British Intelligence is reporting the loss of a Chinese nuclear submarine that was attempting to “trap” a British sub but ended up getting taken down when the oxygen filtration system failed, killing all 55 sailors. The CCP has denied the report’s claims.
Among the dead were the Captain and 21 officers. The submarine was attempting to maneuver to trap a British sub when it experienced a malfunction. The sub was caught in seabed defenses built by the CCP, then began running out of oxygen. The British Intelligence report claimed, “Our understanding is death caused by hypoxia (lack of oxygen) due to a system fault on the submarine. The submarine hit a chain and anchor obstacle used by the Chinese navy to trap US and allied submarines. This resulted in systems failures that took six hours to repair and surface the vessel. The on-board oxygen system poisoned the crew after a catastrophic failure.”
The incident is alleged to have happened a month ago, but until now there was no definitive reporting, until now. The report was leaked despite being rated as highly top secret. An inquiry into the leak is sure to follow.
The Chinese Communist Party has denied the report fearing being exposed as being incompetent as well as having their militant placement of sub traps aimed at catching U.S. and British subs for the purpose of killing the sailors on board. The move by the Chinese to build these sea traps could be seen as an act of war against the nations these traps were targeting.
Amid all the shrill backbiting over continuing to flagellate the dying Ukrainian efforts against Russia, as well as the capering of France trying to stave off the disintegration of its African satrapies, as those states internally realign themselves with Russia and China – by force, when necessary – a specter lurks in the background, the proverbial “elephant in the room”: Communist Chinese insecurity over Taiwan.
In this insecurity, lay the seeds of global economic collapse.
At the end of World War Two, Communist leader Mao Zedong led his “People’s Liberation Army” out of their mountain hideouts, and slid in behind Soviet forces occupying Manchuria, swiftly arming themselves with ex-Japanese military equipment captured from the defeated Imperial Japanese Army. Thus armed, the Communists went on the offensive against the exhausted Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces, which had born the brunt of fighting against the Japanese for the preceding eight years (1937-1945).
Despite several billion dollars in US aid, and the poorly though-out deployment of the III Amphibious Corps and elements of the 7th Fleet, the sheer exhaustion and demoralization of the KMT resulted in a series of worsening defeats on the battlefield, until, in 1949, the surviving KMT military and government units retreated (for the most part) to the island of Formosa (now, Taiwan), and established a government in exile.
That is the situation as it remains, today.
Communist China, throughout its bloody and draconian history from 1950 until today, cannot abide that a recognized province of the country is not under its thumb. This manifests itself in the news of today, as near-continual violations of Taiwan’s declared air and sea boundaries by Communist military forces. The normal response of the United States has been to occasionally deploy aircraft carrier battle groups into the disputed waters as a dare to the Communists to fire on them.
The question for many, however, is – why? After all, the United States famously showed Taiwan the door in 1972, which made the country a diplomatic pariah state…so, why does the United States constantly go “eyeball-to-eyeball” with Communist Beijing over the island? For that matter, why can’t Beijing just let it go?
Two answers: For Beijing – and particularly for Premier Xi Jinping – Taiwan is a gaping sore for the Communists, as the island rapidly prospered under the KMT’s governance, while Communist China wallowed in poverty, famine and induced technological stagnation under the increasingly mentally unstable Mao…and that, in spite of the extreme brutality of the KMT’s actions in securing the island, beginning in the late 1940’s. As prosperous as Communist China has become in the aftermath of the reforms of Deng Xiaoping, the Communist state still lags behind Taiwan by a long distance.
Second, the United States knows a fundamental truth that many around the world (and particularly within the United States), a truth that is the basis of this article:
Any Communist attempt to invade and conquer Taiwan – even if it failed – would collapse the global economy overnight.
The reason for this is brutally simple: microchips.
Circuit board. Public Domain.
Silicon chips, semiconductors, or integrated circuits as the Reader prefers, are what drive modern technology, from the device you are reading this article on, to the CPU in your car, computer chips drive every object of any consequence in your everyday life.
Most of Taiwan’s chips are produced by one company, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). Unlike other manufacturers like Samsung and Intel (who manufacture chips for internal products), however, TSMC chips are not proprietary to them. Instead, their chips supply manufacturers of computer-driven hardware around the world, companies like Apple, Nvidia and Qualcomm, to name just three. Other nations around the world currently hover at less than half of TSMC’s production capacity; the United States currently holds about 12% of the global manufacturing capacity.
