by Stephen Roach

As the jet lag fades (mostly) from my first trip back to China in nearly three and a half years, a few fuzzy impressions come into sharper focus.

To the broad consensus of Chinese people I met during my March 23-28 visit to Beijing, the air was heavy with a grim sense of resignation in the face of the US-China conflict. Such was the case with government officials, academics, business leaders and students with whom I spoke at the China Development Forum and several other events during my trip.

By resignation, I do not mean a deep understanding of the source of the problem. On the contrary, most seem perplexed by the sudden sharp deterioration in US-China relations over the past five years – the trade war that has quickly morphed into a technology war and now into a new Cold War. But they have been particularly troubled by the disturbing turn of events over the past eight months, starting with Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and going through the balloon fiasco, the cancellation of Secretary Blinken's visit to Beijing, the Blinken-Wang confrontation in Munich, the extreme denigration of China on display in the United States House of Representatives and the other point of view of McCarthy to receive Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen during a transit visit to California.

The Chinese consensus now believes that very little can be done to stop this worrying downward spiral in the world's most important bilateral relationship. The question I was asked most often last week in Beijing was, "How could this happen so fast?" While they accept the idea that the relationship has always been rocky, they had clung to the idea that sanity would eventually prevail and the two superpowers would find a way to work out their differences. Trump's 2018 tariffs were obviously a wake-up call. The chain of events that followed has now dispelled any semblance of hope.

But resignation speaks to a different dimension of the conflict – the acceptance that it is here to stay and that there is very little that can be done to stop the escalation, let alone find a path to resolution. conflict. 

Unwilling or unable to neutralize a seemingly intractable conflict with the United States, Chinese leaders are now focusing on other things: economic recovery, a new round of "opening up" reforms, new of global governance, a geostrategic partnership with Russia and a deepening of ideological commitment to the thought of Xi Jinping.

It is certainly China's prerogative to shape its own agenda. But I have the uncomfortable feeling that Chinese leaders are now struggling to reconcile their fundamental goals of prosperity and global stature with the growing conflict with the United States. In doing so, they only reject an important trade-off between conflict and prosperity. Washington, of course, may be ignoring the same pitfalls of denial.

Acceptance is often the first step to solving difficult problems. But that doesn't seem to be the case today, at least not yet. As China shrugs its shoulders in resignation and pursues its own agenda, the case for conflict resolution remains more elusive than ever. This gave rise to very interesting discussions on the plan that I describe in Accidental Conflict .

There is, of course, a dark side to the resignation – of a China that has lost all hope and is now preparing for a far more dangerous phase of escalating conflict – kinetic military action. Fortunately, I did not experience such a feeling during my recent trip to Beijing. But just the thought, bolstered by recent belligerence over the US Congress, adds to the lingering sleep deprivation of jet lag.

source: Bruno Bertez

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It was one of the more imaginative political pantomime plot twists of recent months to hear last week that "famed anti-vaxxer", and scion of the world's most renowned political dynasty, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is running for president. Sort of like hearing Andrew Wakefield is: on the surface, you think, "God, there could hardly be a more hated pariah amongst the normies, he's got no chance!" - but if you dig a little deeper (as of course we will), it seems Mr. Kennedy may be a very credible contender and have been manoeuvred into this position for a number of key strategic reasons.

First, full disclosure, as otherwise someone will inevitably dig this up as "evidence" of my own CO status - about three years ago, I briefly corresponded with Mr. Kennedy, as he included a letter I'd written in an article he published detailing his experiences trying to support the persecuted scientist, Professor Chris Exley. As well as being a friend of mine, Chris then worked at the university campus (Keele) upon which I'd grown up, and where I had family history going back many decades, so when I heard Keele had - quite extraordinarily and without precedent - rejected a personal check from RFK Jr. to support Chris' work, I wrote to Keele's Vice Chancellor to express my disappointment and shock. RFK did the same, and the whole correspondence was reproduced on his Children's Health Defense website.

After the publication of the article, I wrote to Mr. Kennedy to thank him for his invaluable work in this area, and for including my letter in his piece. He replied, "you are the best MIRI", and as it's not every day a future US presidential candidate says that to one, I thought I'd include it for posterity (and in case any of my former teachers are reading, many of whom failed to reach that particular conclusion about my merit themselves...). And that (which was in April 2020) marked the beginning and end of my interactions with "Bobby", and indeed, the entire Kennedy dynasty. 

