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Li Keqiang Press Conference

by Li Keqiang

Beijing (China) | 13 March 2014
On the morning of 13 March 2014, the Second Session of the Twelfth National People’s Congress held a press conference at the Great Hall of the People. Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council met with 800 Chinese and foreign press journalists at the invitation of Fu Ying, spokesperson of the NPC Session.
At the beginning of the press conference, Premier Li Keqiang said: Friends from the press, I want to thank you for your interest in and coverage of the NPC and CPPCC Sessions. My (...)

The Axis of Hope: Beijing to Beirut, Via Moscow, Tehran and Damascus

by André Chamy

Paris (France) | 9 March 2014
The U.S. strategy, devised by Zbigniew Brzezinski, using support for Islamist obscurantism to fight both progressive Muslim policies and against Russia, sparked an alliance to resist it. Now, China, Russia, Iran, Syria and Hezbollah are forced to stick together to survive. Ultimately observed André Charny, the trap has sprung on those who set it.

Wang Yi Press Conference

by Wang Yi

Beijing (China) | 8 March 2014
On 8 March 2014, the Second Session of the Twelfth National People’s Congress held a press conference at its Press Center and invited Wang Yi, China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, to answer questions from more than 500 Chinese and foreign journalists about China’s foreign policy and external relations.
Wang Yi: Good morning, everyone. It is a great pleasure to meet with journalists from the press. At the outset, on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I would like to thank you for your (...)

Chinese anti-Japan celebrations

28 February 2014
Beijing announced that henceforth the Nanking Massacre (1937) and the victory against Japan in World War II (1945) would be celebrated by two days of national commemoration.
This decision illustrates the rising tensions between China and Japan.
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army sacked Nanking, the capital of the Kuomintang. For six weeks they indulged in atrocities, raping tens of thousands of women and children, which left 42,000 people dead according to Japanese (...)

Beijing to extend air defense zone

16 February 2014
The United States has stepped up its warnings to Beijing, as the latter prepares to expand its air defense zone in the South China Sea, at the risk of creating a conflict with Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia.
On 23 November 23, Beijing already extended its air defense area in the East China Sea, including the Senkaku Islands claimed by Japan. The United States, South Korea and Japan have decided to ignore Chinese regulations, which nearly caused the destruction on December 5th of the (...)

Beijing and Taipei engage in « diplomatic » relations

16 February 2014
Beijing et Taipei, representing the Chinese communist and Nationalist parties respectively, have engaged in their first negotiations since their historical split, in 1949.
Each party considers itself historically as the sole ruler of the whole of China.
However, during the Cold War, Taiwan became in practice a branch of the CIA to monitor Communist China.
The two delegations meeting in Nanjing (the former Nationalist capital, today on Communist territory) have agreed to open without (...)

China capable of striking enemy aircraft carriers

27 January 2014
The People’s Republic of China has tested a supersonic nuclear missile carrier at a speed of Mach 10, making it the first missile capable of striking aircraft-carrier before it can be intercepted.
The pictures of the J-20 Dragon have meanwhile been circulating on the internet. The plane is fitted with the 6 leading-edge technologies of the U.S. F-35, the most expensive aircraft in the world.
In just a few years, China has caught up on its delay in the aeronautical field. It not only can (...)

China reforms it’s military command

23 December 2013
Under the supervision of President Xi Jinping, the Central Military Commission ordered a complete overhaul of the command structure of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
The aim is to transform the armed forces, which currently rely mainly on their heavy infantry, into a modern system integrating the navy, the air force, space and nuclear forces in the same operations.
This quite ambitious reform was approved by the Communist Party plenum, in order to prepare China for possibile attacks (...)

U.S. drones will no longer spy on Iran and China

23 December 2013
The Chinese authorities have announced the extension of their protected air zone, which has been challenged by Japan when it comes to the Senkaku islands. Henceforth, China demands that the planes flying over its territory should identify themselves and provide their flight plan within 100 miles (185km) of its coast.
However, this decision would appear to be a guise for deploying a defense system intended to thwart US drone surveillance. According to Aerospace Electronic Warfare, a (...)

Israel hesitates to testify against China

21 November 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to indicate whether or not an Israeli senior official will testify before a U.S. court on the transfer of Iranian funds to Hamas and to the Islamic Jihad, through the Bank of China.
Israel—a world renowned specialist in bank surveillance—is said to have proof of such transfers, including the account numbers, the dates and amounts, since 2005.
In 2009, Shlomo Matalon—an advisor to the Prime Minister—had testified under oath about informing (...)

Chinese jihadists back from Syria

4 July 2013
On the eve of the riots anniversary in Xinjiang (formerly East Turkestan) , a series of attacks, on 26 June 2013, against public buildings in the township of Luqkun took the lives of 24 people.
The Global Times, reported the return of some one hundred members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) who had joined the "sacred jihad" in Syria However, the Syrian ambassador to Beijing could only identify thirty cases. Whatever the case may be, the support they enjoy in Turkey and (...)

General Fang Fengshui in Moscow to discuss Syria

3 July 2013
The chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army, Gen. Fang Fengshui, made his first official visit to Moscow.
He met with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. The talks focused on military cooperation and the protection of Syria.
Two joint exercises have been scheduled: Maritime Cooperation 2013(from July 5 to 12 in the Gulf of Peter the Great, Sea of Japan) and Peace Mission 2013 (July 28 to August 15 on the (...)

"The art of war"

Obama fears the east wind

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 7 June 2013
President Obama is about to receive his Chinese counterpart. But this summit will take place in an atmosphere that is both friendly and fearful: Washington does not know how to control the development of the Chinese panda whose influence is now global.

Mali and AFRICOM’s Africa Agenda: Target China

by F. William Engdahl

31 January 2013
Out of the blue in the last days Mali has suddenly become the focus of world attention. France has been asked to militarily intervene by Mali’s government to drive Jihadist terrorists out of the large parts of the country they claim. What the conflict in Mali really is about is hardly what we read in the mainstream media. It is about vast untapped mineral and energy resources and a de facto re-colonization of French Africa under the banner of human rights. The real background reads like a John LeCarre thriller.

Part II

The USA’s decades long war against China

by Robert S. Rodvik

Vancouver (Canada) | 13 January 2013
After decades of covert actions meant to overthrow the communist government of China, in 1989 the CIA launched the first of its so-called "colour" revolutions, which, being unsuccessful, did not achieve a designation of its own, those appellations coming later, in Eastern Europe and Georgia. This action took place in Beijing, where the CIA had trained a coterie of "students" to unseat the government.

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