Video: The Sino-Russian military exercise stuns Japan, and the four northern islands of Japan become a shooting target 中俄軍演震懾日本 日本北方四島成靶場
https://rumble.com/v1hdw2b-the-sino-russian-military-exercise-stuns-japan.html

China cannot invade Taiwan any more than the North could invade the South in the American civil war. Don’t fall into US propaganda trap attempts to split China. by SF Bay Area China Group 8-25-22 中國不能入侵台灣，就像美國內戰中北方不能入侵南方一樣。 不要落入美國分裂中國的宣傳陷阱.

We know very well that the way issues are framed will predetermine the outcome as to what the answers will be. So it is very important that we control and not be controlled by how Taiwan issues are discussed. 我們非常清楚，問題的構建方式將預先決定答案的結果。 所以我們控製而不是被討論台灣問題的方式控制是非常重要的.

It is important never to even debate whether China will “invade” Taiwan because you cannot invade your own country and China is merely trying to finish a civil war and this civil war would have long been ended if it were not for the intervention of the US like Congress passing Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 and the Six Assurances of 1982. These domestic legislations of course have no international consequences except to give Washington justification to turn the table around and pit China as the aggressor and portray the US as the big white savior saving the island’s natives from big bad China- following its traditional missionary campaign. 重要的是永遠不要爭論中國是否會 “入侵” 台灣，因為你不能入侵自己的國家，而中國祇是試圖結束一場內戰，如果沒有美國的干預，這場內戰早就結束了 就像國會通過了 1979 年的台灣關係法案和 1982 年的六項保證。這些國內立法當然不會產生國際影響，只是讓華盛頓有理由扭轉局面，讓中國成為侵略者，並將美國描繪成拯救白人的大救星。 島上的當地人來自大壞中國 – 遵循傳統的傳教運動.

For those of us who speak on Taiwan issues should follow our advice and adopt the right framing and language instead of falling into the false narrative and language of US hegemony. 對於我們這些在台灣問題上發言的人來說，應該聽從我們的建議，採用正確的框架和語言，而不是陷入美國霸權的虛假敘述和語言中.

Taiwan will be a hot button issue going forward for quite a while. It is important for us to adopt the right framing and language instead of falling into the false narrative and language of US hegemony on the Taiwan issue. by SF Bay Area China Group 8-25-22

China cannot invade Taiwan any more than the North could invade the South in the American civil war.

You can see how carefully China phrases issues regarding Taiwan. It would never imply that somehow Taiwan is entitled to an existence separate from China, in a legal sense or otherwise. For example, the PRC calls the area it controls as the mainland instead of China whenever cross straits issues are discussed. Instead of talking about Taiwan independence forces, it is framed as ‘Taiwan independence’ secessionist forces. I understand that one cannot be too pedantic on this issue; as long as there is no implication due to the wording that Taiwan is entitled to an existence separate from China, that is probably fine.

Another issue is what is the so-called “normal” condition regarding Taiwan in the US-China relations. What is normal is determined by the relative strengths of the US and China over Taiwan, and not by the US defining what the normal condition should be when it has the upper hand. What is defined as normal is subject to change depending on their relative strengths.

Because of the lopsided military and other strengths the US had over China since the establishment of diplomatic relations between them, the US had taken advantage of the situation to establish this “normal” by passing the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, and the so-called “Six Assurances” in 1982, which are contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the three US-China Joint Communiques, over China’s strenuous and numerous objections. US politicians always refer to these domestic laws to justify their actions, knowing full well or are totally ignorant of the fact that these domestic laws or policies cannot override the three US-China Joint Communiques. This, of course is a common practice of US hegemony when the US feels it can bully others around.

When the US accuses China of overreacting to the Pelosi visit, we see this framing of what is the US defined “normal” condition at work. Prior to the visit, there was a tacit understanding of the normal that the US should not send high level officials to Taiwan. This accusation ignores the fact that the visit changed the status quo normal regarding Taiwan, and so it is the US that has changed the status quo and China merely reacted as a defensive move.

When Pelosi visited Taiwan, this is justified as merely a repeat of Gingrich visiting Taiwan 25 years ago, ignoring the fact that this contravenes the three US-China Joint Communiques, and was done despite strong Chinese objections.

Another so-called “normal” is the middle line drawn in the Taiwan Straits between Taiwan and China. This is something the US drew up and had no legal status; China never agreed to this line, although the mainland tried not to cross the line until recently to maintain stable and good relations with Taiwan. So when Chinese aircraft or navy cross the line, there is always a western outcry about China being aggressive.

