I hear that the Chinese are going to add the image of Antony Blinken to the dictionary definition of “Kow Tow.” He went to Beijing, hat in hand, and received a less than warm welcome. The term, “frosty” comes to mind. Blinken and his Chinese hosts engaged in a one-sided “frank exchange of views” (i.e., a phrase used by diplomats to describe a tense, angry conversation). The Chinese delivered and Blinken ended up saying what the Chinese demanded he say — “the U.S. does not support Taiwan Independence.”
I find it a bit hilarious. Blinken simply restated the One China Policy negotiated and implemented by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger 51 years ago. What Blinken said has been the cornerstone of U.S. policy towards China for decades. But that is not how it was received back home in America.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised eyebrows Monday, telling reporters the US “does not support Taiwan independence” after meeting in Beijing with officials including Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Blinken’s statement ruffled the feathers of many Republicans in Congress, who viewed the statement – and the secretary’s inability to re-establish military-to-military communications – as an inappropriate kowtow to America’s greatest adversary.
“Blinken flew to Communist China to appease Xi Jinping and state the Biden administration does not support Taiwan’s independence,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said on Twitter. “Why won’t this administration stand up to bullies and stand for freedom?”
So here is the situation — Blinken reaffirms the longstanding U.S. policy towards China and is attacked as a spineless shill caving to unreasonable demands by the Government of China. I feel some sympathy for Blinken (not much, just a tad), but it is his fault and the fault of the Biden Administration that Antony had to do a diplomatic back flip to try to reverse more than a year of comments referring to China as an “enemy” and Biden’s public promise to send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan.
China was firm about what it wanted from the Biden Administration. This is a portion of what the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released in the aftermath of the meeting:
Wang Yi said that Mr. Secretary of State’s visit to Beijing this time comes at a critical juncture in Sino-US relations, and it is necessary to make a choice between dialogue or confrontation, cooperation or conflict. History always moves forward, and China-US relations will eventually move forward. There is no way out to turn back the wheel of history, and it is even less advisable to start over. With an attitude of being responsible to the people, history, and the world, we must reverse the downward spiral of Sino-US relations, push for a return to a healthy and stable track, and work together to find a correct way for China and the United States to get along in the new era.
Wang Yi emphasized that the trough in Sino-US relations is rooted in the US’s erroneous perception of China, which leads to wrong policies towards China. Sino-US relations have experienced ups and downs, and it is necessary for the US to reflect deeply and work with China to jointly manage differences and avoid strategic surprises. In order for Sino-US relations to stop falling and stabilize, the top priority is to truly implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state. For China-U.S. relations to be stable and long-term, the most important thing is to follow the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation proposed by President Xi Jinping. . . .
Wang Yi asked the US side to stop hyping up the “China threat theory”, lift illegal unilateral sanctions against China, stop suppressing China’s technological development, and refrain from wantonly interfering in China’s internal affairs. Wang Yi focused on analyzing the essence of the Taiwan issue, emphasizing that safeguarding national unity will always be the core of China’s core interests, it is the fate of all Chinese people, and it is the unswerving historical mission of the Communist Party of China. On this issue, China has no room for compromise. The US side must truly adhere to the one-China principle set out in the three Sino-US joint communiqués, respect China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and clearly oppose “Taiwan independence”.
No warm fuzzies from Beijing in this message. It is a very typical Chinese ultimatum — I say typical because it is presented very calmly, no hyperbole but very direct. China left Blinken with two choices — reaffirm the One China Policy or prepare for a rupture in relations.
The Chinese are in no rush to let the Biden Administration off the hook. Their refusal to re-establish military – to – military communications signaled China’s intention to wait and see if Blinken and the rest of the Biden national security team cool their rhetoric and embrace the One China Policy.
The big problem facing Biden and his team of buffoons is that they helped poison the America political waters with toxic rhetoric portraying China as a primary enemy of the U.S. during the last two years and must now find an anti-dote to that venom. I do not think it is possible for them to extricate themselves from this corner. Biden and Blinken painted themselves into an inescapable place and anything they do to reverse course will be attacked as weakness and cowardice by many American politicians and citizens.
Things are likely to heat up in the coming weeks and Biden will face growing pressure to throw Blinken under the bus. The Wall Street journal, citing current and former U.S. officials, reports:
China and Cuba are in talks to set up a joint military training center on the island, which means the Chinese military could be on America’s doorstep.
U.S. alleged outrage over this move by China conveniently ignores the fact that the U.S. provoked this by sending U.S. military trainers to Taiwan:
The US government has sent around 200 soldiers to Taiwan to provide military training amid increasing tensions with China, according to a report by Taiwan News. . . . A majority of the troops sent to Taipei are from the US Army and currently stationed at new training centers and reserve brigades of the Taiwanese Armed Forces.
Beijing is sending Washington a blunt message — anything you can do we can do better. When it comes to “tit-for-tat” China knows how to play hardball.
The choice America faces is stark and simple — accept the One China Policy or prepare for a war with China. There is no middle ground. I never thought I would find myself longing to have someone like Richard Nixon back in charge. Despite his tarnished Presidency, he intelligently understood that going to war with China is a recipe for national disaster.
Blinken blinked
Blinkenty Blinken
Here’s a much better example. (I came across the original, sans lines the other day but darned if I could find it again).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzGjw1bXsAA0fjo?format=jpg&name=small
Two days ago Anthony Blinken were forced by China to publicly retract the US stated plans of invading Taiwan.
Today Joe Biden calls Xi Jinping a Dictator.
We have a old proverb in Denmark saying:
“They are sour said the Fox about the rowan berries, because he couldn’t reach them”.
Hmm….The Fox and the Grapes is a fabled story by Jean de la Fontaine to educate young louis the XIV ….aint a danish proverb…
It is entirely possible that the Danish proverb predates the French story.
It is also quite common for different countries to have similar proverbs and fables, without necessarily having borrowed from each other.
La Fontaine was basically copy/pasting Aesop.
Cf https://read.gov/aesop/005.html
Nope. Aesop’s fables.
https://read.gov/aesop/005.html
China doesn’t have to take Taiwan by force. They can use soft power to get Taiwan through its agents inside Taiwan to reintegrate with China, i.e., Hong Kong. China wants Taiwan’s chip infrastructure intact, plus the supporting intellectual property. Mirco chips are the new oil that drives economies.
They can also blockade Taiwan and wait them out patiently. And remind the US that the Pacific fleet should stay comfortably outside hyper sonic missile range, as a few dozen would destroy the Pacific fleet.
What could the US do? Sanctions? How would we manage without the latest iphone? Or maybe things like powertools, appliances, housewares, steel, stainless steel, and the list goes on… You can’t cut off the source of your goods. They know that. Maybe we’ll hear that “fighting climate change” will be the excuse to shut down imports of Chinese goods.
And forget nukes, as it would yield the same result, huge shortages in the US. The country that makes al the goods hold all the cards, and they know it.
MAC- ‘The country that makes al the goods hold all the cards, and they know it’.
Didn’t work for Jermany, did it?
They didn’t make all the goods back in the 40s. Essentially they lost an economic war to Russia.
Germany hasn’t been an independent actor since WW2. Ultimately, Germany had NATO (i.e., United States) calling the shots.
The fact the Germany has done nothing—nothing—about NS2 indicates they don’t hold any cards whatsoever.
Have you come across the Chancellor’s Act, David?
https://en.topwar.ru/77123-kancler-akt.html
Germany was never in China’s position, not in WW I and not in WW II. In both cases, England was on a par with Germany, and the US greatly exceeded Germany in terms of manufacturing.
Wrong!!!! Germany was a manufacturing powerhouse and eclipsing Great Britain on just about every economic metric back then starting in the late 1800’s!!! Germany built a railroad straight to the middle east to bypass British reliance on oil. The Germans grew a navy and ship industry that was rivaling the brits! Your post is so far off.
Depending o the measure, Germany’s economy is about a fifth China’s. Then look at what Germany produces: a lot of high end stuff, not so much for median income types. China produces the nuts-and-bolts stuff people use every day, and at prices we can afford, without the added premium for the “made in Germany” stamp.
Germany makes a lot of unnecessarily complex stuff, trying to show off their technical superiority, and that stuff is not reliable. Check JD Power and you’ll find Mercedes is near the bottom, mostly because of the tech nobody asked for. China makes things customers want, Germany makes things they think the customer should have. Maybe part of their Nazi heritage, not sure.
