As US continues New Cold War, Russia and China forge new ties

CA 3 #TheGrayzone As US continues New Cold War, Russia and China forge new ties 50,271 views •Mar 31, 2021 3.8K 91 Share Save The Grayzone 141K subscribers Pushback with Aaron Maté Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate​ In its opening months, the Biden administration has targeted Russia and China with belligerent rhetoric, new sanctions, and continued military provocations. Lyle Goldstein of the US Naval War College discusses how the US is inflaming the key flashpoints of Taiwan, Xinjiang, the South China Sea, Ukraine, and nuclear weapons, and how Russia and China are deepening cooperation in response. Guest: Lyle Goldstein, research professor and founding director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College. [Note: Speaking in a personal capacity. Opinions don’t reflect in any way the official assessments of the US Navy or the US government.] ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com​ Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegrayzonenews​ Instagram: https://instagram.com/thegrayzonenews​ Minds: https://minds.com/thegrayzone​ Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@thegrayzone​ #TheGrayzone​ 1,216 Comments Auggie Giuseppe Add a public comment... MrBenbaruch MrBenbaruch 1 month ago USA hypocrisy on display, dare lecture the world on human rights. 443 Enrique Hidalgo Enrique Hidalgo 1 month ago (edited) I borrowed this from a Malaysian YouTuber’s comment: I’m from Malaysia. China has traded with Malaysia for 2000 years. In those years, they had been the world’s biggest powers many times. Never once they sent troops to take our l4nd. Admiral Zhenghe came to Malacca five times, in gigantic fleets, and a flagship eight times the size of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, Santa Maria. He could have seized Malacca easily, but he did not. In 1511, the Portuguese came. In 1642, the Dutch came. In the 18th century the British came. We were colonised by each, one after another. When China wanted spices from India, they traded with the Indians. When they wanted gems, they traded with the Persian. They didn’t take lands. The only time China expanded beyond their current borders was in Yuan Dynasty, when Genghis and his descendants Ogedei Khan, Guyuk Khan & Kublai Khan concurred China, Mid Asia and Eastern Europe. Yuan Dynasty, although being based in China, was a part of the Mongolian Empire. Then came the Century of Humiliation. Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn the trade deficit around, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing Dynasty in their tea and porcelain trades. After the opium warehouses were burned down and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British in a peace talk (Nanjing Treaty). The British owned 90% of the opium market in China, during that time, Queen Victoria was the world’s biggest drug baron. The remaining 10% was owned by American merchants from Boston. Many of Boston’s institutions were built with profit from opium. After 12 years of Nanjing Treaty, the West started getting really really greedy. The British wanted the Qing government: 1. To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely, and tax free. 2. Make opium legal in China. Insane requests, Qing government said no. The British and French (with supports from the US), started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, and threatened to burn down the Imperial Palace, the Qing government was forced to pay with ports, free business zones, 300,000 kilograms of silver and Kowloon was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely through these business zones and ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor. In 1900, China suffered attacks by the 8-National Alliance (Empire of Japan, Russian Empire, British Empire (including India), France, USA, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary). Innocent Chinese civilians in Peking (Beijing now) were murdered, buildings were destroyed & women were raped. The Imperial Palace was raided, and treasures ended up in museums like the British Museum in London and the Louvre in Paris. In late 1930s China was occupied by the Japanese in WWII. Millions of Chinese died during the occupancy. 300,000 Chinese died in Nanjing Massacre alone. Mao brought China together again from the shambles. There were peace and unity for some time. But Mao’s later reign saw sufferings and deaths from famine and power struggles. Then came Deng Xiao Ping and his infamous 'bl4ck-cat and wh1te-cat' story. His preference in pragmatism than ideologies has transformed China. This thinking allowed China to evolve all the time to adapt to the actual needs in the country, instead of rigidly bounded to ideologies. It also signified the death of Communism in actually practice in China. The current Socialism+Meritocracy+Market Economy model fits the Chinese like gloves, and it propels the uprise of China. Singapore has a similar model, and has been arguably more successful than Hong Kong, because Hong Kong being gateway to China, was riding on the economic boom in China, while Singapore had no one to gain from. In just 30 years, the CPC have moved 800 millions of people out from poverty. The rate of growth is unprecedented in human history. They have built the biggest mobile network, by far the biggest high speed rail network in the world, and they have become a behemoth in infrastructure. They made a fishing village called Shenzhen into the world’s second largest technological centre after the Silicon Valley. They are growing into a technological power house. It has the most elaborate e-commerce and cashless payment system in the world. They have launched exploration to Mars. The Chinese are living a good life and China has become one of the safest countries in the world. The level of patriotism in the country has reached an unprecedented height. For all of the achievements, the West has nothing good to say about it. China suffers from intense ant1-China propagandas from the West. Western Media used the keyword “Communist” to instil fear and hatred towards China. Everything China does is negatively reported. They claimed China used slave labor in making iPhones. The truth was, Apple was the most profitable company in the world, it took most of the profit, leave some to Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) and little to the labor. They claimed China was inhuman with one-child policy. At the same time, they accused China of polluting the earth with its huge population. The fact is the Chinese consume just 30% of energy per capita compared to the US. They claimed China underwent ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang. The fact is China has a policy which priorities ethnic minorities. For a long time, the ethnic minorities were allowed to have two children and the majority Han only allowed one. The minorities are allowed a lower score for university intakes. There are 39,000 mosque in China, and 2100 in the US. China has about 3 times more mosque per musl1m than the US. When terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, China had two choices: 1. Re-educate the Uighur (CENSUDED by Youtube) before they turned (CENSUDED by Youtube). (**Here I could not copy the exact word, since today it is censored by YouTube if I write it next to the indicated ethnicity. It is the one used to identify those crazy people who are killing people thinking that by doing this they will be able to go to paradise**). 