By Pepe Escobar – posted with permission
Let’s start in mid-May, when Nur-Sultan, formerly Astana, hosted the third Russia-Kazakhstan Expert Forum, jointly organized by premier think tank Valdai Club and the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations.
The ongoing, laborious and crucial interconnection of the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasia Economic Union was at the center of the debates. Kazakhstan is a pivotal member of both the BRI and EAEU.
As Valdai Club top analyst Yaroslav Lissovolik told me, there was much discussion “on the state of play in emerging markets in light of the developments associated with the US-China trade stand-off.” What emerged was the necessity of embracing “open regionalism” as a factor to neutralize “the negative protectionist trends in the global economy.”
This translates as regional blocks along a vast South-South axis harnessing their huge potential “to counter protections pressures”, with “different forms of economic integration other than trade liberalization” having preeminence. Enter “connectivity” – BRI’s premier focus.
The EAEU, celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, is fully into the open regionalism paradigm, according to Lissovolik, with memoranda of understanding signed with Mercosur, ASEAN, and more free-trade agreements coming up later this year, including Serbia and Singapore.
Sessions at the Russia-Kazakhstan forum produced wonderful insights on the triangular Russia-China-Central Asia relationship and further South-South collaboration. Special attention should focus on the concept of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) 2.0. If a new bipolarity is emerging, pitting the US against China, NAM 2.0 rules that vast sectors of the Global South should profit by remaining neutral.
On the complex Russia-China strategic partnership, featuring myriad layers, by now it’s established that Beijing considers Moscow a sort of strategic rearguard in its ascent to superpower status. Yet doubts persist across sectors of “pivot to the East” Moscow elites on how to handle Beijing.
It’s fascinating to watch how neutral Kazakh analysts see it. They tend to interpret negative perceptions about a possible “Chinese threat” as impressed upon Russia, including Russia media, by its notorious Western “partners” – and “from there proceed to Kazakhstan and other post-Soviet countries.”
Kazakhs stress that the development of the EAEU is always under tremendous pressure by the West, and are very worried that the US-China trade war will have serious consequences for the development of Eurasian integration. They dread the possibility of another front of the US-China fight opening in strategically positioned Kazakhstan. Still, they hope the EAEU will expand, mostly because of Russia.
Andrei Sushentsov, program director of the Valdai Discussion Club, had a more lenient explanation. He reads the current chaos not as a Cold War, but rather a “Phony Cold War” – with no pronounced aggressor, no ideological component in the confrontation, and even “a desire to relieve tension.”
NAM 2.0 or Eurasia integration?
In a crucial speech to the Valdai Club, President Putin made it clear, once again, that the BRI-EAEU interconnection is an absolute priority. And the only road map ahead is for Eurasian integration.
That interlinks with the advance of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, whose annual summit is next month, in Kyrgyzstan. One of the key goals of the SCO, since it was founded in 2001, is to create an evolving Russia-China-Central Asia synergy.
It’s not far-fetched to consider that what happens next may include a clash between the inbuilt logic of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) 2.0 and the massive Eurasian integration drive. Moscow, for instance, would be in an intractable position if it came to either align with Beijing or NAM 2.0.
Putin has had a crack on how to solve the problem. “Historical experience shows that the Soviet Union had quite trust-based and constructive relations with many countries of the Non-Aligned Movement. It is also clear that if pursued in a too radical and uncompromising way, the logic of the ‘new non-aligned movement’ can become a challenge to the consolidation and unity of Eurasia, which is the top priority for the SCO and other projects.”
Putin has arguably dedicated a lot of thought to “the case of a new rupture in Russia-China relations, toward which many are pushing us.” He recognizes that “quite a large part of Russian society will receive it as a quite natural and even positive development. Therefore, to avoid this scenario (to reiterate, consolidation and unity of Greater Eurasia is the key value of the SCO and the EAEU-BRI association), not only diplomatic work outside of Russia is required… but also a lot of work inside the country. In this case, the work needs to be done less with elites by way of expert papers, than directly with the people in entirely different media formats (which, by the way, not all traditional experts can do).”
The ultimate target though remains set in stone – to “achieve the purported goal of consolidating Greater Eurasia.”
