I genuinely doubt *any* of the "#genocidejoe" accounts will read this. What they *will* do however is continue pushing that hashtag and that agenda.
If you see those accounts, ask yourself *why*. Who are they really trying to disrupt or benefit.
#JoeBiden #democracy #genocide #Hamas #Gaza #Israel #authaxis @w7voa
[Mustread] 🇨🇳💥 With China's Help, Antisemites of the World Unite
The world is becoming a dangerous place for Jews, and the rising superpower is making it worse
by Tuvia Gering
「As fellow victims of genocidal imperialists during WWII [note: pre-CCP], the Chinese have generally sympathized with the Jewish plight. Even during the Cold War, when they were firmly aligned with the anti-Zionist Third World, they admired Israel's triumphs against all odds.」
「Yet after what might be called history's first TikTok pogrom, as images of what happened on the 7th of October spread in this Chinese-owned platform and in other social media, antisemitism has surged in the PRC like never before.
As if on cue, Chinese voices have been working en masse to dehumanize Jews and demonize Israel in the propaganda equivalent of the Three Gorges Dam collapsing, inundating the minds of China with toxic waste.」
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Israel has sold the CCP party-state military and other advanced technology, enough to alarm the USA. Israeli-made equipment was used e.g. in #Tibet to torture the #Tibetan colonial subjects... Just think for a moment... another unique civiliation with its unique religion (Tibetan buddhism), unique language, culture, history, facing genocide, and Israel colludes with their colonial oppressors??
Yet the CCP returned the favour by throwing Israel, and the useful idiot Netanyahu, under the antisemitic bus.
Why? Because the large and largely illiberal "Arab Street" with their almost entirely #authoritarian strong man leaders can be allies in the Axis of authoritarians designed to end the liberal democratic experiment in human history. 🔥
The Chinese peoples have no agency or say in any of this. Some will swallow the regime propaganda (every society has a percentage of sociopaths and morons), but weaponizing the entire subject population like the CCP does is truly vile.
Individuals can't do much, but we can all try to avoid *empowering* hostile regimes by... maybe avoiding buying their produce?
#history #Israel #antisemitism #chinazi #ccp #china #dictatorship #authaxis #warondemocracy #humanrights
☝️「Conclusion
State-sponsored cyberattacks present exceptional risks to individuals, organizations, and nations. These adversaries, backed by substantial resources and strategic interests, employ their technical expertise to wreak havoc on a global scale.
The surge in state-sponsored cyber activity, targeting critical infrastructure, has been a cause for concern, with alerts rising from 20% in 2021 to a staggering 40% in 2022. Nations such as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea have actively pursued their agendas, displaying audacity and aggression in their cyber operations, with motives of espionage, political manipulation, economic gain, and military advantage.
[...]」
#natsec #espionage #cyberwar #authaxis #warondemocracy
@simontsui
☝️ A very thorough overview of Singapore's position in the 21st century version of the "Great Game" between the USA and democracies on one side and the PRC and its axis of authoritarians on the other.
「Because of Singapore’s majority ethnic Chinese (Han) population, the PRC’s appeals to loyalty, or at least affinity, along ethnic and cultural lines are attractive to some segments of society. Since coming to power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has shown a renewed interest in diaspora nationalism and mobilization, as seen in everything from key policy statements to the more comprehensively subsuming of overseas Chinese affairs under the CCP’s United Front Work Department. Ethnic- and cultural-based mobilization revolves around the idea that people who identify as Chinese should actively support PRC positions, whether these are claims over the South China Sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, or opposition to the United States. Accompanying such assertions is the view that resisting an amorphous “Western” threat represented by the United States means standing up for a constructed idea of Asia and the developing world, pitted against a history of colonialism, injustice, and even rapaciousness.」
#Singapore #GreatGame #authaxis #Chinese #diaspora #CCP #China #HongKong #UFWD #propaganda
@inchg
💯📜 Geopolitical era is worse than a new cold war
The liberal toolkit didn’t just fail to change the dictators. It’s now being weaponised against the West.
By Misha Zelinsky
「In 2000, then-US president Bill Clinton declared that alongside free trade, “liberty will spread by cell phone and phone modem”.
Twenty-three years later, the results are in. And they’re not good.
Thanks to free markets, dictatorships are far richer and technologically advanced than during the Cold War. Meanwhile, digital tools have perfected the evil arts of censorship, surveillance and oppression.
