Video: US key allies desperately wanting to meet with Xi Jinping at G20 meeting to help them get out of the damages done by supporting US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine 大國風向改變, G20峰會 美盟國紛紛與北京會談
https://rumble.com/v1uz8yy-xi-jinping-at-g20-meeting.html
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China Promises Made Promises Kept: 93% of world’s electric buses are driving in China, about 470,000 e-buses…
This is in line with China’s 2030 CO2 peaking and 2060 carbon neutrality programs, aiming to fully electrify its public bus fleet by 2035. At this stage 70% of China’s fleet has been electrified in about 10 years time with some cities already 100% such as #Shenzhen leading the way having 17,000 #ebuses on the roads.
China’s current electric bus fleet is estimated to save 270,000 barrels of diesel every day. This is over three times the volume saved by all the #ecars in the world.
In comparison, #Europe sees about 8,500 e-buses driving in their cities (2021) and in the #USA a little over 3,500 e-buses (2021).
But greening public transport and mobility is obviously not just about the #electrification of #buses and other public vehicles such as #taxis, waste and cleaning service vehicles or couriers. The large-scale electrification is just one part of the ambitions and challenges in the whole circle of this public transport #greeneconomy; including among others #batterycharger and #energy (#greenenergy) sources, #recycling (especially for batteries), public #infrastructure and a wider transformation to public and private #smartmobility and #greenmobility along with its regulations.
Read more in Sebastian Ibold 塞八仙 post about an extensive study in for the optimization of the public bus network for #Tianjin, a 14 million city in the north of #China and part of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster or #JingJinJi Metropolitan Region with about 110 million people. A blueprint for other cities in China and beyond.
Red carpet welcoming Xi, no red carpet for Biden, a clear message who is welcome in Asia. Asia want to do business, not interested seeing the arm dealer! 紅地毯歡迎習近平，紅地毯拜登無份, 這是一個在亞洲受歡迎的人明確信息。亞洲想和中國做生意，沒興趣見軍火商!
Biden’s assurances to China change nothing. The US president only seems to be relenting toward Beijing because his party survived the midterm elections and he doesn’t need the bogeyman so badly for now By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst
US President Joe Biden (R) and China’s President Xi Jinping (L) meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022.
US President Joe Biden met with Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali on Monday.
It’s the first time the two leaders have met in person, with Xi having isolated himself significantly from international diplomacy for several years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The meeting struck an unusual tone against the flow of US-China relations. The past few months have seen tensions soar to unprecedented highs over the island of Taiwan. Now, Biden tells the world that he does not want a cold war and doesn’t think China will invade Taiwan.
Crisis averted? Don’t count on it.
Actions speak louder than words, and in the context of two great powers contending for global influence, and a US hell-bent on sustaining its hegemonic position, diplomatic small talk means little.
Neither a change in policy nor new agreements have come out of that meeting. The scenario remains the same: The United States sees the rise of China as the largest ever threat to its unparalleled geopolitical dominance, in the domains of military, technology, and diplomacy.
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Under Biden, the US has consolidated its attempts to try and contain the rise of China, which started under Donald Trump. In this, the Biden presidency is arguably even more aggressive than its predecessor.
Not three months ago, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the US House of Representatives and Biden’s chief ally, visited the island of Taiwan in an unprecedented provocation to Beijing. On at least three occasions did Joe Biden profess that the US would “defend” Taiwan in the event of an invasion, virtually signaling he was prepared to go to war against Beijing.
So what happened to that rhetoric? Is Biden’s meeting with Xi a sign that aggression is abating? The answer is the US midterms happened. United States politicians antagonize China for their own political gain and act tough before elections. The Trump administration did the same.
Biden is a lucky man. Despite eye-watering levels of inflation and a record-low approval rating, the Democrats performed better than expected because, simply put, the alternative is worse. This means, for now, Biden isn’t under pressure to be tough on China and can let things cool down at least temporarily.
But that doesn’t mean anything else is going to change. The US will continue to try to contain China and will continue to see the island of Taiwan as a keystone of its strategy. Washington will continue to “push against the lines” of the ‘One China’ policy by deepening its ties with the self-governed island in securing its de-facto independence, and Beijing will continue to view the US’ intentions with deep distrust.
Likewise, the US will continue to advance its military presence throughout the region by increasing its asset deployments and seeking to militarily encircle China’s periphery. It will continue to push comprehensive anti-China alliances such as the Quad and the AUKUS.
