever been implemented this way. Tianwen-1 should reach Mars in February, spend several months positioning itself for landing then, when the time is right, the orbiter will release the lander and rover into the Martian atmosphere in April, which will touch down close to the Utopia Planitia – a vast plain and the largest recognized impact basin (with a diameter of 3300 km) in the Solar System. The orbiter will loop around Mars for an entire Martian year (1.88 Earth years), acting as a communication link for the rover, which has a designed lifetime of around 90 Martian days—93 Earth days. [MORE]
China decreases dependence on foreign semiconductors Part 1: Chinese firm establishes production line with annual capacity of 300,000 PCs, made with 100% with home-made parts and operating system. [MORE]
China decreases dependence on foreign semiconductors, Part 2. Chinese-owned SMIC, the fifth-largest pure-play foundry in the world, will produce 7nm chips next year, creating further negative financial impacts on US companies. Huawei is shifting its 14nm chipset orders from Taiwan’s TSMC to SMIC.
Qian Xuesen, one of the best and brightest rocket scientists in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, was forced to return to China during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Qian spent the rest of his career in the PRC and provided a critical boost to China’s efforts to modernize their military rocketry and space programs. Today, he is celebrated as a hero of the nation and his research led to the production of China’s first ballistic missiles, its first satellite launch, and the development of the Silkworm anti-ship missile.The son of a government official, Qian Xuesen was born in Hangzhou in 1911. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1934 and at the age of 23 traveled to the United States on a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, studying first at MIT and then at Caltech under Theodore von Kármán, who called Qian “an undisputed genius.” As a result of his research, in 1949 Qian as named the first director of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Centre at Caltech.
In 1950, Qian applied for permission to visit his parents in China. An FBI investigation accused him of having Communist sympathies — as a grad student he had attended a social gathering the Bureau suspected of being a Communist Party meeting — and Qian was stripped of his security clearance. Qian denied the charges, but despite the best effort of his colleagues and supporters in the scientific community, he remained under house arrest until 1955 when he was finally permitted to leave for China. Former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball called the decision, “The stupidest thing this country ever did.”
Upon his return to China, Qian founded the Institute of Mechanics in Beijing and became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1964, China tested its own atomic bomb. Under Qian’s direction, Chinese researchers developed the first generation of “Long March” missiles and in 1970 supervised the launch of Chia’s first satellite.[MORE]
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The fight is not democracy vs communism it is capitalism vs communism. In China and in Russia it is capitalism vs social survival and concern for a moral life. Make no mistake capitalism is the devil’s handmaiden and the US is her playground. It may have delivered some initial benefits but now it is exacting its true cost. The playground values poverty, crime, greed, lies, degeneracy, religious fundemalitism, pedophilia, agony and death above all. Those who embrace it today will be its victims tomorrow. Take care all the 1% ers!
How does support for the US dollar depend on the military scam like buying/investing in the F-35 Donald Duck. $150 million and $31 000 per flight hour. US maintains Australia’s economic security is a factor of US military defense of Australia, Donald Duck likes golf and Nancy Pelosi likes ice-cream.
John; Nicely and clearly said. Authentic socialism is far more democratic than capitalism. China has a system that is extremely focused on the well being of its people and it has been said that the Chinese Communist party is the largest polling organization in the world. They are constantly referencing the needs and wishes of their own people. As with Cuba. The shared sense of collective caring and democratic solidarity in Cuba is vastly superior to capitalism. The capitalists advance a conception of democracy that is designed to serve capitalism. It is nothing but the appearance of democracy designed to hide its totalitarian design. All it does is provide the wealthy and power driven egoists with an opportunity to dominate and control in a sham appearance of democracy. As you say; it is a capitalist propaganda lie that the argument is between communism and democracy. That is provably false but constantly repeated by capitalists. The real struggle is between capitalism and authentic democracy. But then we are obliged to dig deeper into just what would constitute a functional design for workable democracy. Democracy to work must include some form of functional social relatedness and when that is included you effectively have socialism. Isolated competitive individualism in a market based economy denies the possibility of human relatedness. Just like any capitalist domination freak would want. But when it comes to restoring effective social relatedness I say “all power to the divine feminine.”
”US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo portrayed the Communist Party of China (CPC) as a tyranny and called on the so-called free world to defeat it.”
