A wide-ranging insightful discussion of the developing flashpoints in the global war between Russia and her allies and the Anglo-American empire and its numerous vassals, the so-called “Freedom-loving West”, what Moscow and China are now calling “the collective West”.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—US-led provocations and escalations against China are becoming a regular occurrence, both from the US itself and from its imperial assets like Australia and Taiwan. Yet according to the western political/media class, the urgent threat of our day is “Chinese aggression”. After the House of Representatives voted to approve the new Select Committee on China — a Republican initiative designed to increase internal pressure in the US government to ramp up the new cold war — the committee’s chairman Mike Gallagher put out a statement saying that it is “time to push back against the Chinese Communist Party’s aggression in bipartisan fashion.”
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KIM PETERSEN—China declared victory against poverty in 2021. And it is not just China lauding its victory. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres commended China on its fight against poverty. The World Bank noted that China has lifted 770 million out of poverty over the last 40 years. Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said, “Poverty alleviation and the eradication of extreme poverty, 10 years ahead of its target date, are tremendous achievements of China.” Citing China’s eradication of absolute poverty, even the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, was moved to praise China’s amazing economic development.
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Garland Nixon lucidly explains why though neither Russia nor China have proclaimed it openly and formally, there is a strong organic de facto alliance between the two leading Eurasian powers. A formal declaration of strategic unity would give the neocons a gift, says Garland, and that is to be delayed or prevented as long as possible. Meanwhile, the dynamics of the world continue to respond to the new realities on the ground: the economic and military growth of Russia and China, and lately also Iran; the drifting of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and India toward the Beijing/Moscow axis, and the hollowing out of the Western bloc’s military hardware as a result of the Ukraine adventure, which has shown the shallowness of the West in terms of industrial military production. In a few years, neither NATO nor the EU may exist at all, which would be a good thing for humanity.
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ELENA PANINA—While there are indications that Japan will join AUKUS, the Chinese civilization still have an almost bloodthirsty bone to pick with Japan as a result of both the first and second Sino-Japanese wars. I read what the Chinese people say, and cannot but come to the conclusion that they will wipe Japan off the map with relish. Yet, they are a serious people and they are not disrespectful or take decisions about the lives of others on a whim. They also do what they say they are doing and do not play.
