We Strengthen Our Friendship In The Name of Peace And Happiness!
By: Jeff J. Brown
Cross linked with 44 Days .
Welcome to the new Moscow-Beijing Express, on The Saker, which will be reporting periodically on Russian-Chinese news and perspectives.
If you have not already done so, it is highly recommended to read the following interview between The Saker and Jeff J. Brown. It’s a great primer on Sino-Russian relations, past, present and future. http://10.16.86.131/saker-interview-with-jeff-j-brown/
It is always interesting to see the triangular interpretation of current events, between the West, China and Russia. An excellent, recent case to consider is Russia’s new law passed, to severely increase the oversight of foreign NGOs inside Russia, as well as the monitoring of these NGOs’ local partners.
This new law was passed in the Duma (Russia’s legislative body) and sent to President Vladimir Putin, for his imprimatur. Mr. Putin wasted no time in signing it into law, on May 23rd.
The Western corporate media was, as expected, apoplectic. Disregarding the more rabid MSM megaphones on America’s payroll, take a few minutes to read this article by The Guardian, a supposedly liberal, anti-establishment news organ. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/russia-bans-undesirable-international-organisations-2016-elections
Former CIA Director William Casey stated the obvious, when he said,
The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
A thoughtful analysis of this article clearly demonstrates that the CIA/MI6 editorial and journalistic puppeteers at The Guardian are large and in charge. This is a chilling example of deft censorship and psyops propaganda behind the Great Western Firewall http://10.16.86.131/behind-the-great-western-firewall-is-the-ugly-truth/ . Its Orwellian language is parsed to perfection. For Newspeak, it approaches the level of art. No wonder 99% of Westerners are oblivious, brainwashed.
Two observations are salient. The whole mien of the article craftily puts all the blame on the Russians, demonizes President Putin, while trying to come across as “objective” and “balanced”. The other obvious Western corpse hidden behind the Great Western Firewall is the words, “color revolution”. Obviously, The Guardian’s editors and journalists have been given their marching orders by their CIA/MI6 masters: never associate Western NGOs with color revolutions. Verboten.
Not so in Sinoland (China). As far back as 2009, Baba Beijing (my wry appellation for China’s leadership) published its Notice on Issues Related to the Administration of Foreign Currency Contributions to Mainland Entities. It was specifically designed to limit and track the money flowing from outside China, to foreign and domestic NGOs. Nor was China the first. Baba Beijing was undoubtedly inspired by Eritrea, “Africa’s Cuba”, which has been all over Western NGOs, like sink on manure, since the early 90s. Recently, Eritrea finally just kicked them all out. There, take that, you regime changing miscreants. And Eritrea was undoubtedly inspired by Cuba and other go-it-alone countries, like North Korea, which eschew Western NGOs and vice versa. And the inspirational motherlode? They all surely go back to Communist USSR and China, the twin towers of anti-Western Empire.
In the interim, India, taking its cue from China, passed its 2010, Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, which was not coincidently similar to China’s law. At this point, a virtuous vortex of anti-Western NGO-itis began to manifest itself. Russia knows a good thing when it sees it, so the Siberian Giant signed a law in November, 2012, that in retrospect was too weak (it was ironically based on America’s anti-communist Foreign Agents Registration Act). But that was before a little thing called fascist genocide got perpetrated on its southwestern flank, in the Ukraine. Time to get ugly.
So now, in 2015, it is Russia’s turn to stir the vortex even faster. Hence, its very draconian, nanometer-wiggle-room-for-NGOs law passed last month. So, then what happened? China liked what it sees in Russia, doesn’t like what it sees in Venezuela, the Ukraine and the US just appointing Richard Miles, Serbia’s and Georgia’s color revolution mastermind, as head of mission in Kyrgyzstan. This small but incredibly strategic Muslim country is sandwiched between China and Kazakhstan, a neighboring brother in anti-Empire arms.
So, before Putin’s signature could even dry, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) proposed a law that, lo and behold, is almost identical to the Duma’s. I think Russia and China probably share a notebook now, in their respective political libraries, called, Killing Western Color Revolutions in their NGO Cradles. China’s proposed law is up for public comments and the G7 goons will surely lodge complaints. But given just how corrupting and dangerous the West’s whole NGO racket is for any country and its people, who elect not to be America’s prostitutes, I will be surprised if this Chinese bill does not pass, with at most, minor modifications.
Also, a couple of days after this law was proposed, the NPC rolled out its new national security bill. The fact that these two bills were submitted almost simultaneously is undoubtedly not an accident. The Chinese are masters of subtle symbolism (undoubtedly inspired by their unique, ideographic language) and the message here is Confucian clear: Western NGOs are antithetical to China’s national security interests.
Since Langley and Vauxhall Cross are as obtuse as 179 degree angles, would somebody please point this out on their Facebook accounts? Thanks, and tell ‘em 44 Days and The Saker sent you.
Back to the differences between the Great Western Firewall’s Orwellian manipulation of vocabulary, compared to Russia and China, this article in the Chinese media is fairly typical. Its title says it all: Russia promulgates an “Undesirable Organizations Law” to defend against “Color Revolutions”. http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2015-05-26/065931876257.shtml .
First, Dorothy, Toto’s mysterious, sudden death? Sorry to break the news, but it was not due to natural causes. Secondly, Miss Ruby Slippers, Western NGOs and color revolutions go together like Molotov cocktails and rooftop snipers. Or if you live in Odessa, the fascists just stand there for the whole world to watch in broad daylight, as they gun down and club innocents to death.