Pompeo, dear fatso — the ’free world’ did try both in Beijing and HongKong and was resoundingly defeated every single time. The result of this is the subject matter of this very Sitrep compiled by Godfree Roberts. China and its CPC government are never going to be defeated by the West, especially not in its current state of affairs; among them all its vile, obese slobs spouting garbage learned by rote. You think the Chinese view their prodigious achievements as ’tyranny’ ? No, you probably don’t think so — hence your futile appeal to the ’free world’.
”Qian denied the charges, but despite the best effort of his colleagues and supporters in the scientific community, he remained under house arrest until 1955 when he was finally permitted to leave for China. Former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball called the decision ’The stupidest thing this country ever did’.”
Stupid is as stupid does. Now, the Pindos and the Euro-trash should be put to sleep with Chinese opium, cheap and potent.
Nussiminen – Ramin is right about you. You are so fun.
“Capitalism is what makes people stupid” wrote Karl Marx. Historically the British ruling class created Capitalism as a religion of collective spiritual self denial, all in order to replace Christianity as the ruling modality of their national culture. In the process this gave them a form of class based metaphysical power. Marx had that figured. He called it capital fetishism. Money Capitalism replaced God on the English throne and became the new religion. But being a political religion of self denial Capitalism must war against all authentic expressions of self determination. Most necessarily the American version. Over time the English rulers have done a magnificent job of using their intellectual power to convince Americans that capitalism is of the essence and the true meaning of America. In the process American national self determination was annihilated and the formerly free colony was reabsorbed into the Empire.
I congratulate the English for their world dominating intellectual brilliance and their confidence that they could play the Americans so well that they succeeded in completely recapturing the colony that they had originally lost. Now as a consequence of having been completely recolonized by stealth America has been cut off from a meaningful relationship with its own real history and culture, as was the intention all along. The alien conquerors know how to control the American conversation. In this fall Americans have gained title on the reputation for being the most stupid. Cut off from their true self and living in a distortion zone. Now the nation is plagued by the devastating psychological consequences which had to follow. The stupidity of capitalism as a total blind alley leading to mass annihilation is ever more exposed. Those who buy this lie are well on their way to becoming more than just stupid. We can call that an iron law of human development. And to impose it on those who aren’t stupid calls for the greatest possible evil. But that evil required well organized intelligence. For this purpose the English built the American National Security state. However I see the glaring rank stupidity of Pompeo as a promising sign of good things to come. The educational value here is just so rich. In my opinion the only solution is for the American people to move to recapture their original impulse for authentic self determination. But that would require the inclusion of an adequate metaphysical explanation to support political struggle.
“The concern of those who met to draft a new constitution in Philadelphia in 1787 was not so much how to extend freedom, but how to limit the power of the majority. The word democracy was not used.”
A Concise History of the Modern World by William Woodruff
Kapricorn4
Your are quite right as far as that issue goes. The first American revolution had a pre modern bourgeois character. The framers of the constitution, being property holders, lived in a time when the masses had no education and so the property holders saw limiting the power of the uneducated masses as a means to the enhancement of their own freedom and sound bourgeois government. Consequently the ratification of the constitution had to be pushed through the state houses by stealth to avoid open rejection by the majority. If the constitution had been subject to democratic scrutiny it would have been rejected. It is telling that the American ruling class are so in favor of the constitution and promote it endlessly. The American bourgeois constitution is anti democratic and a major impediment to liberty. Which is why the rulers love it so and promote it upon us. For the bourgeois class liberty means controlling the masses.
The American revolution was, like the English revolution, only a half of a revolution. They were both stunted, limited and twisted by their being waged by the progressive bourgeoisie. They were bourgeois revolutions, which stoked the fires of liberty, but did not complete the process. Truncated revolutions.
Nevertheless the fires were lit and the struggle for liberty is a psychologically defining theme in American culture. This cannot be denied. There is an overwhelming evidence of this. Americans define themselves around the issue of liberty. However the initial revolutions left open the question of just what liberty is and how to successfully establish it in a cultural and political setting. Answering this question is what confronts us now. And, as I argue, liberty cannot be sustained in a purely bourgeois manner where it is just a matter of my individual freedom independent of relationship with the community. liberty must include social relatedness. That is the socialization of liberty. Which takes us to Socialism. Liberty is to be shared or it is not liberty.