Xi says US and China must avoid ‘collision’ course
It will also continue in trying to suppress China’s rise in capabilities through maintaining its trade war tariffs and technology embargoes, likely expanding the latter. This process, known as “decoupling,” will continue; the only questions are “how fast” and “in what areas.”
So really, these more careful words from Biden change nothing.
As soon as it suits the US in terms of its domestic political interests, it will immediately begin ramping up tensions again. It will then, as it always does, accuse China of being the instigator of instability.
China will likewise stick to the goal of demanding eventual reunification. The US will then call China a threat to other countries and frame itself as a guardian and protector, in order to further its own containment agenda.
So has war over Taiwan been averted? The answer is no, not at all. A routine diplomatic meeting means nothing when the two countries’ agendas clash so much. Finding compromise is difficult.
The US always views its hegemony as a zero-sum game. There is no compromise to be had, because its policy is always orientated to utilizing maximum advantage.
One meeting cannot compensate for the total deficit of trust, and this tells us nothing about where US-China relations may ultimately be headed. What Biden tends to say and do are often two different things.
At most, this is short-term reassurance.
Beware the instagram takes of the Xi-Biden meeting. By KJ – SF Bay Area China Group 11-15-22
The consensus coming out of the press is that the Xi-Biden G20 meeting was positive and beneficial.
Among things noted:
It was long (3 hours and 12 minutes–hence possibly substantial),
It looked congenial (based on the pictures)
The official readouts from the respective sides did not diverge too much (as they have in the past, where US statements were practically mirandized or made you wonder if they were at the same meeting).
The US reaffirmed its 5 Noes (reaffirming, in particular, that it is not seeking to undermine China’s development or seek independence for Taiwan).
GT notes that the US requested the meeting and travelled to the Chinese residence to meet, itself a signal of the US accommodating China. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202211/1279524.shtml
The US made de-escalatory comments about NK (China is not responsible for NK’s policy), China is not about to invade Taiwan (as stated by top brass and others), the US commits to the one China policy. AT: https://asiatimes.com/2022/11/biden-xi-lower-the-temperature-in-hours-long-summit/
No nuclear war, and re-opening of military communication channels.
Color me cynical, I differ with these pollyannaish views. The instagrammable images should be analyzed deeper.
(See here, starting 15:30 mark https://sputniknews.com/20221115/biden-and-xi-meet-brics-to-grow-dems-clinch-senate-1104133208.html)
First the US hybrid war on China has three dimensions that are important to remember or consider:
COIN is the military doctrine of counterinsurgency that was developed at CNAS for the Afghan and Iraq wars. It is, to this moment, still the official currency across all the forces. It has been described as “Armed social work”. This expresses itself as bipolar behavior: soccer balls during the day, raiding people’s houses at night; Praise and warmth, followed by military actions and preparations. Abuse followed by flowers. It pendulates back and forth, Jekyll & Hyde-like between congeniality and brutality. It is a good-cop-bad-cop routine expanded to global interactions.
The US puts the spin on this in the case of China as “compete and cooperate”.
General.Mattis put it, however, much more concisely and candidly: “be polite….and be prepared to kill”.
Right now, this is the polite part, the flowers and candy part.
The “prepared to kill” is still very much in play (see below).
The other aspect of COIN is the PR battle. COIN is understood as a three-handed PR game, an effort to look and gain legitimacy among third parties. Right now China is doing well (despite US efforts to paint it as a “genocidal” oppressor), because it offers countries development, win-win cooperation, connections, and peace. The US currently offers degrowth, decoupling & sanctions,bloc-forming, and escalation to conflict. This is also affecting the imperial core, where the western European leadership is starting to face legitimacy crises. The US needs to regain some legitimacy, gain some PR territory.
The 3rd offset is the strategy of dispersion, an offset to precision and focused response. (It ties into hybrid war in general, the doctrine that the US is waging war in all “war-fighting domains”), i.e. everywhere, all the time.
Here, it means simply, “Look outside the immediate field of vision”. What’s happening outside the frame?
Here’s some of what I note:
TPA–the Taiwan policy act, designed to turn Taiwan Island into a US garrison and paracolony, on par with SK & Japan, is winging through congress. It will likely pass.
Semiconductor sanctions & CHIPs act, designed to decouple and destroy China’s foundational tech industry, and hence China’s industrial development. This has been referred to as going “nuclear” in the economic war.
