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Did China Just Clear The Way For A Mid-East Intervention With Passage Of New Anti-Terror Law?
We and others have long wondered how long it would be before China looks to flex its military muscle in the Mid-East under the “war on terror” banner.
Xi has been especially keen on demonstrating the PLA’s growing influence in 2015 especially as it relates to Beijing’s maritime might. Anyone who follows geopolitics is likely well acquainted with China’s land reclamation efforts in the Spratlys, where dredgers have been busy constructing some 3,000 acres of new sovereign territory on which Xi is building a number of things including runways and ports.
Importantly, China hasn’t limited its activities to the waters off its coast. Back in March, the world was surprised to see the PLA navy show up at the besieged Yemeni port city of Aden where Chinese soldiers evacuated civilians as the Houthis advanced.
In short, Beijing is looking to establish a true blue water Navy with the capability to operate anywhere in the world.
But China’s interests in the Mid-East go well beyond demonstrating the country's military capabilities. You’ll recall that Beijing has voted with Russia on the Security Council with regard to a 2014 motion to refer the conflict to the Hague. Here’s what the Chinese said:
For some time now, the Security Council has maintained unity and coordination on the question of Syria, thanks to efforts by Council members, including China, to accommodate the major concerns of all parties. At a time when seriously diverging views exist among the parties concerning the draft resolution, we believe that the Council should continue holding consultations, rather than forcing a vote on the draft resolution, in order to avoid undermining Council unity or obstructing coordination and cooperation on questions such as Syria and other major serious issues. Regrettably, China’s approach has not been taken on board; China therefore voted against the draft resolution.
In short, Beijing sides with Moscow and Tehran and should Riyadh, Doha, and Ankara decide to get more involved (i.e. put boots on the ground) in order to tip the scales in favor of various Sunni extremists battling Assad, it wouldn’t be entirely surprising if Xi decided to aid his allies, especially considering ISIS executed the first Chinese hostage last month.
Further, Beijing is no fan of Sunni extremists. “The announcement on the terrorism law came a day after China said that it would not renew the press credentials of a French journalist who wrote an article about ethnic violence in the nation’s northwestern Xinjiang region,” Bloomberg notes, adding that “Xinjiang is home to a large population of Muslim Uighurs, and has long been troubled by violence blamed by the government on militant separatists.”
“Uighurs are a Turkic ethnic minority, largely Sunni Muslim, who have become ever more discontented with controls on their religion and culture and with an influx into Xinjiang of ethnic Han migrants,” The New York Times reminds us. “The government says that violent acts by disaffected Uighurs have been inspired and instigated by international extremist groups.” International extremist groups like ISIS and al-Nusra.
Sure enough, China appears to have opened the door to foreign intervention when, on Sunday, the NPC passed a new anti-terror law which makes it legal for the PLA to participate in counter terror missions overseas. Here's a bit more from Business Standard:
The PLA and the country's armed police forces may carry out such operations with the approval from the Central Military Commission, the new law says.
Public security and national security authorities may also send personnel overseas for counter-terrorism missions, with the approval from the government and agreements from countries concerned, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Note how that's "slightly" different from the approach the US has taken in the past. That is, Washington and its regional allies aren't so concerned with obtaining the host country's permission before launching strikes.
As interesting as that most certainly is, there's more to the new bill than green light for the overseas deployment of the PLA. Here's The Times again:
China’s legislature approved an antiterrorism law on Sunday after months of international controversy, including criticism from human rights groups, business lobbies and President Obama.
Critics had said that the draft version of the law used a recklessly broad definition of terrorism, gave the government new censorship powers and authorized state access to sensitive commercial data.
The government argued that the measures were needed to prevent terrorist attacks. Opponents countered that the new powers could be abused to monitor peaceful citizens and steal technological secrets.
In the end, the approved law published by state media dropped demands in the draft version that would have required Internet companies and other technology suppliers to hand over encryption codes and other sensitive data for official vetting before they went into use.
But the law still requires that companies hand over technical information and help with decryption when the police or state security agents demand it for investigating or preventing terrorist cases.
The approval by the legislature, which is controlled by the Communist Party, came as Beijing has become increasingly jittery about antigovernment violence, especially in the ethnically divided region of Xinjiang in western China, where members of the Uighur minority have been at growing odds with the authorities.
So essentially China has finally gotten wise to what the West has known since at least 9/11. Namely that you can always justify the state's nasty habits by claiming authorities require new powers to fight "terror." For Beijing, this manifests itself in a law that permits stepped up censorship and may give the Chinese government more opportunities to hack US corporates - or at least that's what Washignton says. "In March, U.S. President Barack Obama said such requirements would let China install “back doors” in U.S. technology companies’ systems, adding that the Asian nation would have to change such provisions to do business with the U.S.," Bloomberg notes.
Of course you shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and The White House would do well to remember that when it comes to citing the war on terror as any excuse for government snooping and foreign interventions, no one does it like Washington.
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I'm sure most here would rather have China fight ISIL than our boys and girls.