In any event, no comparison between Germany and China. Look around your house and see how much is made in each. Not much from Germany I’ll bet.
Hmm… All appliances are Bosch or Miele. Cars German a BMW x5 and a Mercedes s500. I do have a F350 to pull my horse trailer. Faucets Grohe. Power tools Matabo. Etc I try and only buy from USA or at least Western countries. Screw Chinese junk.
“Maybe part of their Nazi heritage, not sure.”
No. German engineering predates Nazim. Nazis just took control of what’s already there. For example, Luger pistol is famous for being used by Nazi officers. It entered service in Germany in 1904.
“Look around your house and see how much is made in each. Not much from Germany I’ll bet.”
It’s not just Germany. In the 1980s multiple countries in Europe produced TVs, radios, and whatnot. Nowdays not so much. I remember when LG was called Goldstar, and Samsung was a shitty brand that no one wanted to own.
Germany only made certain goods and rely on Russian energy. So not a good comparison
Greg Hayes, chief executive of Raytheon, said the company had “several thousand suppliers in China and decoupling . . . is impossible”.
“We can de-risk but not decouple,” Hayes said, adding that he believed this to be the case “for everybody”.
Imagine having a neighbour that is handy for one’s immediate needs, but at the same time as accepting his help one spits in his eye. Morons abound.
Not blockade. US blockaded the Confederacy which European countries considered to be a de facto recognition of the existence of an independent state. That would have allowed the recognition of the Confederacy and the establishment of diplomatic relations and even military support but for the fact that it was expected to fail, as it did several years later.
As the sovereign power China has the authority to close the ports and airports of Taiwan and to arrest any ship and aircraft touching the island.
“And forget nukes, as it would yield the same result, huge shortages in the US”
Yes – huge shortages of people, uncontaminated land, cities, army, navy and airforce bases, and standing houses
My understanding is that leading up to elections next year the pro-mainland China unification party is leading in the polls.
If a Taiwan government is elected that wants to officially unify with China then that will take the wind out of the U.S. neocon sails.
If that happens, you can bet the US neocons will attempt a colored revolution / coup d’etat in Taiwan immediately. Which would probably fail anyway since by now all the major players have learned how to neutralize American regime change operations.
No, this isn’t the case. A few points:
There are no pro unification parties of any significance. The electorate is overwhelmingly in favour of maintaining the status quo and the parties’ positions reflect this. The ruling DPP leans towards independence, the traditional opposition, the KMT, is in favour of improving relations with China and rejects independence. The other party of significance, the newly formed TPP, led by the charismatic former mayor of Taipei, is closer in this respect, to the KMT.
As far as the polls for the presidency go, at the moment the DPP candidate is leading, the TPP is second and the KMT trails some way behind in third place. Were the KMT and TPP able to find some way of formally or informally combining their ticket, they would probably win the presidency. But if not, it looks likely at this stage that the DPP will retain the presidency.
The legislature is elected at the same time as the presidency and is much less predictable, with local issues playing a significant role.
There is zero chance of a pro unification government in the forseeable future.
There are already 2 million Taiwanese with permanent residency living in mainland China and around 500K mainlanders living in Taiwan.
Taiwan is dependent on the mainland for it imports and exports and they even get special concessions.
As for chips, the Chinese are advancing faster then anyone expected in creating their own manufacturing tech. TSMC is still dependent on foreign technology. Even ASML is worried because they know they’ll eventually lose their monopoly on fab technology.
I heard that the Chinese were really hard up and looting chips from scrapped money washing machines on Ukraine’s battlefields.
China already has TSMC factories, at the very least the 28nm fab for car brains: https://youtu.be/hq5XcA6vctM . Also China is Taiwan’s biggest export and import partner. I conclude from this that “China wants TSMC” is a Deep State propaganda talking point. They already have it, right next door.
Some U.S. strategists go for a scorched-earth policy: We will bomb TSMC to save it from the Chinese, just like we bombed NS2 to save it from the Germans:
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/13/2023/the-us-would-destroy-taiwans-chip-plants-if-china-invades-says-former-trump-official
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=parameters (PDF)
As a result, Warren Buffett backed out of his investment in TSMC, and its stock sank. Bombing would mean suicide for America’s Apple and GM, but to D.C. and the Army, that’s someone else’s problem.
Blinken also said the U.S. will continue to “protect” Taiwan. It’s a racket. “One China” wink, wink, business as usual.
well not really, all the parts and support come from the netherlands.
tiawan is toast either way, us will bomb the factories out of spite and blockade any new chip tech from Netherlands to tiawan if they remerge with china.
fancy new hips only work if you are exporting to the west, but even then there are limits and constraints on how much people are willing to pay.
The Netherlands? And 10,000 X more Chinese engineers than the Netherlands has are going to take more than 12 months to replicate whatever little market niche they’ve managed to carve out for themselves, patents or no patents?
Please.
Hmm thats false… Its not a Patent thingy and there are things that are way harder to copy….
Chips are only one among others ! The Chinese are way ahead nowadays in plenty of fields. But there remain others where they are way behind !
-high end alloys
-high end plane motorisation
-high end turbines
And others…
And high end chips, though are probably the easier to solve.
High end alloys? The Russians will get them straight in no time.
The Soviets developed twice the number of alloys the West has.
I know. I was carrying a two inch thick book of them around Moscow in the mid 90’s that had been declassified by the DOD in ’91 or so and available at the RPI library. Every once in a while somebody’d jokingly suggest I must be a spy if I had such a thing but usually, their metallurgists would just point out errors or experimental alloys. DOD even sent me a copy on 3.5 floppies.
I read the other day that foreign warships in the Taiwan Strait directly violates one of the articles of the Law of the Sea Convention.
The I tried looking up the Law of the Sea in the International Rules Based Order Handbook. No luck. Couldn’t even find the handbook.
Article 38
Right of transit passage
1. In straits referred to in article 37, all ships and aircraft enjoy the right of transit passage, which shall not be impeded; except that, if the strait is formed by an island of a State bordering the strait and its mainland, transit passage shall not apply if there exists seaward of the island a route through the high seas or through an exclusive economic zone of similar convenience with respect to navigational and hydrographical characteristics.
A view on a map shows that this evidently applies to the strait between mainland China and the Chinese island named Taiwan.
Of course, the US is not a signatory.
That’s why I like this site. Folks with knowledge. It’s a rare find. Don’t bother looking in mainstream outlets for it. They’re just posers these days.
Well said, soft power is the name of the game.
DayMockRatIck tribespeople and some RipUpThePublican tribespeople want to go to war against Russia first and then China. The rest of the RipUpThePublican tribe wants to put the war on Russia on hold for the moment and go to war against China. So America is going to either go to war and get handed a defeat that will end its empire, or back down, which will – it knows quite well – end its empire anyway. It will go to war.
The Biden tough posturing towards China has been theater to appease the warhawks in DC. Biden is brought and paid for by China. Nancy and Biden gave China (Taiwan) part of the nice sweet CHIPS deal…we are dependent on China and Xi knows it..while China continues to diversify with BRICS and expands its “business ” with other countries we become less significant in the world.
I honestly don’t care whether Taiwan is independent or not. Why in the world go to war with China over some tiny island. Even if we did we would lose big time. Our military has been downgraded by wokeness and we are running short on equipment as a result of the proxy war Biden started with Russia..NATO is losing badly..imagine that..RUSSIA kicking NATO’s behind.. Not surprised. We need an America First president to bring back manufacturing, rebuild our infrastructure, reduce our debt, secure our border and try to establish trust with other countries, if that’s ever possible at this point..
I’m surprised your comment got past the censors. Any reference to the the Chinese program of elite capture is usually disapperred.
So Klaus Schwab (a Rothschild on his mother’s side) openly stating his WEF toadies have infiltrated governments/bureaucracies worldwide is a nothing burger? Trudeau, Freeland, Singh, Merkel, Scholz, Bojo, Sturgeon, “Lettuce” Truss, Ardern, Rutte… and that’s just the short list.
Rent-seeking is a euphemism to hide the ugly truth of a system which supports a pan-generational wealth class controlled by inbred royalty and a small group of sociopathic bankster families accustomed to near complete anonymity, and therefore zero accountability. The Rothschilds answer to no one, and they intend to rule the world. Been at it since the late 1700s. No wonder they have Macron trying to create media-distance between the US NeoCons and the WEF agenda.
