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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 2:08:56 AM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 217573
 
Hello MQ, happy holidays.

Re what you noted, I fear that even if you are correct you would still be wrong, simply because history is not a moment but a flow of moments.

By this post I aim to show you the flow.

(1) First the set up context in a place further away from Asia but relevant, because just as history is a complete set of flow of moments, geography, also lovely, a a continuum, so, let us put our gaze to the Mediterranean

... particular quote from the X post, that <<The port of Eliat, which lies on the Red Sea, is already completely blocked. Those ships that continued to cooperate with Israel bypass Africa and arrive at Israel's shores in the Mediterranean via Gibraltar. The question is how can these ships be blocked?>>

Sea mines, with Houthis characteristics, my guess, lots and lots of sea mines.

But no, the USA mines shall not work to save the renegade separatists of Taiwan, China, Republic of, because USA need the sea lanes open, to keep the chips flowing as the folks of Dune needed to keep the spice flowing, and besides do not make the fatal error of believing Team USA shall get into a fight against the Chinese on Chinese territory over Chinese territorial integrity unless wish to see Alaska go independent and Hawaii go free. To wit Ukraine currently being rug-pulled. Comrade Zelensky trusted the wrong folks I fear even as I remain agnostic. It is how events would go when it is time to go go go. As to when go go go, up to China China China.

China Has 100,000 Naval Mines to Sink the U.S. Navy in a War



China Has 100,000 Naval Mines to Sink the U.S. Navy in a WarA less well-known tactic in China’s toolbox is the use of undersea mines (perhaps as many as 100,000) to keep th...



B-52s Would Be Ideal for Laying Mines in the Taiwan Strait



B-52s Would Be Ideal for Laying Mines in the Taiwan StraitB-52s could help deter or hinder a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.



The neocon libtards, cretinous spinners that they are have a hard time spinning a tale supporting actual invasion of China that would trigger Article 2 of the Sino-Korea (people’s democratic) Treaty requiring automatic mutual defense to kick in, especially as the Putin so generously equipping Korea, North, with capabilities and soon capacities to scratch itches near and far, and extremely far.

Taunting Kim the Fat might be fun but not so fun when past Go.

No. More sanctions against the Putin for proliferation likely shall do zilch. Over use of antibiotics never a good idea.

No, way too dangerous for any of Washington DC’s supposed allies to get involved given possibilities of escalation and of rug-pull.

The Houthis in effect tee-ed up testing-123 of de-Neocon-fication of Team USA from the far periphery, newly denuded of Saudi alliance, and situation enhanced by BRICS+ / BRI-fication of Saudi-Persia; mega drama, front role seat to history.

Europe totally F-ed eyes wide open. Funny that, threatening the Putin with turning the Baltic into a lake, Finland got accidentally sliced by a HK ship of the cabling, and now face a Mediterranean about to be transformed into bathtub.

Ukraine got into the wrong bed, and … well … got F-ed by all the boyz. Possibly. Arguably. Agnostic.

The trouble with neolibtardcons is that they understand neither the nuances of history nor appreciate the fractal beauty of mathematics.

Sending aircraft carriers to engage with a land war against continentals with longer reaching artillery - the TV program HeeHaw comes to mind

Of course should sea mines be used then all shipping stop, but de-mine boats would be needed in industrial quantities on most routes except at least the Arctic route - where have I heard of that term, ‘industrial quantities’ recently?

Never mind, but a heads up, Marty’s latest is funny

Speaking of industrial anything, more funnies, next post, a break, and then back to industrial everything



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 2:25:33 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217573
 
But, before anything about anything else, something about tunnel warfare

... as to efficacy of tunnel warfare, dunno, agnostic, or, at least, remaining polite, for this post.

am aware of an episode of tunnel warfare, in a place far far away, at a moment long long ago. Queue Star War's theme music.

the lyrics to the episode is here, and the memorialising movie trailer in next (yes yes cringe but harmonious with the period)




i first watched the movie back in 1966 when growing up in China, about once every two weeks, of each month, for the entire year, over and over again.

family had the only black / white TV in a part of town, and my buddies and I always watch the very few approved movies after the hour long new program of each day numbing with statistics of tractors made, trucks delivered, wheat harvested, and whatnot

it wasn't clear to me, thinking back, what would have happened had our TV broke down. Am guessing find the burned out vacuum tube and replace. Dunno.

i do remember my tricycle, and the Hongqi brand black sedan (do not know the manufacturing year), a smaller model than the state beast the descendant of which was ogled at by the Biden, and yes, spending summer on the island in the middle of the summer palace recommended, especially early mornings to go by row boat with dad to the back lake to watch him doodle

