Brazil May Face ‘Consequences’ if It Gives Huawei 5G Access, Says U.S. Ambassador
The U.S. government has stepped up efforts to limit Huawei’s role in rolling out high-speed, fifth-generation technology in Latin America’s largest economy. It believes Huawei would hand over data to the Chinese government for spying. Huawei denies it spies for China.
U.S. Ambassador Todd Chapman said that Brazil would not face reprisals for picking Huawei, but could face consequences.
US, Australia seek new military cooperation as tensions soar with China
The two countries are set to build ties across a slew of defense areas including hypersonic, electronic and space-based warfare.
In a joint statement, the ministers said they discussed expanding operations in the northern Australian city of Darwin, where US Marines have been rotating in since 2012 under an initiative of former president Barack Obama.
The United States will establish a military fuel reserve in Darwin and the allies will consider exercises there with like-minded countries — a likely reference to Japan and India.
In one step that had been too far, Australia last year said it would not serve as a base for US intermediate-range missiles — widely seen as a way to target China.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Australia did not agree on everything with Beijing — or with the United States.
“The relationship that we have with China is important. And we have no intention of injuring it,” she said. “But nor do we intend to do things that are contrary to our interests.”
She said Australia and the United States had a shared interest in an Asia-Pacific region that was free, prosperous and secure and were broadly aligned on issues, including China.
“We don’t agree on everything though. And that’s part of a respectful relationship, is part of a relationship that has endured over 100 years of ‘mateship.’”
“We deal with China in the same way. We have a strong economic engagement, other engagement, and it works in the interests of both countries,” Payne said.
There’s no Cold War with China — and if there were, we couldn’t win
Daniel Ray Coats is an American politician and former diplomat. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017.
He argues that the U.S. government’s China policy often serves only its own short-term political interests, while China pursues its foreign policy goals based on a “calculated long-term strategy”. Coates includes many of his own observations in his analysis. He claims that China’s long-term strategy includes an “ambitious foreign policy” that seeks to shift the center of the world economy to Eurasia through the “One Belt, One Road”. China’s strategy also includes besieging the West in science and technology, and achieving overall dominance in areas such as data collection and operating systems.
Coates said that these science and technology covers the artificial intelligence, robotics, aerospace and quantum computing, and China has always wanted to apply these technologies to the military level. China realizes earlier and more clearly than any other country that science and technology will be the decisive factor in this historic battle,” he said.
Coates also discusses how the United States should deal with China, but it seems a bit impotent.
He says things like closing the Consulate General, sanctioning a few officials, adjusting tariffs or sanctioning individual companies will only provoke countermeasures that won’t help in dealing with complex issues.
”In the face of these challenges from China, it is up to the United States to lead other countries and together respond with a united and long-term vision. Above all, U.S. and allied policy must expand the diplomatic and political space for creative and productive approaches to the problem.” In short, Coates’ point was to “bring on allies.”
In addition, Coates also declared that the United States should reconstruct the framework of multilateralism to “restrain” China. Not like the Trump administration today, like to pursue unilateralist policies, in the international community, constantly “withdrawal”, triggering the resentment of countries.
He suggested that the United States should rebuild “cohesive” alliances and multilateral institutions, which must respond coherently and forcefully to China’s long-term strategic vision.
”We all know that only the United States can create these ‘tools’ in the past, when our allies and other ‘like-minded’ countries are beginning to realize that China is a common threat in the future, they will increasingly accept ‘enlightened leadership’ from the United States.
FM says packages of unsolicited seeds found in US states have fake China waybills
China Post Group Co waybills on packages of unsolicited seeds found in a large number of US states in recent days are a result of forgery, and China is asking the US to reroute these packages so that a probe can take place, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on Tuesday.
对于美国相关部门的说法，汪文斌称，近期美国邮政发现一批邮件，其中有植物种子的包裹，经与中国邮政确认，这批邮件上的中国邮政面单属于伪造，其面单布局、信息项等存在着许多的错误。“中国邮政已商美国邮政，将这批假邮件退回中国，以便中方开展调查。”
The comments were made after media reports that packages “from China” containing seeds arrived in the mailboxes of US residents in a number of states.
The US agricultural authority has asked people not to plant these seeds over biosafety concerns.
Commenting on the matter, Wang said seeds are contraband articles under the clauses of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). China Post, the designated operator of UPU in China, strictly abides by such rules by declining postal delivery orders containing seeds.
China Post has confirmed that the layout and content of the waybills for these postal packages contain many mistakes and are therefore fake.
China Post has been communicating with its US counterparts to ask for these packages to be rerouted to China so that a probe can begin, Wang said.
It Is Time to Abandon Dollar Hegemony
The dollar, as the world currency, benefits U.S. financial institutions and big business, but its costs are borne by ordinary people. Therefore, if the dollar hegemony continues, it will inevitably deepen inequality and political polarization in the United States.
