Tibet Awareness – The Third Pole of Earth is vanishing – A Recipe for Disaster
Whole Awareness – Less Snow and Less Freedom in Tibet – A Recipe for Disaster
A report published in Climate Dynamics suggests that less snow in Tibet means more heatwaves in Europe. How about less Freedom in Tibet? What repercussions it would have on rest of the world? As Doomsayer of Doom Dooma, I predict that less ‘Freedom’ in Tibet is a recipe for a great disaster. A calamity, a catastrophe, and a disaster will strike Red China forcing her out of Tibet.
As Doomsayer of Doom Dooma, I predict that less ‘Freedom’ in Tibet is a recipe for a great disaster. A calamity, a catastrophe, and a disaster will strike Red China forcing her out of Tibet.As Doomsayer of Doom Dooma, I predict that less ‘Freedom’ in Tibet is a recipe for a great disaster. A calamity, a catastrophe, and a disaster will strike Red China forcing her out of Tibet.
Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162, USA Special Frontier Force. Establishment 22. Vikas Regiment
Less snow in Tibet means more heatwaves in Europe
Worsening heatwaves in Europe and north-east Asia are to thinner snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau, highlighting its key role in global weather systems, a study by Chinese scientists finds
TIBET AWARENESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION. RED CHINA REFUSES TO ACCEPT THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING. RED CHINA IS USING DECEPTION AND PROPAGANDA INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING CORE ISSUES.
Chinese scientists found that reduced snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau triggers high pressure over southern Europe and northeast Asia, reducing cloud formation and pushing up temperatures.
Wednesday 7 October 2015
Recent summer heatwaves in Europe and northeast Asia have caused massive water shortages and a large number of deaths. But the mechanism behind these extreme weather events is not fully understood.
Scientists at China’s Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology now say that decreasing snow cover in the Tibetan Plateau could be playing an important role. Professor Wu Zhiwei and her team used monthly snow cover and air temperature data from the past fifty years to build a global circulation model.
Their findings show that reduced snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau triggers high pressure over southern Europe and northeast Asia, reducing cloud formation and pushing up temperatures. Warmer and drier conditions in turn further inhibit cloud formation, intensifying local heat waves, says their paper, published recently in Climate Dynamics. With further snow loss projected in the future, “Tibetan Plateau snow cover may play an increasingly significant role in shaping the Eurasian heat waves in the next decades,” the Chinese scientists conclude.
Summer snow cover on the Tibetan plateau has already decreased significantly over the past 50 years with rising levels of global greenhouse gases. The region is warming at almost three times the global average.
Global climate connections
As climate models grow more sophisticated and complex, scientists have identified a set of long-distance atmospheric connections – or “teleconnections” – linking climate and weather in regions that are far apart.
These teleconnections also explain why rising sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean affect summer rainfall in North America and why there are major global climate anomalies when an EL NINO occurs.
The findings are significant for southern Europe and north-east Asia, where heatwaves have become more frequent and more severe over the past decades. In 2003 Europe was caught off guard as sweltering temperatures brought the hottest summer since records began, leading to 70,000 deaths. In July – August 2010, another heat wave caused an estimated 56,000 deaths in western Russia.
In northern China heatwaves have led to major drinking water shortages for over half a billion people.
Tibet – the weather maker
Scientists agree that as the largest and highest plateau in the world, Tibet plays a key role in the global climate system. But many of the details remain a mystery. The authors of the paper acknowledge their findings contain a number of caveats – including the lack of high quality and long-term climate data for the Tibetan Plateau. The plateau and the Hindu Kush Himalayas are together often called the third pole because they hold the world’s largest stock of ice outside the poles. The plateau’s remoteness, high altitude and harsh conditions mean that even basic weather stations are few. Satellite data only exists from the 1970s and is plagued by errors because of the lack of calibration from ground observations.
Earlier studies have shown how heavy snowfall over the Tibetan Plateau can both weaken and prolong the duration of the summer monsoon system in the region. Another study linked greater winter snow cover in Tibet with warmer winters in Canada.
The Nanjing study adds fresh insights: “The findings in this paper are very important for understanding the causes to the increased frequency of heatwaves in Eurasia,” said Wen Zhou from the Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, City University of Hong Kong. She is leading a separate team to study the influence of high summer temperatures in southeast China on the Asian monsoons.
Plugging the gap
China is trying to fill this data gap. Last year, government institutions launched a US $49-million initiative to wire up the plateau with sensors in an unprecedented attempt to understand its influence on climate — especially the Asian monsoons.
The Chinese effort could help to predict extreme weather — both in Asia and as far afield as North America — and give scientists a steer on how climate change affects these events.
The China Meteorological Administration and the National Natural Science Foundation of China has set up sensors on high towers and in the soil to monitor temperature and moisture and cloud formation, as well as deploying sensors mounted on weather balloons and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Raising Tibet – Raising Tibet Awareness – A Plateau under Military Occupation
As such, Tibet is not a part of China at any time in human history. There are two issues of primary concern; 1. Action of Natural Forces Raising Tibet, and 2. Red China’s use of Military Force to Occupy Tibet which demands Raising Tibet Awareness.
Mother Nature has vast resources of energy which she is slowly spending over the last 50 million years to Raise Tibet with ease and without any apparent effort. Surprisingly, humans need to spend more energy as compared to Mother Nature’s energy expenditure to Raise Tibet. I am not resourceful like Mother Nature. My efforts to Raise Tibet Awareness is lot more challenging as I confront Red China who with her superior military force occupied Tibet which could not offer significant resistance. Tibet existed as Independent Nation with full control on its internal affairs even during times of Mongol and Manchu China Empires.
As such Tibet is not a part of China at any time in human history. There are two issues of primary concern; 1. Action of Natural Forces Raising Tibet, and 2. Red China’s use of Military Force to Occupy Tibet which demands Raising Tibet Awareness.
Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA
Special Frontier Force-Establishment 22-Vikas Regiment
THE CONVERSATION
As such Tibet is not a part of China at any time in human history. There are two issues of primary concern; 1. Action of Natural Forces Raising Tibet, and 2. Red China’s use of Military Force to Occupy Tibet which demands Raising Tibet Awareness.
RAISING TIBET
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It’s more than a little disconcerting to wake every hour or so, gasping for air, suffocating.
It happened to me during a field season in southern Tibet camped at about 5400 metres above sea level. With my normal sleep breathing patterns, I just couldn’t get enough oxygen. We were working in an area known as the Kampa dome, some 50 kilometres north of the border with India and about 150 kilometres east of Mount Everest.
As such Tibet is not a part of China at any time in human history. There are two issues of primary concern; 1. Action of Natural Forces Raising Tibet, and 2. Red China’s use of Military Force to Occupy Tibet which demands Raising Tibet Awareness.
Crossing a pass into the Kampa dome, southern Tibet, elevation 5500 metres.
The Kampa dome is a sort of giant geological “blister”. The dome, which is about 25 kilometres across, comprises a core of rocks originating deep within the Tibetan crust now exposed beneath a carapace of much shallower rocks.