Invasions, as proven by the Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, are bloody, messy and highly destructive affairs. Any actual Communist Chinese attempt to seize Taiwan would be no different, the severe problems of a combined arms assault on the island equating to a probable Communist failure aside. To say that such an invasion would “disrupt” TSMC’s operations is a laughable understatement, not least because standard military doctrine virtually guarantees direct attacks on the company’s production facilities, to say nothing of worker attrition from “collateral damage”.
Devastation in Bucha, Ukraine. CC0/1.0, Public Domain.
What would such a circumstance mean for the global economy? Simply, virtually all generalized computer and electronic device production and repair or upgrades utilizing semiconductors would grind to a halt, as stocks of chips dried up virtually overnight. This is due to the phenomenon of “just-in-time delivery”, an outgrowth of the wave of globalization that has been the norm since the 1990’s.
The Reader may recall the term “supply chain disruption” that became popular during the recent pandemic. Workers at both manufacturing plants, but also – critically – stevedores and loading crane operators stayed home, either terrified of catching the disease, by legal order, or both. This ricocheted throughout the global supply and transport system, and was greatly aggravated by what many considered to be a minor event, namely the grounding of the container ship Ever Given in March of 2021. The effects of these body blows to the global economy continue as of this writing.
Container Ship ‘Ever Given’ stuck in the Suez Canal, Egypt, March 24th, 2021. Copernicus Sential photo. CCA/2.0 Generic
In regards to a hypothetical – but very possible – Communist invasion of Taiwan, the disruption would be vastly worse, as there is no way for global manufacturers to quickly retool to make up for the loss, even if a ceasefire were quickly closed…And note that this does not address the general disruption of commercial cargo traffic in and out of the Communist nation, in the event of such a war.
But, there is an even greater danger lurking in this very possible scenario: the facts that not only will Taiwan not go quietly, but that they have a plan to take Communist China with them.
Without resorting to nuclear weapons.
The non-Communist Chinese in Taiwan all know full well what a Communist takeover of their country would entail. Given the Communist state’s recent history, to say nothing of its habit of “disappearing” political dissidents and anyone who disagrees with their regime too loudly. Because of this, there lurks a plan that Taipei lets slip every once in a while, to remind Beijing of what the consequences of invasion would be.
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, China, 2009. CCA/2.0 Generic
Taiwan’s “doomsday” plan (YouTube link) would be a series of strikes against the Three Gorges Dam. If concentrated, such a strike package would collapse at least a section of the dam, releasing the force of 39.3 km3 to pour downstream in a massive deluge.
Provisionally, this action could kill up to 400 million people…And this is not an idle threat, as the KMT has done it before. To say that this could result in a nuclear response is a given…with everything else that derives from that.
Right now, Communist China is desperate to appear tough and capable. The chances of bluster turning into an actual invasion are very real, however.
This fact is something that should be taken seriously by anyone reading this.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
Ever since Biden’s catastrophic pullout from Afghanistan with no real plan, and no real effort to assure the Taliban didn’t get our military equipment, China has been stepping into the void, offering the Taliban legitimacy and world recognition.
Now, Taliban welcomes China’s new ambassador, calling the decision by China to have an ambassador that recognizes the brutal raping and murdering regime (which is just one of the many things the two fascistic nations have in common with one another) further proof that the rest of the world needs to follow suit, the rest of the world needs to develop normal relations with the theocracy of hate and fear (something they share in common with America’s DNC-CCP).
The Taliban’s chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told The Associated Press “It also signals to other countries to come forward and interact with the Islamic Emirate. We should establish good relations as a result of good interactions and, with good relations, we can solve all the problems that are in front of us or coming in the future.”
So far, China is the only country willing to recognize the cult-nation, which makes sense given the cult-like nature of its own nation, led, as it is, by the cult of personality wannabe Xi Jinping, a model of hope for the DNC-CCP who dreams one day of having their own cult of personality dictate to us Americans OUR terms of existence in the same way Xi does to his people, in the same way the Taliban does through its cult of personality “leader,” Muhammad (or at least their version of the child-marrying “prophet.”)
Azerbaijan announced Tuesday it had begun an “anti-terrorist operation” in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, The assault came after Azerbaijan’s defense minister accused terrorists in the region of killing six Azerbaijani soldiers through land mines. The ministry released a statement, claiming “Localized anti-terrorist measures have been launched in the region.” They added they will be using “high precision weapons on the front line and in depth as part of the operations.”
The capital of the region, Stepanakert, is reporting sounds of explosions and sirens. It has also lost cell reception.