But Putin and Xi, with the BRICS/SCO in tow, are forcing the Rothschilds et. al. into public view, the WEF is no longer sufficient cover to put a benevolent face on their dictatorial agenda.
Macron is different from the other WEF puppets, he is apparently directly under the command of Rothschild Royalty, evidenced by his temerity to publicly state the EU must separate itself from the US forever-war agenda, and telling Britain to mind its own non-EU business. After an ear-washing by Xi, who also knows who is behind what. All the WEF Great Reset says about the US Empire is it will cease to be the obnoxious tail that wags the international finance/military dog. About friggin’ time, but we don’t need the Rothschilds controlling what comes after.
The Rothschilds don’t directly control an army, like the Blinken/Nuland/CIA/Mossad NeoCons do… well did, the 3rd Ukie/ZATO army is almost finished. The Rothschilds were happy to let the US/ZATO NeoCons run the war in Ukraine, until the US/ZATO military was revealed to be a paper tiger, with expensive but underperforming equipment, training and doctrines. Hence Macron’s furious back-pedalling.
Doubtful at the NATO Vilnius meeting that “old Europe” will commit troops or even much more equipment/ammunition to Ukraine, despite the US NeoCons driving from the back seat. The EU should tell the US to put up or shut up, now that the EU/ZATO cupboard is bare. However, the US Uniparty will not risk direct involvement in another Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam, as that would scuttle the 2024 plan to keep the Biden/Harris Idiocracy in place to keep the gone-rogue Blinken/Nuland Cabal in place. Bojo is gone, and Sunak is having trouble figuring out which set of psychopaths to submit to.
The Eurodummies must be getting wise by now, one example: the US has about 5,000 tanks, and yet how many has the US (not it’s ZATO vassals) sent to the Eastern Front? A handful at best, while the EUdummies sent hundreds from their meager stockpiles. Those F16s? All older, near “for parts only” condition units currently not in regular use… or are the EU crowd stupid enough to send their newer active units?
The longer the Russians ropadope the Ukraine battle-space (and beyond), the more apparent the inadequacy of US/ZATO military/hardware becomes. No better example of a complete boondoggle.
A little more to it than rent-seeking and spreadsheets.
GREAT POST!
You hinted at it that the House of Rotschild does not directly control militaries. They have to rely on agents doing their bidding in order to stay in the shadows.
The Neocons and many self assured billionaires don’t obey the Rothschild (and Rockefeller!) agents any more.
I heard there’s a certain retro clique in the US Army that wants to rename it the WMCA.
“bring back manufacturing” – That bird has flown.
As for the remainder of the list, you will have to overcome the zombie grasp of the MIC to access the funds. I wish the US population luck with that, as it will benefit the rest of the world too.
What has been lost over time me. My dad, one of many corporals in US Army during WW2, said many times during Vietnam war, it is nuts to go to war with China. They will kill so many Americans in Asia no one will fight.
There is a real issue-the elites like Obama would never think of sending his two spawn to fight for what he believes in. As long as he and Mickey have their plantation all is good.
Yeah, Stalin sent both his biological sons and his adopted son (whose father was the Comrade Artëm after whom Artëmovsk is named) to the front in WWII, and his younger biological son Yakov died in a German PoW camp when Stalin refused to exchange him for Field Marshal Paulus. Mao sent his sons to fight in the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War and both were killed. Catch any of today’s warmongering politicians risking their own family.
Yeah, my dad was a USMC corporal in the 1st Marines landing on Guadalcanal.
He used to write home to his hometown paper that the Japs are a tough bunch (maybe he said nuts). They never surrender.
TBH, I’m glad to see China pushing back and Blinken come to his senses.
I have ZERO problem w/ China have a presence in Cuba. How about putting that base adjacent to Gitmo? That would be a hoot.
where did blinken come to his senses? As Judge Nap says, he talked out of three sides of his mouth. He repeated teh one china policy (as on the state dept website) and then said we are sending weapons to Taiwan!
If China sent weapons to Hawaiian independence movements would anyone in the US say that was belief in the one US policy?
And of one follows with the US being agreement incapable, led by morons and Neocons with no reverse gear, I do not see anything positive happening except, hopefully, Blinken gets tossed under the bus and run over (metaphorically – if there was justice he would be indicted).
probably just lying as usual. while i would be overjoyed if we suddenly found god and multipolarity and letting china have taiwan and all those computing manufacturing smarts, pretty sure this will be short lived. maybe they won’t confront for a while, both sides will build up, then more weapons and maybe some “advisors” to taiwan again, yada yada.
if we really are as low on armament and we are saying, we are really lucky that china and russia aren’t like us.
“Those who play with fire on the question of Taiwan will burn themselves” Qin Gang
kudos to cuba for putting itself in danger and being brave. and to south africa and all the countries that are taking secondary sanctions while transiting to new ways of trade.
i hope china and cuba don’t listen and build that base.
IMHO, I think they will.
The US military has shown itself to be far, far weaker than we’ve been sold on. I say that b/c in spite of the enormous amount of weapons we put into Uk BEFORE Russia invaded, the massive levels of intel we’re providing them with, and the follow up weapons (nobody’s talking anymore about Patriot missiles, huh?) have not moved the needle in that offensive. Add to that the fact that it’s going to take a decade to replenish some systems we sent to Uk (Javelins I think) and combine it w/ the overwhelming number of troops PRC can muster at the drop of a hat; it all adds up to a sense that we’re not as tough as we thought we were.
Think about it: we got our asses kicked in the 70’s by guys wearing pyjamas and flip flops. We got booted out of Afghanistan by guys wearing bathrobes and flip flops. And sorry, but the conquest of Iraq was against an unmotivated defender; we didn’t win, they surrendered.
Yeah, Xi’s gonna be landing jets in Cuba, mark my words. And BION, I think that can be a good thing.
A ex army ranger told me the viet cong were tough and very smart. He said they found one Chinese gun with an M-16 trigger. It obviously had been hammered with a rock to fit. They lived below the ground and ate the stuff that crawled around. He said that was the average one and typical smart tough Americans would not fight like that.
Of course we were in there backyard.
I can’t understand the Blinken’s position.
“We support the one China policy but will do everything needed to supply weapons and troops for Taiwan’s defense.”
Imagine if Britain said:
“We recognize that the Confederacy is a part of the United States but will do everything needed to supply weapons and troops for its defense.”
1. COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: The mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes.
2. COGNITIVE CONSONANCE: State of harmony and internal consistency arising from compatibility among a person’s attitudes, behavior, beliefs, and/or knowledge.
3. _________ ___________: State of harmony and internal consistency arising from holding two conflicting beliefs, values or attitudes.
Does anyone know what the term is for #3? Because I think that is what we are dealing with. (sigh)
Doublethink.
Then two days later, Biden calls Xi a dictator. I think the term you’re looking for is Communal Senility.
Cognitive Dissonance is the old term. 😉
about the dynamic of the week
Mars
the igniter
finalizes the week
in square with
Uranus
the raging and the human god
thereby on his heels
Venus
goddess of defense
and balance
while
Sun and Mercury
experience the square with
Neptune
union in contradiction
is due here
union in contradiction
is wisdom
professionality and wisdom
to unite
is what it is
about the dynamic of the week
Mars
the igniter
finalizes the week
in square with
Uranus
the raging and the human god
thereby on his heels
Venus
goddess of defense
and balance
while
Sun and Mercury
experience the square with
Neptune
union in contradiction
is due here
union in contradiction
is wisdom
professionality and wisdom
to unite
is what he is
This and more in the astromundane diary 25. week 2923
“The Miracle of June 17th and the Dynamics of Weekends”
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-miracle-of-june-17th-and-dynamics.html
Blinken said we do not support Taiwan independence, but then he later said we remain committed to meeting our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act including that Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.
I am still trying to parse this statement.
p.s. Your voice gets garbled in your Judge Nap interviews. Maybe it’s your mike?
No, the problem with the sound happens all the time I listen to Crooke, Duran, Ritter, Martyanov. Starts some 2-3 min into the “show”.
I belive this is deep state cencoring with AI. Do not happende if I see a “normal” pod.
Also, sometimes my keyboards turns it self off.
