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5Aug

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China makes weapons ‘breakthrough’

Beijing’s military scientists have claimed success in enabling high-energy lasers to operate “indefinitely” without overheating © National University of Defense Technology Chinese military scientists have reported a research breakthrough that could make it possible for Beijing to develop high-energy laser weapons that can shoot for as long as their operators desire, without interruption and without any degradation in performance. Scientists at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China, published the results of their research earlier this month in Acta Optica Sinica, a peer-reviewed Chinese journal. They claim to have developed a new cooling system that makes it possible to operate high-energy lasers “indefinitely,” without any ...

2Aug

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China, USA

US Leaders Split on China Policy

BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain On the one hand, U.S. policy aims to constrain China’s economic, political, and military development because it has now become the United States’ chief economic competitor and thus enemy. On the other hand, U.S. policy seeks to secure the many benefits to the United States of its companies’ trade with and investments in China. U.S. debates over “decoupling” the two countries’ economies versus the milder version of the same thing—“de-risking”—exemplify, on both sides, U.S. policy’s split approach to China. The difficult reality for the United States is economic dependence on the world’s number two economy that deepens with China’s relentless march toward becoming the world’s number one. Likewise, China...

US Navy Destroyers Responded to Russian, Chinese Vessels Near Aleutian Islands

31Jul

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US Navy Destroyers Responded to Russian, Chinese Vessels Near Aleutian Islands

Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan blasted the Chinese and Russian patrol as a reminder of 'authoritarian aggression'by Dave DeCamp Posted onAugust 8, 2023CategoriesNewsTagsAlaska, China, Russia The US deployed four Navy destroyers in response to Russian and Chinese vessels operating near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, which stretch far into the northern Pacific Ocean. The incident occurred last week when 11 Chinese and Russian warships were conducting joint patrols near the Aleutian Islands. It’s not clear how close the vessels came to Alaska’s territory. US Northern Command said the vessels stayed in international waters, which means they did not enter US territorial waters, which stretch 12 nautical miles from the US coastline. Map of Alaska (Source Nations Online ...

Ain’t Gonna Work On Meili’s Farm No More

27Jul

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Ain’t Gonna Work On Meili’s Farm No More

BY RICHARD RUBENSTEIN Grain elevators. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Can you beat this? According to the New York Times, “The Senate voted overwhelmingly to block businesses based in China from purchasing farmland in the United States.” The vote was 91-7. The reason for this is not, as you might suspect, to prevent good old American farmland from being used to produce bok choy, pak choy, pok choy, or, God forbid, gai choy, but rather to “clamp down on China’s ability to gain vantage points for intelligence gathering.”[1] What? The reasoning behind this weird enactment becomes a bit clearer when one notes that the Senate voted in the same bill to force Americans to notify the Treasury Department of any investments they might make in China’s “national security indust...

Arming Taiwan is an Insane Provocation: For the Sake of Our Survival it Must Stop

22Jul

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Arming Taiwan is an Insane Provocation: For the Sake of Our Survival it Must Stop

BY JOHN V. WALSH Photo by Jack Brind The Island of Taiwan has been turned into a “powder keg” by the infusion of U.S. weaponry, pushing the Taiwanese people into the “abyss of disaster.” These are the words of the Chinese Defense Ministry in reaction to the recent $440 million sale of U.S. arms to the island. And now the U.S.is also giving, not selling, arms to Taiwan, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. The “First Island Chain” Strategy of the U.S. Taiwan is but one in a series of islands along the Chinese coast, often called “The First Island Chain,” which now bristles with advanced U.S. weapons. These are accompanied by tens of thousands of supporting U.S. military personnel and combat troops. The “First Island Chain” extends from Japan in the north southward through Ja...

Sanctions on China, Export Controls on Rare Earths for the U.S.: Two, It Turns Out, Can Tango

21Jul

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Sanctions on China, Export Controls on Rare Earths for the U.S.: Two, It Turns Out, Can Tango

BY EVE OTTENBERG Gallium crystals. Source: Footer Photography. CC BY-SA 3.0 If Washington intended to bully Beijing economically and indefinitely, July 3 was a rude awakening. That’s when China announced export controls on two, vital rare earth metals, germanium and gallium. In and of itself this move clobbers one sector of U.S. industry, such as it is. But even worse is what it portends. China has 60 percent of the world’s supply of rare earth minerals. The other 40 percent are in locations of dubious accessibility. But that’s not all. Ninety percent of the processing of those rare earth minerals occurs in the country U.S. sanctions have royally pissed off, namely China. Why are rare earth minerals so critical? The technology for wind and solar energy and for electric v...

Will the small states of Oceania be able to maintain their independence in the face of a new Sino-American Cold War?

18Jul

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Will the small states of Oceania be able to maintain their independence in the face of a new Sino-American Cold War?

The ‘friends to all, enemies to none’ strategy is living its last days as the US and China press the island nations to take sides By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst Conflict between China and USA in Asia-Pacific region - stock photo © Getty Images Papua New Guinea is a gateway between continents. The island, having been cut in half, demarcates an artificial boundary between Asia and Oceania. In the past several centuries, the broader island has been carved upon between almost every colonial power going, having been ruled at various points by the Dutch Empire, the Spanish Empire, the German Empire, the Empire of Japan, and the British Empire. Even after gaining its formal independence in 1975 from Australia, these legacies continue to scar the island, with ha...

An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia

11Jul

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An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia

BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison – Public Domain Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of US power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability. From that upending, the alliance started bungling. It engaged, without the authorisation of the UN Security Council, in a 78-day bombing campaign of Yugoslavia – at least what was left of it – ostensibly to protect the lives of Kosovar Albanians. Far from dampening the tinderbox, the Kosovo affair continues to be an explosion in the making. Members of the alliance also expended mater...

It’s Hard for Americans to Engage in China-Bashing Without Tripping on Contradictions

10Jul

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China, USA

It’s Hard for Americans to Engage in China-Bashing Without Tripping on Contradictions

BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: Studio Incendo – CC BY 2.0 The contradictions of China-bashing in the United States begin with how often it is flat-out untrue. The Wall Street Journal reports that the “Chinese spy” balloon that President Joe Biden shot down with immense patriotic fanfare in February 2023 did not in fact transmit pictures or anything else to China. White House economists have been trying to excuse persistent U.S. inflation saying it is a global problem and inflation is worse elsewhere in the world. China’s inflation rate is 0.7 percent year-on-year. Financial media outlets stress how China’s GDP growth rate is lower than it used to be. China now estimates that its 2023 GDP growth will be 5 to 5.5 percent. Estima...

1Jul

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Covid: China changes gear

As the People’s Republic moves on from the era of zero-Covid, western media are desperate to portray its decision as a sign of failure. Proletarian writers Subscribe to our channel Members of a Chinese anti-epidemic medical team heading to Palestine to aid in the Covid emergency. China’s Covid response has always been focused entirely on the needs and wellbeing of her people, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s leaders from doing everything in their power to help combat the pandemic at a global level. Certainly, if others had followed China’s lead in the beginning the virus might have been stamped out in short order, so that the many terrible consequences of allowing it to let rip through the world population would have been averted. https://w.soundcloud.com/playe...