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by James O’Neill, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.

[ Editor’s Note: A major diplomatic game of poker continues in Asia, as the US rump Quad coalition probes to find some weak spots in China’s international trade success.

China was able to do this by not interfering in its trading partner political affairs, meaning even if a country had a coup, it would continue doing business with whoever the current government was.



The US approach would typically be to impose sanctions, something that I am not aware of China doing, or even considering as a useful item in its diplomatic tool kit.

James O’Neill has a clear eyed review of the smoke and mirrors game with China, that the Biden regime is trying to stitch together to give him some world stage visibility.

Trump did something similar, even in Asia, but his North Korean ploy showed his diplomatic ineptness when he played the big deal maker with Mr. Kim as the new love of his life, and then stiffed him when he got home when he stated he would not proceed via a step by step removal of trade sanctions while North Korea reduced its nuclear stockpile.

To everyone’s surprise, Trump insisted that Kim Jong-un destroy his entire nuclear weapons program and THEN Trump would begin talks on removing sanctions. Would Biden shoot himself diplomatically in the head like this?

Biden’s new Quad coalition includes countries that are major trading partners with China. We are presented that this group is going to intimidate China militarily somehow, or economically? For example, despite India’s history of border clashes with China, that has never affected their huge trade volume.

As for Joe trying to shame China by bashing President Xi for China’s reported horrible treatment of the Muslim Uighurs, we must balance that against Biden having never denounced Zionist Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians during his whole political career, a far worse situation as the Zios invaded and took over the country with the Western world fully onboard. 

Whenever a ‘wish and a prayer’ geopolitical move is being made, a scapegoat has to be lined up as a sacrifice, even if a fake one, and in this case it is Taiwan. If Biden or anyone else thinks they can sleepwalk China into a shooting war with Taiwan, they are dreaming. President Xi would never swallow such bait… Jim W. Dean ]

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The US is not dealing with Chinese hillbillies that can be snookered easily. Its history of foreign exploitation has educated them well.

First published … October 10, 2021

In 1949 when the Communist Party succeeded in the Civil War in China the nationalist regime fled to the island then called Formosa. They did not however, forsake their seat on the United Nations Security Council and continue to represent China in that body until 1972. This history is too readily forgotten in the current discussion about the status of Taiwan (as Formosa is now known).

The president of Taiwan loudly proclaims the islands independence and calls upon other countries, including Australia, to defend that independence when the Beijing government finally exercises its claim to Taiwan as a legitimate part of the PRC.

Completely forgotten in the current climate by the Taiwanese regime is their own history of claiming to represent China. How convenient it is to disregard their own history when it no longer suits them.

In recent days the government in Beijing has flown ever larger numbers of military aircraft in what Taiwan claims to be its own zone of interest. The big question exercising the minds of both the government in Taiwan and their purported allies is whether these exercises by the mainland presage an invasion.

What is also exercising the minds of the Chinese government is whether or not recent United States moves represent a change in Washington’s official one China policy. The Americans have in recent weeks taken several measures that cast doubt on their “one China” stance.

These moves include upgrading the status of the Taiwan representation in Washington and perhaps more alarmingly, increasing by a significant amount the level of military assistance to the Taiwan regime.

This has also been accompanied by several belligerent remarks by American officials about their determination to “defend” Taiwan’s rights to a separate existence. These moves collectively represent a significant move away from the United States stance of recognising the Chinese government as the legitimate ruler of the Chinese people.

Understandably, this change in the United States rhetoric has been alarming to the government in Beijing. There was a recent telephone discussion between the United States and Chinese presidents, although it is not known what, if any, agreements were reached. The upgrading of Chinese military flights subsequent to that telephone conversation strongly suggests that the Americans have not been willing to acknowledge China’s concerns.

The deteriorating situation in the region has led many commentators to openly speculate on the possibility of the situation deteriorating to the point where there is actual military conflict between the United States and China, and what the outcome of that conflict might be.

If such a conflict remained conventional, i.e. non-nuclear, the consensus appears to be that China would be the winner. They have the advantage of a massive military presence, and the decided advantage of fighting in their own territory.

The American psyche is unlikely to accept a conventional military defeat, although to be brutally frank they have had lots of experience in recent years of being on the losing side, with Afghanistan being only the latest example.

The real concern is that of the American mindset. They are acutely aware that they are being outgunned in the economic warfare they have waged against China. China, in terms of parity purchasing power, is now the world’s largest economy, although they persist in referring to themselves only as “number two” in the world.

Perhaps more alarmingly for the Americans, the Chinese are successfully developing an economic trading structure that dwarfs the western efforts. More than 140 countries (3/4 of the total in the world) have signed up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and that is only one of several such Chinese moves to be the most important of the world’s trading partners.