My wife’s laptop turned itself off sporadically. Then I finally sat down one day to troubleshoot it. Overheating. Bought a simple stand to dissipate the heat and viola. She thinks I’m a genius. LOL
https://poets.org/poem/wynken-blynken-and-nod
Was Blynkin, sent by Vikorioa Wynkin on behalf of Nod (who needs another depends change!) hurried and previously un-hyped voyage to Cathay in his wooden shoe to postpone the inevitable 2nd front, as the 1st front crumbles into the delusions of the OTAN fog and slides into the sea of …? What, glow-in-the-dark war and roetigen rich winds?
Did VVP’s ‘хрен им’get someone in Sproutsville, Londone, and die Neue Welt’s attention? Is this a belated attempt at less insanity to re-affirm with empty words the Shanghai Communique of 1972 when the US committed to a 1-China policy? Have the neo-morons seen the errors of their ways? HasOTAN DefCon 719 been dialed all the way down to DefCon 673?
Or was Blykin there in reaction to the RF re-affirmed support of ties with Cuba and China’s WSJ-announced intention to train Cuban troops and build a training base tin Cuba such a shock to the neo-morons who apparently forgot that some of the 800 US military bases around the globe ring China, and that they just sent 200 military ‘trainers’ to Taiwan to train Taiwan’s military?
After all, 800 is a lot of bases, and they can’t be x-pected to remember where all of them are located. And the ‘trainers’ are only there to do reassure the Treasury of Taiwan’s procurerment officials that the failure of the wunderwaffen is all smoke and mirrors? Really, buy more (fill in the blank) from us! Who ya gonna believe, us ‘trainers’or your lyin’eyes? Well, they got the smoke from the burning wrecks right, at least.
Or, is this to try to clear a opening to go ‘Able-Archer II’ before Vilnius? Back to glow-in-the-dark war and roetigen rich winds!
Such amazing diplomatic finesse!
Yeah, interesting timez…
In under 18 months the US’s pretentious posturing as a military and financial hegemon with invincible systems of wonderweapons, be they financial or military, has been exposed. To put that Harpie Ursula to good use, that posturing, that image, lies in tatters.
Russia wasn’t bluffed. She didn’t blink, and neither will China. Those neo-cons really do need to be shown the door. They, the neo-cons, grasped an unprecedented opportunity thirty years ago, and have misread and misused the power they found every step of the way since then.
They have built nothing durable. They cause trouble everywhere they go.
In the 2007 Federal election in Australia, the incumbent of many years was urged to go with a large sign saying, “It’s time to go, Digger. The dogs are pissing on your swag.”
Does anyone in the Establishment realize how incompetent Anthony Blinken has been as a diplomat and a statesman?
Being a diplomat means that he needs to persuade effectively nations that are skeptical to be more willing to work with the US and to think better about the US, mending burned bridges.
Instead he seems to be burning the foundations of already burnt bridges. The US seems to be doing precisely that with the Chinese.
Contrast Blinken with Lavrov, who seeks to develop close ties with the rest of the world, bringing them closer Russia and has effectively advanced Russia’s geopolitical interests quite effectively.
IMHO, Sergey Lavrov is the greatest foreign minister since Metternich.
The senior Russian establishment is superb. They put Russia back together after the Yeltsin fiasco. Putin is another world-class, historic statesman.
Agree completely. And to round out the 19th century comparisons, for my $0.02 Vladimir Putin is the greatest statesman since Bismarck.
The point being missed is that Blynkin, Nod (brandon bi-dette), and even Wynkin are little semi-demons run by the real power behind the scenes.
They are there because they are useful and follow orders, and will remain as long as that continues. They have no real agengy or input. They are interchangeabele with many others of the same kind.
Been paying attention the past few decades and more? Look back and see. The faces change, the policies continue…
Putin has noticed that US presidents change, but those behind them stay the same.
I don’t think Biden has a problem. He prays, “God save the Queen,” in Connecticut when the Queen is long dead, and so is Jackie, from the “Where is Jackie” Brandon’s episode. But his Politburo has a problem, and they must ensure Biden wins or it will be “4 years of retribution,” if Trump wins.
In the interview with Psaki, Comey, the former FBI director, who ignored Clinton’s classified emails, preaches “law”, but ignores the law confirming that there was no Trump/Russia collusion in 2016. Hilary and Co’s fraud wasted millions of the US taxpayers’ money for the investigation of nothing, and now they are talking about the upcoming and for sure 2024 “Trump-Russia collusion” and that’s why it must be Biden in 2024! Surreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c0o547MjaY
When Biden said “God save the queen”, I think he was talking about Buttigieg.
….Lindsey Graham?
Watch Biden replace Blinken… with Nuland.
Not a joke. Wendy Sherman’s Deputy SecState position now up for grabs, Nuland currently slated, but in the reshuffle you could be right.
Eh, the Turbo Yenta already runs things. This will work out even better when She Who Must Be Obeyed takes over from the retiring Wendy Sherman.
The relation between Blinken and Nudelman is analogous to that that existed between Bush the Lesser and Dead Eye Dick Cheney, front man and macher.
Nuland and Freeland, now there’s a tag team. 80 years ago their forebearers were out killing each other. Now they’re the Chucky Sisters, united in Evildom.
They both blame the Russians for their ancient violent family histories. There is something in the Ukrainian water that makes them insane.
It’s the old “enemy of the enemy” thing. Once they deal with Russians, they plant to kill each other. Same goes for Poles and Ukrainians, and Poles and Germans, and most of the “allies” that gang up on Russians once a century.
You’re too perceptive for your own good, methinks.
I always thought Biden had a certain Caligula streak in him, his favorite horse and all.
History has shown Nixon in a new light & been kinder to him than what it previously was? Nixon is now viewed as a Man of Vision, a tarnished but human figure who used Diplomacy & someone who knew something about compromise & using common sense? The saying that only Nixon could go to China was a mark of respect that even the Chinese appreciated but contrast that with Blinken’s frosty & hostile reception? Nixon’s worst Nightmare was that Russia & China would become strategic Allies & Biden has singlehandedly destroyed what Nixon worked so hard to avoid & that was to keep Russia & China from combining forces against the West! Nixon’s Administration was so superior compared to this motley bunch of amateurs of Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland & Kirby & led by the most decrepit, dishonest, Political career criminal & dementia addled Joe Biden, the worst President that America has ever had & that is saying something because America has had some real doozies as POTUS but none as bad as Biden, the Man has been a catastrophic disaster for America in which it may never recover from? Biden is responsible for America eventually losing it’s World Reserve Dollar status & when that happens, it’s OVER for America & it’s bloated Military! Biden has accelerated Dedollarisation to the point that it’s now unstoppable because of stealing Russia’s Strategic Reserves, that sent the message to the World that it was not safe to be in the Western Financial System of the USD! China & Russia have said to America ENOUGH, we aren’t putting up with your BS crap & nonsense anymore so just deal with it & start behaving like a normal Country again & rejoin the World!
You nailed it ANTFORCE62.
history shows that empires collapse when ruling families engage in sexual perversions; such as incest, pedophilia, etc.
…or in other words, Q.E.D.
The mouth can tell a lot when the hands are doing something else. Mankind’s problem isn’t what American presidents are doing. Our problem has other names. For example, Black Rock, Vanguard, UBS, …., Soros, Rothschild, Buffet, Rockefeller, etc. Their Davos fascism is to force people into feudalistic conditions. They decide which country gets which government. They decide about war and peace.
I think the recent visit to China by Blinken and also recent talks with Iran and India are simply cheap tactical moves by the Biden team to draw a wedge between Russia and China-Iran-India trio. Therefore, it must be very important Russia defeated the Ukrainian proxy army of NATO in a complete fashion leaving no room for US-UK and their backers the chance to write falsehoods on the subjet and manipulate history to their likings. Both US-UK are what is universally known as bad losers and as spoiled kids do tend to throw tantrums around when faced with certain defeat. It’s this juvenile attitude which is at the core of their desicion making process.
apparently, Humpty Dummy called XI a dictator at the fundraiser tonight.
Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon: the only American politician who could go hat-in-hand to China without getting Red-baited by Richard Nixon.
Chairman Mao to Nixon’s emissary Henry Kissinger: “If I wanted nothing from you, I wouldn’t have invited you. And if you wanted nothing from me, you should not have come.” (Translation: “Cut the bullshit. You want to haul ass from Vietnam and you want us to let you do it. So cut your support for Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan; pretend that you haven’t done that; and we’ll pretend not to notice that you have. That’s the deal. Call it ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ if you like.”)