2,000 Russian Peacekeepers are present, but they are not making any action to halt what is reported so far as artillery fire into the Nagorno-Karabakh region. U.S. State Secretary Anthony Blinken said the U.S. was “deeply concerned by Azerbaijan’s military actions in Nagorno-Karabakh and calls on Azerbaijan to cease these actions immediately. These actions are worsening an already dire humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and undermine prospects for peace. … We call for an immediate end to hostilities and for respectful dialogue between Baku and representatives of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh.”
Meanwhile Russian and Iranian Military leaders are meeting in Tehran to discuss what can be done to de-escalate the situation. Iran is calling on both sides to respect the 2020 ceasefire treaty while also supporting Azerbaijan’s claims that the region is part of their republic.
While it makes that claim, it also accuses Israel, an ally of Azerbaijan, of being behind the whole affair, saying it will not tolerate any “Zionist initiative on border reshuffling in the region.”
The British government appears ready to play subservient to the Chinese Communist Party after coming out and insisting that despite catching a CCP spy in the research department of their parliament, they refuse to call China a threat.
This is a reflection of the ecumenical power of the coalition of corporate-captured governments in the West, including America, that choose the Chinese Yuan over their own nations’ sovereign-preserving and making powers.
U.K. Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch said to Sky News “China is a country that we do a lot of business with. China is a country that is significant in terms of world economics. It sits on the UN Security Council. We certainly should not be describing China as a foe, but we can describe it as a challenge.”
A report from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center claims the Chinese Communist Party has been conducting covert social media content operations using AI to generate the targeted content. The operations target both sides of America’s main political divides, sowing discord and spreading misinformation.
Clint Watts, the center’s general manager, stated, “We have observed China-affiliated actors leveraging AI-generated visual media in a broad campaign that largely focuses on politically divisive topics, such as gun violence, and denigrating U.S. political figures and symbols,”
From the report, “Unlike earlier (influence operation) campaigns from CCP-affiliated actors that used easy-to-spot computer-generated handles, display names and profile pictures, these more sophisticated accounts are operated by real people who employ fictitious or stolen identities to conceal the accounts’ affiliation with the CCP.”
It seems the Chinese are removing any ambiguity in their stance regarding the Myanmar Junta, choosing to openly endorse the Junta by meeting with its leaders face to face. India and Thailand have joined suit, signaling their beliefs the junta is here to stay.
China’s Vice Admiral Lui Zuzhu met with Myanmar’s chief of the General Staff, General Maung Maung Aye while nine junta ministers have also flown to China to meet with officials. Meanwhile, Indian Ambassador to Myanmar, Vinay Kumar, met the Junta’s deputy leader, Soe Win and Thailand’s ambassador to Myanmar met with Myanmar’s electricity minister Nyan Tun.
The reality is the junta is in a similar position the United States was in when we occupied south Vietnam. We occupied the cities but held little sway over the countryside. As Billy Joel says in the song Goodnight Saigon, “We held the day in the palm of our hands. They ruled the night, and the night seemed to last as long as six weeks On Parris Island. We held the coastline, they held the highlands.”
This is the reality in Myanmar, where resistance to the tyranny of the junta has not ended, where the “rebels” have taken to become their own arms manufacturers, building guns and drones that continue to thwart the junta’s efforts to consolidate their power.
But China, India and Thailand are betting that the junta will eventually win, and so they want to be in good standing with the new authority of the land, even as the rightful, democratically elected leaders suffer towards death in prisons.
It is a gamble, this writer believes, they will lose. I doubt very much the rebels, who will eventually take back their lands from the usurpers, will not soon forget what these nations did in their time of need, how they turned their backs on them for the sake of their own petty bottom lines, inured to the suffering of the land.
China has released another map claiming territory from a neighbor, one that is also a member of BRICS (Brazil, India, China, South America). Recently we reported on China doing a similar thing with another BRICS ally, India, now they’ve done the same with Russia, whose busy attempting to annex a whole neighbor, but using bombs, not cartography.
In this version, China claims the whole of Bolsoi Ussuriysky Island, a disputed territory they agreed to split between them in the past. Russia’s response to this map-perialism was delivered by by a Russian spokesperson, who said, “Russia and China have repeatedly confirmed the absence of mutual territorial claims….the Joint Border Commission is functioning effectively.”
It seems the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, needs China more than he needs the motherland’s territories, and China appears to know this. The Indians showed they are co-equals with Russia in their response, with Modi even bringing up their border disputes at the recent BRICS summit in South Africa. Apparently, the Russians are third-rate now, a subservient partner. What will the Russian people think of this demotion, if they even find out?
