Video: 2007 visited China Gov’t Sichuan Giant Panda 🐼 Reserve 中國政府四川大熊貓🐼保護區
https://rumble.com/v1er4dr-2007-visited-china-govt-sichuan-giant-panda-reserve.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/763239558232705/?d=n

“Strategists Admit West (USA) is Goading China Into War” YES, WE WANT WAR WITH CHINA But just a small one, please, followed by a quick surrender. 戰略家承認西方（美國）正在將中國推向戰爭” 是的，我們想與中國開戰，但請只是打一場小仗，然後希望中國迅速投降

Strategists admit West is goading China into war

Key Points

♦️US needs to do something because Asia’s growth to become world’s economic heartland has become unstoppable.

♦️West fears being left behind if it lets the East continue to rise at its current speed.

♦️China must be contained, as international media joins the US side in the biggest culture war of all.

Excerpt

The United States is diligently working with Australia and the UK to goad China into what they hope will be a limited war over Taiwan, according to military strategists. The aim is to force it to fire the first bullet—and then use that to paint China as the protagonist, the bully that the rest of the world must unite against.

To prepare for this, their partners in the scheme are teaming up. The Western media is playing a key role in this process.

1. The media trivialises or turns a blind eye to the increasingly long series of clearly aggressive moves by the United States, including:

🔸Parking warships on China’s doorstep;

🔸Holding Naval sailing regattas in the Taiwan Straits;

🔸Landing senior US officials on Taiwanese soil in military planes;

🔸Creating an artificial “Taiwanese air space” zone and falsely alleging “incursions” or “violations” of it;

🔸Secretly providing military trainers on the island while lying about it;

🔸Inviting Taiwan to a summit on democracy as if it were a nation;

🔸And numerous other military and diplomatic moves which are clear and undeniable departures from crucial “status quo” agreements.

2. The media paints China’s entirely predictable responses that it “will not stand for attempts to promote Taiwan’s independence” as evidence of shocking new acts of “increasing aggression”, while the truth is that all China-watchers know they are the same statements they have issued for decades, often in virtually the same words.
3. The media pushes exaggerations and misinformation about the “death of Hong Kong”, the “genocide of Xinjiang”, the “imminent invasion of Australia” and so on.

Why are the Western powers doing this? They certainly want to destabilize China and set back the country’s development and positioning in the world by several decades. But that’s just part of a larger goal. They feel the need to do this primarily because the Western powers have recognized that Asia will soon be the center of global economic power.

Nothing will stop that happening. This means that time is running out.

The media has been preparing the world for the conflict for years. America’s hawks put huge sums of time and money into financing dissent in Asia and partnering with the Western media to create the impression that the people of Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and Taiwan, want independence from mainland China – although surveys overwhelmingly show that this is the opposite of the truth.

These imaginary “cries for independence” are necessary for the next stage in the process: to push China into what can only be described as a deluded and limited war over Taiwan; being aimed to attain the larger objectives of undermining both China and ASEAN.

The war or “coming conflict” with China has been discussed in multiple forums and publications, not least of which is a book by Elbridge Colby, one of the writers of the US National Defense Strategy. It argues that escalating Taiwan tensions into a conflict gives America a chance at winning, unlike a Cold War arms race, therefore desirable.

An arms race would eventually be won by China, which is on its way to being richer and stronger than America, Colby points out. And “the economic costs could be crippling, seriously stressing the US economy, the ultimate source of America’s military strength”.

Instead, the US can push China into a limited conflict over Taiwan, with the media painting China as the bully and the US as the white knight. Done right, the skirmish would unite the rest of the world’s countries against China and on to the American side.

This strategy is receiving significant interest and or support from other US hawks.

“China must be provoked into initiating any escalation of the conflict, so that it will always appear the aggressor,” writes defense journalist Aris Roussinos, summarizing the Colby strategy.

What about Taiwanese casualties? China “must be permitted to strike as indiscriminately as possible,” in this scenario. “Colby further urges the US not to provide potential civilian targets with air defences, reasoning that collateral damage will whip up public anger against China, necessary to winning a war,” Roussinos adds.

