By Chris Faure for the Saker Blog
Shortly after Mr.Biden characterising Mr.Putin as a killer and more, Mr.Putin invited Biden for a public and live online discussion, saying that it would be beneficial for both the N.American as well as the Russian people.
This morning we find this bluntly devastating shot across the bows from the Russian Foreign Affairs ministry.
The final sentence, not included in the image, reads as follows: “Responsibility for this lies entirely with the United States.”
Setting this in context, the contrast between Mr.Lavov’s ongoing visit to China, and the so-called ‘strategic’ meeting between the United States and China at the end of last week, cannot be more stark.
📸 #PhotoOfTheDay – 🇷🇺 Sergey #Lavrov on his way to greet FM #WangYi in 🇨🇳 China 🤗
💬 #Lavrov: #China 🇨🇳 is a truly strategic partner and a like-minded country for #Russia 🇷🇺 Our cooperation on the international stage is having a stabilising effect on the global and regional situation.
💬 #Lavrov: #Russia believes that our dialogue with #China based on trust and mutual respect should provide an example for other nations, including those that are trying to develop ties on different principles not based on equality.
At the very same time, Mr.Putin and Mr Shoigu are taking the air on the Taiga in Siberia. I wonder if the western governments have figured out why now?
“🇷🇺 Vladimir #Putin is spending the weekend in #Siberia. The President together with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu enjoys walking in the #taiga forest and riding an all-terrain vehicle. Also, Sergei Shoigu showed the President his workshop.”
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65178
In the next few hours we will receive Mr.Lavrov’s translated speeches from his China visit. Some of it is already published. Take a look at what Mr.Lavrov described as ‘dynamic cooperation“:
“We regard the new era of Russian-Chinese relations, which you have mentioned, primarily in the context of the broader situation on the international stage. It is undergoing a very deep transformation and the strengthening of the new centres of economic growth, financial might and political influence. Regrettably, the objective trend for a rise of a truly multipolar democratic world is being hindered by some Western countries led by the United States, which would like to preserve their domination of the global economy and international politics at all costs and to force their will and their demands on each and all. In response to this, Russia and China are promoting a constructive unification agenda. We want the architecture of international relations to be fair, democratic, capable of ensuring stability and based on broad interaction of states and their integration associations, just as we are doing together with our Chinese friends by promoting integration in Eurasia.
China is a truly strategic partner and a like-minded country for us. Our cooperation on the international stage is having a stabilising effect on the global and regional situation. Russia believes that our dialogue with China based on trust and mutual respect should provide an example for other countries, including those that are trying to develop ties with Russia and China on different principles that are not based on equality. This is not acceptable to us or our Chinese friends. We will continue developing our foreign policy constructively and flexibly, showing readiness for compromise but exclusively on the basis of mutual respect and a balance of interests.”
There is however a twist in this lovely tale and it is the one of economic influence and we know now which direction both Russia and China (and a host of other countries) will take in the short term. They will remove the sanctions weapon from the hands of the United States including Europe. Let’s take a look at a few more of Mr.Lavrov’s comments.
“The US sanctions risks need to be alleviated by switching to alternative currencies and moving away from using the dollar, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.”
“The minister said the US is aiming to limit the technological development of Russia and China, so the two countries need to strengthen their independence.”
“According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the US and other western countries are no longer capable of using classical diplomacy and only resort to one tool on the international arena: sanctions.”
“We must form the widest possible coalition of countries that will fundamentally oppose this illegal practice,” the Russian Foreign Minister concluded.”
As geopolitical watchers and analysts, we’re always looking for the signals that frequently just go up in smoke. This time however the signals from Russia and China are not going up in smoke but being presented in pictures in photo essays, and in clear language. From the last few days we can learn a few things:
- China and Russia are friends and will remain friends and will work together where their interests coalesce. Their interests coalesce right here in Lavrov’s words: “….. architecture of international relations to be fair, democratic, capable of ensuring stability and based on broad interaction of states.” If that statement confuses you, in short, it means right across our world.