Russian leaders and representatives routinely get full treatment in the Chinese media. Here is an article listing all the meetings ever had between Xi and Putin, just in case you were counting. I know I was. The title says, Xi Jinping, arriving in Russia to meet Putin; during the last two years they have met 11 times. Priceless. http://news.qq.com/a/20150509/003754.htm
Here is a video of President Putin’s comments about America’s extrajudicial arrest of the FIFA officials and it includes images from Moscow, toward the end (sorry, in China there are ads too). http://tv.cntv.cn/video/C10336/a9b513408b4a493694fabe02a34b5408 The title says, America is trying to take the 2018 World Cup away from Russia. No nuanced Newspeak there. Obama is lucky to get 15 seconds on CNN. Putin gets a full two minutes on CNTV. This was watched by untold millions on the evening news and will stay on the Chinese internet for posterity. Putin is on Chinese TV frequently, same dance, second verse.
There are a billion Chinese with mobile phones and they are hardcore social media junkies (what did my neighbors do before 3G?). Photos like this one, with only a byline, http://news.xinhuanet.com/photo/2015-05/27/c_127848661.htm get passed around at the speed of light, on Wechat, Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, QZone, Pengyou, QQ, Douban, Renren, Kaixin and literally tens of other platforms that Westerners have never even heard of. Pictures really can convey a thousand words and images like this get transmitted hundreds of millions of times a day all across China. This one’s title says, Russian President Putin Meets with Yang Jiechi. It sure looks to me like they had plenty to talk about.
A search for “Russia”, in Chinese, on Baidu (China’s behemoth answer to Google) generates up to 100,000,000 hits. https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=3&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=baidu&wd=%E4%BF%84%E7%BD%97%E6%96%AF&rsv_pq=9a9b1bb70000004b&rsv_t=8b47sth2%2F%2F0riVVZ3OPF5eDQcdZTyaSc5rm87nLyGY7w1H9CTXHTIB744H8&rsv_enter=0&inputT=971&oq=%E4%BF%84&rsv_sug3=34&rsv_sug1=35&rsv_sug2=1&rsp=1&rsv_sug4=3288
Please note the number of hits does fluctuate on Baidu, depending on the algorithm of the moment and from where you are searching.
“Putin”, in Chinese, racks up 3,300,000-24,100,000 hits. https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=3&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=baidu&wd=%E6%99%AE%E4%BA%AC&rsv_pq=89ae23a800005669&rsv_t=1a33oluJt624G0OUPje6X6IyR25YiCalnjot0eHa5e8H5m8uSGZJ9k0WZeQ&rsv_enter=0&inputT=31820&rsp=0
“Lavrov”, 334,000-610,000 references. Not bad for a foreign minister. https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=3&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=baidu&wd=%E6%8B%89%E5%A4%AB%E7%BD%97%E5%A4%AB&rsv_pq=c1acfde3000021ce&rsv_t=625fMXpppP8YiRqnI5SNM%2BkS1zf%2FiMsfhe%2F3TlUNWKb3cFFOhq7D%2FTcXg9c&rsv_enter=0&inputT=5422&oq=Lavrov&rsv_sug3=43&rsv_sug1=44&rsp=0&rsv_sug4=5372
And “Medvedev”, whose portfolio has been less concerned with Sino-Russian relations, 262,000 hits. https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=3&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=baidu&wd=%E6%A2%85%E5%BE%B7%E9%9F%A6%E6%9D%B0%E5%A4%AB&rsv_pq=8c410e7a000024e6&rsv_t=e7eaF5wQgnDd0ZUG50CqIOUtPc3dqT0eSWra2ZJ3v98xL9uCGSsfBW7wsp0&rsv_enter=0&inputT=5422&oq=Lavrov&rsv_sug3=45&rsv_sug1=46&rsp=0&rsv_sug4=4684&rsv_sug=1
Even Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s press spokesperson, bags an impressive 53,600-420,000 hits. https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=baidu&wd=%E5%BE%B7%E7%B1%B3%E7%89%B9%E9%87%8C%E4%BD%A9%E6%96%AF%E7%A7%91%E5%A4%AB&rsv_pq=f2200131000057bf&rsv_t=2c14vafaS6lAtWkWPMdHoynMadGPY%2F4PeuoI0M%2BTEPq7Cen7fHTmgARUtts&rsv_enter=0&inputT=3499&oq=Lavrov&rsv_sug3=54&rsv_sug1=50&rsv_sug4=4326&rsv_sug=1
Trust me, Saker and 44 Days fans, Baba Beijing has Russia’s back and makes sure its citizens know all about it. Not reading a word of the Cyrillic alphabet, I trust this is all reciprocal in Russia.
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Meanwhile, at the western borders of russia, same old…
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/13/415722/us-russia-cold-war-ukraine-heavy-weaponry
The Pentagon is ready to store heavy military equipment in East Europe to face a possible “Russian aggression”, in the wake of a crisis in Ukraine, a report says.
On Saturday, the New York Times quoted officials as saying that the weaponry, which includes battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, was enough for as many as 5,000 American troops.
Since the end of the Cold War, this would be the first time that the United States is stationing heavy weaponry in the Eastern European countries, once part of the Soviet Union.
To be read as:
“Give away sale: Warehouses full, unsold inventory must be shipped to make room for even more unneeded military-industrial-congressional product and services”.
Bilderburglars meeting this weekend.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/06/13/415735/Bilderberg-conference–protests
Among this year participants are former President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, UK Chancellor George Osborne, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, German Defense Minister Ursula van der Leyen, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Paul M. Achleitnerand Shell manager Ben van Beurden.
The main rule of participation in the conference, which labels itself a “forum for informal discussions of global relevance,” is that while participants can use received information, “neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor of any other participant may be revealed.”
“Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions,” a Bilderberg press release says. “As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights.”