Any ways wonderful days and lovely nights, and yes, the Jack Jr does look like me, and my dada, Jack Sr
period photo from the Internet hongqi-auto.com

The Hongqi was a copy of a Soviet copy of the American Cadillac and shall likely outlast the Cadillac, just a guess

Whilst perusing collected history pics, chanced upon some of Chinese helping out at the time on the right side of history 1918, and looks like the British tanks had issues with mud back then as do now

Team Biden seems to have appreciated the literal flag-carrier Hongqi during the recent Core Comrade Jinping's San Francisco visit, that which caused a stir due to SF being cleaned for once over

Unclear whether the issue was with the tank or with Europe

side-track for a moment



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 3:10:54 AM
From: TobagoJack1 Recommendation

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marcher

  Respond to of 217573
 
First, salutations, before continuing with flow of random thoughts, power to the people, let us even if by chance accidentally remain on the right side of history, for am not particular, engage fruitfully with once in one hundred years changes, and may the Force be with us, etc etc

Should we be wrong, let our consolation prize, that be gold and silver, pay out our less deserved reward for a botched macro play. As I noted, am not fussy.

Let us get down to big arrow macro guesses

(0) History assuredly did not start at any particular moment and not even the inception of Adam & Eve, however, even am remaining polite w/r to shifting definitions I do find it interesting that 'genocide' concept gets defined, refined, redefined, spin, spun, twisted, dried, as the occasion suits by apologists, neocons, libtards, and all such same.

Re 'genocides' of the past, and so many times ...

Kicking off with CIA video, literally - makes one wonder what the original film was made for, purpose wise






(1) Long time ago emissaries of the Chinese civilisation state were sent to visit Rome, then known as Daqin, circa 97AD, early days, but for any number of reasons demurred once the journey started to look arduous and /or dangerous

Daqin - Wikipedia



Daqin - WikipediaChinese sources describe several ancient Roman embassies arriving in China, beginning in 166 AD and lasting into...



(2) Yeup, the boyz of the two tribes knew about each other and / but were too busy to get in each other's way.

De-coupling / de-risking was not necessary for distance and buffers perfectly functional and adequate to keep peace, a/k/a Pax Rome

(2-i) In the mean time, as in the Game of Go, Team China built passive defensive walls against its northern barbarians
Great Wall of China - Wikipedia



Great Wall of China - WikipediaThe Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: ????; simplified Chinese: ????; pinyin: Wànli Chángchéng, literall...



(2-ii) Team China, even though generally agrarian and peace-loving in nature, did active defence by storing grain, raising army, and expedited migration of the Turks on her northern borderlands, sending them and such more or less same westward, ever more westward, year after decade after eon after century after millennia, and always westward

mei.edu.

"The ancestors of the modern day Turks originally lived in and near present-day China. Chinese historical records show that the nomadic peoples of the north, including the Turks, played a significant role in Chinese history. Today, seven Turkic language-speaking ethnic minorities still live in China. After China’s Tang Dynasty (618-906), Turks began to immigrate westward, and by the end of the eleventh century they were settling in what is now modern-day Turkey. During the Ottoman Empire, relations between the two regions continued, with the name for “Ottoman” in Chinese (“Rumi”) appearing several times in historical documents and Ottoman tributary delegations traveling to China, especially during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)."

... until one fine day, the Rumi's came in first contact with the Romans at Constantinople and unfortunately did them in.

(2-iii) There was an unexpected problem, and them be the Mongols, and just like the Foundation series of books by Asimov, such miscalculation of psycho-socio-mathematics do happen and one must make the best of them, the Chinese folded early in the game and joined in the Great Khan's adventure as a part of the very short-lived Yuan dynasty

Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) - Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art



Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) - Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian ArtIn 1271, the leader of the Mongol empire, Khan (ca. 1215–ca. 1294), proclaimed the establishment of the Yuan dyn...