- Sanctions will be removed as a weapon.
- The petrodollar is on its last legs.
- The clock for the final battle is ringing. The only weapons remaining that will be allowed to the failing hegemon will be NATO (which, according to many of our serious analysts, is a paper tiger) and the ability to use nuclear and conventional weapons. I will not comment on that as I am not qualified in the field. The ability of the current and failing hegemon to do damage economically, is being curtailed. We can look forward to a different economic reset, with countries taking their power back using their own currencies and other alternatives. (This is not the reset from the WEF). Then we will see what happens to the sphere of weapons because they may become a last resort.
(On a 
humorous note, it looks like the Russian Foreign Affairs ministry has resorted to photos with captions, hoping they can reach the failing hegemon with pictures, because there is such a great problem to reach them with diplomatic words. The growth of the adult coloring book industry in the West may have been the deciding factor lol. )
Watch Ukraine and the Donbass. It is the chosen battleground for the next phase of the game.
That is very close to the Russian border. I doubt they will be so stupid again.
But yes, all the signs are there. Even the EU is playing the sanctions game, willingly destroying it’s relations with Russia. We will wait and see.
Promotej
It’s not a question of stupidity, but rather a question of obedience. Kiev is under Western control. Like any puppet it will do as told. I am afraid that NATO will press Ukraine to attack the Donbass during the course of this year, and for two reasons:
NATO is hoping to drag Russia into a war with Ukraine over the Donbass and,
In September we shall have parliamentary elections in Russia. Easy to guess what is going to happen. The west will try a pincer approach, subverting Russia on the international scene with war in the Donbass and subverting Russia domestically, hoping to influence the result with war activities. We can expect demonstrations either prior to the elections or immediately after, where election results will be questioned. Western backed NGO’s will do their thing, including blogger Navalny. No doubt demonstrations will be provoked in Belarus, Western intelligence agencies playing it “clever” again, like they did last year, only to see their efforts collapse both in Belarus and in Russia.
The article is correct. The only thing left to the West are sanctions. I would also include good old fashioned internal subversion, the use of NGO’s and others to subvert both Russia and China. It won’t work. The neocons who run the west need to grasp this fact.
”Kiev is under Western control.” Unfortunately, so is the rest to Europe, from Romania to Portugal.
Although that is possible, I also suggest Taiwan and the Diaoyu Islands.
The real question is whether Europe or Japan will die on their sword for the US first.
I think India may now have second thoughts.
https://southfront.org/ukraine-turkey-cooperation-and-offensive-preparations/
How is that Turkish development to be dealt with……..hmmm
Syria as well(see both nato and Russian fleets arriving in the area).Lot of cargo flights and ships loaded with equipment and weapons as well.Erdogang meeting with mad blinken neocon today, asking for money and help.
Russia made three big mistakes in Syria by lack of forces: letting terrorists to regroup in Idlib under erdogang protection.
Same with the Kurds(now US vassals stealing oil).
And Deir el zor big oil fields occupied by thousands of US forces, not to forget a fake refugees camp in Al Tanf if not wrong?
The Americans are preparing in both Ukraine and Syria, they will lose conclusively in both. I have absolutely no doubt in that. Putin and Shoigu holidaying together sends a message to the West, we are relaxed and ready, we know our capabilities and they far exceed yours. On a wider note I would expect the US to use at least one large false flag, probably in Syria. No matter, Eurasia is decoupling from the West which is going down in flames, it has to be accepted that the west is desperate and becoming more so every week, rational relationships with them are now impossible, in fact I would say that the only rational and professional communications that exist are between the two militaries in joint operational overlap areas. How long they last is moot. Momentous times! coupled with the train wreck that Blinken created last week with the Chinese (and their response) and Putins eloquent response to dopey Joes insults, informing the Americans that the gloves are off and no longer will Russia do things in the hope of appeasing US insanity but from now on Russia will do what it wants when it wants and only in the interests of Russia, paying no heed to US wishes.
