Sunday, December 30, 2012

Singapore's betrayal of non Chinese citizens, ethnic cleansing




Ladies and Gentlemen,

Singapore today has about 78% people of Chinese descent, about 13% Malays and another 8% Indians. This is not a figure that came about naturally but deliberately created by the government's preference of people of Chinese descent over their other citizens, Malay and Indian.

The original inhabitants of Singapore island since the beginning of time were Malays as was in Malaya and Indonesia, known as the Malay archipelago. When the British arrived in 1819, they brought in Chinese from Southern China to work in business and commerce and Indians in Malay's rubber plantations and construction.

With Singapore's prosperity as a business center and a sea port, the population of each race increased with the Chinese increasing at a slightly faster rate. Nevertheless in the 1950s the population ratio of Indians and Malays were far greater than what it is today.

Instead of the island's racial balance being allowed to progress naturally, for the last 4 decades or so, the Lee ruling family who were effectively running a one party dictatorship, as they are doing now, began deliberately suppressing the populations of Muslim Malays and Indians while actively and deliberately increasing that of the Chinese population.

The Chinese Singapore population has over the last 3 decades or so, been suffering from the lowest birth rate among the races, while the Malays had the highest followed by the Indians. Had matters been left to nature, Singapore would have had far more Malays than there are today, relatively speaking.

There is no doubt that Lee Kuan Yew family, who are ethnic Chinese, who continues to run Singapore since 1959 is openly and unashamedly racist who are prepared to do anything necessary however illegal to change Singapore into a complete and absolute Chinese city by importing disproportionally large numbers of ethnic Chinese from China to literally flood the island while at the same time placing a total ban on Malay immigrants and allowing only a trickle of Indians.

This is because the Malays have never really supported him and neither did the Indians who would have preferred a multi racial island with English language and Western style democracy which the Lee ruling family feels would be a threat to their continued dictatorial rule. They have never been admirers of democracy.

Today immigrants from China who have no knowledge of English or any skills whatsoever are permitted to immigrate purely to increase their numbers in the island to make sure that Singapore will be Lee Kuan Yew's Chinese city, not a multi racial city as the British and it's original population had hoped when they colonized Singapore.

It has to be said that transforming Singapore into a Chinese city by deliberately increasing the number of Chinese immigrants is a blatant violation of the Singapore Constitution which clearly mandates equality between the races. This is ethnic cleansing shamelessly conducted by the Lee ruling party to deliberately destroy the Malay and Indian populations in the island. In Bosnia they shot their Muslim neighbours. In Singapore they do it by importing foreign Chinese. This is ethnic cleansing, no less. The only difference is the manner in which it is done.

The government has said on many occasions in the past that they are determined to keep the population ratio as 75% Chinese 15% Malay and the balance Indian, even though nowhere in the Constitution is this ratio required or even allowed.

If indeed all races are to be treated equally under the law, this deliberate overwhelmingly large importation of Chinese immigrants is a clear violation of the Constitution.

Up till now, Singapore's Malay leaders such as the Singapore Democratic Party's Jufri Mehmood is clearly unhappy with this policy of racial discrimination against his people but have not been prepared to openly speak on this for fear of being branded Malay chauvinists or even worse being arrested under the Internal Security Act falsely accused of inciting racial unrest. As for the Indian leaders they have been so much intimidated into submission that no one single Indian leader can be identified or willing to be counted.

As we speak Singapore's Changi airport continues to ship in plane loads each day of these Chinese from Communist China thereby continuing to transform the island into a complete Chinese city.

Today, with Lee ruling family's great success in this illegal racial policy, original native born Indians have become almost non existent. Many of them have married Chinese women particularly to advance their careers in Lee's Chinese Singapore, where you have an alarming increase in their off spring with Indians names but who look completely Chinese. Most of them are unable to speak their native Indian language and for all intends and purposes are not Indians.

In addition, they are emigrating to the West at a much faster rate feeling a sense of abandonment by their own country and a realization that they have no prospects in the Lee ruling family's new Chinese Singapore.

Unless the Malays and Indians stand up against this deliberate and continual ethnic cleansing leading to their total extinction in their own island, standing by doing nothing will in fact ring the final death knell of their people and race in their Singapore.

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An Bord Pleanála gives go-ahead for Chinese trading hub in Athlone

AN BORD PLEANÁLA has given the go-ahead for the first phase of an international trading hub to be built in Athlone, Co Westmeath.

An artist's impression of the China Europe Trading Hub proposed for Athlone.

The development will be constructed on a 137-hectare site at the Creggan, east of Athlone and will cost around €175 million for the first phase.
The grandiose development even anticipates there will be an ‘Athlone International Airport’ that will completed “at the end of 2018″ and will be a 20 minute drive away from the Europe China Trading Hub (ECTH).

This morning, the planning board has given the go-ahead for the first of a five intended stages which will be financed by private equity, and pre-sales of concessions spaces according to the developers.
It rejected half-a-dozen appeals including one from An Taisce which warned that a similar Chinese trading hub was being built on the Wirral peninsula opposite Liverpool in the UK.

The ECTH intends to provide a demonstration space for Chinese manufacturers and traders to sell their goods to European and international buyers with a view to generating bulk orders.
The development will span across 1,000,000 square metres and some of the facilities that are intended to be constructed during phase one of the project include:
  • A four-storey reception hall
  • A multi-purpose exhibition hall known as the China hall
  • Two ‘mega’ exhibition halls
  • Nine trading halls
  • An external exhibition space
  • A glass covered walkway connecting entrance hall to ‘mega’ exhibition halls.
  • Underground multi-purpose transport facility which will hold parking for over 1,300 cars
  • An energy centre and wind turbine
It is estimated that 1,500 jobs could be created as part of the project as well as 1,200 during the post construction phase. It is envisaged that as many as 9,000 jobs could be created through further developments of the remaining four stages.

China hub
The Europe China Trading Hub as envisaged by the project’s developers according to its official website. 

As well a the trading hub the website for the ECTH (you have to click through to see the artist’s impression of what it will look like) says there there will eventually be culture and leisure facilities that will include:
  • A five-star hotel resort
  • Apartments
  • A theatre
  • A shopping centre
  • A sports and fitness centre
  • A convention centre
  • A hospital
  • A school
  • A bank
  • A petrol station
  • A train station
The website also states that Athlone International Airport will be completed at the end of 2018 though it is not clear if this is part of the development or a separate enterprise.
The project is the brainchild of the Athlone Business Park Ltd which is owned by two local developers Aidan Kelly and Michael O’Sullivan. A former Roscommon county manager John Tiernan is acting as chief executive.

Last December local Fianna Fáil councillor Frankie Keena told TheJournal.ie that the development was a positive one for transport links in Ireland.
He said: “The Chinese’s target market would consist of business people on the east coast of America and European people as well. Up to about 3,000 people a week would be coming into Ireland so it’ll be positive for the airports as well.

“Athlone is ideally located for this project, it’s in the centre of country. With a new motorway you’d make Dublin Airport in an hour-and-a-half easy – easily to Shannon airport as well. It’s something we badly need to give us a stimulus.”
An Taisce declined to comment on the decision by An Bord Pleanála this morning but said it would be releasing a statement later today.

