Chinese Tensions
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This map may surprise many British readers.
On the left, the black border dashes separate minute islands from mainland China. These tiny islands actually belong to Taiwan.
Also, in the middle of the strait, we see the Pescadore Islands, also belonging to Taiwan. South East of Taiwan there is Orchid Island, the only island still inhabited by the native Formosans.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid_Island#/media/File%3ATaiwan_relief_location_map.jpg
Taiwan was never viewed by Chinese Imperial governments as belonging to them until the Ch’ing (Manchu) government seized the island from Ming rebels in the mid-17th century. The Ming govt. was happy to let the Dutch East India Company use Taiwan for a trading base since it wasn’t considered Chinese territory anyway, whereas the Pescadores were.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7223knz3ezo
Philippines and China stand-off.
Chinese capitalist expansionism in South America:
And some leftwing groups like this one still think that China is somehow “socialist”.
Webinar: China proves that a new world is possible! Delegates report back from China
This, from the German “Gegen Kapital und Nation” (Against Capital and the Nation) group, explains the relationship between China and the US quite well :
I see the “separatist” president of Taiwan is in fact reinforcing the Republic of China motif and flying the KMT sun logo, not the Taiwan independence one, for all his rhetoric against Beijing.
How will China vs Philippines cold war be ended without China taking military action, bringing in the US? Can it remain as it is indefinitely, without triggering war?
Will the US allow Taiwan to declare independence?
The capitalists are already pumping the same lies about China and the so called laboratory leak of the Covid 19 virus, It has been proven thousands of times thru profound investigations that the virus was transmitted from animals.
They just want to increase the tension with china in order to continue their inter class dispute and involved the workers for another shooting war, or a tariff war against china who is also competing for world hegemony against USA, and the European Union
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/3/us-lawmakers-back-covid-lab-leak-theory-after-two-year-probe As always the US ruling class mixing isolation with intervention, claiming bourgeois nationalism and carrying interventions in others countries and imposing embargo and blockades in others countries
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/13/cmnp-d13.html
China steps up retaliation against US economic warfare
Even before Trump is inaugurated as US president and moves to hike tariffs against China—he has threatened to impose a 60 percent impost—Beijing is demonstrating it is prepared to retaliate far more powerfully than it has so far to the economic war being waged against it by the US.
China moved very quickly in response to the decision of the outgoing Biden administration earlier this month to impose a new series of export controls on high-tech components. Those US measures are aimed at shackling China’s high-tech development, which President Xi Jinping has placed front and centre of the drive to develop new “high quality” productive forces.
Beijing imposed restrictions on the export of critical minerals last week and this week announced an antitrust investigation into the leading US chip maker Nvidia in a move that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) characterised as “sending a message that China won’t stand by quietly when targeted by trade and technology sanctions.”
The export bans cover gallium, germanium, antimony and various compounds known as superhard materials, as well as graphite, which play a key role in the production of semi-conductors.
The government of Donald Trump thinks that dealing with China is like walking in a park, China is the one holding the fry pan by the handle, and the last time that they entered into a tariff war with china, the USA lost several billions dollars in earnings, and some industries were destroyed, and China is taking over the US market on their own backyard, and Mexico is the US number 1 commercial partner.
It is going to be a disaster, as well, deporting millions of foreign workers is going to be a disaster, who is going to do the hard and cheap labor in Agriculture, farming and construction ? Some of those skills require years of training and experiences The farming industry and meat industry is in economic crisis, and they are facing a tough competition around the whole world. There is not magician or demagogue able to solve the crisis of capitalism
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