In other words, deaths of Taiwan citizens (the ‘collateral damage’ as he mentions) would be a public relations coup for the US side.

Nury Vittachi

Video: US broke one China policy for Pelosi to visit Taiwan Province, but in the process sold Taiwan to Beijing 美國成就佩洛西 卻將台灣賣給北京
https://rumble.com/v1ephv3-us-broke-one-china-policy-for-pelosi-to-visit-taiwan-province-but-in-the-pr.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/762964031593591/?d=n

Video: Special Gift by Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan Province, China military exercises around the island for 3 days known as air & sea blockade as starter 解放軍圍台72小時還只是前菜測試用!? 帥化民揭”窮台”風險 威脅更甚”96台海危機”
https://rumble.com/v1ep9q1-china-military-exercises-around-the-island-for-3-days-known-as-air-and-sea-.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/762937814929546/?d=n

Pelosi’s Taiwan visit has shown China diplomacy doesn’t work – now all bets are off. It’s up to Joe Biden to pull the situation back from the brink on which Pelosi put it. 佩洛西的台灣訪問表明中國外交不起作用 – 現在所有的賭注都沒有了 by Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of ‘Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union.’ He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.

Pelosi’s Taiwan visit has shown China diplomacy doesn’t work – now all bets are off

In March of this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping chastised US President Joe Biden on Ukraine, noting that “it took two hands to clap” (a reference to the role played by the US in fomenting the Russia-Ukraine crisis), and declaring “He who tied the bell to the Tiger must take it off,” a Chinese aphorism which basically said it was up to the US to fix the problems it was responsible for instigating.

During that same conversation, President Xi likewise took his American counterpart to task for statements made by US officials–including Biden himself–which suggested that the United States was drifting away from its historical commitment to the ‘One China’ policy regarding Taiwan that had underpinned US-Sino relations for decades. Xi noted that the “direct cause” of the current strain on relations is that “some people on the US side have not followed through on the important common understanding reached by us.”

The US, Xi added, has failed to deliver on virtually all of its promises to China regarding the avoidance of conflict, simultaneously promulgating deep-seated notions of China as an “imagined enemy” while sending the wrong signal to “Taiwan independence” forces, something Xi characterized as “very dangerous.” Continuation of such a policy direction would, the president noted, have a “disruptive impact” on China-US relations.

On August 2, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, made an unannounced stop in Taiwan. This trip was made despite concerted warnings on the part of China that her visit would “lead to egregious political impact,” and that the Chinese military would “not sit idly by” if Pelosi landed in Taipei. The visit of Pelosi, number two in the line of succession to the Presidency of the United States, is a deliberately provocative move which appears to have been done independent of coordination with the State Department, the Department of Defense, or the White House.

China begins military drills near Taiwan – reports READ MORE China begins military drills near Taiwan – reports
I, together with other former US intelligence and national security officials, had advised President Biden to curtail her visit out of concern that it would set in motion events which could result in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and direct US-Chinese military confrontation. The White House refused to interfere with what it deemed the operation of a separate branch of government.

There can be little doubt that China did everything in its power short of shooting Pelosi’s plane down to dissuade the Speaker of the House to forgo her Taiwan visit. From the standpoint of national credibility, China literally put it all on the line. For China to do nothing in the face of what is an obvious provocation on the part of the US, through Pelosi, is not a probable outcome.

The question now is what will China do? The current diplomacy card has, for all intents and purposes, been exhausted. While China has imposed certain economic sanctions on Taiwan, the reality is the sanctions card, as wielded by China, is insufficient to the task of responding to the Pelosi provocation.

This leaves a military response.

China has already engaged in an unprecedented mobilization of military resources, by some accounts assembling more than 40 brigades, along with significant air defense and ballistic missile forces, hundreds of aircraft, and scores of ships. By rough calculation, this amounts to some 250,000 troops, and it doesn’t appear as if the mobilization is complete. China has announced that it will be holding live fire exercises around the periphery of Taiwan, including some that encroach on what Taiwan considers to be its sovereign space, running from August 4, the day after Pelosi’s departure from Taiwan, through August 7.