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Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and the Chinese Communist Party



Jan. 14– If Iran seizes control of the Strait of Hormuz, its puppet master– the Chinese Communist Party– will dominate a shipping lane vital to world trade.
Approximately 22 percent of the world’s oil supply begins its journey on supertankers at the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf and passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
On Jan. 11, President Obama warned Iran not to disrupt the free flow of oil by closing off the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. would consider any disruption of oil shipments or closure of shipping lanes an act of war, because the free flow of oil is vital to U.S. national security. For more on Obama’s warning to Iran, visit the New York Times website.

Iran’s suicidal tendencies, mine warfare and importance of regional stability



Iran has little ability to stop the mass exodus of oil with its limited military technology and inferior navy, which is out-classed at every level by the U.S. Navy.
If Iran wants to risk a suicidal confrontation with the United States, it must depend on inferior weapon technology supplied by China and a willingness to test the United States’ resolve.
Iran’s only hope for “limited” success is with mine warfare, but the U.S. navy is well-equipped for finding mines placed in shipping lanes. U.S. counter measures, which include advanced mine sweeping, electronic warfare and “mine-sniffing” dolphins, provide the best defense against Iran’s archaic, desperate use of mine warfare.
As previously stated, 22 percent of the world’s oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz. This shipping lane, vital to world trade, must remain open at every cost.
The Strait of Hormuz is the exit point for oil production coming from several key suppliers. After oil is extracted from Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, it is pumped into supertankers that navigate through the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the southeastern end of the Persian Gulf.
These supertankers must sail within a few miles of Iran’s shore when attempting to navigate the internationally designated shipping lane between the countries of Iran and Oman.
After navigating the Strait, they enter the Indian Ocean and sail on to their appointed oil refineries.

Communist forces wage another proxy war against the United States, as China uses Iran to test the U.S.

The Chinese Communist Party seeks Middle East subjugation to dominate the population politically, economically and socially, control natural resources and raise oil prices to cripple the U.S. economy.



China supplies Iran with anti-aircraft carrier missile technology, which also works on supertankers, and also provides nuclear technology so Iran, like North Korea, can develop nuclear weapons and do the CCP’s dirty work.
If the CCP can use other countries to fight its wars and destroy American allies like Israel, they don’t have to risk a direct confrontation with a superior military operated by the U.S.
By causing economic chaos and staging proxy wars, which cause the U.S. military to over extend itself, the CCP hopes to destroy the U.S. from within, rather than from the outside with direct military engagement.
Although the CCP’s military force is growing at a rapid pace, it is years away from having the capability for a direct confrontation.
The Chinese Communist Party prefers to wage proxy wars and expand its global influence through economic colonization with currency manipulation, as it keeps its head down and expands its military with a goal of worldwide conquest and enslavement of 7-billion people.
Cutting off or at least controlling the world’s oil supply is a primary move on the CCP’s global chessboard.

Second Cold War or Same Old Cold War?



Some analysts call this another conflict in the Second Cold War, but in reality, the original Cold War never ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union’s collapse.
When considering the fundamentals of the Truman Doctrine, the art of communist containment and later the implementation of the Carter Doctrine, which is a modification of the Truman Doctrine derived from George Kennan’s “Long Telegram,” the Cold War never ended.
The key adversaries are all that changed. It went from the United States vs. the Soviet Union to the United States vs. the Chinese Communist Party.
We are witnessing display after display of the age-old art of military containment. When all is said and done, the Chinese Communist Party will face an internal collapse similar to the defunct Soviet Union.
The disintegration of China’s brutal communist regime, and its illegitimate  hold on power, will result in the formation of many new countries.
Maps will soon show independent countries with names like Tibet, Xinjiang Uygur, Dongbei and more whose inhabitants will not be subjected to torture and systematic genocide delivered from despotic, self-glorifying maniacs ruling from an ivory tower thousands of miles away in a dying capital called Beijing.

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Globalism and China starts to colonize Europe



Cashed up with plenty of U.S. dollars China is in a good position to buy up big in Europe and Australia.
The G20 summit has shown the problems of post-industrial Europe which cannot expect to enjoy export-led growth demanded when most of the countries no longer manufacture on the scale necessary to pay their way in a global world. (The Guardian Weekly, 2.7.10, P1.)   Governments are terrified that they will be punished severly if they fail to take deficit reduction seriously.  As for the markets, it is certainly true that sovereign debt is their concern now.

Inflation or deflation, what does it matter, Europe is broke, except for Germany, wages are much too high and nobody wants to work in industry.  Global warming and all that crap.
China has the money, China has the eager and skilled workers and China will colonize Europe.
The European Commission is worried about availability  of rare earths, niobium, platinum and has published a list of 14 critical metals or groups of metals that are important to Europe’s economy and may become difficult for Europe to procure.  Just one example; In recent months, China, which controls 95% of rare earths, has started cutting back exports, raising tensions in European industry.

Europe needs certain metals for the production of it’s own electronic vehicles and needs to exploit mineral resources in Europe.  This is opposed by the Greens. The World Trade Organisation has yet to settle the dispute between the U.S., Europe and China over rare earths.  (The Guardian Weekly 2.7.10, p.3.)
While Europe and America dither China is busy buying up Europe and Africa.

As soon as this month, Chinese manufacturers hope to get approval to develop a dollar 60 million plot in Athlone, Central Ireland.  The Athlone project, which has yet to gain planning approval, involves shippping 2,000 Chinese workers to build a “Chinese hub” of factories on a 24o hectare stretch of land outside the County Westmeath town, that will eventually employ 8,000 Irish staff and how many Chinese?  The advantage to China?  The manufacturers would gain access to the lowest corporation tax rates in Europe and doorstep access to the eurozone for their products.  Tariffs and quotas imposed by the E.U. and individual countries would be bypassed.

Greece is also the beneficiary of the billions of dollars in Chinese government coffers.  Chinese Vice-premier, Zhang Dejiang, signed a series of industrial co-operation deals last week.  Chinese businesses will invest in Greece.  Chinese shipping group Cosco will build a dollars 3.5.billion massive container-handling facility at the port of Piraeus.  There is also talk of Cosco building a huge logistics centre there, from where trucks would be able to move containers around the rest of the continent.  There is talk of Beijing money being injected into the loss making Greek railway operator, OSE, the Airports and even the postal service.
The Greek government should let China take over the Government and the country.
London has attracted 34 Chinese foreign direct investment projects and is seen by the Chinese companies as a natural base for expanding into Europe.

Europe is finished!  What about Australia?  All because of the greed of the financiers of Europe and America and the export of World Industry to China and it’s eager and low cost workers!
The Chinese are using American money to buy up the World.  Unbelievable, but then Left wing politics was never about making money and now even the Tories are Left wing.

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China officially asks to colonise a part of Western Australia-for money of course

April has been a month of policy disasters for Australian agriculture defining its now bleak future
Delivering a mortal blow to the dairy industry, our disingenuous ALP government, aided and abetted by traitorous so-called primary producer organizations such as the National Farmers Federation has not said boo about the largest ever shipment of Australian dairy cows and heifers shipped to China in the past eight months.



To top off this farmer coup-de-grace, former Prime Minister Bob Hawke is acting as gigolo for a Chinese conglomerate offering to buy 15,000 hectares of prime farming country east of Kunnunurra in Western Australia.

The Shanghai Zhongfu group wants to grow its own irrigated sugar cane in the $311m second-stage expansion of the Ord irrigation project.

Another 13 companies and individual farmers are competing against the Chinese after submitting final expressions of interest to the West Australian government to farm all or part of the new area.
Should the Chinese offer be accepted this massive expansion of the sugar industry in Northern Australia will spell disaster for Queensland cane growers.