As a veteran of the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam July 1970 to January 1972) I bear no warm feelings for the two sons-of-bitches who sent me to Southeast Asia solely to delay the date of America’s inevitable defeat until after Tricky Dick’s hoped-for re-election in 1972. As we used to sardonically joke at the Defense Language Institute prior to deployment to an-already-long-lost war: “Question: If Nixon is withdrawing the troops from Vietnam, why do I have orders to Vietnam next year? Answer: You fool. How can Nixon withdraw you from Vietnam unless he sends you there first?”
It looks like Secretary Blinken got the Mao treatment from Xi Jin-ping. The US needs to haul ass from Ukraine and needs China to help make that happen. Only this time China supports Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT party which promises to betray the Taiwanese — whom nobody ever bothers to consult as to what they want — in return for China’s support in putting them back in power over the island. The US will, no doubt, acquiesce to China’s demands. What the Taiwanese will do in their own interests, remains the chief unexplored question of the moment — of no concern either to the US, the KMT, or China.
You make some interesting points. Re the ‘Taiwanese people’, there is no such thing. my understanding is that they are Chinese people living on Taiwan, a Chinese island. They are widely interrelated to the mainland through familial ties. There have also been many polls, and all showed a majority for being connected to the mainland.
It is a Soros NED project to ‘ukrainise’ taiwan.
A guy called Brian Berletec at the New Atlas seems to be a bit of an expert on the history.
Correction. Polls in Taiwan all show a desire for a continuation of the status quo. No independence, no reunification.
There is a minority of Taiwanese indigenous people. I know almost nothing about them, but I’m sure that no one asks them about anything, especially USA.
I think Devon Archer once lobbied that they be put on reservations and allowed to open casinos run by his firm but I could be mistaken.
That was the plan for Russians too, sans the casinos.
Taiwan’s majority Han population came to Taiwan in waves. The Portuguese brought them in as workers. The Dutch brought in more Chinese laborers. These two groups of Chinese immigrants sometime fought bloody battles with each other. Chinese Nationalists fleeing Communists arrived later. China’s Ming Dynasty only occupied Taiwan for about 250 years of China’s 6,000 years of civilization until Japan took over Taiwan. Historically, Taiwan was a “Chinese island” for less than 6% of ‘China’s’ history. Part of the United States was under British control for a small part of British history. Many Americans can trace their family back to Britain as many Taiwanese can trace their families back to China. We speak English. However, none of these factors make the United States part of Britain or Taiwan part of China.
The Japanese controlled Formosa after WWI a lot of Japanese settled there I believe. How many are left? How does this affect Taiwans politics?
@Michael Murray
I don’t care about the KMT “betraying” Taiwan or what the Taiwanese want. They’re an island with 2% of the population of China 100 miles off the coast. We live on the other side of the planet. The sooner the Taiwanese get over the delusion that the US can protect them from mainland China, the better for them.
I once tried to impress a younger Taiwanese relative through marriage with my command of Chinese idioms. “Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away,” I said (in Mandarin, since I don’t speak Taiwanese) . His immediate reply: “Not far enough.” For those who truly wish to know the Taiwanese (as opposed to immigrant/imported Mainlander) view of both the United States and Mainland China, there you have it. Stay away — far away — and fight among yourselves if you must. Just leave us alone to live in peace.
The Taiwanese know perfectly well what happens when the United States intervenes to “protect” some other unfortunate country. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Now, Ukraine. The Taiwanese want no part of such “protection.” Yes, the US bullies and tries to intimidate Taiwan into buying America’s junk weapons and worthless Covid vaccines, and Taiwan has to give way as little and as grudgingly as it can. But turning itself over to the KMT Mainlanders again — keeping in mind the annual 2/28 day of mourning — doesn’t appeal to the Taiwanese — who see themselves as Taiwanese — at all. After living happily in Taiwan for the past 20 years I agree fully with their assessment.
Blinky doesn’t mean the things he said, all sides know it. Smile for the cameras, kiss the children and carry on.
Trust in the US foreign policy is record low around the world right now and the Department of State apparently can’t figure why.
Chinese wanted acts, Blinken delivers words … I think he actually make things worse for the US foreign policies worldwide. If China can’t trust the US , who can ?
Sure as you say they have a problem there.
The military-to-military usual communications will not be reestablished before the US withdraw the unilateral sanctions they have placed on the Chinese Minister of Defence. It’s foolish to fancy it can happen otherwise.
Re Tit-for-tat, that’s also how it works. If you are being bullied openly and incrementally, you have to take a step back and begin implementing counter-measures. The small training force in Cuba is exactly such a psychological counter-measure. People who believe in their overall dominance and have disactivated their basic feeling of reciprocal empathy, those people must be taught (not lectured, taught) before they cross more lines and do more foolish things.
China used to be weak, trampled upon, despised. That was …1840, 1868, 1900, 1919, 1937…a long way back. (But not forgotten over there.) This is no longer so.
Nixon and Kissinger have acknowledged the new reality, already fifty years ago in an act of statemanship.
Some in Washington D.C. today, either don’t want to admit that reality, or they genuinely don’t realize that things have changed. Possibly they are intoxicated by their own propaganda. Anyway, they have to come to their senses, and the sooner the better.
Very well put in every regard. To amplify a relevant point, alluded to above by Hal Duell, US diplomacy has lost every shred of understanding the limitations of power. This occurred after the end of the first Bush administration and coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union. It’s been overreach in spades leading to immense amounts of destruction, finally and thankfully being countered by the forces of historical development.
The aggregator page had a sarcastic what a shocker regarding comrade commissar Blinken (CPUSA) and the 40 minute visit.
Didn’t he get punked in Alaska by CCP a few years back where they brought up the racism as a counterpoint to the Uighurs treatment question?
It seemed like a good idea at the time. It even worked!
By the autumn of 1989, the Berlin Wall was coming down, Velvet Revolution in CSSR, Poland kicking out the Commies. The Warsaw Pact dissolved. And then, in ‘91 the Soviet Union collapsed. Does it get any better than that? We WON!
Hey, even the CPC woke up and smelled the coffee. Deng implemented economic reforms, and despite the label, the PRC was transformed from a Communist state into a capitalist powerhouse. We fell all over ourselves in the ‘90s sending our manufacturing technology to the PRC. Our top dogs got even more of the bone, while Joe Six-Pack was forced to trade his high paying mfg. job for managing a 7-11 at 1/3 the pay.
Somewhere along the way, Joe Six-Pack figured out that the whole point was NEVER the defeat of International Bolshevism, but destroying America.
So all the huffing and puffing of folks like Sen. Blackburn won’t change a thing. To paraphrase Lenin, we sold them the rope they’re hanging us with.
The question for today is not about who should be the scapegoat, but how do we come to terms not only with the end of American dominance in the world, but more importantly, how do we come to terms with the end of Anglo-Saxon relevance in the world. A world in which Anglos will be relegated to a minor role in international affairs, a world in which they’ll have to learn how to shut up and mind their own business.
IMO, the founders of our American Republic were correct in advising us to avoid the diseases and temptations of the Old World. Sadly, we’ve been on the road to this destination since the Wilson administration, over a century ago. You can’t fix a century-long decline in a few short years, but you can whet the people’s appetite to begin fixing the problem. The difficulty will be in discerning who is merely a demagogue, and who a Patriot.
” the PRC was transformed from a Communist state into a capitalist powerhouse”
1. China retains government overall control of banking and finance, and closely watches and controls incipient proto-capitalist billionaires, unlike the US.
2. According to Marxist theory, the road to true socialism must go through a capitalist stage in order to build both class consciousness and industrial capacity.
Hi James
You must be feeling the “Butt Hurt” that Andrei Martyanov describes.
Get over you Anglo self.
International Bolshevism isn’t about you or me, it’s about another set of folks that believe the world belongs to them.
You’ve been used, abused, and then refused.
You don’t see Vladimir Vladimirovich crying over the lost property of those “Russian Oligarchs”, do you?
Comrade Xi won’t even tolerate the emergence of a class of oligarchs, stateless scum that they are, as you point out.
The sun has set on your Empire. The useless Chuckie III is the penultimate example of the dissolution of a once powerful nation.
Grab a bourbon, a scotch, and a beer – then fuggeda bout it!