EV sanctions
Belligerent–and now unending–wargames targeted at China (with NATO (including the Luftwaffe!), Aukus, Japan, Philippines, Korea).
Just before the meeting: Yoon Sukyeol announced two things:
a) that Korea was back on the reservation, in particular with GSOMIA (creating a Pacific “3 eyes” intelligence-sharing grouping against China)
b) the ROK army is doing military exercises in conjunction with JSDF, and with SK troops saluting the rising Sun.
c) SK has just declared its own “Indo-pacific” strategy, which surprise!, is cribbed directly from the US Indo-pacific strategy: I say cribbed, plagiarized, my colleagues suspects that the US is literally writing it for the SK government (which is so incompetent that it kills 156 people in an avoidable accident
The fact is that what the US says, and what it does, are completely opposed. It is not reliable as an interlocutor.
The US is committed, in its ideological DNA, to taking China down– as an Empire with unipolar hegemonic ambitions, it cannot and will not tolerate a challenger–doctrinally and ideologically.. Capital brooks no challenges, certainly not on the scale that China poses.
So why this meeting at this moment?
The Western European leadership, despite its language, is very uncomfortable with the pace and speed of US aggression against China. Notice Scholz’s recent trip to China. This is why Scholz said “decoupling is not an option”. They do not want to deindustrialize for the benefit of the US.
Some kind of relief is necessary*, and the G-20, in particular China will be asked for support–as they were during the 2008 meltdown. This was the reason the G-20 was formed in the first place. (The G-7, the western ruling elite (+Japan) were no longer capable of pulling the capitalist economy out of its death spiral).
This is a good analysis from PSL on this aspect:
https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-editorial-managed-competition-with-china-or-real-peace/
Biden is signaling his desire to maintain the United States’ posture of fundamental hostility to China, but at least rhetorically softening the U.S. position in a nod to other nations that are uncomfortable with the pace of escalation. China’s economy remains deeply integrated in the world market, and even major capitalist powers like France and Germany do not desire a complete breakdown in relations despite their underlying hostility to China’s socialist system. Given the existing balance of forces in world politics, the United States may calculate that a momentary easing of pressure could reduce the likelihood that the alliance between China and Russia will deepen.
The US has a consistent pattern. Make promises and break them–every single one of them. The Chinese are happy to meet and smile. But Wang Yi has said “the relationship is a whole”. No to a la Carte “cooperation”. Taiwan independence and the one China policy are “like fire and water”. They cannot coexist.
China is stating it wants a peaceful and stable world. It wants win-win cooperation, and they note the foundational crises of the world that make that essential.
They are watching the US very carefully. We are not out of the woods yet. Far from it.
(*Tangentially, China’s dynamic zero covid–although tough–has been shown to be the right choice. It now has an oral vaccine, which allows it to open up more.
On the other hand, the US currently is estimated to have 17 Million people with long Covid; collectively they could result in the loss of nearly 3 Trillion dollars of lost productivity. The US cannot sustain this without relief).
Taiwan US-China Experts Video: Biden’s meeting with Xi for show only, Foreign Leaders trusted Xi: Promises Made Promises Kept (World Leaders are standing in lines to meet Xi, fully booked till Jan 2023).
https://rumble.com/v1uon7w-bidens-meeting-with-xi-for-show-only.html
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=833605784529415&id=100036400039778
No one study political science considered Democracy is the only form of Government except US using it to demonize others.
In 1989, the World Bank controlled by US established WGI (Worldwide Governance Indicators) as follow:
1) People say in Government & Held Gov’t Official Accountable
2) Stability & Non-Violence
3) Effective & Getting Things Done (US is the worst)
4) Monitoring & Management Country’s Economy
5) Rules of Laws
6) Controlling Corruptions
US has practically failed in all 6 categories.
Democracy is not mentioned anywhere.
G20習拜過招!習近平:中國式民主符合中國民情｜郭正亮:政治學不把”民主”當作”治理國家”唯一條件
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Regular Press Conference on November 15, 2022
CCTV: For some time, food security has been a focus of the international community. We have noted that the International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security was held in Beijing a few days ago. What message has the forum sent to the world as global food security is facing increasing challenges? What measures has China taken to protect global food security?