Zhongfu, trading as Kimberley Agricultural Investments, is also in discussion with the WA, NT and federal governments and traditional owners the Miriuwung Gajerrong Corporation to develop a further 15,000 ha of prime black soil downs country on the NT side of the Kimberley border.

A sweetener in Hawkes bid is to build is to build a $100m sugar mill in the Ord region.
Hawkes company also proposes to establish a super, 500,000 head a year abattoir in the east Kimberley to supply the beef export market to China.

This venture could also wipe out a proposal to build a large abattoir in the Cloncurry district of Noerth West Queensland.

This venture will also spell disaster for Australias largest pastoralist, the Australian Agriculture Company which has plans to start building an abattoir at Katherine.
KAI says it needs 30-40,000 ha of sugar crops to support a financially viable sugar mill and biofuel production.

In return for such a large investment the company is demanding all environmental and native title approvals be handed to it on a plate within two years.

Cairnsnews has copies of the WA Governments generic farm purchase contracts which are tailored towards a significant indigenous partnership arrangement for any purchaser in the Kimberley region.
It will be of interest to individual farmers bidding for land if these arrangements are included in any Chinese deal.

WA Farmers Federation president Dale Park said his organization was unlikely to oppose the Chinese bid.

EXODUS OF WORLD-BEST DAIRY BREEDING STOCK TO CHINA

In 2008 nearly 50,000 dairy cattle were exported overseas from Australian producers, but in the first eight months of this financial year 36,450 cows worth a staggering $44m have gone to China.
By the end of June exports will top 55,000 a rather dubious record which is unsustainable for the future of the dairy industry.

The export heifers, mostly from Victoria, are fetching up to $1600 per head, about 30 per cent more than the domestic market can afford.

The milk war between Coles and Woolworths has had a detrimental effect on the industry and coupled with de-regulation it has forced many farmers to the wall.

Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay are the only three countries licensed to export dairy cattle to China.

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China Detailed Its Invasion Plan of Vietnam in 2008

Commentary: China and Vietnam share the same political regime system. Vietnamese communists consider the Chinese communists as big brothers and take inspiration and orders from the Chinse Communist Party. Vietnamese leaders usually visist Chinese leaders for consultation for their preparation of the Vietnamese Communist Party national congress and the selection of the future leaders of the party. Despite the close ties with the Chinse Communist Party, Chinese leaders have not given up the dream of occupying Vietnam as China colonized Vietnam for 1,000 years from 111 BC – 938 AD. Ever since, China has unsuccessfully attempted  to invade Vietnam on several occasions. Vietnam was the only country in the region to be able to repel the Mongol invasions in 1257, 1284, 1288, and the Manchus invasion in 1789. Despite of great civilization and peopleChina succumbed to the foreign invasions and was fully colonized by the Mongols from 1271-1368 (Yuan dynasty) and the Manchus from 1644-1911 (Qing dynasty).  
Vietnam has formally protested to China over so-called “invasion plans” appearing on mainland websites that purport to detail the complete military occupation of the country by China.


Hanoi has twice summoned senior Chinese diplomats to voice its concerns over the material which, while unsourced and apparently unofficial, has alarmed diplomatic and military elites in the Vietnamese capital after appearing repeatedly over the past month. 

The supposed plans detail a 31-day invasion, starting with five days of missile strikes from land, sea and air and climaxing in an invasion involving 310,000 troops sweeping into Vietnam from Yunnan, Guangxi and the South China Sea. The electronic jamming of Vietnamese command and communications centres is mentioned, along with the blocking of sea lanes in the South China Sea. 

“Vietnam is a major threat to the safety of Chinese territories, and the biggest obstacle to the peaceful emergence of China,” the plans posted on Sina.com and at least three other websites say.
“Also, Vietnam is the strategic hub of the whole of Southeast Asia. Vietnam has to be conquered first if Southeast Asia is to be under [China's] control again.”

“From all perspectives, Vietnam is a piece of bone hard to be swallowed.”
In a statement to the South China Morning Post, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung confirmed Beijing officials had been asked “to act so that such negative articles will not appear again since these may be harmful to bilateral relations”. 

“This is irrelevant information which goes against the trend of peace, friendship and co-operation for development in the region and the world and is not in the interests of the fine relationship existing between Vietnam and China,” Mr Dung said. 

He added that China acknowledged Vietnam’s request and “stated that the article did not reflect the position of the government of China”. 

A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing, meanwhile, said the “different voices” on the internet represented individual acts “by only a handful of people, which by no means represented China’s stance”.
“The Chinese government attaches importance to the development of Sino-Vietnamese relations and is actively committed to strengthening publicity of the Sino-Vietnamese friendship,” he said.
Vietnamese government sources said they were perplexed that articles remained online, as they believed China actively policed the content of mainland sites. 

Many officials believe the articles may have been sparked by rising tensions over the disputed South China Sea, where Beijing has recently been trying to pressure international oil firms into pulling out of their exploration contracts with Vietnam. 

The Post reported in July that Chinese envoys had warned ExxonMobil – the world’s largest oil firm – that its future mainland business could be at risk unless it pulled out of deals in Vietnam’s southern and central oil fields. ExxonMobil executives say Vietnam’s legal position is strong.
Song Xiaojun, a Beijing-based military expert, described the internet-based plans, one of which was subtitled “One battle to set the region in order”, as a joke. 

“It is, at most, a game by a few military amateurs and it has no military value at all,” he said.
He said there were still some people in both countries who could not forget the nations’ old animosities.
“China and Vietnam have similar political systems and should unite to counter the US, which is the common enemy for both countries,” he said. “Clearly the US tries to play Vietnam off against the rising China.”
Mr Song described US company ExxonMobil’s oil exploration work in the South China Sea as provocative.
“We should be on the alert for possible conspiracy theories behind the so-called invasion plan and other provocative stuff. Sensible people in both countries are well aware that China has no reason to think of invading Vietnam as it needs to make good friends with its neighbours.” 

He said the mainland government should also learn a lesson from the issue.
“Authorities should be responsible to guide public opinion towards other countries and make its own stance on confusing issues clear and understood. The government should not leave any chances for troublemakers and harmful speculations.” 

Carl Thayer, a veteran Vietnamese military analyst at the Australian National University, said it was unthinkable that China would consider such an invasion in the modern regional context, but he warned that the case highlighted the potential for “extreme nationalism” on both sides. 

“It may well become part of a tit-for-tat trend. China objects to anti-Beijing protests in Hanoi and then Vietnam feels it must react to something like this,” Dr Thayer said.
Current Vietnamese military strategy has long been geared towards deterring China from backing its territorial claims by force, he said. 

China is Vietnam’s biggest source of imports and both governments have worked to rebuild ties in recent years, despite lingering tensions after the brief but bloody border conflict of 1979.
As well as deepening fraternal ties between communist party leaders, both sides have made progress in solving disputes over the 1,400km land border and the Gulf of Tonkin. Rival claims to the potentially oil-rich grounds beneath the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea remain a key point of friction, however.

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Arab Spring or Beijing Coup? China colonizes Egypt


BACKGROUND: Egypt President Mohamed “The Puppet” Morsi next to CCP imperialist leader Hu Jintao

Sept. 10, 2012— Egypt President Mohamed “The Puppet” Morsi visited Beijing to thank his slave masters for installing him as president.

Morsi pledged support for China’s genocidal policies in Africa while meeting with imperialist leader Hu Jintao and members of the Chinese Communist Party’s Standing Committee.

