Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping recently called on the entire military to prepare for war in order to deal with various complex situations at the Communist Party’s two sessions. Is Xi Jinping “preparing for war” or is he turning his guns inward? Military commentators say Xi’s statement signals that the risks within the CCP are greater, while external problems are secondary. But some experts on the Chinese Communist Party have also analyzed that the Communist Party has previously amended its national defense law to give the green light for war, and is sharpening its knives in preparation for war with the world.
Because the Biden administration may abandon the tough stance against the CCP under Trump and uphold the appeasement policy under Obama. Therefore, some commentators are very worried that the Biden Administration and the Chinese Communist Party have signed a private and secret agreement.
Hunting the best! The U.S. military is buying 120 “Blackwing” submarine-launched Drones to equip submarines with “clairvoyance” and “ears to the wind”.
The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) member proposed a merger of small counties, leaking a 1:5 ratio between the government and the people.
Brinken and Yang Jiechi meet for the first Time, experts: Hope there is no secret agreement
Top U.S. and Chinese officials will meet for the first time since Biden took office next Thursday. It remains to be seen what sensitive issues the Secretary of State and the White House national security adviser will raise with Chinese Communist Party officials in person.
Secretary of State John Blinken and White House national security adviser John Sullivan will meet in Alaska on March 18 with Yang Jiechi, director of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Foreign Affairs Office, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the meeting is a high-level “strategic dialogue” between the United States and China at the invitation of the U.S. side.
Secretary of State John Blinken said the meeting was held on the way back from a visit to Japan and South Korea, and was not a strategic dialogue.
Dr. Anders Corr, publisher of Political Risk, said, “China [the Communist Party of China] wants to define the meeting in terms of a strategic dialogue to show that the two countries are on an equal footing. The strategy also conveys a sense of cooperation, and it is clear that Beijing wants to frame this dialogue in terms of cooperation.”
The White House said the meeting between Blinken and Sullivan would raise those topics of U.S. concern and worry, while also seeking opportunities for cooperation.
White House spokesman Psaki said, “They [the secretary of state and national security adviser] won’t be shy about anything in the conversation. But they want to – next week is an important time to be direct and be able to engage face-to-face.”
What the White House has confirmed it will definitely bring up so far on Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang is the genocide committed by the Chinese Communist Party against the Uyghurs. Analysis suggests that the Biden administration is wrong to seek cooperation with countries that commit genocide.
Dr. Anders Corr said, “If the U.S. puts its political capital on negotiations for trade cooperation with China (the Chinese Communist Party), it has less leverage on Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.”
Experts are deeply concerned about whether the two sides will reach an agreement.
Dr. Anders Corr said, “Beijing may try to reach private secret agreements with the Blinken, Sullivan and Biden administrations, and we hope that doesn’t happen because Beijing has signed a lot of secret agreements around the world with very unfavorable (bad) content.”
Former Secretary of State Pompeo recently said that the Chinese Communist Party never gives in in negotiations and that there is no win-win cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party, only a win for the Chinese Communist Party and a loss for the other side.
Hunting the sharpest weapon! U.S. Navy to Buy 120 Blackwing Submarine-Launched Drones
The U.S. Navy plans to purchase up to 120 “Blackwing” drones from Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment. The drones, which can be launched from submarines or other underwater platforms, will act as the eyes and ears of submarines, significantly increasing the effective attack range of submarines with torpedoes and missiles and keeping submarines away from enemy defense weapons or sensors.
According to the “Global Flight” (FlightGlobal) reported on the 10th, the U.S. Navy announcement information shows that the first “Blackwing” is expected to be delivered as early as August this year, and the last one is scheduled for delivery in May 2023.
Photo: “Blackwing” UAV can be launched from a submarine ship or other underwater platform
“The Blackwing UAV is based on the small UAV technology of an aircraft company called AeroVironment and the Springblade submarine-launched UAV technology. “The Springblade is a lethal drone the company built for the Navy with a small warhead that will retract its wings and transform into a small cruise missile to kill its target as soon as the U.S. military operator deems it worthy of attack. The BlackWing has the ability to be used as a cruise missile.
