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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RV Kirgit on August 27, 2021, 11:55:53 PM
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Looks like similar trajectory we have with Chinese flue vs Spanish flue.
Chinaman empire rapidly expanding with obor and tech advance
Now we have covid with chinaman origin, and also spike protein cure code sequenced by Chinaman
Debate on-going about lab vs bush origin of covid, and west vs east origin. This still under radar..
Then we have west and world rolling out chinaman like measures on people and let them feel how chinaman system testes like (since chinaman has fail to impose political will and condition with foreign trade/aid). People masses start detest new chinaman-like systems and will like all chinaman systems ceased and desist from existing.
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The very word “enemy” is now taboo; politicians today overwhelmingly deploy alternatives such as “risk,” “threat” or “competitor.” According to received wisdom, to identify China as an enemy is to reduce complex relations to binary choices and risk creating a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” with relations souring beyond repair.
But refusing to identify a country as an enemy does not mean that we won’t be facing one. In a world marked by the return of predatory powers, China is certain to be the apex predator. And refusing to acknowledge it as such may mean ending up on its menu.
True, China’s ability to transform, adapt and emulate over time has been remarkable. And it is obvious that, unlike the Soviet Union, China does not seek either global domination or the export of its political system. However, China not only sees our political system as fundamentally inimical to the survival of its communist regime, but is determined to make the world safe for autocracy. China is set on undermining the unity of the west—a bloc now palpably weakened by its defeat in Afghanistan—by dividing Europe from the US, and Europeans from each other. Nor is there much doubt that Beijing is aiming at technological domination.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/the-duel-is-china-now-the-enemy-military-conflict-power-war
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What comes after the war on terrorism? War on China?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/news/defence/what-comes-after-the-war-on-terrorism-war-on-china/amp_articleshow/86029485.cms
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Kirgit, seems you have a lot of time in your hands. No woman to let off some of your steams?
I actually thought you specialised only on covid-19.
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In the space of just a few years, Britain has gone from China’s would-be best friend to part of a pact to counter it. When President Xi Jinping came to London in 2015, Downing Street pulled out all the stops. Xi stayed at Buckingham Palace, visited Chequers and signed — of all things — a cyber security agreement. The police went to extraordinary lengths to clamp down on protests by Free Tibet supporters and a Tiananmen Square survivor. Yet just six years later the UK has now joined with Australia and the US in Aukus, a new alliance designed to check China’s power in the Pacific.
Britain is no longer trying to stay neutral in the competition between the US and China. It has firmly sided with the United States. It looks as if the contours of the next 30 years of British foreign policy have just been fixed.
The new alliance is all about mutual interest. The Aussies wanted lasting protection from China, which France could not provide, so Britain stepped in, with America, ready to share nuclear-powered submarine technology. Joe Biden is looking beyond Nato, to a new coalition of the willing prepared to help it in its bid to check Chinese power in Asia. Critics wonder what muscle we could possibly add to the US navy, but that is not the point. The US has secured a toughening of the UK’s line on China. And because of the institutional nature of this three-way alliance, it can be confident that Britain won’t change its mind and try to court favour with Beijing again.
‘The relationship has foundations deep enough that it can survive whatever political winds are blowing,’ says one British source. This is vital. It means that the pact doesn’t depend on any personal chemistry between leaders; that defence and technology cooperation between these three countries will now continue regardless of how well the residents of the White House, Downing Street and the Lodge get on.
It’s true that the ‘special relationship’ was particularly effective under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, but it also survived the tensions between Bill Clinton and John Major and Donald Trump and Theresa May. The Aukus alliance will stabilise the friendship further. It will be a lasting feature of British foreign policy, and the clearest example yet of what the tilt to the Pacific and the talk of ‘global Britain’ actually means.
Australia sells more to China than its next eight export customers put together, creating an economic dependency that might — in another country — have been accompanied by political fealty. Certainly, China thought deference was owed. It reacted with fury to Australia calling for an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 (it is revealing just how upset Beijing got about this). Tariffs were slapped on Australian goods and bureaucratic obstacles raised to its exports. This was an attempt to bring Canberra into line — and a way of showing others how dangerous it is to question Beijing.
Australia has faced cyber attacks which have all the hallmarks of a Chinese operation. Two Chinese spy ships placed themselves off the Queensland coast to watch the Australian military exercise with its allies. No wonder Australia — surrounded by three oceans — has decided it needs nuclear powered subs, which can travel further than the diesel-fuelled ones they had agreed to buy from the French. What started as a defence need morphed into a new military alliance.
The attraction for the US of such a deal was obvious. Washington is currently trying to construct a series of alliances in the Pacific to counter China. For Britain the appeal was that it showed how the UK could be relevant in this part of the world for decades to come. It gave new purpose to the 2007 decision to buy two aircraft carriers and it gave the Royal Navy a mission.
All of this is deeply controversial. ‘If Afghanistan proved anything, it’s that Britain is now a regional rather than a global power,’ says one senior military source. ‘A political decision to build those aircraft carriers in Gordon Brown’s constituency has ended up shaping our defence alliance — thinly stretched, and of barely any use to the US navy.’ It’s a common view. Wouldn’t it make more sense for this country, whose defence spending is only 8 per cent of America’s, to concentrate on its role in European security?
But the Pacific is where the future is being shaped. The US-China competition is technological as much as it is military. Countries that aren’t involved in the alliance structures of the region will find themselves being left behind technologically. Indeed, an important part of the Aukus partnership is cooperation on artificial intelligence, quantum computing and cyber warfare. One consequence of this will be that Washington demands restrictions on who buys UK technology companies, with the aim of preventing valuable intellectual property ending up in Chinese hands.
We can expect other groups to form. The so-called Quad — the US, Japan, India and Australia, which started off being used for joint naval exercises — is now working together to build secure semiconductor supply chains.
The Aukus deal has been met with public enthusiasm in Japan and implicit encouragement in India — suggesting that, in time, there’ll be considerable overlap between these various US alliances. It’s even possible that Aukus could be expanded. The most likely country to be added to the pact would be Canada. Like the founding members, it is also part of the Five Eyes intelligence grouping, making cooperation on fundamental state business a comfortable fit. New Zealand, however, won’t be joining: it doesn’t allow nuclear submarines to operate in its waters, and Jacinda Ardern takes a very different view on China.
When Boris Johnson first became Prime Minister few would have had him down as a China hawk. At the start of last year he was considering giving Huawei the contracts for building the UK’s 5G network (such deals are still in place in much of Europe). Even earlier this year he was complaining to friends about what he saw as excessive anti-China fervour amongst certain Tory backbenchers. Johnson, foreign secretary at the time of the Salisbury poisoning and who describes his attempt to reset relations with Russia as his biggest mistake, was happier calling out Moscow than Beijing.
But China’s recent behaviour — in particular its treatment of Australia and the clampdown on Hong Kong, which breaches the treaty it signed with Britain ahead of the handover — has seen the Prime Minister taking a much tougher line. It will become tougher still with the arrival of Liz Truss at the Foreign Office. As trade secretary she did little to hide her views on the need for the West to respond to China’s abuse of World Trade Organisation rules.
Aukus has its advantages, but there are also risks, the biggest coming not from China’s strength but its weakness. The Aukus submarines will take years to arrive and the danger is that Beijing tries to get ahead of the new alliances emerging in the Pacific, and tries its hand now, perhaps tightening its control over the waters around Taiwan. In a decade’s time, the US-led world order will be better placed to check China. The worry is what happens between now and then.