They finalized China’s plan for the economic colonization of Egypt in exchange for China’s role in overthrowing the U.S.-backed government. Enslavement of every Egyptian deemed “worthy to live” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will proceed this geopolitical event.

How and why did it happen? Destabilize the West through economic and territorial colonization

As THE LAST COLUMNIST reported in May 2011, the so-called “democracy movements” in Egypt, Libya and the Middle East had roots in CCP propaganda techniques used to overthrow regimes doing business with the West.

CCP propaganda agents ran fraudulent “Pro Democracy” chatter across carefully manipulated Facebook and Twitter pages in Egypt and other countries. Communist propaganda, disguised as democracy movements, stirred up well-founded discontent among local populations. The ruling governments were challenged and toppled.

Newly installed government puppets like Mohamed Morsi— who benefited from the power shift— owe the CCP. China needs direct access to North African oil, water and mineral rights for economic expansion, as well as better access to cheap labor and export markets.

Geopolitical analysis given by THE LAST COLUMNIST in 2011 finds credence in an August 29, 2012, article appearing in The New York Times. The following “blockquote” is from the article:
“In the clearest sign yet that Egypt is keen to bolster bilateral ties with China, the country’s newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, arrived in China this week to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, and other senior officials,” (NYT).
The CCP installed governments in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere that would be politically and economically hostile to the United States. By economically colonizing countries conducting business with the U.S., China acts as a challenger to American hegemonic superiority by eliminating American revenue sources, destabilizing the U.S. economy, putting America deeper into debt and reducing its ability to fund the American Military-Industrial Complex. China can’t win a direct military confrontation with the United States.
A dictator like Mubarak isn’t someone to keep in power, but which “mother country” conducts business with the new “transitional colonial” administrator of Egypt? Previous dictatorships conducted business with the United States. The newly installed governments will cater to the most brutal, despotic government officials in human history: Chinese Communist Party puppeteers in Beijing. Genocide will follow human and environmental exploitation, as it did in CCP-controlled Sudan.
This is the Second Cold War: China vs. the U.S.

Strategic Goals of the Chinese Communist Party in Africa

In North Africa, the CCP desires cheap labor and export markets, but more importantly, it needs DIRECT ACCESS to Libya’s oil and Egypt’s projected mineral reserves, cotton production and the Nile River. Incoming Chinese hydro-electric dam projects with “Technical Advisers” mean water and population control throughout Egypt.

The Nile’s vast lifeline is key to human manipulation. The Aswan High Dam allows the Egyptian Government to control agricultural production and water practices. If new dams spring up along the Egyptian Nile as well as the Blue and White Nile in Sudan and Ethiopia, nobody will benefit but the CCP.
With anti-American political forces seizing power in Egypt, the CCP has human exploitation, environmental destruction and population control on tap.
 
The Chinese Communists exploited the Sudan with starvation but can’t tap the White and Blue Nile without an unstable government’s permission in downstream Egypt.

The CCP began colonization and occupation of Africa years ago under the guise of economic support and to build inferior hydro-electric dam projects. Endless “technical advisers” and hundreds of thousands of chinese citizens enter African countries to complete colonization and to occupy territory to support the CCP’s inferior hydro-electric dam projects.

Based on the infamous Three Gorges Dam blueprints, they plunder natural resources and devastate the environment. Profits, political control and power go hand-in-hand back to Beijing.
Recently, the CCP negotiated a suspicious South American hydro-electric dam project. Construction continues on a multiple-step, hydro-electric dam project along Africa’s mighty Congo River. But the Grand Inga Dam situation in Mid Africa must also wait it’s turn. North Africa is this month’s topic.

Sudan’s Darfur region showcased the CCP’s genocide by proxy policy in Africa. Puppet governments used starvation or forced relocation of nomads and villagers to claim land and mineral rights. Displaced Natives traced roots back to the beginning of time. It’s all done to steal mineral wealth waiting far beneath burned-out huts and dead camels.

The CCP mines and exports Africa’s mineral deposits back to slave labor manufacturing complexes in China.

The world media called on the United States to feed what they marketed as local political genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. When in actuality, it represented systematic genocide waged from Beijing. The U.S. probably borrowed money from the Chinese Communist Party to feed whoever the communists couldn’t starve to death.

What plans does the Chinese Communist Party have for North Africa? Look at the Sudan, Somalia, and Central/Mid Africa to see what’s left in its wake. Africa’s economic colonization by the Chinese Communist Party puts Capitalist Neo-Colonialism theory to shame.

THE LAST COLUMNIST charges the Chinese Communist Party with conducting systematic genocide in Africa, especially in Sudan’s Darfur region, as a prelude to global genocide.

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China’s Cultural Zoo
















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The United States, having invaded and militarily occupied Afghanistan, imagine it then enforcing the English language upon the Afghani people, facilitating a mass colonization of that country with American settlers, imposing draconian restrictions on religious freedoms and practice, establishing a regime that governs through martial law and denying political and civil freedoms, decides in Washington DC to construct an ethnological theme park to enable tourists to ogle at traditional Afghan culture. Such a scenario would invite charges of racist colonialism and inevitably draw parallels with the ‘model villages’ set up by Hitler to convince international opinion that Jewish culture was respected and flourished in Nazi-Germany.

Nazi Propaganda Village-Theresienstadt In Then Czechoslovakia
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There was of course a troubling period during the establishment of the United States which witnessed a brutal assault upon the cultures of indigenous peoples, marginalized, oppressed and under siege from westward expansion, their lands stolen, traditions and culture suppressed. Similar colonial aggression and racist intolerance was imposed upon peoples within the British Empire during the 19th Century. Such actions derive from a darker side of humanity, which now thankfully have been consigned to history by progressive liberal nations. The chaotic aftermath of the Second World War, and emergence of human rights and international law, along with the creation of the United Nations (UN) was to seek an end to colonialism and the suppression of peoples.
Cold War Cartoon
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Unfortunately in drawing up UN charters and statutes, during the highly polarized and politically charged climate of the Cold War, definitions and agreements as to what constituted ’colonialism fell into two basic camps, one defined by former colonial powers such as Britain, whose empire was an overseas possession, and communist powers such as the Soviet Union and China, who argued forcibly to ensure political control and sovereignty over peoples and lands they had subjugated, such as Tibet and East Turkestan. They were happy to agree to an end of olonialism, but only the blue-water variety, where the dominant power controlled nations overseas. On that dubious basis they were unwilling to accept that their annexations and rule over Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, or Kazakhs, and all the occupied nations of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, were colonial. It was not in their ideological, political and economic interest to acknowledge that reality.
This resulted in subsequent UN Charters on colonialism and the rights of peoples, in terms of national self-determination (independence) essentially supporting the political and territorial integrity of states, in which peoples were not afforded the right under international law or UN Charter the right to independence per se, but were granted minority rights such as autonomy. This left both the Soviet Union and China in complete, unchallenged control of territories that had been annexed an beyond international or United Nations interference.
Colonial Propaganda Staged In 1960's Occuped Tibet
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union the world was left with one last great land empire, communist China. Under the socialist flag of communist China the expansionist aggression of colonialism continues to suppress formerly independent peoples, such as Tibetans and Uyghurs, while colonialist policies exploit and erode those cultures. Like other empires there is a racist component to Chinese rule, in which the professed superiority of Han China presides with arrogant and violent patronage over so-called minority peoples. One very nauseating example of that attitude, and not too removed from the imaginary scenario that opened this post, is the so-called ‘National Ethnic Minorities Park’ in Beijing. Supposedly designed to protect so-called ethnic heritage, at this claimed anthropological museum, Tibetans, Uyghurs and others peoples are employed to daily perform, against a culturally themed architectural backdrop, various traditions for the benefit of tourists.
Directions For Communist China's Cultural Zoo
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Sitting there, watching the sickening burlesque of propaganda performance, are visitors aware of the manipulation and distortion they are exposed to? Is there any recognition that the very cultures on display are violently imprisoned and abused by the same communist regime which claims to be protecting such peoples. Anyone possessed of intelligence and integrity would of course not endorse this obscene mockery of Tibetan and Uyghur culture, and be opposed to any action that may legitimize China’s colonialism and exploitation of occupied nations such as Tibet and East Turkestan.