”India looks increasingly like a beached whale, while an exciting, transformative geopolitical landscape is appearing in the Indian Ocean. China sees seamless possibilities in strategic partnership with Iran”
M.K. Bhadrakumar’s expression ’Beached whale’ seems quite apt in India’s case. That’s what happens to any country trying to curry favour with Western imperialism, especially when that country is being ruled by grossly incompetent, mean-spirited fools who not only disregard superior alternatives on principle, but who also try to mess with more able countries, peoples, and leaders that made more wise choices.
The ’I’ in BRICS should refer to Iran instead. The Hindunazis in India have got nothing to contribute.
What China should do now to give Trump’s and Pompeo’s balls a good hard squeeze (for starters) –
1. Dump $1 trillion in US Treasury Bonds.
2. Ban all imports of US agricultural products 2 months before the US election. Sure they’ll all appreciate that and show their gratitude to the Orange Faggot in Flyover Country.
3. Refuse settlement in $ for all trade.
4. Ban all CIA Front Groups like the NED and USAID.
5. Make all US media register as foreign agents.
And do the same to all their yapping little poodles, Britain, Australia, Canada. Ban Jaguar/ Land Rover as a Huawei reprisal. Ban Australian beef/ wine/ until they learn some manners.
“Qian Xuesen,” The man built the entire Chinese missile and rocket program, giving China, over the years, the weapons that have held off the US Navy and Air Force, prevented entrapment in a naval containment strategy.
What the US now is doing ejecting Chinese scholars from US R&D Labs is creating thousands of Qian Xuesens. Added to that, the hysteria and rabid Sinophobia/racism will keep away from the US and the West (Five Eyes) hundreds of thousands of Qian Xuesens.
The reverse brain drain in technology and sciences will be felt over the next few years and coming decades.
This is more than stupid.
Anyone hoping for the end of the Hegemon and the Empire should applaud the complete insanity of the US government creating thousands of Qian Xeusens. His payback against the US government treating him like a dog, locked up, unable to work with Von Karmann at Jet Propulsion Lab (Qian Xuesen’s idea in the first place) and unable for years to go home to visit his family, is cosmic justice.
What irony!
It’s really quite funny how the Anglo-Imperialists violently forced China to modernize, and now that they’re outdoing them at their own game the Anglo-Imperialists are complaining. It’s a lose-lose competition for sure. At least the Chinese have an excuse (they were told: swim in toxic modernity or face martyrdom!), unlike those troublemaking Europeans who started the whole mess and can’t figure out when to clean it up.
Well said.
The Chinese decided to beat the West at their own game and are at the point where they might just get the better of them.
However, in doing so, they have had to also take on some of the West’s ideology and mode of thought in the form of Communism/Marxism/Leninism etc. Will they succumb to this or will they manage to overcome it is the key question.
What China is currently doing is referred to as colonialism. The Chinese government is every bit as corrupt as the United States government is. For proof that cannot be disputed of China’s strong arm tactics, consider that it is the second largest economy and is engaging in rapid colonialist expansionst policies, but insisted as being referred to as a developing nation in tne Paris agreement. Would any honest individual or honest government make such proposterous claims? If this is developement stage, where does it end? Colonialism always benefits the colonialists at the expense of the natives. It is always the same. If you think that it will be any different with China, you will be sadly mistaking. How many times will you be fooled? After how many foreign conquerors in the region throughout thousands of years of history will it take to convince people that it is the practice of colonialism that is the problem. The Trans Pacific Partnership was another attempt to rig everything in China’s favor, and the corporations and financiers. They are your countries, and if you choise to sell of your national assets to the Chinese, you will regret it. Your politicians were probably bribed. China has quite a huge and powerful military if it is so opposed to war. Nobody has been threatening to go to war against China, and even prior to Trump, China was building its military stealth, even though nobody had even the slightest intention of declaring war on China. Actions speak louder than words in my book.
Andrea Iravani
Middle Class in China is one-tenth the Gross Income of the US middle class.
China has 800 million citizens at the poverty or below the middle class level.
Look up the definition of developing versus developed nations.
China is clearly, regardless of its wealth and 400 million middle class and wealthy class, a developing country.
The US complains that China should no longer be so classified.
What it should have done was pass a gradient for nations that are partially developed fully, like China is partially developed fully, and India will eventually lift part of their massive population in like manner over the coming decades. Then the advantages in the trade rules would involve the gradient scale of percentages.
Thus, 50 to 75% developed, 76-90% and 91-100% developed for instance, could modify the advantage China and others would have in the WTO system.
But common sense and negotiation is not the US way. Making up rules, breaking treaties, welching on deals, and accusing others with lies fabricated by stupid Washington officials carries the day for sad Uncle Sam.
