Cardinal Ricardo J. Vidal, archbishop emeritus of Cebu, has written to the Philippine bishops that on Oct. 17, 1949, Mary Mediatrix of All Grace (said to) Teresia Castillo, “Pray hard for China’s dream is to invade the whole world. The Philippines is one of its favorites. Money is the evil force that will lead the people of the world to destruction.”
in just two years after 2010 China had pledged over $100 billion to develop commercial projects in Africa, a period in which the continent had effectively become de facto Chinese province, unchallenged by any developed nation which in the aftermath of the financial crisis had enough chaos at home to bother with what China may be doing in Africa.
Since then China's financial colonization of Africa has only accelerated, and according to a study by the China-Africa Research Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, China had lent a total of $143 billion to 56 African nations facilitated principally by the Export-Import Bank of China and the China Development Bank. By sector, close to a third of loans were directed toward financing transport projects, a quarter toward power and 15% earmarked for resource mining including hydrocarbon extraction. Just 1.6% of Chinese loans were dedicated to the education, healthcare, environment, food and humanitarian sectors combined, confirming that all China interested in was building a giant commodity/trade/military hub.
Just seven countries – the strategically important Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Zambia – accounted for two thirds of total cuмulative borrowing in 2017 from China, with oil-rich Angola alone representing a 30% share, or $43 billion (35% of Angolan 2017 GDP). Ultimately, Angola reached a loans-for-oil settlement, with Beijing tying the country's future oil production to shipments to China in order to service the country's burgeoning infrastructure debt. According to an April 2018 IMF study, as of the end of 2017, about 40% of low-income Sub-Saharan African countries are now in debt distress or assessed as being at high risk of debt distress including Ethiopia, the Republic of the Congo and Zambia.
Amusingly, in a September 2018 speech to the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, President Xi Jinping said Chinese investment came “with no strings attached” and pledged a further $ 60 billion of loans for African infrastructure development over the next three years. As it turns out, Xi was only joking because as we reported last month, (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-26/china-take-over-kenyas-largest-port-over-unpaid-chinese-loan) China was set to take over Kenya's lucrative Mombassa port if Kenya Railways Corporation defaults on its loan from the Exim Bank of China. The China-built, China-funded standard gauge railway, also known as the Madaraka Express, was plagued by cost overruns, and outside observers questioned its economic viability, but China was not worried: after all, if the 80%-China funded project failed, Beijing would have full recourse. Call it a "debt-for-sovereignty" exchange.
After decrying US sanctions against Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA as "illegal" and enforcing "unfair competition", a Kremlin spokesman has reiterated that Russia is prepared to use "all mechanisms available to us" to defend its economic interests in Venezuela - interests that are closely tied to the Maduro regime.
According to RT (https://www.rt.com/business/450116-russia-oil-assets-venezuela/), Russia has extended billions of dollars of loans to PDVSA, mostly via oil firm Rosneft. The company has extended $6 billion of loans which must be repaid in crude by the end of the year. Data from S&P Global Platts shows that as of November 2018, Venezuela had a $3.1 billion outstanding loan to repay to Rosneft.
Rosneft also has five joint upstream projects with PDVSA in Venezuela. Peskov said that Russia is still assessing the potential impact of the PDVSA sanctions for Moscow.
There was a thread here on CI a couple years ago about the phrase "Beware the yellow race" which didn't reach any conclusion, so I decided to do some research.
Many over the age of 70 will remember hearing that phrase being taught to them in school. We all assumed it was a warning from the Fatima apparitions, but in reading early accounts I found nothing. It was also emphasized
this phrase did NOT apply to Japan with whom we had just been at war but the threat was from China.
Since then two little prayer cards have come into my possession.
A Prayer for the Conversion of China, Dated Dec. 18th, 1918,
Imprimatur +Charles Hugh Gauthier, Abp. of Ottawa (the capital of Canada)
AND
Prayer for China, not dated
Imprimatur +Patrick Cardinal Hayes, (he was the Abp. of NY from 1918-1938
The Apocalypse mentions something about the dragon and the bear in end times
With the latest negotiations between China and the Pope and all mentioned in this thread,
is it time to start saying these prayers again?
Looks like we were warned about China 100 years ago.
The 20th Century German Catholic mystic, Alois Irlmaier had a vision of China invading America, but they did not last as victors.
But America lost most of it's territories and would no more be a superpower.
China and Russia Have Set a Nuclear Collision Course With the United States
Backed up by growing nuclear arsenals, China and Russia are waging little ‘asymmetric’ wars to expand their territory and influence. Can the U.S. stop them? They think not.“Beijing has clearly relished challenging the U.S. Navy and Air Force.”
