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the china/Japan conundrum where american alliances have nastily shifted....

But Blinken wasn’t the only senior U.S. national security official in Asia recently. While the Beijing talks grabbed all the headlines, national security adviser Jake Sullivan was in Tokyo, participating in high-level diplomatic meetings with America’s top regional partners. Sullivan’s counterparts from Japan, the Philippines and South Korea all met with U.S. officials and (in various groupings) with each other. These meetings — in the long run — will prove more consequential for dealing with China’s rise than Blinken’s Beijing visit.

The White House’s readout of Sullivan’s trip failed to capture the unprecedented nature of this quiet diplomacy. For the first time, national security advisers from Japan, the Republic of the Philippines and the United States met as a trio. This is an elevation of a new trilateral grouping insiders call JAROPUS, combining the names of the three countries in a similar way to AUKUS, the more formal grouping of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/22/blinken-sullivan-korea-japan-china/

 

THIS JUNE ARTICLE IN THE WASHINGTON POST — A CLARION FOR THE AMERICAN EMPIRE — FAILS TO UNDERSTAND WHY CHINA IS WHAT CHINA IS CHINA... AS THE AMERICANS ARE COAXING THE JAPANESE TO "ATTACK" CHINA BY WHATEVER MEANS THAT IS NOT YET A FULL MILITARY ASSAULT, BUT BELLIGERENT PREPARATIONS FOR MILITARY WAR WITH WAR OF WORDS, AND AMERICAN WEAPON SUPPLIES... CHINA IS NOT ATTACKING ANYONE BUT PREPARING TO DEFEND ITSELF...

WE KNOW THAT BLINKEN AND SULLIVAN ARE WARMONGERS... FOR THEM ANY WAR WILL DO AS LONG AS THE AMERICANS ARE ON THE WINNING SIDE — WHICH IS NOT SO MUCH MILITARY VICTORIES, BUT MAINTAINING PUSS-Y CONFLICTS, SOWING DISCORD, MANUFACTURING WEAPONS AND PREVENTING ANYONE ELSE BECOMING INDEPENDENT. CHINA AND RUSSIA HAVE LEARNED THAT AMERICA HAS NO LOYALTY TO ANYONE ELSE BUT ITSELF. THE AMERICAN WORLD IS BEING SLIGHTLY DISRUPTED BY THE GAZA CONFLICT AND ONE WILL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE HOW THIS IS GOING TO PLAY OUT WITH THE REST OF THE MUSLIM WORLD — WHICH HAS BEEN COMPLICATED BY DIVISIONS CRAFTED BY THE AMERICANS AND THE ENGLISH SINCE WW1, AND SORT OF REPAIRED BY THE CHINESE OF ALL PEOPLE.

WHILE THE AMERICAN (DECLINING) EMPIRE "FOUGHT AGAINST FASCISM" DURING WW2, IT HAS ITSELF BEEN ON THE WAY TO BECOME A FASCIST/NAZI OUTFIT (IN DISGUISE) DESIGNED TO FIGHT AGAINST EMERGING ANY INDEPENDENT NATIONS, ESPECIALLY WHERE COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM HAVE BEEN TAKING ROOT AGAINST CONTROLLING "FASCIST" CAPITALISM.

ONE NEEDS TO PREVENT JOE BIDEN STARTING WW3.... BUT ONE MAY BE TOO LATE. JOE IS STUPID AND STILL DEVIOUS DESPITE HIS ADVANCE SENILITY WHICH HE DISPLAYS AS "WISDOM OF THE ELDER", LIKE AN OLD MALE PEACOCK THAT HAS LOST ALL ITS BUM-FEATHERS... 

