Below please find links below to a day-old Reuters news story and five recent opinion pieces. — MCM
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China withdraws promise not to send troops to Taiwan if it takes control of island, by Yew Lun Tian | Reuters BEIJING — China has withdrawn a promise not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan if it takes control of the island, an official document showed on Wednesday, signalling a decision by President Xi Jinping to grant less autonomy than previously offered. China’s white paper on its position on self-ruled Taiwan follows days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises near the island, which Beijing claims as its territory, in protest against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit last week. China had said in two previous . . . READ MORE. . .
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The Pelosi fallout, by Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News We witnessed a major breach in trans–Pacific relations last week in consequence of Nancy Pelosi’s self-indulgent, utterly failed maunder through East Asia. We also watched a turn of great magnitude in global geopolitics, given China’s inevitable rise as a world power and America’s inevitable decline. It may be . . . that last week’s events will prove to be enduringly momentous, warranting their own chapter in the history texts of the future. I see good and bad in this, and in my view the former will outweigh the latter in the medium and long . . . READ MORE . . .
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China poses a threat to the whole world, by Jay Ambrose | Tribune News Service Chinese It might not work as an alternative to war at this point, but what seems to me essential in a future without China in charge of everything is that the United States and the best of the rest . . . READ MORE . . .
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Lady Gaga & ‘Everything China Fears,‘ by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com The Times of London has published an article titled “Lady Gaga embodies everything China fears,” subtitled “The singer’s uncompromising individuality makes her a serious threat to the mass imposition of cultural conformity through censorship,” and its contents are exactly as . . . READ MORE . . .
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What in the World Are Washington and Beijing Doing? By Michael D. Swaine | Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft / Tribune News Service Let’s be clear: Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan was not a great opportunity to show America’s support for the island; it did not chasten Beijing to exert greater restraint toward Taipei. To the contrary—countless China and foreign policy specialists predicted it would produce a major, likely sustained, coercive Chinese reaction that will deepen our current slide toward conflict in the Sino-U.S. relationship. And guess what? That is exactly what is now happening. Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan . . . READ MORE . . .
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China is better than the U.S.A. By Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com Biden is continuing Trump administration policies with China, Russia, Iran, Ukraine, Yemen, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, etc. The war machine always moves the same regardless of elections. How long before foreign leaders . . . READ MORE . …