The Chinese also have one other advantage: the will to use force to take what is in the possession of others. In their peripheral seas, they grabbed control of the Paracel Islands, in the northern portion of the South China Sea, from South Vietnam in 1974 after a short battle. The Chinese also seized Mischief Reef from the Philippines in a series of actions from late 1994 to early 1995, and they snatched Scarborough Shoal, also from Manila, in early 2012. Now, China is, among other things, pressuring other Philippine features in the South China Sea and using menacing tactics to take over a chain of uninhabited islets currently under Japanese control in the East China Sea.
by Kristina Wong
China’s growing power throughout the world presents an existential threat to Americans’ future that they are not prepared for, experts warned Thursday during a panel discussion at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
“This is an existential threat. The American people are not prepared to deal with it, but this will be the challenge of our generation, and maybe later ones as well,” said Gordon G. Chang (http://cpac.conservative.org/speakers/gordon-chang/), author and expert on China.
The panel, entitled, “China, the Global Menace,” was one of several during the three-day conference exploring the challenge to the U.S. from a rising China.
Rick Fisher, senior fellow on Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said China has been methodically building networks around the world, as well as a military that will project power around the globe.
“China for 30 years has been assiduously gathering economic power in all regions of the planet, using this economic power to gather political networks, and is…today convincing those political networks to begin military cooperation to proto-alliance cooperation with China,” he said.
For example, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization started in 1996 as an economic cooperation body, but “all it produces are military exercises,” Fisher said.
He said in July, China announced the China Africa Defense and Security Forum (http://www.cdsndu.org/html_en/to_articleContent_article.id=40288a8561d53b030164d07322a408a2.html), which includes every country on the African continent but is “controlled by the People’s Liberation Army.”
“So this is the beginning of a second proto-alliance, and they make no bones publicly [that they are] working to form a similar forum in all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean,” he said.
Experts on the panel said China is the largest source of support outside the region for the Cuban communist regime, the Venezuelan dictatorship, and other left-wing regimes.
- About 55 miles east of Palm Beach, Florida on Grand Bahama Island, a Hong Kong-based business is spending about $3 billion on a deep-water container facility, the Freeport Container Port.
- The concern is that the port will become another debt-trap, like the port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka. There are concerns that Hambantota will eventually become a Chinese naval base. Will the Pentagon have to contend with Chinese warships at Freeport?
- The Chinese military is already in the Caribbean, in Cuba, apparently to collect signals intelligence from the U.S. Washington splashes plenty of cash around the Middle East, for instance, but American policymakers need also to be concerned, urgently, about critical needy locations closer to home.
There's a "Red Storm Rising" just miles from America's shores. "In point of fact, the entire hemisphere is on fire," said (https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6022668508001/?playlist_id=933116636001#sp=show-clips) Lou Dobbs on his widely watched Fox Business Network show on April 4. "China and Russia are engaging us in almost every quarter in this hemisphere. Russia and China in Venezuela, but China throughout the hemisphere and throughout the Caribbean."
Throughout the Caribbean, China's influence is growing fast. Trade and investment have made Beijing a power. Chinese motives are not solely commercial, however, and do not appear benign.
We begin on the island of New Providence, in the Bahamas. The Export-Import Bank of China in 2011 extended a $2.45 billion construction loan (http://bs.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxw/t879256.htm) for the Baha Mar resort, near the capital of Nassau. The project, troubled from the start, is the largest and most expensive in the Caribbean.
The project's size is a curiosity, and China's large commitment to the Caribbean is, from an economic viewpoint, intriguing. As Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College points out, China, on a per capita basis, has more equity invested in the Caribbean than in the rest of Latin America. This is noteworthy in that the Caribbean has, in comparison to the rest of that region, far fewer natural resources and only a tiny market for Chinese goods. As Ellis told (https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/caribbean-islands-becoming-hot-spots-for-chinese-investment) Roll Call, "It really isn't about the market or the materials if you look at the amount that they are investing."
So, what is China's motivation? Another large Bahamian investment provides a clue.
About 55 miles east of Palm Beach, on Grand Bahama Island, a Hong Kong-based business is spending about $3 billion on a deep-water container facility, the Freeport Container Port.
Beijing views the Caribbean Sea in much the same way it perceives the South China Sea. This assessment goes a long way toward explaining China's otherwise unusual focus on the 13 island states and 17 "dependent territories" — what once were known as "colonies" — in the region.
That focus also goes some way to understanding the tirade of Haigang Yin, China's chargé d'affaires in the Bahamas, last month. Days before U.S. President Donald Trump's March 22 meeting with five Caribbean leaders — including the Bahamas' — at Mar-a-Lago, Yin accused the U.S. (http://www.tribune242.com/news/2019/mar/21/pm-prepares-trumps-florida-meeting-china-embassy-b/) of attempting to "disintegrate solidarity and cooperation between China and other developing countries."