There is considerable cost, both in terms of fiscal resources and political capital, attached to military exercises of this scale during times of crisis. By mobilizing this amount of military resources, China has created a “use it or lose it” situation, where the military viability of the assembled force dissipates over time. The key question that needs to be answered is will China be satisfied with simply sending a signal to Taiwan and return its forces to their respective barracks once the exercises conclude, or if the Chinese government has determined that a red line has been crossed, and as such orders its military to transition from a live fire exercise to an actual invasion.

The answer to this question may very well rest with any parallel diplomatic track China may establish with both Taiwan and the US. If both Taiwan and the US can provide meaningful reassurances that Pelosi’s visit was not reflective of current US and Taiwan policy, there may be a possibility for China to be satisfied with simply flexing its muscle.

However, the Pelosi visit is itself a byproduct of a policy trend in both the US and Taiwan built on the notion of Taiwanese independence. If this perception cannot be altered, then China is bound through its Constitution to take measures consistent with preserving Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan. This, of course, would mean war.

Let there be no doubt—Nancy Pelosi, by landing in Taiwan, tied the bell to the tiger. It is now up to Joe Biden to take it off.

The question now is whether the tiger will cooperate.

China to test hypersonic missiles in Taiwan blockade drill – media. Global Times calls the drills a “reunification operation” rehearsal. Pelosi did a good job helping China to move up unification schedule 中國將在台灣封鎖演習中測試高超音速導彈《環球時報》稱這次演習是“統一行動”的演練。 佩洛西在幫助中國加快統一進程方面做得很好

New Zealand Herald: ‘Ugly American’: Nancy Pelosi Taiwan visit sparks pro-China protests, quoted California Superior Court Judge Julie Tang 新西蘭先驅報：“醜陋的美國人”：南希佩洛西訪台引發親中抗議

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/ugly-american-nancy-pelosi-taiwan-visit-sparks-pro-china-protests/U6EZOAMQ3MJBCKYTFHEXRKF2BY/

“Taiwan is not a playground for US politicians,” Lyle Goldstein, director of Defense Priorities of Asia Engagement, told Bloomberg on Wednesday. “It is no exaggeration to say the future of humanity may depend on a pragmatic US-China relationship — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan needlessly jeopardises regional stability.”

In Taiwan, hundreds of civilians gathered in different locations to either welcome or protest Ms Pelosi’s arrival, The Guardian reported, with independence groups outside the airport holding signs saying “I love Pelosi” and “shut up China”.

But according to the newspaper, the largest crowd gathered outside the Grand Hyatt, where she was due to stay, with protesters holding signs calling the Democrat a warmonger and chanting “Yankee go home”.

Photos showed pro-CCP protesters holding signs saying “ugly American”, “toruble [sic] maker Nancy Pelosi” and “American witch get out of Taiwan, China”.

Julie Tang, a retired San Fransisco Supreme Court judge and longtime supporter of Ms Pelosi, told the San Francisco Standard she was “disappointed” about the trip.

“We have donated to her, we’ve supported her throughout these years, but we are so disappointed that what she’s doing is totally against the welfare and the wellbeing of the community – in particular Chinese Americans,” Ms Tang said.

“She does not listen to us. She’s going with the flow, going with pushing US hegemony to contain China. For what? We don’t get anything out of it.”

Another piece of racist, bias, fake news article by SF Chronicle: How the NBA can effectively deal with China” 又另一篇種族主義假新聞文章: 美國職業籃球如何有效應對中國 by Scott Ostler Aug 3 2022

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostler/article/Benefits-of-NBA-China-partnership-Well-17346978.php

Hey Scott! Go Niners and Deebo!

It’s hard for people to change preconceived notions, but I hope you will be open to the following!

PONTIFICATION DEPT

You described your article accurately as being from the ‘Pontification Dept’. Whether you’re aware of it, or not, the Cambridge Dictionary describes pontificating as writing ‘your opinion about something as if you knew everything about it and as if only your opinion was correct’.

Importantly, your piece is fundamentally uninformed and extremely biased.

