While I tend to agree,
Remember the Epoch times are Chinese dissents.
It is like I read Pravda and RT, and most USA media, but filter out the ideology.
Truth is a hard thing to find these days.
Xi is the worst thing that’s happened to China since Mao. Belt and Road is a disaster, they have 0 allies, and their economy is a disaster. Contrary to the sympathetic Western Media. Who are their only allies.
Three of those four are Democrat allies.
They have an ally in the White House.
I tried reading this but much of it is a stretch. If you are the CCP you don’t need allies in the Western neoliberal sense. You need influence peddling, which is easier than ever with corrupt leftist Western institutions (especially corrupted Western economic policies and the globalist elite “class”) on the one hand and tinpot nuclear-capable or nuclear-ambitious non-liberal societies on the other.
Love the Epoch Times, but they’re stretching here.
Our “allies” are very deferential to their profits in China. As are US companies.
The main ally of Red China is the Washington DC establishment and America’s CEOs.
Russia and China began the so-called "peace mission" series of joint war games in 2005. They claim it's about combating terrorism, but only a fool would believe that, as the games are large scale and increasingly complex. Also in this alliance are Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, and a few other hostile hard left and islamo-nazi regimes.
Recall, Bill Clinton's treasonous ChinaGate scandal began in late 1996...
From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
THE HUNGRY BEAR
PART 5: Russia, China 'cooking something up'
By W Joseph Stroupe | Sept 29, 2006
https://web.archive.org/web/20170721060215/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
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In foreign policy it’s critical to “know thine enemy.” So American policymakers should be aware that Russia and China are inching closer to identifying a common enemy - the United States.
The two would-be superpowers held unprecedented joint military exercises Aug. 18-25. Soothingly named “Peace Mission 2005,” the drills took place on the Shandong peninsula on the Yellow Sea, and included nearly 10,000 troops. Russian long-range bombers, the army, navy, air force, marine, airborne and logistics units from both countries were also involved.
Moscow and Beijing claim the maneuvers were aimed at combating terrorism, extremism and separatism (the last a veiled reference to Taiwan), but it’s clear they were an attempt to counter-balance American military might. ..."
Reporting from Moscow —
Neither Russia nor China has one inch of coastline on the Mediterranean Sea, making it an unlikely and provocative venue for their first joint naval war games.
The 10 days of maneuvers that got underway Monday will include live-fire exercises in the strategic sea connecting Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The point is lost on no one: A powerful new alliance of eastern giants is flexing its muscles in the very backyard of Western Europe — much as China has done on its own in the Pacific.
The war games follow Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, where he headlined Victory Day celebrations and spent three days making billion-dollar deals with Russian President Vladimir Putin. ...”
https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-china-russia-joint-naval-maneuvers-20150511-story.html
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The drums are already rolling for the upcoming Russian “Vostok” (east) wargames commencing on September 11. With its focal point in the Trans-Baikal region of eastern Siberia adjoining Chinese Manchuria and Mongolia, this is a nationwide Russian military and societal event.
Touted by Russian minister of defense Sergei Shoigu as “unprecedented in scale, both in terms of area of operations and numbers of military command structure, troops, and forces involved,” Russian state press is declaring that up to three hundred thousand troops and one thousand aircraft will be involved, with the majority from the Eastern and Central Military Districts.
This would be even larger than the near-legendary Zapad-81 maneuvers held in the western USSR during the depths of the Cold War. ...”
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005
Bkmk
CC PP
Nah, they got the rope-selling corporations and the globalists in solid.
For now. Everybody is waiting to back the winner.
It is de rigor here to be Anti China. I do not dis agree with that sentiment
However, I think most are thinking of China that was. China is the largest nation state on earth with a population estimated to exceed 1.4 billion. which narrowly exceeds India with a population just shy of 1.4 billion. There can be considerable doubt that either China or India actually knows the total population.
North American population is 365 million. That is, China has approximately 4 times more people than North America
Change since say 1995 is immeasurable. The state and the population have and are emerging from dark ages. The people have heartily endorsed the limited personal and economic freedoms not experienced, well.......ever.
It seems that as bad as we consider the communist run government, it has brought freedoms and prosperity never before experienced. At present, the communist government under the iron hand of the CCP is apparently well tolerated. The wealth inequality in China has not been measured but makes the American wealth inequality trivial.
President Xi has a probably impossible task of diminishing the inequality. The people are Xi’s worst problem and potential enemy
The problem for the Pacific rim neighbors is China containment. Out of bounds, Chinese hegemony is a very real problem.
China has allies in DC. The democrats hate America more than the craziest Chinaman and will destroy it just for fun.