Up to now, America has mostly left the Caribbean alone. As is often said, the Caribbean is "too democratic and not poor enough" to get U.S. attention. It is, however, correctly called America's "third border" and "soft underbelly."
"All the pressure on Trump to strike a trade deal is coming from Wall Street and corporate America," Bass argued. "Look who fought CFIUS reform...some of the biggest companies in the US and Wall Street came together to fight it. Steve is right about who's fighting...it's corporate America fighting to get Trump to do a deal...and China plays that card and they play it better than anyone else...they open a market to very specific people to court influence."
"Look at what they're doing...they have a geopolitical strategy to unite the Eurasian land mass into one single market then to force the United States out of the Western Pacific then out of the Pacific overall. The radical cadre - this is not the Chinese people - this is about a radical cadre that is taking charge of the Communist Party led by President Xi...they've been running an economic war against the industrial democracies for 20 years."
New Satellite Imagery Reveals Chinese Navy Simulating An Invasion On Taiwan
New satellite images show the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) recently conducted war games to simulate an invasion of Taiwan, reported ThePrint (https://theprint.in/defence/satellite-imagery-reveals-chinese-navys-plan-for-a-possible-attack-on-taiwan/241786/).
The PLAN used Type 071 (NATO reporting name: Yuzhao), an amphibious transport dock, designed to carry 800 fully armed troops, dozens of vehicles and landing crafts, and four helicopters, was used to practice circular deployment with other vessels ahead of a beach assault.Quote"This formation [circular deploymen] provides safety from shore fire as well as aerial attacks, since most landing ships carry only short-range air defence and close-in weapon systems (CIWS)," said ThePrint.
A Type 072A vessel (NATO reporting name: Yuting II), a landing ship designed to carry 250 fully armed troops ten tanks, four landing craft, a medium helicopter, was used to transport amphibious vehicles near the beach landing. Ahead of the invasion simulation, reconnaissance aircraft surveilled above.
The amphibious exercise used landing craft air cushion vessels to bring troops and vehicles ashore. Some of the first vehicles on land were type-08 amphibious armored vehicles and/or Type 05 amphibious fighting vehicles.
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The PLAN’s recent upgrade of landing craft air cushion vessels demonstrates that these hovercraft will be used in future military exercises.
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ThePrint said the PLAN also practiced re-embarkation after the landing exercise and regrouping to fine-tune their amphibious warfare tactics.Quote"The re-embarkation is rarely caught on satellite imagery. This exclusive satellite image displays the process of re-embarkation with five amphibious fighting vehicles lined up in the queue for loading on Type-72 Yukan and Yuting class vessels," ThePrint said.
Regional tensions have also grown due to China's territorial claims and aspirations in the South China Sea, something which has prompted Japan to cast aside its postwar pacifism.
With the probability of China taking Taiwan by force is rising, the military balance in the Taiwan Strait is firmly in China's favor.
With both sides preparing for a cross-strait war, it's only a matter of time before the powder keg is ignited.
China's New Hypersonic Missile Threatens Regional Stability, Analyst Warns
Earlier this summer we reported (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-25/new-video-shows-china-simulating-hypersonic-missile-attack-enemy-forces) how China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) published a video showing the Dong Feng hypersonic missile ("East Wind"), DF-17 for short, simulating an attack on enemy forces.
The DF-17 is designed to fly at hypersonic speeds and evade existing missile defense systems, such as America's anti-ballistic missile defense system called: Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD).
Adam Ni, a military researcher at Macquarie University in Sydney, said China's nuclear deterrence in the Eastern Hemisphere could dramatically increase with the deployment of hypersonic missiles. It would allow the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to defend militarized islands in the South China Sea effectively.
"But the race to develop hypersonic missiles such as DF-17 risks destabilizing the region since hypersonic weapons reduce the time of decision-making before landing to just a few minutes, forcing leaders to make consequential decisions within a very short period," Ni said.
QQ.com speculated the HGV could be an aircraft carrier killer with a range of 1,533 miles, enough distance for Mainland China to guard its militarized islands in the South China Sea from American naval forces.
The DF-17 with an HGV payload (nuclear or conventional) could create a significant imbalance of power in the early 2020s that shifts Eastern Hemisphere power away from the US and towards China.
I am not afraid. Modern Communist China is a counterfeit nation. In this sense I think Ayn Rand may have been right, though I never read the book. Perhaps Atlas will shrug and bring the world to a standstill and then peace will be restored. Did Atlas Shrugged have a happy ending? I think the Ancient Chinese were correct that all the Emperor has to do (if he is virtuous) is sit on his throne and the world will have peace, but the Communists rejected Confucius. I believe his throne should face east to face the rising Sun and await the Second Coming of Christ. Did the throne of the Holy Roman Emperor face East? As the priest does during Mass in traditional Churches?I didn't know it either until now. I'm just after reading it and it's a great story with a fantastic lesson to it. Thank you for making me aware of it.