There was a recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation which now has nine permanent members with the recent accession of Iran to full membership. There are several associate member countries, including of particular interest, Saudi Arabia, which is quietly making moves to improve its relationship with Iran.

As recently as this week, the United States government made a request to China to cease its economic relationship with Iran. Unsurprisingly, the Chinese refused. What was interesting about the request however, was that it was even made.

As difficult as it may be to accept, that the Americans are so out of touch with the political realities that they would even make such a request is quite astonishing. Much less believing that it had the remotest chance of being accepted.

What it does do is highlight the extent to which the world is changing and not in a matter likely to find favour with the Americans. In this writer’s view that is clearly represented by the recent purported formation of the so-called Quad of nations, including Australia, Japan, India and United States.

Some western writers seek to portray this group as an anti-China alliance, but I look at its membership as strongly suggesting that such a formulation is another example of United States dreaming of an anti-China alliance. In fact, China is the largest trading partner of Australia, India and Japan and it is frankly improbable that any of those three would wish to jeopardise their lucrative trading relationship with the People’s Republic.

India is also a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, having joined in 2017, and despite some border disputes with China, the latter became its largest trading partner in 2020. Economic self-interest is usually an excellent guide to political conduct, and China’s economic importance to all three countries is likely to be a dominant factor in determining actual relationships.

None of the three have expressed any particular views about the status of Taiwan, preferring to regarded it as fundamentally a Chinese internal matter. Certainly, none of them have indicated a willingness to go to war with China over the matter.

The Taiwanese foreign minister recently made a plea for Australian support in its conflict with the PRC. Australians listened politely, but they are not so stupid as to risk the relationship with the PRC over Taiwan’s claimed independence.

The Chinese government has expressed the wish that Taiwan returns to the mainland in time for the 2049 Centenary celebrations of the People’s Republic. China is in my opinion highly unlikely to wait that long, and the military moves of the past week strongly suggest that a denouement is imminent.

James O’Neill, an Australian-based former Barrister at Law, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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9 COMMENTS

  1. I still think that a US/PRC shooting war over Taiwan is unlikely to be started deliberately, agreed it might, just might , be started by accident. Why do I think that? I think that because I am sure the Chinese do not want such a war and neither does the US Military. Some US politicians undoubtedly do want such a war, but they are not going to do the fighting.
    If the DPP are silly enough to provoke a Chinese invasion, there might be some shooting, maybe even a lot of shooting; but I rather think that it would be over before the US military could intervene, even if they wanted to, which I doubt they would.

  2. Please measure our foreign relations according to mutually beneficial trade for benefit to both peoples. And from now on, refer to us as, {the people and the government }. Thanks alot

    The People ,… (To be quite honest Trumpers melt and get uplifted by meeting strangers)

    • That’s not how the AngloZionist Empire works, David. It’s always been about domination and exploitation of indigenous people all around the planet, not cooperation and mutual benefit.

      “…And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.” – John L. O’Sullivan, 1845

    • I have not seen any melting Trumpers, other than the ones on ventilators. Of course I don’t think any of those were big donors. They are all vaccinated, like Trump and all the Repubican Congress. Even if it was just staged, Trump did say ‘get vaccinated’ at a rally, and only a small portion booed.

  3. China’s momentum and advanced stage of development puts U.S. geopolitical offensives on defense, as it increasingly showcases U.S. impotence and decline.
    The clueless Zionist lapdogs in Washington having allowed themselves to be used as the military wing of global finance, in service to all things Talmudic, are now faced with having only one card to play.
    Their big problem is that it’s not a trump card. It’s a losing hand and they know it.

    • “Gravestones will be toppled over. Funeral homes from every region will report that those who were dead have resurrected and suddenly disappeared. Cars will be parked beside freeways, their engines left running, their passengers mysteriously missing. Airplanes will fall from the sky as pilots who are Believers are called home. The news centers report that churches around the world are flooded with people who are sobbing uncontrollably. They know. They have missed the rapture.” – Pastor John Hagee

    • ” Airplanes will fall from the sky as pilots who are Believers are called home.” Damn, Tommy, a had no idea Hagee was this far out! It always caused me physical pain to read Hagee’s propaganda, so I spared myself. I always viewed it as cultism, with the main goal of levitating money out of people’s bank accounts and putting it in someone else’s.

  4. This can’t happen soon enough. China, Russia, and Iran have become very adept at getting around US-imposed sanctions and will soon make them totally obsolete with the new Belt and Road Initiative. Only problem is, the AngloZionist Empire has nukes, lots of them. The Cult of Trump has a death wish that’s bigger than Donald’s ass. These crazies pray for WWII to happen so they can be Raptured up to Heaven. Crazy is as crazy does, Jim.

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