I do think Kennedy's work on vaccines is fantastic, and am also a big fan of his Children's Health Defense (CHD) website, which I often link others to. The press has recently, and inevitably, made much of how much money CHD brings in, but this reflects in the competence and professionalism of the resource - it has a real credibility and doesn't come across as too 'wacky' or fringe. CHD was a big inspiration for my own resource, Informed Consent Matters (alas, I did not have access to quite the finances RFK does, but I tried to emulate CHD's professional and clear style and tone). 

So this is not a "hit piece" on RFK or his contributions to the vaccine safety fight - but rather, an investigative piece, asking, as ever, why him, why this, why now?

Ever since announcing his candidacy last week, RFK has received blanket press coverage around the world. Needless to say, much of this coverage focuses on his "anti-vax" activism (though to be clear, RFK has always made it clear he is not anti-vax - that he vaccinated all six of his children - but that he wants safe vaccines. We will return to this later). This may count as bad publicity right now (insofar as there can really be "bad publicity", which, in all honesty, there can't - if you want to kill a story, you ignore it - any kind of publicity, even negative, fans the flames of notoriety and tends to cause a star to rise - see Andrew Tate). Yet I don't believe this coverage will remain "bad press" for long.

As has been discussed at this site on several occasions, it seems we are in line for a "great reveal", which is gathering momentum all the time, leading up to formal acknowledgement on the world stage of how catastrophically harmful the Covid "vaccines" have been.

As Covid injection programmes around the world are quietly winding down, and mammoth vaccination centres close their doors, it's clear the establishment now feels, "job done". With billions of injections administered, the programme has fulfilled its true purpose - reducing the population by destroying fertility and reducing lifespan. Excess deaths continue to climb every week, and a new study estimates that a person fully "vaccinated" against Covid has reduced their life expectancy by 25 years. 

But the establishment hasn't finished weaponising Covid injections just yet. The above was just phase one. Now we move into the second phase: exposure. More and more "mainstream" voices are coming forward to blow the whistle on Covid injection harms, with one celebrity doctor even getting these claims on BBC news. None of this is accidental and has all been scripted and signed off at the highest levels. Remember, a staged reveal of the vaccine harms was part of the modelling exercise on which "the pandemic" was based. It was always meant to come out.

Why? Well, because - as they are very open about - the ruling classes desire a "great reset", where the existing order is razed to the ground and replaced with a completely new system. In order to destroy the current system, they have to destroy all faith in it, so a strategic vaccine reveal is on the cards to demonstrate irrefutably that our current culture does not work: that it is so catastrophically and irretrievably broken that a lethally dangerous product was unleashed onto the world, which has had immeasurably tragic consequences that will continue for many decades, and this is all because of our broken, incompetent, not-fit-for-purpose system. 

Obviously, the establishment will not admit the real truth - that the Covid pantomime was all an illusory hoax, staged to trick the masses into taking a lethal injection in order to meet depopulation goals (so in that sense - in terms of fulfilling its real goals - the system worked very well). It will be "cock up not conspiracy", but the takeaway will be - you cannot trust your dominant institutions or world leaders any more. They've proven themselves too stupendously stupid (Boris Johnson, PM of the UK during Covid, even declared recently, "I'm not a liar, I'm just a moron").

If, then, your current leaders were too idiotic to see how dangerous the rushed-through, experimental Covid injection programme really was.... your future leaders need to be people who did see it, and who called it out. That rules out Republican Trump, with his famous "Operation Warp Speed", and the other Republican presidential candidates are little-known and so appear to have little chance.

Thus, enter stage left: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Scion of one of the most famous, beloved families in the world (perhaps even the most beloved, following the death of the Queen and all other scandals miring the Royal family), he is a veteran, credible, highly respected vaccine safety campaigner, within those circles. He didn't pop up five minutes ago, to latterly jump on the anti-vax bandwagon like all these celebrity grifters, he's been at this for years. 

So the world's press are actually preparing a very positive presidential campaign for him. When the truth about Covid vaccine harms are formally revealed, and the world's populations are left reeling in shock and horror, they will immediately lose all trust and faith in those who recommended the injections - and will immediately look to those who warned against them. Not halfway through the vaccine campaign, as is the case for many mainstream voices speaking up now, but from the start. As, of course, RFK did. 

