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Analysis: Military purges put Xi Jinping's singer-wife in the spotlight "After completely abandoning the two former defense ministers of his choice, Xi is now busy preparing for the third plenum, an event that will be closely watched by the international community. The meeting has customarily set China's major medium- and long-term economic policies. But this time there might be an incognito drumbeat pacing the political performance -- loyalty to Xi, the all-powerful leader helming the party, military and state."

The digital editions of China's top three Communist Party newspapers have frozen, in a bizarre and unexplained digital catastrophe, leaving the voice of China's central leadership missing at the precise moment that dictator Xi Jinping is away in Europe, the China Media Project has reported. What is going on? Should we start rubbing our hands? Is there a rebellion at the top three CCP outlets - People's Daily, Guangming Daily and People's Liberation Army Daily? Is a coup under way? Will Xi have to spend the rest of his life in Moscow? Or is this a foreign hack attack to punish China for hacking overseas government databases, like the one of the UK ministry of defence reported today) and to remind Xi and his cronies that two can play at that game? I would not object if any of these questions are answered with a "yes". Do any of you have any other ideas? Some lines from the CMP report: <<For the newspaper to go silent online at any moment, making it unavailable to global audiences, would be an unusual and important signal — of a cataclysmic editorial slip if not something more serious politically. Today’s absence is difficult to explain.>> <<Such a digital delinquency has not, by our reckoning, occurred at any point in the past two decades, and it is anyone’s guess at this point what this means.>> <<The voice of the central leadership is missing.>> How will China explain this? 

It indeed looks quite weird. It looks like official media may go silent just to further select the optimal course of action. It seems, that the government might not be exactly sure as to which course to take - should of be more directed towards China-Europe cooperation, or should it be more pro-self-indepemdant. At this point, with the in China local economic problems, such as sky-rocketting unemployment rates, low consumers power and housing market collapse, Chinese News Media cannot afford to give any predictions, and shaping a public opinion in one way, may cut all the possibilities for the latter.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲: Europe needs to rearm faster; Ukraine needs a military strategy to outlast Russia; Washington’s red lines may change; Canada supports Ukraine strikes inside Russia with West’s weapons;  𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗿: Russia is flooding the West with disinformation; attacks on Russian liberals reveal Putin’s insecurity. https://lnkd.in/gADFHZpt

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲: Europe needs to rearm faster; Ukraine needs a military strategy to outlast Russia; Washington’s red lines may change; Canada supports Ukraine strikes inside Russia with West’s weapons;  𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗿: Russia is flooding the West with disinformation; attacks on Russian liberals reveal Putin’s insecurity. https://lnkd.in/g4gdxrkK

"American impotency"? In a moronic September 30 "analysis" titled "Why America is looking increasingly powerless as Israel’s war expands" (https://lnkd.in/d4_hX3Zf), Stephen Collinson, described by CNN as a "campaign expert", would have us know: "The pattern of American impotency and Israeli defiance has played repeatedly since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that killed about 1,200 people, which prompted the Israeli pounding of Gaza and the more recent attempt to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon." So, Israel's war against international terrorism, supported by US arms, against Sinwar, Nasrallah, Khamenei, Assad and the Houthis is making the US appear "impotent". Oh really? As noted in passing by Collinson: "The global and political implications of the year of rage in the region are also huge. For instance, months of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea have seen US and allied naval forces often under fire and intercepting missiles from Iran-backed Houthi rebels." It never occurred to Collinson that the policy of the Biden administration to avoid direct confrontation with the Houthis, thus allowing sandaled AK-47 slinging gunmen armed by Iran to paralyze commerce via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, is precisely what has caused the US military to be viewed as a paper tiger. And lest I forget, "Israel's war" as Collinson would have it? Instead, how about "the war against the Israel"? But heck, what should we expert? Darling Stephen is writing for CNN.

Excited to share my article, "Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-US Relations." Thanks to JAEAR for publishing my piece as part of this special issue on "Legacies of WWII and the Cold War in US-East Asia Relations"! Please see the following link for more details: https://lnkd.in/ePkzXZeU

"Ukraine war would never have happened had the United States and US-led NATO stayed out of Ukraine in the first place. Underlying this was the NATO theory of continued expansion, that includes much more than Ukraine and includes all of Russia’s former empire. If NATO is defeated in Ukraine, as seems likely, NATO will need to revert to being a defensive alliance, instead of fashioning itself as an expansion alliance. There is no longer a military or economic basis for NATO’s expansion, and it brings a danger of general war which is not survivable for Europe." And now, Zelenski, a puppet of Biden Jewish neocons, offers Trump to replace US troops in Europe ? Consider now an Ukrainan occupied Germany, and Europe... True they already ocuppy Brussels...

IHL: you should direct your attacks only at military objectives Israeli military: we direct our attacks only at military objectives Also the Israeli military: journalists are military objectives (and their house and family are collateral damage) https://lnkd.in/dfYPhNTK