Yuan dynasty - Wikipedia



Yuan dynasty - WikipediaThe Yuan dynasty (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan[10] (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Dà Yuán; M...




cousins of the Yuan Sons-of-Heaven eventually snuck up against both the rump of the Romans and the flourishing Ottomans / Turks / Rumi's, and did some wet work. The Game of Go, unlike Chess, and totally dissimilar to Poker, is a holistic game



(3) After the Yuan officialdom were played out, the peace-loving Chinese absorbed them and establish the Ming, same dynasty that gave rise to the Admiral Zheng He noted earlier




After the Ming came the Qing, of the Manchu tribe, who eventually lost the lovely island of Taiwan to the Dutch, and that which was recovered by the Republic of China, and still to be finally settled as part and parcel to overall settlement of the CHINESE civil war

(4) Eventually, in the northern lands happenings happened


(5) and further west, in Europe, happenings happened over and over again

(6) Very interesting, when the Japanese invaded China China China, the VVV British watched, and watched some more, whereas the despicable Germans helped, the Chinese side, which of course turned out to be the then right side of history

quora.com
How effective were the German-trained Chinese troops in fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War?


... and / but when the Japanese were talking Fuku with Jews (arguably a particular genre known in the alt-media as the Zionist - agnostic, wait to see)

en.wikipedia.org
Shortly prior to and during World War II, and coinciding with the Second Sino-Japanese War, tens of thousands of Jewish refugees were resettled in the Japanese Empire. The onset of the European war by Nazi Germany involved the lethal mass persecutions and genocide of Jews, later known as the Holocaust, resulting in thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing east. Most ended up in Japanese-occupied China.

History is complicated, as you should know, and am sure you do, admitted or not.

I do not make up history, unlike MSM. I just read history.



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 3:33:57 AM
From: TobagoJack1 Recommendation

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marcher

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Re <<While legions of rigidly marching rows of soldiers marching by the thousand to uplifting music is great to watch, impressive and demonstrative>>

... following on to ...
Message 34517686
Message 34517687
Message 34517696 , and because of

Message 34510950

am certain whatever happens in and over and around Taiwan, China, Republic of, shall be peaceful
Message 34482206

Because both China and USA believe preparedness shall result in peaceful outcome, as both measure each other up and keep an eye on ... oh ... say ... just for arguments sake ... the Russians

You know, the Russians like these in the audience, and their kids
and btw, greatest the world's longest border is sooooooo peaceful
unclear what Team Trump and Biden and etc had in mind when they strategised to push the Ruskies and the Chinese together, nut let us see



... this is my favourite uplift, stirring, historically connected recruitment video

... then arrives Internationale; we are close, very close



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 4:02:27 AM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 217573
 
in case of doubt, here is the English lyric




To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 4:35:03 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217573
 
Oops, need to finish the thought strand re de-industrialization, and connecting up the QCOM and such curiosities of now just history

Just in, the funnies

Means when 5G, 5.5G, 6G smooth upgrade path evolved, should do much more in meritocratic China than a lot of other places

and for any particular sector (scroll down for look-see of steel sector), China in essence is exporting Russian and Saudi Arabia and UAE and Malaysian and and and energies.

China is even re-exporting USA energies back to the USA, with tariff markup by Team White House

5G does great stuff for China societal cohesion, education, investment, production, employment, but merely speeds up streaming of PornHub in the USA. Difference between meritocracy vs theocracy, etc etc

Why did USA push beautiful China into the arms of the Putin thug? What kind of morons tee up that sort of idea?!

google.com
can do such search for sector after industrial sector. Not only am not certain why the Neo-boyz and Libtard girlz pushed China towards Russia, am similarly not sure why they pushed Russia towards China. The stratagem is so high above my capabilities and capacities to take in, process, understand, make sense of, and explain. I just cannot do it.

After More Than Four Years, Has 5G Lived Up to Expectations?



After More Than Four Years, Has 5G Lived Up to Expectations?Drew FitzGerald

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested worldwide. Here’s what you need to know about how much the te...



China Leads the Way With Private 5G Networks at Industrial Facilities



China Leads the Way With Private 5G Networks at Industrial FacilitiesDan Strumpf

Among the projects: a coal mine where 5G allows remote inspections of mines and the automation of mining activity.



U.S. vs. China in 5G: The Battle Isn’t Even Close



U.S. vs. China in 5G: The Battle Isn’t Even CloseDan Strumpf

China is leading the way in the size and consistency of its 5G network.




To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 8:40:31 PM
From: TobagoJack1 Recommendation

Recommended By
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Re <<several faults in your thinking>>

can blame Confucius, for microcode and wiring.

The civilisation state comes first, under son of heaven, anointed until withdrawn, else fragility takes over

Team Israel is undergoing a testing moment, and I remain agnostic but historically aware

Perhaps Netanyahu's anointment has come to an end, or maybe he is still the one. I do not know.

Many anointed made crucial judgement errors, and much fragility events took place.

