Xi's Vision for a 'Just' Global Order: Is China Seeking to Replace American Hegemony?
The balance in the the distribution of wealth and economic power is dissipating towards the East. The new narrative is that Rising powers like China are seeking to reshape the prevailing international system that better serves its national values and interests and reflects its own worldview. Due to its growing material power, China under Xi is becoming more vocal about the discrimination in `discourse power' by a West biased international order. Thus, diversity in historical experiences, cultural identity, and political thinking lies at the heart of the system crisis that the `Liberal International Order' is currently confronting.
Today, the complexities of Sino-US strategic competition are being realized more than ever before as the challenges to American centrism continue to grow due to Beijing's proliferating regional and global footprints. This has raised larger questions about how the western democracies will operate in this new geopolitical era to preserve the existing `rule-based' democratic international order. The paper seeks to assess Xi's view of the world and his intentions for the prevailing US-led global order. The paper argues that Beijing has no intention of architecting a whole new framework altogether and seeks to shed light on the regime's approach toward the West-centric world order.
Is Communism banned in France or within the EU-27?
Impressed by freedom of Xinjiang youth, French writer keeps publishing to unmask anti-China propaganda
Shortly after, a huge report of 654 pages, titled Les opérations d'influences chinoises, un moment machiavelien (Chinese influence operations, a Machiavellian moment) was made by the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (IRSEM), whose sole target was China.
In addition to the many repetitions, errors, even lies, we find serious contradictions throughout the pages. And then, I was intrigued by the presence of an "associate researcher" in the IRSEM - a senior officer of the US army. Moreover, one of the writers of the IRSEM report had worked for NATO until 2019.
With my friends Jean-Pierre Page and Aymeric Monville, we then decided to write a book in response to this report and we titled it The ramblings of the Anti-China forces in France.
Impressed by freedom of Xinjiang youth, French writer keeps publishing to unmask anti-China propaganda
Shortly after, a huge report of 654 pages, titled Les opérations d'influences chinoises, un moment machiavelien (Chinese influence operations, a Machiavellian moment) was made by the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (IRSEM), whose sole target was China.
In addition to the many repetitions, errors, even lies, we find serious contradictions throughout the pages. And then, I was intrigued by the presence of an "associate researcher" in the IRSEM - a senior officer of the US army. Moreover, one of the writers of the IRSEM report had worked for NATO until 2019.
With my friends Jean-Pierre Page and Aymeric Monville, we then decided to write a book in response to this report and we titled it The ramblings of the Anti-China forces in France.
Revisionism of WWII history in support of Nazism and fascism
European Parliament's anti-communist resolution draws widespread criticism
A number of communist parties, as well as progressive sections in Europe, have condemned a controversial resolution passed by the European Parliament on September 19. The resolution was tabled by the center-right European People's Party group (EPP Group). While emphasizing the importance of "remembrance" for the future of Europe, the resolution goes so far as to equate communism with Nazism. It also calls for the erasure all memorials of "totalitarianism" across Europe, including memorials dedicated to the Red Army.
Categorizing the Second World War as "the most devastating conflict in the history of Europe," it posits that war was "the immediate consequence of the German-Soviet non-aggression treaty of 23 August 1939, also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact".
Progressive activists have alleged that such a resolution is only the continuation of the European Union (EU) leadership's vicious strategy of selectively targeting the anti-fascist legacy of the Communist party and the Soviet Union, while concealing the role played by Franco's Spain and Mussolini's Italy in supporting Nazi Germany. The two countries are now among the leading EU member-states.
The Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE / NGL) issued a statement in the European Parliament, condemning the use the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II as a pretext for historical revisionism, in order to score political points.
What is fairly clear, however, is that the US would have had to intervene in Europe at some point after Germany defeated France and stalemated Britain. The American policy in the European theatre is essentially the British policy writ large, and for essentially the same reasons. As Sir Humphrey Appleby puts it:
Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last five hundred years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?
An Axis victory over France and draw with Britain, with a weakened Russia, would have threatened to actually create Petain's "German Europe." Which would have forced US intervention the same way the Russian curb-stomping of Germany forced US intervention in 1944.
- Jake
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Translation:
The European continent is no longer at peace. It has not been since February 24, 2022 and the choice of war made by Russia. In Madrid, meeting as allies, we took note of this.
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So, in our view, the US and the collective West will seek to thwart Beijing's good relationship with Moscow. The White House is trying to create a separation barrier between Russia and China in Central Asia. The White House will also try to block China from entering EU markets and disrupt the conjunction of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB), a significant part of which passes through the territory of Kazakhstan.
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