The influential American strategists Hal Brands and Michael Beckley have pointed out that — like Wilhelmine Germany or Imperial Japan in the 1940s — China might conclude that its rise is slowing, and that, if it doesn’t act now, then its moment of opportunity will have passed. This is what makes the next few years so dangerous.
The recently-retired head of US Indo-Pacific command warned Congress before he left the service that China could try to seize Taiwan within the next six years.
China’s rate of economic growth has halved since 2007. It is increasingly saddled with national debt — now an astonishing 280 per cent of GDP, far more than any European country. China has been a middle-income country now for a quarter of a century, and is still pretty far from graduating to a high-income country. None of the countries that avoided the middle-income trap in the second half of the 20th century — South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore — spent three decades as a middle-income country. President Xi’s actions in recent weeks — banning private tutoring, reining in Chinese tech companies and squeezing the property sector — will all hit foreign investment, which has done so much to spur Chinese growth.
We’re used to bemoaning the West’s demographic problems, but China’s are particularly serious. The one-child policy went on for so long that China’s working-age population is already shrinking. Unless there are sudden and drastic improvements in labour productivity, a smaller workforce will mean slower economic growth — alongside an ageing society. By 2050, a third of China’s population will be aged over 60.
Beijing’s belligerence is compounding the problems. Its ‘wolf warrior diplomacy’ drove Australia into this new alliance and will see other countries join balancing coalitions. Japan’s decision to move away from its 1 per cent of GDP cap on defence spending is a result of Beijing’s attempt to turn the seas around it into Chinese lakes. China’s idiotic border skirmish with India in the Himalayas has pushed New Delhi to seek more cooperation with Washington. India was non-aligned in the first Cold War; it won’t be in the second one. China would have done far better strategically to continue biding its time, hiding its capabilities and deepening other countries’ economic dependence on it.
There are few issues of bipartisan agreement in American politics these days, but the need to counter China is one of them. We can, therefore, expect this US alliance building to become as central to US foreign policy as countering the Soviet threat was during the Cold War.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/new-world-order-can-britain-america-and-australia-contain-china
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U.S. needs to work with Europe to slow China's innovation rate, Raimondo says
WASHINGTON – Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Tuesday that the U.S. will rally allies in order to mount pressure on China, the world's second-largest economy, an approach that differs from the "America First" policies pursued by President Joe Biden's Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.
"America is most effective when we work with our allies," Raimondo told CNBC's Kayla Tausche in an exclusive interview. "If we really want to slow down China's rate of innovation, we need to work with Europe."
"They're ripping off our IP, they are not playing by the rules. It's not a level playing field. And so we need to hold their feet to the fire to make sure that they do that," she said, adding that Beijing is "not living up to the agreements that they made."
When asked if Commerce would take some actions unilaterally to address the great power competition between the U.S. and China in shaping security practices and setting global trade norms, Raimondo again pointed to allies.
"We have to work with our European allies to deny China the most advanced technology so that they can't catch up in critical areas like semiconductors," Raimondo said, adding that the Biden administration plans to deepen cooperation with Europe on export controls.
"We want to work with Europe, to write the rules of the road for technology, whether it's TikTok or artificial intelligence or cyber," she said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/28/us-needs-to-work-with-europe-to-slow-chinas-innovation-rate-raimondo-says.html
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China warns World War Three could be triggered 'at any time' after it sent dozens of warplanes into Taiwan's airspace as Big Lizzie joins US aircraft carrier and Japanese warships in huge Philippine sea exercise
By Chris Jewers and Ross
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10063171/China-warns-World-War-Three-triggered-time.html#article-10063171
Meanwhile Bidden just sublime show off US nukes
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department on Tuesday disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-10-05/state-department-discloses-number-of-nukes-in-us-stockpile
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A top NIH official admitted in a Wednesday letter that the US-funded so-called "gain-of-function" research in Wuhan, China - and that the US nonprofit which conducted it, EcoHealth Alliance - led by the controversial Peter Daszak, "failed to report" that they had created a chimeric bat coronavirus which could infect humans.
In a letter addressed to Rep. James Comer (R-KY), NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak cites a "limited experiment" to determine whether "spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model." According to the letter, humanized mice infected with the modified bat virus "became sicker" than those exposed to an unmodified version of the same bat coronavirus.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/nih-admits-funding-gain-function-covid-experiments-gives-ecohealth-five-days-report
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About two and a half years ago, we told readers China was panic hoarding food, which was several months before the virus pandemic began to spread worldwide; Beijing has managed to stockpile more than half of the world's maize and other grains that have resulted in rapid food inflation and triggered famine in some countries.
In August 2019, we asked the question:
Does China believe that we are on the verge of a major global crisis? The communist Chinese government has always been very big into planning, and it appears that they have decided that now is the time to hoard food, gold and other commodities.
Fast forward today, the answer is most likely "yes." China maintains "historically high levels" of beans and grains stockpiled at COFCO Group's (a major Chinese state-owned food processor) 310 storage facilities in the northeastern part of the country, according to Nikkei Asia.
Qin Yuyun, head of grain reserves at the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, told reporters last month, "our wheat stockpiles can meet the demand for one and a half years. There is no problem whatsoever about the supply of food."
Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows China has approximately 69% of the globe's maize reserves in the first half of the crop year 2022, 60% of its rice, and 51% of its wheat.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-panic-hoards-half-worlds-grain-supply-amid-threats-global-collapse
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https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/the-duel-is-china-now-the-enemy-military-conflict-power-war
Americans always project their own shadow onto their favorite boogeyman. It is THEM, not China, who sees the very existence of a successful system different from their own as a threat. The idea the Chinese are interested in messing with them is not supported by evidence but by their paranoia.
Socrates, too, one of the Greek philosophers whose thought is so influential in the West, ALSO thought democracy as a concept was incredibly stupid; hapana tu Mchina. Ona hapa.
I prefer us to find a system that marries African consensus-based, equity-seeking, inclusive systems of governance, with Chinese meritocracy. I don't know how, but I'm open to a different system if it can be found. Hii Western competitive democracy is toxic and creates division in ethnically or religiously diverse poor countries. The Chinese are not evil just for having realized this sooner than others and blocked the West from planting it in their system in return for the trade deals (like the Americans claim was expected to have happened once China was prosperous despite the Chinese never ever making such promises to the West). They were right to reject it and stick to their own way of mixing dmocracy at local level and expertise/competence at higher levels of governance.
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We are going to start by liberating the west from leftist tyrant, starting off with chinada, and finally end with chinaman
Looks like the leader of the Democratic Republic of Iran is ready to offer hand and subdue the ultra-Liberal leftist fascist quagmire
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https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/the-duel-is-china-now-the-enemy-military-conflict-power-war (https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/the-duel-is-china-now-the-enemy-military-conflict-power-war)
Americans always project their own shadow onto their favorite boogeyman. It is THEM, not China, who sees the very existence of a successful system different from their own as a threat. The idea the Chinese are interested in messing with them is not supported by evidence but by their paranoia.
Socrates, too, one of the Greek philosophers whose thought is so influential in the West, ALSO thought democracy as a concept was incredibly stupid; hapana tu Mchina. Ona hapa.
