U.S. sends dual aircraft carrier battle group, French nuclear submarine joins military tussle in South China Sea
In view of the Chinese Communist Party‘s maritime expansion in recent years, as well as the claim of sovereignty over the South China Sea, triggering strong dissatisfaction in the international community. China and the United States military tug-of-war escalated, the U.S. Navy two aircraft carrier strike group Tuesday (9) in the South China Sea to launch a “double carrier” operations. France, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), recently sent the nuclear-powered attack submarine SNA Emeraude and the support ship BSAM Seine on a cruise in the South China Sea, demonstrating the importance of the United States, Australia and Japan. The U.S. military described the South China Sea as a very busy traffic area.
The U.S. military described the South China Sea as a very busy traffic area, with USS Roosevelt and USS Nimitz carrier strike group ships and aircraft coordinating operations in the area to demonstrate the ability to operate in a challenging environment, during which numerous exercises will be conducted to improve interoperability between forces and command and control capabilities. This is another joint operation between USS Roosevelt and USS Nimitz after last June in the Philippine Sea.
According to the latest ship tracking information, Nimitz and Princeton have left the South China Sea and are headed to the Philippine Sea via the Verde Island waterway in the Philippines.
Doug Verissimo, commander of the USS Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, said the “dual carrier” operation helps ensure that U.S. forces are skilled in peacekeeping tactics and can continue to demonstrate to regional partners and allies the U.S. commitment to promoting freedom and openness in the Indo-Pacific region. Jim Kirk, commander of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, said, “We are committed to ensuring that nations enjoy the legitimate use of the oceans under international law.”
On the other hand, a U.S. Air Force B1B supersonic bomber, which was recently in India for an air show, departed for Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota on Monday (8).
According to AFP, French Defense Minister Florence Parly tweeted a photo of the French nuclear-powered submarine Emerald, accompanied by the support ship USS Seine, crossing the South China Sea on Monday (8).
Paley wrote: “Why this mission? To enhance our understanding of the region and the fact that international law is the only valid rule, no matter what part of the ocean we sail in.”
In addition, the Indonesian Navy sent three ships in formation with the French Emerald and Portuguese Moon on Monday to exercise in the Sunda Strait, which separates Java from Sumatra; the French ships later continued their voyage and are expected to sail into the Indian Ocean.
At the February 9 press conference of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, spokesman Wang Wenbin only made a passing reference to the U.S. military’s dual aircraft carrier drills in the South China Sea, without expressing any strong words. It seems that the strong movements of the U.S. military are having an effect. Other reporters mentioned that French submarines and supply ships were also present in the South China Sea, and Wang Wenbin also expressed only general opposition.
Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to split the Five Eyes Alliance experts: the possibility is zero
International experts have analyzed the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to split the Five Eyes Alliance, which consists of Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, but they say it has zero chance, as New Zealand’s foreign minister has also indicated.
Salvatore Babones, an associate professor at the University of Sydney, told the Chinese Communist Party wants to see a more isolated New Zealand. “China (the Chinese Communist Party) is very keen to split New Zealand out of the Five Eyes alliance.” According to Babones, New Zealand has been the weak link in the Five Eyes alliance, with the ruling Ardern government seemingly more inclined to preserve trade relations with the Chinese Communist Party.
Relations between Australia and New Zealand have been slightly strained recently, with New Zealand Trade Minister Damien O’Connor saying on Jan. 27 that Australia should follow his country’s lead and be more “respectful” in its dealings with Beijing.
Subsequently, Australian and New Zealand politicians accused O’Connor of sticking up for the Chinese Communist Party, and the Australian trade minister downplayed the incident, reiterating the strong friendship between the neighbors.
Professor James Laurenceson of the University of Technology Sydney said there was “almost zero chance” that the Chinese Communist Party would divide New Zealand from its allies. He said New Zealand, Australia and the United States are close because they share common interests and “not surprisingly, they don’t always engage with China [the Chinese Communist Party] in the same way.”
