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China's Hong Kong Arrests Express Confidence in Biden (Greenfield)
FrontPage Mag ^ | Jan 6, 2021 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 01/06/2021 9:21:37 AM PST by texas booster

Timing in politics is rarely accidental. Certainly not on the international stage.

China's massive arrests of pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong is no accident. It's perfectly timed to be overshadowed by the protests in D.C. and, more significantly, by the Communist regime's expectation that it won't have President Trump to deal with anymore and can expect a smooth ride from Beijing Biden.

The crackdown isn't coincidental. Neither is the message.

The People's Republic of China is taking advantage of the chaos in this country, but it's also building up to the larger crackdown in Hong Kong and against domestic and international dissidents, culminating in a possible invasion of Taiwan, if Biden takes office.

China has emerged from the pandemic stronger than ever while America and Europe, its biggest rivals and customers, have been weakened. And China is going to exploit that weakness to consolidate its One China vision. Hong Kong is all but done, and its obsession with Taiwan means that it may very well be next.

The Communist regime will push against India, Vietnam, and other countries, expanding its territory for more breathing room, though its biggest expansion plans will eventually take it into Russia. (For now, the PRC is content to lease the land that a declining Russian population can no longer properly make use of.)

China is betting on American irrelevance. That's to say, it's betting big on Biden.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; danielgreenfield; greenfield; sultanknish
From American exceptionalism to American irrelevance, in less than a month.
1 posted on 01/06/2021 9:21:38 AM PST by texas booster
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

Today's article discusses the potential new foreign policy, as practiced by the Chinese.

2 posted on 01/06/2021 9:23:11 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

If true the as does the Jack Ma disappearance & again if true the ChiCom government confiscation of AliBaba (Asia’s Amazon).


3 posted on 01/06/2021 9:25:20 AM PST by Reily
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To: texas booster

Our fight is against ChiComs and their tactics being used here.


4 posted on 01/06/2021 9:32:58 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Reily

“If true the as does the Jack Ma disappearance & again if true the ChiCom government confiscation of AliBaba (Asia’s Amazon).”

Totally different.

Ma is a frontman. A Communust Party member. None if his companies ever represented anything but ChiCom national socialism and were integral for the techno-police state.

Ma is a loser, on the losing side, in internal CCP power struggles.


5 posted on 01/06/2021 9:36:06 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: texas booster

China’s stance on the Biden Administration “you get what you pay for”


6 posted on 01/06/2021 9:37:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: texas booster
The arrests of Chinese dissidents DOESN'T show confidence in Biden winning.

China owns Biden. They'd have no need to arrest any dissidents if he was president. It would be a waste of the dissidents' breath to reach out to Gropey Joe Biden.

7 posted on 01/06/2021 9:40:07 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: ifinnegan

Different but still an expression of the new confidence the CCP has in expressing its power. It no longer needs Ma or his pseudo-free enterprise entity Alibaba to impress the suckers. So he’s gone & and his “assets” are absorbed into the state,


8 posted on 01/06/2021 9:41:03 AM PST by Reily
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To: texas booster

The Communist regime will push against India, Vietnam, and other countries, expanding its territory for more breathing room, though its biggest expansion plans will eventually take it into Russia.

CCP is the new Nazi.


9 posted on 01/06/2021 9:43:32 AM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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To: Flick Lives

Hong Kong and Taiwan will be this centuries Poland.


10 posted on 01/06/2021 10:00:47 AM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: texas booster

Yep..Chi-coms on the move.


11 posted on 01/06/2021 11:09:42 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: jdsteel

Hong Kong and Taiwan will be this centuries Poland.

An apt and scary parallel.


12 posted on 01/06/2021 11:50:58 AM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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To: texas booster
China's massive arrests of pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong is no accident.

China likes the Biden family - China knows it's a cake walk for the next four years. Same with NATO - all those agreements? NATO's not gonna do their part from here on out...

13 posted on 01/06/2021 12:19:54 PM PST by GOPJ (Our culture is starting to push thugs to the top - a kiss of death for an advanced culture.)
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