“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 205

Mining executives warn Ottawa about dependence on China for strategic minerals amid deteriorating relations

OTTAWA — Mining executives and national security experts are warning the federal government about China’s domination of strategic mineral supplies, saying Ottawa needs to better protect supply chains for modern technology that relies on them like electric vehicles and smart phones.

I have read that one reason China became predominant in rare earth metals is that processing is an ecologically messy endeavour so Western companies shied away. Communist China of course could not care less about Western environmental concerns and seized the opportunity. Expect rare earth mining to be the next target of our eco-luddites.

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2021April 5, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

The Biden Effect: China to deploy 5,000 troops in Iran, build military base there

“…In the agreement with Iran regarding the investment project, China has also included a clause for deployment of its troops there; and more than 5,000 Chinese troops will be deployed in Iran, and a [military] base will be built for them. Before this, China has also put its signature on investment projects with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, which shows that China is implementing a plan to increase its influence in the Middle East…”

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2021April 5, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Iran

China Plays the Iran Card and Calls Washington’s Bluff

China last week signed a $400 billion, 30-year investment deal with Iran. American sanctions against Iran are effectively nullified. China’s state press declared, “As it stands, this deal will totally upend the prevailing geopolitical landscape in the West Asian region that has for so long been subject to US hegemony.” As former Indian diplomat MK Bhadrakumar reports in Asia Times, Chinese state media declare that China will trade with Iran and other Central Asian currencies in its own currency, bypassing the dollar-based world banking system. U.S. leverage against Iran is gone. It was obvious for the past year that China might play the Iran card.

by Blazingcatfur•April 5, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Iran, USA

U.S. and Its Allies Must Focus on Access Denial Against China’s Military

Beijing may be deterred if it is clear that moving its naval and air force assets to attack Taiwan puts them at risk of humiliating losses.

If China is going to start a war, they are going to do it on their terms. All of our wonderful stuff won’t get there in time. You need to get your stuff there on Day Zero of the fight,” Adm. James “Sandy” Winnefeld, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told me last fall.

China has escalated “gray-zone” attacks against Taiwan in recent months. “Gray-zone” activity advances a state’s objectives outside the realm of accepted diplomacy, but below full military conflict. This can include disinformation campaigns, political or economic coercion, cyberattacks, or using proxies.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Canadians warming to prisoner swap with China, split on balancing budget: Nanos survey

TORONTO — New polling data from Nanos Research, commissioned by CTV News, reveals Canadians’ thoughts on the upcoming federal budget, carbon pricing and the idea of returning Meng Wanzhou to China in exchange for the freedom of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.

On the latter point, Nanos found that far more Canadians are in favour of the prisoner swap than they were when that idea was floated last June.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

The Strange Sinovac Vaccine Phenomenon, Countries Report Increased Cases After Using Vaccine

The Hong Kong government recently rolled out a large-scale vaccination plan against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as COVID-19, but it’s been mired by frequent reports of serious adverse reactions. In just one month, 13 people died in Hong Kong after being inoculated, 11 of whom had been injected with the Sinovac vaccine, a Chinese domestically made vaccine.

The CCP has not reported a single case of serious side effects or death after it announced the administering of 100 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine in China on March 28.

by Blazingcatfur•April 4, 2021April 4, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

China launches musical in bid to counter Uyghur abuse allegations

Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps

A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster “La La Land” has hit China’s cinemas, portraying a rural idyll of ethnic cohesion devoid of repression, mass surveillance and even the Islam of its majority Uyghur population.

China is on an elaborate PR offensive to rebrand the north-western region where the United States and other western nationals and human rights groups say genocide has been inflicted on the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.

by Blazingcatfur•April 3, 2021April 3, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China’s Cultural Revolution: The World Turned Upside Down

Yang Jisheng’s newly translated history could be a cautionary tale or a sign of things to come.

…The World Turned Upside Down picks up roughly where Tombstone left off, in 1966, with Chairman Mao Zedong seeking to eradicate the remaining conservative and pragmatic leftist forces in his country by declaring a wenhua geming, a “cultural revolution” that would mobilize “the broad masses from the bottom up to expose these sinister phenomena.” Mao, contemptuous of the “Four Olds” (old ideas, old culture, old habits, and old customs) and eager to establish the “Four News” (new ideas, new culture, new habits, new customs), was under no illusion that the process would be straightforward; indeed, he declared that it was only “great disorder under heaven” that could create “great order under heaven.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 3, 2021April 3, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Facebook Is a Tool of Chinese Propaganda and Workers Are Objecting

China has banned Facebook but that hasn’t stopped Beijing from using the social media platform as a gigantic instrument of state propaganda.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are exposed to Facebook highlighting sponsored posts from the Chinese Communists that show Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs happy and laughing the day away in China’s Xinjiang region.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2021April 2, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", facebook, facebook is evil

Tiananmen Square watch withdrawn from sale by auction house

A luxury UK auction house has withdrawn from sale a rare watch given to Chinese soldiers as a reward for their part in the Tiananmen Square massacre, after it said the vendor had received online threats.

The sale of the watch, depicting a green-helmeted soldier and the text “89.6 to commemorate the quelling of the rebellion” in Chinese characters, sparked questions over the ethics of profiting from an item associated with an atrocity.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2021April 2, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", WTF?

‘We’re coming to get you’: China’s critics facing threats, retaliation for activism in Canada

In July 2019, Mehmet Tohti was just hours away from speaking publicly to politicians about the Chinese government’s horrific abuse of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang when he received a message on Twitter:

“Your f—ing mother is dead,” it read.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2021April 2, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Beijing Accelerating Plans to Replace US Dollar as World Reserve Currency: Chinese Professor

The Chinese regime is accelerating its efforts to challenge the U.S. dollar’s dominance in global markets and trade by taking advantage of the economic shifts caused by the pandemic, a Chinese professor recently revealed.

In the post-pandemic world, China should be the “one who decides the benchmark of value,” Di Dongsheng, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing said in a video posted on Chinese social media on Feb. 4. “The currency that fixes the price will eventually be the renminbi.”

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2021April 1, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Rising Canadian athlete switches citizenship, hoping to compete for Communist China in Tokyo Olympics

Nina Schultz was just 19 years old when the world realized it had a serious new contender in the heptathlon.

The New Westminster, B.C. native captured a silver medal for Canada at the last Commonwealth Games, finishing behind only the U.K.’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, now the international number one.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2021April 1, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada

China Challenges the US on Iran

On March 27, China and Iran signed a comprehensive strategic 25-year partnership agreement on economic and security cooperation. The agreement was signed in Tehran, where China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi was visiting as part of his tour of the Middle East.

Details of the agreement were not immediately published. The Iranian Foreign Ministry communicated that it was a “roadmap for cooperation” and that no “contracts” were included in it. “Prospects for cooperation, whether economic, political, cultural or strategic, have not been quantified, therefore it does not include numbers on investment or financial and monetary resources,” a statement of the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported.

by Blazingcatfur•April 1, 2021April 1, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Iran