2. Let them be, after they launch attacks and killed innocent people, bomb their homes. China chose 1 to solve problem from the root and not to do killing. How the US solve terrorism? Fire missiles from battleships, drop bombs from the sky. During the pandemic, When China took extreme measures to lockdown the people, they were accused of being inhuman. When China recovered swiftly because of the extreme measures, they were accused of lying about the actual numbers. When China’s cases became so low that they could provide medical support to other countries, they were accused of politically motivated. Western Media always have reasons to bash China. Just like any country, there are irresponsible individuals from China which do b4d things, but the China government overall has done very well. But I hear this comment over and over by people from the West: I like Chinese people, but the CPC is evil. What they really want is the Chinese to change the government, because the current one is too good. Fortunately China is not a multi-party democratic country, otherwise the opposition party in China will be supported by notorious NGOs (Non-Government Organization) of the USA, like the NED (National Endowment for Democracy), to topple the ruling party. The US and the British couldn’t crack Mainland China, so they work on Hong Kong. Of all the ex-British colonial countries, only the Hong Kongers were offered BNOs by the British. Because the UK would like the Hong Kongers to think they are British citizens, not Chinese. A divide-and-conquer strategy, which they often used in Color Revolutions around the world. They resort to low d*rty tricks like detaining Huawei’s CFO & banning Huawei. They raised a silly trade war which benefits no one. Trade deficit always exist between a developing and a developed country. USA is like a luxury car seller who ask a farmer: why am I always buying your vegetables and you haven’t bought any of my cars? When the Chinese were making socks for the world 30 years ago, the world let it be. But when Chinese started to make high technology products, like Huawei and DJI, it caused red-alert. Because when Western and Japanese products are equal to Chinese in technologies, they could never match the Chinese in prices. First world countries want China to continue in making socks. Instead of stepping up themselves, they want to pull China down. The recent movement by the US against China has a very important background. When Libya, Iran, and China decided to ditch the US dollar in oil trades, Gaddafi’s was killed by the US, Iran was being sanctioned by the US, and now it’s China’s turn. The US has been printing money out of nothing. The only reason why the US Dollar is still widely accepted, is because it’s the only currency which oil is allowed to be traded with. The US has an agreement with Saudi that oil must be traded in US dollar ONLY. Without the petrol-dollar status, the US dollars will sink, and America will fall. Therefore anyone trying to disobey this order will be eliminated. China will soon use a gold-backed crypto-currency, the alarms in the White House go off like mad. China’s achievement has been by hard work. Not by looting the world. I have deep sympathy for China for all the suffering, but now I feel happy for them. China is not rising, they are going back to where they belong. Good luck China. *(This message has been censored on YouTube, I replaced some letters of the text with numbers to avoid the YT algorithm) 570 Ann Kristoff Ann Kristoff 1 month ago America is the aggressor here. IT is not both-sided. There is NO maturity on the US side. 249 Dan Harris Dan Harris 1 month ago (edited) Both Russia and China have experienced war, famine, poverty in the extreme in the last century, from which both countries people overcame through tremendous hardship. Their people are proud and very hardy without illusions. The US has never experienced anything remotely close, especially in the last century....our people are ignorant, selfish, lazy, and so filled with illusion and delusion they haven't the first clue. Same with our "leaders." 462 tom s tom s 1 month ago You get the impression that the United States believed that it was their "manifest destiny" that they would take over the world and preside over an empire with all other nations subservient to them, like it was their entire foreign policy goal after World War II. 309 Shido8 Shido8 1 month ago Well they literally can't stop the rise of china. 194 Mr. J Mr. J 1 month ago (edited) China and Iran just signed a 25 year agreement//oil for defense, tech, and infrastructure assistance. Smart! Meanwhile, Biden is another throwback Cold War warrior. China also starting the Belt Road Initiative to gain markets in Africa. 199 Nestor Gonzalez Nestor Gonzalez 1 month ago China always been cautious about war, but when they choose to fight they will knock the taste out of the U.S.A mouth just like they did during the Korean war. 53 ritchietheforky ritchietheforky 1 month ago What insults did Putin make to Biden after being called a Killer Putin wished him good health. Class shows itself 62 commuted commuted 1 month ago Someone should report on the number of China threat boosting articles over time and the relationship with asian hate crime. 46 ZidaneKuja ZidaneKuja 1 month ago May the ties between Moscow and Beijing remain unbreakable. 294 Ross Ion Coyle Ross Ion Coyle 1 month ago Zentz has done innovating research. Yep. And my hamburgers tell me things. 78 Nino Nucaro Nino Nucaro 1 month ago Aaron Mate, there is no better interviewer then you, and Push Back is only because of your kind of representation so much enjoyed by real "truth seaker" around the world. Bravo, good luck and continue your great work. 149 Nicholas Heydenrych Nicholas Heydenrych 1 month ago (edited) In the US the national interest is narrowly defined by an increasingly insane oligarchy while the majority is too brutalized and infantilized to rationally consider alternatives. Consequently there will be no course correction until long after catastrophic system failure. 79 Andy Roid Andy Roid 1 month ago 'They don't like about us'. Ten years ago, when I was posted to China to work, the Chinese was very positive about America. If they don't like about us now, are Americans the ones who started that trend? 60 Nikolay Grigoryev Nikolay Grigoryev 1 month ago "...Russians are paranoid" "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you" 25 therevolutionwill23 therevolutionwill23 1 month ago Thanks for bringing us knowledgeable and informed voices on international issues. It's sorely missing in the corporate owned media.