Yet another example is the air defense identification zone of Taiwan. This zone has no status in international law and is constructed to be so large as to include even the air space over the Fujian province of the mainland. So the mainland would violate this zone when its aircraft is still on the ground. But western media would make a big deal out of mainland aircraft crossing into the Taiwan air defense identification zone, even though the aircrafts are still hundreds of miles off the Taiwan coast.

One more example is the US calling the Taiwan Straits an international passageway. This framing has no basis in international law, and is adopted by the US as an excuse for conducting so-called freedom of navigation exercises or other activities in the Straits to intimidate China.

Comments by Professor John Walsh, MD in San Francisco: Regardless of the legal niceties surrounding Taiwan and Ukraine, the fundamental motive of the US is the same – to stir up a proxy war between China (or Russia) drawing in their neighbors, East Asians (or Europeans) to destroy the economies of China and East Asia (or Russia and Europe) with the US coming out more powerful than when it went in.

A narrative will be constructed to place the blame at the feet of China as it has been to blame Russia. And as in Ukraine it will rely on a VERY selective version of history, a half truth always being the way to a full Big Lie.

More importantly in the REAL world, a defeat for Russia will be damaging to China. Therefore, not only out of a general desire for peace but for the sake of China, the US must stop arming Ukraine at once. And we should work for that.

On the phony US narrative in Ukraine (and its connection to China), see Jeff Sachs‘s recent piece: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/23/wests-dangerously-simple-minded-narrative-about-russia-and-china

GOOD NEWS! China no longer requires COVID test info for international arrivals, as it further eases restrictions by GT staff reporters Aug 25 2022

China is moving further to ease anti-COVID-19 restrictions on international arrivals, with the new health declaration form issued by the General Administration of Customs on Thursday scrapping requirements for visitors to report information regarding nucleic acid test results, their infection status and vaccination dates.

The latest move followed several recent steps taken by Chinese authorities to make it more convenient for international visitors entering China, including resuming two types of visa services for foreign nationals. However, relaxing requirements does not mean China is abandoning its dynamic zero-COVID strategy, experts noted.

The ninth version of the health declaration form will be put into use starting from August 31 and international visitors could report their health status online by filling out a form on the related WeChat account or webpage. The new form removed requirement for information regarding nucleic acid test, previous infections and vaccination dates.

The updated form came after dozens of Chinese embassies resumed two types of visa services for foreigners, after it largely suspended issuing visas to foreign students and others more than two years ago at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Starting on Wednesday, holders of valid APEC Business Travel Cards or study residence permits were allowed to enter China, according to dozens of Chinese embassies including those in the UK, US, France, India, Pakistan and Japan.

International passengers need to take two PCR tests for COVID-19 within 48 hours of their departure, the second of which must be within 24 hours of their departure https://enapp.globaltimes.cn/article/1273798

The ninth version of the declaration form also improved or adjusted some items that often raised questions for travelers, making it more convenient to understand and fill in, according to the customs.

It also added the function of an online consent letter for sampling to make it more convenient for inbound and outbound passengers to simplify the on-site quarantine process, ensuring effective health quarantine work at the front line to protect the health and safety of the Chinese people.

The eighth version of the health declaration form took effect from July 19, 2021. Compared with the previous versions, the eighth version of the form added items such as “whether the person was infected with COVID-19 before”, “whether the nucleic acid result turned positive after the person recovered” and dates for each vaccine shots.

This policy adjustment is mainly to facilitate the entry and exit of personnel, because now all entry personnel are subject to the “7+3” policy, which means seven days of centralized quarantine followed by three days of home health monitoring, regardless of whether there was a nucleic acid test overseas, an expert close to the National Health Commission, who preferred not to be named, told the Global Times on Thursday.

Since the new anti-COVID playbook was adopted in late June, the quarantine period for international arrivals was shortened to 10 days – seven days of centralized quarantine and three days of home quarantine, from the previous 21 days.

“The significance is mainly to reduce the inconvenience and burden of epidemic prevention and control on people’s travel and lives, and to make it more balanced,” the expert said.

In the past, understanding of the coronavirus was not clear enough, and risk management and controls were not enough, but now we carry out the epidemic control work in a more efficient and confident way, the expert said.

As more foreigners are allowed to enter China, Chinese cities and regions, especially those providing inbound passengers with quarantine services, face pressure in preventing inbound epidemics, according to experts.

Unlike Hong Kong, Macau and China where streets are safe & elderly respected. In US, Elderly Chinese and women are prime robbery targets, 95 years old Chinese man got beaten to death during a robbery

Video: Libya – 11 years after NATO backed rebels took over his compound, let’s look at what’s been lost.

