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Ukraine conflict: how China could follow Russia’s playbook to increase its own powers
The Conservation ^ | 7/13/22 | Robert M. Dover

Posted on 07/13/2022 8:16:34 AM PDT by JonPreston

Amid the restructuring of the global order that has been accelerated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the evolving position of China had been lost in the fog of war. The heads of the UK’s security service (MI5) and US Federal Bureau of Investigation sought to disperse this fog with a rare joint press conference warning of the “immense threat” from China.

For China, the invasion of Ukraine has provided substantial intelligence about how the west would respond militarily, economically and politically to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan: they know that the western response will entail a large package of sanctions, cyber operations against key infrastructure and assets and direct military support, aligned with efforts to ostracise any invaders internationally. Chinese mitigation can now be built into those military plans.

The real winners of the invasion of Ukraine are not likely to be Russian, even if it’s their flag that is raised in the Donbas and elsewhere. It will be the Chinese government who has stood back and seen its rivals spending considerable economic and military fortunes on a small and nasty war in Ukraine, while it has accelerated its own influencing operations in the west. This is what has spooked the intelligence heads, and that is why they are calling for the world to pay attention.

(Excerpt) Read more at theconversation.com ...


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To: JonPreston

Google it you schmutz it was in the freaking news.


41 posted on 07/13/2022 5:19:03 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: datura

Post 17 times 100!


42 posted on 07/13/2022 5:44:18 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: MercyFlush

So you have no link?


43 posted on 07/13/2022 5:50:43 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Do your own homework. Free hint: the article is from January of this year...before the war started.


44 posted on 07/13/2022 6:29:12 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: MercyFlush
Do your own homework

As usual, you handed in an incomplete and scattered effort that demands that YOU redo your work, not me.

45 posted on 07/14/2022 6:05:31 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

And as usual you are being a complete and total idiot. Do you want me to post a link to prove that to?


46 posted on 07/14/2022 7:35:55 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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