I want one of those brown coats with the hoods that Shoigu and Putin have.
Let’s hope that finally something really happens on the financial front. There is talk about that for a long time …
The business/finance circles in China and Russia won’t be happy about that. But due to the wondrous self-destruction of the USA and EU, there might be finally no other choice.
(I don’t believe in the great schemes for war by the masters of the universe — the so-called “West” had Russia and China happy to integrate into the “rule-based world-order”, paying their dutiful taxes, sharing their riches, “win-win” and all of that — that would have been enough even for those “masters”. But then the “masters” went mad. Dialectics at play.)
In order to illustrate the title of this article, I would like to inform you of some events in Switzerland of the last days.
On Mars 19, the Swiss government published its expected (first) report on the „China-strategy“. Among some positive elements, the report contained the usual Western anti-Chinese rubbish. However, what was much less expected, was the reaction of the Chinese embassy in Switzerland. They called a news conference for today (March 22), in order to explain the Chinese position and to reject the attitude of the Swiss government. In particular, the latter is criticized for putting „malicious labels“ on China, for making „unfounded accusations and attacks on the political system, on the minority politics as well as on the human rights politics of China“ (all translations from German to English by me).
Further, China „hopes that Switzerland rejects ideological prejudices and respects the decision of the Chinese people“ for the choice of the development path. The relations between China and Switzerland should be based on „mutual respect and equality“.
I have read the report of the Swiss government, and in my eyes, the Chinese reaction is completely justified and balanced. Moreover, the Chinese side made no critics at all on the Swiss political system, nor on the Swiss domestic politics.
According to Swiss media, this quick and determined reaction of the Chinese embassy is very unusual. In my eyes, this shows that China has decided to not longer tolerate the Western anti-Chinese rubbish, as it was also demonstrated in Anchorage (USA).
Of course the Swiss are quaking in their boots. The digital yuan is in its final leg of planning.
The Swiss used to be good to work with for their supposed neutrality in advanced manufacturing and banking. Now they’re just an expensive watch shop for the 1%ers in china. Even that will be dying as the youth just don’t give a rats ass on watches anymore.
China is Switzerland’s third largest trading partner.
Now with the US & EU trading barbs and sanctions with China, the Swiss are probably anxious to preserve their business relationship, while “talking tough” to appease the EU- USA.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-unveils-its-first-china-strategy/46462444
In the long run it’s not going to work. The polarising effect of this East- West confrontation will force countries to choose a side. I fear all of Western Europe, Switzerland included, and parts of Eastern Europe will go with the US.
I am afraid i do agree with you Serbian girl. When people feel threatened they go tribal. And love it or hate it US+friends/vassals are closer to a tribe for the Europeans then China will ever be. Its a warm and fuzzy safe space.
Call it racial or whatever you like, it’s ts just human. It’s disappointing that we as a species still haven’t transcended past mere appearances. Although on the other hand throughout history civilizations with a superiority complex have a history of imploding from overreach. So i do have hope.
This innate cavemen tribalism behaviour is not lost on the TPTB and it has been abused to great effect on instituting sinophobia across its unquestioning population.
Sadly this consent manufacturing only leads to one endgame.
I think you both are forgetting the pecarious financial position of most western countries. America and Britain are both bankrupt, America in Feb:2020. There is nothing warm nor fuzzy being penniless and impoverished. America will collapse and the EU shortly afterwards….England is irrelevant.
Aye Seamus. The money is a great motivator yet history tells us that to escape such financial circumstances war is the only answer.
Thus the west will need many, many young recruits for the battles to come.
However today as most young men in the west are recovering from gender relocation surgery and more concerned whether or not their uniforms will fit their newly acquired or removed physological shapes. Therefore the appeal of joining with their peers in an adventure that may prove less exciting than the admiring looks gained on a disco dance floor is remote.
That they may sign up or find a reason not to join in such a noisy adventure without any sign of identity recognition or consideration of maternity leave might snuff out the candle of any purpose that might ‘Make America Great again.’