The hegemony of the dollar has led to a steady flow of global capital into the United States. Thus, as intermediaries and receivers of capital inflows, U.S. banks are the clear immediate winners. But as the global demand for dollars pushes up the value of the dollar, making U.S. exports more expensive and weakening demand for U.S. goods, domestic manufacturing revenue and jobs are being lost.
The region now known as the “Rust Belt,” is bearing the disproportionate cost. The result, in turn, is deepening socio-economic divisions and increasing political polarization. Manufacturing jobs that were once vital to the economies of these regions have moved overseas, leaving only poverty and resentment in their wake. Therefore, in 2016, these much-battered “swing state” vote for Trump, we need not be surprised by this.
The United States is not the first country to give up currency hegemony voluntarily. Given these increasing economic and political pressures, it will become increasingly difficult for the United States to maintain its position as the preferred destination for the world’s surplus capital while at the same time creating more balanced and equitable growth, as this means the continued overvaluation and constant “de-industrialization” of the currency. At some point, the United States may have no choice but to restrict capital inflows for the benefit of the economy as a whole, even if doing so means voluntarily relinquishing the dollar’s role as the world’s main reserve currency.
Therefore, as an optimistic scenario, the authors propose that the world’s three economic centers – China, the United States and the European Union – agree to construct a currency basket based on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) special drawing rights (SDRs), and authorize the IMF to “hegemonize” the dollar. regulate them, or create a new international monetary institution to do so. Unfortunately, tensions between the US and China unfortunately prevent the two sides from not only cooperating on this, but may even increase the likelihood of conflict between them over economic issues.
It makes sense for the United States to unilaterally give up its dollar hegemony. This would limit excessive profits for U.S. financial intermediaries and make U.S. exports more competitive by lowering the value of the dollar, which would also benefit U.S. workers. In sum, relinquishing dollar hegemony could open the way to a more stable and equitable United States and global economy.
Dream on, suckers. United States will never do it unilaterally, the hegemony of the dollar will end with the collapse of the dollar.
Who’s the brain behind Mike Pompeo’s anti-China stance?
One influential source is his principal policy and planning adviser on China, Miles Maochun Yu. A China-born professor of military history at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he harbours some pretty dark visions about the world and Asia-Pacific in particular.Yu is clearly an uber-hawk, judging from his books, articles and speeches. On China and Asia, there seems to be two strategic conclusions on Yu’s reading of the state of affairs in the region: mixed messages and diplomatic subtleties are dangerous when it comes to dealing with “communist” countries. And in the South China Sea between the US and China, military conflict is all but inevitable.
余茂春（Maochun Miles Yu，1962年8月8日－），美国海军学院东亚和军事史教授，美国国务院国务卿办公室中国政策规划首席顾问。
生平
1962年8月8日生于中国重庆，1983年毕业于南开大学历史系。余茂春1983年南开大学毕业后到美国继续求学，1985年进入宾夕法尼亚斯沃斯莫尔学院并获得硕士，1994年在加州大学伯克利分校获得历史学博士学位后进入了美国海军学院任教，担任东亚和军事史教授。
著作
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Security (Routledge Pub, UK, June 2015), with Lowell Dittmer
New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Naval History Symposium (The Naval Institute Press, April 2009),
The Dragon’s War: Allied Operations and the Fate of China, 1937-1947 (The Naval Institute Press, August 2006)
美国间谍在中国— 美国档案馆绝密档案 （香港，纽约：明镜出版社，1999 年7 月)
OSS IN CHINA: Prelude to Cold War (New Haven and London: the Yale University Press, March 1997)
Makes a double agent who will see the complete destruction of US.
The U.S. Is Out of Chengdu In New Low for U.S.-China Ties
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/27/the-us-is-out-of-chengdu-in-new-low-for-us-china-ties/
A statement from the U.S. State Department confirmed the suspension of activities. “We are disappointed by the Chinese Communist Party’s decision and will strive to continue our outreach to the people in this important region through our other posts in China,” the statement read. What a fucken idiot.
It marks another low point in U.S.-China relations after the U.S. government ordered the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston on Friday. The tit-for-tat leaves the two countries with an equal, but diminished, diplomatic presence: At present, both countries still maintain four consulates and an embassy on each other’s soil.
Devine intervention
Washington confirms suspension of Fulbright programme for Hong Kong, mainland
The United States has confirmed the suspension of its Fulbright programme in mainland China and Hong Kong, after President Donald Trump pulled the plug on the fellowship earlier this month in response to Beijing’s introduction of a national security law in the former British colony.
In an email sent to US scholars preparing to take part in the programme, the US state department said the 2020-21 exchange “will not operate”, though participants would be allowed to apply to take part in different countries.
The Fulbright programme was established by the US in 1946 and allows American and foreign academics to teach, research and study in each other’s countries. The first agreement was signed with China, but it now covers more than 160 countries.
There goes the US spies and secret agents.