New Zealand’s new foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, also assured Australia, the United States, Canada and Britain that they would remain strong allies. In her inaugural foreign policy speech, Mahuta said she believed the key to New Zealand’s foreign policy stance was to get international relations right, and that Australia was a key part of New Zealand’s foreign affairs.
“The Australia-New Zealand relationship is vital to New Zealand’s prosperity and security.” She said, “Australia is our only formal ally and an essential partner in our international sphere of interest.”
Poor and insane? Oxford University sells prestigious professorship to Tencent
Oxford University, will rename a prestigious professorship in physics after a Chinese software company, Tencent, which is alleged to have close ties with the Chinese Communist regime’s intelligence services, in return for a £700,000 donation. British media said, “This is outrageous.”
The Daily Mail reported on Feb. 9 that according to sources at Oxford University, the Wykeham professorship of physics (a prestigious faculty title), established in 1900 with a 14th-century New College award, will now be called the “Tencent-Wykeham professorship” in honor of the technology group.
On the evening of the 8th, two former cabinet ministers, urged Oxford to reconsider, a decision that has apparently put the university at odds with its own most senior officials.
Lord Patten, Oxford’s chancellor and Britain’s last governor in Hong Kong, said he could not comment on the Tencent grant because he knew nothing about it until he was contacted by the Daily Mail.
But he added: “I am very much in favor of the suggestion that there should be a full investigation into the relationship between the Chinese Communist state and all our universities.”
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who on the evening of the 8th urged Oxford University to reconsider its decision, said, “There seems to be no bottom line on the extent to which universities are bending over backwards to the Chinese Communist Party for money. The reality is that Chinese companies have an obligation to deliver information to the Chinese Communist Party security agencies on demand, and it is grotesque for Oxford to celebrate Tencent (the name) by renaming this professorship.”
Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, said he was surprised that Oxford agreed to rename a prestigious chair for just £700,000.
He said, “The usual price tag for something like this is in the millions. Having a foothold in Oxford’s physics department is clearly of strategic interest to the Chinese Communist government, and we should be very wary indeed of this kind of investment.”
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sources say Tencent was founded with funding and support from the Chinese Communist Party’s main intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security. A Pentagon report last month said Tencent has been working closely with the Chinese Communist Party’s security agencies on artificial intelligence.
A Daily Mail investigation last year highlighted how China’s “cooperation” often smacks of infiltration. And on the 8th, the think tank Civitas highlighted in a scathing report how British universities are “inadvertently” supporting Beijing’s military arsenal through research projects.
And The Times reported that as many as 200 British academics face an official British investigation into whether they inadvertently helped China’s militarization efforts.
Myanmar police crack down on protesters with live ammunition, 4 wounded, 1 woman shot in the head in critical condition
Myanmar Coup Exposes Stunning Strategic Weakness of Chinese Communist Party
Photo shows soldiers blocking the road to the Burmese parliament in the capital Naypyidaw on Feb. 1, 2021, after the Burmese military detained Aung San Suu Kyi and the democratically elected president in a coup d’état.
Commentator Wang He recently wrote that the Chinese Communist Party’s policy toward Myanmar is based on pseudo-propositions such as the “Malacca dilemma” (including the illusory “two-ocean strategic vision” that through full cooperation between China and Myanmar, China will become a “two-ocean state” with access to the Pacific Ocean and, indirectly, the Indian Ocean). “It is amazing how retarded the strategy has become. The reasons are.
First, the “Malacca dilemma” is a false proposition. Many commentators have pointed out that, first, if a major power wants to cut off oil supplies to China from the Middle East, it would be more direct and effective to do so in the Persian Gulf; second, precision-guided missiles can easily destroy fixed and lengthy onshore oil and gas pipelines, and other countries can paralyze them at any Time during wartime; third, the vast majority of onshore oil and gas pipelines to China pass through high-risk areas, and the non-traditional security threat to China’s energy supply has increased rather than decreased. The threat to China’s energy supply has increased rather than decreased. In reality, the Strait of Malacca, a maritime “choke point” shared by Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, has not experienced any major security incidents so far, indicating that the Malacca “predicament” is illusory and the Malacca The “safety” bureau is real.