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Chinese investment in Mongolia: An uneasy courtship between Goliath and David

The investment and trading relationships between China and Mongolia seems like a marriage made in heaven. Landlocked and poverty-stricken, Mongolia has an abundance of coal, copper and iron ore that China craves to feed its rapid industrialisation. Mongolia’s proximity to China, its largest customer, also offers it considerable cost advantages against other major commodities suppliers such as Australia and Brazil.


The trade and investment figures between these two countries certainly bear witness to a strong and complementary relationship. China has been the largest investor in Mongolia since 1998 and its largest trading partner since 1999, and it has retained these positions ever since. In 2009, the bilateral trade figure stood at US$2.4 billion with China importing US$1.3 billion worth of commodities, which accounted for more than 70 per cent of Mongolian exports. According to official Mongolian statistics, China invested a total of US$2.3 billion in 2009, which represented more than 60 per cent of total foreign investment in Mongolia.

According to Luvsandagva Davaatsedev, chairman of the Coal Industry Association of Mongolia, almost 100 per cent of Mongolian coal and copper exports went to China in 2009, and the coal export figure could grow by as much as six-fold in the next five years once some of the large coal mines become operational. Mongolia replaced Australia as the largest coking coal exporter to China in 2005.

Sinophobia on the steppes 

High dependence on China for trade and investment is causing an unprecedented wave of Sinophobia in Mongolia. This fear has been driven by geopolitical fear, historical legacy and sometimes open racism. Sandwiched between two former imperial masters, Mongolia’s landlocked geography can be described as nothing but a geopolitical nightmare for its leaders. Its national strategy is often a case of a depressing choice between the lesser of two evils. It is understandable that vast and sparsely populated Mongolia, at the doorstep of an emerging superpower, is anxious for anxiety’s sake itself.

The imperial legacy of China still lingers in the minds of some Mongolians and this landlocked country only gained independence from China as late as 1921. Ironically, Taiwan still officially recognises Mongolia as part of its official territory, and it is not uncommon to hear mainland Chinese refer to Mongolia as ‘outer Mongolia’, a dated name alluding to its status as a former imperial possession of China.

The influx of Chinese businessmen and labourers is also provoking racial tension in the country. Whether it be disapproval of Chinese migrant labourers’ behaviour as unhygienic, or Chinese businessmen’s behaviour as philandering, many Mongolians feel alienated by the arrival of large numbers of Chinese. Consequently, anti-China themes are rapidly capturing the airwaves and newspaper headlines, from unfounded allegations of rape and pillage to more justified concerns over Chinese disregard for industrial relations laws and regulations. Chinese construction workers are fast becoming random victims of Mongolian neo-Nazis, and some Mongolian politicians are more than happy to jump on the anti-Chinese bandwagon to attract popular votes.

Challenges of investing in Mongolia

Like Chinese resource investments elsewhere, Beijing’s black gold rush into Mongolia is largely driven by giant state energy companies such as Shenhua and PetroChina. Like regulators elsewhere in the world, Mongolians are fearful of a takeover by China Inc. Its proximity and overwhelming dependence on China have increased that fear a hundred-fold. Despite China’s apparent dominance, Beijing has been assiduously excluded from investing in the crown jewels of Mongolian mining assets such as the prized Tavan Tolgoi coal project and the world’s largest unexploited copper mine at Oyu Tolgoi.

According to the Chinese press, a host of Chinese state energy giants such as Chinalco and Zijin Mining were interested in bidding for the Oyu Tolgoi project in 2002; however, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)-supported deal fell apart after much political opposition from Ulaanbaatar. Even indirect equity participation by Chinalco faced significant opposition last year.
The CEO of Khan Bank, Mongolia’s largest bank, Peter Morrow said on the sidelines of a Euromoney mining conference in Mongolia that ‘Chinalco is unlikely to get involved in Rio Tinto PLC’s massive copper-gold Oyu Tolgoi mining project in Mongolia as a direct partner, since it may trigger political resistance from the Mongolian government’ and ‘that would be a real stick in the eye for the Mongolian government.’

Mongolia’s national railway infrastructure strategy further highlights the government’s weariness towards China. Like many resources-exporting countries caught in the middle of a mining super-cycle fuelled by Chinese demand, Mongolia’s Soviet-era railway is poorly prepared to transport the vast bulk of commodities to China. Given Mongolia’s proximity to China, and that some of its largest mines are less than 100 kilometres from the Chinese border, it seems that this infrastructure bottleneck could be easily remedied.
Yet the Mongolian government made a decision that defied not only geography but also basic business common sense. Instead of building a railway connecting mines with the booming Chinese export market the government decided, in April 2010, that it would build a 5,683-kilometre railway on Russian gauge standard to connect itself with Russian sea ports. The only plausible reason for this curious decision is that Mongolians are desperate to diversify away from reliance on China.

According to research notes prepared by a Chinese broker, the planned new railway track would increase the distance between Tavan Tolgoi mine and the nearest Chinese seaport, Tianjin, by more than 3,000 kilometres and triple transport costs. There is little doubt that the Mongolian government is willing to pay a very hefty price for economic independence, despite Mongolia having been voted as the second worst country in the world for mining investment according to the Survey of Mining Companies 2010 by Canadian think tank the Fraser Institute.

Chinese experience in Mongolia highlights again the worrying trend for policy makers in Beijing that many resources rich countries are wary of state-led Chinese investment. Beijing has to do something about its image of China Inc on a shopping spree. A starting point would be to let firms make their own investment decisions independent of government agencies such as the NDRC. Lack of tact and judgement is a source of much irritation even amongst state-owned energy companies. Demonstration of good corporate citizenship is essential to assure host countries of the benefits of Chinese investments. Sinosteel’s delicate treatment of indigenous heritage sites in Western Australia is an example that could be followed elsewhere.

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The Chinese Are Coming!




In one of those breathless reports about the dangers posed by the rising China, the New York Times informs us that the Chinese have reached the Caribbean beaches. Behold what they dared to do: they built “a brand new $35 million stadium” in the Bahamas. You’re not alarmed yet? “The tiny island nation of Dominica has received a grammar school, a renovated hospital and a sports stadium. . . . Antigua and Barbuda got a power plant and a cricket stadium, and a new school is on its way.”

The Times adds that “the Chinese have flexed their economic prowess in nearly every corner of the world. But planting a flag so close to the United States has generated intense vetting—and some raised eyebrows.” The term “planting a flag” is revealing. It implies that the nation behind these gifts is seeking conquest. Flags are usually planted to indicate that this is now our territory. Google “planting a flag” and the first image that jumps up is that of Iwo Jima. The Russians made this kind of claim on the ocean floor beneath the North Pole. So far, though, there are no signs that China has territorial ambitions in the Caribbean.

