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Towards war with China?
China’s marine corps will have more training in joint operations to bolster combat strength as the country’s security risks increase at home and abroad, according to military analysts.
The assessment came after Chinese President Xi Jinping told troops in the southern city of Chaozhou on Tuesday that the corps needed to strengthen its goals to fit in with the People’s Liberation Army’s modernisation drive.
“The marines should come up with road maps with the goals, direction, path and focus of team building,” Xi told senior officers.
“[You should] focus your minds and energy on preparing to go to war, and stay
highly vigilant,” Xi said, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
“Marines have many different missions and the demands on you will vary,” he said.
“As such [you] should base your training on [the need to] go into battle … and raise [your] training standards and combat ability.”
Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on troops to "put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war" in a visit to a military base in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
During an inspection of the People's Liberation Army Marine Corps in Chaozhou City, Xinhua said Xi told the soldiers to "maintain a state of high alert" and called on them to be "absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, and absolutely reliable."
The main purpose of Xi's visit to Guangdong was to deliver a speech Wednesday commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, which was established in 1980 to attract foreign capital and played a vital role in helping China's economy become the second-largest in the world.
But the military visit comes as tensions between China and the United States remain at their highest point in decades, with disagreements over Taiwan and the coronavirus pandemic creating sharp divisions between Washington and Beijing.
The White House notified US Congress Monday that it was planning to move ahead with the sale of three advanced weapon systems to Taiwan, according to a congressional aide, including the advanced High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
https://us.cnn.com/2020/10/14/asia/xi-jinping-taiwan-us-esper-intl-hnk/index.html
Investors are rooting for industrial companies, but China’s 14th five-year plan could bring a lot more stress to a post-Covid-19 global economy attempting a recovery. The world should watch carefully as Beijing gets ready to unveil a blueprint focused on high-tech industry.
Between trillions of dollars of fiscal stimulus, easy money and China’s broadly accelerating credit cycle, global industrial stocks have found a tailwind. Data out this week showed external machinery orders in Japan – a leading indicator of capital goods exports – rose almost 50% from August, the second straight increase that’s brought them back to pre-virus levels. All good news.
However, investors should exercise caution. An academic paper published in April by Xiao Cen and Wei Jiang of Columbia University’s business school and Vyacheslav Fos of Boston College found that Beijing’s industrial policies packaged together as five-year plans result in a shock to growth in targeted industries — inside and outside of China. “These plans were not preceded by low production or employment in the same industries in the US, but were followed by shrinkage of establishments and employment one to two years down the road,” the paper said. Based on valuations, returns, hiring decisions, no one – not even the stock market — had expected deterioration until the plans were unveiled
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2563741/anjani-trivedi/china-loading-5-year-warning-shot-us
The Trump administration’s deal with the Taliban may not successfully bring our war in Afghanistan to a close. Some number of U.S. forces will remain on open-ended counterterrorism missions, their presence in harm’s way creating a constant risk of escalation, and a lot could change in the “many months” that Defense Secretary Mark Esper says it will take to complete the U.S. drawdown.
Still, the deal is welcome news and could be the beginning of the end of the longest conflict in U.S. history. American troops who have seen three, four, even five or more deployments to the Middle East may finally be able to come home — or not. If Esper’s grim vision becomes reality, they may soon be fighting China instead, embarking on a new and far larger conflict that would make Afghanistan look like child’s play, put U.S. security in unnecessary danger and plunge the world into lasting turmoil.
“I would like to [reduce troop levels in Afghanistan] because what I want to do is reallocate forces to” the Asia-Pacific region, Esper said while the U.S.-Taliban agreement was under negotiation. “All of these places where I can free up troops where I could either bring them home to allow them to rest and refit and retrain or/and then reallocate them [to the Asia-Pacific region] to compete with the Chinese, to reassure our allies, to conduct exercises and training.”
The defense secretary also has been conducting a “blank slate review” of U.S. force levels in Africa to the same end, “predominantly to reduce presence” there, he said, so the Pentagon can train its sights on China. And the Air Force described a flight by a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber over Somalia in February as, in part, a warning to China of engagement to come.
“Made in China 2025” is a strategic plan that was initiated in 2015 to reduce China’s dependence on foreign technology and promote Chinese technological manufacturers in the global marketplace. The goal is to reach this objective by the year 2025, a decade from the year when the plan first took root.
Developing innovation is a clear priority under the current Chinese administration and “Made in China 2025” is an integral part of achieving this priority. Below, we discuss the Made in China 2025 initiative and controversies that have surrounded it since its inception.
Purpose of Made in China 2025
The purpose of “Made in China 2025” is to change its perception as a low-end manufacturer to a high-end producer. The plan is only a small portion of a larger directive to develop innovation-driven technology and networks that the current administration is pushing as part of a comprehensive agenda.
By taking advantage of the opportunity to achieve new sources of growth, Chinese administrators hope to boost manufacturing capabilities to put them in line with other industrialized nations. By increasing the country’s technological capabilities, China will not be as dependent on other nations for advanced technology and can improve its trajectory in a manner commensurate with its overall objectives.
The administration wants to take advantage of its large and powerful
https://nhglobalpartners.com/made-in-china-2025/
A Thucydides Trap?”?
What is really occurring between the United States and Communist China is a classic “Thucydides Trap”—which is a term used to describe the tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as the international hegemon
According to this report, beginning in the early 20th Century, a similar Thucydides Trap was sprung upon the world when the German Empire began threatening the hegemony of the British Empire—that was joined by the Japanese Empire threatening the hegemony of both the British Empire and the United States—and whose conflicts between, along with their associated allies, lasted 41-years—that began with the Russo-Japanese War in 1904—spanned both World War I and World War II—and ended with the Bretton Woods Agreement that established a new economic and trade world that’s existed since last century—but has now collapsed and sees nothing having been able to effectively replace it.
With the collapse of the old world order, this report details, the United States is being viewed in some quarters as hegemon and Communist China as an emerging power—though more rightly the United States should be viewed as the emerging power due to its non-static ever changing political system—while Communist China should be viewed as a nation aspiring to achieve hegemon status—an irresolvable conflict that’s led to the creation of the globalist bloc of adherents, though their critical failure to achieve the status they crave is due to their adoption of socialist ideology—and standing opposed to everything is President Trump and his Trump Doctrine—whose ideals for the new emerging international system sees the United States being neither a hegemon nor an emerging power, but rather sees America as being a nationalist power able to effectively use its economic instead of military power to settle disputes—which is a purely transactional business approach to both domestic and international affairs—and in less than four years, has seen the Trump Doctrine domestically returning America to global economic powerhouse status—while internationally the Trump Doctrine has not only seen America stopping its foreign wars, its also been able to bring thousands of its troops back home—and is why President Trump has been nominated five times to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021.
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