As such Tibet is not a part of China at any time in human history. There are two issues of primary concern; 1. Action of Natural Forces Raising Tibet, and 2. Red China’s use of Military Force to Occupy Tibet which demands Raising Tibet Awareness.
Google Earth image of the Kampa dome in southern Tibet, viewed from the south-east. The dome rises to almost 6000 metres above sea level at its highest point. The lighter coloured rocks in the valleys in the core of the dome are granites and metamorphic rocks that have been forced up through a carapace of darker coloured and shallower sedimentary rocks, now exposed around the rim of the dome and along the ridge crests in its core. Image obtained from Google Earth – 29/04/2016
Kampa is just one of a number of domes distributed in a belt along the southern boundary of Tibet, not far north of the Himalaya. These domes attract the attention of geologists interested in what’s going on deep under Tibet and in the sequence of events that raised the plateau over the last 50 million years or so.
And that is not just of geological interest. The Tibetan plateau is so large, and so high, that it influences the global pattern of atmospheric circulation. So the raising of Tibet has had a profound impact on the evolution of the modern climate system. It is one of the elements in the transition from the green-house world of the dinosaur era to the ice-house world in which our own species has evolved.
Our work in Kampa was part of a broader program investigating the magnitude of the forces that drive tectonic plate motion. Amongst other things, getting a handle on those forces is important for understanding what limits the heights of our great mountain ranges such as the Himalaya.
The particular issue that motivated our interest in Kampa was the idea that weak rocks heated beneath Tibet were being, or had been, squeezed outwards to the south in a giant pincer movement by the ongoing convergence between the Indian and Asian plates. The idea that the rocks exposed in Kampa, as well as in the high Himalaya, are a kind of geological “toothpaste” is quite a departure from the conventional view that the mountain system has been created by stacking of thrust sheets one on top of the other.
One of the master faults lying above this purported channel of extruded rock is exposed high up in the face of Everest beneath a limestone that was deposited immediately prior to the raising of Tibet. The southern Tibetan domes make for rather easier and less dangerous field work than the face of Everest.
More than any other, mountain landscapes manifest the awesome power of our restless planet. In the rarefied atmosphere high up in the Kampa, the sense of awe was greatly magnified, especially with the Himalaya towering above the horizon.
The amount of energy involved in building these mountains, in lifting those 50 million year old limestones out of the sea to now sit high up the slopes of Everest, is simply mind-boggling, or so you would think.
To give you a sense, let’s calculate it.
Even though it involves some big numbers, the calculation is really quite trivial. We simply multiply the area of the plateau (about 2.5 million square kilometres ) by the work done against gravity. To lift a column of the crust one square metre in area by 4-5 kilometres takes about 4 trillion joules.
Harmonising units, and we get our estimate of the work done against gravity in raising Tibet – about 10 yottajoules (think “10” followed by 24 zeros). The trouble with big numbers such as these, and one reason they feel so daunting, is we have no natural reference frame to make comparisons.
So let’s compare it to the energy we humans consume to run our daily lives. We could ask how many years would it take to raise Tibet if we put all human energy consumption to work. In its Statistical review of world energy BP estimated the human primary energy consumption in 2015 at 550 exajoules (that is 550 followed by 18 zeros). At that rate, and neglecting inefficiencies, it would take about 20,000 years to raise Tibet.
While that’s a long time, it’s far less than the 50 million years that nature took to raise Tibet. In fact, the rate we consume energy is around 2000 times greater than the 10 gigawatt rate nature has been storing it in the raising of Tibet.
Here in Victoria, with a population at about 6 million, we consume electrical power at a rate of about 5 gigawatts. Making that electricity is only about 30% efficient, and so the burning of coal releases heat at a rate of about 15 gigawatts.
We use energy at a rate, quite literally, that could make mountains move. Now that is something I think really is mind-boggling.
Footnotes
We were guided in our work in the Kampa in 2004 by local herders. It’s hard to imagine more hardy folk. While communication from Tibetan to Chinese to English and back again meant many nuances were missed, it was a special experience. It seemed our guides hadn’t had much to do with westerners before, and we were quite a source of amusement for them. Indeed, it seemed to me there was a very real sense of fun in the way they went about their daily life on the top of world.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION. TIBETAN NOMADS LIVE IN PERFECT HARMONY WITH NATURE LIVING ON LIVESTOCK-REARING. INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IS THE CHIEF CULPRIT OF GLOBAL WARMING.
Our Tibetan guides in one of the glacial valleys high in the Kampa dome, southern Tibet.
A particular highlight was their invitation, on our arrival, to join for some authentic yak’s butter tea. At these heights with little oxygen, not much fuel and with everything just a little damp, cooking is challenging. Burning damp goat dung in the close environment of a yurt produces an awful lot of foul-smelling, acrid smoke, but not much heat. I didn’t much enjoy the taste of the rancid butter either. While the invitation to join with our Tibetan hosts in their summer home remains one of my most treasured experiences, it was with some personal relief that I declined a second “cuppa”, doubting I could hold any more down.
TIBET CONSCIOUSNESS – GLOBAL WARMING – CLIMATE ACTION. GRASSLANDS FAIL TO THRIVE DUE TO WARMING AND LACK OF PRECIPITATION.
Enjoying yak butter tea inside our host’s yurt at over 5000 metres above sea level in Southern Tibet.
Despite it’s remoteness, this is a region in transition, for many reasons. One of my enduring memories of the Kampa is captured in the photo below, showing the alarming degradation of the thin soils that mantle these recently de-glaciated landscapes.
As such Tibet is not a part of China at any time in human history. There are two issues of primary concern; 1. Action of Natural Forces Raising Tibet, and 2. Red China’s use of Military Force to Occupy Tibet which demands Raising Tibet Awareness.
Like so many parts of the world, soil loss in the Tibetan plateau is an issue of critical importance. As this photograph dramatically illustrates, the thin soils that mantle the rocky, recently de-glaciated landscape in the Kampa appear to be degrading at a frightening pace . The story of what we are doing to soils on this planet is an issue of immense importance, for all people.
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DOOMED AMERICAN FANTASY – WAKE UP CALL FOR AMERICA
DOOMED AMERICAN FANTASY – WAKE UP CALL FOR AMERICA. DUMP CHINA. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
37th US President Richard M. Nixon’s China Fantasy placed America on a Slippery Slope with tragic consequences including Military Disaster in Vietnam.
DOOMED AMERICAN FANTASY – WAKE UP CALL FOR AMERICA – READ THE WRITING ON MADE IN CHINA LABEL.
Nixon-Kissinger China Fantasy formulated US Policy of “Conceptual Failure,” and “Strategic Blunder” which holds no Promise for America’s Future.
Doomed American Fantasy – Wake Up Call For America. Belshazzar, Doomed last King of Babylon failed to Decipher The Writing On The Wall (DANIEL 5:25).
