Cheap Chinese Arms…

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Godfree Roberts
HERE COMES CHINA

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Thanks to China, the Global 90% can defend themselves affordably against the West’s costly offensive weapons and the West, confident that nobody could attack it, neglected to develop weapons to affordably defend itself. The US Navy paid $1.45 billion for a Burke-class destroyer this year, while China paid $1.8 billion for three – more modern and better-armed – destroyers. From military satellites to small arms to nano-drones with cameras and megadrones with bombs. All weapons 50% off.

Having demonstrated its mastery of mass automobile manufacturing, China is now mass manufacturing defensive weapons. Fully automated factories churn out 1,000 missiles a day because their supply chains are tightly coupled and use IoT, cloud computing, 5G and AI to continually raise productivity and lower downtime. And pass the savings on to consumers!

China’s IQ-19 missile defense system, above, uses a powerful propellant and a light warhead thanks to their mastery of physical chemistry, which means they can fit six onto a single carrier. A full HQ-19 battery costs $180 million for six missile carriers, sixty missiles @ $1 million each, plus radar, support, parts and service. America’s THAAD battery costs $1.35 billion for 9 launchers and 48 missiles whose range is shorter1 than the HQ-19. China also offers anti-aircraft/missile systems with ranges from 30 km to 3,000 km, all half-price, of course.

After watching tiny Yemen’s cheap, defensive weapons defeat the US Navy, the 134 Defense Ministers who attended the recent Zhuhai Air Show spent $40 billion on missile-carrying drone ships, assault-rifle-carrying robot dogs, jet fighters, directed energy weapons, self-propelled howitzers and gigantic UAVs. An Al Arabiya reporter there asked one if he’d seen a weapons system he would like to purchase for his country. “All of them, God willing,” he replied fervently.

$40 billion in sales is a quarter of America’s annual weapons exports. If China captures the world’s arms market as quickly as it captured the EV market, arms exports could reach $100 billion by 2030 and equal America’s $200 billion by 2035. That would pay for developing even better weapons and selling them even cheaper.

Xi: “Prepare for War”

PLAN order rebroadcast on national TV

Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, told the armed forces to prepare for war. The country should ”grasp the new situation and.. focus on preparing for war”. His message was rebroadcast on national TV.

The share of the population willing to fight is notably stronger in Russia and China than in the West, and if the brainwash permeating the West is finally weakened or overcome, those figures will flatten even more.

Of course, the idea of nuclear-armed great powers warring is ridiculous, since ruin of at least one or both is assured. But near certain self-destruction has often failed to deter war-making when honor or ambition are involved. Churchill bankrupted Britain and destroyed the Empire rather than abandon his Prime Ministerial ambitions.

In 1933, the Japanese General Staff reported to the Cabinet that, short of Divine intervention, America would devastate Japan in a war. But, rather than become an American vassal (US control of Japan’s energy imports), the proud Japanese declared war.

Today, short of Divine intervention, both China and Russia can devastate America militarily and economically, and have the loose allegiance of 90% of the world’s people. In the face of almost certain destruction, will America’s oligarchs declare war rather than surrender their hegemonic delusions?

Straws in the Wind:

Germany’s Economy Minister Robert Habeck says Berlin will not hold back criticism of human rights violations under threat of losing business. New measures to reduce dependence on Chinese raw materials, batteries and chips will also include closer examination of investments, such as infrastructure.

EU President Ursula von der Leyen says that hostile powers fund institutions in Europe to propagandize from within against democracy. Earlier this year, ‘a university in Amsterdam’ closed an institute that did research into human rights with money from China, she said, work that is toxic to our democracy, and announced a package to defend democracy. [The Cross-Cultural Human Rights Center (CCHRC) is a network of universities and scientists from China, Africa and the Caribbean. Founded in Beijing in 2014, the CCHRC aims to increase dialogue on human rights among scientists from around the world. In doing so, she draws particular attention to human rights concepts and ideas that have been developed in southern countries, such as China and Africa].
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey, currently a dialogue partner, aims to join the Shanghai Cooperative Organization, despite its membership in NATO. Separately, Turkey now buys Russian gas for Rubles. [And betrays Moscow every chance it gets.—Ed]
At the urging of Indian PM Narendra Modi, SCO members are preparing a unified list of terrorist, separatist and extremist organizations whose activities are banned on their territories, after expressed deep concern over the security threat posed by terrorism, separatism and extremism in all its forms and manifestations and strongly condemned terrorist acts around the world.
SCO Samarkand Declaration: Member states seek similarities and allow differences, value inclusiveness, real democracy, mutual respect, mutual prosperity, and working towards a new world order of win-win, peace and harmony, and make more money together than apart.
Share of global population: SCO = 40%, EU = 6%.
Share of global economy: SCO = 32% EU = 15%