Such considerations would leave only their leaders the function of grabbing a rifle and galloping towards battle lines.
We all know that will not happen as their old (or imagined).war wounds medically prevent any galloping in any direction or circumstance even to save the ‘Empire from the Mongol hordes’ which they all recall they did in their youth.
Dear John,
You are right! It’s very difficult to fight a war when somebody else is holding your balls! (gender relocation surgery)
It was during the ‘Highland Clearances’ that England suddenly realised that she needed cannon fodder, but the ‘highland sheep’ would stampede at any loud sound, so when the Crimean War came about, only then did the ‘Queen of Hearts’ fall in love with her ‘Scottish’ ancestry’, and totally reinvented the ‘Hieland culture’
Yes; you’re quite correct we mostly bought it!
So true, the current crop coming from the universities and kindergardens are destined to be fascist controllers backed by the power of police and drones, a kind of concentration camp guards, cruel, highy sensitive/sensual – perfect psychopaths – but wholly unfit for any real physical engagment outdoors – a huge miscalculation on the part of the planners, alas the Russia blunder is thus hurting even more, creating unbearable seering pain in the growing festering wound of the beast. But the hour is late and any corrections will take atleast one or two generations – too late !! The Beast is going to die, smashed by the Bear and the Dragon.
Yes, It certainly looks like the west countries have decided to sink together, rather than man up and face reality. The west’s elites will hardly suffer though, unless they recklessly go for all out war, which you can’t rule out. Of course, the western masses are already have an express one way ticket to the ‘poor house’ and for them the coming world will be an extremely hostile place, with or without large scale war.
Not long ago Australia insisted that an investigation into the Chinese Covid virus be undertaken and as the US indicated they must notify the Chinese of such.
They did.
Next the Chinese banned imports of all Australian wine, lobsters, fruits and other agricultural items that were making Australia a very strong surplus of trade with China. The largest export item iron ore from Western Australia was not on the list though it was mentioned.
Many primary producers in Australia were not impressed particularly the wine growers and bottlers when they heard the Chinese were going to replace their total Chinese sales with similar products from the wine growing South Africa. The South Africans were very happy.
Which translates to almost certain destruction, because with it comes the Great Reset and thus the ulitmate death of the nation state in it’s death ray range vicinity – a huge plain of death and the biggest concentration camp ever to be on earth.- but not for long – devoid of any life energy it will collapse after only a short timespan.
Thus it is wise for any nation who wants to remain atleast partially a Nation State and thus conserve it’s culture to maneuver to the periphere sectors politically regarding the Empire because there is and will be room for maneuvering – the empire being completly over stretched won’t have the necessary energy to control everything simultaneously as would be necessary – currently they are already overtaxed in holding an orderly summit…..
I disagree with you Serbian girl. They will all eventually follow the money and that is the rising Yuan, not the sinking USD!
”Shortly after Mr.Biden characterising Mr.Putin as a killer and more, Mr.Putin invited Biden for a public and live online discussion, saying that it would be beneficial for both the N.American as well as the Russian people.”
Proves Biden & Stephanopoulos quite right. It would indeed kill Biden — maybe even physically given the chaotic stress and strain he would have to endure at such an old age. The man’s reputation and the prestige of his country are pretty much finished already.
Bottom line: The top-class leaderships of China and Russia are ready to take command 30 years after Western imperialism thought that total, everlasting victory was just around the corner.
Nice short article. I just want to remind everybody of something else, very serious, that is going on: the Covid-19 ‘pandemic’. Why is this important?
Russia and China did not buy Covid-19 vaccines from the UK and the US. They made their own. Thus, ‘not to buy vaccines from the west’ was their reason for making these vaccines. The Big Pharma lost the profit they would make from Russia, China and their allies. The western global ‘sick game’ did not work globally as they planned – they lost here, too.
We know that virus ‘mutations’ happen; but these mutations cannot cause more lethal infections as the mutating virus are those that survive within patients who do NOT die. Mutations are actually good news – UNLESS they are bioweapons. So, why are the western ‘authorities’ talking about mutations non-stop and new ‘waves’ of infections, which they say are ‘MORE LETHAL’?