“The Writing On The Wall” is clear. America need to Read The Writing On Made In China Label. Prophet Daniel warned Belshazzar, last King of Babylon about impending Doom. It’s not too late. To avoid Downfall, to avert Disaster, to prevent Catastrophe, and to halt Calamity in its tracks, America needs to Dump China Fantasy. The next US President Trump has to start afresh to ‘Make America Great Again’.
Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA Doom Dooma Doomsayer at Special Frontier Force
Doomed American Fantasy – Wake Up Call For America. James Mann, author of “The China Fantasy.”
The New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor
America’s Dangerous ‘China Fantasy’
By JAMES MANN OCT. 27, 2016
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, American business executives and political leaders of both parties repeatedly put forward what I label the “China fantasy”: the view that trade, foreign investment and increasing prosperity would lead to political liberalization in the world’s most populous country.
“Trade freely with China, and time is on our side,” said President George W. Bush. He was merely echoing his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, who called the opening of China’s political system “inevitable, just as inevitably the Berlin Wall fell.”
To say the least, things in China haven’t turned out that way.
Over the past few years, the Chinese regime has become ever less tolerant of political dissent – to such an extent that, these days, American leaders have become far more reluctant to make claims about China’s political future or the impact on it of trade and investment. The “China fantasy” got the dynamics precisely wrong: Economic development, trade and investment have yielded greater political repression and a more closed political system.
This amounts to a new China paradigm: an intensely internationalized yet also intensely repressive one-party state. China provides the model that other authoritarian regimes, from Russia to Turkey to Egypt, may seek to replicate. As a result, the United States will find itself struggling with this new China paradigm again and again in the coming years.
In using the word “repression,” I am talking about organized political activity, not private speech. Visitors to China are sometimes surprised to find that cab drivers, tour guides or old friends may speak to them with candor, even about political subjects. However, what such people can’t do is to form an organization independent of the Chinese Communist Party or take independent action to try to change anything.
Doomed American Fantasy – Wake Up Call For America. Wang Qiaoling (Left), and Li Wenzu with photos of their husbands, Human Rights lawyers Detained by Red China.
Wang Qiaoling, left, and Li Wenzu with photos of their husbands, human rights lawyers in China who have been detained since July 2015. Credit How Hwee Young/European Pressphoto Agency
Indeed, over the past two years the Chinese government has been moving in new ways against people and institutions that might, even indirectly, provide support for independent political activity. It has tightened the rules for nongovernmental organizations. More recently, it has been arresting Chinese lawyers. It has also been staging televised confessions, a practice reminiscent of Stalin’s show trials.
Why is it that trade and investment have led to a Chinese regime that represses dissent more than it did five, 10 or 20 years ago? The answer, put simply, is that the regime thinks it needs to do so, can do so and has fewer outside constraints inhibiting it from doing so.
First, it needs to because as the economy develops and grows more complex, Chinese citizens are having new grievances of the sort that would otherwise lead to organized political activity. Environmental problems have multiplied. Consumers worry about product safety (tainted milk, for example) and accidents (like train wrecks). And at least to educated Chinese, internet censorship can be an annoyance, if not an insult.
Second, China’s security apparatus has a much greater capacity to repress dissent than it did in the past. Technology gives it greater capacity to control both physical space (the streets) and cyberspace (the internet).
Finally, the world’s increased commercial involvement with China over the past two decades has made foreign leaders more reluctant to do anything in response to Chinese crackdowns, lest the Chinese regime retaliate. This is in large part a problem of perception: In fact, the Chinese regime cares about its standing in the world and would seek to avoid international condemnation if world leaders took strong stand and work together.
Almost forgotten now is that in the 1990s, the United States, possessing far greater economic leverage in dealing with China than it has today, threatened trade restrictions if Beijing did not improve the human rights climate. After intense debate, the Clinton administration eventually backed away from threats to limit trade with China.
The aftermath of that debate was disastrous. American leaders overreacted by deciding to avoid any further strong actions in support of human rights in China. Instead, they offered the “China fantasy”: the idea that change would come inevitably.
At one point, giving voice to the optimism and the false assumptions about how trade would liberalize China, President Clinton told China’s president, Jiang Zemin, at a Washington news conference, “You’re on the wrong side of history.” History, however, is rendering its own judgment – that America’s confidence in the political impact of trade with China was woefully misplaced.
Looking forward, we are obliged to deal with a China capable of moving endlessly from one crackdown to another, no longer interrupted by the occasional easings or “Beijing Springs” of the past. It will be a different China, in which educated, middle-class people may be less loyal, but their views also less influential.
What we can do is to keep expressing as forcefully as possible the values of political freedom and the right to dissent. Democratic governments around the world need to collaborate more often in condemning Chinese repression – not just in private meetings but in public as well. We should also find new ways to single out and penalize individual Chinese officials involved in repression. Why should there be a one-way street in which Chinese leaders send their own children to America’s best schools, while locking up lawyers at home?
The Chinese regime is not going to open up because of our trade with it. The “China fantasy” amounted to both a conceptual failure and a strategic blunder. The next president will need to start out afresh.
James Mann, a resident fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and former Beijing bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of “The China Fantasy.”
The White House Meeting between President Trump and Dalai Lama is due since January 2017
Special Frontier Force – The Doctrine of Tibetan Resistance: The tools of Tibetan Resistance are 1. Patience, 2. Persistence, and 3. Perseverance. Man opposes the reign of force by standing firm or by working against the force without yielding. To oppose and to withstand a force, man needs the virtues of Temperance, Tolerance, and Tranquility to remain calm, unperturbed to maintain “Inner Peace” while reacting to an external force. The virtue of Perseverance triumphs for it preserves the “Inner Peace” while the external reality is described by Violence or War.
Special Frontier Force – China’s Military Threat: China’s Military Power, China’s Military Strategy, and China’s Military Tactics cannot overcome the Power of Perseverance, the Perseverance of Tibetan Resistance.
Special Frontier Force – China’s Military Threat: China’s Military Power, China’s Military Strategy, and China’s Military Tactics cannot overcome the Power of Perseverance, the Perseverance of Tibetan Resistance.
Hopeful of an early meeting between Trump, Dalai Lama: Lobsang Sangay | Central Tibetan Administration
Special Frontier Force – The Doctrine of Tibetan Resistance: The tools of Tibetan Resistance are 1. Patience, 2. Persistence, and 3. Perseverance. Man opposes the reign of force by standing firm or by working against the force without yielding. To oppose and to withstand a force, man needs the virtues of Temperance, Tolerance, and Tranquility to remain calm, unperturbed to maintain “Inner Peace” while reacting to an external force. The virtue of Perseverance triumphs for it preserves the “Inner Peace” while the external reality is described by Violence or War.
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Tibetan Resistance Movement Failed Because of Covert Actions. Living Tibetan Spirits Demand US-Tibet Direct Dialogue.
Hopeful of an early meeting between Trump, Dalai Lama: Lobsang Sangay
December 19, 2016
Special Frontier Force – The Doctrine of Tibetan Resistance: The tools of Tibetan Resistance are 1. Patience, 2. Persistence, and 3. Perseverance. Man opposes the reign of force by standing firm or by working against the force without yielding. To oppose and to withstand a force, man needs the virtues of Temperance, Tolerance, and Tranquility to remain calm, unperturbed to maintain “Inner Peace” while reacting to an external force. The virtue of Perseverance triumphs for it preserves the “Inner Peace” while the external reality is described by Violence or War.
