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US Military’s Failing Deterrence Against China

‘They Are Putting Capability in the Field Faster Than We Are’

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin gave a stern warning about US competition with China earlier this month at the Reagan National Defense Forum:

“These next few years will set the terms of our competition with the People’s Republic of China. And they will determine whether our children and grandchildren inherit an open world of rules and rights — or whether they face emboldened autocrats who seek to dominate by force and fear…

“The PRC is the only country with both the will and, increasingly, the power to reshape its region and the international order to suit its authoritarian preferences.”

One of the Pentagon’s main concerns is China’s continued accelerating nuclear buildup. Every year, the Pentagon’s estimates of China’s nuclear buildup appear to grow exponentially.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2022December 26, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

The U.S. Government Funded Chinese Military Research

This story isn’t over – and neither is the story of the COVID cover-up.

Last week, a bombshell intelligence report on the origins of COVID-19 was released by House Republicans with the explosive discovery that the United States government funded genetic manipulation of coronaviruses, not only at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but at a Chinese Military research facility.

While the U.S. routinely, and rightly, lectures China on being more transparent and cooperating more on the COVID investigation, we don’t expect much. Admitting mistakes or failure under a totalitarian regime often has terminal consequences.

by Blazingcatfur•December 26, 2022December 26, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA, WTF?

Massive Police-Led Iris Scan Collection in China Raises Concerns of State Control and Repression: Canadian Study

A new study from the University of Toronto reveals a massive police-led iris scan collection campaign conducted in China’s western province of Qinghai, which researchers said could be used for increased state control and repression of ethnic and religious minorities and critics of the communist regime.

The study, published by U of T’s The Citizen Lab on Dec. 14, looked at nearly 190 publicly available sources, including the official social media accounts of the Chinese regime or public security bureau and local news reports. Among these sources, 53 contained figures showing that between March 2019 and July 2022, Chinese police may have collected between roughly 1,250,000 and 1,450,000 iris scans, representing between one-fifth (21.1 percent) and a quarter (25.6 percent) of Qinghai’s total population of 5.9 million.

by Blazingcatfur•December 24, 2022December 24, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Surveillance Society"

Liberal MP’s Play Race Card To Deflect From LPC Links To ChiComs

As critics push Trudeau on China interference, Liberal MP says he has become ‘target’

OTTAWA – Politicians including a Liberal MP and a senator say they fear allegations of Chinese interference in the 2019 federal election will lead to anti-Asian racism.

But opposition critics, including some who say they have borne the brunt of such racism themselves, are accusing them of deflecting legitimate questions that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must answer.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Liberal MP Han Dong suggested that claims of Beijing’s interference have been light on detail.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 23, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

U.S. considering ban on TikTok as experts warn China could use it for spying. What will Canada do?

The video lasts less than 30 seconds, time enough for a pair of disembodied hands to deftly slice an entire English cucumber into wafer-thin discs.

As entertainment it was certainly minimalist, but the world was impressed. The clip by Canadian culinary star Wallace Wong — aka The Six Pack Chef — garnered 144 million views on TikTok this year.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2022December 22, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Saudi Arabia Welcomes China’s Xi as US Snubs Allies, Courts Enemies

China is fully exploiting the cooling of US-Saudi relations engineered by the Biden administration’s repeated public personal attacks on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) as well as perceived decreased support for the Saudi-led coalition’s efforts to blunt Iranian expansionism in Yemen.

China’s first summit with Arab state leaders in Saudi Arabia occurs at a propitious time for both Chinese President Xi Jinping and MBS. Xi is at the height of his power, having been approved in November by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee for an unprecedented third term as party General Secretary. MBS, already Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, was just appointed as the Prime Minister by his father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2022December 22, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Saudi Arabia, USA

The United States Blacklisted This Chinese Company for Human Rights Atrocities. You Can Still Buy Its Cameras on Amazon.

Amazon has it all. Books. Clothes. Chinese surveillance cameras implicated in human rights atrocities.

The online retail giant offers a variety of products from Tiandy, the Chinese company that the Commerce Department blacklisted last week for its involvement in China’s repression of Uyghurs and links to the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. For $6,903, Amazon customers can purchase a Tiandy TC-A3563, which allows “Face Capture/intelligent monitoring mode.” Tiandy’s 17-pound, multi-lens TC-A35555, which “detects up to 32 faces at the same scene,” runs for $9,498.

by Blazingcatfur•December 22, 2022December 22, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Amazon is Evil

US Returns to the Philippines to Fend Off China

The more U.S. and allied military power is based on and along these island chains, the more readily China can be contained in the western Pacific.

