Chinese companies speed up construction of China-Laos railway[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Imperialism’
Would You Trust Donald to Represent You At a Meeting with President Xi?
How Trump and China’s Xi could stumble into war By Graham Allison When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, it rarely ends well. [...]
IMPERIAL CHINA REPLACING TRUMP’S AMERICA
SPUTNICK Is China Filling the Economic Vacuum in the Pacific? © REUTERS/ David Gray Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is visiting Australia and New Zealand this week, while US relations with Australia cool over the migrant deal negotiated by the former US administration. Will China fill the vacuum in the [...]
February 26th, 2017 - 8:37 am § in Misc.
China Builds Global Navy
U.S. Has New Neighbor in Djibouti: Chinese Naval Base By ANDREW JACOBS and JANE PERLEZ NY Times With tensions between the rivals increasing, American strategists worry that operations at the Pentagon’s camp in the Horn of Africa nation will be observed.[...]
February 21st, 2017 - 7:01 pm § in Misc.
CHINA WARNS TRUMP’S NAVY
Draft maritime law revisions say China may bar foreign ships from passing through its waters en.people.cn China is to revise its 1984 Maritime Traffic Safety Law, which would allow the relevant authorities to bar some foreign ships from passing through Chinese territorial waters. The Legislative Aff[...]
February 11th, 2017 - 5:47 am § in Misc.
A Chinese View of the South China Sea
China says United States should ‘brush up on’ South China Sea history ReutersFeb 7, 2017, 5:22 PM 24 Comments A satellite image shows what CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative says appears to be anti-aircraft guns and what are likely to be close-in weapons systems (CIWS) on the a[...]
CHINA vs US: Beware
An investigation of satellite imagery compares China’s missile testing grounds and US military bases The images show that the test areas have been designed to look like the military bases, according to the report Earlier this week, a highly accurate Chinese ballistic missile capable of [...]
Donald Trump Is Handing China the World
President Donald Trump wants to build up the U.S. Navy, a move based on 19th and 20th century imperial conflicts, that could help the United States counter China’s aggressive expansion into the Western Pacific if we are imagining we will fight WWII again. Worse the new, bigger fleet will come too[...]
January 24th, 2017 - 9:43 am § in Misc.
Trump kills TPP, giving China its first big win
Trump hands China a clear opening to tilt the geopolitical balance in Asia in its favor. Trump’s rejection of TPP underscores how different he is from his Republican predecessors — and some of the party’s current leaders — who embraced free trade, Chauvinism aside, protectionism [...]
CHINA: Understanding a very different civilization Tags!
UNDERSTANDING CHINA Western views of “world history” do not really apply to China. For example, China has no “roots” in the Roman Empire, Greek philosophy or in the Jewish bible. As such there is not equivalent to the renaissance, or the enlightenment until the time of [...]