The “Blackwing” has an ejectable wing, 49.5 centimeters long, weighs 1.8 kilograms, and has a wingspan of 68.6 centimeters. It can perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
“The Blackwing can be launched from a submarine or other underwater platform to mark the location of enemy surface targets far beyond the range of the submarine’s own sensors (passive sonar, periscope, radar, etc.) and transmit them back to the submarine through the data chain, significantly increasing the effective range of the submarine’s torpedoes and missiles, thus playing a spy role and thus Become the submarine’s clairvoyant and smooth ear.
Xi Jinping said the security is unstable, “prepare for war” to turn the muzzle of the gun to the inside? German defense minister: if necessary, will countermeasures
Xi Jinping recently asked the entire military to prepare for war at the two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party in order to deal with various complex situations, causing concern. German Defense Minister A. Kramp-Karrenbauer responded by saying that the Chinese Communist Party has issued a disturbing tone of military deterrence and Germany will counter it if necessary.
During the two recently concluded sessions of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping did not emphasize “preparing for war” when he attended a discussion with the military delegation of the CPC National People’s Congress on the 9th, but asked “the entire military to coordinate the relationship between construction and preparation for war, and to be ready to deal with various complex and difficult situations at any time. The reason is that Xi believes that “the security situation is more unstable and uncertain”.
In response, German Defense Minister Kahlenbauer tweeted on Nov. 11 that Xi’s comments were “troubling” and that “we hear a disturbing tone of military deterrence from China, even calling for ‘readiness to fight ‘”
She said, “I think we should work with the Chinese (Communist Party) where possible and counter it where necessary.”
In early March, the German Defense Ministry announced that the frigate Frigate Bayern would set sail from Wilhelmshaven for the Far East, crossing the South China Sea on its way back.
However, some commentators believe that Xi’s real concern is first about internal problems and then about external ones.
According to military commentator Shen Zhou, Xi Jinping’s speech to military representatives began by affirming the military’s achievements over the past year, but put “fighting the Epidemic” at the top of his list of priorities, perhaps revealing that the epidemic in the CCP’s military is very unusual.
According to the Communist Party, the epidemic was quickly brought under control and a commendation ceremony was held for fighting the epidemic, so the army’s top priority should not be fighting the epidemic. Moreover, Xi completely ignored the main line of confrontation with the U.S. military and the massive disturbance of Taiwan by CCP military aircraft in his speech.
The 2020 U.S.-China military confrontation, which was entirely instigated by the Chinese Communist Party, resulted in a great deal of passivity, including being forced to withdraw its troops from the Sino-Indian border and riding a tiger of harassment in the Taiwan Strait. This prompted the U.S., Japan, Australia and India to intensify their alliance; European countries also prepared to deploy their military forces to the Western Pacific one after another, and the Chinese Communist Party’s provocation drew the new Eight-Nation Alliance.
On Jan. 4, Xi signed Order No. 1, which called for “focusing on preparation for war” and “leading training with war, promoting war with training, and ensuring full readiness for war and readiness for war.
2 months later, these high-profile words are gone. Xi Jinping lectured the army representatives, from “focus on preparation for war” to “coordinate the relationship between construction and preparation for war”, but also “ready to deal with all kinds of complex and difficult situations”.
Shen Zhou said that Xi’s latest speech is actually a sign of greater risk within the Chinese Communist Party, and that the military is not only the party guard, but also must be Xi’s army, which needs to guard against possible coups at all times. The CCP’s military is forced to show its weakness not only because it is caught in an external encirclement, but also because of “various complicated and difficult situations” internally.
Cheng Xiaonong: Chinese Communist Party sharpening knives, preparing for war mobilization
Chinese Communist Party expert Cheng Xiaonong wrote in the Epoch Times on October 11 that the Communist Party’s military threat to the United States is not a war of words, but actually a legislative preparation for war mobilization.
