Beijing is preparing to transfer 5,000 Chinese troops to Iran to guard its $400bn investment in the country over the next 25 years.
Military engineers are prospecting sites for their bases. This deployment was covered in the investment-cum-strategic accord signed in Tehran on March 27 by visiting Chinese FM Wang Yi and his Iranian counterpart Mohammed Javad Zarif.
Gulf and the Western intelligence sources report that this substantial Chinese military presence in Iran, the first in the Gulf region, will mark out the formation of a strategic axis linking China, Iran and Pakistan, two of which are nuclear powers.
It will add another section to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project underway in Pakistan, as part of Beijing’s $8 trillion Border and Road Initiative projects for spanning Asia and Europe. The CPEC is to provide a safe passage and a shorter route for Iranian oil, gas and petrochemicals, sold at cut-rate prices, to reach China.
The 5,000 Chinese troops to be posted in Iran, DEBKAfile sources reveal, will join the rarely noticed presence of 10,000 Chinese military personnel in the east African port of Djibouti,, so topping up Beijing’s military strength athwart more than one sensitive corner of the Middle East to 15,000 troops.
The locations of the new Chinese bases in Iran are still under discussion. One is likely to be a seaport – either on Iran’s Gulf coast or at Chabahar, an outlet to the Gulf of Oman where the Revolutionary Guards Crops navy maintains a large installation. ...snip...
Interesting opinion piece-has some salty language and also doesn’t approve of DJT’s WARP Speed:
The Hunt — And Heat — Is On
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Prediction: The hunt for, and identification of, scapegoats is on.
Fauci is one of them, and he’s done. Birx left; she smelled it coming, particularly after she got caught traveling with other households after telling us all that we couldn’t. She knew she was bull****ting but then she got busted.
It won’t be long now.
There are a confluence of issues that are going to come crashing down on politicians heads here within weeks; they’re already apparent and go with what I said back before the end of the year, which is that the early months of 2021 will be when the Corona Fear Porn game blows up in people’s faces.
The CDC paraded around their charts telling us repeatedly that people were dropping dead at a ridiculous rate and so did the media.
You know, people were dying but otherwise wouldn’t have? This was the entire reason that politicians, businesses, schools and others gave us for all these “measures”; we had to do it because people were going to and did die at a wildly-excessive rate. This was an awful pandemic, remember — the worst since 1918, dwarfing all recent experience.
What if I told you that was all a lie?
Fact: It was a lie.
2020 was not the worst excess death year since the 1918 pandemic.
It was second.
The worst year in recent memory was.... wait for it...... 2017.
That’s right — all of the screaming, the lockdowns, masks, development of stabs, all of it: We did it and are still doing it for, what we now know, was a complete and total load of bull****.
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https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=242434