I prefer us to find a system that marries African consensus-based, equity-seeking, inclusive systems of governance, with Chinese meritocracy. I don't know how, but I'm open to a different system if it can be found. Hii Western competitive democracy is toxic and creates division in ethnically or religiously diverse poor countries. The Chinese are not evil just for having realized this sooner than others and blocked the West from planting it in their system in return for the trade deals (like the Americans claim was expected to have happened once China was prosperous despite the Chinese never ever making such promises to the West). They were right to reject it and stick to their own way of mixing dmocracy at local level and expertise/competence at higher levels of governance.
China is close to several countries that have done better and yet they do not share its "system of meritocracy". South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan to be specific. This tells me that China has grown in spite of(rather than because of) the system they have in place - which is just a glorified totalitarian state. If Africans are to look for an example, I think the safer bet is to look at these others, if simply because China is but one example.
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Kirgit, seems you have a lot of time in your hands. No woman to let off some of your steams?
I actually thought you specialised only on covid-19.
that was brutal!!!
He is more a denialist. Reminds me of one of Jesus's disciples-denying the truth - Doubting Thomas.
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Will Xi Jinping's "End Of Days" Plunge China & The World Into War?
When truckers took over Canada's capital, Ottawa, and shut down border entry points to America, some called it a "nationwide insurrection." Mass demonstrations have occurred across the democratic world. People have had enough of two years of mandates and other disease-control measures.
Not so in the world's most populous state, which maintains the world's strictest COVID-19 controls. There are no known popular protests in the People's Republic of China against anti-coronavirus efforts.
Yet China is not stable, and Xi Jinping is facing his "End of Days," as a recent essay by opposition figures (see below) puts it.
The revolt is not in society at large but at the top of the Communist Party.
As Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association, told Gatestone, Xi Jinping, China's mighty-looking leader, has an "enormous array of domestic enemies."
Xi created that opposition. After becoming China's ruler at the end of 2012, he grabbed power from everyone else and then jailed tens of thousands of opponents in purges, which he styled as "anti-corruption" campaigns.
Xi also used the disease to great advantage. As Copley, also the editor-in-chief of Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, points out, "Xi's 'zero COVID' policy is, indeed, less about stopping the spread of COVID and more about suppressing his internal enemies, both in the public and in the Party."
Xi is not one to let a decade of zero scores get in the way of his continued rule. Communist Party norms require him to step down at the 20th National Congress, to be held sometime this fall if tradition holds. He obviously wants a precedent-breaking third term as general secretary so that he can become, as outsiders say, "Dictator for Life." Most observers expect he will get that new term.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18231/xi-jinping-china-war
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Russian and Chinaman scrambling fire.
Taiwan scrambles fighter planes as Chinese aircraft enter defence zone
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10547685/Taiwan-scrambles-fighter-planes-nine-Chinese-aircraft-enter-air-defence-zone.html?
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Weakening Russian before going war with chinaman?
World War 3: Is The Stage Being Set For The US To Go To War With China And Russia Simultaneously?
You would have to be out of your mind to fight wars with China and Russia simultaneously. Unfortunately, the guy in the White House actually fits that description. Joe Biden has been a hothead throughout his career in politics, but now he is a hothead that is in an advanced state of mental decline. And as I have warned for more than a year, he is surrounded by the worst foreign policy team in U.S. history, and that is really saying something. Biden and his team just keep making one colossal mistake after another, and now we are on a path that could soon have us fighting major wars with both China and Russia at the same time.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/world-war-3-stage-being-set-us-go-war-china-and-russia-simultaneously
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Zerohedge metrics from mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/ (http://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/). They are borderline tin foil hat. Newsmax and OANN(Q-Anon sites) are better sources of information - believe it or not.
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Zerohedge metrics from mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/ (http://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/). They are borderline tin foil hat. Newsmax and OANN(Q-Anon sites) are better sources of information - believe it or not.
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The comments section is straight up stormfront, pure unadulterated racist claptrap. Heavy anti black bigotry. Tells you a lot about OP.
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world war 3 will be a nuclear war. No winners all losers.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration is aiming to lead the international bloc opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a broader coalition to counter what it sees as a more serious, long-term threat to global order from China.
In a speech outlining the administration's China policy Thursday, Blinken laid out a three-pillar approach to competing with Beijing in a race to define the 21st century's economic and military balance. The Biden administration's strategy, he said, can be summed up in three words: invest, align, compete.
While the U.S. sees Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine as the most acute and immediate threat to international stability, Blinken said the administration believes China poses a greater danger.
Blinken argued that the global response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a template for confronting China's efforts to mold a new and unpredictable world order to replace the rules and institutions that have guided relations between states since the end of World War II.
China, Blinken suggested, has benefited greatly from that international order but is now trying to subvert it under the leadership of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.
"Rather than using its power to reinforce and revitalize the laws, agreements, principles, and institutions that enabled its success, so other countries can benefit from them, too, Beijing is undermining it," Blinken said. "Under President Xi, the ruling Chinese Communist Party has become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blinken-says-china-is-greater-long-term-threat-than-russia/#app
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Thousands Of Ships, Millions Of Troops: China Is Assembling a Huge Fleet For War With Taiwan
To have any chance of conquering Taiwan, China might need to transport as many as two million troops across the rough 100 miles of the Taiwan Strait and land them under fire at the island’s 14 potential invasion beaches or 10 major ports.
That’s a lot of people—far, far more than the People’s Liberation Army Navy can haul in its 11 new amphibious ships. To transport the bulk of the invasion force, Beijing almost certainly would take up into naval service thousands of civilian ships.
To that end, the Chinese Communist Party has created a legal and bureaucratic framework for taking over control of commercial shipping. Meanwhile, naval engineers have begun modifying key vessels to make them better assault ships.
All that is to say, the vast flotilla that would be both the vehicle for China’s assault on Taiwan—and the biggest target of Taiwanese forces and their allies—is taking shape.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/07/27/thousands-of-ships-millions-of-troops-china-is-assembling-a-huge-assault-flotilla-for-a-possible-attack-on-taiwan/?sh=1a33cac9751b
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Zelensky calls for international support for Taiwan before China attacks
SINGAPORE — While appealing to Asian nations for support to fend off Russia’s invasion on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the international community should help Taiwan resist China’s aggression now, before Beijing attacks the island democracy it claims as its own province.
The comments risk upsetting Ukraine’s delicate balancing act with China; nevertheless, Zelensky insisted that aggressors must be confronted wherever they emerge. Asian countries must not wait for the crisis to act on Taiwan’s behalf, which would be repeating the mistake Europe made before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/11/zelensky-calls-for-support-taiwan-before-china-attacks-ukraine-russia/
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The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who spent the early months of the pandemic publicly kowtowing to China, has privately admitted that he thinks Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory in a "catastrophic accident," according to the Daily Mail, citing a senior Government source.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread during late 2019.
The Mail on Sunday first revealed concerns within Western intelligence services about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists were manipulating coronaviruses sampled from bats in caves nearly 1,000 miles away – the same caves where Covid-19 is suspected to have originated – in April 2020. The worldwide death toll from the Covid pandemic is now estimated to have hit more than 18 million. -Daily Mail
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/who-tedros-privately-admits-lab-leak-most-likely-explanation-covid-19
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10930501/WHO-chief-believes-Covid-DID-leak-Wuhan-lab-catastrophic-accident-2019.html?
