China has fired missiles into disputed territory in the South China Sea today, which officials say are meant to be a “warning” to the US after a U-2 spy plane intruded on China’s naval drill in the area, entering a no-fly zone.
One of the missiles was a DF-26 missile, a nuclear-capable missile, and the other a DF-21D, an anti-ship ballistic missile. China said the firing was meant to show they can deny access to the South China Sea militarily.
The US responded by blacklisting a number of Chinese officials accused of involvement in the South China Sea, as well as Chinese executives whose companies are active there. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the blacklist included a travel ban.
This is just the latest sign of tensions between the US and China. The US rejects all Chinese claims in the South China Sea, and regularly sends ships into the area to prove they can send ships there in violation of the maritime claims.
They must love pissing away armaments to keep their military industrial complex fat and happy too.
XI and the CCP shouldn’t be so eager to fight a conventional duel with the US.. None of their challenges to U.S. power has really worked out well.
The promotion of the ‘young wolf’ generation is curious. Deng Xiaoping’s foreign policy emphasized “hiding one’s capabilities and storing up one’s power.”
CCP lack of humility is Western imperialist in aspect, not traditional Chinese.
China/Korea humiliated amerikans—u murdered 4 million Koreans and they caused u to retreat from the Yalu river to the 38th parallel where u surrendered
That was 70 years ago when Chinese nationalism drove the CCP.
China then lost a war against Vietnam in 1979. Crony communism had overtaken nationalism in China, but not in Vietnam.
confused again–both China and Vietnam are communist…nearly all foreign Chinese r linguistically and culturally distinct from Mandarin, Shanghai speakers—nearly 90% of Chines in USA, Argentina, etc are Cantonese (Hong Kong, Toison speakers….there are vast numbers of languages spoken in Russia (35 official languages—another 60 languages and more in China and India)…USAmonolingual/monocultural
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In order to promote national unity, the CCP adopted many Westernisms. Marxist-Leininism, but also, Western race theory. This was from an era when race theory was a thing and appeared a successful and legitimate science. Europe, to the rest of the world at least, was once united under the banner of being the white race, with national breeds.
While there is some scientific backing of the concept of a ‘Han’ race, its no more coherent than say a German race, British race or Russian race. Basically, race is an oversimplification of biological ancestry.
However, in order for race theory to work, Chinese have to learn to be racist. ‘We are all Han’ has shortcomings but become part of the CCP programme to overcome the significant differences you mention.
Since the CCP is never wrong, backing down on flawed initiatives is kind of tough for them. For example, the one-child policy has clearly created a demographic time bomb for China, but admit they erred? Nope; which makes finding an honest solution somewhat difficult.
Similarly, racism has resulted in official Chinese faux pas like using blackface skits on official national TV. Whoops. For now, they can blame being influence by American movies, but the problem lies deeper than that.
Whites and blacks in China were one not uncommon in China, in both the distant and recent past. Yet, such facts are not compatible with the yellowness of Han race theory. Things like the caucasian Tarim mummies aren’t properly studied and even somewhat suppressed in China.
Not really sure what you are saying with NO named examples. Seems like it’s the U.S. with lack of humility trying to interven in territorial disputes on the far side of the planet from it. Do you really think Ukraine/Crimea was a U.S. win? Or that U.S. sanctions will reverse that outcome? Watching the big powes playing thermonuclear chicken should wake us all up to the danger & stakes of reckless provocations. Can’t we all just get along?
Name examples? The CCP fired missiles more or less across the bow of U.S. warships.
Ummm… why? Obsession over big face, with no sense of what is good face or bad face, is a mental illness that is completely predictable and exploitable. The CCP is behaving like a spoiled Western elite, or worse, the Qing dynasts.
China’s COVID-19 response is the very model of what we don’t want happening anywhere in the West – for all that medical police statism has its advocates here, especially in liberal democratic parties. China’s lockdowns are with near-total compliance and no allowance for debate, reasoned discourse, and dissent is met with far harsher terms than ridiculously unfair fines.
China’s tech war with the U.S.? Well, it turns out China has little indigenous nano tech, and Huawei is likely doomed. They acted without thinking, or rather, the thinking was all political and not at all practical.
Russia won Crimea back handily. Crimeans WANT to be Russians. Ukraine Novorussians WANT to join Russia. The Chechens are fine with being in the Russian Federation, no hard feelings, despite the brutal civil war. Russia clearly thinks, and thinks clearly, before acting.
Chinese outside China, not linked to the CCP, want nothing to do with the CCP. For all that they may love the idea of a united China, or recognize the threat of the Western imperialists. Many would rather join Christian cults than the CCP.