In 1974, authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, writing in their seminal science fiction novel “The Mote In God’s Eye”, coined a character concept called “Crazy Eddie”, a concept-figure who would appear in a society’s mindset at time of extreme social stress, and take the most insane and contradictory actions possible, which usually resulted in accelerating the collapse of a society or civilization.
The world is in a remarkable state of tumult as of September 1 of 2023. The war in Ukraine is well into its second year. In Africa, a wave of military coups is obliterating France’s sixty-plus year old “totally-not-an-empire”, sending the region and the wider world into a frenzy of impotent rage, as no one wants to wade into a quagmire against black nations standing up to imperialist and corporate interests. Russia and China, aside from rattling military sabers to whet the appetite of the ravenous bloodlust of the Western media and entertainment spheres, are quietly marching towards an economic checkmate against the West, in a move that will not simply destroy the Western business models, but will smash Western economies flat, potentially reducing many Western European economies to a state no scene since the post-World War 2 recovery, and the Marshall Plan…only there won’t be a Marshall Plan this time. Maybe a Putin-Xi Plan, but not a Marshall Plan.
Pretty heavy for an opening bit, eh?
Amid all of the current tumult in the United States – the possible return of Covid lockdown restrictions not least among those – there is a quietly increasing crescendo calling for actual military intervention – meaning, “invasion” – of Mexico, in order to “deal” with the flow of illegal drugs.
I wish I were joking.
The current power bloc in Washington, DC – supported by their cohorts in The City of London, Paris, and Brussels – had goaded Russia into what they thought would be a “warm-n-fuzzy” kind of “Cold War, 2.0”; what they got was a full-on invasion. Although there initial, hysterical screams to “go to war” with Russia, both from within the power blocs and from those in the general public who should probably be on emotional-management medications, it soon dawned on most people that “going to war” with Russia would almost certainly mean a “nuclear” war, that no one would “win”.
Then came Africa: Beginning in 2017 (YouTube link), people seemed to suddenly remember that there were still islamist jihadi’s out in the world, burning, looting, raping and killing people in order to serve the warped vision of religion espoused by a tortured political prisoner. However, murderous religious maniacs were “so three years ago”, and virtually no one on the “Western Street” considered barely-literate bandits hiding under the cloak of religious fervor to be an existential threat to Western civilization. Likewise, the recent wave of coups – not coming at the behest of Western governments and corporations – aren’t exactly revving the martial engines of Western populations being crushed under rancid economies and continual political scandals.
Something else was needed…And in the United States that answer is, increasingly, the illicit drug problem.
And it is a problem: tens of thousands of Americans die every year from drug overdoses, a large percentage involving the drug fentanyl. Unlike the normal cries for “Bayonets UP!”, however, this group of calls comes from the opposite side of the aisle: instead of Democrats leading the charge for military intervention, this time, the main thrust is coming from the Republican side of the fence.
This should not be a surprise, given the GOP’s continuous cries against illicit drugs. After all, it was no less a figure than Richard Nixon, who authorized the placing of cannabis (aka, “marijuana”) on the list of drugs as a Schedule 1 compound, right next to heroin – a position it retains to this writing – in 1970. And, like the vigorously enforced alcohol raids of the Prohibition Era – also enforced by successive Republican administrations – the GOP’s “war on drugs” has directly sparked the explosive growth of massive, high-revenue and well-armed and frighteningly well-equipped drug cartels, who have an international reach, and who have now diversified into human trafficking.
Given the abject inability of the US military to deal with the opium trade in Afghanistan during its twenty-year long occupation of the country – which saw opium poppy fields expand five-fold – the idea that a smaller military, struggling with recruiting efforts, and quietly speaking the dreaded “D-Word” out loud, can deal with the various drug cartels is not a matter for political or military debate, but a matter to be dealt with by mental health counselors.
The US military is having trouble recruiting people with bonuses exceeding $50,000 to sign up. As Mexico itself has discovered, military recruiters have a hard time competing with their counterparts in the Cartels, especially if the Cartel recruiters can use Mafia-like threats against potential recruits’ families. Likewise, the Cartels not only pay what regular forces term “combat pay”, but offer bounties against specific targets.
As well, with revenues between US$20 billion and US$60 billion per year (minimum), and far less overhead than conventional corporations and nation states, the Cartels have plenty of cash left over for high-intensity R&D: the wave of combat footage coming out of Ukraine, showing drones – from both sides – dropping small bomblets into trenches and bunkers are merely the current state of a technology pioneered by the Cartels, and refined in Syria in the aftermath of the rise of ISIL.
