What In the World is Going On?
By Arthur Laramee
January 18, 2023
CHINA
China is the most significant threat to the United States, and their strategy to assist us in destroying ourselves is the reason why. China’s plan is strategically brilliant and the United States is tragically deeply divided and therefore very vulnerable.
China is not trying to defeat the United States militarily; they are trying to make sure we can’t interfere militarily when they take Taiwan. At the same time, China is proceeding to dominate the world which includes knocking the United States off its position of being the most significant country in the world.
HISTORICALLY:
China was once the center of East-West trade via the Silk Road. The Silk Road was begun around 114 BC and refers to the intricate web of land and sea routes ultimately connecting East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and Europe up until the 15th century. Spanning over 4,000 miles, it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.
Marco Polo travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. He wrote extensively about his travels arousing European interest in China.
The Great Wall of China is 13,170.70 mi long. It was built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe. The best-known sections of the wall were built by the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The Great Wall was a defensive device indicating China’s tendency is to protect its territory and culture rather than going to war with surrounding nations to gain territory, unless they consider the territory theirs historically or by necessity acquisition.
This tendency was present in how they conquered and absorbed Tibet and Hong Kong. It is also present in the development of the manmade islands in the South China Sea as military bases extending China’s borders into the South China Sea, a major pathway for international trade.
TODAY:
With the ascendance of Xi Jinping in 2013 as the president of the People's Republic of China, a program entitled The New Silk Road (aka the Belt and Road Initiative or BRI) was launched. More on that below. They wish to take over Taiwan, but so far they have chosen a tactic of threatening persuasion rather than hot conflict.
They support North Korea which is becoming a major nuclear power despite seeming to be too poor to have such a robust military arsenal. If North Korea were to take over South Korea, China would eliminate another potentially hostile nation from its border because North Korea is deeply indebted to China. During the Korean War China assisted North Korea.
China is romancing the Philippines, another occupant of the South China Sea.
China is not without internal problems. Prior to the ascendency of Xi Jinping, Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, was responsible for the death of between 40 and 80 million Chinese citizens! And in 1949, after winning a civil war, Mao drove the Kuomintang Chinese to escape to Formosa where they established modern day Taiwan.
China has a history of suppressing the Uyghur Muslim majority in the Xinxiang region, which occupies much of the northwestern portion of China.
China tried to copy the United States which expanded from a few colonies on the northeast coast of America to populate all of the current United States and become a world power house. China has a vast undeveloped interior and has built more than 50 very modern cities with the belief that if they were built, the Chinese citizenry would come and populate them. But apparently they haven’t bitten yet and many of the cities are referred to as Ghost Cities.
It should be noted that when China took Hong Kong back by refusing to renew its lease, Xi Jinping decided to experiment with capitalism. While many businesses remain completely under Communist control, Xi allowed some businesses to be partially controlled and partially free to engage in independent business practices and he also then allowed some smaller businesses to be completely independent of government ownership although all businesses had spies making sure the government approved of their activity. One small independent business, Alibaba, started by Jack Ma as similar to Amazon, was spectacularly successful making Ma a billionaire.
Of course, the Covid-19 Pandemic is still causing major problems in China.
TAKING OVER THE WORLD:
Xi Jinping’s most successful effort has been a series of programs begun with the launching of The New Silk Road in 2013. This is a mostly successful plan to dominate the world. Initially China targeted 68 countries that would benefit China through trade. China loaned money to undeveloped Asian countries to pay for development of that which China needed, whether resources or travel connectivity. China then provided the expertise and manpower to perform the development. The result is China got what it wanted, intensified their expertise, made money getting it, and the targeted country ended up indebted to China.
Tajikistan is an example. To address part of its debt to China, Tajikistan ceded territory to China and gave it mining rights to its gold mines, among other concessions. China now has a presence all over the world and some of the countries have the same risks as Tajikistan.
China has developed a world class military capability with a Navy larger than the United States Navy, and even extending into space as well as employing advanced technology such as Artificial Intelligence and robotics.
China is focused on strategic deterrence capabilities which they define as including nuclear, space, cyber, electronic warfare and counterspace capabilities.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) refers to “systems destruction warfare” as the next way of war. They also refer to a new operational concept they call “multi-domain precision warfare.”
The United States assesses that China has more than 400 operational nuclear warheads in its stockpile now and could grow to 1,500 warheads by 2035
THE SURROUNDING AND THE SOFT INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES:
After WWll, the United States had a strategy of surrounding countries it considered enemies or potential enemies. Today China has established a presence surrounding the United States. They have a military relationship with Canada and they have port installations in the Caribbean. As a major source of Fentanyl, they have a relationship with Mexico.
China has a major presence in the United States. They are a major contributor to our universities which have developed China-friendly courses and University-sponsored clubs, as well as supplying typical research. For example, Stanford University accepted $58 million in gifts and contracts from China after it partnered with several Chinese institutes. In 2009, Stanford University entered into a partnership with China’s Confucius Institute to promote Chinese culture and language on campus. Three years later, Stanford partnered with Peking University in Beijing, China.