In order to safeguard the event, which usually attracts large numbers if protesters and journalists, and its guests, a 50-kilometer safety zone has been created around the hotel.
Some 2,100 Austrian police officers along with a further 300 German police forces are manning the safety zone.
http://english.farsnews.com/player.aspx?nn=13940323001273
US-Saudi Spy Center Providing Terrorists with Intel against Syrian Army
TEHRAN (FNA)- Armed groups were forced to withdraw from a Syrian army base after seizing part of it. Analysts in Damascus say the attacks are being guided from a joint US-Saudi intelligence center in Jordan. [VIDEO]
Remember Hungary is one of the very few, if only, european state to outlaw GMOs of all kind and have ripped out & burned those found being grown there.
Why Orban don’t get no respect in the west.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Budapest Mohammad Reza Morshedzadeh and Hungarian Agriculture Minister Sándor Fazekas in a meeting in Hungary’s capital on Saturday underlined the need for the further expansion of bilateral ties, specially in agricultural fields.
During the meeting in Budapest today, the Iranian envoy and the Hungarian agriculture minister discussed holding exhibitions and exchanging visits by the two countries’ officials and experts.
The Iranian ambassador pointed to Iran’s satisfactory agricultural status and also Iran-Hungary relations, and underlined the need for exchange of visits by the two countries’ experts and researchers.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940323000912
@ J.J. Brown,
Thank you for sharing your views, and through it, give me/other readers a more in-depth insight into the Chinese mindset [although, I assume, that’s very much in genera].
What I like in both the Russian and Chinese foreign policy, is the absence of ‘threats,’ as has become so common in FUKUS’ diatribe. Although some might argue that China’s 9-dotted-line policy is a sure sign of blatant Chinese aggression, I’m convinced [based on historical facts] it is all part of an asymmetrical warfare strategy, to ensure the mistakes made in the past, will not happen again in the future. This time around, China will be able to deny any possible aggressor, access to its territory.
Anyway, I hope these 2 countries will be able to restore something resembling normalcy again, in a world thirsting for peace and tranquility.
One thing though; I am not a fan of anything [fan – Origin: 1885-90, Americanism; short for fanatic :o]
Thanks Daniel, for reading. When they write history books later this century, Sino-Russians relations will fill library racks. They truly are flying hand in hand, at the speed of light. For much more China news, check out http://www.44days.net: Interviews and articles. Best from Beijing, Jeff
@ Jeff,
Bookmarked your site and am looking forward to learn more about China, its culture and its people, by looking at it/them through a less tainted lens [as we’re all slightly biased, one way or another].
:[]: = virtual hug
Threats are as American as apple-pie, torture or genocide. The bully is King, (remember Ronny Raygun demanding the Nicaraguans ‘say Uncle’, the language of the school-yard bully)but they don’t fancy facing enemies as strong as themselves. Killing is the great American sacrament, but dying is greatly feared and hated.
DR–The 9 dotted lines originated with the KMT and was adopted by the PRC.
Yes, Outlaw, you are right. Mao was so busy raising China’s standards of living after liberation (and going overboard on continuous revolution) that the PRC let its claim slide it the 50s-60s. But as soon as the US “gave” the Diaoyus/Senkakus to Japan in 1971, that go their attention.
” Baba Beijing has Russia’s back and makes sure its citizens know all about it.”
I like that bit.
Re the Guardian. I started following local political news (Australia) on the guardian around the time of the Greenwald/Snowden articles. From decent articles that turn up from pre-Snowden I take it this is when the Guardian was compromised.
I sometimes put that in the comments on an anti-Russia article and it never gets moderated out, though links to something solid that disproves their article will be moderated out.
@ Peter,
Q; I take it this is when the Guardian was compromised.
R; Didn’t that happen, right after the Guardian was ordered to destroy HDDs, by the UK version of MIB?
Yep. That’s the time I am thinking of.
Guardian propagandised the 2004 “Orange” coup in the Ukraine. In the 1990s they propagandised the ZPC/NWO wars against the people in Yugoslavia. I suspect that a thorough investigation of the propaganda of this corporation would find a significant break from reality with this zionist propaganda outfit either in the 1930’s, or the latest, post WW2 1940s, when the zionist genocide of Palestinians began in earnest.
This is one guardian article I run onto some time ago on the “orange revolution”.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
But while the gains of the orange-bedecked “chestnut revolution” are Ukraine’s, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.
Peter
That article is braggadocio about how successful the fascists were with the “color revolution”. .Both the Traynor bothers heaviliy propagandised the war against Yugoslavia in favour of guess who.
@ BOT TAK,
I think it took time to ‘weed’ all the ‘bad’ apples out, because, by now, it’s fully turned into a rag [no dissenting voices left – no pun intended].
The Guardian is grovelingly pro-Israel, and Judeophilic, and often boasts of its support for the apartheid terror state since 1947. With writers like the ultra-odious Nick Cohen, one of the most vicious advocates of the illegal aggression and genocide against Iraq (and therefore a candidate for the Streicher treatment), that’s hardly a surprise. It does retain a few decent writers like Monbiot and Milne, but otherwise they’re a sewer of Rightwing Russophobes and Sinophobes and Imperial propagandists.
Thanks for reading, Peter. It takes courage, but my policy is to avoid MSM, period. I found that Guardian article because RT posted it. Here is a list from August last year. I’ve cut out a few of these and added a few (non-MSM) sources. http://44days.net/?p=1881
Best from Beijing, Jeff
Anglo-american spooks go hysterical already.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/14/russia-and-china-broke-into-snowden-files-to-identify-british-and-us-spies
“The newspaper quotes a series of anonymous sources from Downing Street, the Home Office and British intelligence saying that the documents contained intelligence techniques and information that would enable foreign powers to identify British and American spies.