But the liberal toolkit didn’t just fail to change the dictators. It’s now being weaponised against us.」
「The stark reality leaves free societies facing a series of wicked dilemmas. Should we help the Chinese Communist Party become rich given its ambitions for global totalitarianism? Do we care if Russia becomes a client state of China? Should these dictatorships enjoy access to global information systems given their record of hacking and disinformation?」
#globalism #dictatorship #authoritarianism #authaxis #ColdWar #WarOnDemocracy #brics #ccp #china #russia #hamas #iran
☝️ The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.
Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?
The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.
#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6
@petergleick It's still totally bonkers, and slightly scary, that the frigging #maga party controls over half of the US house of representatives. In 2023 🤮 🤯
And if having domestic billionaires and their sycophant beneficiaries wanting to overthrow the democratic system wasn't enough, practically all foreign dictatorships are doing what they can to aid the process.
「TheFP: Help us understand the seriousness of the situation. You published a piece the other day in The Times of London asking: will there be a World War III?
Niall Ferguson: Well, we’re already in a cold war with China. The thing about cold wars is that they’re not entirely cold. In the first Cold War, it became clear that the stakes were high when a hot war broke out in Korea. A hot war broke out in Ukraine that I think played the same role in Cold War II. Cold wars are global. You have to contend with multiple regional crises. We’ve got one in Ukraine. Now, we’ve got one in the Middle East. It’s conceivable we could have a third in Taiwan if China made some move taking advantage of the fact that the U.S. and its allies look increasingly overstretched.
If you find the terminology of World War III alarmist, as some people do, I would merely point out that the objective of Russia is to wipe Ukraine from the map, the objective of Iran and Hamas is to wipe Israel from the map, and the objective of China is to end Taiwan’s democracy and autonomy. And if the United States fails to prevent those things from happening, we will be in as dark a situation as the world was in in the late 1930s when the totalitarian regimes were able to change borders with an utter disregard for international law. So it’s a bad situation.」
https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-vinay-prasad-jihad-day
#authoritarianism #authaxis #warondemocracy #coldwar WWIII #russia #china #iran #Ukraine #Israel #Taiwan
☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.
「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」
The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.
💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!
The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).
And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...
The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
@EugeneMcParland
☝️ It took just over three decades of no-consequences business with despots to get here — from the immediate post-Tiananmen massacre kowtow queues in Beijing to putin launching a full-scale war on Ukraine in attempt to take it all, or if that fails, to simply eradicate the nation.
And now the axis of despots are backing and cheering on their fellow terrorists' attack on Israel.
Fully building up that axis took many years, but the memo from the 'Free World' was sent and noted by the CCP in the autumn of 1989.
Due to greed and indifference of investors and industrialists from democracies (!) we ended up funding and empowering hostile despots instead of friendly developing democracies.
And here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#china #russia #iran #authaxis #WWIII #friendshoring #derisking #decoupling #Ukraine #Israel #neoidealism #HandelOhneWandel
@noelreports
Yet the decent human minority of russians *should* find ways to resist their violent regime, regardless of the risks.
Yes there are the occasional news of apparent sabotage — which especially the russian state's victims appreciate — but other acts of civil disobedience seem nonexistent.
I feel for (and even admire) those people who managed to turn out good despite the circumstances of what is the russian cesspool, but that deranged empire is incompatible with post-medieval times.
Despots across continents are joining forces to eradicate the civil liberties of modernity. russia is a founding belligerent in that project until many enough russians stop it.
Does irony apply to useful idiots 🇮🇱?
Israel has long collaborated with the 🇨🇳 Chinese dictatorship through sales of advanced technology (with military uses) and software. Not to mention that ex-prisoner Tibetan refugees reported they'd been tortured with israeli-made gear... 👀
For some reason I would've thought Jewish people (a subset of course!) would be the last people to aid and abet another expansionist genocidal regime engaged in a "final solution" of another unique #civilization and #religion, no less...
This technological empowerment of the CCP obviously had political approval from the state of Israel.
Now, the Chinese regime enjoys #Netayahu's intolerant farright policies and the global disruption and distraction his war with the *other* fundamentalists (hamas, hezbollah and the regime in #Iran) creates, but what comes to useful *allies*, that #authaxis wants to see Israel in the same position #Tibet is in; being strangled out of existence and , if they get their way, written out of history too.