Vinnie will be by to collect the vig. When the time comes.
The West is King Canute
Multipolarism is the tide
The Rules Based Order is the sand being washed away.
Ukraine is the king’s throne.
Sinking!
it is a common historical misunderstanding that king canute wanted to stem the tide. in actual fact, he wanted to demonstrate to his nobles that the tide could not be stemmed. in other words, history will run its course, irrespective of the whims of mere men; even though they be kings.
king canute was a wise man; the west however is everything wisdom is not.
Taiwan and China are about TSMC. Taiwan’s TSMC is the tool shed for the 4th Industrial Revolution.
And Nvidia is establishing its AI research center on Taiwan, near TSMC. So it can have its chips baked even if US decides to sanction Taiwan.
I did not know that. While Intel is building a new $25 billion fab in Israel.
Our next president whatever the party has a lot of cleanup to do in foreign policy.
The agreement between Cuba and China
shows how deep the whole is.
The American voter bears a lot of the responsibility. Foreign Policy was not a topic in the 2020 and 2022 elections. That had a great deal to do with Russia invading
Ukraine. No one cares.
2014 was the year Ukraine was invaded. But as you say, no one cares!
By the US. That is the year we attacked the legitimate, democratically elected government of Ukraine and installed the current Nazi junta.
Using neo-nazis as our paid Hessians. I think we’ve now sunk so low that there’s a better chance of salvaging that Titanic minisub than salvaging us.
It was standard practise for decades. Find local crazies, and send them weapons & money. (Neo)nazis did excelent job in destroying Yugoslavia (alongside islamic extremists), aka Balkanizing, and were thoroughly whitewashed so no one in the west noticed. Russians did.
Nor should we
Is there anyone left on Earth who heeds what Blinken has to say?
I love how the Saudis handled Blinken. I laughed and laughed. They have a ‘state visit’ photo shoot that they make where the Saudi dignitary is seated in a fancy chair on the right (with respect to the camera) and the visiting dignitary is seated similarly on the left, each with their country’s flag slightly behind and offset.
Blinken’s photo op was missing a flag. The Saudis put out NO flag at all, in my opinion a non-verbal way of telling him that they recognized that he was rootless cosmopolitan trash and not actually representing ‘America’, at least not the America they have been dealing with since the end of WW2.
When they decided on strategic alliance with America-that-was, they didn’t know that they were hitching their wagons to people who would succumb to the madness of rainbow flag child-sexual-mutilating tranny-worship. They, along with the rest of the world, have realized that the America they thought was, is no more.
In the big scheme of things hegemony passed to China around 2016 (around the time MAGA could be said seriously).
The last 7 years are much more easily explained as spiteful US behaviour by a US that knows it has lost than as a US that is seriously trying to stay on top.
The question is why has Blinken gone and kow towed to China now?
Only thing that makes sense to me is he is searching for an off ramp out of Ukraine.
His masters used to own title to a lot of property in eastern Ukraine, now in the Russian Federation. The predatory creatures have just swooped in and bought up a bunch of Western Ukraine at firesale prices (not the point of the war, but them making lemonade out of the lemons the Rus have chopped up for them). [See O’Keefe’s latest on Blackrock] Now, they fear they will lose those investments, too, if the Russians aren’t given a damn solid reason not to slow walk their way up to the Polish and Romanian borders behind their netcentric/ISW phalanx.
The part people, including it seems most Ukies, don’t get is that former Ukraine was not a real country. It went straight from being a Soviet Socialist Republic (ruled from Moscow, administered from Kiev) with borders drawn by international communists specifically to include lands inhabited by Russians to dilute any ethnic cohesion to resistance to their rule (THE classic imperial technique), to being an internationalist oligarch’s playground. These people were always a subject population to be exploited, and just like in America, their own kind in the administrative class sold them out. It recalls the old saying (updated for current events) that it is better to be the King’s soldier or tax collector than to be his serf, at least until he starts a war he can’t win.
One in five Ukrainian young fled the country BEFORE this current war because they saw no future there. They worked hard, productivity skyrocketed, and wealth created went elsewhere. What kind of country loses 20% of its young walking away? I can only think of South Africa where the lunatic white leftists thought it was a good idea to hand over power to the corrupt incompetents of the ANC instead of carving out a much smaller country where they would have self-rule. They didn’t want to lose title on property in areas they would not keep after a partition. Greed over people is the answer when internationalists rule over those not their own, same as it ever was.
Cette attitude de Blinken n’a-t-elle pas pour but SECRET de semer la zizanie entre la Chine et la Russie … entre la Chine et les BRICS … Dans l’état DESESPERE où se trouve la politique étatsunienne … TOUT est possible …
I keep wondering how do American leaders think? USA is on record stating China and Russia are its worst threats. They have stated that they (US establishment) will subdue (weaken!) Russia first then go after their main threat that is China. Meanwhile they keep provoking China with sanctions and arming Taiwan.
THEN they expect Chinese to be their friends and continue business as usual? As in what must they be smoking to have such a psychotic thinking?
First we export our industrial base to China so a few can make a killing (temporarily) by cheap labor, then we pick a fight with them. Why are US leaders so stupid? Is this the natural result of Democracy? The populous hardly has a good choice. Every 4 years it’s a choice between Tweedledee or Tweedledum.
No democracy present, only short term profit maximising.
As the great conservative commentator, historian, and author, Victor Davis Hanson so admirably stated, “We are being governed by a cabinecy of dunces.”
It’s curious to see Republicans constantly indulge in one-upmanship. Regardless of how it ignorant and stupid Democrats reveal themselves to be, the GOP can always find some senator or congressman willing to make it look as though the Dems possessed the wisdom of Solomon by comparison.
And then, after all that, Biden does his crazy old man routine at a fundraiser, by calling Xi a dictator.
If you want to know what politicians really think, crash a fundraiser. That was where Hillary mocked the Deplorables, Romney mocked the 47%, and now Biden raises his fist and rages at the clouds.
Looks like Blinken blinked.
Blinken will be blinking a lot more by the time his gong show is over.
When he contacted the Chinese military under Trump to assure them it was safe to ignore the Orange Ogre’s ravings, Chairman of the JCS, thoroughly modern Milley did the Winken, now the SOS is Blinken and the (P)resident is on the Nod prematurely & permanently.
What can possibly go wrong with a more assertive & aggressive policy towards China and its poodle, Russia?
“… China and its poodle, Russia?”
Is this Blinken quote?
Stupid-ass neocons destroyed the 2 major strategic doctrines of the last century with their corrupt, globalist schemes: 1) strategic ambiguity with regards to Taiwan and 2) balancing China and Russia in friendship and strategic competition with the USA, never allowing them to become too close.
If anything, the opposite should have been done – neutrality for Ukraine and drawing Russia closer into cooperation and economic supply-chains of the West.
Biden is a vegetable, Blinken is a fool, and Nuland and the neocons are satanic in their war-mongering.
The point very clearly exposed! Thanks!
Larry’s cite for “a choice between dialogue or confrontation, cooperation or conflict” may be more easily read here. The Cs read Blinken ‘the riot act;’ Blinken said ‘3 bags full, Sir’ = total capitulation. How embarrassing. Add that to zusa’s apocryphal spiralling down the gurgler in Ukraine [not yet complete, but it’s unstoppable] – rather speaks against your “It will go to war.”
Well may we beware the ageing hegemon, but IMHO they are all out of war-making possibilities.
Perhaps they could attempt getting something useful to do – on behalf of their own citizens, say, so that the rest of the world may have a relax. rgds
Despite the noise about the visit, Blinken has not departed from the US 1972 Shanghai Communique, which supports the “One China” principle, as something believed on both sides of the Taiwan straits. (It’s no longer true. Taiwan’s currently ruling party holds that the Taiwanese are a distinct nation). He also repeated the US support for a non-violent resolution of the island’s status. Blinken has not given the store away by agreeing to the People Republic’s sovereignity over Taiwan. So hardly any kowtowing.
As for Nixon’s wisdom in granting Mao the recognition and right to represent the whole of China: the PRC was far from a mighty superpower it is today. The great modernizers, Deng Zhao Ping, and Xi Zhong Un (Xi Jin Ping’s dad) were still in an internal exile. Mao and the Gang of Four ruled and their Cultural Revolution spread economic disaster. The sole purpose of Henry Kissinger’s brilliant policy shift was to maintain a divide between the two world communist behemoths. I do not think that a possibility of a war with China was a motivator for Nixon.