The newspaper quoted a “senior Downing Street source” saying that “Russians and Chinese have information”.
The source said “agents have had to be moved and that knowledge of how we operate has stopped us getting vital information”. The source said they had “no evidence” that anyone had been harmed. “
Unknown senior Downing Street sources are always to be trusted, if course….
Do these clowns ever get tired of the same old act?
Are the Brits now buying each other pints at the pubs to help enjoy the spectacle?
Snowden took encrypted files? US and UK are immediately aware that Russia/China has cracked the encryption several years down the track?
Reading it alongside this article http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/12/us-cybersecurity-usa-china-idUSKBN0OS2F620150612 perhaps somebody has had a wander through some top secret hard drives lately.
Coincidence or a double game?
LOL. Identifying Anglo-American spies is not that difficult. You don’t need Snowden’s super-secret NSA spy decoder ring for that.
Do they speak with an American or English accent?
That’s a good starter.
The ‘Meris and Britzies can never be trusted.
Not all of us are untrustworthy. None of my acquaintances believe the bs our media spins. Unfortunately none of is are in the corridors of power.
A Britzy
Ben, they have an unbroken record of lying, yet they expect to be believed, by the MSM presstitutes whose jobs depend on such fatuous gullibity or outright complicity.
http://44days.net/?p=2439
Thanks Jeff.
Jeff J. Brown
The Guardian is 100% zionazi, not CIA or MI6. Make that 110% zionazi.
Bot Tak, thanks for reading. What you say may be true. But you can bet your bottom ruble or yuan that the CIA/MI6 has handlers at the Guardian, as they do in all the major papers, TV and radio stations.
But you can bet your bottom ruble or yuan that the CIA/MI6 has handlers at the Guardian, as they do in all the major papers, TV and radio stations.
I’m sure they do, Jeff,and I’m also sure many, if not most of those agents, also are loyal zionists first.
I think we can agree, Bot Tak, that Zionism is Imperialism, and vice versa, and Israel and the US are the two headed Hydra up top. Their CIA/MI6/Mossad Myrmidons do all the evil, dirty deeds to keep it afloat.
Jeff in Beijing
Jeff
Definitely
Jeff, the Rothschilds own the guardian…they are the biggest supporters of Zionist Israel..they own real estate there…sorry no links…but its fact…
Jeff Brown, you remind me that the good guys are winning. My deepest thanks.
I hope you are right, Grieved. Otherwise, it’s the end of humanity as we know it.
Interested in China? Check out http://www.44days.net. Lots of unique, non-MSM interviews, radio shows and articles focused on China.
Go Russia and China!! Go Xi and Putin!!
Best from Beijing, Jeff
Dear Jeff and Saker,
I am very glad that you both have joined together to enlighten the rest of us. I have listened to a few of Jeff’s radio broadcasts. Impressive. Informative
Kudos to you both
Christine
@Grieved
I hope and pray you are right
Christine
I suppose someone already has mentioned this…but isn’t Israel behind CIA and M16 ? … or to put it another way…Zionists ?
Thanks Jeff, I really like your writing style. I guess you and Saker met because he read your blog ?
Ann, The Saker saw one of my articles, http://44days.net/?p=2186, last year, posted it and it went viral. We then did our interview together, http://44days.net/?p=2506. At that point, he and I agreed that the Russia-China partnership is just too big and important to not report on more regularly.
Thanks for reading, Ann. Jeff in Beijing
Why was Israel the first country in the Middle East to recognize the PRC as the legitimate government of China in 1950?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Chinalovesisrael.JPG
and why Chinese navy was docking in Israel?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_20_Years_of_Cooperation_with_the_Chinese_Navy_%282%29.jpg
The Israel of 1950, although racist, colonialist and aggressive was a different beast from today. Now with Israel nuclear-armed, controlling the USA and Western states through Jewish Fifth Columns, and run by truly evil and genocidal Rightwing racists, it is a grave menace to humanity. China would be mad to either antagonise Israel or grovel to it., and they aren’t mad.
It’s hard to imagine now, but in those early years after the Nakba, Israel was actually trying to represent itself as an ‘anti-imperialist’ entity. Zionist fanatics had fought the British Army in the Palestinian Mandate for years.
Next must come the heavy policing of US ‘diplomats’, with known regime change operatives refused accreditation, and all diplomatic staff to be accompanied by host country representatives at all times. Any contact with local traitors must bring immediate expulsion. Get serious with these monsters.
Good point, Mulga. Why did Russia accept the credentials of John F. Tefft, last July, a proven, color revolution maven? And this, after the Ukraine?
Really strange. Maybe they want to avoid all the tit for tats that start, once a diplomat is refused.
You are right. Maybe if a few countries started refusing know criminals, it might shake things up a bit.
Jeff
Thanks Jeff,
“Obama” just now got >2M hits on Baidu, as did “John Kerry”
Meanwhile, 奥巴马 got 6M hits, as did 约翰·克里.
Using a VPN right now though, so I have no idea where Baidu thinks I am, but those numbers aren’t qualitatively different than what the Russians are getting.
In general terms, I’m in agreement that both countries understand that they’ve gotta hang together, or most assuredly the Empire will hang them separately. Neither has the critical mass needed to break the house on their own.
I remember reading a white paper by two Chinese Generals saying they expected America’s supremacy to last until at least 2050. The distinct signals coming from Beijing indicate that the Politburo no longer thinks it has that much time. Even before XJP’s rise, moves were afoot and the BoXiLai affair was the warning shot across the bow. Street rumours suggest the purges are quietly accelerating. We have yet to see something similar in Russia, but reading Scott’s last SITREP suggests they’ll have to come if the Russia is to help move the partnership forward.