In 1967 Gaddafi inherited one of Africa’s poorest nations. By the time he was murdered, Gaddafi had turned Libya into a country with the highest human development on the continent.

https://rumble.com/v1had1j-libya-11-years-after-nato-backed-rebels-took-over-his-compound-lets-look-at.html

Video: US & Ukraine murdering people close to Putin, next could be Putin. Putin will seek revenge? EU will have a long cold winter 俄羅斯將瘋狂報復? 歐洲這個冬天不好過
https://rumble.com/v1ha5l7-us-and-ukraine-murdering-people-close-to-putin-next-could-be-putin.-putin-w.html

British musician Roger Waters is named on the Ukrainian NATO backed civilian kill list website. Dugin is also on this list and his car with his daughter on it was blown up yesterday.

NATO is claimed as admin of the site since 2015, as can be seen on it: https://myrotvorets.center/secure/

“Fly Like an Eagle, Darya Dugina” by Pepe Escobar August 21, 2022

“Darya Dugina will be flying like an eagle in an otherworldly sky.

Darya Dugina, 30, daughter of Alexander Dugin, a smart, strong, ebullient, enterprising young woman, whom I met in Moscow and had the honor to cherish as a friend, has been brutally murdered.

As a young journalist and analyst, one could see she would carve for herself a glowing path towards wide recognition and respect (here she is on feminism).

Not so long ago, the FSB was directly engaged in smashing assassination attempts, organized by the SBU, against Russian journalists, as in the case of Olga Skabaeyeva and Vladimir Soloviev. It’s mind-boggling that Dugin and his family were not protected by the Russian intelligence/security apparatus.

The key facts of the tragedy have already been established. A Land Cruiser Prado SUV, owned by Dugin and with Darya at the wheel, exploded in a highway near the village of Bolchie Vyazemy, a little over 20km away from Moscow.

They were both coming from a family festival, where Dugin had delivered a talk. At the last minute, Darya took the SUV and Dugin followed her in another car. According to eyewitnesses, there was an explosion under the SUV, which was immediately engulfed in flames and hit a roadside building. Darya’s body was burned beyond recognition.

The Russian Investigative Committee soon established that the IED – approximately 400g of TNT, unencapsulated – was planted under the bottom of the SUV, on the driver’s side.

The investigators consider that was a premeditated car bombing.

What is not already known is whether the IED was on a timer or if some goon nearby pressed the button.

What is already known is that Alexander Dugin was a target on the Myrotvorets list. Myrotvorets stands for a Center for Research of Signs of Crimes against the National Security of Ukraine. It works side by side with NATO collecting info on “pro-Russian terrorists and separatists”.

Denis Pushilin, the head of the DPR, took no time to accuse “the terrorists of the Ukrainian regime” for Darya’s assassination. The inestimable Maria Zakharova was more, well, diplomatic: she said that if the Ukrainian lead is confirmed, that will configure a policy of state terrorism deployed by Kiev.

An existential war

In several essays – this one being arguably the most essential – Dugin had made extensively clear the enormity of the stakes. This is a war of ideas. And an existential war: Russia against the collective West led by the United States.

The SBU, NATO, or quite probably the combo – considering the SBU is ordered by the CIA and MI6 – did not choose to attack Putin, Lavrov, Patrushev or Shoigu. They targeted a philosopher and ended up murdering his daughter – making it even more painful. They attacked an intellectual who formulates ideas. Proving once again that Western Cancel Culture seamlessly metastasizes into Cancel Person.

It’s fine and dandy that the Russian Ministry of Defense is about to start the production of the hypersonic Mr. Zircon as it continues to churn out plenty of Mr. Khinzals. Or that three Mig-31 supersonic interceptors have been deployed to Kaliningrad equipped with Khinzals and placed on combat duty 24/7.

The problem is the rules have changed – and the SBU/NATO combo, facing an indescribable debacle in Donbass, is upping the sabotage, counter-intel and counter-diversionary dial.

They started by shelling Russian territory; spread out around Donbass – as in the attempt to kill the mayor of Mariupol, Konstantin Ivachtchenko; even launched drones against the HQ of the Black Sea Fleet in Sebastopol; and now – with the Darya Dugina tragedy – are on the gates of Moscow.

The point is not that all of the above is irrelevant in terms of changing the facts on the ground imposed by the Special Military Operation. The point is that an upcoming series of bloody psyops designed for pure PR effect can become extremely painful for Russian public opinion – which will demand devastating punishment.

It’s clear that Moscow and St. Petersburg are now prime targets. The Ukrainian ISIS is a go. Of course, their handlers have vast experience on the matter, across the Global North/South. All red lines are gone.