China isn’t doing anything the US didn’t do as it developed. Look up the trade and tariff history of the US.
Look up the present tariff system of the US.
The US wants no part of BRI and Eurasia. So, the bulk of world trade will soon be none of their damn business any way. 4.5 Billion people will never see or buy US products or services. That’s going to be the next crying towel the US uses. Waaaaa! The BRI is a meany. They won’t buy our crap just because we didn’t want them to climb out of poverty and develop. Waaaaa!
I am aware of the population difference as well as GNI difference, however, even with that difference, China is still in the upper-middle income range of nations, and is fully developed. When you say 50-70% developed, exactly what is it that you are referring to? There is no set criteria or cut off line for developing or developed nation, just as there is no set threshold for wealthy or rich. It is a relative term, and there is no precise amount of money that sets the point in which someone is rich and varies drastically from person to person.
Just more deception by the Chinese government whenever it suits them,lie and deny is strategy.
What exactly does China lack that it is not developed? Roads, rail, sky skrapers, factories, plumbing, healthcare, education, cars, technology, military? The assertion is insane. China just wants to have it both ways as always, because that is win-win for China.
See for yourself:
https://www.economicsdiscussion.net/economic-development/developed-and-developing-countries-world-bank-classification-economics/30010
Andrea Iravani
The difference is simple really. For China, it has to do with poverty levels. Countries ‘classify’ themselves and other countries may object. There are real solid indicators for the classification.
Just to pick up on something else, Unclos which you consider ‘international law’. Well, China accepts as well historical borders. And the US has not ratified UnclosIII – but they talk a lot. So, why should China worry too much?
Andrea, your assertion
”China was building its military stealth, even though nobody had even the slightest intention of declaring war on China”
is just flat-out silly. Firstly, military programs are not something to be announced by shrieking in public. Secrecy and discretion are key, regardless of the international situation. Secondly, I ”suspect” that it is precisely Western imperialism’s gauge of China’s military capabilities which serves to put a lid on Western aggression, for the time being constrained to pathetic colour revolution stunts and Pompeo-style pronunciamentos that nobody takes seriously anyway. You just don’t seem to get what’s glaringly obvious to the overwhelming global majority: As soon as the Zionazi West thinks it can destroy a country, it does. Attributing this conduct to the Chinese is projection, pure and simple.
During the Korean war, Douglas MacArthur was itching to turn both Korea and China into uninhabitable radioactive wasteland. He was let down. Might seem strange given the genocidal violence visited upon the Korean people and given the utter dreg-in-chief, Harry S. Truman. The explanation isn’t too hard to figure out: The USSR had just broken the West’s monopoly on nukes and let it be known. Another case of the baby-eating monster from hell Stalin and his Infinite Evil, LOL.
Oh, really? So there were never any wars in Asia until the western powers came into beng? That is quite a rewrite of history.
Oh, I wasn’t aware that Pompeo’s and Trump’s perspectives were paying attention to several centuries of history. It’s not really the ‘Pindo approach’, so to speak. Least of all in the current phase of total Pindo intellectual degeneracy and mindrot.
It’s sad if your anxieties are due to troubles in the distant past.
I do not suffer from any anxiety. Sorry if that disappoints you. Mind reading is obviously not your strong suit. I was merely pointing out the absolute hypocrisy of the Chinese government, and I am fully aware of the hypocrisy of my own government, and have been an extremely vocal critic of my government. I was not speaking for Pompeo or Trump either. It is general knowledge and is not an ancient Chinese secret that Asia has had a long and bloody history of invading neighboring countries and conquests.
Andrea, I highly recommend that you go and read everything by Jeff J Brown – https://chinarising.puntopress.com/
and everything by Godfree Roberts – https://www.unz.com/author/godfree-roberts/
This is necessary to overcome the very western view on China. You cannot understand China with a western view, and Jeff and Godfree does a good job of explaining what is actually real so that a westerner with western viewpoint can understand.
And then Nathan Rich does a good job. Check out 3 videos and his series is not complete, but look for the videos titled Epic China. https://www.youtube.com/c/NathanRichHotpot/videos.
John Pilger’s documentary, The coming war on China, is valuable as well for background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDl9ecICIYg
Oh and I always forget Ramin Mazaheri who wrote for us on the Saker blog a very good 8 part series. It is now in book form, but you can find all 8 parts on this search. /?s=ramin+mazaheri+china