THE WARMONGERING AGAINST CHINA SHOULD BE SEEN AS A MASSIVE DECEPTIVE DIRTY TRICK FROM THE TRICKY AMERICANS, VYING TO GET AUSTRALIA TO REVERSE ITS "AGGRESSIVE TRADITION" FROM "NASTY" JAPAN AGAINST THE CHINESE WHO HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO WARRANT THIS REVERSAL OF ATTITUDE... NOW 77 YEARS AFTER THE END OF WW2, AMERICA HAS DECEPTIVELY TURNED JAPAN (ONCE MORE) AGAINST CHINA AS WELL. KNOWING HISTORY WE, AUSTRALIAN AND PEACE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, SHOULD SHUDDER...:

 

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945, as part of World War II. In China, the war is called the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.[25]This total war between China and the Empire of Japan is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia, although some scholars consider the European Warand the Pacific War to be entirely separate, albeit concurrent. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century[26] and has been described as "the Asian Holocaust", in reference to the scale of Imperial Japan's war crimes against Chinese civilians.[27][28][29] After the Japanese attacks on Malaya and Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts which are generally categorized under the China Burma India Theater of World War II.

When exactly the war began is subject to debate. The conventional start date is 7 July 1937, with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Other historians consider the 18 September 1931 Mukden Incident, the pretext that Japan fabricated to justify their subsequent invasion of Manchuria, to be the beginning of the war.[30][31] During the invasion, China was aided by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Nazi Germany before Germany allied with Japan. Around 20 million people, mostly civilians, were killed. From 1931 to 1937, there were skirmishes between China and Japan in China. But with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, a dispute between Chinese and Japanese troops in Beijing, the conflict escalated into a full-scale Japanese invasion of the rest of China. Japan achieved major victories, capturing Beijing and Shanghai by 1937. Having fought against each other in the Chinese Civil War since 1927, the Communists and the Nationalists formed the Second United Front in late 1936 to resist the Japanese invasion together.

The Japanese captured the Chinese capital of Nanjing (Nanking) in 1937, which led to the infamous Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing. After failing to stop the Japanese in the Battle of Wuhan, the Chinese central government relocated to Chongqing (Chungking) in the Chinese interior. Following the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, strong material support bolstered the Republic of China Army and Air Force. By 1939, after Chinese victories in Changsha and Guangxi, and with Japan's lines of communications stretched deep into the Chinese interior, the war reached a stalemate. While Japan could control large cities it captured, it lacked sufficient manpower to control the vast countryside. The Japanese were unable to defeat Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces in Shaanxi, who waged a campaign of sabotage and guerrilla warfare. However Japan ultimately succeeded in the year-long Battle of South Guangxi, occupying Nanning and cutting off the last sea access to Chongqing. In November 1939, Chinese nationalist forces launched a large scale winter offensive, and in August 1940, CCP forces launched an offensive in central China. In December 1941, Japan launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and declared war on the United States. The US increased its flow of aid to China: the Lend-Lease act gave China a total of $1.6 billion ($20.19 billion 2023).[32] With Burma cut off, the US Army Air Forces airlifted material over the Himalayas. In 1944, Japan launched Operation Ichi-Go, the invasion of Henan and Changsha. However, this failed to bring about the surrender of Chinese forces. In 1945, the Chinese Expeditionary Forceresumed its advance in Burma and completed the Ledo Road linking India to China. At the same time, China launched large counteroffensives in South China and repulsed a failed Japanese invasion of West Hunan and recaptured Japanese occupied regions of Guangxi.

Japan formally surrendered on 2 September 1945, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki along with Soviet offensives recently launched at Japanese forces. China was recognized as one of the Big Four Allies during the war, regained all territories lost to Japan, and became one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.[33][34] The Chinese Civil War resumed in 1946, with the Chinese Communist Party consequently gaining the upper hand with help from the Soviets, and ultimately ending with a communist victory, which established the People's Republic of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

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TOON AT TOP FROM A SERIES BY STEINBERG FOR THE NEW YORKER (1943): US SOLDIERS FLYING INTO CHINA TO HELP THE CHINESE AGAINST THE JAPANESE.....