The “Biden Centre” at the University of Pennsylvania, where recently many classified documents were found, also has financial ties with China. The center received $70 million in gifts from China between 2017 and 2019.
Harvard University has benefitted enormously with financial donations from China. Xi Jinping’s daughter graduated from Harvard and the president of Harvard University, accompanied by his wife, have hosted visits by Jinping here, and has visited him in China, as well.
Another Ivy-league University, Yale, also received grants and gifts from China. Many top Chinese leaders enrolled their children into Yale University.
The University of Southern California also received millions in Chinese donations.
In total 115 colleges have received monetary gifts, contracts or both, from sources in mainland China. In addition to China benefitting from the positive propaganda resulting from their contributions influence, they benefit from research done at the universities and they try to spy on Chinese students in attendance to assure they don’t expose anything negative regarding mainland China.
China has purchased a large number of US-based businesses as well as opening China-based business branches in the United States where mainland Chinese employees work. The businesses are primarily in strategic categories. They include:
ü Hollywood studios that make our movies and influence the audiences
ü Movie theaters that show our movies
ü Import/export businesses
ü Banking
ü Food producing businesses and agricultural land (they own Smithfield Foods the largest pork producer in the US and a huge agricultural land owner)
ü As well as a slew of other businesses in strategic industries.
China owns whole neighborhoods where they house their citizens. Many Chinese students from mainland China attend our universities.
China attempted to create a Chinese territory in the state of Idaho - 50 square miles containing a self-sustaining industrial city just south of Boise called a Special Economic Zone that would be focused on technology. Public outcry in Idaho forced Republican Governor Butch Otter to rescind the approval for the plan.
There was another failed attempt in Thompson, NY called “China City in America.” Special Economic Zones have been activated in other countries in other parts of the world and are targets of tenancy by China.
China even operates Chinese police-based spy rings in the United States used, among other things, to control what Chinese in the United States say and do. The FBI raided a suspected outpost of Chinese police tucked away in New York City’s Chinatown last year, seizing materials from one of the secretive operations.
In addition to China infiltrating the United States they also are benefitting from activities by their bought-and-paid-for “Manchurian Candidate,” president Biden and family and his allies including Obama, Soros and Elias.
Under Obama, 197 generals were purged from the military for not being loyal to his “fundamental change” philosophy.
An entire book was written about Soros’ evil activities supporting state level district attorneys and countless organizations.
Elias is a very highly placed political insider who has been involved in corrupting the federal elective process.
Aided by manipulative Chinese influence, our culture, our military, our financial strength and our governance have all been attacked with tragic success. Under Biden, Trump’s fantastic success as president has been reversed:
1) Soaring inflation is putting severe pressure on vulnerable Americans.
2) Soaring numbers of illegals are cratering our domestic spending priorities, driving up inflation and changing our culture in unpredictable ways.
Critical Race Theory being taught in our schools is just one of the practices used to destroy our culture.3) Secretly changing children’s sexual makeup psychologically as well as surgically and with hormones is another.
4) Pitting people of different colors and ethnicities against each other by asserting false antagonisms is another. The prominence of such activity actually creates antagonism based on resentment against false accusation.
5) Military training priorities have changed from preparedness to social equity. Covid-19 policies have led to the departure of military personnel. These policies have also resulted in diminishing recruitments, which in turn have led to lowered standards and consequently lowered quality of recruits.
6) Maintenance of military equipment has been allowed to suffer.
7) The depletion of our oil reserves threatens not only our military’s mobility, it also threatens our country’s mobility and our ability to be warm in the winter.
8) Replacing the international dollar as the world’s reserve currency with the Yuan or a collection of currencies dominated by the Yuan.
Under Biden we have reduced our military equipment and therefore our ability to conduct war by leaving Afghanistan the way we did and by supplying Ukraine as we have. It will take many years for the United States to resupply itself with this equipment and hundreds of billions of dollars. Thus, it may never happen. And China may make its move on Taiwan while we are not in a position to engage them in a hot conflict.
Our law enforcement is in chaos as is our election integrity. The country is so intensely divided it feels like it could split in two. On top of that, our international trade is not even under our control. There are about 15 major ports in the U.S. Each is divided into a handful of separately operated terminals. That makes about 100 terminals. The United States has two companies operating eight terminals while foreign companies - China, Denmark, Singapore, South Korea, Dubai and Venezuela operate 80 terminals.
The United States news media is partly to blame for the failure of politicians and federal agencies to protect our country from slowly being conquered by China. But the people of America are also partly to blame for being so uninformed in today’s internet access world.
The boiled frog analogy comes to mind.
Unless it becomes public knowledge, exactly what is happening and what has happened, and Americans rise up and take back control of their country from the left-wing idiots that have been destroying it, we will wake up one day and we will be a third world country.
Author’s Note: Everything written here was derived from the internet. Thus, Google or Duckduckgo search engines will verify every word. In fact, what I have written barely scratches the surface. It would take a library to collect all the opinions, documents and books reflecting the sources of this information.