Well, from a classical Geo-political standpoint, looks like the Old Russo-Chinese alliance is about to coalesce in the ME, thereby "owning" or being of primary external influence in the Crescent of Energy from Iran to Syria. Good thing the Saudi's are so well respected for their Human Rights record that the rest of the world will protect them!
Mission Accomplished, Barry!
Damned good thing for humanity that the Chinee are not encroaching further into any African Countries, or building synthetic islands in oceans, or cutting the West off from the rare supply of MSG
"Only Nixon could go to China"
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"Only Obama could get China and Russia back together again"
Terrorism is a good one.
Kiddy porn also.
Human trafficking sounds also horrible.
Climate change will be included soon to go justifiably to war
Wind Mills are old fashioned
Fuck, country leaders are a bunch of psychopats
Even Kissinger said Barry's ME plan is a failure and also that Barry's allowing Russia and China to join are a yuuuuuuuuuuge mistake.
I wonder what happens when China and Russia start sending their covert ops into the US to take out "terrorists".
Stop assuming that we are fighting ISIS which is an asset controlled by Langley.
Along with reserve currency status comes the solemn responsibility of waging fake wars to support the MIC. They are preparing to accept the NWO baton.
Now, that Zimbabwe has adopted the Chinese Yuan. Other African countries will follow. That means there is going to be a new 'ISIS' born with outside help (ahem) in Africa causing havoc for the Chinese. I think the Chinese are preparing. They will own mos of Africa within the next decade.
Funny how them proxy wars work.
Your boys and girls assist ISIS.
I say, let them play. If they want to play the superpower game they have to ante up and burn money at high rates of speed for no good purpose, just like everybody else......
ante up and burn money at high rates of speed for no good purpose
No good purpose? Like previous wars, all current and future wars are very profitable for the TPTB.
"Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world." - Henry Kissinger
The China military has a lot of new weapon systems to play with. Give a child a hammer and... Someone is gonna get hammered, might as well be some heathen raggers.
It might be us, too, if there is any truth to the rumors that Chinese troops will be wearing blue United Nations 'peacekeeper' helmets during a crisis that might develop in the USA...
when it comes to citing the war on terror as any excuse for government snooping and foreign interventions, no one does it like Washington.
The Nobel Prize Winner has bombed seven countries is his faceless, endless war on terror. He continues to drone women and children and wedding parties and US citizens using the blank check of the war against terror. Soon 20,000 drones will be patrolling US skies to keep you safe.
The war on terror is a war to create more terror to keep the populace frightened and controlled.
China sending troops overseas will throw a monkey wrench into the Neocon plan for eternal war.
First the US outsourced manufacturing. Then, they outsourced the MIC.
No. But they did clear the road for making assasinations and limited strikes to defend their holdings in Africa. They did clear the road to perhaps deploy to defend specific holdings and investments.
They are late doing so. This may be more of a sign that the covert war to push China out of countries, where they have invested in resources, has increased a little. China has not prepared.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/264311-dem-senator-congress-failing-to...
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is proposing a temporary surtax to pay for the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
In an op-ed Sunday in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Coons criticized Congress for not paying for the war.
The latest Pentagon statistics show that as of Nov. 30, the U.S. has spent nearly $5.4 billion on the war since August 2014, and the average daily cost is $11 million.
"One way to offset rising costs while allowing all Americans to contribute is a temporary war surtax that includes an exemption for our troops and their families," Coons wrote.
"As we pursue our goal of 'degrading and destroying' ISIS, we cannot write another blank check for war," said Coons, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Coons said Congress has taken steps to pay for every major conflict, often through new taxes, since the War of 1812.
That practice ended with the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said. The Iraq War would eventually cost $1.64 trillion and the Afghanistan War $715 billion.
Coons said those costs would include an additional $6 trillion if long-term care for injured veterans were factored in.
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I'd rather send Vladimir Putin a donation.....
Buy US War Bonds. Ask Carol Lombard how that turned out.
Meanwhile the far superior alternative is for them to stop funding ISIS.
But you know, that's what rational people do...
Eventually people world wide are going to have to wake up to the fact that the real terrorists are those who hold the reigns of power.
I'm thinkin' an alarm clock in the 50 - 100 megaton range may work. Just sayin'
I sure wish news reporters actually knew what 3000 acres looks like. That often repeated statement is so stupid it is painful. Why isn't the USA building some islands? I guess the brilliant idea of putting old tires in the ocean has stunted their brains along with creating ISIS.
For several years it has been join the navy and recover tires.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. While they are at it, China should also unilaterally announce a "no fly zone" over the United States.
Might make sense.
China will save us from the banker cab-... the muslim terrorists. Good job joining the club, China.
China can call up and have an excellent army ready at a moments notice with 3 million men.
They could field 3 million without even breaking a sweat. Even in the most serious situation you could possibly imagine, they could field millions and millions more. The only real restraint would be logistics.
And more armed foreigners in a faraway place packed together is always a good thing.