Obviously, this ‘pandemic’ is a weapon in the global class war that is going on, and it can indeed become lethal if the transnational elite decide to get us ‘vaccinated’ repeatedly and/or stay under house arrest at their will… The global conflict is NOT just between the west and the east, but also between the western transnational elite and the peoples of the world. We must indeed fight fiercely against the tyrannical measures the western governments are taking against us using the ‘pandemic’ as excuse.
They don’t care about profits any more. They hold printing presses and get regular trillions from the Fed. It is now all about eugenics and control. The oligarchs in the US have made a deal with the Devil itself.
Their problem is now China who have decided that they won’t any longer work for make-believe Monopoly money called the US dollar. The Chinese Scrooge McDuck moment of taking dollar showers has passed. The Chinese have finally realised the fight they have in hand imposed by the West is an existential one.
Russia had realised the same somewhat earlier. Both countries have oligarchs who have forgotten from which side the bread is buttered and who will have to be contained if they want to be serious about winning. There cannot be much compromise about staying alive. It is the oligarchs or the people. Simple.
“The oligarchs in the US have made a deal with the Devil itself.”
That should be, “himself”. He’s not human, but he’s not transgender either.
And he’s the most anonymous deity out there – a consumate master of victory by stealth.
There is an excellent article by Chris Hedges on the spirituality of American utopian Christianity and how it is so important to many. The recent murder of the 10 folk in the US is what prompted the article yet the psychological determinism of the good versus evil of such a large element of the society is persuasive.
Here is the link,
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/03/22/chris-hedges-the-evil-within-us/
There is no escape for these people less than destroy the sinners. The sinners being anyone but them and this is why the US will embrace war.
Thanks for the link – a good read.
Strange is that all first adopters of the BRI initiative have seen the worst outbreaks of Covid. China might well be playing a (double) game. Some serious reports are coming out and I do not really know what to think anymore.
I definitely do not trust the west but now have doubts about China as well…
“Strange is that all first adopters of the BRI initiative have seen the worst outbreaks of Covid. China might well be playing a (double) game. Some serious reports are coming out and I do not really know what to think anymore.”
very strange indeed when you want to break the BRI, you should make those that sided against you and your “international order” pay. this very much look like the work of the “you know who” and its minions. it would be foolish of china and russia to attack these same countries that are trying to prove their point that there IS another system that works if not equal, but BETTER than the one preached by the other guy that just won’t stop fighting and cos’ing so many wars out there.
this just proves that you’re not really serious about your comment, but just a way to put some doubts into people vs your own view, which is for that guy we know is really pushing the buttons…. the us…
Speaking w/ medical academics around my country, its widely accepted that Covid was circulating at least since mid-2019 but in low no’s & affecting the elderly – at first.
It wasn’t until a *mass outbreak in Wuhan (given the population density) did scientists & governments realize a different virus was causing symptoms / death
Remember the Spanish Flu (1918 – April 1920) wh/ infected 500 million people wasn’t Spanish either. Patient Zero was detected in Spain, believed to have come from the US.
“Strange is that all first adopters of the BRI initiative have seen the worst outbreaks of Covid. China might well be playing a (double) game.”
Really? What school of twisted contorted logic did you go to? The School of Cospiracy Theories for Paid Agitators, perhaps.
Strange that China’s allies have also been hit with Corona Chan, so rather than suspect China’s publicly self-declared No. 1 Enemy who is hell-bent on the destruction of China’s BRI initiative, you point the finger at China?
Removed – no attacks on other commenters. Mod.
IT’S OVER FOR THE EMPIRE (AMERICA) THE JIG IS UP….