There is the sense that, the CCP is not loyal to China, just itself, and Chinese nationalism an expendable pretext.
we gotta grow up-literally
Strange to see you writing stuff like this. It is the U.S. with the neoconservative policy of “Full Spectrum Dominance” fron which many of these unnessary confrontations eminate. The dream to dominate & rule the entire planet through military force and intimidation is alive and active, but not so much in China. They are out to Excell in comerce & innovation. Their nuclear arsenal is small.
Did I miss something that Russia and China have proposed or done lately which merits our negative scrutiny???
What actions by Russia & China has gotten YOU so riled up to write this stuff?
Yeah, but Deng was right. Keep a low profile and don’t make waves. The enemy will come to you, sooner or later.
Setting up outposts on the South China Seas, strategically sound – except, in 50 years they will be underwater due to global warming. Being confrontational about that… and Taiwan… well backed by what? Driven by what? Hawks should never make foreign policy.
The Chinese people don’t want war, and its common sense that Chinese should not be set up to kill Chinese.
I’m wondering if well-placed Euros are whispering in China’s ear via the CCP, just like the bad old days of the Qing Dynasty. There have always been conspiracy theories regarding a connection between the descendants of the Western Opium trade and the CCP. I can easily Google Rothschilds and Chinese Communist Party and come up with something interesting.
https://lipstick-and-war-crimes.org/mao-yale-man-rothschilds-create-peoples-republic-china/
Xi’s actions… don’t appear to be completely in China’s best interest as an entity separate from and independent of European imperialism. Trumps belligerence towards China… is his intuition onto something?
Hitler’s Germany and Tojo’s Japan were set up to be used and to lose WWII. Russia has the experience and wisdom not to fall into any aggression traps; CCP China, does not appear to have that wisdom; more like they have the mental illness that afflicted the Qing.
It’s quite common historically for nations in long term conflicts to progressively resemble each other more and more as time goes on. Rome and Persia, England and France, even the USA and USSR as they became more corporate.
It is a mistake both sociologically and historically to compare empires—indeed most empires unlike USA are not “corporate”. the byzantine empire was not, nor was the USSR
In the mid 1800’s Vissaron Belinsky wrote, “Tsarist Russia is more free and just than amerika where corporations rule and robbery and thievery is made official”
Oh Yeah, and there is no cure that isn’t as painful as its disease or worse…..!!!!!!!
That would be because, oligarchic elites are oligarchic elites whatever their forms of governance.
The traditional left-right linear political spectrum is an oligarchic cycle under Libertarianism, which measures economic freedom over political ideology. Thus, a communist dictatorship is little different from a fascist state.
Except, the fascist state would still have an economy remotely connected to free price discovery, hence the success of the CCP in the transition from Maoism to Deng-ism.
Xi is at an unfortunate crossroads; the margin of improvement fascism has over communism, has predictably been met. And the Western wolves are circling, for all that the CCP youngbloods think themselves wolves, the whelps are prey.
the S China Sea is not an amerikan sea—amerikan imperialism is no longer tolerated….the desperate decaying paper tiger empire will never challenge China—they only regime change weak defenseless nations…US has never defeated any nation in war —except nations like Panama, Haiti, Grenada
And who whupped the great soviet bear so badly it dissolved? The graveyard of empires.
That was not a war, it was a economic collapse, caused by decades of arms race between the US & NAT0 and the USSR.
Germany destroyed the USSR, if it wasn’t for D-Day. America made the U.S.S.R. continue.
Whichever empire dominated Eurasia after the war, was going to collapse of it’s own weight, as will the US.
all empires collapse. We need something better. i know, how bout we unify humanity under a global borderless society? You know, grow up?
“amerikans are not educated to think historically or sociologically” Morris Berman
The USSR defeated the Nazis and Japan
japan? Japan kicked russkie ass twice…History!
ussr whupped germany in ww2. remember? the west bled russia white…on purpose
obviously u r an ignorant amerikan—the USSR disintegrated ; it was not “whupped”
Johan Galtung, Jameson, Orlov all predict the US empire will collapse in less than 10 years.
“amerikans cannot think except by means of slogans—they identify garbage as quality. the stupidity and ignorance of amerikans has long been a topic of hilarity in Europe”. Paul Fussell
They defeated the South in the Civil War!
True. amerikans r trained to believe that it regarded slavery. This lie is thoroughly examined by Morris Berman (Why amerikan Failed)
Glad to see two of more advanced societies have grown up from our earlier macho,chest thumping neighborhood gang violence…
Me too… after a bottle or two of Jack.
Well, at least the Pentagon knows it’s actions are putting its naval personnel and vessels in grave danger of destruction. I have no idea if that makes a conflict more or less likely.