Support Russia, take back Taiwan (https://www.guancha.cn/chenwenling/2022_06_06_643134.shtml)
As far as the current Sino-US relationship is concerned, I would single out four crucial aspects.
Firstly, if China and the United States can ease their hostile relationship, it will make a huge difference to overall world peace.
But now American politicians, who have lost their minds, have taken a course towards a new Cold War towards China
So we can have no illusions, we must prepare to fight.
Secondly, most of the world is not willing to choose sides.
Since the Sino-US trade war initiated by Trump, virtually all countries have expressed a very clear general trend, they are not willing to choose between China and the United States.
Thirdly, American politicians are schizophrenics.
From Biden to Blinken, to Catherine Tai and Janet Yellen, almost all high-ranking officials suffer from “schizophrenia.”
There really are no mature politicians in the United States, no politicians who are consistent in word and deed. High-ranking American officials and leading think-tanks have given the country no good ideas, have corrupted the orderly world and the rules created after World War II.
Fourthly, China should be prepared not only for short-term confrontation, but also for long-term strategic preparation to counter the US plans to suppress China.
If the US and the West impose destructive sanctions against China, similar to those against Russia, we must take back Taiwan, we must take over TSMC, the company that was originally owned by China. TSMC is forcing the transfer of its technology to the US to build six factories there, we must not let that happen.
We must support Russia openly, reasonably and to the best of our ability. We can also do more in terms of trade so that China and Russia can connect through the Belt and Road and the Eurasian Union proposed by Putin.
– Chen Wenlin (陈文玲), chief economist at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges
Arnaud Betrand
(Has been living & working in CHN for many years )
https://twitter.censors.us/RnaudBertrand/status/1533792477248778241#m
Are we finally seeing the start of some sort of “Me Too” movement around journalists lies?
Because when it comes to China the lies have been absolutely egregious and systematic in absolutely all the major newspapers.
https://twitter.censors.us/PalmerLuckey/status/1533622885306503168#m
The Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post correction scandal isn’t the isolated incident apologists claim. When I was fired, her story said I had announced I was leaving Oculus. This was false – it wasn’t my choice nor my announcement. Her only source: Facebook PR. WaPo later
ALSO:
WashingtonPost turmoil:
https://twitter.censors.us/ggreenwald/status/1533908453642620929#m
Taking Taiwan should be easy. I doubt most Taiwanese would want to get killed.
I have Taiwanese ancestry and I wanted the mainland to have already completed unification a long time ago.
But I suppose we must consider there are many factions within the CPC. And some of them are in favor of continuing “negotiations” with the US/Wall Street. This will become increasingly difficult…
If there’s a way of preserving that damn factory (who knows, the Taiwanese or even US military might blow it up if they know they’ll lose it), then the rebel government in Taiwan should cease to exist. I’m sure casualties would be minimal, but as in the case of the Ukraine, the problem is not military, but geopolitical, geoeconomic and ideological.
Well said, Chen Wenlin. If Russia and China don’t hantogether, the US Empire of Malice will try to hang them separately
Well, an Economist, even a Chinese one, speaking about geopolitics is exercising his right to speak even if there isn’t much for him to say.
China will not invade unless Taiwan acts to separate.
China will focus an ‘invasion’ on the Taiwan government.
The Taiwan military will fight a fierce insurgent war of resistance.
The US has the same bait as it used in Ukraine. It can trigger an existential response from the Mainland just as it force Russia to execute the SMO.
The technology in TSMC will be gone and China won’t be able to stop that. It is not a trigger point for China to go to war. In a few years, China will have its own lithographic equipment capable of 2-5 nm chips.
Taiwan’s separatist faction (DPP) has only one move it can make and it is suicide for them. But Mrs. Tsai is clearly suicidal.
Not possible because of trade imbalance between China and USA. USA not capable to produce by themselves to even this out.
Worse than that whole industrial sectors of the US economy have be hollowed out or eliminated. Imagine you are a US farmer that needs tractor parts. Where do they come from? China. No parts no agricultural production. This issue would be replicated across many sectors if trade stopped.
Very good ideas. They need to be implemented. But one question I have is how do they prevent the transfer of technology,and building of those six plants he talked about? And if you can do that,how about also getting your hands on that technology and using it to build those plants in China instead. There may be nothing more important for the Chinese (and Russian) struggle against the US than for them to be about to counter US plots to dominate the high end chip making processes in the world.
I have a question. Maybe a naive one.
I had great hopes for the China-Russia cooperation. In particular, I was happy to hear that Russians were able to use UnionPay to avoid sanctions. However, today I got to know that UnionPay suspended it’s collaboration with MIR.
In my humble view, an alternative to SWIFT is as necessary as never before. In order to support countries rising up against the US pressure, one needs an alternative. Why did China cancel that cooperation with MIR?
I find it really scary, as it looks to me like China is turning away from Russia. Or at least China is not interested in establishing parallel structures that the Global South can rely on in order to withstand US onslaught.
Please let me know what you think about it. I’m really really worried.
Thanks.