Indeed, the Times goes on to explain that “most analysts do not see a security threat, noting that the Chinese are not building bases or forging any military ties.” One wonders, who are the other analysts who do see a security threat? Indeed, if the Chinese do have global military ambitions, they would be foolhardy to reveal them—well before they are ready to suit up—in our backyard.

The terms “emerging superpower” and seeking to make “inroads” that the Times next employs all have ominous sounds about moves that the United States has long engaged in and lauded—under the rubric of foreign aid and trade. The Chinese motives seem to be similar: engendering some goodwill is good for business. This is especially true for China, whose economy is based on exports of goods and imports of massive amounts of raw material and energy sources.

Dennis C. Shea, the chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a bipartisan Congressional panel, said that “with China you have to be wary of possible policy goals behind the effort.” Sir Ronald Sanders, a former diplomat from Antigua and Barbuda, adds that if “China continues to invest the way it is doing in the Caribbean, the U.S. is almost making itself irrelevant to the region. You don’t leave your flank exposed.” They thus combine a touch of paranoia—you never know what these people are really up to—with military imagery (exposing our flank).

If the United States is really worried about these Chinese moves, let us build some more schools and roads and stadiums ourselves and best China’s recent investment in the Caribbean. But otherwise, we should keep our shirts on. Maybe it would help keep things in perspective if we remember the panic and breast-beating that followed when the Japanese got even closer—they purchased Rockefeller Center, right in the heart of New York City! We did live to tell.

We also recently learned that U.S. diplomatic cables released through WikiLeaks show Western diplomats are worried about the Chinese presence “less than 190 miles from the United States.” But what are they worried about? The noise from the stadiums will not carry that far, and the new schools will not draw students from Florida. As for political support, what have the Bahamas, Dominica and Antigua to offer? A vote in the UN General Assembly? For what? And why would that trouble us?

China will soon discover in the Caribbean what it is already learning in Africa, Brazil and Southeast Asia—that nations take these gifts happily but are soon to ask: “What else have you done for me lately?” As the United States discovered, foreign aid and trade do not endear one to their beneficiaries. And China’s labor practices don’t help: developing nations complain about the fact that the Chinese often do not hire locals but bring their own workers, that the natives they do hire endure poor working conditions and receive poor wages, and that the terms of trade are unfair. It’s a “new colonialism.” In several cases, most recently in Burma and Vietnam, Chinese overtures led these nations to move closer to the United States. In short, China’s drives face increasing pushback and are thus largely self-limiting.

Like most societies, the United States is always tempted to see an adversary, if not an enemy, lurking about. Once it was Japan, then the EU, now China is framed as a mounting threat. Nations often respond in kind to such characterization, leading to a vicious cycle in which one nation voices suspicions that the other nation sees as confirmation of its concerns, then responds—all leading to a gradual increase in hostile feelings and a military buildup. That we are now dragged into this kind of psychological tit-for-tat in China has been documented by a recently released important paper by leading American scholar Kenneth Lieberthal and Chinese scholar Wang Jisi. We best “keep our cool”—we have little to fear but the reactions to our fears.

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China’s Colonizing Africa, While We Talk Charity


"From Nigeria in the north, to Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola in the west, across Chad and Sudan in the east, and south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique," writes Andrew Malone, "China has seized a vice-like grip on a continent which officials have decided is crucial to the superpower's long-term survival."

In fact, it would seem China's following the same model that Britain first employed to colonize Africa; particularly that expressed by the highly respected and equally racist cousin of Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Galton, just over 130 years ago.

In an 1873 letter to The Times, Galton wrote, 'My proposal is to make the encouragement of Chinese settlements of Africa a part of our national policy, in the belief that the Chinese immigrants would not only maintain their position, but that they would multiply and their descendants supplant the inferior Negro race.'
'I should expect that the African seaboard, now sparsely occupied by lazy, palavering savages, might in a few years be tenanted by industrious, order-loving Chinese, living either as a semidetached dependency of China, or else in perfect freedom under their own law.'

With over 750,000 Chinese settling in Africa over the past ten years, and suggestions that anywhere up to 300 million will need to be sent in the future (to offset over-population and pollution), Malone says that Galton's vision of a colonized Africa is now coming to pass.
Across Africa, the red flag of China is flying. Lucrative deals are being struck to buy its commodities - oil, platinum, gold and minerals. New embassies and air routes are opening up. The continent's new Chinese elite can be seen everywhere, shopping at their own expensive boutiques, driving Mercedes and BMW limousines, sending their children to exclusive private schools.

The pot-holed roads are cluttered with Chinese buses, taking people to markets filled with cheap Chinese goods. More than a thousand miles of new Chinese railroads are crisscrossing the continent, carrying billions of tons of illegally-logged timber, diamonds and gold.
The trains are linked to ports dotted around the coast, waiting to carry the goods back to Beijing after unloading cargoes of cheap toys made in China.

Confucius Institutes (state-funded Chinese 'cultural centres') have sprung up throughout Africa, as far afield as the tiny land-locked countries of Burundi and Rwanda, teaching baffled local people how to do business in Mandarin and Cantonese.
"The Chinese are all over the place," says Trevor Ncube, a prominent African businessman. "If the British were our masters yesterday, the Chinese have taken their place."
Meanwhile, Russia tries to get its own foot-hold in Africa; over-eager Americans and civil society groups barrage the continent with good will gestures; and the governments of the world, as always, undermine it with old-fashioned Christian charity and promises of better days... so long as they "play nice."

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Communist China's Colonization of North Korea



North Korea vows to stick to its policy of 'songun,' or military first, saying the policy of giving priority to reinforcing military power is essential to build a self-reliant country. (Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP)

Anyone who examines or comments on the Korean peninsula's political situation is aware of its people's painful history as victims of colonization. Unfortunately, many assume said colonization ended with the Second World War. While the last colonial power in southern Korea was indeed removed in 1945, the northern half of peninsula simply switched colonial masters�from Imperial Japan to the Soviet Union and (now solely) Communist China.

Many would certainly balk at such a statement. They would acknowledge that the Stalinist regime in northern Korea is dependent upon Communist China�some will even go so far as to call the regime a satellite state or client state�but a colony? Yet, if examined historically and objectively, the fact is, father Kim Il-sung and son Kim Jong-il are not Korean revolutionaries, or even Korean tyrants. Instead, the younger Kim is, as the elder Kim was, merely an agent of their Communist colonial masters.

Let us begin with Kim Il-sung. His base of operations was not in Korea resisting the Japanese occupation, but instead in the Soviet Union itself�Kim Jong-il was actually born in Siberia in 1941 (BBC). The so-called Democratic People's Republic didn't establish itself in northern Korea until three years after the Soviet Red Army cleared the way in 1945 (CNN)�even the Stalinist "Worker's Party" marks its founding a month after the end of World War II.

Lest anyone forget, any regime installed by Joseph Stalin had one priority: Joseph Stalin. Thus, Kim Il-sung's power (and indeed, his ability to draw breath) depended on obliging not the Korean people, but his Moscow master. He even had to get Stalin's approval for his plans to invade the southern half of Korea in 1950 (CNN � Cold War, Episode 5: Korea).