Don't mind me, I'm just closing the lid on my bunker.
Turkey as NATO member has ISIS training camps on its soil:
https://www.rt.com/news/327222-isis-fighters-turkey-training/
Under strict control of US and friends. Beyond reach of Russian bombs..
The more the merrier.
I watched a new video, which I now can't find, but anyways, it was a short 5 minute video of operations aboard China's Large Fixed Wing Aircraft Carrier. One born and raised in American superiority over all others, I expected to watch a version of the "gong show" as these backward fools tried to launch old worn out obsolete planes from the rated out flightdeck with a crew of fools trying to figure out how to do air operations, something only Americans are able to figure out.
Wrong. I was actually amazed by what I saw. I've seen first hand our own Navy. Given that this is their first Aircraft Carrier, I would say I was pretty impressed. If someone had told me this was an American ship, except for the faces and aircraft types. I would not have noticed anything different. Granted this is probably the cream of the Chinese Navy. But remember. In 1900 they laughed at the new Japanese Navy, by 1905 nobody was laughing, even less so on Dec 7th 1941, when a fleet of six modern aircraft carriers sailed across the north pacific and carried out a carrier raid that any USN Admiral would have been proud to carry of in 1943.
I don't think we should understimate China's Navy. They can choose sailors and officers from 100's of millions of applicants, they have money to train them to perfection, and buy or generate the most modern technology.
America feels totally superior, because we have the technological edge over all of mankind. But do we? Does the pentagon revoloving door of crony capitalist no bid contracts and black budgets really deliver the best in the world. Russia spends 1/10 what the USA does, but evidence suggests they can build world class weapons systems for a fraction the cost. Because No Middle Man stands inbetween builder and military. No share holder payouts, no stock buy backs, no bribes to high officers. The US weapons buying system is breaking down. Especially evident in the new all purpose Jet Fighter being built.
Many military experts believe Russian anti aircraft radar and missile systems are fully capable of making US air operations hard and costly. The US Navy in particular doubts the US Air Force can win control of the air over a battle field any longer. Not is Russia is involved. The latest mobile medium range anti aircraft system, TOR M2U, with brand new missiles added, recently showed it's ability to drive at full speed across, acquire a target and lauch it's missiles on the run. The days of the US just flying around killing AA Missile sites are long over. Everything Russia makes is mobile, here today, somewhere else five minutes later. Now shooting on the run is a very handy thing. This missile system is not yet in Syria, I think it is just becoming operational with the new missile on the U variant. This system is so modern it might just be able to clear the sky of any helicopters, drones and fighter bombers. And do it on the move.
I believe in American military superiority, but my doubts are growing everyday I study Russian and Chinese weapons systems. The USA has not faced a modern AA missile in combat since 1971 over Hanoi. Where a dozen of so B-52's were shot down, and back in Guam, there was a crew mutiny when more missions were announced. It is not often US bomber crews mutiny. Since then, no US pilot has flown against a modern Russian AA system. Israel did, during the 1973 war their losses to Russian made missiles were very high. So much so that many websites try and avoid mentioning the real numbers.
There is a great disconnect between the Chinese and American mentality. Americans do grandstanding, muscle flexing and above all talking of grandiose plans. Chinese seem to do things rather on the quiet. I think they even have a similar plane to the planned F-35; I only saw one thing once and the plane was shown on an airshow or so in some province. I am not surprised that you were surprised. Try to catch some of these things on the alternative media through search words. I think there is a lot more than meets our eyes but I don't know much about military things.
200 million man army from the east including another 100 million men from india and you have a real capacity destruction event. btfd!
The only problem is getting all of them anywhere. Logistics are the biggest issue with that large of a force. The best way to deploy that kind of manpower is to pit those two armies against each other. They can start walking and meet somewhere in the middle.
"Sure enough, China appears to have opened the door to foreign intervention when, on Sunday, the NPC passed a new anti-terror law which makes it legal for the PLA to participate in counter terror missions overseas."
This is great news for Obama should he identify a nest of home-grown terrorists here. Just ring up the Chinese for an assault force.
Careful, they'll want something in return.
But the threat is not wholly imagined. When the Chechans kidnapped that school in Beslan, there was some talk that they wanted a caliphate dictatorship from the Caucasus to the Uighurs in China.
If the Chinese fight the caliphate crackpots they have my applause. The Uighurs may not be terribly intelligent if they think that they'd live better under a caliphate dictatorship than under the current rulers.
So less than 3 months after Russia showed the educated world that the US was playing Dr Frankenstein with its ISIS monster, China began distributing pitchforks and torches to a half a billion of its outraged citizens.
Oh, Obama, what an unkind cut was that.
Why don't don't you fall upon your sword? Or upon your putter?
WHO will they target first? Warmonger Hussein Obama?
Unlock the potential of 2.5 million strong PLA
And together with Russia ,
they can take on anyone in the world
Its time asia must rise & shine
and break asunder the axis of evil
the disease of the planet earth :
America, europe, canada, australia, nz