China unleashes saber-rattling video responding to US tariff pressure

China is whipping up patriotic furor domestically by allowing the posting of a propaganda video to an internet platform that it controls, castigating the United States’ escalation of tariffs in the economic confrontation underway. The video openly states that military conflict may become necessary --“China must be prepared to fight a protracted war” -- and uses rhetoric invoking violence:

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But keep in mind that there is an element of deniability built-in for the government and communist party, which are not officially the creator or publisher. Bill Gertz of the Free Beacon explains:

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The video was posted on Watermelon Video, a short-video sharing platform that is under control of Beijing's State Administration of Radio and Television, the propaganda control office that regulates all online and broadcast content. Anything broadcast or published to the estimated 300 million Watermelon users is therefore considered approved by senior leaders of the ruling Communist Party of China.

It is four minutes long and is worth viewing in its subtitled version embedded below. A summary of it can be read at the Free Beacon here, including such highlights as:

"Trump's ‘outrageous and selfish' strategy might work for smaller countries, but it will never work for China," the video warns. "To quote a well-written article in the Global Times: If the Americans want to fight, we will fight them until the end! And we will fight until the Pacific Ocean splits into two!" Global Times is the Communist Party of China's nationalistic and anti-U.S. news outlet.

The Chinese Communist Party, which controls the government, understands that President Trump’s tariffs are inflicting genuine economic pain on its people.

It is important to understand the baseline historical understanding that early all Chinese people share: that China historically and naturally is the leading country of the world, but was brought to its knees by foreign imperialists who from the eighteenth century, during the Manchu Dynasty onward forced mass opium addiction on China, militarily defeated it, and divided up spheres of influence that stole China’s wealth for their own benefit.

Officially, The Chinese Communist Party takes credit for ending this misery and bringing China back to the point where its natural position as the dominant world power is in sight. (The fact that communism kept China in poverty while Taiwan and overseas Chinese people in Southeast Asia — for instance, Singapore — began rocketing to a standard of living equal to that of Western Europe is ignored.)

Presenting American pressure as a threat to this historical inevitability is a justification for sacrifices ordinary people are already making.

SOURCE: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/28/falling-diesel-fuel-demand-in-china-paints-bleak-picture.html

Diesel demand in China fell 14% and 19% in March and April respectively, reaching levels not seen in a decade, according to data compiled by Wells Fargo.

Monthly demand has also been falling every month since December 2017, the data shows.

I had an epiphany yesterday:

If one looks at the nations of the earth and their histories from the perspective of an outsider, and uses the past to predict the future, one gets the impression that the US is a great empire that has been in it’s waning days for over a decade. And because it is, quite literally, the most militarily and economically empire the world has ever seen, its fall will be swift and great - and we are at its doorstep.

The Chinese are famous for making outlandish statements. They say the trade war will never work against China. But what is there not to work? Tariffs get placed on their goods and eventually it will cause buyers to stop using their products and suppliers to relocate to other countries. I don’t really see how it cannot work. It’s possible we will back down but our tactics will have negative effects on China which they can do nothing about.

China has rare earth metals AND China produces almost ALL of our medicines. AND they own our debt.

How much did they pay the Clinton grifters & friends - to get such advantage? Does Biden's son know? Why doesn't 'intelligence' leak that information to their slugs in the press?

Trump is the first President to see beyond the stupid horse race - the 'horse race' being the only thing our stupid, vile, corrupt 'intelligence' services can see. (eff you CIA, FBI, NSA etc etc etc)

Thank God for Trump.

"Presenting American pressure as a threat to this historical inevitability is a justification for sacrifices ordinary people are already making."

Good statement. While Trump's trade war with China is justified, we underestimate the ability of their communist leadership to inflict and their populace to accept economic suffering to achieve a cultural goal.

Let me get this straight. China thinks it is entitled to force the US to buy its goods at whatever price they dictate and if we refuse to buy at their price, they declare war? Am I missing something here? Why doesn’t the US pull a Nancy Reagan and just say NO. NO more chinese imports, period. Let US manufacturers make and provide the same crap. Who cares if it cost more?

A few EMPs, and anybody will crash. Other than that, protected by the blanket of two oceans and the by far most powerful military in existence, there can be no quick fail. Ten years is insufficient to judge whether a nation this large is ‘waning.’

The video openly states that military conflict may become necessary --“China must be prepared to fight a protracted war” -- and uses rhetoric invoking violence:

The bad news is, that in today's world, a war between the USA and the chinks could not be protracted.

The side that was being smacked down, would resort to tactical nukes, and it would go down hill from there.

If we think WW II was bad, this would be Armageddon Squared.

The video openly states that military conflict may become necessary --“China must be prepared to fight a protracted war” -- and uses rhetoric invoking violence:

The bad news is, that in today's world, a war between the USA and the chinks could not be protracted.

The side that was being smacked down, would resort to tactical nukes, and it would go down hill from there.

If we think WW II was bad, this would be Armageddon Squared.

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