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World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reportedly admitted to a senior European politician that the virus that causes COVID-19 most likely came out of a Wuhan lab. The Daily Mail reports that Tedros made the admission citing a catastrophic lab accident.
The disclosure comes on the heels of a WHO investigative report that was published earlier this month, concluding that the pandemic may have started at a Wuhan lab and that Chinese authorities have been blocking access to crucial data.
At the same time, Jeffrey Sachs, leader of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19, now says that he is convinced that the pandemic started in a lab and that SARS-CoV-2 was created with the aid of U.S. biotechnology.
Sachs made his stunning admission last week at a conference in Spain where he had been invited by former Spanish prime minister José Luís Zapatero.
The admissions from two of the world’s most prominent COVID-19 authorities, who also happen to be establishment stalwarts with a record of appeasing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is a significant development in the search for the origin of the pandemic.
Early in 2020, just as the pandemic was starting to unfold, Xiao Botao, a whistleblower from China, published an article claiming that the virus had come out of a Wuhan lab. The whistleblower’s paper was quickly removed from the internet and an all-hands-on-deck effort to scrub and censor the idea of a lab leak quickly ensued.
Two institutions played a key role in that scrubbing effort. The World Health Organization and esteemed British medical journal The Lancet.
WHO chief Tedros and his organization famously pushed CCP propaganda, including lavishly praising Xi Jinping and claiming that the virus did not transmit between humans. Tedros also spearheaded efforts to “combat the spread of rumors and misinformation.” In addition, two separate WHO investigations aggressively dismissed the lab leak theory.
For its part, the Lancet published a statement that maligned anyone who deigned to so much as contemplate that the virus might have come out of a lab.
That Lancet statement—which was published before most Americans even knew that there was a pandemic spreading around the globe—was signed by a number of notable leaders in the field of virology and set the tone for the corporate media’s coverage.
It also served as a warning to other scientists and science publications around the globe that lab-leak discussions were off-limits.
Most virological research in the Western world is funded through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci—who was himself instrumental in shutting down any discussion of the lab leak theory—and Jeremy Farrar, the British pharmaceutical trust director who sits on billions of dollars’ worth of grant money and has long-standing ties to China’s CDC head, Gao Fu. Farrar co-authored the Lancet statement.
The Lancet’s editor, Richard Horton, is a recipient of the CCP’s Friendship Prize. Before the pandemic, he published a glowing tribute to Xi and the Chinese regime. Horton later went on Chinese state TV where he praised Chinese authorities, impugned Western governments, and asserted that claims that the pandemic might have started in a Wuhan lab were part of a “pandemic of disinformation.”
Horton also set up a commission to investigate “the nature, origin, and prevention of zoonotic diseases.” The focus on zoonosis—or a natural origin—meant that The Lancet had predetermined what the commission was supposed to conclude.
Sachs was appointed as head of the commission while Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance who helped Fauci funnel U.S. taxpayer money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was made a member of the group. It was Daszak’s enormous conflicts of interest, as well as the emergence of new evidence pointing to a lab leak, that led to the eventual disbanding of the Lancet Commission in September 2021.
However, the group did not publicly dismiss the natural origin narrative until last week, when Sachs attended a conference in Madrid where he made his surprising admission:
“I chaired a Commission for the Lancet for two years on COVID. I’m pretty convinced it came out of U.S. lab biotechnology, not out of nature.”
Sachs’s statement is not only hugely significant because of his role as chairman of the Lancet Commission but also—and perhaps even more so—because of his admission that U.S. biotechnology was used to create SARS-CoV-2.
We have known for some time about the cooperation between the so-called godfather of gain-of-function experiments, Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina, and the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Shi Zhengli. In fact, it was the disclosure of that collaboration in a Jan. 31, 2020, article in Science magazine that led Fauci’s team to scramble to cover up the NIAID’s involvement with, and funding of, Shi’s lab.
Baric and Shi’s collaboration traces back to 2015 when they created a modified coronavirus that was not only uniquely able to latch on to human cells but also able to efficiently replicate in human lungs. While the virus they created was not SARS-CoV-2, the virus did have the attributes that we would later find in SARS-CoV-2.
Their collaboration proved that Shi had gained the technical know-how to do the kinds of experiments that might have resulted in COVID-19. Baric also sent transgenic mice with human lung receptors to Shi’s Wuhan lab. Humanized mice mimic human lung tissue and act as experimental stand-ins for humans. They are used to test whether newly created viruses can replicate and spread quickly among humans.
It is not a big leap to go from infected lab mice to infected lab workers. This is even more evident when one considers that the Wuhan lab conducted its coronavirus research under biosafety level two conditions, which even Baric acknowledged as dangerous, stating that there is much less oversight and that lab-acquired infections occur much more frequently at biosafety level two than at higher levels.
After the pandemic started, Chinese authorities directed their labs to shift coronavirus work to biosafety level three labs.
But even that might not offer sufficient protection against a biosafety accident. Late last year, a lab worker in Taiwan contracted COVID-19 from handling infected lab animals in a biosafety level three lab.
To underscore how significant Sachs’s sudden shift is, he has also co-authored a paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calling for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that would reveal the origin of the pandemic.
While it is correct that Chinese authorities have been concealing crucial data from the Wuhan lab, as well as data on early patients, many of the answers to the pandemic’s origins are held in the United States by organizations such as Fauci’s NIH and NIAID, by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, by Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, and by Baric’s lab, which provided the Wuhan lab with biotechnology.
Sachs’s observations further highlight the significance of the highly unusual furin cleavage site, the part of SARS-CoV-2 that makes it so virulent. It has been known since the start of the pandemic that SARS-CoV-2 is the only coronavirus of its kind that has a furin cleavage site. But Sachs now goes further, pointing out that the critical amino acid sequence of SARS-CoV-2’s furin cleavage site insertion happens to be identical to one that is present in the human body, strongly suggesting that it was deliberately inserted into a SARS-like virus.
Lastly, Sachs is also raising the issue of the 2018 partnership agreement between the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Daszak’s EcoHealth, and Baric that had the specific goal of inserting such furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses.
It has always strained credulity that a bat virus traversed all of China without leaving a trace only to suddenly erupt on the doorsteps of a lab that was known to have been creating COVID-like viruses. Sachs and Tedros appear to have come to the same conclusion.
The fact that the two institutions at the center of efforts to aggressively push the natural origin narrative have now changed course will give considerable momentum to finally get to the bottom of what really happened at the Wuhan lab. It also—very belatedly—vindicates Xiao Botao who, at great personal risk, tried to tell the world where the virus came from.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/who-and-lancet-commission-chiefs-come-out-in-support-of-lab-leak-theory_4548666.html
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Change to covid lab origin rhetoric coincide "right wing" musk buy twitter and WHO faces opposition to sign pandemic treaty.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/06/09/2003779620
Western gov will likely flex hard to far right wing after being stretched far left by commies like biden, trudue et. al. Right wingers Gives impetus to lab origin military industrial complex.
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Leaders from the British and American domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint statement on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.
“The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party,” said MI5 Director General Ken McCallum.
“It’s covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it’s real and it’s pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act.”
McCallum described the CCP’s aggression as a “massive shared challenge” between the UK and the United States. He said that the communist regime is organizing the whole of China’s state apparatus to systematically undermine the West and steal advanced technologies.