Thanks for reading, Erebus. The papers here talk of over 100,000 Party members being disciplined in the last year or so. Are some of those political? Undoubtedly. Happens in the West too.
But XJP realizes that for the CPC to maintain its Heavenly Mandate, it has to respond to the people’s anger about corruption. The two big complaints here: corporate and Party corruption and environmental pollution. That is why Baba Beijing is working overtime on both.
Best from Beijing, Jeff
“Are some of those political?”
Sure they are. The CPC primary concern is maintaining social stability, and then to keep the Anglo-Zionist axis at bay it executes its international plans.
Corruption is endemic and threatens stability, while the 5th column threatens China’s geo-political aspirations. Using the former to eliminate the latter kills both birds with 1 stone in a domestically acceptable way.
Since XJP’s program started, I have noticed big changes in the attitude of local officials. The word has come down, and there’s little doubt that most of them heard it. The ones that didn’t will soon.
IOW, agreed on all counts.
Dear Jeff,
Thank you again for a great piece. There is no doubt that Moscow and Beijing are covering each others backs against the exceptional hegemon. I noticed this article today of so called “protests” in Nicaragua – no doubt colour revolutionised by the USG:
http://sputniknews.com/latam/20150614/1023338853.html
How dare they have a canal!
I must add that there may be some unhappy farmers but the sudden protests just reek of US involvement. I hope the Chinese do something to help dampen this down or it will grow.
Rgds.
Veritas
Ever since I heard the Chinese were going to build a new canal through Nicaragua to skirt the US-controlled Panama Canal, I was just waiting for the color-rev in Managua! What are they going call this one? The ‘Banana Revolution’, perhaps?
Yes Veritas, you are right. I talked about this recently in one of my radio shows. There was talk that the PLA may put 700 soldiers along the canal, to protect it, if a Western color revolution gains critical mass. Let’s hope Daniel Ortega can keep that from happening.
A possible solution would be to compensate all farmers/families affected by the construction, either by money or land. It is probably already very expensive, so why not just add the cost of compensation to the bill?
Christine
Allow me to raise a few points here. First of all, how is the Guardian article an example of newspeak? It is very biased and insinuating, but it is mostly just describing and quoting the law in question. The wording of the law, banning “undesirable” organisations that could pose a threat to “the health of the population” actually does sound vaguely totalitarian, so it’s hardly a surprise that the journalist questions it, whether owned by the CIA or not. That being said, I appreciate the threat of color revolutions.
Secondly, as for North Korea and Eritrea, are these really regimes one should stand up for, characterized by authoritarianism and forced labor, in the name of anti-imperialism? Perhaps that was not your point at all, although it does come across that way. I just hope that we can attempt to differentiate between various self-proclaimed anti-imperialist regimes based on what they actually stand for. For the population of North Korea, it would probably be much better if the Kim dynasty fell and they became part of the US-friendly Republic of Korea/South Korea, rather than continuing to be “independent” but oppressed, historical injustices aside.
Interesting article nonetheless, I look forward to more material on this “Moscow-Beijing Express”. :)
Zuzim, North Korea and Eritrea are more radical examples of anti-Western Imperialism, along with the USSR, Maoist China, Cuba, etc. Every system has its good points and its bad points. Not being a whore for Wall Street and Western banks does have it’s advantages. It’s too bad the West will not leave them alone, as Henry Wallace proposed, to create a level playing field. Hence, this explains some of their “radical” policies, to protect themselves from Western aggression, psyops, false flags and on and on.
Thanks for reading. Best from Beijing, Jeff
I wonder what is the author, Mr. Browns, age? Was he still a very young, certainly misinformed, man when he, as admitted, voted for the dispicable Clinton and afterward O’bama? Such admitted action is stupifying. If he had even an inkling of what was amerikan policy both foriegn and domestic, to have experienced 8 years of Clintonian deceipt and criminality on both fronts, to then jump on the minister of hope and change’s bandwagon is an inexcusable display of dumb headedness. It did not take any sort of genius or political saavy to see through the smokescreen that was the O’bama message. A little research into how a minor representative whose political life did not include anything which could have been construde as special or outstanding could have risen so rapidly would have exposed his supporters. Mr. Brown it appears had a propensity for being decieved for a large part of his adult life. I could expound further in this regard; however the point has been sufficiently made. He is among a group of authors and commentators, PCR among them, who after leading a completely criminal life, upon facing their ultimate demise, pray to the lord above for forgiveness upon seeing the total error in their ways.
Jeff doesn’t need my defence, but I know at least half a dozen people who had their “road to Damascus” moment in middle age and in one case, very old age.
Those who come to that moment have all done so in their own time. The vast majority never do.
Charles, I am 61. I didn’t start using computers until 1985 and the internet in the early 90s. I am proud of my personal growth and evolution in life. 99% of the people never change.
Best from Beijing, Jeff
@Charles,
I am 71 yrs old. Although I used computers at work, I did not take advantage of the trend to personal home computers until 2000.
I did not wake up to our Orwellian world until 2006 thanks to the zionist war on Lebanon in 2006. Prior to that, I was under the impression that all Palestinians were “terrurists”. Yes, the weasel’s tale brought tears to my eyes. Yes, I thought Ann Frank was real, until it was exposed that some of her notes were written in ball point pen….which did not even exist at that time. I myself used a fountain pen in the early 50s.
.I was against the Iraq invasion but still not cognizant of the truth.