In a report titled “China’s Defense Law to Add “Conditions for War” as International Security Instability Grows,” the Chinese Communist Party’s official foreign propaganda media, Dovetail News, said on Oct. 22 last year that the Communist Party has expanded the “conditions for war” in its defense law to include economic needs as The report said that the Chinese Communist Party has expanded the “conditions for war” in the national defense law to include economic necessity as an important reason for “mobilization for war. In particular, it specifies that “when development interests are threatened,” a general or local mobilization is required.
What does the Chinese Communist Party intend to do by amending the national defense law in this way? This is a very dangerous signal that it is intended to legally prepare for a general mobilization for war. In fact, when the Communist Party and the military decided to launch a war, they did not need to follow the legal procedures. When the Communist Party launched the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Battle of Jumbo Island, they kept them secret from the people and let the official media mobilize the society afterwards according to the prepared propaganda version.
When the Communist Party amended the national defense law, it included economic needs (or “development interests” as the official media called them) as a reason for general mobilization for war. In other words, by amending the national defense law, the CCP expanded the “conditions for war” for foreign wars to infinity, so that any argument could easily be linked to “economic interests. In other words, by amending the national defense law, the CCP has expanded the “war conditions” for foreign wars to infinity.
The scope of this general mobilization for war is certainly not limited to the Taiwan Strait conflict, as the most relevant to China’s “development interests” are overseas trade, technology theft and foreign investment inflows, which are mainly related to the United States. In the CCP’s strategy, the United States is the main country that could hinder its global economic interests; and the changes to the national defense law mean that the CCP’s war threats are aimed primarily at the United States.
CPPCC Member Proposes Merger of Small Counties, Leaks 1:5 Ratio of Officials to Citizens
Recently, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) cited a rare set of data when talking about a proposal to merge small counties, saying that the ratio of financial support staff in one county is 1:5, which shocked netizens.
Li Dongyu, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and vice chairman of the CPPCC of Shaanxi Province, proposed at the two sessions that in order to avoid serious population loss, she suggested that small counties on the mainland with a population size of less than 100,000 could be merged first on a pilot basis.
Li Dongyu mentioned the high administrative costs of the Communist Party government and the wastefulness of public infrastructure, such as the setting up of administrative units and social organizations at the county level, such as the Party Committee, the National People’s Congress, the government, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the discipline inspection, the public prosecution and the law, as well as the construction of office space and infrastructure such as science, Education, sports, Culture and health, which require large financial expenditures each year for financial support staff and infrastructure construction.
She also gave an example of a county with a resident population of 30,200 in 2019, local fiscal revenue of 36.61 million yuan, general public budget expenditures of 865 million yuan, more than 120 administrative institutions and social organizations, and more than 6,000 financial support staff, with a financial support staff ratio of 1:5. Her proposal for small counties to merge could reduce the waste of administrative resources.
How many financial supporters are there in China in the broad sense? As early as 2005, Zhou Tianyong, deputy director of the Research Office of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), wrote that the actual number of civil servants and quasi-civil servants in China supported by the state treasury exceeded 70 million, with a ratio of 1:18 between the government and the people.
Ren Yuling, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and a former counsellor of the State Council, said at the third session of the 10th CPPCC National Committee, “Our ratio of government to people has long reached 26:1, which is 306 times higher than that of the Western Han Dynasty and 35 times higher than that of the late Qing Dynasty. The rapid climb in the proportion of the total population eating financial meals is unprecedented and worrying!”
According to the statistics of the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China, the total number of government financial supporters in 2008 was 39.46 million, a ratio of 1:34. It is noted that after 2008, the National Bureau of Statistics has not kept any statistics on the total number of financial supporters.
No one knows the exact amount of money spent by the Chinese government on administrative expenses each year, which is a “state secret”.
According to the Shanghai Securities News in 2006, Zhang Panorama, former head of the Communist Party’s Central Organization Department, said that one of the major drawbacks of Chinese politics is that “many officials are a problem”. There are 40 to 50 provincial-level cadres in a province, hundreds or even thousands of district-level cadres, and dozens of county-level cadres in a county, which can be said to be unprecedented in ancient and modern times. Not to mention a province, city in addition to the governor, mayor, there are eight or nine deputies, each with a secretary, individual and assistant. Now so many people have increased the cost of expenditure, but also fostered bureaucracy.
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