The US three-war front
Maximum pressure from ‘Exceptionalistan’ won’t relent. For instance, CAATSA – the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act – now in overdrive after the adoption of a European Recapitalization Incentive Program, will continue to economically punish nations that purchase Russian and Chinese weapons.
The logic of this extreme “military diplomacy” is stark; if you don’t weaponize the American way, you will suffer. Key targets feature, among others, India and Turkey, two still theoretical poles of Eurasian integration.
In parallel, from US Think Tankland, comes the latest RAND Corporation report on – what else – how to wage Cold War 2.0 against Russia, complete with scores of strategic bombers and new intermediate-range nuclear missiles stationed in Europe to counter “Russian aggression”. Santa Monica’s RAND arguably qualifies as the top Deep State think tank.
So, it’s no wonder the road ahead is fraught with Desperation Row scenarios. The US economic war on China – at least for now – is not as hardcore as the US economic war on Russia, which is not as hardcore as the US economic siege or blockade of Iran. Yet all three wars carry the potential to degenerate in a flash. And we’re not even counting the strong possibility of an extra Trump administration economic war on the EU.
It’s no accident that the current economic wars target the three key nodes of Eurasian integration. The war against the EU may not happen because the main beneficiaries would be the Russia-China-Iran triumvirate.
Obviously, no illusions remain in Beijing, Moscow and Tehran’s corridors of power. Frantic diplomacy prevails. After the BRI forum in Beijing, Presidents Putin and Xi meet again in early June at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum – where discussion of BRI-EAEU interconnection will be paramount, alongside containment of the US in Central Asia.
Then Russia and China meet again at the SCO summit in Bishkek. The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, went on the record stating that as many as 5,000 ISIS/Daesh-linked jihadis fresh from their “moderate rebel” Syrian stint are now massed in Afghanistan bordering Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, with the possibility of crossing to Pakistan and China.
That’s a major security threat to all SCO members – and it will be discussed in detail in Bishkek, alongside the necessity of including Iran as a new permanent member.
Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan is visiting Pakistan, which is a key BRI member with the CPEC corridor, and after will visit the Netherlands and Germany. Beijing wants to diversify its complex global investment strategy.
Meanwhile, from Istanbul to Vladivostok, the key question remains: how to make NAM 2.0 work to the benefit of Eurasian integration.
‘Meanwhile, from Istanbul to Vladivostok, the key question remains: how to make NAM 2.0 work to the benefit of Eurasian integration.”
A better key question is,”how to make a NAM 2.0 work for its members”. The old one was really non-aligned,but this one is rife with pro-US stooges. Unless that changes,there is no need to consider them at all.
If you look back into the history of the NAM, you will see what happened to those who rose their head up and tried to challenge the Hegemon. Yugoslavia and Libya were two of the strongest leaders. Bombed into submission in the first case and bombed into ashes in the latter.
So the lesson has been learned.
Thus, the South-South (mostly Africa and some Asian) are already linked in their early development with China, and if you follow the Russian MOD’s moves, the Central African nations are reaching out to Russia for military support.
The trends are there now. The history is deeply engraved in the minds of the non-aligned. They know they can’t go it alone. They can choose Russia or China or both, or be forever an underdeveloped wasteland.
The timid NAMs will have to be led out of quiescence into participation with Eurasian Integration and BRI development.
This is what is on the agenda next week at St. Petersburg. President Xi and President Putin will refine their strategy and tactics to move the project forward.
Xi now has a Trade War meant to cripple his 2025/2035 technologies efforts. And the US is pushing Taiwan to break from the One China policy and dare China to invade the island.
Both China and Russia are operating under attack from the hybrid warriors of the Hegemon. This is real economic warfare, just like the crushing sanctions against Iran, but focused on sectors intrinsic to growth in the Russian and Chinese economies.
The terrorist war being brewed in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan borderlands is a perfect spot for SCO to finally put its military-anti-terror mandate to practice. Russia has bases and China has manpower. Show the US that the fight will be short and total.They are packaging many thousands more for Central Asia warfare from the leftovers of the Syrian war.
As Pence told the military academy in his address this week, there will never be an end to wars. (of course, because the US will never stop starting them.)
