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Using a weather balloon as a save face excuse! The Diplomat: Amid Reports of Blinken Visit, China Remained Ambivalent. Sections of China’s officialdom and academia are adamant that the U.S. secretary of state should not be welcome in Beijing. 用氣象氣球作為挽回面子的藉口！外交官雜誌： 在布林肯訪問的報導中，中國仍然矛盾。中國部分官員和學術界堅持認為，美國國務卿不應在北京受到歡迎

In a clear signal that Beijing is not at all warmed up to the visit, just two days before Blinken’s scheduled arrival in Beijing, the Chinese Foreign Ministry uncharacteristically refused to offer any details about his trip. Instead, the ministry refused to confirm the visit was happening at all. Replying to several specific queries regarding Blinken’s visit to China during a press briefing on February 3, the spokesperson flatly denied any knowledge, saying, “I have nothing to offer at the moment.”

That’s hardly surprising, considering the political context. Late last week, U.S. Air Force General Michael Minihan predicted that the United States and China could go to war in 2025 over Taiwan. Likewise, a letter signed by several Republican senators last Wednesday and addressed to the secretary of state specifically reminded Blinken of China’s aggression against Taiwan and India.

In China, both at the official level and among academics, two factors explain the opposition to Blinken’s visit. First, there is a dislike for Blinken personally. There is a strong belief that, having spent long years as a Democratic Party staffer, Blinken is not cut out for the job of conceptualizing and implementing foreign policy. Besides that, Blinken is viewed in Beijing as someone who not only has embraced the policy of containing China but is also an embodiment of ideological rigidity.

More broadly, Chinese experts are ill-disposed toward the United States as a whole at the moment, referring to latest three “anti-China” moves by the Biden administration – supplying arms to Taiwan, the complete U.S. ban on exports of American technology to Huawei, and the ban on the sale of chips to Beijing. Against that hostile backdrop, commentators in China are ridiculing the U.S. government and Blinken for holding talks at all.

If what some Chinese experts are claiming is true, the real purpose of the Blinken-Yellen visit is to make China agree to buy a large amount of U.S. goods and thereby help the Biden administration reduce the trade deficit. But whatever the agenda, the trip has been derailed by the spy balloon incident, and perhaps by deeper-seated reticence within Beijing.

https://archive.md/2023.02.04-033620/https://thediplomat.com/2023/02/amid-reports-of-blinken-visit-china-remain-ambivalent/

Video: Philippines, small nation balancing acts between US & China. 4 new US bases there to support Taiwan to become Ukraine 2.0 台灣中美尊家: 黃岩島可以填了 菲律賓，美國和中國之間的小國平衡行為. 4個新的美國菲律賓基地在那裡支持台灣成為烏克蘭2.0
https://rumble.com/v28bcmm-philippines-small-nation-balancing-acts.html
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Hey American: Why worry balloons from China! clouds above your heads also from China! Shoot it down too? 美國人: 來自中國的氣球不用怕, 你們頭頂的雲也來自中國! 也把它射下來吧?

Pastor Leung HK Video: NED/CIA 2019 Color Revolution/Regime Change attempt in HK complete failure 美國民主基金會/美國中情局在香港的2019顏色革命/政權更迭企圖徹底失敗
https://rumble.com/v288uu4-nedcia-2019-color-revolutionregime-change-attempt-in-hk-complete-failure.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=888061125750547&id=100036400039778&mibextid=qC1gEa

Chinese Balloon Over Montana was supposed to pick up Anthony Blinken from Washington DC to Tianjin (not Beijing) China but drifted off course! So he has to cancel the trip! 蒙大拿州上空的中國氣球本應將布林肯從華盛頓特區帶到中國天津(而不是北京), 但偏離了航線! 所以他要取消行程.

Hundreds of Chinese Americans protest in Dallas against ‘discriminatory’ Texas Senate bills

This anti-China legislation is a symptom, and these symptoms will continue to multiply as long as the root cause is not addressed: the US drive to war against China, itself based on the idea that the US will not tolerate a global challenge to its singular, unilateral hegemony.

The US-led RBIO does not tolerate equals, only subordinates. China’s failure to stay in its subaltern place is a “threat” to the US the way that a parasite sees the host’s attempt to free itself of the parasitic relationship as a threat, and the US will not hesitate to engage in kinetic war (“blunt China’s rise”), using its “allies” to put China back into its place (using a “strategy of binding”).

I invite people to think dialectically. in this critical, historical moment: ironically, the legislation may be doing the Chinese in Texas a favor. The last thing that any Chinese or Chinese-origin person should be thinking of is buying real estate in the US, given the risk of increased oppression, confiscation, and even detention.

This would be akin to the Chinese government buying more US treasuries or depositing its reserves into a US bank right now. The Chinese government, as any intelligent government should, learns from the mistakes of others (Russia).

Furthermore, the Texas legislature has set up the RE market for even more losses in a declining market. Just deserts. To take it further, people could boycott and even organize a mass sell-off.

In the meantime, note how far along we are in this process towards war with China.

First, the demonization, the infowar. We are years into this. I have been warning about this publicly since 2013.

Then the hybrid war: trade war, tech war, lawfare, academic warfare, diplomatic warfare

Now, the legal discrimination against all “enemies”, the potential bantustans.
We are inches away from kinetic war
Don’t think it’s not happening. We are already two thirds there.

I emphasize it’s important to challenge the root, not the symptoms.

When the demonization happened, some people said, we are Asians, not Chinese. Or we are Chinese Americans, not Chinese. Or Chinese, not CPC. No matter. You are all others, indistinguishable. You don’t save yourself by pointing at others, because all of us are targets.

They also said, “well, it’s legitimate to criticize China”. Here’s how to criticize China “constructively”.

This is like giving messages to a DV abuser on how to abuse a victim “without hurting them”.

Once you’ve stepped out of opposing the abuse itself to messaging about “how to abuse”, the only message the abuser hears is “it’s okay to abuse”.

It’s important not to get diverted with the particularities of whatever racist actions are happening right now.

It’s important to have strategy, not just tactics.

These actions are all tactics–and reactive tactics at that.

“Tactics without strategy”, as a Sun Tzu said, “is the noise before defeat’.

Move upstream.
Challenge this at the root.
Look clearly.

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Video: China economy turned around, PMI 52.3 in January increased 4% in a month, US fake news propaganda failed slapping own face 台灣中美尊家: 經濟明顯回升 中國制造業PMI 回升到52.3 上升了4% 美國唱衰中國失敗被打臉 過去四年美國在攻 中國在守 中美此輪競賽好看了
https://rumble.com/v2877je-china-economy-turned-around.html
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Huff-post San Francisco: People of Color, US House of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got removed from House Foreign Affair Committee by Pro-Hitler GOP Congressman Paul Gosar 有色人種，美國眾議院眾議員被親希特勒共和黨國會議員從眾議院外交事務委員會撤職

GOP REP. WHO SPOKE AT PRO-HITLER EVENT GOES AFTER REP. OMAR BECAUSE OF ‘ANTI-SEMITISM’ Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who has repeatedly promoted the work of the prominent white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, on Thursday voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, falsely saying she “has expressed a deep hatred for Jewish people and Israel.” The GOP succeeded in booting Omar in a move that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said was “about targeting women of color.”