Thirty years ago, as the post–Cold War era dawned, the United States formally transferred control of the U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay to the Philippine government. The Washington Post reported on Nov. 24, 1992, that the transfer ended 94 years of U.S. military presence in the archipelago. The previous year saw American air forces depart from Clark Air Base. The United States seized the Philippines from Spain after its victory in the Spanish–American War in 1898. But with a new Cold War brewing in the western Pacific, Kyodo News reports that the U.S. Navy will likely return to Subic Bay as part of a U.S.–Philippines Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 21, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Philippines, USA

2020 intel warned Trudeau government that China’s interference in Canadian elections will likely be ‘pervasive’

An unredacted 2020 national security document alleges that Beijing used an extensive network of community groups to conceal the flow of funds between Chinese officials and Canadian members of an election interference network, all in an effort to advance its own political agenda in the 2019 federal contest.

I’m getting awfully sick of all the diversity Justin has unleashed upon us.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2022December 21, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

China’s Deal with Saudi Arabia is a Disaster for Biden

Nothing better illustrates the utter ineptitude of the Biden administration’s dealings with the Middle East than Saudi Arabia’s decision to forge a strategic alliance with China.

This is a time when Washington should be working overtime to strengthen its ties with long-standing allies like the Saudis to combat the mounting threat Iran poses to the region’s security.

Apart from the deeply alarming progress the ayatollahs are said to be making with their efforts to produce nuclear weapons.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Saudi Arabia, USA

Canada’s border agency using radio equipment from Communist Chinese company banned in the United States

For the past five and a half years, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has been using communications equipment and technology from the controversial Chinese firm Hytera Communications — a company the United States government has blacklisted as a national security threat.

In response to CBC’s questions about CBSA’s use of Hytera equipment and technology, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said he’s asked all departments across his portfolio to review any procurement contracts linked to Hytera or its subsidiaries in the wake of a controversy over a similar RCMP contract with one of Hytera’s subsidiaries.

“I have instructed my department to do a portfolio-wide scan and review of any other potential similar contracts which may have been awarded, so that we can take whatever steps are necessary to mitigate any against any risks that may exist,” Mendicino said Monday.

Has anyone looked into the possibility of connections between these suppliers and the Liberal Party? That should include individual and corporate donations.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 20, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

How Beijing is controlling Chinese media in Canada and around the world

While becoming more autocratic at home during Xi Jinping’s rule, Beijing has become much more willing, over the past decade, to throw its weight around inside other states. It is increasingly trying, for the first time since Mao’s days, to intervene in the domestic politics, media, information environments, and societies of other countries. Beijing’s campaigns today reflect a departure from the more limited and defensive Chinese foreign policy of the late Cold War and early post–Cold War eras. China in many ways has supplanted Russia as the authoritarian foreign power most dedicated to meddling inside other countries.

by Blazingcatfur•December 20, 2022December 19, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Douglas Todd: Feds need to be tougher on foreign agents intimidating Canadians from Iran, China

Many of the thousands of demonstrators who lined Lions Gate Bridge last month to oppose Iran’s brutal regime expressed anxiety in the presence of photographers and videographers.

Some Iranian Canadians in Vancouver’s Human Life Chain, who were joining worldwide protests against the death of teenager Mahsa Amini after she was detained by Iran’s morality police, pointed fingers at strangers recording their public defiance.

by Blazingcatfur•December 17, 2022December 16, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Iran

Chinese interference: What government documents tell us about election meddling

Any strong words Trudeau may mouth about China are to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

Government documents released earlier this week confirm that the Privy Council Office, the nerve centre of the federal bureaucracy which supports Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, had signs of Beijing’s alleged attempts to interfere with the 2019 general election.

Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair acknowledged having seen the 2020 memo while he was public safety minister to reporters on Friday, adding that its determinations “certainly” played a role in shaping increased government focus on electoral interference.

by Blazingcatfur•December 17, 2022December 17, 2022•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Japan approves biggest military buildup since second world war amid China fears

Japan has approved its biggest military buildup since the second world war, warning that China poses the “greatest strategic challenge ever” and outlining plans to develop a counterstrike capability funded by record defence spending.

The plans, announced by the government on Friday, reflect growing alarm over a more assertive Chinese military and a North Korean regime that continues to improve its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities.

But the changes have also triggered criticism that Japan is abandoning more than seven decades of pacifism under its postwar constitution.

by Blazingcatfur•December 17, 2022December 16, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Japan