Mao Ning: On November 12, the International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security was successfully held in Beijing. President Xi Jinping sent written remarks, and State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the forum. President Xi noted in his remarks that half a century ago, hybrid rice was first successfully developed and planted widely in China. Thanks to this technology, China has managed to feed nearly one-fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the world’s arable land. Over the years, hybrid rice has been introduced to the world, benefiting nearly 70 countries across five continents. This has been a remarkable contribution to their grain output increase and agricultural development, and offered a Chinese solution to food shortages in developing countries.
China attaches great importance to global food security. In the Global Development Initiative put forward by President Xi Jinping, food security is one of the eight major areas of cooperation. China has put forth a cooperation initiative on global food security under the G20 framework, and put forward China’s suggestions in eight areas on establishing a cooperative partnership of bulk commodities and on safeguarding global food security. At the 25th China-ASEAN Summit that just concluded, the parties unanimously adopted the China-ASEAN Joint Statement on Food Security Cooperation, in which the parties reached important common understandings on strengthening cooperation on food availability, access, utilization and stability.
Food security is a fundamental and existential issue. China is ready to continue to work with the rest of the world, stay committed to a shared future of the human community, advance the Global Development Initiative, and strengthen cooperation on food security and poverty reduction, so as to make greater contributions to accelerating the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and building a world free from hunger and poverty.
CCTV: We have noted that cooperation between China and Pacific Island countries (PICs) in various areas has made positive progress. For example, China has provided a batch of police vehicles for Solomon Islands and a shipment of fertilizers for Fiji. The ground-breaking ceremony of the Samoa Police Academy, a China-assisted project, was held. Can you share more information?
Mao Ning: The Pacific Island countries (PICs) are now working to achieve post-COVID economic recovery and make their people’s lives better, which requires more attention and input from the international community. China has been taking concrete actions to help PICs with utmost sincerity. The projects you just mentioned, including police vehicles to Solomon Islands, fertilizers to Fiji and the police academy in Samoa, are all carried out in light of the countries’ urgent needs and aimed at improving the PICs’ capability of boosting economic development and defending their own safety. Apart from the projects, China also facilitated the skills training of the police from Solomon Islands in Fujian. And the first group of diplomats from PICs are now attending a training program in China. Such cooperation exemplifies China’s efforts in building a human community with a shared future in the South Pacific. China will continue to uphold the principles of mutual respect, equal treatment, mutually beneficial cooperation and common development, promote sustained development of our comprehensive strategic partnership, build an even closer community with a shared future for China and Pacific Island countries, and deliver benefits to the two peoples.
Yonhap News Agency: Could you share with us China’s expectation for the meeting between the Chinese and ROK Presidents today?
Mao Ning: As agreed by China and the ROK, President Xi Jinping and ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol, both in Bali to attend the G20 Summit, will have a bilateral meeting this afternoon local time. This will be the first official meeting between the two heads of state and will bear great significance. The two sides will have an in-depth exchange of views on China-ROK relations and issues of shared interest.
China and the ROK are close neighbors and important cooperation partners. To advance the sound and steady growth of bilateral relations is in the shared interest of both sides. We hope this meeting will produce positive outcomes, and chart the course and provide the impetus for the future growth of China-ROK relations.
MBC: The US government said that China can hardly “control” North Korea. And if the DPRK does not stop its military provocations, the US will strengthen its military presence around the Korean Peninsula. It added, the actions the US takes “would not be directed against China” but North Korea. What is China’s stand on this?
Mao Ning: The crux and history of the issues of the Peninsula are very clear. It is China’s consistent belief that the right way forward is to resolve the legitimate concerns of all parties in a balanced way through meaningful dialogue. We will bear in mind the larger interest of upholding peace and stability on the Peninsula and continue to play a positive role in promoting the political settlement of the issues of the Peninsula.
Dragon TV: According to Pakistani media, the local court of Pakistan recently made sentences on several suspects that organized and participated in the Dasu terrorist attack on July 14 last year. Certain heads of the group were sentenced to death. What’s China’s comment?
Mao Ning: I have noted the reports. Pakistan has carried out the investigation of last year’s July 14 terrorist attack in Dasu with utmost seriousness and made every effort to get to the bottom of the case and bring the perpetrators to full justice. This is much appreciated by China. Now that the criminals have been held accountable, we know that justice has prevailed and our fellow compatriots who lost their lives in the attack can now rest in peace. China will remain firmly supportive of Pakistan’s counterterrorism efforts and hope the safety of Chinese nationals, institutions and projects in Pakistan will be duly protected.
