By Rich Kozlovich
There's every indication China's "President for Life" Xi may be facing some serious issues for his continued rule. I'd hoped he'd last long enough to fully destroy China's economy. His hero Mao was on the verge of doing so before Nixon and Kissinger bailed him out, but I don't think that's going to happen now, at least with Xi at the helm.
There's been a lot of purges going on with charges of corruption including his military. I'm sure all the corruption charges against these military people are valid. For a long time there was a tacit understanding between them and the Xi cabal.... don't bother us, and we won't bother you.... and Xi needed them, ergo the corruption metastasized.
But for them to be exposed and purged, and Xi couldn't or wouldn't stop it, one has to ask why? In my opinion that's the real story, and needs closely watched to see who the players are behind this. I'm of the opinion every military in the world has a von Stauffenberg cabal, and I also believe every government in the world has a von Stauffenberg cabal, including China.
There's a youth league faction of Xi's government who favor "socio-economic reforms to reduce inequality as well as collective leadership and consensus-based rule", which Xi seriously marginalized almost to extinction early in his rise to power, but that movement appears to be resurging. So, if Xi's tossed out and they become dominant it's possible they wouldn't be so hot to continue all China's international mischief making, it's not good economics.
But as of right now, China's spending massive amounts of money on their military with the worlds first twin-seat fifth-generation fighter jet, which can be used to control for "unmanned wingman aircraft and could also be used as electronic attack aircraft and airborne command posts." All of which becomes more interesting remembering nothing about China is ever as it appears. So, is there more than what appears here on the surface? I think so. What tanks and jets were to 2oth century warfare, drones and lasers will be for 21st century warfare.
I've reported that Russia can't produce it's own military hardware, but now China is helping Russia build a drone factory in Khabarovsk that will produce 10,000 drones a month. Clearly the intent is to produce drones China will be using also, with Russia footing the cost of the project.
This is a city at the far Eastern end of Russia sitting right on the border of China, and at one time a region once owned by China. I find that interesting! There's also evidence they're getting support from "Chinese academic institutions and firms sanctioned by the United States." More reason to impose more economic hardships on China.
The world's nations have a debt load of almost 310 trillion dollars, and much of that can't be repaid, nor can it be collected. And that includes China. Much of that money is gone and China won't be able to do a thing about it.
Their Road and Belt schemes are failing, their loan traps to smaller nations is weakening their economy, their BRICS scheme is demonstrating a serious failure in planning, organization, and implementation, since as far as I can tell they have no logical plan for implementation, what currency will replace the dollar, and there's bickering in their group as it becomes more obvious any scheme they adopt must benefit China, even if it impacts the rest negatively, and that's not sitting well with them.
Iran is not to be trusted no matter what they say and do publicly. Behind the scenes they asked for a meeting with Trump over their nuke program, which Trump rebuffed since it been destroyed, and then Iran claims they never asked for such a meeting, not trusting Iran should be (SOP), Standard Operating Procedure. Russia is willing to restore Iran's enriched uranium supplies, and now China has supplied Iran with their HQ-9B surface-to-air missile systems. Why does China care. They get around 80% of their oil from Iran. That's a major weak point for both of them, and the last thing China wants happening is for Israel to destroy Iran's oil producing sectors.
Finally, Putin attacked Ukraine claiming he was afraid of NATO, which was an excuse, not a reason for his revanche aggression, and what ended up happening was he scared the western European powers so more nations joined NATO. Trump forced them to step up and start funding NATO on their own and raise their contribution percent from 2 to 5 percent, and now they're laying down plans to repel any Russian incursion into Europe's NATO members.
Trump says he's pretty much had it with Putin, and in spite of wanting to end sending more military hardware to Ukraine, which is depleting America's supplies, he's backed away from that saying events made it necessary to keep Ukraine supplied.
There's actually a lot more going on, but this will do for today.
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