The last straw was the Lebanon war. That is what finally did it for me. I was 62 years old. The unfolding of truth is a gift that keeps on giving. I continue to be shocked by the zionazi machinations. eg the so-called “Arab Spring”.. Lybya, Syria Ukraine. now Yemen and Macedonia yet. Just when you think they have done their worst, Bam ! more atrocities are uncovered. There must be many out there like myself.
I still do not succeed in convincing my family. I constantly advise them to throw their tv’s out.
Russia should have passed these anti NGO laws a looong time ago.
Better late than never.
Cheers
Christine
NGOs?
‘m In Brazil and know much well how much these “ong’s” are (pardon the gross word) “daughters of a bitch”!
The latest news was two years ago when they started the demonstrations in Sao Paulo, a colored reform policy was attempted in Brazil.
The President Dilma was not intimidated, put the Federal Police on the case.
They found a car in whose case had TWO bags with $ 50.00 notes for payment of protesters.
The thing was traced back to the origin, you know very well where it is!
In the aftermath of thing there were more demonstrations but the thing turned around.
You do not have that kind of information, I found two people links friend but then the thing magically disappeared!
Venezuela and Argentina also experienced similar things.
Ironically, the largest producer of Brazil’s role is financing one of the most respected NGO environmentalists fact, one newspaper too!
It seems funny!
hehe.
Proftel, I think CELAC has enough political clout that they can and should adopt the same law as the Russians and Chinese. Are some well intentioned NGOs going to pay the price? Yes. But to keep the US from destroying Latin countries from the inside, I think they have no choice.
Thanks for reading, Jeff
There is more, much more to comment.
Under each Indian village, federal park or nature reserve in Amazon there is a mineral deposit of considerable value.
These protected areas were created by NGOs financed by whom?
hehe!
By the prince of England was in Brazil pushing it so that it was created an Indian reservation on one of the largest deposits of niobium in the world!
99.9% of niobium is in Brazil!
I know what I mean, I had full access to the project RADAM Brazil when I graduate in geography.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projeto_Radambrasil
I also had access to aerophotogrammetric surveys in Brazil made in 1964 by the USAF!
These sons of bitches (excuse the vulgar expression) are long probing and creating strategies to stay in power.
:-)
Proftel, I responded and it did not post. One more time. CELAC is politically powerful enough now that they should all start passing the same Russian/Chinese anti-NGO law. Will some noble ones get sent home in the process? Yes. But compared to having your country destroyed from the inside by the West’s CIA-NGOs, what choice does Latin America have? Just look at Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba and so many others.
Thanks for reading. I’ll study your linked article. Jeff
Jeff and Saker,
Excellent announcement, name, links, etc. Most exciting not only in metaphorical terms of the coming high speed rail connection between the two capitals, but also the virtual light-speed spread of positive information, education and intelligence to so many people in both societies so inoculated against foreign devils and so connected to foreign friends.
From one American to another, allow me to observe that your role in this great historical endeavor should give inspiration here at home of the possibility of victory over what Russian and Chinese people more readily and accurately perceive as evil intent, than our own brainwashed victims of these imperialist bastards are able to perceive, here at home, so far. May the blindfolds be lifted from their eyes in time to render their same-US citizenship oppressors politically impotent and historically obsolete.
Thanks mind and soul. Yes, it’s tough to say, “I’m an American”, these days. I thought with my French passport that I had that problem licked, but again I have been disillusioned: http://44days.net/europes-inglorious-ignimonious-infamy/
So, take heart. It’s not the the US is totally corrupt. The West is. It’s called colonialism and empire.
Jeff
It’s nice that a billion people send around a picture of Putin and Xi Jinping in a second.. in UK, the dear Old World of blighty, it’s hard to imagine. There is a booming Waldorf school movement in China too apparently, with 60 Steiner schools there altogether, do you know about them Jeff?
Good luck with the MBE!
Yes, anonymous, Waldorf schools are doing well here. Mind you, in the scheme of hundreds of thousand of public Chinese schools, Waldorf is small change, but they are growing in the international school system here. My wife and I sort of interviewed at a Waldorf school north of Beijing, in Changping. We ended up here at BIBS now and are very happy.
I don’t catch the joke about the MBE, but is sounds funny! Jeff
I am glad you are happy where you are, and small change yes indeed, but great potential for the human spiritual wealth and inner worldly confidence for the children i hope, qualitative differences may perhaps have the same if not greater impact in the future as those of a quantitative nature…
The MBE quite upbeat so far i noted, and will be as funny as you choose to make it dear Jeff, as it’s acronym for Moscow-Beijing Express.
Jeff–If you read the “Wizard of Oz,” you’ll discover the slippers were Silver since the book is a political tract written at the end of the Populists’s attempt to gain executive political power. By the time the movie was made, Hollywood had to remove the metaphorical symbolism of the Silver slippers dancing atop the Gold Brick road. Many other examples of symbolism were allowed to remain in the movie in the hopes that the target audience of young people wouldn’t understand them. The manipulation of Frank Baum’s book begs the question why, which I once put to students in my classes.
Thanks much for the links to Chinese media; they are most welcome.
A lot there in the characters: tin man no heart, straw man scarecrow, cowardly lion, wicked witch of west, even in the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_interpretations_of_The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz
But interpreting his intent can be problematic, as well as some of his political stances (as concerning the Native Americans, who he advocated annihilating). A major difficulty with any allegory is that assertions can be made without any reasonable supporting argument — and that’s why it’s often used for deceptive propaganda.
Hello blue; thanks for your reply! Did you know it was made into a Broadway Musical in 1902 with the book altered to increase the “spectacle”? I’d say he was no worse than the great majority of White society: “The only good injun’s a dead injun” just as possessed with Exceptionalism and believer in Manifest Destiney. I wonder if you’ve read an exceptional book, “A Century of Dishonor,” by Helen Hunt Jackson published in 1881 regarding the nature of relations between Native Americans and the White invaders.