The coming of the Ukrainian ISIS

The cokehead comedian has duly pre-empted any Russian reaction, according to the NATO script he’s fed on a daily basis: Russia may try to do something “particularly disgusting” this coming week.

That’s irrelevant. The real – burning – question is to what extent the Kremlin and Russian intel will react when it’s fully established SBU/NATO concocted the Dugin plot. That’s Kiev terrorism at the gates of Moscow. That screams “red line” in bloody red, and a response tied to the reiterated promise, by Putin himself, of hitting “decision centers”.

It will be a fateful decision. Moscow is not at war with the Kiev puppets, essentially – but with NATO. And vice-versa. All bets are off on how the tragedy of Darya Dugina may eventually accelerate the Russian timetable, in terms of a radical revision of their so far long-term strategy.

Moscow can decapitate the Kiev racket with a few hypersonic business cards. Yet that’s too easy; afterwards, who to negotiate the future of rump Ukraine with?

In contrast, doing essentially nothing means accepting an imminent, de facto terrorist invasion of the Russian Federation: the Darya Dugina tragedy on steroids.

In his next before last post on Telegram, Dugin once again framed the stakes. These are the key takeaways.

He calls for “structural, ideological, personnel, institutional, strategic” transformations by the Russian leadership.

Drawing from the evidence – from the increased attacks on Crimea to the attempts to provoke a nuclear catastrophe in Zaporozhye – he correctly concludes that the NATO sphere has “decided to stand on the other end to the end. They can be understood: Russia actually (and this is not propaganda) challenged the West as a civilization.”

The conclusion is stark: “So we have to go all the way”. That ties in with what Putin himself asserted: “We haven’t really started anything yet.” Dugin: “Now we have to start.”

Dugin proposes that the current status quo around Operation Z cannot last for more than six months. There’s no question “the tectonic plates have shifted”. Darya Dugina will be flying like an eagle in an otherworldly sky. The question is whether her tragedy will become the catalyst to propel Putin’s strategic ambiguity to a whole new level.”(Pepe Escobar)

Roger Waters named on far-right Ukrainian hit list
Erik Schreiber

The Kiev-based website Myrotvorets has accused musician Roger Waters, a founding member of rock group Pink Floyd, of “anti-Ukrainian” offenses. These alleged offenses include spreading “anti-Ukrainian propaganda,” collaborating in efforts to legalize Russia’s annexation of Crimea and challenging Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

The site displays screen shots of an interview that Waters gave to Russian media in 2018, along with general information about Waters and remarks about the war in Ukraine that the musician has made in recent interviews. For example, it cites his comments about Crimea, the US State Department’s support for the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine, and the campaign of Russophobia. The site also quotes his characterization of Russians as “brave, steadfast and unyielding.”

At the bottom of the page, Myrotvorets calls for “law enforcement agencies” to intervene against Waters for his “deliberate acts against Ukraine’s national security, against peace, human security and international law and order, as well as other offenses.”

Myrotvorets reportedly was established in 2014 by Anton Gerashchenko, former aide to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs. It lists personal information such as addresses and phone numbers for some of the alleged “enemies of Ukraine” that it names. The site became infamous when several people that it had singled out were murdered. These figures include Ukrainian writer Oles Buzina, former Ukrainian legislator Oleg Kalashnikov and Italian freelance photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli.

Among the thousands of names that Myrotvorets lists are those of journalists, businessmen and politicians, both Ukrainian and foreign. In addition to that of Waters, notable names include Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary; Gerhard Schroeder, former German chancellor; Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state; and Bashar Assad, president of Syria. In an indication of its thoroughly foul and reactionary character, Myrotvorets also lists the names of more than 300 children.

Video: China builds a $7.2 billion San Francisco Bay Bridge with a saving of 400 millions under budget & on time in 2013 中國造72億美元舊金山灣超級大橋，節省4億：在預算內按時完成

https://rumble.com/v1h6xld-china-builds-a-7.2-billion-san-francisco-bay-bridge-with-a-saving-of-400-mi.html

I personally witness the ground breaking as well as friends directly involved in both projects. Comparing the Constrution by China verses US companies, when you look at how Hawaii build the Mass Transit by American companies, if SF Bay Bridge built by US Companies, instead of saving 400 millions, the cost would have tripled to 21 billions and almost guaranteed never finished on time. 我親眼目睹了破土動工以及直接參與這兩個項目的朋友。 對比中國和美國公司的建設，看看美國公司如何在夏威夷建造捷運，如果美國公司建造舊金山灣大橋，不但不會節省 4 億，成本最少增加了三倍，達到 210 億，而且幾乎可以保證永遠不會準時完成工程

Live dangerously in America when Chinese prime target, Chinese dentist shot dead in Oakland California