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Biden Suggests Rival Plan to China’s ‘Belt and Road’
3/28/2021, 2:57:17 AM · by Olog-hai · 17 replies
AFP via Newsmax ^ | Saturday, 27 March 2021 10:21 AM
US President Joe Biden has suggested founding an initiative from “democratic” countries to rival China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road infrastructure initiative as tensions spike between the Asian power and Western nations. Biden said late Friday that he floated the proposal in a call with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid a row over sanctions against abuses targeting the Uyghur minority in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. “I suggested we should have, essentially, a similar initiative coming from the democratic states, helping those communities around the world that, in fact, need help,” Biden told reporters, referring to Belt and Road. Beijing’s influence...

Israel and the China Dilemma: She will be forced to choose between its most trusted ally – the US, and a great business opportunity with China.
3/19/2021, 3:24:40 PM · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
Frontpage Mag ^ | 03/19/2021 | Joseph Puder
In the late spring of 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel. His visit came after Israel formed a coalition government between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party. Pompeo, while endorsing Israel’s rights to Judea and Samaria, had a blunt message for his Israeli friends: “Beware of China.” Pompeo added, “We don’t want the Chinese Communist Party to have access to Israeli infrastructure, Israeli communication networks, and the kind of things that endanger the Israeli people and the ability of the US to cooperate with Israel.” Pompeo’s gently expressed admonition to Israeli...

Australian Belt and Road Deal with China Expected to Be Ripped up in Weeks
2/18/2021, 9:28:47 PM · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
Epoch Times ^ | 02/18/2021 | Henry Jom
Beijing’s Belt and Road deal with the Australian state government of Victoria looks set to be torn up in weeks as the deadline for the states’ to inform the federal government of all foreign agreements draws nearer. Speaking to the Herald Sun, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he saw no benefit to Victoria’s deal with Beijing and signalled that the agreement would be unlikely to stand under the bill. “If there are benefits, what are they and what was paid for them? I don’t have the answers to those questions at this point, but the assessment of those arrangements will...