Once the all-encompassing chittering and chattering about tariffs
on Chinese imports by the western corporate media subsided, Trump,
egocentric businessman rather than the President of the Empire, “out of
the blue”, one could almost say, under the pretext of ‘unfair’ Chinese
trading, launches a new ferocious and as usual totally illegal campaign
of aggression against China’s fast-growing economy.
It’s an illicit campaign against Chinese competition, against
Chinese unstoppable growth. It’s a tacit recognition of China’s emerging
supremacy which the United States can only confront with fraud, deceit
and illegal activities. And this only as long as Washington controls the
western monetary system. This won’t be for much longer.
It’s an aggression against leading Chinese businesses and against
China’s embracing a policy of a multi-polar world – through connection
of entire continents, countries, cultures, joint research, education and
agricultural, as well as industrial development – through transport
lines, equal trade, respect for each other and recognition of people’s
and countries’ comparative advantages by technical knowhow and bestowed
by nature. It’s based on fair and equal interchanges. It’s the
multi-trillion-yuan Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the New
Silk Road; an initiative launched in 2013 by
President Xi Jinping during an official visit to Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
BRI consists by now of 6 land and sea routes, currently comprising
some 152 countries and international organizations in Europe, Asia,
Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
This new Chinese economic behemoth is tentatively projected through
the 2040’s. The BRI is all-inclusive and, thus, so strong, it was
recently incorporated in China’s Constitution. However, it was largely
ignored by the west, and especially by the western presstitute media –
with the western
“Vogel Strauss”politics of halfwits,
ignore it and it will go away.
Now the west realizes, it won’t go away – and it is tough competition
for the falsely propagated west’s trade and economic superiority. Too
late my friends. As I often said, by endless greed and thirst for power
with impunity, of short-term rent seeking, of relentlessly provoked wars
and conflicts, killing layers and layers of human societies throughout
the world to bring opponents of this small diabolical elite to their
knees, the west is committing slowly but surely suicide. This is nature.
Nature will not only survive, but overcome and subordinate this
luciferian approach to world domination. The future is in the east. Most
definitely. There is no way back.
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Among the first steps of the US’s new generation of aggression
against China is Washington’s ordering its northern vassal, Canada, to
arrest Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO),
Meng Wanzhou, in transit, at Vancouver airport on 1 December 2018.
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational
telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer,
headquartered in Shenzhen. Huawei is the world’s 7
thlargest
telecommunication corporation and was founded by Ren Zhengfei, a former
military engineer in the People’s Liberation Army, in 1987. Ms. Meng
Wanzohou is the founder’s daughter and deputy CEO. Ms. Wanzhou is now
accused of breaking the totally illegal sanctions against Iran by doing
business with Iran. Washington, unabashedly puts one illegal action of
their own – sanctions – over another one – taking hostage a lead person
of a strong Chinese competitor, to coerce Huawei to abide by an
illegally US-imposed rule – sanctions. It is an unbelievable catch-22
story. But even more unbelievable is that the dictate of the abusive
Washington policies is still followed and even worse, that there are
hardly any protests.
This is only possible without most of the western world saying
“beep”, because they all still recognize – for now – the US as the
self-imposed exceptional nation – the nation that makes and breaks laws
as it goes along. – But how much longer?
Ms. Wanzhou, still in Canadian custody, at risk of being extradited
to US “justice” (sic), may face 30 years in prison, for absolutely no
illegal infraction – only by acting against what the US made up as a law
– sanctions – that everybody has to adhere to, or else, they will
themselves be subject to sanction. Can you see how sick our western
system has become?
It is now a war without bombs. It’s become a war of economics,
recognizing that a war with bombs and missiles the US could not win any
longer – not that they ever did! – since Russia and China have developed
technically far superior military equipment. Hence, the United States’
last trump (no pun intended) – is working their fraudulent monetary
system to the last ditch.
Venezuela, one of the west’s only true and last democracies, has been
aggressed for the last 20 years, peaking now, because she refuses to
bend to the rules of Washington, abandoning her socialist ideology,
handing over her natural resources – the world’s largest oil and gas
reserves, to the empire’s usurping corporations, the same that have been
usurping and enslaving the Venezuelan people for hundred years before
President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999 – and started changing the
rules for the people, dismissing the usurpers and nationalizing the
country’s resources for the benefit of the Venezuelan people.
Today the empire is waging a war on Venezuela, a war without bombs, a
financial and economic war, where – thanks to the fraudulent monetary
system that western societies embrace and have been willy-nilly
accepting, and even today they don’t dare to openly object to it, the
empire is applying the international illegality of all illegalities,
“sanctions”, interference in another country’s internal affairs,
blocking trade, monetary transfers, confiscating – i.e. stealing –
billions worth of Venezuelan assets abroad.