Yes, <<It is not yet the End of History>> and yes again, <<I do favour the __________ concepts of co-operative people rather than conquest and murder.>>, and but I remain well aware of history. Clipped from this day's Chinese-language curation but re the planet Message 34518163

Here be English language analogue

I think many many premises of this video are way wrong, simplistic, almost naive, and Ukraine episode is giving a hint; just a guess
way too optimistic



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (203326)12/24/2023 8:48:39 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217573
 
Re <<But there are some good ideas too - such as it would be nice if people would spend less effort attacking other people and taking them over rather than looking inward and fixing up and enhancing the self.>>

... also blame it on Confucius

scmp.com

Why China is keeping its distance as Russia and North Korea cosy up
Published: 6:00am, 25 Dec, 2023


At last month’s meeting between the foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea – their first in four years – Beijing pledged to be Northeast Asia’s “stabiliser” while opposing bloc-based cooperation, as the launch of North Korea’s spy satellite loomed.

The satellite, allegedly capable of spying on the White House and US naval bases, was the first to successfully enter orbit following previous failed attempts. This prompted South Korean intelligence to speculate that North Korea had received key technical support from Russia in return for delivery of weapons to support the war in Ukraine. Both Russia and North Korea have denied any arms deal.

The matter was widely speculated to have been discussed at a rare meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in September.



04:33

Satellite imagery suggests North Korea is supplying Russia with weapons through Rason port

Satellite imagery suggests North Korea is supplying Russia with weapons through Rason port

Engagement between the two nations has grown amid international isolation.

Beijing, a close partner of both Pyongyang and Moscow, has remained low key about the growing alignment between the two, repeatedly saying that their cooperation was a matter between the two sides and that China would not interfere.

It has also been muted in its reaction to reports that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had proposed inviting North Korea to participate in three-way naval drills with China.

Observers said China was cautious about being drawn into a trilateral axis with Russia and North Korea, fearing it could trigger a “new cold war” that would advance US interests and escalate tensions in the region.

Bjorn Alexander Duben, a Northeast Asian studies specialist at Jilin University in northeastern China, said Beijing wanted to avoid appearing to be engaged in “bloc-building”, by strengthening a trilateral relationship with Pyongyang and Moscow while it had close bilateral ties with both.

Read key economic stories from China, including the US-China trade war, sanctions, and economic developments.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and North Korean deputy foreign minister Pak Myong-ho visited Beijing last week for separate talks with top Chinese leaders, who vowed to strengthen strategic relationships with both neighbours.

“In principle, China could be content about [Russia and North Korea’s] deepening relationship. But in practice their interests also diverge,” Duben said.

“Russia and North Korea both have incentives to be disruptive in the international system. The difference is that China does not [currently] have an interest in this, it has a stake in international stability.”

“Beijing does not mind minor crises arising that keep the US occupied, but it does not want deeper global instability – especially in light of China’s unfavourable economic situation,” he said, adding that Beijing still had a stake in improving its relations with the West as well as South Korea and Japan.



Xi Jinping tells North Korea’s Kim he can make ‘greater contribution’ to ties

2 Nov 2023

At the closely watched summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden last month, the two leaders agreed to manage heightening tensions between the two superpowers. However, there were no breakthroughs on major points of contention such as the growing military competition in the Indo-Pacific.

The US and its treaty allies Japan and South Korea have increased military coordination to tackle what they call an “increasingly assertive” China in the Indo-Pacific. Beijing’s relations with its two East Asian neighbours have also been strained in recent years.

But the China-Japan-South Korea foreign ministers’ meeting last month offered a fresh opportunity to repair ties, with an aim to refocus on economic cooperation.

Shi Yinhong, an international relations professor at Renmin University, said that given the recent signs of improving ties with the US, Japan and South Korea, China was unlikely to engage in trilateral activities with Russia and North Korea that would escalate tensions again, such as a joint military drill.

“The situation on the [Korean] peninsula is still very dangerous,” Shi said. “China does not think it needs to get closer with a close-enough North Korea, which is one of the sources of high tension on the peninsula.”



03:51

North Korea reportedly photographs White House and Pentagon with spy satellite

North Korea reportedly photographs White House and Pentagon with spy satellite

Yongwook Ryu, a China and Korea affairs specialist at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, said China was reluctant to participate in a three-way military drill because it was concerned that doing so would amount to a “new cold war” – something China has accused the United States of conducting.