CCP Is the ‘Biggest Long-Term Threat’
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the CCP is the greatest challenge to the international order, which seeks to undermine the United States, its allies, and partners.
“We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security, and by ‘our,’ I mean both of our nations, along with our allies in Europe and elsewhere,” he said.
“The scale of ambition is huge,” McCallum said. “And it’s not really a secret. Any number of public strategic plans, such as Made in China 2025, show the intent plainly.”
“[They are] Seeking to bend our economy, our society, our attitudes to suit the Chinese Communist Party’s interests. To set standards and norms that would enable it to dominate the international order. This should make us sit up and notice.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-communist-party-threat-is-massive-fbi-and-mi5-directors_4581021.html
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According to prior comments from President Biden, the Pentagon wants House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel her visit to Taiwan - but now pending her possible arrival in Taipei the US military has moved a Navy strike group into the South China Sea led by the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier.
The USS Reagan left a port call in Singapore and is now patrolling waters near China, with Beijing flexing its own military muscle by launching fresh naval exercises near the self-ruled island - and more worrisomely issuing threats that the PLA military is on stand-by to respond with "forceful measures" if needed. Turkey's EHA media outlet on Saturday is circulating (unverified) video purporting to show large US warplane formation flyovers of the South China sea, with destroyers below...
Pelosi is currently en route over the Pacific for a scheduled tour of Asia - including stops in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore - with The Washington Post's Josh Rogin on Friday reporting that a Taiwan stopover is "expected to happen" during the "early part" of the trip, based on diplomatic sources.
All eyes are on Pelosi's flight path after it was days ago revealed that Taiwan was listed "tentative" as part of her itinerary...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-holds-live-fire-drills-taiwan-us-carrier-group-nearby-pelosis-plane-en-route
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1648184/Xi-Jinping-China-Taiwan-US-military-drills-war-Nancy-Pelosi-Joe-Biden-latest-news-vn
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The Chinese won't shoot down Pelosi's plane or do anything that aggressive vis-a-vis the US. But this makes it virtually certain they will invade Taiwan sooner than previously expected. I just recently learned something about this whole affair: China will NEVER let them declare independence because Taiwan has been the chief way the Japanese and others have gotten to mainland China in the past (where they proceeded to ravage them). They will take it over rather than have them be fully independent. And Taiwan is split almost 50-50 between the currently ruling pro-Japan/West party and the pro-China party that wants re-unification with China that they apparently beat by very few points. So there's a good shot the Taiwanese themselves vote to fully re-unify in future.
I hope Taiwan doesn't do something dumb in the meanwhile (rather their current rulers don't do something dumb in the meanwhile). Maintain the status quo (for your own sakes!)
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According to prior comments from President Biden, the Pentagon wants House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel her visit to Taiwan - but now pending her possible arrival in Taipei the US military has moved a Navy strike group into the South China Sea led by the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier.
The USS Reagan left a port call in Singapore and is now patrolling waters near China, with Beijing flexing its own military muscle by launching fresh naval exercises near the self-ruled island - and more worrisomely issuing threats that the PLA military is on stand-by to respond with "forceful measures" if needed. Turkey's EHA media outlet on Saturday is circulating (unverified) video purporting to show large US warplane formation flyovers of the South China sea, with destroyers below...
Pelosi is currently en route over the Pacific for a scheduled tour of Asia - including stops in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore - with The Washington Post's Josh Rogin on Friday reporting that a Taiwan stopover is "expected to happen" during the "early part" of the trip, based on diplomatic sources.
All eyes are on Pelosi's flight path after it was days ago revealed that Taiwan was listed "tentative" as part of her itinerary...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-holds-live-fire-drills-taiwan-us-carrier-group-nearby-pelosis-plane-en-route (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-holds-live-fire-drills-taiwan-us-carrier-group-nearby-pelosis-plane-en-route)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1648184/Xi-Jinping-China-Taiwan-US-military-drills-war-Nancy-Pelosi-Joe-Biden-latest-news-vn (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1648184/Xi-Jinping-China-Taiwan-US-military-drills-war-Nancy-Pelosi-Joe-Biden-latest-news-vn)
Change of plans. Looks like the Speaker gave the Chinese a head fake. She is swimming into Taiwan. China will shoot a decoy.
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China Blasts 'Severe Violation' Of Sovereignty As Pelosi Becomes Highest US Official To Visit Taiwan In 25 Years
Taipei, Taiwan – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Members of a Congressional Delegation issued this statement upon arrival in Taiwan. This visit is the first official visit to Taiwan by a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in 25 years.
“Our Congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan honors America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant Democracy.
“Our visit is part of our broader trip to the Indo-Pacific — including Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan — focused on mutual security, economic partnership and democratic governance. Our discussions with Taiwan leadership will focus on reaffirming our support for our partner and on promoting our shared interests, including advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific region. America’s solidarity with the 23 million people of Taiwan is more important today than ever, as the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy.
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/8222-2
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pelosis-plane-avoiding-south-china-sea-taiwan-pla-surges-forces-just-across-strait
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NANCY Pelosi could become the 'Franz Ferdinand' figure in a potential World War 3 if she’s harmed by the Chinese military on her trip to Taiwan, experts warn.
The Democrat, 82, has touched down in Taiwan, becoming the first Speaker in 25 years to visit the contested territory.
Fears are mounting that a conflict could break out between the US and China over Taiwan if Speaker Pelosi was attacked on her trip to the island
Fears are mounting that a conflict could break out between the US and China over Taiwan if Speaker Pelosi was attacked on her trip to the island
Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, defying Chinese threats
Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday evening, defying Chinese threatsCredit: The Mega Agency
Chinese President Xi Jinping sharply warned US President Joe Biden of Pelosi's trip to Taiwan
Chinese President Xi Jinping sharply warned US President Joe Biden of Pelosi's trip to TaiwanCredit: Alamy
Beijing views Taiwan as a “renegade” state and President Xi has vowed to take the island back by force if necessary.
For decades, Washington has pursued a strategy of “strategic ambiguity” – where it has persuaded pro-separatist Taiwanese forces not to declare independence while also deterring Beijing not to seize the island by force.
China has vowed to impose a no-fly zone in a bid to scupper her visit and state media propagandists have warned that Pelosi’s jet could be attacked.
Commentator Hu Xijin warned that if US fighter planes escort Pelosi’s plane into Taiwan, it's an "invasion".
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5911937/nancy-pelosi-franz-ferdinand-ww3-china-taiwan/
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The Chinese won't shoot down Pelosi's plane or do anything that aggressive vis-a-vis the US. But this makes it virtually certain they will invade Taiwan sooner than previously expected. I just recently learned something about this whole affair: China will NEVER let them declare independence because Taiwan has been the chief way the Japanese and others have gotten to mainland China in the past (where they proceeded to ravage them). They will take it over rather than have them be fully independent. And Taiwan is split almost 50-50 between the currently ruling pro-Japan/West party and the pro-China party that wants re-unification with China that they apparently beat by very few points. So there's a good shot the Taiwanese themselves vote to fully re-unify in future.
I hope Taiwan doesn't do something dumb in the meanwhile (rather their current rulers don't do something dumb in the meanwhile). Maintain the status quo (for your own sakes!)