The only wars that the US ‘warriors’ win today are in Transformers movies and Call to Arms video games. They do a nifty job of death-squad night-time raids and the like, and drones of course, or carpet-bombing from 40,000 feet, but face to face, man to man-forget it. Just like those other heroes, the Israeli Death Forces. But, boy-do they like killing. It’s their one true religion.
Perhaps we need to look at this “chaos” that’s been demonstrated throughout history. Every empire that meets its eventual demise, starts lashing out at the most viable contenders. This happened to The Roman Empire, to the Dutch Republic and the British Empire, with the latter two who desintegrated within a few years.
The US has reached its apex of economic and military power – the 1% super wealthy are clinging to their stolen riches while we hear rumblings of Big Tech starting to feel the effects of what China is threatening to counter-attack Google, Apple and other big tech centers. The annual military budget is in the $700 BILLION range. Wall Street is draining dry the Fed’s cheap money printing scheme while the Plunge Protection Team has to go in frequently, to manipulate and prop up the Hegemonic US $$ system. Like all Ponzi Schemes, it will not last forever, and woe to those who will experience its devastation.
Just how long can American hegemony last as it lashes out against China, Russia, Iran (for Saudi Arabia/Israel’s intentions) and Venezuela with it’s vast reserves of oil?
As a result of Trump’s Trade/Sanctions War on China, Iran, Venezuela, and a host of other nations, along with the brewing inner turmoils by the 1% in US, just how long can the US maintain it’s hegemon?
Yes I can’t see the point of NAM.
Not wishing to align with aggressive US hegemony is one thing but what are China and Russia and the EAEU seeking?
They are attempting to promote a world where each country’s national sovereignty is respected where there is fair and enforceable international law, where money is sound and backed by real wealth and where corruption will not be tolerated. They seek dialogue above war and an end to one country trying to run the planet.
What’s not to like? What do the NAM countries seek to achieve and if they agree with the basic values outlined above how can they be “non-aligned” with them since they must surely agree that these are desirable goals.
And in any case, how would being a “non-aligned country” save you from getting bombed to hell if it the US decided you were “a threat”.
how would being a “non-aligned country” save you from getting bombed to hell if it the US decided you were “a threat”.
The fact that the U.S. can’t afford to burn another trillion dollars?
As is traditional, June sees the Western fakestream media presstitute vermin crank up their annual Tian An Men Square lies, and, as ever, the Guardian, with its racist and Zionazi readership foaming at the mouth, leads the way. The latest ‘estimate’, by the UK Ambassador at the time (who else would you trust?)is 10,000 killed, a number that will, inevitably, grow over the years. The sheer racist terror of the Western Civilization supremacists (particularly the Zionazis who see their de facto global dominance disappearing)at the rise of China is nauseating to see, clothed as it is in the most sickening hypocrisy and cultural contempt.
The Two Minute Hates (now in the New 24-Hour Edition! and the New EverPresent Social Media Edition!) of course ramp up in the summer. By the fall, the fear factors must be fully ramped up so that no one objects nor dares to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act which of course must always spend more and more on the military. If the Fear Factors aren’t raised in June, then someone might ask awkward questions like how come we can’t spend that money feeding hungry people or providing medical care or perhaps even replacing a bridge build when FDR was President before it falls down.
“Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the doorknob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can’t read too good
Don’t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row ”
— a verse from Desolation Row, written by Nobel Prize winning poet Bob Dylan, in 1965, during Cold War 1.0 and Deep State 1.0 between the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Bravo! Very well said.
Any study by any group close to the Pentagon, such as the BLAND Corporation (thank you Stanley Kubrick), is of course going to say that the taxpayers absolutely must immediately pay for lots of expensive new strategic bombers and new fancy and very expensive missiles. After all, that the whole point of the study.
Events ‘carry the potential to degenerate in a flash’, that is very true. All the evidence points to the US building up to war with the Russia-China-Iran triumvirate: it will be a world war. The pattern of history signals that course.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
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Thanks to tireless efforts of Pepe Escober, netizens around the globe are time and again reminded about the most complex geopolitical-cum-geoeconomic topic of the post-1991 era – how core Eurasian landmass comprising of China-Russia (and other ex-Soviet Union statelets like Belaruss-Novosussia-Kazakhstan)-Mongolia-Iran can join together in a trust-based partnership that covers all aspects of modern society: infrastructure-industry-banking-defense-culture-education.