Already, he is being set up for a victorious run, insofar as his competitor candidates are so utterly non-credible. We have Joe "senile creep" Biden (who has not as yet confirmed his run), and a woman named Marianne Williamson, a spiritual advisor who is primarily known for writing self-help books. Already, Williamson's campaign has been hit with severe controversy, with The Guardian reporting that her public message of love and compassion is undermined by behind-the-scenes reports of “foaming, spitting, uncontrollable rage”.

Speaking to Politico, 12 former staffers painted a picture of unpredictable anger, tending toward verbal and emotional abuse, beneath the bestseller’s promotion of spiritual calm.

"It would be foaming, spitting, uncontrollable rage,” said one former staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity. “It was traumatic. And the experience, in the end, was terrifying."

So it's very interesting that, already, the nominally "normie" press is working to discredit competitors to Kennedy. The only real gripe they have with him is his vaccine stance, but once he is vindicated as correct on that score (as he will be very soon), he becomes the clear forerunner and only genuinely credible candidate. 

Remember that the presidential elections are not until November 2024, and a lot can happen in nineteen months. I may be wildly wrong, of course, but based on the facts currently available to me, I think it is very plausible to believe that there will be another Kennedy occupying the highest political office in the land two years from now. 

As the vaccine harms are strategically revealed in the run up to the elections, he will gain huge public admiration and trust for blowing the whistle, and that will give him immense power to ultimately manoeuvre into place the next stage of the overlords' business plan, which we all know he is in favour of - the 'Green' agenda.

RFK has long been an outspoken proponent of climate change theory, stating in 2020 that:

"There are going to be major disruptions not just to humanity, but ultimately to civilization. This is part of the cost that we're paying for our longtime deadly addiction to coal and oil.”

On climate change, Kennedy Jr. voiced his support for a Green New Deal proposal put forward by Queens Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but primarily called on governments to divest from fossil fuels and impose a tax for carbon emissions.

“I think the Green New Deal — and all that stuff — is important,” Kennedy Jr. says. “We ought to be pursuing it. My approach is more market-based than kind of top down dictates. You know, I believe that we should use market mechanisms like carbon taxes and the elimination of subsidies.”

We know that now they've finished with Covid, the next pantomime puppeteering the overlords intend to engage in is "climate change" fakery, using the hoax of manmade climate change, and the idea that "gas of life" CO2 is bad, to ruthlessly and dramatically shrink and curtail our lives, starting with 15-minute cities and other initiatives that comprise local governments' so-called "climate action plans" (please do Google the 100+ page reports from your own local council for details on these totally undemocratically decided, deeply sinister plans). 

So to move this agenda forward, the world's most powerful political offices need to be occupied by people who are in favour of it, and who have won public trust by seeming to take on the establishment and uncover corruption.

"You can trust me because I told you the truth about the Covid injections," could be RFK's line. "So you can trust me on climate change, too."

And he may really, genuinely believe everything he says about climate change - many "good people" do, just as many good people were duped into taking the vaccines. Whether he really believes it or not is not really the point, though - the point is, if he's prepared to say on the world stage he does, he has the perfect credentials for the next stage of the agenda.

Also, please note, as he has repeatedly and expressly gone to great lengths to emphasise: he is not anti-vaccine. To quote Mr. Kennedy from his public correspondence to Keele University:

"I have always made it clear that I am not “anti-vaccine”. I want safe vaccines, robust science and uncorrupted regulators. By calling me “anti-vax”, vaccine companies seek to discredit, marginalize, silence me so as to prevent me from raising legitimate, urgent questions about the thoroughness of vaccine safety and efficacy assessments.

"I have never made a statement that could be legitimately construed as “anti-vaccine”. To the contrary, I have spent my 37-year career as an environmental and public health advocate fighting for evidence-based science, and science-based policy. I have prevailed in many hundreds of lawsuits against the world’s largest polluters and I have helped build, and currently run, the globe’s largest water protection group; Waterkeeper Alliance, the umbrella organization of 350 Waterkeepers in 48 nations—including the U.K. I spent much of the past three decades fighting to get mercury out of fish, pesticides out of food, and to decarbonize our energy system. No one calls me “anti-fish” , “anti-food”, or “anti-energy”. Nor should Pharma be given credence when it attempts to dismiss me as “anti-vaccine” simply because I have challenged the use of toxic metals such as mercury and aluminum in vaccines."