As I said, China won't do anything agressive against Pelosi/US delegation. HOWEVER, they will accelerate their plans vis-a-vis Taiwan. They've already announced "targetted military operations" around Taiwan (that phrase ring a bell, anyone? Sounds awfully similar to "special military operations," if you ask me :o ). Taiwan is already prepping its people for bomb shelters and other war preparations.
The best scenario now is that China throws its weight around a bit and Taiwan stays still and mum, everyone saves face and things return to normal in a few days/weeks, like what happened that time the U.S./Trump killed the Iranian General Americans were pretending was a terrorist instead of the likely future Iranian president.
The worst is that Taiwan does something dumb and this goes into full-scale war and they find out, like Ukraine, ain't NOBODY coming to fight for them but them. And there might not be much shipping of weapons and such to them from their buddy-pals, this time. Their geography is a whole different kettle of fish than Ukraine which borders Poland etc.
Most likely, China will throw a tantrum and Taiwan will be clever/wise about it, and everyone can move on to the next story in a few weeks . . . at least I hope so.
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The Chinese won't shoot down Pelosi's plane or do anything that aggressive vis-a-vis the US. But this makes it virtually certain they will invade Taiwan sooner than previously expected. I just recently learned something about this whole affair: China will NEVER let them declare independence because Taiwan has been the chief way the Japanese and others have gotten to mainland China in the past (where they proceeded to ravage them). They will take it over rather than have them be fully independent. And Taiwan is split almost 50-50 between the currently ruling pro-Japan/West party and the pro-China party that wants re-unification with China that they apparently beat by very few points. So there's a good shot the Taiwanese themselves vote to fully re-unify in future.
I hope Taiwan doesn't do something dumb in the meanwhile (rather their current rulers don't do something dumb in the meanwhile). Maintain the status quo (for your own sakes!)
As I said, China won't do anything agressive against Pelosi/US delegation. HOWEVER, they will accelerate their plans vis-a-vis Taiwan. They've already announced "targetted military operations" around Taiwan (that phrase ring a bell, anyone? Sounds awfully similar to "special military operations," if you ask me :o ). Taiwan is already prepping its people for bomb shelters and other war preparations.
The best scenario now is that China throws its weight around a bit and Taiwan stays still and mum, everyone saves face and things return to normal in a few days/weeks, like what happened that time the U.S./Trump killed the Iranian General Americans were pretending was a terrorist instead of the likely future Iranian president.
The worst is that Taiwan does something dumb and this goes into full-scale war and they find out, like Ukraine, ain't NOBODY coming to fight for them but them. And there might not be much shipping of weapons and such to them from their buddy-pals, this time. Their geography is a whole different kettle of fish than Ukraine which borders Poland etc.
Most likely, China will throw a tantrum and Taiwan will be clever/wise about it, and everyone can move on to the next story in a few weeks . . . at least I hope so.
Nothing happening. Looks like they are testing how much they can prick china..boiling frog.
Meanwhile covid origins is not going away
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced the first ever hearing on gain-of-function research, which will be aimed at pinning down the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Throughout this pandemic, Dr. Rand Paul has led the effort to hold government officials accountable on the status of efforts being made to combat COVID-19, and the origins of this virus that has killed over 6 million people worldwide," a spokesperson for Paul told Fox News Digital. "This has been over a year-long process of getting Congressional Democrats to finally agree to a hearing, which will also be the first Congressional hearing on gain-of-function research. Dr. Paul looks forward to working with Subcommittee Chairwoman Hassan and hearing from expert witnesses during this critically important hearing that should’ve happened long ago."
The hearing, which is scheduled for Wednesday, comes a week after the Kentucky senator attempted to pass an amendment to the CHIPS-Plus Act that would have banned U.S. funding of gain-of-function research in China, with Democrats objecting to the amendment despite it passing unanimously in an earlier version of the bill last year.
In remarks on the floor of the Senate last week, Paul argued that there was significant evidence that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic could be traced to a lab in Wuhan, China.
"Gain-of-function research enhances the severity or transmissibility of existing viruses that may infect humans," Paul said. "The dangers are so acute that from 2014-2017, the National Institutes of Health suspended funding for all gain-of-function projects… the emergence of COVID serves as a reminder that dangerous research conducted in a secretive and totalitarian country is simply too risky to fund."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-paul-vows-get-answers-covid-19-origins-gain-function-hearing
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Nothing happening? I don't think so.
The Chinese are throwing their weight around as predicted and Taiwan is staying wise (still and mum). G7 condemning Chinese moves as aggressive. Hopefully, this doesn't escalate further. Chinese are saving face. Taiwan and its allies should let them.
The missiles the Chinese have been launching plus the other exercises (planes/ships) in the past day, as seen on maps, basically surround Taiwan in a way no one will get close if 'stuff' hits the fan. People are saying they'd bombard them for a month destroying all defenses then simply invade with simple planes/helicopters (20 mins from the mainland) after. They wouldn't even use ships (so the speculation goes). This would be assuming there'd be no affinity for Taiwanese people similar to the Russian affinity for Eastern, Russian-speaking Ukrainians that has prevented air, shock-n-awe bombardment in Eastern Ukraine. And no one will join in, no matter the tough talk going on now. I'm not even sure the US would join NATO countries if they were attacked by a nuclear power, tbh. We assume they would but I have strong doubts. Hopefully, we never have to find out.
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I'm hearing Xi had indicated that the Chinese were targetting 2049 as the year for peaceful reunification of Taiwan with the mainland. Now, unless something substantial happens to change it soon, they are likely to invade it as soon as, say, next year! Especially when you consider the Republican-led push right now in the US congress to pass a law to gut the standing One-China policy. Just as with Pelosi's unnecessary visit to Taiwan, Joe Biden/Executive branch are trying to stop/discourage this move. Don't know why American legislators, from Pelosi to Republicans Graham and others, are hijacking the Executive's mandate to be in charge of foreign policy. I don't like Biden's presidency but maybe these Congress folk should listen to him when it comes to engaging formally with important foreign countries and to craft American foreign policy.
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I saw a discussion suggesting that Chinese actions are so aggressive that the US will have to respond in their own turn. Which would prompt China to again respond. THAT is not something anyone should want. If the Ukraine war has caused these little pains to be felt in the world's economy due to shortages in energy and food and other resources, I've seen analyses that say it'll all seem like child's play if the indo-pacific is mired in war. From the semi-conductors to the disrupted trade routes (apparently 30% of trade flows through those traits), it'll be an absolute nightmare, this time FOR EVERYONE, including the Americans and Chinese. And then an economic war btw the US and China is just untenable. Plus China has, they say, been prevailed upon so far from giving direct aid to Russia since the war's outbreak in Feb. That will go out the window.
Of course, there's also, ever in the background, the looming threat of nukes flying around.
In a way, that gives me comfort that the prospects for REAL pain for the main players is so great that no one will let this happen. There are even fewer winners in this scenario than in the Russian/Ukraine situation where the main losers will be Russia and the EU and the beneficiaries only U.S. and China. If things go really badly this time around, the very best would still be very bad: basically, China would invade Taiwan and no one else would get involved and a month or a few months of this would give the world economy a real kick-in the gut. This would be the LEAST destructive/dangerous outcome. :o So I don't think this situation will be ALLOWED to escalate, all chest-thumping on either side notwithstanding.