If Saker blog-site allows me, this blog note is being written as an open communication to the pair of humanist giants – President Putin and President Xi who are going to meet within days.
Leaving aside the long historical process, concentrating on only the recent past, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that since the dawn of 20th century, one-after-another onslaught caused by the west European/Japanese imperialist powers (financed by Zionist Capitalist aristocracy-oligarchy) devastated the Eurasian landmass – military attack on Russia/Soviet Union by Germany & its Allies twice, dissolution of Soviet Union through subversion, military attack and dismembering China by Japan, subversion to bring down Chinese government, … in an otherwise long list, the latst attacks are Economic Sanction-Trade Restriction-Technology Restriction:
(1) Russia was slapped with economic sanctions by 5 Eyes-EU-Japan led by the Hegemon-cum-Hawker of free trade and freedom in 2014;
(2) China was slapped with uncivilized blockade by the Hegemon with 5 Eyes falling in line in 2019
Why should we group together all these sanctions-restrictions-blockades against Russia and China, and see them through a single magnifying glass ? To put in a single sentence, it is because these are targeted against the core Eurasian contiguous landmass rich in natural resources like fossil fuel-metal-rare earth mineral-arable land-fresh water-green forest and is populated by about 1.8 billion people who mostly believe in living their life in industrious-intelligent-introvert communities. And that simple background actually creates deep discomfort and suspicion among the the zionist-imperialist families of bankers-industrialists-businessmen-aristocrats who collectively own the Deep State (in countries on both sides of Atlantic). They are bothered, they are worried about the ZIONIST-CAPITALIST WORLD ORDER built by them brick-by-brick since 1602 CE (when the first stock exchange was built in Amsterdum). There are so many possibilities of the hegemonic world control going haywire:
(1) What if Chinese-owned companies really develop new consumer products using self-developed technology that gets wide acceptance globally? What if those Chinese-owned companies start providing technology know-how to other Asian/African/South American countries ? What will happen to the world-wide industrial empire of zionist imperialist oligarchy based on their continuous technological lead forged since industrial revolution 1750 CE ? Won’t the Chinese and Russian state-owned companies eat away the Multi National Corporation (most of which are owned by the Zionist Capitalists) revenue – MNCs earn revenues decade-after-decade that surpass GDP of most of the countries in the world (as per Fortune 500, in 2017 revenue-wise 157 of top 200 economic entities were MNC companies and only 43 were sovereign States) ?
(2) What if Chinese and Russian governments successfully develop an eco-system in which Banking & Finance-Industry & Economy are intertwined across Eurasian landmass – first within China and Russia, then within extended Eurasian landmass (stretching from north Pacific coast to north Atlantic coast), finally in the entire eastern Hemisphere ? What will happen to the world-wide rentier empire of zionist capitalist kleptocracy based on ‘magical (?)’ concepts of ‘fractional reserve banking’ and ‘fiat money’ they introduced since 1609 CE (when the Bank of Amsterdum was established) ?
How Federal Reserve, Bank of England, World Bank, International Monetary Fund will continue to rule over the supply of printed money as global exchange currency ?
(3) What if Chinese government establish beyond any doubt that, controlled economy can be market-oriented, that Asia can lead innovative technology-oriented industry, that Marxist philosophy can build a political platform that ensure 90% (of 1.4 billion population) is leading at-least middle-class life ? What will happen to the institutions of academia and media (shadow-managed by zionist imperialist elites) across the world where ‘intellectuals’ continue to spin new ‘theories’, ‘thoughts’, ‘concepts’ (most of which are a meaningless mix of jargons and complex vocabulary) which for past 2 centuries have been perpetually creating further divisions and more confusions among the poor deprived people across the world (as per Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2018, just 26 oligarchs’ total assets equals total assets owned by the poorest 50% of world population, the same report also show that 9.5% of world’s adult population own 84.2% of world’s wealth, while 90.5% of world’s adult population own 15.8%) ?