If you are not accurately informed, you cannot formulate an informed comment. For Mao, see:
https://herecomeschina.substack.com/p/another-mao-myth
Why is the US so moronic ?
It is a big world and US population is around 4.27% of the total with China at 18.16% and India at 17.97% and UK at 0.86%…………..
Why doesn’t US start thinking it is not OWNER of the planet with tenants…………..it is sharing a planet with two countries the have 36% global population……..and even if they agree with US that is still only 40% global population
There are lots of souls on this planet that want to use its resources and feed themselves……..
Yes. If anyone with any sense wanted to keep the USA on top of the international rankings, they would not act in the way US governments have since (at least) Clinton. But instead they believe, as they claimed, in their own reality. Trouble is, this ‘reality has no relation the actual reality, which is singular.
What seems to be wrong is a combination of arrogance, hubris and sub-standard education within the so called ‘elites’.
It’s simple. USA is exceptional. Everyone else is not. Says who? USA. That’s it.
Comment from poster @ Moon of Alabama regarding Bernard’ s latest article “U.S. Admits Defeat in War on Russia and China” …
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“Antony visit to China has nothing to do with US kneeling, or Taiwan or Ukraine or anything else……
China and Iran learned from Syria and Hezbollah where it hurts them the most.
If you remember, in twisting deep state arm move, few days ago, XI received Abbas.
What do you think the automatic reaction of the deep state when it comes to the invented entity when someone as powerful as China dares to insert itself in their strictly private domain? ….It is to panic and go ballistic.
Since it is very painful for them, and they fully understand what this take from China means for their own survival, they forced China (BTW don’t be fooled, they have very powerful chewish lobbying mobs in China and Russia also), like they forced Russia to receive Victoria, to meet with Antony and rushed him to Beijing with basket full of, what the deplorable elite thinks are, incentives, bribes, etc… to try to comprehend and soften China move after they killed their ambassador to Israel.
In response the Palestinian Resistance intensified and is intensifying….
In other words they fell into China trap hands and feet tied.
Don’t hold your breath….not yet….
Please comment on this twisted out of beaten path comment….Thank you.
Posted by: Kateb | Jun 21 2023 7:26 utc | 247
The day TikTok CEO grilled at congress Apple CEO in China. Elon Musk visits China later. Finally Bill Gates shows up in China. And then Blinken shows up? Where is the Chinese meddling hysteria? Who is the real state department these days? Now the beloved Elon is in India. Hmmm
“Biden and America Have a Major China Problem”
Don’t worry too much about this , China and Russia don’t.
You just need to look at the root of the problem.
Biden and America Have a Major “America” Problem.
The world would be better off with Blinken out of power.
The world would be better off with ALL Neocons out of power…
Really. They belong in the Smithsonian just to the right of Trotsky in an evolutionary diorama .
Can anyone tell whether the Chinese military could neutralise the US submarine fleet?
As often said, I don’t care about bragging western politicians.
A very good column from Jonathan Turley on the Hunter Biden plea deal.
Turley calls it a ‘controlled demolition.’
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4058616-the-hunter-biden-controlled-demolition-is-complete/
The reason Blinken had to do this is that Taiwan doesn’t want to go the way of Ukraine and this has impacted politics in Taiwan. So Blinken had no choice but to stop pushing for military confrontation.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1671031098061766656
Maybe…. but will the USA remove all warships? Will they stop crossing the Taiwan strait? Will they leave the Philippines?
Winkin, Blinken had to Nod. Lourdes,Cuba – what an ideal location to continually monitor US Military VHF,UHF and microwave communications (24 US bases in Florida alone). CCP won’t need spy balloons any longer. What a coup for China. Better tighten up COMSEC groups
The better parallel to the US sending troops to Taiwan would be Chins ending troops to Hawaii.
It’s not what he said that goes, it’s what he does, it wouldn’t shock if Blinken did soon authorise another shipment of weaponry to Taiwan, or dispatched another military team to the island, or sanctioned few more Chinese companies or individuals.
The American policy making, rather the Western policy making, is rooted in lies, half-truths and deceptions, until that ends the West has no hope of regaining its former strength.
https://www.ft.com/content/d0b94966-d6fa-4042-a918-37e71eb7282e?fbclid=IwAR0tqGzB-5HVTxF2G1EwUqdtbPJ_6bC_ySi1gDU2t9f4eiYSIXZhuOJPTzQ
And in related news above. The head of Raytheon states that we cannot make bombs to bomb China without bomb parts from China.
Top comment Curt, I think WW3, if done right,might solve all our problems with minimal damage. Good people of the world….unite.
Terrific piece. Ironically, the ‘One China’ policy was a direct result of [Republican] US President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to the People’s Republic of China. Fast forward to June, 2023. During his recent visit to China, US Sec of State Anthony Blinken met with Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi and President Xi Jinping, stating the US does not ‘support the independence of Taiwan, reaffirming US support for a ‘One China’ policy. (See- ‘We do not support the independence of Taiwan’: Blinken reaffirms U.S. commitment to One-China policy during high-stakes meeting with Xi – as Beijing REJECTS U.S. request for more contact between two militaries. By James Franey, Senior U.S. Political Reporter, Daily Mail June 19, 2023; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12210999/We-not-support-independence-Taiwan-Blinken-stresses-U-S-commitment-One-China-policy.html). Within 24 hr., US President Joe Biden contradicted Blinken’s assurances to Chinese leaders, referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a ‘dictator’ (See- And Then Biden Blew It … Moon of Alabama June 21, 2023;
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/and-then-biden-blew-it-.html#more). From my perspective, Biden is clamoring for war with China/Russia.
Replying to SteveM
Your iPhone is made in China and can’t be made anywhere else, One of the main iPhone producers Wisteron just closed its production in India because of quality problems after 10 years of trying they still couldn’t get it right. As for American cars no one wants that crap try selling one to the japs. In China General Motors sell more cars than in America its their number one customer, BMW builds more cars in China than it does in America twice as many, probably the same for Mercedes. China is their most important customer not America, America is no ones main customer anymore, China is and most countries can’t survive without them. America is less than 10% of China’s exports so I am sure the Chinese will manage just fine without you buying their quality products.
replying to Hmmm says
No you got that the wrong way round it was Russia using the chips out of leopard tanks to replace the washing machine chips they had to use in build fighter jets
Yea, but Javelins/Stingers/HIMARS/etc. are also machines, and are used for money laundering. Chinese/Iranians/others surely got their hands on some of that loot. 🙂
Marsha Blackburn is an ignoramus. And she’s a U.S. Senator???
What senator isn’t?
And today Biden is right back to the tough talk calling Xi Jinping a dictator.
Which is funny.
China continues to be a net seller of US Treasuries.