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China ‘began stockpiling PPE months before Covid outbreak’
China began severely restricting the export of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as gowns and masks, months before notifying the world of the outbreak of Covid-19, it has emerged.
PPE exports to the US fell by around 50 per cent between August and September of 2019, in a significant drop which raised alarm bells at key US government agencies.
China also started to buy up global PPE stocks in Europe, Australia and the US around the same time, experts said.
The fall in PPE supplies exiting China, the world’s biggest manufacturer of PPE, raises new questions about the true timeline of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.
An altered timeline would significantly challenge the theory that the pandemic originated from a seafood market in Wuhan, where the first cases emerged in December 2019.
The anomaly was uncovered by former US government officials including Dr Tom McGinn, a Senior Health Advisor at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Colonel John Hoffman, a Senior Research Fellow with the Food Protection and Defence Institute whose career spans decades in US government and military.
The pair were unconvinced that the virus had started at the Wuhan Wet Market in December 2019, after and began looking for an alternative theory.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/08/china-began-stockpiling-ppe-months-covid-outbreak/
https://web.archive.org/web/20221009012837/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/08/china-began-stockpiling-ppe-months-covid-outbreak/
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Fifty telltale signs Covid is a bioweapon operation
https://hillmd.substack.com/p/in-a-covid-bioweapon-operation-strange
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Former China President Abruptly Escorted From Party Congress
The former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was ushered from his seat beside General Secretary Xi Jinping during the final session of the 20th National Congress Saturday.
As WSJ reports, midway through the otherwise carefully-choreographed closing session, Hu Jintao, 79, Xi Jinping's immediate predecessor, was helped out of his chair next to Mr. Xi and inexplicably led out of the hall.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/former-china-president-abruptly-escorted-party-congress
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With Musk closing twitter deal, right winger will have more platform to push lab origin convid. Meanwhile the Russian-Ukraine skirmishes could be concluded before USA midterms for dems to claims peace deal.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-headquarters-sink-buy-b2211364.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/macron-ukraine-peace-deal-russia-war/
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Wewe msee uko na taabu mingi!
US midterm elections are in 12 days time. How will the war in the Ukraine be concluded till then?
With Musk closing twitter deal, right winger will have more platform to push lab origin convid. Meanwhile the Russian-Ukraine skirmishes could be concluded before USA midterms for dems to claims peace deal.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-headquarters-sink-buy-b2211364.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/macron-ukraine-peace-deal-russia-war/
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Wewe msee uko na taabu mingi!
US midterm elections are in 12 days time. How will the war in the Ukraine be concluded till then?
With Musk closing twitter deal, right winger will have more platform to push lab origin convid. Meanwhile the Russian-Ukraine skirmishes could be concluded before USA midterms for dems to claims peace deal.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-headquarters-sink-buy-b2211364.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/macron-ukraine-peace-deal-russia-war/
Go slow... I didn't say war. I say skirmishes
Real war could sparked when european start to freeze without Russia gas in winter
I think Russia retreat after avenging Putin bridge bomb.
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Covid 'more likely than not' the result of a laboratory incident, says US Senate
The Covid-19 pandemic was ‘more likely than not’ the result of a laboratory accident, a US Senate Committee has concluded.
Since the start of the pandemic, there has been speculation that the virus emerged as the result of a lab leak from The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, which had been collecting and manipulating bat viruses.
Many eminent scientists have continued to dispute the lab leak theory, claiming that a natural spillover event is a more likely explanation.
But the new report said there was "a number of anomalies" in the emergence of Covid-19 naturally compared with other spillover diseases, such as Sars and Mers.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221028200851/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/28/covid-likely-not-result-laboratory-incident-says-us-senate/
https://www.science.org/content/article/republican-senate-staff-tout-lab-leak-theory-pandemics-origin
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US nuclear forces chief says Ukraine ‘just the warmup’ for larger crisis
‘The big one is coming, and it isn't going to be very long before we're going to get tested in ways that we haven't been tested a long time’
The senior naval officer in charge of America’s nuclear triad says the current worldwide tensions sparked by Russia’s war against Ukraine could be the opening act for a larger conflict that the US must prepare for.
The senior naval officer in charge of America’s nuclear triad says the current worldwide tensions sparked by Russia’s war against Ukraine could be the opening act for a larger conflict that the US must prepare for.
In remarks at the Naval Submarine League's 2022 Annual Symposium & Industry Update, US Strategic Command commander Admiral Charles Richard said the Ukraine crisis “is just the warmup”.
"The big one is coming, and it isn't going to be very long before we're going to get tested in ways that we haven't been tested a long time,” he said.
Mr Richard said US forces’ “level of deterrence” against China – a major competitor and adversary – is “slowly sinking” because the Chinese have been able to build and deploy more “capability in the field” at a faster rate than their American counterparts.
“As those curves keep going, it isn't going to matter how good our [operating plan] is or how good our commanders are, or how good our horses are – we're not going to have enough of them. And that is a very near-term problem,” he said, though he added that the US submarine force remains “maybe the only true asymmetric advantage we still have against our opponents”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-strategic-command-ukraine-b2217922.html
https://sputniknews.com/20221107/head-of-us-nuclear-forces-claims-ukraine-just-a-warmup-for-very-long-struggle-with-russia-china-1103870150.html
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@Kadudu,
Leave such skeptism to the likes of @Patel and @Noway.
You may think from his posts that @Kirigit is unhinged but this fellow graduated with a PhD in recent years.
The prediction he made on October 26 has come to pass. 12 days did you say? It is 12 days. The dems did better than anybody predicted and Ukrainian forces have entered Kherson (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/11/russia-says-it-has-completed-kherson-withdrawal) City! The dems on track!
Wewe msee uko na taabu mingi!
US midterm elections are in 12 days time. How will the war in the Ukraine be concluded till then?
With Musk closing twitter deal, right winger will have more platform to push lab origin convid. Meanwhile the Russian-Ukraine skirmishes could be concluded before USA midterms for dems to claims peace deal.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-headquarters-sink-buy-b2211364.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/macron-ukraine-peace-deal-russia-war/
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White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that he will fully cooperate with House Republicans if they launch an investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
GOP lawmakers vowed in August to open such a probe and call on Fauci to testify if they won a majority in the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. They won that majority earlier this month.
“If there are oversight hearings I absolutely will cooperate fully and testify before the Congress,” Fauci told reporters Tuesday during a briefing at the White House.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/fauci-says-he-will-cooperate-with-house-republican-probe-into-covid-origins.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chaos-breaks-out-when-reporter-asks-fauci-about-covid-origins
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Make Twitter Great Again (MTGA). Lets vote.
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UK experts helped shut down Covid lab leak theory - weeks after being told it might be true
Sir Patrick Vallance among scientists behind paper that stifled debate into the origins of the virus
Sir Patrick Vallance helped publish a paper arguing that a natural spillover event caused the pandemic
Top scientists including Sir Patrick Vallance were warned that Covid-19 could have evolved in laboratory animals, but collaborated in a paper which shut down the lab leak theory, it has emerged.
The paper, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, argued that a natural spillover event caused the pandemic, and was hugely instrumental in stifling debate into the origins of the virus.
But newly released emails from early 2020 show that in the weeks before publication the authors held lengthy discussions with experts, including Sir Patrick and Sir Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust.