The CPC and the Chinese government follow a people-centered approach to governance. We have applied a holistic approach to national security with the people’s security as our ultimate goal. Protecting the security of overseas Chinese nationals, institutions and projects is of great importance to us, and we have made tremendous efforts in that regard. We will further increase input, improve risk alerts, enhance emergency response capabilities, and work with relevant countries to resolutely protect the security of overseas Chinese nationals, institutions and projects.
Tokyo Shimbun: Yesterday the Japanese government announced that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with President Xi Jinping on November 17. What’s China’s expectation for the meeting? What will they mainly discuss?
Mao Ning: We will release the information once it becomes available.
Prasar Bharati: According to Pakistani media reports, it was agreed between China and Pakistan that the Chinese workers working for CPEC projects will be moving in bulletproof cars for the sake of their safety. What’s your comment?
Mao Ning: I am not aware of the specifics you mentioned. I can tell you that China and Pakistan always maintain close cooperation, and the two sides will make every effort to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens, institutions and projects in Pakistan.
Bloomberg: A Hydro-Quebec employee who was working on battery material research has been charged with espionage by the Canadian police for allegedly obtaining trade secrets for China. Does the foreign ministry have any comment on this?
Mao Ning: I’m not aware of what you mentioned. The Canadian side needs to handle individual cases in accordance with the law and avoid politicizing them.
Prasar Bharati: According to Pakistani media reports, there is a huge protest going on in the port city of Gwadar for the last 20 days. The protesters threatened to block the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, if their demands are not met within a week. Is the Chinese government in communication with the Pakistani government in this regard as protests are threatening CPEC?
Mao Ning: These reports do not reflect the truth. The organizers have stated publicly that the protests are not directed at China or the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The Gwadar Port is a flagship project of CPEC with a clear focus on development and benefiting people’s livelihood from the very beginning. The Chinese side has adhered to the principles of mutual respect and consensus-building throughout the cooperation process. The cooperation has effectively boosted local socioeconomic development and improved people’s livelihood, ranging from projects like the Gwadar Free Zone, the desalination plant, the Pak-China Technical and Vocational Institute, the Pak-China Friendship Hospital and the Faqeer primary school to the Chinese-donated solar power generation units. China stands ready to work together with Pakistan in the high-quality development of CPEC. We will build and operate CPEC projects well, including the Gwadar Port. This way, our cooperation will bring even more benefits to the people of both China and Pakistan.
Prasar Bharati: According to a report from Nepal, Chinese Vice Minister for Culture and Tourism visited Nepal with a delegation for a five-day Nepal visit over the weekend, despite the Nepali government asking the Chinese side to postpone the visit until after the November 20 elections in Nepal. The report said the Chinese side declined the request and proceeded with the visit. Can you share some information about the visit?
Mao Ning: This visit you mentioned was agreed upon beforehand by the competent authorities of both countries. With the concerted effort from both sides, this visit has achieved the intended results. What you mentioned is not true.
Follow-up: Actually, this was said by the media reports from Nepal. What kind of results and agreement as you mentioned just now were reached during the visit?
Mao Ning: The Chinese side has issued a detailed press release about the visit. I would refer you to that.
The ‘Asian Moment’ is hope and promise of a better world for all working people. “亞洲時刻”是為所有勞動人民創造一個更美好世界的希望和承諾 By Prof. Ken Hammond, Nov 14 2022
https://enapp.globaltimes.cn/article/1279560
The world today is far from being tranquil. Facing a choice of the times between solidarity and division and cooperation and confrontation, the international community expects Asia to play a leading role. ASEAN countries are successively hosting three important multilateral meetings including the ASEAN Summit and Leaders’ Meetings on East Asia Cooperation, the G20 Summit, and APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting. Focusing on the “Asian Moment,” the Global Times will invite several Chinese and foreign scholars to discuss how Asian countries can contribute “Asian wisdom” to the world amid unprecedented changes unseen in a century. This is the fifth of this series.
Profound changes are taking place in the world today. In the old Euro-American centers of global economic activity, there is a deepening crisis of decline and political dysfunction as working people find themselves facing rising challenges to their livelihoods and material security. Elites in the United States and its formerly prosperous allies are increasingly fearful of losing the power and privileges they have enjoyed for many years. The impending crisis of environmental stress and climate change pose challenges which cannot be met within the established parameters of the capitalist system still dominant in the North Atlantic world. The devastations of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed millions in these societies where profits come before people, have highlighted other problems of these faltering social and political systems. Meanwhile the American pursuit of NATO expansion has provoked a war which further intensifies market disruptions and food and energy supplies.