Lobsang Sangay (left), the Prime Minister of Tibet’s government in exile with Tibet’s spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama. Photo: PTI By Elizabeth Roche – Live Mint, 19 December 2016 Tibet’s PM-in-exile Lobsang Sangay says encouraged by Donald Trump’s stance on One China policy, remains hopeful of support to resolve Tibet issue peacefully
New Delhi: Lobsang Sangay, ‘prime minister’ of the Tibetan government in exile in India, says he is encouraged by US president elect Donald Trump’s recent statement that his administration does not need to be bound by the One China policy.
Sangay is also hopeful of an early meeting between Trump and the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Sangay was of the view India should also make Tibet as issue for talks with China given that China already considers it a “core” issue with India. On the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, Sangay said the institution of the Dalai Lama would not end but continue after the eventual passing of the 14th Dalai Lama. Edited excerpts from an interview:
The “Middle path” (autonomy for Tibet rather than independence) that the Dalai Lama and you have been advocating seems to be yielding no returns. Is there a chance of a rethink on this?
No. I think, if China grows strong and it’s growing stronger, China needs to think. If they really want to be respected in the international community, you have to earn that respect. And with all the money and military power you cannot buy or force respect, you have to earn it by demonstrating an action and solving the issue of Tibet will earn that respect for them. There is an argument on the Chinese side that if you are weak and you give concession, others will take advantage. Now they are strong. If they give concessions, they will be giving concession from the space of strength.
US president-elect Donald Trump recently said the new administration does not need to be bound by the One China policy. The context was with reference to Taiwan. But does this give you hope as well?
That was a very bold commentary coming from president-elect Donald Trump. We do think that boldness with substance is the right approach with the Chinese government. It looks now that his team has done research on Taiwan, that what he said was deliberate, after substantive research. Similarly, we would appreciate if he would also do something similar for Tibetan people. US presidents George W Bush and Barrack Obama have met his Holiness the Dalai Lama four times each. We remain hopeful that Donald Trump will support the Middle Way approach and meet His Holiness and strongly encourage that the envoys of His Holiness meet with Chinese envoys to resolve this issue of Tibet peacefully.
There have been no talks between the Tibetan envoys and China for six years now. What is it that you think will give an impetus to restart dialogue?
The Trump administration, the European Union, India, Japan, Australia—all governments must have a coordinated effort to press the Chinese government to solve the issue of Tibet peacefully. It should be a coordinated effort and consistent effort.
You were invited to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing in ceremony (in May 2014). That was seen as a message to China. But then, the Modi government seemed to be making efforts to build a relationship with China. Now, irritants in the relationship have surfaced—China’s objections to India’s Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) membership being one. We now see clearance for His Holiness to visit Arunachal Pradesh in 2017. Do you see a consistent policy towards Tibet from the Indian government?
Recently, President of India, Pranab Mukherjee hosted the Dalai Lama. This is a bold gesture from the government of India which we really appreciate. The Indian government is formulating its policy towards China which is showing all the right trends. India has done the most for Tibet. The largest number of Tibetans are in India. The Tibetan government in exile is based in India. I can’t think of any other place where this could be based. But we always request and appeal that Tibet be treated as one of the core issues (of India with China). China already does that. India has the moral high ground to speak for Tibet.
His Holiness has said the institution of the Dalai Lama might end with him because of fears that the Chinese government will foist its own Dalai Lama onto the Tibetan people. At the same time, he has also said that the next Dalai Lama could be born outside Tibet—among the populations in exile. How do you see the future?
The institution of the Dalai Lama will not end. He is the 14th Dalai Lama. For 14 times the Tibetan people have asked him to come back and we will ask him again for the 15th time. When Tibetans asked him to come for 14 times, we had an independent country. Now when we are in exile and we are leading this freedom struggle, all the more reason that we have to ask him to come back. So he will come back.
2016 Central Tibetan Administration
Special Frontier Force – The Doctrine of Tibetan Resistance: The tools of Tibetan Resistance are 1. Patience, 2. Persistence, and 3. Perseverance. Man opposes the reign of force by standing firm or by working against the force without yielding. To oppose and to withstand a force, man needs the virtues of Temperance, Tolerance, and Tranquility to remain calm, unperturbed to maintain “Inner Peace” while reacting to an external force. The virtue of Perseverance triumphs for it preserves the “Inner Peace” while the external reality is described by Violence or War.
Special Frontier Force VS The Evil Red Empire – Red China .Special Frontier Force – The Doctrine of Tibetan Resistance: The tools of Tibetan Resistance are 1. Patience, 2. Persistence, and 3. Perseverance. Man opposes the reign of force by standing firm or by working against the force without yielding. To oppose and to withstand a force, man needs the virtues of Temperance, Tolerance, and Tranquility to remain calm, unperturbed to maintain “Inner Peace” while reacting to an external force. The virtue of Perseverance triumphs for it preserves the “Inner Peace” while the external reality is described by Violence or War.The beginning of the Cold War in Asia in 1949 with the Communist takeover of mainland China.Special Frontier Force – The Doctrine of Tibetan Resistance: The tools of Tibetan Resistance are 1. Patience, 2. Persistence, and 3. Perseverance. Man opposes the reign of force by standing firm or by working against the force without yielding. To oppose and to withstand a force, man needs the virtues of Temperance, Tolerance, and Tranquility to remain calm, unperturbed to maintain “Inner Peace” while reacting to an external force. The virtue of Perseverance triumphs for it preserves the “Inner Peace” while the external reality is described by Violence or War.
President Trump’s Defining Moment – Are you a Friend of Freedom and Democracy?
TIBET AWARENESS – UNITED STATES – CHINA RELATIONS. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP CLAIMED THAT CHINA IS STEALING JOBS.
On Tuesday September 19, 2017, President Trump will address the UN General Assembly. It will be President Trump’s defining moment. He must prove his credentials to the world.
On behalf of Special Frontier Force, I ask Mr. President, “Are You a Friend of Freedom and Democracy?”
President Trump must verify his love, hate relationship with American Values. While defending Freedom and Democracy, the US lost its battle in Vietnam. Now, I must know as to how President Trump plans to “WIN” ‘The Cold War in Asia’.
Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 48104 – 4162
Special Frontier Force-Establishment 22-Vikas Regiment
The American Flag is the most recognized symbol of Freedom and Democracy in the World.
Trump’s Love, Hate Relationship with the United Nations – ABC News
The American Flag is the most recognized symbol of Freedom and Democracy in the World.
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President Trump will make his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Will he bring the world together or sow division? Will he embrace an institution that he has previously called weak and incompetent?
His relationship with the New York-based global organization is long and complicated.
Trump, the candidate, says UN “not a friend of freedom”
During his March 23, 2016 speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s conference, then-candidate Trump issued some of his toughest commentary, speaking of the “utter weakness and incompetence of the United Nations.”