Much worse, from both a tactical and an operational standpoint, is the ability of Cartel members to blend into the general population. While islamist jihadis are comparatively easy to target, as they belong to a very narrow slice of the US population, Cartel members are a subset of the largest minority group in the United States. Where – to get rather “ugly” about it – potential jihadists tend to limit themselves to Muslim mosques, Cartel soldiers are largely Catholic, and are thus able to circulate freely among the Catholic population, the fastest-growing Christian denomination in the world.
The Cartel’s leadership echelons are not idiots. In fact, a distressing number began as military professionals, as is clear from their ability to organize a military-style logistics system. They are watching the rhetoric coming from within Washington, DC and various other organs, both from within the government, and from government-adjacent groups – nothing presented here is new to the Cartels.
Decades of neglect of border security, up to and including the recent encouragement of millions of desperate economic refugees to cross the southern border of the United States illegally – an action which helps to fuel the cartels’ diversified revenue structure, to say nothing of the very real physical dangers of the northern Mexican deserts and the human trafficking predations of the “coyotes” – has fueled an massive surge in drug-related deaths across the United States. Communist China is certainly complicit in this, as they are the Cartels’ prime suppliers of fentanyl precursor drugs…something they have no issue supplying, as Beijing sees this as “payback” for the Opium Wars…but that is a whole other story.
With the hyperventilating actions of people who should know better, calling for a Presidential authorization to use military force against the Cartels, alongside equally breathless and stentorian calls to designate the Cartels as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (FTO’s), and coupled to a military establishment that has seemingly lost its way, to the point where it is quietly considering a return to a military Draft, the notion of an all-out “hot” war on the southern border of the United States is the height of lunacy, a lunacy driven by both sides of increasingly incompetent power blocs.
“We, the People” have allowed our “elected” leaders to paint us into a corner, a corner from which there is no real way out, except through the use of extreme levels of violence.
Kind of like Africa in the last few months.
The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To
Far-left sites are pushing narrative Taiwan is doing nefarious things to trick Americans into being Pro-Taiwan and anti-China, including targeting “Chinese-Americans” for prosecution, working with the FBI to do so. The CCP propaganda pushed by the far left further shows why this writer refers to the Democratic Party (now fully controlled and led by far-left anti-Americanists) as the DNC-CCP, to reflect this unholy frenemy alliance between two corrupt ideologies who share two common enemies, the Church of the one true living God and the American Republic.
Mintpress News is alleging that Taiwan is working with the Feds to target Chinese-Americans for prosecution. They are also “intimidating” U.S. politicians who appear to be too friendly to China. Finally, they are funding U.S. think-tank groups to the tune of million of dollars, groups that are pro-Taiwan and anti-China. The article that brought this to our attention was in Monthly Review Online, which appears to be a Pro-China website. Mint Press News, according to the far left “information” site Wikipedia, is also a far left website.
As of September 1, 2024, if you go to the front of Monthly Review Online, you will see a storuy about Isabel Crook, a “longtime friend and supporter of Monthly Review,” who died recently at the age of 107. She resides in Beijing.
The Wikipedia entry for Mint Press News states, MintPress News (MPN) is an American far-left news website founded and edited by Mnar Adley (née Muhawesh) which was launched in January 2012 and also publishes the MintCast podcast. It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues. Editorially, MintPress News supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and the governments of Russia, Iran, and Syria. It opposes the governments of Israel and Saudi Arabia, and reports geopolitical events from an anti-Western perspective. In one contentious article, MintPress News falsely asserted that the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria was perpetrated by rebel groups rather than by the Syrian government.
Described as a conspiratorial website, MintPress News publishes disinformation and antisemitic conspiracy theories, according to researchers at Rutgers University and others. MintPress News was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization. The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-Russian propaganda.
The reality is Taiwan is doing what every nation in the world does in America, an open society, seeks to influence it by sponsoring groups that support its agenda and lobby congress to be favorable to that nation’s interests. Whether or not America should continue to allow this for anyone is one question, characterizing their actions as being any different than the countries the far-left supports, countries like China in particular (and now, more and more, Russia, as China and Russia are now, apparently, best buds).
Taiwan working with the Feds to root out CCP spies among us, though, is a good thing, and these “Chinese-Americans” aren’t being targeted because they’re pro-China, they’re being targeted for being traitors to America, for being operatives of the Chinese Communist Party.
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