🇺🇸🇨🇳 While both leaders appeared to be cordial there was little sign that Washington has changed its fundamental position of antagonizing China.

United States President Joe Biden held his first direct dialogue with China’s President Xi Jinping amid spiraling tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. Professor Francis Boyle gives his take on the “big event” in a brief interview.

👤 Francis Anthony Boyle is Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is an alumni cum laude of Harvard School of Law. Boyle has served as counsel for Bosnia-Herzegovina and an advisor to the Palestinian Authority. He is a long-standing critic of US policy supporting Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories which he has condemned as genocide. Boyle has denounced US governments over foreign policy that systematically promotes war and the oppression of indigenous peoples. He is author of numerous books.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/11/24/bidens-summit-with-xi-a-pr-stunt-that-wont-reduce-us-china-tensions/

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🐲🦅 ‘Encirclement’ and ‘containment’ effectively have become Biden’s default foreign policy, Alastair Crooke writes.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/27/americas-armed-sentinel-state-encirclement/

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🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇼 Japan’s future, whether she likes it or not, will be with its East Asian neighbors’ Belt and Road Initiative when the U.S. 7th Fleet scuttles back to Pearl Harbor.

Read more by Declan Hayes: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/05/high-noon-for-japan-asia-toothless-tiger/

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🇨🇳🇸🇧🇦🇺 China has referred to Australia’s bid to block bilateral deal as a legacy of ‘disrespectful colonialism’ in the Pacific.

💬 By Patricia A OBRIEN: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/25/australias-abuse-birthed-china-solomon-islands-pact/

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🐲🦘🦅 U.S. Is Fine With Encircling China, but “Won’t Tolerate” Chinese Bases on Its Ally’s Doorstep

Signing a security agreement between China and the Pacific nation of Solomon Islands prompted speculation that Beijing plans to establish a military base there. According to China Foreign Ministry spokesman, “the so-called Chinese military base in Solomon Islands is completely fabricated with disinformation by a few people with ulterior motives”, however this is a hot topic in the Australian media.

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🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇸 The answer is one failed in Ukraine, one has kept the peace.

The question, going forward, is the model the strategic clarity of NATO’s Article 5 or the strategic ambiguity of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act?

💬 By Peter Van Buren: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/02/deterrence-failed-in-ukraine-strategic-ambiguity-over-taiwan-better-than-treaty/

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🇵🇭🇨🇳 The task of all East and Southeast Asian patriots is to build their common destiny together, free from Bongbong and the 7th Fleet’s drum he and his fellow oligarchs dance to.

Bongbong Marcos’ victory in the recent Presidential elections of the Philippines is not, as NATO’s media insist, a return to the corrupt days of his father’s era, because that corruption never ended and never will end until the societal structures of the Philippines change from top to bottom.

💬 Read more by Declan Hayes: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/15/the-philippines-return-of-the-oligarchs/

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🇦🇺🇺🇸 Helen Caldicott warns that the sharpening military confrontation between the United States and Russia puts global security, peace and ultimately our very existence in more danger than ever before.

👤 Helen Caldicott, a world-renowned author and film-maker, warns that the sharpening military confrontation between the United States and Russia puts global security, peace and ultimately our very existence in more danger than ever before. The U.S. has gutted arms-control treaties one after another, and its NATO allies have long-pushed Russia into an existential predicament.

Based now in her native Australia, she also deplores how successive governments in Canberra have pandered to the relentless U.S. agenda of antagonism towards China and Russia. She says this subordination and lack of independent foreign policy is undermining Australia’s national economy and eroding peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr Helen Caldicott was born in Melbourne in 1938. She is an M.D. and author of several books including Sleepwalking to Armageddon. A recipient of multiple international awards, she also has been the subject of several films, including Eight Minutes to Midnight, nominated for an Academy Award in 1981 for best documentary feature.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇳 The Anglo-American foreign policy hawks imagine that the world is yearning to be liberated from Beijing’s nefarious agenda to end poverty, Matthew Ehret writes.

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🦅 Com a ascensão da China, o Sudeste Asiático assim também cresce. O Sudeste Asiático transformou-se lentamente em termos econômicos, infraestrutura, turismo, indústria e politicamente ao longo das últimas duas décadas, à medida que a influência chinesa aumenta e inevitavelmente desloca a influência dos EUA sobre a região.

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🐉 The Asian countries have more than enough on their plates without their former overlords from the north joining the Americans in throwing their weight about.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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