“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 179

China increasing nuclear arsenal much faster than was thought, Pentagon says

China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than US officials predicted just a year ago, highlighting a broad and accelerating buildup of military muscle designed to enable Beijing to match or surpass US global power by mid-century, according to a new Pentagon report.

The number of Chinese nuclear warheads could increase to 700 within six years, the report said, and may top 1,000 by 2030. The report released on Wednesday did not say how many weapons China has today, but a year ago the Pentagon said the number was in the “low 200s” and was likely to double by the end of this decade.

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2021November 3, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Opposition parties want documents on Communist Chinese scientists who infiltrated Winnipeg virus lab when Parliament resumes

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

Opposition parties plan to resume their parliamentary battle for the disclosure of documents on the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest-security laboratory, a dispute that has pitted the Trudeau government against the House of Commons.

In June, the federal government took House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to court in an unprecedented move to prevent the release of documents to MPs that could offer insight into why Ottawa expelled and then fired Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, from Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2021November 3, 2021•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

China urges families to store basic supplies in case of emergency

China’s government has urged families to stock up on essential supplies in case of emergencies.

No reason was given for the notice from the Ministry of Commerce, but it came amid ongoing coronavirus lockdowns and concerns over vegetable supplies after unusually heavy rain damaged crops.

The ministry also asked local authorities to keep supply chains running smoothly and prices stable.

State media later sought to quell concerns amid reports of panic buying.

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2021November 3, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Iranian Oil Sales to China Skyrocket as Experts Say Biden Admin Turns Blind Eye to Sanctions Enforcement

Illicit Iranian oil sales to China have soared in recent months as the Biden administration attempts to reenter the 2015 nuclear accord, raising concerns from Iran experts that the United States is turning a blind eye to sanctions violations in a bid to entice Iran back to the bargaining table.

China imported nearly 800,000 barrels of Iranian crude per day on average during the last three months, almost double the amount it was illegally buying from Iran during the same period last year when the Trump administration was pressuring Iran with a crippling sanctions campaign. The increase comes amid an effort by China and Iran to boost diplomatic ties and force the Biden administration into removing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2021November 3, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Iran, USA

China and the Crisis Presidency of Joe Biden

Less than a year in and Joe Biden’s presidency is beset by crises. Domestically, his increasingly unpopular agenda has been stalled by his own political party in Congress. On the international front, the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle continues to reverberate along with Europe’s growing frustration in dealing with the administration. Even on matters where we can agree, such as the submarine deal and our alliance with the Australia and the United Kingdom to counter China, the announcement was so badly handled it became just another friction point in U.S.-European relations. Then there is China itself. From the origins of COVID to its recent hypersonic missile test — an event the Pentagon’s top general Mark Milley concedes was a near “Sputnik moment” — and China’s ability to crush all US satellites as “debris,” the challenges between the U.S. and China only continue to grow.

by Blazingcatfur•November 3, 2021November 3, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Trump wanted $10trillion in reparations from China for the damage they caused with COVID and considered setting up a panel of experts to investigate the origins, Peter Navarro claims in new book

‘By sticking China with a bill for the havoc it has wreaked on the U.S. economy and American people, we could effectively cancel our debt to China and still lay claim to trillions of dollars more in damages for the havoc inflicted by the [Chinese Communist Party],’ wrote Navarro, who supported the idea.

by Sarcasticat•November 2, 2021November 2, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", China, Donald Trump, Economy

The Evidence Mounts

The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

by Sarcasticat•November 2, 2021November 2, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease", China, Disease

Taiwan and a Nuclear Deterrent

It’s no longer out of the question, particularly if the U.S. can no longer be relied upon.

Perceived American weakness and a shift in the regional balance of power in the East Asian-Pacific littoral may result in the restart of a Taiwanese nuclear weapons program designed to serve as the ultimate deterrent to a Communist Chinese attack or invasion. We have been here before.

by Blazingcatfur•November 2, 2021November 1, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan, USA

If China Controls Taiwan’s Chip Manufacturers, It Will Control The World

If Americans think the shortage of cars due to chip supply issues is bad, then consider what it would mean if the U.S. military were deprived of the advanced chips required for its arsenal of war equipment. It’s a real possibility as the world’s largest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturers sit precariously, approximately 100 miles off the coast of communist China on the island of Taiwan.

In total, Taiwanese companies supply 63 percent of global semiconductors, compared with 12 percent by U.S. manufacturers. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) alone provides over half the world’s made-to-order chips, and an estimated 90 percent of advanced processors.

by Blazingcatfur•November 1, 2021November 1, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Taiwan, USA

China’s ‘Satellite Crusher’: ‘Space Pearl Harbor’ Is Coming

On October 24, China launched its Shijian-21 into orbit. The satellite, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., is “tasked with demonstrating technologies to alleviate and neutralize space debris.”

As Beijing sees it, American satellites constitute “debris.”

Shijian-21 has a robotic arm that can be used to move space junk—there are more than 100 million pieces of it floating around the earth—or capture, disable, destroy, or otherwise render unusable other nations’ satellites. That arm makes Shijian-21 a “satellite crusher.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 1, 2021November 1, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

China Uses ‘Whole-of-Society’ Effort to Steal From the US: Former CIA Officer

China is using a whole-of-society approach to steal its way to become a military power, and the U.S. government needs to better defend against such an espionage campaign, said a retired CIA officer.

“U.S. security officials estimate that the Chinese steal between $300 billion and $600 billion a year in U.S. intellectual property, research and development, information and technology,” David Sauer told The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD in an interview on Oct 29.

The United States has not been the only target. Sauer said China’s espionage campaign has also targeted the European Union, South Korea, and Japan, and the campaign began around 2000 to 2001.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2021October 31, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

COVID ‘more likely lab leak than weapon,’ U.S. spies find

Coronavirus was not designed as a biological weapon but could have leaked from a Chinese lab, according to a declassified report from US intelligence.

The Office of the US Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the lab leak or animal-to-human transmission were both plausible explanations for how coronavirus first infected humans.

DISTROSCALE
The report, which China branded a “farce”, said agencies may never be able to identify the source of the pandemic but dismissed accusations that coronavirus was developed as a bioweapon.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2021October 31, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Restoring Canada’s troubled relationship with China is no easy task

With feelings of bitterness nowhere near sagging between Canada and China, there have been calls for a tougher approach to a country that imprisoned Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig for more than 1000 days.

by Sarcasticat•October 31, 2021October 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, China

Is this finally proof China created Covid? Group of online sleuths fought to discover if the virus was engineered by scientists in Wuhan lab at the heart of probe into the pandemic’s origins

We must ask, is it a coincidence that a bat-derived, SARS-like coronavirus showed up in the very city with the largest laboratory collection of bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses in the world and the most active research programme studying such viruses? And a city that is well over a thousand miles from the region in China where viruses like this are naturally found.

by Sarcasticat•October 30, 2021October 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

‘Kill on demand’: China’s chilling organ transplant black market exposed

Thousands of people have their organs harvested every week in China in a “kill to order” market.

And with the horrifying details that dissidents and political prisoners are being slaughtered for their organs, China appears to have its own real-life Squid Game.

Liver on sale for $160k: Uyghur organs ‘harvested’ in China’s black markets

Notably, this is not the first time that allegations have been raised regarding organ harvesting in the detention centres of China. In June earlier this year, the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) said that its human rights experts were “extremely alarmed” by reports of “alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China.”

by Sarcasticat•October 30, 2021October 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Genocide