“The United Nations is not a friend of democracy. It’s not a friend to freedom,” Trump said. “It’s not a friend even to the United States of America, where, as you know, it has its home. And it surely is not a friend to Israel.”
Though a 2016 Global Attitudes Survey by Pew Research Center showed that 64 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the United Nations, Trump’s campaign promises for a protectionist economic policy and an aggressive approach to China come into conflict with the goals of multilateralism and the UN charter. His promotion of interrogation techniques “worse than waterboarding,” his push for a temporary ban on Muslims from entering the U.S. and his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords have also put Trump at odds with UN allies.
Last December, Trump continued his assault on the institution, tweeting: “The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!”
Trump, the real estate magnate: “I’m a big fan” of the UN
In 2005, Trump testified before a subcommittee looking at UN spending, calling himself a “big fan of the United Nations and all it stands for.” He told lawmakers the institution was one of the reasons he chose to build Trump World Tower, one of his luxury residential properties, where he did in 1998.
“If the United Nations weren’t there, perhaps I wouldn’t have built it in that location,” said Trump. “So it means quite a bit to me.” When Trump was planning the building, many UN officials, including Secretary General Kofi Annan, expressed disapproval of the massive construction project.
Trump’s renovation hopes
At a 2005 hearing, a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee was looking at renovations at the UN New York headquarters and estimated development costs for similar projects in New York. Trump had met with UN officials to pitch his services, but they were refused. He told members he thought the project could cost $700 million, and he predicted the UN would end up spending upwards of $3 billion.
“You have to deal in New York City construction to see what tough people are all about,” Trump said at the time. “I listen to these people and they’re very naive, I respect them, but they’re very naive in this world. I might be naive in their world. But in this world, they’re naive.”
He also noted at a 2005 hearing that it was a dream of his to move the United Nations headquarters to the World Trade Center.
Seven years later, he shared another UN preoccupation, tweeting on Oct. 3, 2012: “The cheap 12 inch sq. marble tiles behind speaker at UN always bothered me. I will replace with beautiful large marble slabs if they ask me.”
On Tuesday, Trump will address the United Nations General Assembly and the world without his “beautiful large marble slabs” as a backdrop.
The American Flag is the most recognized symbol of Freedom and Democracy in the World.The American Flag is the most recognized symbol of Freedom and Democracy in the World.
At U.N. General Assembly, on Tuesday September 19, President Trump delivered an empty threat to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea. United States tried twice in the past to destroy Korea and Vietnam on the battlefield. US failed in 1953 and 1975 for Korea and Vietnam are not the “Real Enemy.” Korea and Vietnam survived the US bombing campaigns for they have the support of Communists.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY – UN SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA WILL NOT WORK. UNFINISHED KOREA-VIETNAM WAR.
I ask President Trump to Just Say “NO” to Communism, the “Real Enemy,” to Win ‘The Cold War in Asia’.
Rudra Narasimham Rebbapragada
Special Frontier Force-Establishment 22-Vikas Regiment
AT U.N., TRUMP WARNS U.S. MAY HAVE TO ‘TOTALLY DESTROY’ NORTH KOREA
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.
Loud murmurs filled the green-marbled U.N. General Assembly hall when Trump issued his sternest warning yet to North Korea, whose ballistic missile launches and nuclear tests have rattled the globe. Unless North Korea backs down, he said, “We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
“Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime,” he said.
North Korea’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s remarks. A junior North Korean diplomat remained in the delegation’s front-row seat for Trump’s speech, the North Korean U.N. mission said.
In his first appearance at the annual gathering of world leaders, the president used a 41-minute speech to take aim also at Iran’s nuclear ambitions and regional influence, Venezuela’s collapsing democracy and the threat of Islamist extremists.
He also criticized the Cuban government. But his strongest words were directed at North Korea. He urged United Nations member states to work together to isolate the Kim government until it ceases its “hostile” behavior.
He said North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles “threatens the entire world with unthinkable cost of human life.”
In what may have been a veiled prod at China, the North’s major trading partner, Trump said: “It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime but would arm, supply and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict.”
Turning to Iran, Trump called the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, was an embarrassment and hinted that he may not recertify the agreement when it comes up for a mid-October deadline.
“I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it,” he said.
He called Iran an “economically depleted rogue state” that exports violence. The speech marked his latest attempt to lay out his America First vision for a U.S. foreign policy aimed at downgrading global bureaucracies, basing alliances on shared interests, and steering Washington away from nation-building exercises abroad.
Trump, who entered the White House eight months ago, told world leaders at the 193-member global body that the United States does not seek to impose its will on other nations and will respect other countries’ sovereignty.
“I will defend America’s interests above all else,” he said. “But in fulfilling our obligations to other nations we also realize it’s in everyone’s interest to seek a future where all nations can be sovereign, prosperous and secure.”
Reading carefully from a script, Trump said the U.S. military would soon be the strongest it has ever been. Turning to Venezuela, Trump called the collapsing situation there “completely unacceptable” and said the United States cannot stand by and watch. He warned the United States was considering what further actions it can take. “We cannot stand by and watch,” he said.
Shortly before Trump’s speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed from the General Assembly lectern for statesmanship to avoid war with North Korea. “This is the time for statesmanship,” said the former prime minister of Portugal.
“We must not sleepwalk our way into war..” The U.N. Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006 and Guterres appealed for the 15-member body to maintain its unity on North Korea.
Trump has warned North Korea that military action was an option for the United States as Pyongyang has carried out a series of tests toward developing the ability to target the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile. Financial markets showed little reaction to Trump’s speech, with most major assets hovering near the unchanged mark on the day.
RED CHINA’S CULTURAL WARFARE ON TIBET. APART FROM MILITARY CAMPAIGN TO OCCUPY TIBET, COMMUNIST CHINA UNLEASHED BRUTAL CAMPAIGN OF CULTURAL REPRESSION.
Red China’s Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong initiated Cultural Warfare on Tibet as part of his Campaign called ‘Cultural Revolution’ that started on May 16, 1966. This brutal Campaign of Cultural Repression, Political Oppression, and Economic Suppression to wipe out Tibetan Identity continues unabated. Cultural Revolution is not a relic of China’s past history. I ask people to break their silence to oppose Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet.
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CHINESE PAPERS BREAK SILENCE ON CULTURAL REVOLUTION, SAYING IT COULD NOT, WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN
By EMILY RAUHALA MAY 17, 2016.
Trust us, they say, the past is in the past.
Two newspapers linked to the Communist Party have broken the silence on the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, publishing editorials meant to assure readers that the party has granted the country “immunity” from political chaos and social unrest.
The editorials, published by the state-owned People’s Daily and the Global Times, were rare public comments on a decade-long disaster that former party chairman Mao Zedong unleashed and that his party now prefers to play down, recast or ignore.
But the articles broke no new ground, rehashing the official line determined by a clutch of cadres in a 1981 resolution.In it, they condemned the violence of the era, blamed Mao and his close associates, and advised everyone to move on. The Chinese people never got a say.
