🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇸 Incumbents of the White House come and go, but U.S. security objectives do not alter course so readily, Alastair Crooke writes.

Under Trump’s escalating anti-China stance, Taiwan enjoyed enhanced recognition and support – with regular high-level visits from U.S. officials, as well as increased arms sales. This led some Beltway pundits, at the time, to express concern that ‘strategic ambiguity’ regarding the possibility of a U.S. military response – were Taiwan to be militarily reunited with China – was being deliberately eroded. They warned in Foreign Affairs to not rock the boat with China.

Nonetheless, Taipei feared that this salami-slice push by Washington’s China hawks nurturing Taiwan autonomy, could be watered down by an incoming Biden administration. They feared that U.S. foreign policy under Biden would chart a softer approach, based more on managing its pivot to ‘intense competition’ with China.

Much the same expectations of a Bidenesque ‘softer’ approach – albeit in the context of multilateral co-operation – was shared by Brussels in the wake of Biden’s arrival in the White House. Biden’s ‘America is Back’ mantra received a gushing welcome from the Brussels ruling class. It was expected to overturn Trump’s scepticism and hesitancy on NATO and the EU, and to usher in a new golden era of multilateralism. It hasn’t.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/10/18/us-longer-telegram-is-hostile-interventionism-in-china-posing-as-competition/

#China #Taiwan #politics #UnitedStates

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🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 In the wake of the Kabul withdrawal débacle, the U.S. administration is in a tearing hurry to give Biden the semblance of foreign policy success.

The contradictions multiply: On the one hand, U.S. Administration ‘China hawks’ accelerate the eating away, piece by piece, of the ‘One China’ commitment and egg-on Taipei to think that the U.S. ‘has its back’, were China to attempt any reunification of the Island using military force. Yet Taiwan will eventually be integrated into China, as the latter would be bound to prevail militarily, should ‘push come to shove’. Perhaps though, Washington sees this tactical harassment of Beijing as a political ‘capillary action’ success – even if Taiwan’s end-destiny is ‘writ’ in stone. Read more by Alastair Crooke ⬇️

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/11/08/losing-militarily-strategically-order-win-politically-but-ephemerally/

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 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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🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇳 UN Member States With Limited Recognition

Some internationally recognized countries “do not exist” for others: these are the cases of the so-called “limited recognition”.

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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/

#China #IndoPacific #Politics #Taiwan

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🇨🇳🇱🇹 China Has a New Ferocious Critic

Recently, the Eastern European nation of Lithuania began to fiercely criticize China on all fronts – from human rights to technology – and simultaneously engage with Taiwan. This behavior was readily supported by Washington and Brussels. What stands behind it?

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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/

#China #IndoPacific #Japan #SouthKorea #Taiwan

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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 circus around Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan is a clear sign that something incredibly reckless and stupid is about to happen.

💬 By Cynthia Chung

#Taiwan #Pelosi #China

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🗽 Though peace will come to Ukraine, it will be peace with justice and dignity for the country’s Russian speakers, irrespective of the day dreams of the LA Times and NATO’s other organ grinders.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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🇺🇦🗽🇹🇼 The tragedy is that the grandstanding of Pelosi and the avarice of Hunter Biden and Clown Prince Zelensky drags countless millions of Faithful Hussars into war’s abyss.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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👾🔬 These Countries Are the World Leaders in Microchip Exports

Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan remain dominant players in global microchip production, which also allows them to control half of the worldwide export market, Statista writes.

Numbers from the UN Comtrade database show that Greater China’s exports of microchips totaled just under $400 billion in the pandemic year of 2020.

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🔐 Doomsday prophesising of how China’s days are numbered and that it is in the midst of an economic collapse could not be any further from reality.

The reasons for the spread of this sort of gossip is to keep up the belief (and thus investment) in the idea that the United States is secure in its alpha dog global status and that the world is better off siding with said alpha in its escalating and reckless, not to mention unnecessary, economic and geopolitical war against Russia and China. It is to intimidate any country foolish enough to throw too many of its eggs into the Russia-China basket with the thought that they will be left hanging in the wind once China collapses from the international stranglehold on its economy, which is touted as inevitable.

It is to convince the American people, that the further sacrifices they are about to make in their livelihood and standard of living will be worth it, perhaps to even go so far as to proclaim that this will be the necessary “new normal” all for the cause of world security, of course.

The reality of the situation which should be plain for everyone to see at this point, is that the United States’ sanctions and banning of various types of trade with Russia and China, meant to cripple their economies, is doing more damage to the world markets than anything else, including that of Europe and the United States ❌

💬 Cynthia Chung writes

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🇩🇪🇨🇳 Not content with committing its nation to economic suicide from deteriorating Russian relations, the German government now wants to bury the corpse by sabotaging trade relations with China.

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🐲 Beijing might be better taking Taiwan now – once and for all – before it festers anymore under American influence.

President Xi Jinping’s re-election for a record-breaking third term as China’s leader was promptly ambushed by Western media smears.

Xi becomes the first Chinese leader since Chairman Mao to hold three terms in office after he was re-elected by delegates at the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing last weekend.

Western media rushed to predict that China would become more autocratic and repressive, without providing any substantiation for its lurid claims, and while ignoring the phenomenal economic and developmental successes of the People’s Republic under Xi during the past decade.

The U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations cited the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which predicted that China would become “more assertive and aggressive” in its foreign relations over the next five years.

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#China #XiJinping #Taiwan

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Here's why the #US wants (needs) it's war with #Russia and #China.

If you belive its anything to do with #Ukraine, #Taiwan or "Freedom and Democracy," your delusional.

Blue - Biggest trading partner is the USA.

Red - Biggest trading partner is China.

End of lesson. @irishmaninrussia