My guess is that you consider yourself liberal and woke. If so, your piece demonstrates the contrary. Your piece relies fundamentally on stereotypes about China and Chinese that is founded on historically deep-rooted American anti-Chinese sentiment.

I’m sure you would give the woke response that you love Chinese people; you just hate the authoritarian Communist Party that oppresses them! FACTCHECK from Harvard Ash Center to dispel the almost unanimous Western stereotype: Ash Center Researchers Release Landmark Chinese Public Opinion Study | Ash Center (harvard.edu)

Ash Center Researchers Release Landmark Chinese Public Opinion Study

China is far from perfect, but it’s nowhere near being the dungeon of the Western imagination.

MISINFORMATION/DISINFORMATION
“Misinformation/disinformation” is a hot topic in present-day journalism (usually attributed to Trumpian forces, Russia, China). Yet most of our own journalists–whether consciously or unconsciously–are guilty of spreading misinformation/disinformation, as well.

Misinformation/disinformation’s basic quality is lack of facts, evidence and context. Its propagation is based on repetition of and the echo chamber of baseless ‘conventional wisdom’.

Unfortunately, I doubt that, other than ‘conventional wisdom’, you have any actual knowledge about China, Uighurs, Taiwan.

Regarding Xinjiang cotton, you refer to “suspicions”, “accusations”, “hard to prove”. Your article insinuates these suspicions and accusations into a Yellow Peril/Evil China narrative which is presented as truth to a sports crowd that’s even less informed than you: USA! USA! We’re Number One!

Your piece is objectively part of the “Manufacture of Consent” against China by our own government that wants to kneecap–by any means necessary– any potential peer competitor (Wolfowitz Doctrine, to which Biden’s Foreign Policy Team adheres).

The White “International Community” of US, Europe, Australia, Canada (plus junior partners Japan, South Korea) wants to maintain the policy of Full Spectrum Dominance/unipolar global hegemony over the Global South.

THE MASK OF ‘DEMOCRACY vs. AUTOCRACY’

“Democracy vs. Autocracy” is but code and cover for the reality of Unipolar Global Dominance vs. Multipolar Global South. The Global South wants equality. The Global South does not want the Master-Slave relationship that the “International Rules-based Order” represents!

This results regarding China in this recent Latana “Democracy Perception Index 2022” https://latana.com/democracy-perception-index/ will surprise you:

SELECTIVE MORALITY

You chastise Kerr and Pops for “selective morality”. Yet Americans partake egregiously in selective morality. Few American journalists have spoken out against the treatment of Assange, Whistleblowers John Kiriakou and Daniel Hale for having provided evidence–not mere suspicions or accusations–of American war crimes. How about pontificating on Assange and Daniel Hale?

Perhaps your lens of “de facto supporting and enabling the bad stuff that government does” could be applied self-reflectively!

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
Despiite your image as a woke liberal, your article is redolent with the racist White supremacist attitude of American Exceptionalism.

While we lecture and condemn others for human rights violations, we give ourselves a free pass for even greater misdeeds…….because whatever misdeeds that we inflict on others does not reflect “who we are”. We get the free pass because we consider ourselves to exist on a higher moral plane, thus justifying our own hypocrisy. MLK’s proclamation that “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government” still holds true today.

Alvin Ja
Muni Railway retiree, City College lifelong student/supporter

Beautiful comedy by Asian Times: English Tsai spent own money to crack head on China wall 亞洲週刊今晚好精彩在等呆台笑話, 蔡英文被抬去撞牆, 還得自己花錢?

Video: Nancy Pelosi beating the war drums in Asia, husband under insiders trading investigation! Take a look at what she has done for the people who put her in office. Why China does not believe in US’s fake democracy! 佩洛西在亞洲敲響戰鼓, 老公受內幕交易調查! 看看她為投票給她的選民做了些什麼? 你現在明白為什麼14億中國人不相信美國的假民主!
https://rumble.com/v1eod0e-take-a-look-at-what-nancy-pelosi-has-done-for-the-people-who-put-her-in-off.html
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/762750484948279/?d=n