Consortium News – by Pepe Escobar
Among the myriad, earth-shattering geopolitical effects of coronavirus, one is already graphically evident. China has re-positioned itself. For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the U.S. as a threat, as stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference during the peak of the fight against coronavirus.
Beijing is carefully, incrementally shaping the narrative that, from the beginning of the coronavirus attack, the leadership knew it was under a hybrid war attack.
The terminology of President Xi Jinping is a major clue. He said, on the record, that this was war. And, as a counter-attack, a “people’s war” had to be launched.
Moreover, he described the virus as a demon or devil. Xi is a Confucianist. Unlike some other ancient Chinese thinkers, Confucius was loath to discuss supernatural forces and judgment in the afterlife. However, in a Chinese cultural context, devil means “white devils” or “foreign devils”: guailo in Mandarin, gweilo in Cantonese. This was Xi delivering a powerful statement in code.
Read the rest here: https://consortiumnews.com/2020/03/18/china-locked-in-hybrid-war-with-us/
I didn’t know there was a St. Corona…patron saint of pandemics
‘Russia, in a Sun Tzu move on Riyadh whose end result was a much cheaper barrel of oil, helped for all practical purposes to kick-start the inevitable recovery of the Chinese economy. This is how a strategic partnership works.’
‘The chessboard is changing at breakneck speed. Once Beijing identified coronavirus as a bio-weapon attack the “people’s war” was launched with the full force of the state. Methodically. On a “whatever it takes” basis. Now we are entering a new stage, which will be used by Beijing to substantially recalibrate the interaction with the West, and under very different frameworks when it comes to the U.S. and the EU.
Soft power is paramount. Beijing sent an Air China flight to Italy carrying 2,300 big boxes full of masks bearing the script, “We are waves from the same sea, leaves from the same tree, flowers from the same garden.” China also sent a hefty humanitarian package to Iran, significantly aboard eight flights from Mahan Air — an airline under illegal, unilateral Trump administration sanctions.’
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic could not have been more explicit: “The only country that can help us is China. By now, you all understood that European solidarity does not exist. That was a fairy tale on paper.”
….round up the criminals send them to China
thanks, Katie
trump is a two bit actor who believes he is the character he is playing… ‘King’ …. a megalomaniac and sociopath, a very dangerous combination
“China also sent a hefty humanitarian package to Iran, significantly aboard eight flights from Mahan Air — an airline under illegal, unilateral Trump administration sanctions.’“
If North Korea or some other country did this, they would be shot down, but since China did this, it’s a slap on the wrist.
Amazing how the US only enforces what they want to enforce. Then they whine and complain about China not sending goods to us. They want China to make things for them and then they want to go to war with them and then they praise them for their style of government and want us to model them.
Which is it? They like China or hate China? I’m sick of this bouncing around all the time. They want to go to war with them, but they also don’t want to go to war with them. My head is always spinning. I have a headache and have gone cross-eyed.
They want their cake and eat it too, I guess.
Friggin assholes.