 

forgetting WW2....

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose.

Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. To commemorate the nation's 50th anniversary of World War II, the U.S. Army has published a variety of materials to help educate Americans about that momentous experience. These works provide great opportunities to learn about and renew pride in an Army that fought so magnificently in what has been called "the mighty endeavor."

World War II was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over several diverse theaters of operation for approximately six years. The following essay is one of a series of campaign studies highlighting those struggles that, with their accompanying suggestions for further reading, are designed to introduce you to one of the Army's significant military feats from that war.

This brochure was prepared in the U.S. Army Center of Military History by Mark D. Sherry. I hope this absorbing account of that period will enhance your appreciation of American achievements during World War II.

JOHN W. MOUNTCASTLE
Brigadier General, USA
Chief of Military History

 

https://www.history.army.mil/brochures/72-38/72-38.htm#

 

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code pink.....

At a webinar on “The New McCarthyism” hosted by CovertAction Magazine in collaboration with The Canada Files on October 9, Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans accused 11 New York Times journalists of spreading a “packet of lies” and carrying out “hate mongering attacks.”

This in an August article alleging that Code Pink—a peace group that adopts creative means of protest—was funded by the Chinese Communist government.

Evans said that Code Pink was “free from any government funding,” and that “she never took any money from her husband,” Neville Roy Singham, founder of a multimillion dollar IT consulting company.

The Times called Singham a “known socialist and benefactor of far left causes” responsible for a “lavishly funded influence campaign” through Code Pink “that pushed Chinese propaganda.”

According to The Times, Code Pink “once criticized China’s human rights record” but now, because of Singham’s funding, “defends China’s internment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs, which human rights experts have labeled a crime against humanity.”

Code Pink is currently running a “China is Not Our Enemy” campaign, which aims to push back against the reigning Sinophobia, and has issued a statement condemning the New McCarthyism that it says is targeting peace activists, critics of U.S. foreign policy, and Chinese Americans.

According to Evans, The Times article was a characteristic example of this new McCarthyism in which “those who stand for peace are bullied.”

The week before the webinar, Evans was arrested at Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) office with other Code Pink activists protesting Sanders’ support for U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Evans said that Congressmen and women told her they feel they cannot talk about peace or diplomacy in the current political climate—much like in the original McCarthy era of the 1950s.

Unfortunately, the “new McCarthyism is working,” Evans said. Hate crimes directed against Asian-Americans are up and a center for U.S.-China cooperation at the University of California at Berkeley set up by former California governor Jerry Brown was forced to close down.

Enhancing Foreign Policy Strategy

Evans was followed at the webinar by Ben Norton, a geopolitical analyst living in Beijing, who emphasized that the New McCarthyism has been manufactured by U.S. ruling elites in an attempt to enhance their foreign policy strategy of trying to weaken and contain a rising China.

According to Norton, China is a far greater threat to U.S. global hegemony than Russia because of the success of its socialist oriented economic model compared to the so-called Washington Consensus, or free market capitalism that has fueled rampant inequality worldwide.

China offers an alternative to Western neoliberal capitalism in which the banking sector is owned by the state and is run on behalf of the people, and in which the state invests in infrastructural development and job creation.

Western media has recently been talking about China’s economy being on the verge of economic collapse, which Norton said is hilarious.

In the real world, China is an emerging global juggernaut, which has lifted 800+ million people out of poverty. Overtaking Germany and Japan as a leading producer of cars, it is a top global leader in the green energy transition, rising to number one in the production of electric vehicles.

With 30% of China’s enterprises being state owned, Norton said that the quality of life for the Chinese is very good. There is heavy investment in public transport and high speed rail, which is a joke by comparison in the U.S., and state ownership of utilities and telecommunications keeps people’s bills down when these can be astronomical in the U.S.

During the 1990s, American pseudo-intellectuals like Frances Fukuyama claimed that history had ended and that there was no alternative to neoliberal-bourgeois democracy; but China has shown otherwise.