Here’s a question for you and anyone else: Is a “good American” one who obeys the law and conducts him/herself morally and ethically, or is it her/his duty to parrot what the president and “news” media say and not question authority?
I didn’t know, and from doing a search that was not the only one. And there is The Wiz, which I loved when it came on TV — when I first saw Michael Jackson as the scarecrow and thought “I don’t know that is but I love the way he moves” as ha pranced down the road escaping from the crows.
Question…
A good human being, for any nationality, conducts him(her)self morally — which may not be according to the law. For me, such morality usually comes down to some variant of the golden rule. And this seems to be one of the enduring values of stories like Wiz.
Have not read that book but now downloaded from https://archive.org/details/centuryofdishono005246mbp
@Outlaw Historian + blue,
thanks to both of you….I have d/led the book from the archive site
Christine
Pepe Escobar has a new item published regarding China and the Empire as evaluated by Lee Kuan Yew, that’s very interesting, and it would be nice to read your appraisal of it, Jeff. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42133.htm
Hi Outlaw. Pepe is always on the mark. I will definitely get Lee’s book. Pepe and I stay in touch by email and share a meal when he’s in Beijing. He is a really great guy, humble, funny and engaging. He’s also a great listener. All of this is why he’s such a good writer.
Best from Beijing, Jeff
No, Outlaw (and blue, below), I never heard about the political symbolism of The Wizard of Oz. Fascinating. I’ll read up. Many people don’t know that Moby Dick is an allegory for American colonialism, greed and the rape of North America. I am sure there are others as well. We can go back to the Greek satirical plays for sure.
Best from Big B-Town, Jeff
I think I heard this for free, or Hedges talking about it somewhere else, but you can download an MP3 at http://www.alternativeradio.org/products/hedc008 for $5.
Captain Ahab & U.S. Empire
Program #HEDC008. Recorded in Missoula, MT on February 03, 2014.
Audio sample:
The demonic Captain Ahab in Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick represents a quest for power and domination that is a death wish. Hubris will doom Ahab and his Pequod crew, all perish except for Ishmael. Is there a larger lesson to be learned? Is the United States much different? The U.S. with its obsessive drive for control of oil and other resources, its relentless hunger for profits, its garrisoning the globe with military bases, its arrogant disregard for the environment, is on the same suicidal path as Ahab. Washington’s policies, under both political parties, are always imbued with benevolence and noble intentions. It is innocent of imperialistic designs. Freedom and democracy are its goals. A well-disciplined media and intellectual class rarely challenge these embedded assumptions. We continue to ignore all warnings as to the destruction we are wreaking on the planet.
It was written at the time of William Jennings Bryan, by one of his supporters, L. Frank Baum.
It’s allegorical messages span quite a few different fields, including most obviously Populism and Monetary Policy, but I’ve see it used on both sides of the religion vs atheism debate, as examples of Jungian archetypes, etc.
In other words, like all great books, it resonates on many different levels simultaneously.
Superb article!
On a par with “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
Well, Bevin, I never thought I’d be compared to Hans Christian Andersen, so thank you. Hopefully, some of his creativity will rub off on me, as a I finish writing Xi Jinping’s diaries, Red Letters.
Best from Beijing, Jeff
on nicaragua canal,
*the majority of Nicaraguans are in favor of the canal project and the majority of expats are against it*
no prize for guessing,
who’r those nosy *expats* ?
hint,
read the comments !
http://www.nicaragua-community.com/thoughts-nicaragua-canal/
Seems like that big lake in the middle of Nicaragua will become a salt-water lake though, won’t it? Would probably ruin the local fishery, at least until the lake stabilizes again and new profitable species take root.
not being an eco activists or hr activists like so many anglos claim to be,
im not in a position to comment on the consequences.
one thing im sure tho, many of those *activists* seem to forget that very first english proverb i learned while a child,
*charity starts at home*
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_68491.shtml
A bit off-topic, but something for all of us to consider:
Europe in the 1930s:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/sites/default/files/history/listing/MH_011040.jpg
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/files/2012/07/Screen-shot-2012-07-13-at-15.04.33.png
Europe now:
http://www.gaywelcome.com/ll-event-img/s400x300-h-yes/event-photo-1382083945-znkyk-179416938.jpg
http://gaycities-featured-images-production.s3.amazonaws.com/events/originals/fb_10299175_1426388320955133_4632377597906842586_n.jpg
Hi Jeff.
What is your comment on:
“Amid international tensions in the South China Sea, Beijing and Washington have taken a major step toward reconciliation, signing an agreement to boost cooperation between the armies of both nations.”
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150616/1023405110.html
We’ve all heard the view that all that empty land in Russia’s Far East next to a densely populated China creates a demographic – political pressure that will have to be released in time. We also know that in 1858 & 1860, China ceded Outer Manchuria to Russia in what the Chinese still call the “Unequal Treaties”.
Almost 2 yrs ago, I was being pitched by a business colleague on joint Russian & Chinese plans for Eastern Siberia. In addition to the pipelines, there were going to be towns, railroads, power generation, and all the infrastructure it takes to support that. He’s well connected in that part of the world, so I listened with at least geo-political interest.
I noted with incredulity that the upshot of the whole conversation was that Russia was “letting the Chinese back into Outer Manchuria”. A big deal was supposedly “in the works”, all very hush hush, and its announcement would be made “organically” to keep the playing field level and prevent a land rush.
