Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations. Now compare it with hundreds of millions of Chinese who are not on Twitter but on Weibo, and a leadership in Beijing that is impervious to western-manufactured pre-war, post-modern hysteria. Anyone who understands Chinese culture knew there would never be a “missile on a Kabul balcony” moment over Taiwanese airspace. There would never be a replay of the perennial neocon wet dream: a “Pearl Harbor moment.” That’s simply not the Chinese way. The day after, as the narcissist Speaker, so proud of accomplishing her stunt, was awarded the Order of Auspicious Clouds for her promotion of bilateral US-Taiwan relations, the Chinese Foreign Minister issued a sobering comment: the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland is a historical inevitability. That’s how you focus, strategically, in the long game. What happens next had already been telegraphed, somewhat hidden in a Global Times report. Here are the two key points: Point 1: “China will see it as a provocative action permitted by the Biden administration rather than a personal decision made by Pelosi.” That’s exactly what President Xi Jinping had personally told the teleprompt-reading White House tenant during a tense phone call last week. And that concerns the ultimate red line. Xi is now reaching the exact same conclusion reached by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year: the United States is “non-agreement capable,” and there’s no point in expecting it to respect diplomacy and/or rule of law in international relations. Point 2 concerns the consequences, reflecting a consensus among top Chinese analysts that mirrors the consensus at the Politburo: “The Russia-Ukraine crisis has just let the world see the consequence of pushing a major power into a corner… China will steadily speed up its process of reunification and declare the end of US domination of the world order.” https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/13830
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Not really Good cover for their intentions though Creative scripting for the bums on seats The Jesuits run China and hqve for couple of hundred years They first went in in the 1600s and it took them about 100 years to set up the legal framework that put them in Control, got the Emperors put and Mao in. Now in league with Rome Spain England and the rest of the royals allowed to keep their heads and Kingdoms, as friends of Spain Rome England, they will use Ukraine to know k off Russia and China to set up the takeover of America by them.
Not really Good cover for their intentions though Creative scripting for the bums on seats The Jesuits run China and hqve for couple of hundred years They first went in in the 1600s and it took them about 100 years to set up the legal framework that put them in Control, got the Emperors put and Mao in. Now in league with Rome Spain England and the rest of the royals allowed to keep their heads and Kingdoms, as friends of Spain Rome England, they will use Ukraine to know k off Russia and China to set up the takeover of America by them.