Finally, Israel has every right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people *and* in the absence of compromisers on both sides any resolution — painful to those both sides — would need to be imposed on the warring parties by the international community, King Solomon style.
I could imagine the world's democracies at least considering that, the axis of despots not so much...
☝️ The definition used should obviously be targetting "*hostile*" countries rather than the neutral "rivals" used here, but otherwise: 🫸💥🫷
Adding: Then there's a minor issue of this policy of *values* consideration being a few decades (!) too late, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
「Brussels is building a trade armoury to protect the bloc from actions by rival countries, including a tool aimed at punishing nations that seek to put pressure on one of its member states.
The European Commission will publish a list of critical technologies it believes Europe must not make easily available to countries where Brussels fears they could harm the bloc's security, EU interests or human rights.」
#EuropeanUnion #EU #geopolitics #natsec #humanrights #derisking #reciprocity #CCP #dictatorship #china #russia #authaxis
@Norobiik
⇅📜 A few thoughts on the background of India's foreign policy.
Since (before) independence from the still-imperial UK in 1947, 🇮🇳 leadership (Nehru) had, not entirely unreasonably, bought into socialism as the path forward. The USSR's criminality (much already known, much more still covered up) was deliberately ignored, possibly with the notion "one's gotta break some eggs to make omelette", when Stalin's empire was adopted as a key 'partner'. 🤔
In fact despite the official adoptation of geo-political "non-alignment" (NAM), Soviet russia was a de facto ally in most respects. And Kremlin saw Delhi as a useful "neutral" developing country voice during the entire Cold War v1.0 (1945-1991).
Thanks to Soviet "anti-colonialist" narrative (added to India's experience over the previous centuries!), the entire Europe was viewed against that light as exploiters.
The USA OTOH had gone wildly "anti-socialist" (McCarthy to Reagan) and had fought against "native communists" in Korea and then Vietnam and South-East Asia. Quite the 'baddies', right?
Happy with its relative isolation (although CCP was already building it's "string of pearls" around India...), India didn't exactly prosper, but grew at a steady but modest "Hindu rate of growth" of ~3.5% from 1950s to 1980s. Compared to more dynamic East Asian economies, India was in reality horribly stagnant and almost antiquated.
In early 1990s, after the dissolution of its repressive 'partner' empire of USSR and with globalism starting to make waves, India finally adopted some internal market-oriented reforms and promoted more foreign trade and investment. Many rusty brakes on growth were loosened...
Yet politically and diplomatically the old Soviet-turned-russian links remained strong; there was little keenness to admit what the USSR had always really stood for (=imperialism).
Meanwhile the USA had, reluctantly, become a partner of India's arch nemesis Pakistan who were playing all sides, but were important with "war on terror" and its long aftermath unfolding in neighbouring Afghanistan. (Another blemish against the USA and its allies). The invasion of Iraq naturally soured public opinion for a generation and more. So the Kremlin tether remained.
The communist dictatorship of 🇨🇳 China was likewise seen through rose-tinted glasses (and crimes ignored), *despite* Chinese CCP invading the entire Tibetan Plateau in 1950-1951 and, wait for it, invading India herself in 1962!
India graciously welcomed Tibetan refugees (150k+), on historical, religious and humanitarian grounds, but essentially shrugged off the very crime of genocidal invasion which had "brought" the CCP's military to its borders in the first place, for the first time in history obviously. 🤷🏻♂️
At the risk of upsetting someone who actually found this piece and read this far, it can be argued that the Indian political establishment have been 'tankies' since day 1. Now after Narendra Modi (BJP/RSS militants) have made hindu-nationalism the core of India's (or "Bharat's") policy objectives — and with old "socialist' allies to the north having both turned to hard *nationalism* — the inherent liberalism of free democracies again looks more like a foe than an ally.
The tankie tether of 'socialism' — apparently a holy... umm... article of foreign policy — is now a tether to power-seeking revanchist nationalism, with some 'socialism' added to taste.
If in the 1990s and 2000s many thought India's progress towards liberal democracy was likely or even inevitable, well, that period was instead wasted by the Free World on building up and empowering those revanchist dictatorships, russia and china, that seek the return and enlargement of their 'illiberal' empires. 🤷🏻♂️
#geopolitics #natsec #coldwar #India #Tibet #UnitedStates #sovietunion #ussr #russia #ccp #china #authaxis