In a piece published Tuesday, the People’s Daily hewed closely to the old line, noting that “history always advances.” “There will not be re-enactment of a mistake like the Cultural Revolution,” it said.
An editorial in the Global Times, a newspaper known for its nationalist tone, hit at the same theme more forcefully: “We have bid farewell to the Cultural Revolution. We can say it once again today that the Cultural Revolution cannot and will not come back.”
The papers aim to instill confidence. They tell readers that what was decided in 1981 was not contingency or compromise but “unshakably scientific and authoritative” fact. They emphasize that the Chinese people have decided, unequivocally, to push ahead.
This is standard policy on several historical questions, from the Great Famine to the Tiananmen Square protests. As a result, when party papers write boldly about eyes fixed forward, it casts our gaze back, reminding us of how China’s past is shaping the present — and spooking the ruling party along the way.
Over the years, some survivors of that brutal decade have come forward to tell their stories, calling for truth and accountability, wanting to address old wounds. Under President Xi Jinping, though, the space for reflection has narrowed.
Xi has moved in many ways to bolster Mao’s reputation, drawing a single line between revolutionary struggle, World War II and the era of “national rejuvenation” that he says is underway. But Xi, a survivor of the Cultural Revolution, knows well that marshaling Mao is dangerous business; when you invite people to rally around the party’s founder, you risk overshadowing the party itself.
The truth is that the party’s stance on the Cultural Revolution is not accepted as fact.
It is questioned by survivors who want their trauma acknowledged and by neo-Maoists who think talk of “calamity” is overblown. Some see shades of Mao in Xi’s moves to consolidate power; others dismiss the comparison outright.
In an editorial published in the run-up to the anniversary, even the Global Times acknowledged the split, saying the Cultural Revolution “remains divisive” and has become a “proxy” for clashes between “rightists” and “leftists” debating “China’s political route.”
Which is why Tuesday’s twin editorials seem to open, not close, the question of what the Cultural Revolution means and what that, in turn, means for the party. The party asks for faith. Its papers beg the question: Does it yet trust itself?
Emily Rauhala is a China Correspondent for the Post. She was previously a Beijing-based correspondent for TIME, and an editor at the magazine’s Hong Kong office.
TIBET AWARENESS – SUPREME RULER OF TIBET FORCED TO LIVE IN EXILE.Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet. Apart from military occupation, it aims to destroy Tibetan Culture.Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet.Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet.Red China’s Cultural Warfare on Tibet. Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet symbolizes Cultural History of Tibet.
I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.
I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.
Air Space Expansionism: I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.
Most journalists reporting on recent events in the South China Sea have used the term “Assertive” to describe the actions of Red China. The word ‘assertive’ emphasizes self-confidence and a persistent determination to express oneself or one’s opinions. Red China is claiming ‘sovereignty’ over most of the South China Sea. In this behavior, Red China is not simply asserting its opinion or view. Red China is using her military muscle to implement her own opinion and is responding with the use of her military power to any challenge or any action that may compromise her opinion.
Territorial Expansionism: I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.
I witnessed Red China’s unprovoked attack on Tibet during 1950 and I witnessed Red China’s unprovoked attack on India during 1962.
I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.
On May 16, 2015, US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Beijing and talked directly to Red China’s President, Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister expressing concerns about Red China’s use of its military muscle to exercise its control over much of the South China Sea. The latest encounter with US Navy Surveillance Plane clearly demonstrates Red China’s unwillingness to review her opinion of sovereignty claims.
I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.
Red China is an “Aggressor Nation” and using the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I ask that she must be “Quarantined” until she recovers for her disease called “Aggression.”
U.S. vows to continue patrols after China warns spy plane
By David Brunnstrom
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States vowed on Thursday to keep up air and sea patrols in international waters after the Chinese navy repeatedly warned a U.S. surveillance plane to leave the airspace over artificial islands China is creating in the disputed South China Sea.
The Chinese navy issued eight warnings to the crew of a U.S. P8-A Poseidon, the U.S. military’s most advanced surveillance aircraft, when it conducted the overflights on Wednesday, according to CNN, which was aboard the U.S. aircraft.
PERTH, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 28: A US Navy P-8A Poseidon departs Perth’s International Airport on March 28, 2014 in Perth, Australia. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) announced today the search area for missing flight MH370 has shifted closer to the Western Australian Coast after receiving radar analysis suggesting the airliner did not travel as far south as originally thought. The Malaysian airliner disappeared on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew on board and is suspected to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/Getty Images)
When the American pilots responded by saying the plane was flying through international airspace, a Chinese radio operator said with exasperation: “This is the Chinese navy … You go!” The Poseidon flew as low as 15,000 feet (4,500 meters), CNN said, and video provided by the Pentagon appeared to have been taken from directly above one artificial island.
The incident, along with recent Chinese warnings to Philippine military aircraft to leave areas around the Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea, suggested Beijing is trying to enforce a military exclusion zone above its new islands there. Some security experts worry about the risk of confrontation, especially after a U.S. official said last week that the Pentagon was considering sending military aircraft and ships to assert freedom of navigation around the Chinese-made islands.
Maritime Expansionism: I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends. Mischief Reef 05 11 2015
An aerial photo taken though a glass window of a Philippine military plane shows the alleged on-going island building at Mischief Reef, South China Sea.
The senior U.S. diplomat for the East Asia, Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel, told a media briefing in Washington the U.S. reconnaissance flight was “entirely appropriate” and that U.S. naval forces and military aircraft would “continue to fully exercise” the right to operate in international waters and airspace.
He said the United States would go further to preserve the ability of all countries to move in international waters and airspace. “Nobody in their right mind is going to try to stop the U.S. Navy from operating – that would not be a good bet,” he said.
“But it’s not enough that a U.S. military plane can overfly international waters, even if there is challenge or hailing query … We believe that every country and all civilian actors should have unfettered access to international waters and international airspace.”
A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry said he was not aware of the incident. “China has the right to engage in monitoring in the relevant airspace and waters to protect the country’s sovereignty and prevent accidents at sea,” ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a regular briefing. “We hope the relevant country can earnestly respect China’s sovereignty in the South China Sea.” HIVE OF CONSTRUCTION
Footage taken by the P8-A Poseidon over the new islands, and aired by CNN, showed a hive of construction and dredging activity, as well as Chinese navy ships nearby. CNN said it was the first time the Pentagon had declassified video of China’s building activity and audio of challenges to a U.S. aircraft.
“We were just challenged 30 minutes ago and the challenge came from the Chinese navy,” Captain Mike Parker, commander of U.S. surveillance aircraft deployed to Asia, told CNN on the flight. “I’m highly confident it came from ashore, this facility here,” Parker said, pointing to an early warning radar station on Fiery Cross Reef.
Military facilities on Fiery Cross Reef, including a 3,000-metre (10,000-foot) runway, could be operational by year’s end, one U.S. commander recently told Reuters, and Washington is concerned China will use it to press its extensive territorial claims at the expense of weaker rivals.
China claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei also have overlapping claims. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week asserted Beijing’s right to reclaim the reefs and said China’s determination to protect its interests was “as hard as a rock.”
China has also said it had every right to set up an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the South China Sea but that current conditions did not warrant one. ADIZs are used by some nations to extend control beyond national borders, requiring civilian and military aircraft to identify themselves or face possible military interception.
During the P8-A Poseidon mission, the pilot of a Delta Air Lines flight in the area spoke on the same frequency after hearing the Chinese challenges and identified himself as commercial. The Chinese voice reassured the pilot and the Delta flight went on its way, CNN said.
Delta Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Writing by Dean Yates, additional reporting by Michael Martina in Beijing and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Editing by Paul Tait, Jonathan Oatis and Steve Orlofsky
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I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) and US Secretary of State John Kerry walk to a joint news conference following meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing May 16, 2015. The United States and China clashed over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea on Saturday, as China’s foreign minister asserted its sovereignty to reclaim reefs saying its determination to protect its interests is “as hard as a rock”.REUTERS/Saul Loeb/PoolU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi after their press conference following their meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Saturday, May 16, 2015. Kerry is in China to press Beijing to halt increasingly assertive actions it is taking in the South China Sea that have alarmed the United States and China’s smaller neighbors. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang talk during a meeting at Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing Saturday, May 16, 2015. The United States and China held firm Saturday to deep disagreements over increasingly assertive Chinese activity in disputed areas of the South China Sea, as Beijing politely but pointedly rejected U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s push for it to reduce tensions. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing, China, May 16, 2015. The United States and China clashed over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea on Saturday, as China’s foreign minister asserted its sovereignty to reclaim reefs saying its determination to protect its interests is “as hard as a rock”. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint press conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi following their meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Saturday, May 16, 2015. Kerry is in China to press Beijing to halt increasingly assertive actions it is taking in the South China Sea that have alarmed the United States and China’s smaller neighbors. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) and US Secretary of State John Kerry speak following a joint news conference following meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing May 16, 2015. The United States and China clashed over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea on Saturday, as China’s foreign minister asserted its sovereignty to reclaim reefs saying its determination to protect its interests is “as hard as a rock”. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/PoolU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends a joint press conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi following their meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Saturday, May 16, 2015. Kerry is in China to press Beijing to halt increasingly assertive actions it is taking in the South China Sea that have alarmed the United States and China’s smaller neighbors. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold a joint press conference following their meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Saturday, May 16, 2015. Kerry is in China to press Beijing to halt increasingly assertive actions it is taking in the South China Sea that have alarmed the United States and China’s smaller neighbors. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands after a press conference following meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Saturday, May 16, 2015. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging China to halt increasingly assertive actions it is taking in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a joint press conference following meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China, Saturday, May 16, 2015. Kerry is in China to press Beijing to halt increasingly assertive actions it is taking in the South China Sea that have alarmed the United States and China’s smaller neighbors. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)Maritime Expansionism – South China Sea: I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.Air Space Expansionism: I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.Maritime Expansionism – South China Sea: I have been studying the aggressive nature of Red China since 1950s. The word ‘aggressor’ as a noun refers to a person or nation that is guilty of aggression or makes an unprovoked attack. Aggressive behavior, aggressive nature describe a mental inclination to start fights or quarrels, a readiness or willingness to take issue or engage in direct militant action. When I describe Red China as an “Aggressor Nation,” I am speaking about the practice or habit of being quarrelsome, destructively hostile to others, the use of unprovoked attacks or warlike acts. Red China is using her People’s Liberation Army violating her international obligations. Red China is aggressive for she displays boldness and because of her energetic pursuit of her own vested interests with a ruthless desire to dominate her weaker neighbors. Red China has formulated a State Policy called Expansionism which involves a vigorous, unrepentant espousal to use her military force or power to further her own ends.
Tibet’s Only Fault – Tibet Never Declared War on China
Whole Mistake – Cold War in Asia – I coined the phrase, “Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War” as the issue primarily involves the Spread of Communism to Asia. If Tibet had declared a War against China, the United States would not have fought battles in Korea and Vietnam. That was Tibet’s Whole Mistake.
Whole Mistake – Cold War in Asia – I coined the phrase, “Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War” as the issue primarily involves the Spread of Communism to Asia. If Tibet had declared a War against China, the United States would not have fought battles in Korea and Vietnam. That was Tibet’s Whole Mistake.
Whole Mistake – Cold War in Asia – I coined the phrase, “Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War” as the issue primarily involves the Spread of Communism to Asia. If Tibet had declared a War against China, the United States would not have fought battles in Korea and Vietnam. That was Tibet’s Whole Mistake.
Trouble in Tibet – No Freedom of Religion in Occupied Tibet
Whole Mistake – Cold War in Asia – I coined the phrase, “Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War” as the issue primarily involves the Spread of Communism to Asia. If Tibet had declared a War against China, the United States would not have fought battles in Korea and Vietnam. That was Tibet’s Whole Mistake.
Taiwan urged Tibetan Prime Minister and Uighur activist not to seek visas to visit Taipei to attend a forum on Religious Freedom as their presence may offend Red China. My concern is not about Taiwan’s sense of Fear. My concern is about lack of Freedom in Occupied Tibet.
Taiwan urges Tibetan exile leader and Uighur activist to stay away, supporters say
SIKYONG, PRIME MINISTER LOBSANG SANGAY WITH US UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE SARAH SEWALL AT KANGRA AIRPORT.Whole Mistake – Cold War in Asia – I coined the phrase, “Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War” as the issue primarily involves the Spread of Communism to Asia. If Tibet had declared a War against China, the United States would not have fought battles in Korea and Vietnam. That was Tibet’s Whole Mistake.
Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of Tibet’s government in exile, walks with Sarah Sewall, U.S. undersecretary of State for civilian security, democracy and human rights, during a meeting in Dharmsala, India, on Jan. 15.
(Ashwini Bhatia / Associated Press)
Ralph Jennings
Taiwanese authorities asked a close ally of the Dalai Lama, as well as a U.S.-based activist for China’s Uighur minority, not to attend a forum on religious freedom in Taipei this week because their presence might irritate mainland China’s Communist leaders, the event’s sponsors say.
U.S.-based representatives of Taiwan’s government persuaded Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer and Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of Tibet’s Buddhist government in exile in India, not to apply for visas in December, said Bob Fu, the founder of China Aid, an American nonprofit that is co-sponsoring the forum.
“To talk about China’s religious freedom situation, if you don’t mention the Tibetan and Uighur minorities, a discussion of religious freedoms is incomplete,” Fu said from the forum in Taipei, which opened Thursday with 99 participants from 26 countries. “The whole application process feels political.”
Beijing regards representatives of the Tibetan government in exile and Kadeer as separatists, and routinely pressures other countries not to host or meet with them.
Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry and immigration agency said they had no information about what their offices in the United States might have told potential visa applicants. “We have no way to comment; all we do is process the visas,” a National Immigration Agency spokesperson said.