When said approval came, the Korean War began. Most know how the war ended: a Korean peninsula divided by a demilitarized zone at the behest of the superpowers. Far fewer are aware of why it ended as such, for a divided Korea was far from inevitable. In fact, in the fall of 1951, American and allied forces had nearly liberated all of Korea, not just the southern half, from the Kim puppet regime. At this point, Stalin delegated colonial authority to Mao Zedong, and Mao grabbed it with both hands; he sent in hundreds of thousands of "volunteers" to overwhelm the American and allied forces and drive them back to the present dividing line. Without Mao Zedong and his Chinese Communist Party, the "Democratic People's Republic" would not exist, and Korea would have been free, democratic, and whole. Instead, northern Korea shifted from a Soviet colony to a Communist Chinese colony. By the 1990's, with the Soviet Union disintegrated, Communist China became the sole source of support for Kim Il-sung and, later, Kim Jong-il.
Today, Communist China still provides the bulk of "international aid" to the Pyongyang regime, and while the northern Stalinists will gladly take whatever the dovish government of southern Korea will give them, Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il has repeatedly sought counsel and support not from Seoul�where in fact he has never stepped foot�but to Beijing and his Communist masters (CNN, Voice of America via Epoch Times ).

Of course, many smaller nations have larger allies, even larger allies with troops stationed on their territory. What makes those nations free and northern Korea a colony? The Communists themselves answered that question with their brazen "historical" claim to Koguryo, the ancient Korean kingdom whose boundaries just happen to include "most of modern North Korea" ( London Telegraph via Washington Times ). The significance of this is plain: the Communists used the same type of pseudo-history to justify seizing Tibet in 1950. With precedent in place, the message was sent: Kim Jong-il will do our bidding, or we'll simply take northern Korea for our own.

This has been mistakenly assumed to be a veiled reference to Kim's ambition for nuclear weapons. In fact, the real purpose is to ensure the regime itself is not replaced by one friendlier to democracy (to say nothing of democratic reunification). The Chinese Communist Party has called its relationship with the Kim Jong-il regime as close as "lips and teeth." In fact, one analyst, CNN's Willy Lam, noted that the Communists believe "any attack on North Korea�even a limited offensive to wipe out its nuclear installations�would be a challenge to Chinese power and even sovereignty."

One does not use the word "sovereignty" to warn off attacks against allies. That word is saved for attacks on one's own territory�or one's colonies.

However, if the Communists have that much control over Kim Jong-il, why go through the charade of the six-party talks regarding his development of nuclear weapons? There are, in fact, several reasons for this.
First of all, so long as Kim appears to be "on his own," the Communists can be rendered blameless for anything he does. Thus, the Communists can establish a powerful, hostile force against America without suffering any consequences. If Stalin, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev could have done something similar in Eastern Europe, they almost certainly would have.

Secondly, there is southern Korea to consider. For obvious and justifiable reasons, all Koreans know of their people's past suffering under Japanese rule. For that reason, anything that smacks of colonialism will wipe out the Communists' charm offensive on the southern half of the peninsula. As it is, the Communists have the best of both worlds�they can stand by their "ally," thus scoring points with the Korean left, while ostensibly nudging Kim Jong-il to the table, winning underserved plaudits from everyone else. The result has been terrific for the Communists: the rising generation in southern Korea is more supportive of Kim Jong-il than the nation that stopped his father from plunging the entire peninsula into darkness�the U.S.

Finally, there is the matter of global geopolitics. In their efforts to build a global anti-American coalition, the Communists have adeptly stolen the "anti-colonial" message and claimed it as their own. Honesty about their Korean colony would expose them as hypocrites to their African, Asian, and Latin American friends, and risk much of what they have gained diplomatically. Better to go through the illusion that northern Korea is separate.

However, a separate northern Korea is an illusion. In reality, both the "Worker's Party" and the "Democratic People's Republic" were created by under the shelter of the Communists in Moscow, and have been preserved and maintained by the Chinese Communist Party for over fifty years�on territory the Chinese Communists claim to be theirs by historical right anyway. That is not a satellite, or a client state; that is a de facto colony.

For northern Korea, the war to end fascism merely replaced one occupying army with another. In place of the brutal regime from Tokyo came a brutal regime from Moscow and Beijing. De-colonization has reached Africa, Latin America, and most of Asia, but for the northern half of Korea, the colonial era is still alive and well. The sooner the free world recognizes this, the sooner it can end the fantasy of six-party talks and work to end the Chinese Communist Party's brutalization of the Chinese and Korean peoples. America will never be secure until China and Korea� all of Korea�are free.

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The dragon goes shopping in South America

  
China has more than $75bn in financial investments across South America [Chris Arsenault/Al Jazeera]
The small restaurants and shops selling plastic sandals, tacky umbrellas, kitchen wares and paper lanterns in Buenos Aires' Chinatown do not give the impression of impending economic dominance.
Away from this small urban area, however, China has been not-so-quietly buying up agricultural products, companies and minerals around South America. 
Some analysts consider this aggressive drive for resources as a new form of imperialism, in which a big power wrangles raw materials from weaker states. Others believe China's push gives South Americans an alternative to the US, which critics say has attempted to control Latin economies through debt and support for dictators. Regardless of how it is seen, China's economic footprint in the region is growing dramatically. 
"Across Latin America we are seeing that China is having an increasing importance in trade and investment," Ricardo Delgado, director of Analytica Consulting in Buenos Aires, told Al Jazeera. 

"Brazil and Argentina produce and export many raw materials: soy, sugar, meat and corn… China is a very important driver of demand for these commodities."

Since 2005, China's development bank and other institutions have spent an estimated $75bn on financial investments in South America, said Boston University professor Kevin Gallagher. This is, he points out, "more [investment] than the World Bank, US Export Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank combined".

Chinese private investment, often coming from large state-supported firms that set-up operations in the region or buy local companies, has been about $60bn, Gallagher said.

In the past five years, Bilateral trade between China and South America jumped more than 160 per cent, rising from $68bn in 2006 to $178bn in 2010. In Peru, Chinese mining giant Chinalco spent $3bn buying "copper mountain" - an entire rock formation containing two billion tonnes of the precious metal. The firm expects a 2,000 per cent profit on its investment. 

The Chinese state lent Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, $10bn in 2009. And a plan from China's Beidahuang food company to lease more than 300,000 hectares of land to grow genetically modified soya, corn and other crops in Argentina's Patagonia region has locals furious about potential environmental damage. 

Food and fuel

As director of Mercampo, an agricultural consulting firm based in Rosario, Argentina, Gabriel Perez has seen the increase first hand. More trade delegations are coming from China, and tycoons from the world's second largest economy are eager to invest in agriculture and commodities.
"China has the strategic vision to ensure food security and energy in their country [as they worry] that long-term problems will be the supply of raw materials," Perez told Al Jazeera. "This is undoubtedly the primary reason for China's investments in South America."


Foreign firms eye Argentina's land
Chinese firms often buy local assets or lock-in long term supply agreements, sometimes making deals in Chinese currency, rather than the US dollar which typically underpins international trade.
China's expanding relationship with South America has global repercussions far from Argentinian soy farms or Brazilian beaches. Unlike most Americans, regular working-class Chinese people save money. Instead, China maintains a large surplus in its foreign trade.
These factors allowed the Chinese government to amass more than $3tn worth of foreign exchange reserves by the end of March 2011, according to China's national statistics bureau.

Most of that money, nearly $2tn, has been invested in US treasury bonds. For years, they provided a low-risk, low- reward, but stable place to put surplus capital. Now China has a conundrum: The US is living beyond its means and has, according to Standard and Poor's, lost its AAA credit rating.
Yet, if China starts selling its US bond holdings, the debt will lose value. China, the largest holder of the debt, will be shooting itself in the foot. The country, therefore, is trying to quietly move its reserves into assets in emerging economies such as those in South America.