Wouldn’t there be a sea-change in such extreme inequality of ownership of wealth across the globe, if the ‘Chinese model’ finds acceptance across eastern hemisphere ?
(4) What if a Russian state with patriotic, energetic, and inquisitive communities continue to make breakthrough in modern warfare by infusing technological innovation with reverse engineering of old Soviet military and space machinery ? What will happen if Russia tries to assist its partner countries in core Eurasia and indeed, across the world with military gear necessary to resist gunboat diplomacy (to maintain and perpetuate imperialism under the garb of freedom-democracy-human rights) of the Deep State owned by zionist-capitalists ? How could 5 Eyes and Israel continue to wreck havoc on the societies in Eurasian landmass, Africa, and South America in the name of ‘progress’ and ‘colour revolution’ using facades of zionist-imperialist funded (civil) associations ?
(5) What if Russian and Chinese governments (that have to ensure decent standard of living for 1.6 billion people), successfully create a culture of Research & Development of all kinds of Technology needed for areas like space voyage, planetary colony, artificial intelligence, quantum communication, genetic engineering, sustainable energy, so on and so forth ? What will happen if both China and Russia open its institutions to partner countries and/or assist those countries in scientific research work ? What will happen to the higher education business in the institutions built in Europe and North America that are run by professionals aligned with the zionist-imperialist elites ? If ‘braindrain’ from Asian countries continuously doesn’t take place (for ‘higher studies’ and then ‘professional career’ into Europe and North America) how the zionist-imperialist owned economy on both sides of Atlantic will fill the widening gap of locally-sourced skilled manpower required for research and industry ?
The above mentioned points are ‘concerns’ of the zionist-imperialist elites (who weren’t that bothered till China acted as a “follower” during two decades of industrial growth from 1990 to 2010, neither they were much bothered till Russian resources were sucked out from economy and defense from 1990 to 2007), but more importantly, these also point out toward wonderful ‘opportunities’ lying ahead for the Eurasian Resistance camp’ in order to build a just and equitable world order turning away from past five centuries of global slavery (moral, cultural and economic).
Some of the key vectors that really need to be seriously ‘tuned’ by Russian and Chinese leadership during next 10 – 12 years period in order to successfully defeat the Hegemon’s agenda:
(1) Territorrial integrity – Russian leadership should take a proactive initiative to create an administrative union of Russia-Belaruss-Novosussia-Kazakhstan that can work as a bulwark against imperialist designs of the Deep State in across the extended Eurasian landmass. Nobody forgot that Soviet population voted overwhelmingly to remain in the union. Russia should put aside the question of assimilation of ‘rest of Ukraine’ for a future point of time – only time will tell whether that particular region is really suitable for assimilation.
Similarly Chinese leadership should take a proactive initiative to create an administrative union of China-Hong Kong-Taiwan that will ensure that imperialist forces will not be able to create sea-route embargo against China in the South China Sea. ASEAN member countries prefer free trade and commerce with China as well as investments from China. China should seriously consider settling border problem with India without delay – may be gesture of ‘giving away’ half of the erstwhile south Tibet region (that was annexed by British empire within north-east region of India) can resolve the issue permanently.
(2) Economic initiatives – BRI programme of China actually is a framework wherein investments amounting to anything between 1 to 2 trillion USD in different countries of Asia, Europe, Africa, South America will be done in primarily government-to-government projects. When successfully implemented, may be around 2040, BRI will completely transform the economy and wellbeing of peoples in more than 50 countries. Chinese government need to carry out detail analysis of feasibility and carry out best-case/worst-case simulations project-wise as well as cluster (of projects)-wise – unlike zionist capitalist dominated academia and media who sing the chorus that China is spreading debt-trap, I feel quite a few BRI projects may not bring enough revenue to sustain operations for decades. Hope Chinese government will spread prosperity through more judicious investments.
Russia, undoubtedly will be the biggest beneficiary of BRI since it can pour investments into infrastructure, mining and exploration, traditional industry, technology products as well as defense and aerospace.