“The decline of empire is in progress and it’s decline would be very, very violent”
Full Spectrum Dominance by any means necessary! The leopard cannot and will not change it’s spots. “The System Cannot Reform Itself” The Saker”
The way of peace America (The Empire of chaos/The belly of the beast) knows not! The wicked West hates China. America is freaking out Because it sees a rising China as a competitor/rival and a great threat to the Western Social Order and it would do anything and everything to destroy China….(Facts) “America is (Spiritually) morally, economically, and politically bankrupt.
“America should be rejected by all peace-loving people and countries of the world” Dennis Etler.
Please note:
If the Western European man cannot dominate the world and control the natural resources of the world, he would prefer to destroy it….(facts)
“The sun has set in the West and is rising in the East” George Galloway, former British member of Parliament….
“The system of racism and Global white supremacy must be dismantled and replaced with a system of Truth and Justice” Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
“If you don’t understand racism and Global white supremacy, everything that you think you know will only confuse you” Dr. Neely Fuller
Dear ahsahyah,
Can you explain to me just exactly what is ‘racism and Global white supremacy’?
I’ve had a look and all I can see of this claim is balderdash, codswallop, bulldust and cockyfeathers.
From the Roman senator Cicero and his warning of speak softly, to the financing of Cromwell’s army, and the Battle of the Boyne that permitted William’s backers to create the ‘Bank of England’ with usury, to the Portuguese-Dutch-British East India Company. and the Iranian Sassoon with his imports to China that created the Chinese wars, and the misnomer of the British Commonwealth of which the sun never sinks, all I can see is that one tribe which claims to be ‘God’s chosen people’ and the ‘Master Race’,
And of course you would have missed Her Majesty’s little hint to Diana’s butler outside the court where she warned him of people, not her or the Royal Family, who had far greater power than even she.
And good old Malcolm X; you do remember him? What was his warning? About WASPS, being Wealthy Anglo Saxon Protestants, that came far too close for comfort and so they changed the wealthy to white, but any dickhead knows that all Anglo Saxons are white, but it is far easier to hide the few amongst the innocent many.
Now go with God; but never forget the old hymn; Jesus loves the little children.
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world,
Be they yellow black or white
They are precious to his sight
Jesus loves the children of the world.
Oh, by the way, I am not an Anglo Saxon, my tribe is of the Scots!
Sanctions are illegal…but UN does nothing about that….OPCW problems….UN does nothing…..UNHR committee comes up with a lot of rubbish sometimes….UN does nothing re Palestinians…IDF attacking Syria…illegal USA in Syria let alone their past illegal histories and doings eg recently Venezuela Iran etc etc…soooooo…is UN on the way out….to be moved….to be modified….or just ignored??
“…UN does nothing…”
In one respect, the UN has become a toothless tiger like the League of Nations before it (which presaged Exercise WWII).
In another more ominous development, the UN has become the breeding ground for subverted and hijacked agencies which use the UN’s imprimatur of authority to advance the agenda of malevolent interests.
So, for example, we have a fatally compromised OPCW pushing patently false propaganda to support unprovoked Western aggression across the Middle East.
And we have a World Health Organisation wholly under the control of creepy billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates, with the entirety of the global community of nations apparently happy to dance in lockstep to his tune as they all commit economic and societal suicide.
The solution is the same as for the League of Nations – dismantle the United Nations and rebuild it from scratch (and have a few tribunals to convict and execute the hordes of politicians and billionaire elites for their rolling decades of war crimes and crimes against humanity).
Because the UN Secretary General’s office has become a captive of the US State Department (aka Zio-central)
Even the UNSG spokesman is from State
Recall who donated the land and helped establish the UN? – Rockefeller
If you pinning your hopes on the UN to do anything at all, you’ll be sadly disappointed
Mr. Saker is right. Zone B does not want to deal with western lunatic’s crap. They do not even try to be polite when they talk to westerners anymore. ‘murica does not know how to deal properly with China and Russia. Quick example: oil price needs to stay very low because it hurts Russia, while at the same time it has to be very high because it will hurt China. Good luck with that …
Hahaha! I like that comment: ” price needs to stay very low because it hurts Russia, while at the same time it has to be very high because it will hurt China. Good luck with that …” It is true. So, oil prices go up and own, up and down, up and down non-stop… It is explained.