Second, the importance and significance of the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline to China’s energy security has been seriously exaggerated. The China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline includes the China-Myanmar Crude Oil pipeline and the China-Myanmar natural gas pipeline, of which the design capacity of the China-Myanmar crude oil pipeline is 22 million tons/year; the gas transmission capacity of the China-Myanmar natural gas pipeline is 12 billion cubic meters/year. As of June 2020, the crude oil pipeline has transported a total of 33.12 million tons of crude oil and the natural gas pipeline has transported a total of 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas. This amount, relative to China’s energy needs, is a drop in the bucket (according to CCP customs data, China imported more than 500 million tons of crude oil and 100 million tons of natural gas in 2020) and does not help.
In short, the coup in Myanmar has brought to the fore the dilemma of the CCP’s policy toward Myanmar, exposing the evil nature of the CCP’s hatred of democracy and its amazing strategic retardation. This is perhaps one of the manifestations of the CCP’s end run.
Canada Visa Center in Beijing Exposed as Owned by the Public Security Bureau
A company owned by the Communist Party’s Public Security Bureau is collecting personal information in Beijing for visa applications to Canada and other countries, giving Beijing’s security services access to information about people planning to travel outside the country, including personal information, plans to go abroad, and more.
Beijing Duo Has Close Ties to Communist Party
According to a report published in the Globe and Mail on February 8, Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Company, founded in 1993 and owned by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, operates a Canadian visa application service in Beijing.
The company’s legal representative and general manager, You Xiangdong, is also the secretary of the company’s party committee. The company has established close ties with the Beijing Youth Political Institute, which has been playing an important role in training a new generation of Communist Party leaders for decades.
Beijing Shuangxiong has hired many of the college’s English graduates to work at the Visa Center.
Beijing Shuangxiong is a subcontractor to VFS Global, a company based in Zurich and Dubai, which has a wide range of contracts to provide global visa processing services to the Canadian government, including the collection of personal information and its biometric information, which is then forwarded to Canadian immigration officials for visa approval.
VFS relies on subcontractors to operate Canada’s 11 visa centers in China, where the company provides visa services for 34 countries, and says it has strict procedures in place to protect personal data.
The fact that the company that operates the Beijing visa center is owned by the police raises questions about the extent to which VFS can protect the privacy of applicants, given that Communist authorities have extensive and intrusive surveillance tools and restrictions on travel abroad by some officials and ethnic groups.
Visa Center Has High Level of Intelligence Value
According to Robert Potter, an Australian cybersecurity consultant and Canadian government adviser, the Communist regime’s security services “clearly have a great interest in mining visa data.
He said there could be a high level of intelligence value in knowing what’s going on inside the visa centers. “If you can see who’s being denied and who’s being approved, it will give you a better chance of getting your agent through (the visa application).”
Porter said the information could also be used to stop people from leaving China. For some people, such as Muslims and Uighurs in China.
Canada loosens standards for Chinese Communist regime?
Ward Elcock, the former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said that involving companies with ties to the Communist government or its security ministries in the Canadian visa application process means that police states like China “have abandoned our standards.
Canada’s opposition parties have urged the government to reconsider its contract with VFS. NDP MPs have written to the immigration and public services ministers expressing “serious concerns about the security of information handled by VFS Global.
While VFS claims that its information is secure, the company has established increasingly close business ties with Communist Party state-owned enterprises. For example, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission owns 30 percent of the city’s Canada Visa Center; China Travel Service owns a majority of the Guangzhou center; and 93.55 percent of the Jinan center is owned by Pei Zhongyi, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
According to a report in the RIA Novosti, the people who answer the phone at these visa centers all refuse to answer questions.
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