(in billions of dollars)
HOLDINGS 1/ AT END OF PERIOD
Jan Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan
Country 2023 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022 2022
—— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— ——
Japan 1104.4 1076.3 1082.3 1064.4 1116.4 1196.0 1230.7 1232.7 1219.9 1215.0 1229.0 1303.0 1299.9
China, Mainland 859.4 867.1 870.2 877.9 901.7 938.6 939.2 938.8 951.8 976.0 1013.2 1028.7 1033.8
United Kingdom 668.3 654.5 645.8 641.3 664.8 646.5 636.6 617.3 636.5 614.3 636.5 627.0 610.7
Belgium 331.1 354.3 332.9 327.2 325.0 287.8 285.4 273.5 268.2 255.6 264.5 258.4 243.0
Luxembourg 318.2 329.4 311.1 298.4 299.9 308.4 306.5 309.3 296.5 296.2 303.2 316.4 313.0
Switzerland 290.5 269.7 266.5 258.4 273.3 290.6 283.1 291.5 287.1 268.0 270.7 278.0 295.4
Cayman Islands 285.3 283.8 283.5 291.7 301.5 308.6 293.4 302.3 295.4 292.5 293.9 275.9 272.1
Canada 254.1 215.1 228.7 218.2 199.9 228.2 227.9 206.2 225.5 234.7 236.5 224.1 217.6
Ireland 253.4 254.8 250.3 245.1 265.4 275.6 277.5 285.6 288.8 309.7 315.9 314.9 308.6
Taiwan 234.6 225.5 223.9 214.6 215.3 231.5 238.2 232.3 229.1 226.9 236.9 247.0 247.1
India 232.0 224.1 219.0 213.0 212.6 221.2 212.0 208.8 203.7 199.0 199.8 199.8 198.6
Hong Kong 226.8 221.0 201.0 185.0 178.7 189.8 192.8 187.3 185.6 195.0 207.7 205.4 225.6
Brazil 214.0 217.4 225.9 220.1 221.8 227.3 232.9 226.1 228.4 229.2 233.3 237.4 236.1
Singapore 187.6 182.9 186.2 175.8 176.4 188.3 187.2 180.9 177.1 182.1 190.9 192.0 191.6
France 183.9 189.0 203.6 217.4 206.7 232.7 231.8 236.3 242.5 242.9 246.0 238.7 232.9
Saudi Arabia 111.0 119.7 121.4 120.7 121.0 122.1 121.6 119.2 114.7 115.7 115.5 116.7 119.4
Korea 105.8 102.9 100.3 98.7 104.9 117.5 111.9 111.9 115.3 117.3 118.9 121.9 123.8
Norway 104.4 92.0 97.7 95.7 99.6 111.1 112.5 112.9 109.0 115.6 116.7 120.1 115.8
Germany 91.3 100.7 90.0 85.9 83.9 88.8 87.5 95.4 91.6 92.8 93.8 90.5 84.3
Bermuda 77.4 81.5 83.6 83.6 82.6 82.7 82.3 79.5 77.4 75.2 73.0 71.2 69.7
Netherlands 73.7 67.4 71.9 63.8 66.2 66.3 66.4 64.5 64.4 63.1 64.7 65.5 60.6
United Arab Emirates 64.9 58.6 59.5 53.9 47.9 48.2 41.6 40.1 38.4 41.9 45.8 46.5 44.9
Australia 62.2 57.1 58.3 58.5 56.3 56.2 56.3 54.3 57.2 60.2 59.2 60.6 59.7
Mexico 58.2 58.6 57.2 56.4 53.9 53.3 49.5 48.8 48.0 47.3 47.7 47.1 44.4
Thailand 52.8 46.0 41.4 43.0 43.3 47.5 48.0 49.0 49.4 57.2 63.7 61.6 62.1
Philippines 48.8 48.3 47.8 47.0 51.2 50.9 51.2 49.7 50.6 50.9 52.5 53.9 52.5
Israel 46.1 47.8 52.0 51.1 51.2 51.1 53.0 51.5 50.9 52.0 59.5 66.0 63.8
Kuwait 43.3 48.5 50.8 50.3 50.2 51.1 49.5 46.0 46.3 46.1 46.8 50.6 50.6
Iraq 41.2 40.8 39.7 38.0 36.9 35.6 34.6 32.0 32.9 28.3 26.2 24.1 23.4
Poland 40.9 37.7 38.2 34.7 33.0 33.9 36.2 35.3 36.0 37.0 39.2 45.5 44.9
Spain 40.3 36.9 36.0 31.9 33.0 29.9 28.8 27.0 29.5 26.0 27.0 29.0 27.4
Italy 40.2 39.2 38.1 36.8 36.8 37.9 40.2 40.4 41.9 42.6 44.2 45.4 42.1
Colombia 39.5 39.8 35.7 33.8 34.4 34.0 35.1 34.9 34.9 35.4 34.5 34.0 33.3
Sweden 39.5 42.3 48.4 46.3 47.1 48.3 50.3 48.2 48.2 53.1 53.5 55.4 54.5
Bahamas 38.1 46.0 44.1 45.1 41.3 40.0 35.7 30.3 30.0 39.5 36.1 33.5 35.9
Vietnam 36.3 36.9 35.6 36.2 37.1 38.2 39.9 39.2 39.1 40.1 40.7 41.4 42.3
Chile 34.2 34.0 34.1 33.8 34.0 36.0 38.1 40.5 39.4 36.5 37.4 37.2 35.3
Peru 31.8 32.1 31.0 31.1 32.2 32.4 32.0 30.8 29.9 30.3 29.9 29.5 29.0
All Other 437.2 439.2 424.9 408.3 414.1 408.5 407.7 407.2 400.1 402.0 399.6 409.8 410.0
Grand Total 7402.5 7318.7 7268.6 7133.1 7251.5 7492.7 7485.5 7417.0 7411.0 7443.4 7604.4 7703.6 7655.9
Of which:
For. Official 3713.9 3678.1 3670.8 3614.0 3713.7 3876.9 3895.0 3855.3 3866.3 3907.5 4025.3 4124.4 4130.0
Treasury Bills 249.6 238.7 217.2 203.8 220.0 230.5 234.0 238.3 248.6 256.6 259.7 278.3 266.7
T-Bonds & Notes 3464.3 3439.3 3453.6 3410.2 3493.7 3646.4 3661.0 3616.9 3617.7 3650.9 3765.6 3846.0 3863.3
Department of the Treasury/Federal Reserve Board
March 15, 2023
“Nick Says” is right.
The main reason for the 1st World War was because Germany had become, by the end of the 18th century, a great military, commercial and intellectual power and, therefore, a serious competitor to the British Empire. In addition, as he rightly says, he was creating his own “silk route” with the railway to Western Asia, thereby obviating the maritime dominance of the English (and their pirates?).
Therefore, it had to be destroyed at any cost, which they achieved in two batches (1st and 2nd world wars), after which Germany was left as a mere manufacturer of things, without geopolitical weight (in fact, now it is an occupied country… over a hundred US and UK military bases I think).
The history of the world has been greatly misrepresented or untold…by those in control of the media.
I meant: … “at the end of the 19th century” …
In Eastern Europe, back in the day, I was thought in school what you wrote here, more or less. Rising power and declining one started a war for colonies, aka “ruling the world”. Some guy being shot somwhere, was just an excuse for idiots. Back in the day we belived that West was great, as depicted by movies. Only in recent times we relized that western educational system and media are intentionally breeding idiots that would believe in world wars starting because some guy got shot.
Very, very challenging, to govern, the ungovernable.
10K $ banknotes is the purchase price of “Senator”, according to latest scoop by Mr.O’Keeffe, without mention if it is for the term or individual bill to benefit the buyer.
Citizen United vs. We the People, in full Splendor for all to see.
“Why won’t this administration stand up to bullies and stand for freedom?” (Blackburn) Because the Biden Regime is a dictatorship comprised of “bullies” who have a twisted impression of democracy and view the US citizens and most of the rest of the world as an annoyance worthy of “vaporization.”
For a country that even elects dogcatchers, why does the US cling to appointments for dingbats to become cabinet secretaries? Never understood why these positions aren’t those of an elected official. Seems like a relic of eighteenth century thought to me. When the president could keep an eye on things.
All the other democracies of Europe and the British Commonwealth have elected nitwits as Cabinet Ministers, not some jumped-up bureaucrat who is not really responsible to anyone but themselves and their friends’ interests in the end. Take Blinken wandering off to China to talk to the big boys there. They know he’s just an appointed flunkie. And he found out the next day when Joe went off-script that he was expendable.
And any time one of these appointees at State, along with their myriad career aides do negotiate a tentative agreement with a foreign country, why, the Senate has to sign off on it for it to become law. A Senate that is undemocratic as hell, where every state gets two senators regardless of population.
I mean, it’s cartoon time. And at least a century overdue for an update and overhaul.
Sure, you can say cabinet appointees are the President’s ‘men”, but one did notice that Trump’s cabinet entourage swaggered about promoting their own agendas, and he was near enough clueless in the matter, not even understanding the constitution as written. Even his assumptions he regarded as the law because he was president.
I understand the fabled US separation of executive, legislative and judicial branches of government in theory, but the practice seems inbred. Dinglebunnies who make a career of being this and that aide or senior bureaucrat for decades always seem to get the big jobs. For no apparent solid reasons I have never been able to work out in my 75 years on Earth.
Amazing. Personally, I find it passing strange that all these revolving door “officials” are not beholden to an electorate, while the elected VP mostly has about zero influence on matters and must stick to their knitting. Which is why VPs are usually nonentities — the system makes them so.
When Nixon got booted, er, stepped down, one of the sighs of relief was from senior bureaucrats / appointees, whatever, to the effect that the US Constitution had proven resilient and up to the destabilizing challenge. Boy, that was nonsense because things came damn close to going right off the rails. If Tricky Dick had proven intractable to his removal, what then?