South America became the "primary focus" of Chinese non-bond investments in 2009, according to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think-tank that has tracked the communist giant's overseas purchases.

China is now Brazil's largest trading partner. Beijing owns $18.3bn worth of assets in South America's largest country, according to the Heritage Foundation.
"The most important contribution of China’s growth has been trade," Eliana Cardoso, a World Bank economist and former MIT economics professor based in Sao Paulo, told Al Jazeera. "It has contributed to the increase of commodity prices."

Debt and dependency

Throughout South America's history, economists and politicians have worried about dependency created by countries exporting raw materials and then depending on industrialised nations for high-end manufactured goods and technology.

"An economy organised around the export of resources often dampens economic diversification and the development of value-added industries, so there is a way in which China could be as much of a problem as the US," said Greg Grandin, professor of history at New York University and author of Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the rise the new imperialism.

China has, however, given Latin American countries a "more diversified set of options to negotiate prices and interest rates" than what the US would offer, Grandin told Al Jazeera.
Raul Prebish, an Argentinian economist and former director of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), argued that nations on the "periphery" of world trade were doomed to be primary commodity exporters unless they developed by building a domestic manufacturing base and closing trade links.
"Unlike the Americans, the Chinese do not have all sorts of draconian policy conditions on their finance "
Kevin Gallagher, Boston University
"In Brazil, China is an important competitor in low labour cost industries. Chinese prices are low and problems of dumping and subsidised exports are common," Delgado said. "Our industries are not prepared very well for this competition." China is frequently accused of keeping its currency artificially low to boost exports.

Brazil's real and other South American currencies have risen drastically due to the commodities boom in recent years. Brazil’s former finance minister went so far as to warn of a "currency war" as countries around the world tried to lower their currencies to boost exports.

"You hear lots of complaints from the industrial sector that competition has become very hard, because the exchange rate is misplaced," Cardoso said, adding that she thinks such concerns are minor compared to the country's growth.

Plenty of economists who do not have strong positions in debates about dependency think it's wrong to worry about Chinese investment because the terms of trade are squarely in South America's favour, as countries maintain large trade surpluses with China. 

The values of basic products have changed dramatically since the 1960s when "dependency" became a fashionable topic of discussion.

High prices

"In the last decade, the price of commodities that Latin America exports have doubled and tripled, while the industrial goods it imports from China have become cheaper," Aldo Pignanelli, Argentina’s former Central Bank president, told Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman. "This has allowed Latin America to have a positive trade balance, a strong accumulation of reserves in its central banks and a growth rate that will surpass six per cent this year."
More importantly, Chinese loans, representing the bulk of investment, do not come with the same strings as aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or Inter- American development Bank, which are seen as Washington's fiscal agents.

Through the IMF and World Bank, US policy makers demanded privitisation and low inflation rates, often at the expense of growth, on Latin America through the 1970s and 80s.
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Governments in the region have discarded that advice in recent years, looking instead to a mixed economy, in which the state is actively involved in setting monetary policy and managing natural resources. Brazil's government-backed oil giant Petrobras is the clearest example of South America's new form of hybrid capitalism.
Critics charge that the IMF offered one set of prescriptions for developing countries: cut social spending, lower inflation at the cost of job creation and raise interest rates. During crisis at home, the fund's US backers did the opposite, relying on government stimulus programmes and low interest rates to boost growth.

"Unlike the Americans, the Chinese do not have all sorts of draconian policy conditions on their finance," Gallagher said. Other experts have echoed this sentiment - China is more concerned with getting the goods, rather than changing the structure of economies with which it trades.

After defaulting on its massive debt in 2002, following street protests and a bitter economic crisis, Argentina settled its debts with the IMF in 2006 and has ignored its advice ever since.

Back in Buenos Aires' Chinatown, a young Cantonese waitress carried trays of fresh orange juice and sparkling water, chatting in imperfect Spanish to eager Portenos (residents of Buenos Aires) who sit outside in the summer air. While it does not glisten, Chinatown is increasingly becoming fashionable, with young Argentines. Some local libraries even offer free Mandarin language classes, financed with Chinese money, as part of the country's quiet "soft power" in the region.

In recent weeks, Chinese officials have expressed concerns about an economic slow-down, linked to the crisis in European export markets. That could spell trouble for growth in South America.

"Seventy-two per cent of Argentina's soy goes to China," Gallagher said. "If China's demand slows by a few percentage points, you could have an unwinding." He worries commodity exporters have put "too many eggs in the China basket".

Even so, the restaurants in Buenos Aires' Chinatown and beyond are filled with well-dressed people chowing down on BBQed meat, noodles and warm bread. The economy has been strong, despite inflation. 
China's growth has played an important role in reducing poverty across Latin America, which has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years, according to the UN figures released in December.
While Brazilian manufacturers worry about dependency and increased competition, the country's economy has, according to Cardoso, seen an "increase in productivity, an increase in real wages, and a decrease in inequality".

"People are feeling better off," she said. At least part of this feeling can be linked to China and the commodities boom.

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The Red Chinese Colonization of North Vietnam

Did you know that the Communist Chinese colonized North Vietnam? That is what the Vietnam Press (Việt Nam Thông Tấn Xã) in South Vietnam reported in 1960.

The report was a summary of a bulletin which had been published by the Association for International Policy Study and Information (AIPSI), an organization which I have never heard of before.



According to the report from Vietnam Press, Red China was taking various steps to “gobble up” North Vietnam, including helping to establish a Communist regime in the North, providing economic aid, and “colonization.”

I was particularly curious to know how the Communist Chinese were “colonizing” North Vietnam in the 1950s. This is what the Vietnam Press reported:

“In late 1954, Haiphong was visited by Chinese engineers who took over control of the Post and Telegraph Office, the harbor, and the cement plants. Now Haiphong is a Chinese town where the Vietnamese are working for Chinese ‘technicians.’

The following year Nam Dinh and its cotton weaving mills suffered the same fate. The open mines of Hong Hai and Kampha fell successively into Chinese hands.

Now Red China is sending equipment and spare parts to help the Viet Cong set up plants, under the supervision of Chinese engineers and foremen. Those plants are operating under Chinese management.”


The Vietnam Press report goes on to cite the AIPSI bulletin to say that “The (North) Vietnamese, a colonized people, are victims of the most ruthless exploitation.”

I wrote a post a while ago (here) about a scholar from the North’s view of Vietnamese-Chinese historical relations that was written in 1954. It is extremely “pro-Chinese.” In the article the author also makes some derogatory comments about the people in the South, referring to the rulers there as a “gang of traitors.”
I wish someone would study about the discourses about China in the South and North in this period. It’s very complex, and very interesting.

Just to make one small observation, it’s fascinating that an organization which was officially called (in perfect Chinese word order) the Việt Nam Thông Tấn Xã (越南通信社) could criticize North Vietnam for being colonized by the Chinese.

Yes, Communist China exerted a strong influence over North Vietnam in the 1950s, but at the same time that this was happening, an effort was underway to “de-Sinicize” the Vietnamese language and culture.
Meanwhile, the South was not under the direct influence of China (be that the PRC or ROC), as the North was, and yet the language and culture there maintained many elements which clearly were Chinese in origin.
So which of the two Vietnams was “colonized” by “China” in the 1950s? I think the answer to that question might depend on where one looks, in factories or minds, but it is a fascinating topic which I wish someone would examine.

The rest of this report is below.


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