Chinese and US envoys to the UN Security Council traded blame on Tuesday when they met to discuss North Korea’s recent military activities, including an intercontinental ballistic missile launch last week. North Korea’s fifth ICBM launch this year, the highest annual number ever, followed US plans to include nuclear operation exercises in joint military drills with South Korea, and the reported arrival of a US nuclear submarine at a South Korean port.

US representative Robert Wood demanded that China and Russia join the rest of the council to “act” on Pyongyang, while China’s Geng Shuang, in a veiled swipe at the US, blamed “a certain country” for escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula by offering “extended deterrents” and strengthening regional military alliances.



04:26

North Korea to keep ‘raising the stakes’ with more ICBM tests expected

North Korea to keep ‘raising the stakes’ with more ICBM tests expected

Beijing has been reluctant to condemn North Korea’s military developments and opposes new Security Council sanctions, saying it would not solve the problem. It has instead called for Pyongyang’s legitimate security concerns to be addressed and a “dual suspension” approach to achieve denuclearisation – requiring North Korea to freeze its missile and nuclear programme and the South Korea and the US to halt joint military exercises.

North Korea and the US held a few rounds of nuclear talks while former US president Donald Trump was in office, but those ended in stalemates after the two countries failed to agree on a common approach to denuclearisation. Pyongyang has since ramped up missile launches and threatened a seventh nuclear test, with the US and South Korea expanding their large-scale military drills in response.



US presses China on North Korea’s weapons supplies to Russia

30 Oct 2023

Observers have said Beijing might prefer to maintain the status quo on the peninsula out of fears that pressuring North Korea too hard could make it an enemy.

Ryu noted that given the intensifying US-China rivalry, it was in Beijing’s interests for Washington to be tied up in North Korean military threats.

“While Beijing does not deliberately incite instability and conflict on the Korean peninsula, instability on the peninsula – falling short of actual military conflict – would serve Beijing’s interests by diverting the attention and resources of the US and its key allies such as Japan,” he said.

“How much Beijing prioritises the Korean peninsula over other issues such as its rivalry with the US and Taiwan is questionable. Hence it is doubtful if and to what extent Beijing will actually play a constructive role in constraining the North’s provocative behaviour,” Ryu said, adding there was also no guarantee Pyongyang would heed Beijing’s advice or suggestions.

The international community has repeatedly urged China to help to stop North Korea’s military aggression, but Beijing has often hinted that it does not have the required influence over Pyongyang.

“Good relations between China and North Korea and China’s influence on North Korea are two different concepts,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said in September when asked about Seoul’s request for Beijing to do more to rein in Pyongyang.

In an interview with The Telegraph last month, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said China had an important role to play in regional stability, and he believed China’s alignment with North Korea and Russia would not serve its interests.



China, Japan, South Korea’s top diplomats agree to revive leadership summit

26 Nov 2023

Daniel Russel, who served as US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under former president Barack Obama, said Beijing’s “standoffishness” towards the closer alignment between Russia and North Korea was because it did not want to be held accountable for the “misbehaviour of a partner nation”.

“Beijing does not want to pay a price or be held responsible for provocative behaviour by North Korea that China has no control over,” said Russel, who is now vice-president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.

“Beijing offers rhetorical and other forms of support to Russia and North Korea where it essentially costs China nothing, but balks at overt support for their behaviour when it risks retaliation or international condemnation,” Russel said, citing as an example China’s denial of having provided arms for Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Russel added that China might also be wary of Russia and North Korea’s growing alignment because it could weaken Beijing’s leverage over Pyongyang.

“North Korean leaders have long tried to play one major power off against another, and Kim’s opportunistic embrace of Vladimir Putin is the latest example. Kim is attempting to gain leverage over Beijing – or weaken Beijing’s leverage over him – by showing that he has options other than China,” he said.

Kim told Putin that relations with Russia were the “very first priority” for his country when the pair met in September, prompting speculation about whether Pyongyang had pivoted from Beijing to Moscow.

But he appeared to want to assure Xi that North Korea’s relations with China were “as close as usual”, as he wrote in a letter to the Chinese leader a week after his meeting with Putin.

Deputy foreign minister Pak, the first and most senior North Korean official to visit China after the Covid-19 pandemic, vowed during his trip last week to deepen ties to “safeguard common interests”. His visit prompted speculation of paving the way for in-person talks next year between Xi and Kim, who have not met since 2019.

Yun Sun, director of the China Programme at the Washington-based Stimson Centre think tank, doubted that there had been a priority shift in North Korea’s policy.

“China is the single largest supporter of the North Korean economy through aid and trade. It also carries much more influence than Russia does regionally and globally today,” she said.


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