Washington is coercing and blackmailing so-called US allies into
doing the same, commitingt lowly ‘highway robbery’. By now some US$ 40
to 50 billion equivalent throughout the world were blocked and
essentially stolen, including 1.2 billion dollars of gold withheld in
the
London City of Money. By seizing Venezuela’s foreign assets
and boycotting Venezuela’s hydrocarbon sales – Venezuela is in dire
straits – but not in despair, not dying from famine as the western media
would like you to believe. No – Venezuela manages with calm and pride –
and solid solidarity.
A similar situation prevails in Syria, where the Syrian national army
with the help of Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, has pretty much defeated
the terror network of ISIS, Al Nusra
et al. In other words, the
US, NATO, western and Gulf states, vassal allies which have been – and
still are – financing these terror organizations as proxies, have lost
their war of bombs, their fight for ‘regime change’ – at least for now.
We know, the empire won’t simply let go, only when it reaches its last
breath. And that moment will come, sooner or later.
So, the bombs are replaced by economic shackles – blocking Syria from
using the international monetary transfer system, from accessing
international credit, from importing vital goods, medicine and medical
equipment, food, industrial equipment and spare parts – all that a
society needs to function, to rebuild their western-demolished
infrastructure, all these vital goods and services are being embargoed
by the west – while Syria has never done any harm to a western country –
all to the contrary. Syria is the bedrock of western history, providing
the west with brilliant intellects, scientists, university professors
and offering a rich culture – the cradle of western civilization.
Syria is strategically placed – with access to five seas. President
Assad’s “Five Seas Vision”, connecting strategically located Syria with
the Mediterranean, Caspian, Black Sea, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf,
“making Syria the unavoidable intersection of the world in Investments, transport and more”–
this vision, plus the fact that President Assad is running Syria with a
socialist philosophy and is as popular as always (70% – 80% of a highly
educated Syrian population support their President), make Syria a
perfect target for ‘regime change’. – Again, the continuation of a war
without bombs, but killing all the same with a weaponized western
economic system.
The most exasperating fact is – again – that the western allies,
predominantly Europe, that is, their corrupt leaders (sic), participate
in this atrocity in Syria, as well as in Venezuela – and throughout many
other rebellious, non-submissive nations. This, largely against the
will of the people. Though indoctrinated day in and day out by fake
news, people start seeing the light.
Frankly – what else would you expect from Europe? – Europeans for
hundreds of years have been exploiting, raping, abusing Asia, Africa and
Latin America, killing hundreds of millions of people, while stealing
their resources – which now can be seen transformed into European
“culture”, religious monuments – castles of kings and queens and their
dictators, who still walk this earth as parasitically as in ancient
times.
When the European empires successively collapsed, they simply
regrouped and transplanted their reign from the Old Continent across the
Atlantic to build a new AngloZionist kingdom, but not before, again,
massacring the original inhabitants of that once great land, called
America. At that time the noble forefathers of this newly nascent empire
felt secure between two shiny seas. But, hélas, times have changed.
Attempting to emulate the grandeur of the Roman Empire, at one time
calling their plan to Full Spectrum Dominance, “Pax Americana”, the
association with “Pax Romana” became evident. Pax Romana were the three
to four hundred bloodiest years of the Roman Empire, eventually
collapsing under its own weight.
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The big danger for the US-driven western criminal monetary and
debt-driven pyramid system, is China, because China’s economy is based
on hard economic output, construction, manufacturing, intellectual and
scientific development, as compared to the US-driven western neoliberal
profit-maximizing dogma with inflated services, one that outsources hard
production to low-wage countries, foregoes long-term economic gains and
institutional memory, for a GDP of hot air, McDonalds-type jobs,
consumption of cheap and useless imports; and, of course, – a
destructive war and killing industry.
That’s why Washington is hastily trying to elevate their lie and
deceit campaign onto another level. Kidnapping Huawei’s Ms. Wanzhou,
lambasting Europe to ban Huawei’s equipment form their markets, because
it contains spyware, is just one example of a ruthless illicit approach
to eliminating competition. On the other hand, Washington’s fading
empire dares slandering President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative
and, in a last desperate effort, blackmailing Europe, as well as African
BRI-contenders, with more illegal sanctions – not to sign up to China’s
New Silk Road. No matter that most of them have already done so. Italy
clearly said they will soon sign an agreement with China to use Italian
ports for BRI’s maritime routes. As to banning Huawei from Europe,
Germany, for one, has already said they will not ban Huawei. Let’s hope
others will follow Germany’s lead.
The Belt and Road Initiative is an unstoppable train – that left the
station some five years ago and is on a projected route for the next
30-some years initiating peaceful socioeconomic development throughout
the world. As a Chinese representative at the recent Cuban Conference
for The Equilibrium of the World said –
We are building bridges to connect people of all continents, while the west is building walls.
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This article was originally published on New Eastern Outlook.
Peter Koenig is an
economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and
environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World
Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of
environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe
and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT;
Sputnik; PressTV; The 21stCentury; TeleSUR; The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
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