Did you know my parents did not know the story of Alexander the Great and the Gordian knot? I thought everyone knew that story about the knot and the prophecy that whoever untied the knot will conquer all of Asia (I thought it was the world), and how he did not untie it but cut it by slashing it with his sword. He was a student of Aristotle and he conquered much of Asia and never lost a battle.
Thank you for making me aware of it.
“The backbone of the future of technology is 5G,” Bannon said in an interview with The Epoch Times’ program “American Thought Leaders.”
“Right now, the path that Huawei’s taking, as a front for the PLA, is to basically take over the networks and the components throughout the world.
If we allow this to happen even for a couple more years, Huawei is going to control basically the communications systems of the West, and therefore will be able to control the West.”
“Huawei has a methodology, a high-tech methodology to basically have domination over the world,” Bannon said. In his view, Huawei expanded its business largely under the radar for years.
“Every administration, every president of both political parties,” he said, has “folded when it came into the spotlight with the Chinese” and allowed the Chinese communist regime to freely renege on its promises.
“Here’s the analogy I make: Wall Street is the investor relations department for the Chinese Communist Party, because they’re the ones that raise capital for them. The corporations are the lobbyists,” Bannon said.
“They know all of it, and they don’t care.” Involvement with the Chinese regime “means more money. It means higher stock prices. It means lower slave labor [costs],” Bannon said.
“Wall Street’s the cheerleader. And corporate America has been the lobbyist.”
“They have no moral authority. They have totally bought into a system that’s completely corrupt, and they know all about it,” Bannon said. Yet, they “mock Donald Trump (https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-trump) and say, oh, he’s the barbarian. He’s the wild man. He’s the disruptor to the system.”
“And it’s the working men and women in the middle class in this country [who] have paid the price,” Bannon said.
“This is not just a crisis. It’s a tragedy of the United States,” Bannon said.
Wall Street and the corporate elites are “going to be held accountable by history for what went on in this time and place, what went on in China, and what they knew about and looked the other way.”
There was a thread here on CI a couple years ago about the phrase "Beware the yellow race" which didn't reach any conclusion, so I decided to do some research.
Many over the age of 70 will remember hearing that phrase being taught to them in school. We all assumed it was a warning from the Fatima apparitions, but in reading early accounts I found nothing. It was also emphasized
this phrase did NOT apply to Japan with whom we had just been at war but the threat was from China.
Since then two little prayer cards have come into my possession.
A Prayer for the Conversion of China, Dated Dec. 18th, 1918,
Imprimatur +Charles Hugh Gauthier, Abp. of Ottawa (the capital of Canada)
AND
Prayer for China, not dated
Imprimatur +Patrick Cardinal Hayes, (he was the Abp. of NY from 1918-1938
The Apocalypse mentions something about the dragon and the bear in end times
With the latest negotiations between China and the Pope and all mentioned in this thread,
is it time to start saying these prayers again?
Looks like we were warned about China 100 years ago.
We talked about China last year and now we have the virus....compliments of China.
There was a thread here on CI a couple years ago about the phrase "Beware the yellow race" which didn't reach any conclusion, so I decided to do some research. Many over the age of 70 will remember hearing that phrase being taught to them in school. We all assumed it was a warning from the Fatima apparitions, but in reading early accounts I found nothing. It was also emphasized this phrase did NOT apply to Japan with whom we had just been at war but the threat was from China.
The Apocalypse mentions something about the dragon and the bear in end times
“The Smithfield Food buyout has really raised concerns with American farmers. As part of that 2013 sale, a CHINESE GOVERNMENT now owns 146,000 acres of prime U.S. farmland.”Just out of curiosity, what missile was that? When?
Also, China has already fired missile that was close to New York City.
Where did I read? "China will attack America from the South and Russia will attack America from the North".Chinese troops are in Venezuela. And Russian jets keep buzzing our aircraft by Alaska.
Prayer for theThanks for postng this!
Conversion of China
O Lord Jesus Christ, who
didst come on earth to
save the souls of men, open
now Thy most Sacred Heart
in mercy to the people of
China, who still sit in dark-
ness and in the shadow of
death, and shower Thy
graces on them, that they
may come to the knowledge
of Thy Gospel. Bless also
and protect Thy missionaries,
and make their work fruitful
for Thee of countless souls.
Amen
(300 days Indulgence)
Imprimatur
Charles Hugh Gauthier, Abp. of Ottawa
Dec. 13th, 1918
This prayer was also found in the prayer book The Precious Blood Our Key to Heaven published in the 1920's by the Sister of the Precious Blood on page 141.
We talked about China last year and now we have the virus....compliments of China.China is already at war with us.
That warning back in the first part of the 1900's was legit.