Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare" While China has spent decades conducting deep espionage throughout US institutions - mostly in the form of plucky PhD candidates handling sensitive projects at American universities, and places like Los Alamos National Laboratory, Congressional Democrats simply can't shake their fixation with Russia. Point in case, during a Wednesday House Oversight hearing on defending...
By W.G. Dunlop US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun via video teleconference Tuesday, in the first substantive talks between the superpowers’ defense chiefs in nearly 18 months. The United States has been working to strengthen defense cooperation with its allies in the Asia-Pacific region to counter China’s growing influence […]
Beijing helping with drone production, space-based capabilities and ballistic missile productionChina is helping Russia undertake its biggest military expansion since Soviet times, ramping up sales of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for its war against Ukraine, according to a US assessment.US officials are hoping the release of the intelligence will encourage European allies to press China, as the...
During a meeting in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov condemned the ‘bloc confrontation’ led by the West. The South China Morning Post reported that President Xi expressed China’s desire to enhance strategic coordination with Russia within a multilateral framework to reform the global system. “China has always prioritised the […]
Russia announced this week that its bilateral trade with China has almost completely moved away from using the U.S. dollar, highlighting the two countries’ commitment to reducing their reliance on the U.S.-led economic system.Aside from reducing dependency on the Western-dominated global currency, these ‘de-dollarization’ efforts allow Russia and China to avoid the myriad sanctions now preventing Moscow from doing business on the international market. Western sanctions have helped lead to a boom...
China has drastically cut its direct shipments of equipment to Russia, including machinery, components, and electrical gear, in response to threats of new sanctions from Western countries, reports the Russian news agency RBC. According to information from Chinese customs, in March this year, China's exports of these categories of goods to Russia plummeted by 15% compared with the same period last year, amounting to $2.9 billion. China's total exports to Russia also declined by 14.2%...
He is expected to convey Washington's "deep concerns" over this matter, when he is in Shanghai and Beijing from April 24-26.
"If you think about national security today in 2024, it's not just tanks
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The best-selling new book by Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario, realistically describes what a nuclear war between America and Russia would be like, though her “scenario” for it is wildly unrealistic. It starts with a North Korean missile that does exist, dropping onto the Pentagon a North Korean 1-megaton […]
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has laid out four principles that he says are imperative to finally achieve peace between Russia and Ukraine.Xi proposed his new peace plan during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday, which marked the 10th anniversary of what Chinese-state-owned outlet Xinhua called an "all-round strategic partnership" between Berlin and Beijing. China has long claimed to hold a neutral stance on the war in Ukraine, although its government has formed a close military...
Semiconductors have emerged as a key battleground between the U.S. and Russia and the growing Cold War between the U.S. and ChinaThe chips are imperative for almost every type of technology out there today. But while American tech companies design the world's most advanced chips, none are actually made in the U.S. Almost all of them come from Taiwan. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, 52, said the market failed to get it right in the case of semiconductors. Almost all of America's advanced chips...
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