That is why the country is being attacked and why people who support cooperative relations with it in the U.S. are being attacked as well.

New McCarthyism Extends to Canada

The third speaker at the webinar, Wenran Jiang, a retired political science professor at the University of British Columbia, discussed the extension of the New McCarthyism into Canada.

Canada’s liberal government led by Justin Trudeau has aligned very closely with U.S. foreign policy in a departure from Trudeau’s father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada’s Prime Minister from 1968-1979 and 1980-1984, who adopted more independent policies and normalized Canadian relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1970.

Dr. Jiang said that McCarthyism is associated with unfair accusations that are not factually based. Chinese people living in Canada are being accused baselessly of disloyalty and are more and more subject to discrimination.

Academic freedom is being eroded, Canadian media outlets like The National Post and Toronto’s Globe and Mail have repeatedly run stories accusing Canadian MP’s of Chinese origin of collaborating with the Chinese government, and China has been falsely accused of interfering in Canadian elections—much like the Russians in the U.S.

Plus Ça Change—and the Hope For a Revitalization of the 1960s Counter-Culture

In introducing the speakers, I raised hope for an awakening among youth similar to the 1960s era that would repudiate the narrow-minded and paranoid views of the older generations and bring about a new society that was less materialistic and more peaceful.

Named after Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), who catapulted himself to national prominence after giving a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia claiming without evidence that there were 205 card-carrying members of the Communist Party working in the U.S. State Department, the term McCarthyism is associated with such negative character traits as bullying, anti-intellectualism and cruelty to others. It was driven by Democrats as much as Republicans and helped to decimate the American left in the Cold War, with serious ramifications still today.

Characteristic was the experience of a California woman who said that when she expressed opposition to the Korean War in her sixth grade class in 1950, she was accused of being a communist and laughed at by the teacher and students and went home crying.

Today, people have not matured very much as they continue to ridicule proponents of peace and call them new names like “Putin lover” or “Chinese government agent.”

One of the original victims of McCarthyism was Henry Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Vice President who was pilloried while running for President as an independent in the 1948 election on a platform of peace with Russia, shutting down U.S. overseas airbases, and abolishing nuclear weapons.

Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. come to mind as two politicians who resemble Henry Wallace and have received similar treatment to him.

In Kennedy’s case, he has been attacked not only for his position favoring peace in Ukraine, but also because he wants to reopen investigation into the murder of his father and uncle and challenged the dominant Covid-19 narrative and corruption in the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex and CIA which appears to have bio-engineered the coronavirus. A new smear term was applied to him; “anti-vaxxer.” This when Kennedy has made clear he is not against vaccines, only hastily manufactured ones that are unsafe for the public.

The vital role played by liberals in today’s McCarthyism was exemplified in the Russia Gate hoax when they baselessly accused a conservative Republican president—mentored by Joseph McCarthy’s cutthroat lawyer Roy Cohn no less—of being a Russian agent and puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This helped mobilize public support for a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine while poisoning the political atmosphere in a way reminiscent of the 1950s.

The Republicans for their part have resembled Joseph McCarthy in their attempts to censor the teaching of critical race theory and in their paranoid warnings about Chinese Communist infiltration of U.S. institutions.

In Oklahoma, the Education Secretary, Ryan Walters, recently accused the Tulsa school board of having been infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party because one of its Chinese language teachers obtained a grant to a go to a conference run by a Confucius Institute in Dallas.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has at the same time called for investigation of “far left organizations” for allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) because of alleged funding ties to China.

History is clearly repeating itself, though the McCarthy-style attacks and attempted censorship accompanying them may be even more virulent today because of the growing desperation of the ruling elite in an era when American global power is eroding.

 

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/10/19/code-pink-co-founder-accuses-the-new-york-times-of-spreading-a-packet-of-lies-at-webinar-hosted-by-covertaction-magazine/

 

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