Foreign Affairs: Xi Jinping Is Not Stalin

When an Obama Administration ambassador and Washington ComPost contributing columnist is trying to make a verbose intellectual point! Michael McFaul in this confused piece comes across as a quasi semi apologist for Xi Jinping! He frequently wavers back and forth with his arguments!



Of course Xi Jinping is not Stalin! What a ridiculous juxtaposition! However, there are many parallels between both communist dictators!



"... But is Xi really Stalin’s heir, as O’Brien claimed and as other U.S. officials seem to think? The basis for such a comparison is thin. ... Stalin also killed millions and imprisoned millions more, rivaled in brutality only by Hitler and Mao. Xi does not make this list. ..."

How many people were imprisoned under Xi Jinping's dictatorship is unknown, but hundreds of thousands is quite possible!



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US Ramps Up Public Diplomacy Campaign for Taiwan’s Participation in the 73rd World Health Assembly in Geneva

Good news! It is about time that Western countries start to challenge China on the suppression of Taiwan Apparently, it needed a global pandemic to remind Western countries that Taiwan exists despite many years of massive efforts of China to eliminate Taiwan. 

Vol. 5, Issue 9 – Global Taiwan Institute: US Ramps Up Public Diplomacy Campaign for Taiwan’s Participation in the 73rd WHA

Is President Trump Inciting A Coup Inside North Korea?

Posted: 8/12/2017

This could very well be the aim of President Trump’s harsh, unprecedented rhetoric of recent days against one of the last stalinist dictatorships on this planet, i.e. North Korea.

China may finally realize that it was shirking responsibility for North Korea way too long if it wants to become a serious global player. Thus, China may finally exert some pressure on the dictatorship in North Korea. China is key! Will Putin the Terrible still support North Korea?

The U.N. has just imposed new, broader sanctions on North Korea. Other, new sanctions may follow.

Hopefully, some of the leading factions and the powerful in North Korea will contend with the possibility that their comfortable and luxurious life at the expense of the exploited and starved population is threatened by this third generation dictator’s brinkmanship. A coup in the making ...

China Treats U.S. Like A Paper Tiger

Posted: 12/17/2016

Just as the failed and fool of a president Obama is about to leave the White House, the Chinese thought it was time for a last drubbing of him. Obama, in his final days, is so occupied with creating a narrative that Putin the Terrible stole the U.S. election and caused another, major election defeat for the Democrats, that the Chinese could not resist.

We just learned that the Chinese navy snatched a U.S. Navy submersible drone out of international (or was it even within the Philippines maritime waters) waters (South China Sea), but contested by China, waters near the Philippines (read e.g. here and here).

Here is the description of the event from the Wall Street Journal:

“The USNS Bowditch retrieved the first drone, but while it prepared to retrieve the second one, the Chinese ship put a smaller boat in the water and snatched it away, according to U.S. defense officials. The U.S. ship established “bridge-to-bridge” communications with the Chinese vessel, about 500 yards away, the Pentagon said, and asked it to leave the drone in the water. That request wasn’t heeded.”

What did the U.S. president or the U.S. military do about it?

1. Nothing!
2. No warning shot fired by the nearby U.S. Navy vessel
3. The drone does not  appear to have a self-destruct mechanism on board.

P.S. This follows another, recent incident: “It was the first time China has seized a piece of U.S. military gear since the Chinese detained a Navy surveillance plane that landed on Hainan Island following a midair collision in April 2001. ”

P.S. Now it painfully hurts that the U.S. allowed its Navy base Subic Bay in the Philippines to be closed in 1992. One of the largest U.S. Navy bases in the world. According to map shown in the BBC article above, the incident happened not far off the former Subic Bay base. Another slap in the face by China!

Giving up this navy base was another bad deal by President Herbert W. Bush!