So there you have it: Mr. Kennedy is not anti-vaccine, he just wants "safe" vaccines.

It is the opinion of this author, however, that such things cannot exist, and that the whole vaccination programme was a fraud from the start, based on pseudoscience and quackery to give the world's governments an excuse to inject infants with various toxins for the purposes of population control (reducing IQ, subduing fertility, and so on). 

I do understand that there can be strategic reasons for people saying "I'm not anti-vaccine, but..." - however, I do think in Kennedy's case (as for most "big names"), he does mean it, and were he to become president, he would work to reform the vaccine industry so it is "safer", but would stay firmly in the Overton Window on this issue, e.g., the debate can only be "are vaccines safe enough", not "do we need vaccines at all".

Obviously, reforming and improving the insanely dangerous and barely regulated vaccine industry is better than doing nothing, but improving safety standards will only mean less avoidable severe injury. It won't mean none, because you can only ever make vaccines safeR, you can never make them 'safe'. As the supreme court in the USA ruled, the intervention is, by its very nature, "unavoidably unsafe". So you can never have a safe vaccine, any more than you can have vegan meat or teetotal alcohol. One might argue the risk is worth it if vaccines have provable, significant benefits, but if you actually look into the evidence, you will find that they don't. By far the healthiest populations of children are those who are completely unvaccinated. Vaccines do not reduce all-cause sickness or mortality in children: on the contrary. 

In conclusion, I think we can expect to see RFK's political star rise into the ascendancy, because he has all the credentials that make him a perfect fit for the next stage of the agenda - he's from a big-name, well-loved celebrity dynasty (high-profile politics and celebrity status being inextricably entwined): he's all in favour of the so-called green agenda and climate alarmism, and - by his own repeated admission - he's pro-vaccine.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61pC3ztsJNU

After PMC Wagner made progress in the center of Bakhmut, they started moving towards the city's western district. Ukrainian troops blew up buildings during their retreat, all paths of retreat cut off even in a small area. The entire Ukrainian column on the supply route and exit on the road from Chasy Yar to Bakhmut, where Ukrainian and NATO equipment had been destroyed and Wagner now began to advance into the western section of Bakhmut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehbpp9SVMI

A group of armored vehicles from Russian Armed Forces of Central Military District of Brave Group, suddenly entered and stormed into the positions of Armed Forces of Ukraine in a forest plantation west of Kremennaya. After artillery preparation and reconnaissance by UAV, 6 armored vehicles actually entered and began pursuing, then clearing the militant fortifications.

Russia 'destroys Ukrainian ammo warehouses'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/09/ukraine-russia-war-news-putin-latest/

Russia has destroyed a depot containing 70,000 tonnes of fuel near the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday. 

It also said Russian forces had destroyed Ukraine army warehouses storing missiles, ammunition and other artillery weapons in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. 

Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities said a 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian forces struck a residential building in the city of Zaporizhzhia.

A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian missiles struck a house in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said on Sunday. It was the latest Russian strike on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.

"The enemy carried out a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia and killed another Ukrainian family," the head of the State Emergency Service, Sergiy Kruk, said on social media.

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Swiss pharma exports to Russia soar despite sanctions

Swiss exports to Russia have dropped only slightly despite the sanctions imposed by Bern, with pharmaceutical exports soaring to record levels, a report said on Sunday.

Switzerland has matched the 10 rounds of ever-tightening sanctions imposed by the European Union since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Though Swiss trade with Russia has come to a standstill in many key sectors, notably machines and watches, pharmaceutical exports are at a record high, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung am Sonntag newspaper said after analysing figures from the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security.

MoD: Russian Forces Destroy Two Ukrainian Sabotage Groups

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230409/russian-forces-destroy-two-ukrainian-sabotage-groups---defense-ministry-1109283350.html

Ukraine will eventually reveal ‘horrible’ losses – ambassador

The true number of casualties will be acknowledged only once the conflict is over, Vadim Pristaiko has said

https://www.rt.com/russia/574421-ukraine-losses-horrible-russia/

Scott Ritter: "Russia IS WIPING THEM OUT, "300,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Got WIPED OUT”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDDsVMAvKCs

"Scott Ritter: Ukraine is on the verge of destruction and cannot win against Russia"

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