In those discussions, experts were advised that the unusual features seen in Covid-19 could have evolved in animals in a lab, as well as in the wild.
They were also warned that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been carrying out research on bat-coronaviruses at worrying levels of biosecurity.
Yet by the time the paper was published, all reference to biosecurity problems in Wuhan had been removed, and the authors argued that lab evolution of the virus was unlikely.
Questions have arisen around the drafting and formulation of the paper since its publication.
Many scientists now agree that a lab leak is highly plausible, but most of the supporting evidence was found by hackers and rogue scientists who were branded conspiracy theorists for challenging the accepted narrative.
The latest email release shows that scientists who dismissed a lab leak accepted it was possible behind closed doors.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221123230412/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/23/uk-experts-helped-shut-covid-lab-leak-theory-weeks-told-might/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/23/uk-experts-helped-shut-covid-lab-leak-theory-weeks-told-might/
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Protests in China over President Xi Jinping's zero-tolerance Covid-19 measures have intensified - expanding from Beijing and the far western Xinjiang region to several other major cities, including Wuhan, Shanghai, and the eastern city of Nanjing, according to video and photos circulating on social media.
The weekend protests followed Friday demonstrations in Urumqi, the capitol of Xinjiang, after a deadly fire killed residents who were locked inside following lockdowns which have lasted more than 100 days. Officials have reported 10 deaths in the fire, however citizens have reported up to 40 who perished.
The protests are a rare display from a typically compliant citizenry, who know that crackdowns on dissent have intensified over the past decade. As the Wall Street Journal notes, " Having protests over the same issue break out in multiple Chinese cities is almost unheard of, outside of nationalist outpourings, such as anti-Japanese protests."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zero-tolerance-chinese-lockdown-protests-intensify-rare-display-defiance
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Twitter will no longer enforce its Covid-19 misinformation policy, under which users who deviated from prevailing establishment narratives frequently had their accounts locked or suspended
The longstanding policy did not apply to misinformation from government officials, who regularly lied about things such as transmission, masks, vaccine efficacy, side effects, or any of the other 'science' which turned out to be patently false.
Twitter did not officially announce the change, rather, the company added a note to a page on its website outlining its Covid-19 policy.
"Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy," reads the note, which follows a line that still reads: "As the global community faces the COVID-19 pandemic together, Twitter is helping people find reliable information, connect with others, and follow what's happening in real time."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-stops-enforcing-covid-19-misinformation-policy
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Twitter now welcome all anti-bioweapon discussion for all.
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Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing 'a clip' at a target, and 'aim for the head'
A four-star Air Force general sent a memo on Friday to the officers he commands that predicts the U.S. will be at war with China in two years and tells them to get ready to prep by firing "a clip" at a target, and "aim for the head."
In the memo sent Friday and obtained by NBC News, Gen. Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, said, “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me will fight in 2025.”
Air Mobility Command has nearly 50,000 service members and nearly 500 planes and is responsible for transport and refueling.
Minihan said in the memo that because both Taiwan and the U.S. will have presidential elections in 2024, the U.S. will be “distracted,” and Chinese President Xi Jinping will have an opportunity to move on Taiwan.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-air-force-general-predicts-war-china-2025-memo-rcna67967
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An Interactive Look at the U.S.-China Military Scorecard
Over the past two decades, China's People's Liberation Army has transformed itself from a large but antiquated force into a capable, modern military. Although China continues to lag the United States in terms of aggregate military hardware and operational skills, it has improved its relative capabilities in many critical areas. To advance the public debate, RAND used open, unclassified sources to compile The U.S.-China Military Scorecard: Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power. This comprehensive report examines U.S. and Chinese military capabilities in ten operational areas, and presents a "scorecard" for each.
Each scorecard assesses the relative advantage or disadvantage of U.S. and Chinese forces in diverse types of conflict, at varying distances from the Chinese mainland, at different points in time from 1996 to 2017. Advantage means that one side is able to achieve its primary objectives in an operationally relevant time period while the other side would have trouble in doing so. The chart below collects the scorecards for each evaluated operational area.
To prevail in either of the scenarios below, China’s offensive goals would require it to hold advantages in nearly all operational categories simultaneously. U.S. defensive goals could be achieved by holding the advantage in only a few areas. Nevertheless, China’s improved performance could raise costs, lengthen the conflict, and increase risks to the United States.
https://www.rand.org/paf/projects/us-china-scorecard.html
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a
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Three years ago, I declared that COVID-19 almost certainly came from the Chinese Wuhan lab. Now, the world is finally admitting the truth.
The cover-up of COVID-19's origins is one of the greatest scandals in the history of the world. Millions of people all over the planet have died from the China Virus.
The cost of the outbreak and the lying about its origins is incalculable, some say in excess of $50 trillion. (USA debt = 31 trillion :D )
Now it's time to hold China—and the corrupt forces who have facilitated this colossal suppression of facts—accountable for the damage they have inflicted upon all of humanity.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11820301/DONALD-J-TRUMP-world-finally-woken-truth-Wuhan-virus.html
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More than 40 countries at a summit of European leaders have backed a system to estimate the damage Russia is causing during the war in Ukraine, in the hopes Moscow can be forced to compensate victims and help rebuild the nation once the conflict is over.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was the dominant topic during the meeting in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavík, where delegations from Council of Europe member states discussed how the continent’s pre-eminent human rights organization could support Kyiv.
France, Germany and the United Kingdom are among the countries that have signed on to the most tangible outcome of the meeting: a new office to set up a register of damages that will allow victims of the war to report the harm they have suffered.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-european-nations-back-system-to-calculate-damage-russia-caused-in/
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It might seem like US and allies is war gaming.
Has several equations and keep turning on variable on and off and pushing to the bleeding edge of nuclear war.
Find the correct recipe variables that tick all their box
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I keep telling you there will be no war among the major powers due to trade.
US will keep instigating endless proxy wars to sustain its military industrial complex.
What to watch is the increasing Muslim population in the US and, Europe.
It might seem like US and allies is war gaming.
Has several equations and keep turning on variable on and off and pushing to the bleeding edge of nuclear war.
Find the correct recipe variables that tick all their box
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13197079/cancer-epidemic-young-people-america-uk-india-south-africa.html
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I keep telling you there will be no war among the major powers due to trade.
US will keep instigating endless proxy wars to sustain its military industrial complex.
What to watch is the increasing Muslim population in the US and, Europe.
It might seem like US and allies is war gaming.
Has several equations and keep turning on variable on and off and pushing to the bleeding edge of nuclear war.
Find the correct recipe variables that tick all their box
There might be localized wars all over the place. Probably China takedown going to be penaltimate.
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Wargame simulated a conflict between Israel and Iran: It quickly went nuclear
https://thebulletin.org/2024/02/wargame-simulated-a-conflict-between-israel-and-iran-it-quickly-went-nuclear/
The game consisted of three moves. After receiving a war brief and instructions from the Israeli prime minister, teams representing the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and intelligence community formulated their preferred options for launching nuclear strikes against Iran. The prime minister selected one. Move two begins after the Israeli military carries out this strike. In move two, the teams were reconstituted to represent Israel, friendly Arab nations, and the United States and its European allies. Control played Iran, Russia, and China. Each team responded diplomatically and militarily to Israel’s initial nuclear strike against Iran. The game’s third and final move was a “hot wash” where participants discussed their insights.