JEFF J. BROWN—On Kenneth Amedori’s show, Jeff tries to explain to US audiences the way things really are in China under socialism with “Chinese characteristics”. The cultural gap is huge, chiefly due to the hostile propaganda disseminated throughout the West to basically defend US imperialism and the captalist way of life.
SPENGLER—In a separate development, China has proposed a Beijing conference including Israeli and Palestinian representatives, asserting a Chinese role in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Beijing in the past kept a low profile on that issue and the proposed conference denotes a new assertiveness.
China’s emerging iron first in the Middle East may be all the more damaging given the Biden team’s bumbling.
The new administration’s first engagement with India took the form of a threat of sanctions over India’s proposed purchase of a Russian air defense system. The threat was delivered last week by visiting Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “the guy who runs that outfit over there,” in President Biden’s job description.
KIM PETERSEN—It is curious upon what moral basis Canada derives the right to pronounce on genocides elsewhere given that Canada exists as a state founded on a genocide of its Indigenous nations. [2] Canada is profiting from Saudi Arabia’s genocide/humanitarian disaster waged against its southern neighbor Yemen. Further demonstrating the Canadian government’s hypocrisy is its solidarity with Israeli apartheid and failure to condemn Israel’s slow-motion genocide of the predominantly Muslim Palestinians .
Hua Chunying: The Canadian side, by ganging up on China with a few individuals from some embassies in China to point fingers at China’s lawful handling of relevant cases involving Canadian citizens, has grossly interfered in China’s judicial sovereignty. We deplore and reject that.
Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are suspected of crimes endangering China’s national security. The Chinese judicial authorities try cases in strict accordance with law and fully protect the two individual’s litigation rights. As relevant cases involve state secrets, relevant courts didn’t hear them in open court, which is in compliance with law and thus beyond reproach. The Criminal Law of Canada also has clear provisions that Canadian judges have the right to decide if cases should be heard in private for the purpose of safeguarding national security. It is hypocritical and unjustifiable for Canada, a self-styled champion of the rule of law, to make wanton comments on China’s judicial authorities’ lawful handling of cases and practice “double standards” on legal issues.
Here is a piece of advice: it is a fool’s errand that serves no purpose at all to resort to “megaphone diplomacy” or to gang up on China.
SOUTHFRONT-The brand-new space race is upon us. It moves into two directions – who will reach Mars first, who will colonize the Moon, as it is nearby. Resources need to be extracted, and the US wants them to be available to it and its corporations. The second aspect of the race comes down to who will be able to establish the most military and reconnaissance infrastructure in space to have the upper hand in harvesting resources. Currently, if the United States is asked, Russia and Beijing are working rapidly to militarize the cosmos, while Washington is sitting idly.