Then in January we heard that Russia may start giving land away in the Far Eastern Federal District to anyone who’ll use it for productive purposes. In outline, “The scheme has been designed to limit the possible selling of the land plots to foreign companies and individuals, Trutnev said.”
http://rt.com/politics/224099-russia-land-free-east/
Fair enough, but now I see this: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/cn_eu/2015-01/27/content_19418077.htm
And so I am beginning to think that a deal has in fact been made. The 2 governments have found a way to defuse that demographic – political pressure sooner rather than later and now I’m more astonished than I was 2 yrs ago.
What do others make of all this?
would u say, win win ?
Addendum:
Chinese agro co leases 115,000 hectares of Russian farmland in Zabaikalsky Territory on a 50 yr term.
“The recent agreement shows the high level of mutual confidence between Russia and China.” Wang Haiyun, Chinese Institute for International Strategic Studies.
http://sputniknews.com/business/20150613/1023327740.html
Outer Mongolia is not in Russia.It is what we know today as “Mongolia”,in the past it was called Outer Mongolia.The area know as Inner Mongolia is part of China.And is much of the area North of the “Great Wall”.Outer and Inner Mongolia,Tibet and Xiang regions of China ,are underpopulated regions of China.That could use more population.Siberia,on the other hand, was never a part of China.A few areas in Russia’s Far East today were claimed by the Manchu Empire China,as being part of their territory.Though there were almost no Chinese in that area at the time.Most of the very few people there were of Mongol or Turkic tribal East Asian ethnicity at the time.Today the people there are in the large majority of Slavic Russian ethnicity.Russians make up around 95% of Siberia’s population.
I think you may have confused my “Outer Manchuria” with “Outer Mongolia”, a term which has fallen into disuse.
Manchuria is an old term for an area now generally called DongBei (Northeast), and includes the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning plus a part of Inner Mongolia (also a Chinese province).
Outer Manchuria covers that area immediately North & East of China, including Primorsky Krai, southern Khabarovsk Krai, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Amur Oblast.
Map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchuria#/media/File:Manchuria.png
Sorry,you are right.I did confuse what area you mentioned.I’m not familiar with the term “Outer Manchuria”.I’ve always seen that region termed the “Amur territory” (or something similar).I suspect that term being used today is propaganda by the West trying to stir trouble between Russia and China.I noticed the Wikipedia article says “citation needed” when describing the uses of that name. But the other points are still valid.While the Manchu Emperors ruling China claimed that region,there were very few Chinese ever there.In fact until the overthrow in 1911 of the Manchu Empire,their Chinese subjects were forbidden to live even in Manchuria for several centuries (of course some did,but the law still forbid it).They declared that region as the homeland of the Manchu peoples only.And while over the years Chinese did settle there, it was only after 1911 that Chinese settlement in Manchuria became huge.So while there may have been a village or so,and a few traders in what’s now the Russian Far East.There was no large settlement of Chinese (or even Manchus).The only peoples there were the few native tribal peoples and seasonal traders from other nations including in particular Russian Siberians.
By “Chinese”, I assume you mean “Han”. If so, you’re absolutely right, the Han were further south.
Interestingly, Ukrainians made up a substantial part of the population in 1926. The only possible reason I can think of is (perhaps) that many were originally Jewish and came when the Soviets promoted their new “Jewish homeland” in the Far East. It still exists as the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, apparently the most prosperous of the bunch. You probably know better than I the details.
At any rate, the Russian and then Soviet govts all promoted the area to encourage population growth in an area largely uninhabited by anyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Far_East#/media/File:Ukrainians_in_Russian_regions_1926.jpg
Dear Jeff,
What is your view on this commnet by VTB Bank about the lack of credit to Russian banks by Chinese banks:
http://sputniknews.com/business/20150616/1023415278.html
Wouldn’t this be an opportune time for Chinese banks to take market share and extend credit?
Rgds,
Veritas
in that sputnik article i wanted to reply to
Jyotiprakash Nabajiban but i dont like facebook login,
i shall post my reply here,
Jyotiprakash Nabajiban
*u guys should start economic cooperation with INDIA in a much larger scale…i knw u already have it…INDIA never ditches RUSSIA..unlike CHINESE…who r just fr fake frndship n stuff…RUSSIA should understand dat da vry day wen INDIA attended the Victory day parade inspite of various act of caution from US…Russia is a time tested friend n will always be…its hightime Russia,starts to differentiate between a friend & a foe*
1959, cia engineered tibet uprising with raw,
1962, india attacked china with washington’s blessing,
2005, bharat used nepalese maoists to topple pro beijing monarchy,
2008, bharat partnered cia in tibet destabilisation,
2015, while modi went to beijing to ask for massive investment and got it,
bharat enigneered a regime change in sri lanka in cahoot with cia,
deposing pro beijing prez.
every sojourn of modi targets china,
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/12/indi-j12.html
the elephant has gotten three legs planted firmly in the zwo camp now,
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-india-sign-defense-pact-countering-chinese-influence/2808540.html
xi an putin, beware that trojan, er, elephant in the room !
Chinese Banks have difficulty in lending to Russian corporations because they are also active in western markets and will possibly be liable for fines etc if they are found to be in breach of sanctions. Chinese funding for Russian corporations will probably come through the Chinese state. I am certain that some agreements in that direction have already been made.
http://russia-insider.com/en/business/china-provide-russia-alternative-source-financing-worth-billions/ri6673
This is where the Russian alternative to SWIFT and BIS comes in. Once there is another pathway along which to send money, there is no way to track that sanctions have been broken. USA can’t see the money being transferred, so cannot prove it, so cannot take action against the “breaker”. In other words they can no longer enforce sanctions.
Meanwhile perhaps they can lend to the Russian state, and they can do what they like with it, including lend to sanctioned entities.