(3) Military preparedness – Flash points like Novorossia and Taiwan will dominate the strategic thought process of Russia and China. Both Russia and China is moving in extraordinarily coordinated fashion on this aspect of military preparedness. Nothing should be left out – land, underground, surface water, submarine, air, near space every possible arena in Eurasia should be defended from possible attack using military machinery owned by Deep State. Equally important are the possibility of ‘internal socio-political subversion’, ‘climatic engineering’, and ‘bio-engineering’ organised by the zionist capitalist clique.
With allround development of hypersonic missiles, 5th generation fighter planes, attack submarines, battle tanks with AI, tactical and strategic nuclear weapons Eurasian landmass is safe and secure. Both Russia and China will have to continuously put serious efforts and vast budget to stay ahead in asymmetrical warfare. China wil have to become more assertive in deploying limited military forces in friendly countries.
(4) Banking – Perhaps the most important vector of the ongoing struggle against evil forces is to establish an international monetary system that ensures interest of the non-European and non-5 Eyes countries around the world. Replacing US Dollar as world’s reserve currency by a basket of currencies of world’s top twenty economies (GDP in PPP terms). China-Russia-Iran, each of the core Eurasian countries should build gold stock of at least 3000 ton in respective central banks so that their own currency can become gold-backed currencies – that will be the biggest weapon of defeating the fiat money based zionist capitalist world order.
Equally important is promotion of global banking system like AIIB, Silk Road Fund, and New Development Bank (of BRICS group) for investments in infrastructure, agriculture, technology and industry. Eurasian countries should also speed up the process of deployment of international transaction platform that act as alternative to SWIFT platform owned by the zionist capitalist oligarchy.
(5) Diplomacy and Multilateralism – Since there is no alternate to ‘soft power’, diplomatic efforts should take centre stage. The statements and actions of representatives of the zionist imperialistic Deep State will be more and more meaningless and frustrating which defy sense of reasoning and logic – but for the Russian-Chinese-Iranian diplomatic circles the primary challenge is how to navigate through racist imperialist game across the globe. While Syria and Venezuela are manifestation of ‘hard power’, Russian diplomacy has shown how brilliantly diplomacy can be used in such cases.
Eurasian resistance movement needs to continuously spin spider-web of soft power across Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America and bring more countries within their camp. Investments and assistance, trade and commerce, cultural and educational interactions should be judiciously enhanced with all countries irrespective of whether its rulers are corrupt/reactionary. However, Russia-China-Iran should be cautious that too many multilateral platforms – SCO, APEC, NAM, CSTO, BRICS etc.- shouldn’t become hindrance.
In certain sections of both Russia and China there is long-standing feeling that, their country needs tie-up with USA-led world order to grow economy and learn technology – nothing can be further from truth ! China was world’s largest economy till about 1800 CE (continuously for two milleniums) while Russian technology was key to success in WW II against mighty Nazi warmacht (developed in full cooperation with zionist capitalist oligarchy of USA and UK). For the ‘Eurasian Resistance movement’ to be effective and vibrant, Russia should be treated as ‘first-among-equals for military domain’, and China should be treated as ‘first-among-equals for economic domain’.
Mutual trust among Chinese and Russian country will get tremendous boost and there will be enhanced cooperation at every level for every sphere when Russia-led Eurasian Union embrace Marxist communist philosophy as guiding principle of state. As an old oriental man I’m looking forward to the day when China and Russia increase contact and cooperation on the basis of Government-to-Government, Military-to-Military, Political Party-to-Political Party, People-to-People, Industry-to-Industry, Bank-to-Bank, Education Institution-to-Education Institution, Cultural Institution-to-Cultural Institution interactions – it should be encouraged at all levels of managers, officers, leaders, office-factory-party workers,
students, artists…
If Almighty wish, I be able to witness that glorious era of international humanist movement led by the pair of giants !
Straight-Bat
Very good read from Pepe, these are some of the things Mr Putin face… and not the the inflated socalled unpopular pension reform… that the saker has recently claimed !!!!
China’s defences continue to grow much stronger. Newly tested JL-3 can deploy multiple thermonuclear warheads to any U.S. city at hypersonic speeds. Mutual vulnerability is alive and well. 🇨🇳 🚀
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/hypersonic-warning-shot-china-tests-revolutionary-new-jl-3-submarine-launched-nuclear-icbm