Chinese Tensions
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The trade war heightens
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62585899
The US has announced that they will begin formal trade negotiations with Taiwan
The UK has blocked the takeover of an electronic design company by a Hong Kong firm because of concerns over risks to national security.
Canada and China’s South Sea
Canadian Navy sails with US Empire into War, Environmental Disaster
Canada’s defence minister Anita Anand tweeted, that HMCS Vancouver and Winnipeg will remain deployed in the Indo-Pacific until December 2022
US Navy taunting China
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62704449
Two guided-missile cruisers – the USS Antietam and the USS Chancellorsville – are demonstrating freedom of navigation through international waters.
Russia said will launch military exercises in the country’s east that will involve China.
Vostok 2022 (East 2022) exercise will be held Sept. 1-7 in various locations in Russia’s Far East and the Sea of Japan and involve more than 50,000 troops, over 5,000 weapons units, including 140 aircraft and 60 warships.
Russian and Chinese navies in the Sea of Japan will “practice joint action to protect sea communications, areas of marine economic activity and support for ground troops in littoral areas.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-hold-sweeping-joint-war-103439003.html
The trade war heats up
Chip designer Nvidia said that US officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms’ ability to carry out advanced work.
US officials told it the new rule “will address the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a ‘military end use’ or ‘military end user’ in China.”
Biden executive order includes the manufacturing of semiconductors in the USA and some companies are returning and establishing operations in the USA. More than 250 billions dollars are going to be invested in high technology and research. Climate change has shown that the USA needs a lot of infrastructure upgrade and the bill was rejected by the Republicans. Many of those infrastructure were built during WW2 and during the government of Roosevelt
The USA approves a billion dollars in arms for Taiwan
Germany’s air force is currently participating in a military exercise on the other side of the globe, in Australia, where it has sent six Eurofighter jets… in addition to the fighter jets, four transport aircraft and three newly acquired air-to-air refuelling tankers have been sent to Darwin in northern Australia.
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-military-ramps-up-presence-in-indo-pacific/a-63005063
Germany is already planning to participate in a series of exercises next year in Australia, this time with its army.
It also announced the navy’s return to the Indo-Pacific, with an entire fleet unit.
the German government noted an increasing “strategic competition for influence in the region” and stated that “the Indo-Pacific is becoming the key to shaping the international order in the 21st century.”
The EU SAID the “current dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region” have “given rise to intense geopolitical competition, adding to increasing pressure on trade and supply chains as well as in tensions in technological, political, and security areas…”
Chinese nationalism on the increase
https://www.dw.com/en/china-tightens-control-over-civil-society-amid-rising-nationalism/a-63001821
The trade war keeps going
US tech companies that receive federal funding will be barred from building “advanced technology” facilities in China for 10 years.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-5 in favor of the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022, which according to its text “promotes the security of Taiwan, ensures regional stability, and deters People’s Republic of China (PRC) aggression against Taiwan. It also threatens severe sanctions against the PRC for hostile action against Taiwan.”
In addition to authorizing $4.5 billion in military assistance, $2 billion in loan guarantees, and boosting “war reserve stockpile” funding for Taiwan by hundreds of millions of dollars, the bill also grants Taiwan many of the benefits of being a “major non-NATO ally” without officially designating it as such.
Furthermore, it establishes a “robust sanctions regime to deter PRC aggression”.
Dave DeCamp, news editor at Antiwar.com, tweeted that if passed, the bill “will be the most radical change in U.S. policy toward Taiwan since the 1970s and will make war much more likely.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said during a Wednesday press conference in Beijing that “if the bill continues to be deliberated, pushed forward, or even signed into law, it will greatly shake the political foundation of China-U.S. relations and cause extremely serious consequences to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
Not just a trade war but a space race to the Moon, too.
“…Strategic rivalry with China’s ambitious space program is helping drive NASA’s effort to get back into space in a bigger way, as both nations push to put people back on the moon and establish the first lunar bases. American intelligence, military and political leaders make clear they see a host of strategic challenges to the U.S. in China’s space program…”
With the war in Ukraine the US capitalist class wants to kill two birds with one shot, the defeat Russia and to stop the continuation of China ‘Silk Road”
115 “provocative maneuvers and close encounters” between U.S. and Chinese forces this year.
China initiated 93 of the incidents, while the U.S. triggered 22. They ranged from “modest actions” by one or two ships or planes to “large-scale maneuvers” like a Chinese air force exercise involving 62 warplanes along China’s maritime border with Taiwan.
“This has resulted, on some occasions, in close encounters between the ships and planes of the opposing sides—with only the skillful action of pilots and helmsmen preventing a potentially deadly collision.”
“This good fortune, however, is not likely to last forever,” the group cautioned, “and, with the frequency and scale of these maneuvers increasing by the week, the likelihood of a mishap is increasing exponentially.”
The heightened trade war
Biden enacted a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances. If effective, they could set China’s chip manufacturing industry back years by forcing American and foreign companies that use US technology to cut off support for some of China’s leading factories and chip designers.
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