Yeah they were down with the orange man, and as soon the Zombie took office it went straight up – maybe we have a weather vane here how things are going in DC for the near future..?
In the case of China and USA this is a choice between two wrongs
The social credit system is a form of digital concentration camp. Dont understand why are people happy about the rise of China as the new hegemon.
Hmm. If I have to choose between social credit system or us credit score I choose first one! What’s the difference? In US, criminals can have very bad social credit score but excellent credit score and they will be considered respected members in US society. Examples are sitting in US congress and senate. Speaking of concentration camps, check how people with bad credit scores live in US.
“Dont understand why are people happy about the rise of China as the new hegemon.”
It has to do with a binary choice – either hitch the wagon to a rising economic powerhouse which has just lifted a billion people out of poverty, or stay strapped to a morally bankrupt and pathologically violent empire as it flushes itself down the toilet.
There’s a third choice – be independent – but most of the spineless lickspittle Western nations forgot how to do that a long time ago.
And anyway, what’s not to like about China? Their chicken chow mein is to die for!
Yeah, but I definitely don’t like that part of their kitchen where they eat alive creatures or other animals full of adrenalin because they’ve beaten/scorched/tortured them to death before eating them… Have you seen them eat living frogs, where they skin the frog with their teeth and then swallow? Maybe we would be better of with an acute disease that killed all human beings. This beautiful planet can do without homo (not so) sapiens.
My choice would be neither a US/EU nor Chinese hegemon.
“Have you seen them eat living frogs, where they skin the frog with their teeth and then swallow?
have any proof about that? please provide a credible source, not some cheap utube/propagandist msm article…..
You really do need to stop absorbing Western propaganda from US MSM propagnda organs
Youve allowed yourself to become indoctrinated, theyre renting a room in your mind for free
You are deeply indoctrinated to see your choice as the only choice. China has no desire to be a hegemon. China has been a civilisation for 4000 years. It had the world’s largest merchant fleet, sailing to today’s Malay, Indonesia, India, Africa. Not once in 4000 years did China land troops in foreign countries. A hegemon is an empire, and all collapse: Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Incan, Mayan, Napoleon, British, to name a few. China tried to be an empire, albeit regional only, and failed too. China knows all too well what are the real costs and risks of hegemony. China is the only civilisation that has risen, fallen, risen, fallen: no other hegemon has risen again. China has no desire to risk another fall. China seeks open and fair trade with other countries.
Well “graneth”: In 1979 or thereabouts, The Peoples’ Republic of China DID land its troopes ovr the Northern borders of Viet-Nâm — only to get a very bloody nose! But that was an act of Dèng Xiǎopíng’s just to pretend he was willing to carry out orders from the US of North A — no more!
Dear Toilef As,
No, No, No! China and the USSR had a border dispute which I believe ended in 1979. Then the USSR made a treaty with Vietnam in which the Chinese government believed that the USSR was endeavouring to encircle them and so China instigated the Sino-Vietnamese war of 1979 from which Australia received many ethnic Chinese Vietnamese refugees commonly called ‘boat people’.
Mind you one should not forget that Heinz Kissinger and his president Richard Nixon instigated moves with China in 1972 as a move to isolate the USSR and separate the two communist regimes. As we can now see those moves were a total disaster for the US.
Dear Mr. MacGregor;
I agree with You that this was also a part of the big picture. But i believe the main reason lay in Chinase then-ongoing rapprochement with the US of North A. This was not Dèng’s first choice — he would much prefer a broad coöperation with the Wetern European social democracies, but they were not allowed a large-scale partnership with Mainland China due to the dictat and ukases from the Yankee empire.
Also, the US support for the Pol Pot-lead Kmer rouge in Cambodia played some role in the intrgues then going on.