In contrast, China and other countries across much of Asia are facing brighter prospects for the future. Shared efforts to promote development around the region have allowed the lives of ordinary people to continue to improve, and while recessions threaten the old industrial and imperial centers of the West, economies are growing, not only in China but throughout Southeast and South Asia as well. This has led many observers to invoke the idea of an Asian Moment, a shift in the positive dynamics in world affairs from the former core of America and European countries to the rising tide of Asian society. How can we best understand the transformations taking place?
A fundamental restructuring of the global economic and geopolitical order is ongoing. The existing pattern of world affairs, in which the industrial economies of Western Europe and North America were at the core, was based on the monopoly over advanced technologies of production and the military power attendant upon that which they held from the early 19th century on. The Industrial Revolution, beginning in Britain at the turn of the 19th century and spreading to other parts of the Atlantic region over the following century, gave those countries the capacity to produce a wide range of commodities in much greater volume and at much lower unit costs than had been previously possible. This, in turn, created a powerful need for sources of raw materials and for markets to absorb the products of factories and workshops being generated in volumes far beyond the ability of local consumers to absorb.
Industrial technology also gave the Western powers the ability to project military force in new forms and over great distances, enabling them to impose upon much of the rest of the world a political and economic system of imperialist domination and exploitation which extracted wealth from the labor of hundreds of millions of workers and grossly enriched the elites of the metropolitan states. The domestic economies of societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America were subordinated to the needs and interests of Western capital, and the global distribution of wealth was transformed into impoverishment of the many and great wealth for the master of colonial and neo-colonial rule.
This epoch in modern history began to change with the revolutions and struggles for national liberation which led to the creation of socialist countries and the independence of colonial subject peoples throughout the course of the 20th century. The monopoly on modern technologies of production was broken by the Soviet Union, which pursued its own path of industrialization, and by the emerging economies of China and other countries freed from the domination of Western imperialism. As advanced production capacity grew in the late 20th and early 21st centuries the balance of economic power shifted, with the old core of Europe and America relinquishing their central role as new areas of production emerged from China to Brazil, Southeast Asia, India, and other lands.
The old powers still seek to retain their dominant role in world affairs, and the aggressive campaigns waged by America against China and the Euro-American program of expansion and containment of Russia demonstrate. But these efforts are bound to fail, as the long-term dynamics of global reconfiguration continue to play out. We see in the world today not just an Asian Moment, but the beginning of a new era, in which the countries of Asia, with China at this point playing a leading role, return to the place of prominence which they held for so many centuries prior to the brief age of Western imperialist ascendancy.
The Asian Moment is one of hope and promise for a better world, not just for the peoples of China and Asia, but for ordinary working people around the planet.
The author is professor of East Asian and global history at New Mexico State University. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn
US goal is to destroy Russia first (then China) – security chief. Washington wants to use Ukraine to damage Russia, Nikolay Patrushev says
The US wants to weaken and destroy Russia, and is using Ukraine as a “battering ram” to achieve that goal, the secretary of Russia’s national Security Council has warned.
While Washington declares Russia “a source of instability”, it also fosters “anti-Russian alliances, builds up military strength, deploys NATO forces at our border,” Nikolay Patrushev said on Tuesday during a government meeting.
“The puppet Kiev regime, which took power through a coup that was supported by [the US and its closest allies], is being used as a battering ram against Russia,” Patrushev added, as quoted by TASS news agency. “The US goal is to weaken, disunite and ultimately destroy our nation.”
The official claimed Washington will stop at nothing to achieve its “selfish goals” aimed at global supremacy and is pushing the world “towards a global war” through policies that pit other nations against each other.
Patrushev made the remarks during a meeting on Russian domestic security, which he chaired in the city of Bryansk. He called for possible safety lapses at strategic sites to be fixed, and said Ukrainian saboteurs pose an increasing threat to Russia and its people.
“Attempts to infiltrate Russian territory by members of radical and extremist structures, who seek to conduct sabotage activities and terrorist attacks, have significantly increased,” he stated. Transport and energy sites are of particular interest for would-be plotters, he stressed.
Patrushev added that Russian law enforcement agencies have thwarted 28 terrorism-related crimes this year, including nine attempted acts of sabotage.
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