Dear Mr. MacGregor;
I agree with You that this was also a part of the big picture. But i believe the main reason lay in Chinase then-ongoing rapprochement with the US of North A. This was not Dèng’s first choice — he would much prefer a broad coöperation with the Wetern European social democracies, but they were not allowed a large-scale partnership with Mainland China due to the dictat and ukases from the Yankee empire.
Also, the US support for the Pol Pot-lead Khmer rouge in Cambodia played some role in the intrgues then going on.
Dear Tollef As,
I am afraid that I must concur with your second and third assessments.
Mr, or Mz, M;
There are at least three very different “social credit systems” in Mainland China. In most cases, the citizens of The People’s Republic of China are free to look up what has been recorded about them: Very unlike the surveillance powers in place at such unworthy places as The US of North A or in Great Britain. Also, in China, advertisers and economic actors are mostly not allowed to gather meta-data or individual data on the citizens’ shopping habits.
So which of the “social credit systems” are You referring to.?
I have non-Chinese friends who vastly prefer living in China to going back to their over-controlling homelands on the North Atlantic and Northwest Pacific littorals.
Please state the sources for Your knowledge about the Chinese social credit system(s) — or Your lack thereof!
Multipolar context is going to affect every single country, not only big powers, though
in less dramatic way. Examples: Ukraine will have problems with other neighbors,
not only with Russia. Pro western ruling minority of Muslims in Balkans will have
problems with Turkey . In the Middle East – Turkey, Iran , Egypt and S. Arabia
are going to find a way to reestablish their zones of influences.
In USA and Western Block of countries things are frozen for a moment , but spring is
coming.
Lavrov in top form – his mask says F-Word Swift!
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/03/typical-lavrov.html
Don’t be too optimistic, all of these new ‘defense weapons’ will take years if not decades.The falling US/EU/NATO will still be able to destroy a lot of before(people,countries,economies etc…)via wars, terrorism,sanctions, coup d’état,regime change, real faking of elections in their own and in foreign countries they don’t like).Don’t expect anything from the EU countries as they are blackmailed vassals, sanctionned as well sometimes, and their so called ”elites” will try to make as much money possible and to steal the maximum before the final collapse happens,via political functions, think tanks, ngo etc…
I disagree with your view that ‘will take years’… It is going really fast, right now. It won’t stop.
The elephant in the room is the US bases and their cost on the people in the US and the crumbling infrustructure at home.
Can the US print more dollars and issue war bonds to finance a conflict with China and Russia? Will they be purchased and by whom?
That the US has a weapons industry second to none is a fact. That they produce more is not in dispute. Can they produce a more advanced product than Russia is a problem that confuses the US. That their intellecutual output from universities has been a downward spiral for 40 years since the universities in the US concentrated more on equity stuties than science is well known.
I think they are aware that just as the Russian covid vacine is superior to theirs so are the Russian miltary capabilities. Quality not quantity.
The Chinese knowing this and joining with such a ally and having the financial clout to further develop the Russian weapons industry is not shy in letting the US know such an alliance is in existence and prospering.
That the US cannot win a conventional or proxy war against any state that Russia/China backs is a given.
Such is my take on the current situation should reasonable minds prevail. However that is never the case.
“The Unipolar moment is over; the Multipolar moment is here.”
Sole agency can never exist in any interaction and hence unipolarity cannot exist even momentarily.
Belief in unipolarity can exist and prove useful in transcending the believers, their beliefs, their hopes, their “machinations”, their “strengths”, all with their “co-operation/partnership” through dancing around poles and other merry-go-rounds.
Multipolarity is/was always a constant, whilst its perception is/was not.
“On a humorous note, it looks like the Russian Foreign Affairs ministry has resorted to photos with captions, hoping they can reach the failing hegemon with pictures, because there is such a great problem to reach them with diplomatic words. The growth of the adult coloring book industry in the West may have been the deciding factor lol. )”
Diplomacy does not work with Americans cuz there are way too many big words in it.
Need more pictures.
Just like, for Donald Trump’s intelligence briefings, his aides would try to dumb it down for him as much as possible and use PowerPoint-style graphics over long and boring text.