Though Tibet and the Uighur homeland of Xinjiang are under control of mainland Chinese authorities, Taiwan has had de facto independence from mainland China since 1949. But Beijing still claims sovereignty over the island. The commonalities among these three contested regions have sparked significant interest in Taiwan about figures such as Kadeer and Sangay.
But outgoing Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who is leaving office in May after eight years, has tried to foster closer ties with Beijing after six decades of icy hostilities. The Dalai Lama retired as head of the Tibetan government in exile in 2011, giving up leadership to the democratically elected Sangay. The Dalai Lama abandoned calls for Tibetan independence in 1979, embracing instead a “middle way” in which Tibetans would enjoy autonomy and freedom of religion and speech under Chinese rule.
Kadeer, meanwhile, has taken a similar stance, speaking out on human rights issues in Xinjiang and campaigning for self-determination for the largely Muslim region. Many Uighurs and Tibetans say Chinese officials restrict their religious practices as well as their language and customs.
In early February, a foundation in Taipei representing the Dalai Lama said it too was told by Taiwanese officials that Sangay should avoid this week’s forum. “Taiwan is in a tough spot because of pressure from China, that’s the reason,” said Bari Dawa Tsering, director of the Religious Foundation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He declined to say which agency gave the word.
“Of course we hoped Sangay could do this. But Taiwan is small and right next to China, so their stance is not to add any new trouble,” he said. Shortly after Ma took office, the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 2009 to console survivors of a typhoon that sparked serious mudslides and killed about 700 people. China warned Taiwan then that the visit could damage relations, but the two sides put the matter behind them on the way to signing a series of landmark economic pacts. Kadeer was invited to Taiwan later that year by a musician but denied entry.
This time, Kadeer was rejected along with Dolkun Isa, a Uighur activist who escaped China in 1997 and is now a German citizen. Ma’s Nationalist Party administration “fears that to let Dolkun Isa and Rebiya Kadeer enter Taiwan will affect the understanding it has reached with Beijing,” Dilxat Rexit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, said Friday.
Ma’s Nationalist Party roundly lost elections in January, and in May he will be replaced by Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party. “Beijing’s adding of pressure has had the result of refusing them entry, and proves that Taiwan’s policy depends on Beijing’s complexion,” he added. “I hope in the future the Democratic Progressive Party government can reject Beijing.”
Trouble in Tibet – National Prayer Breakfast Meeting 2016. Dalai Lama attended the National Prayer Meeting.Whole Mistake – Cold War in Asia – I coined the phrase, “Unfinished Korea-Vietnam War” as the issue primarily involves the Spread of Communism to Asia. If Tibet had declared a War against China, the United States would not have fought battles in Korea and Vietnam. That was Tibet’s Whole Mistake.
The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism and Economic Expansionism
Mao Zedong proclaims the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Peking on Oct. 1, 1949.
Consumerism is a theory that claims continual increase in consumption of material goods is sound economically. Red China buried her dreams of Proletarian Revolution to embrace this theory of ‘Consumerism’ as a means to accomplish her goal of Economic Expansionism. The Evil of Consumerism is far more dangerous than the Evil of Communism. The Spread of Communism to Asia is the leading contributor to Social and Economic Injustice all over the World. The Economic Plan of Red China is fundamentally flawed for it encourages Self-Indulgence and Mass Consumption that will lead to Self-Destruction.
People all over the world have recognized dangers posed by the practice of Consumerism. What we clearly need is Consumer Protection, not only laws to safeguard interests of the buying public, but also to protect rights of workers, communities, environment, and ecological systems that sustain delicate natural equilibrium. The lives, health, and well-being of both workers and consumers is compromised by hazardous products and planet Earth is facing a major challenge to the very existence of Life. Red China’s Economic Expansionism is not sustainable and her economic collapse is simply inevitable. Red China’s Economic Meltdown is indeed a Blessing to all of us.
Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162 USA Special Frontier Force-Establishment 22-Vikas Regiment
The Evil Red Empire. The Evil of Consumerism is far more dangerous than the Evil of Communism.The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism. Red China’s Shift to Consumerism is the Driving Force causing Income Inequality.The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism.Red China is forcing a Culture of Consumption chasing a Mirage of Economic Prosperity.The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism. Self-Indulgence leads to Self-Destruction.
The Evil Red Empire – Consumerism – Economic Expansionism Plan is Fundamentally Flawed.
THE US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
IS CHINA COOKING THE BOOKS ON ECONOMIC EXPANSION?
Analysts aren’t terribly confident in the Chinese government’s economic growth data.
China’s government expects its economy to grow 6.5 percent each year between 2016 and 2020.
By ANDREW SOERGEL Nov. 2, 2015 | 1:10 p.m. EST
One of China’s most senior government officials over the weekend said his country’s economy should expect to see “at least 6.5 percent” gross domestic product growth each year between 2016 and 2020, despite a growing pool of evidence suggesting China is in the midst of a historic economic slowdown.
But whether Chinese GDP numbers actually paint a clear economic picture is another question entirely.
“We propose to achieve the goal of creating a ‘moderately prosperous society’ by 2020, which requires annual economic growth of at least 6.5 percent over the next five years,” Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Sunday during a speech in Seoul, according to The Associated Press. He said the economy is operating within a “reasonable range” and that the government has “the confidence and ability” to hit its growth target of “about 7 percent” this year.
Rumors had floated around in the days and weeks leading up to Sunday’s announcement that the government would eventually lower its expansion goals for the next several years following a slew of recently underwhelming economic indicators suggesting Asia’s financial giant was beginning to cool. Exports and imports have plummeted in recent months, and the Chinese government announced in October that GDP expanded by only 6.9 percent in the third quarter – which represents the worst three-month period for the Chinese economy since the world was just emerging from the global financial crisis in 2009. But even that 6.9 percent growth – the worst China had posted in more than half a decade – sounded too good to be true. “We don’t have total confidence in the numbers, and we are surprised by the acceleration in services output given the collapse in the equity market,” a team of Bloomberg economists wrote in a research note at the time.
China’s stock market has recently strengthened, thanks in no small part to extraordinary governmental intervention. The heavy-handed Chinese government has thrown out safety net after safety net in an attempt to prevent a hard economic landing. Only a few weeks ago, China slashed its interest rates for the sixth time in less than a year.
“We continue to expect China to pull out all the stops to kick-start its economy in the coming weeks and months,” Burt White, chief investment officer at LPL Financial, wrote in a research note last week. “The [People’s Bank of China] interest rate cuts, along with selected fiscal and legislative actions in China, should further help to calm fears of a hard landing.”
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But some analysts have speculated that the Chinese government’s intervention could extend to the country’s economic news releases as well. A recent Wall Street Journal survey of 64 select economists found that 96 percent of respondents think China’s GDP estimates don’t “accurately reflect the state of the Chinese economy.” They likely “overstate GDP by about 2 to 3 percentage points,” said one respondent.
“A government wielding such a heavy hand in markets is surely influencing/manipulating official statistics.” said another.
Ironically, China’s own premier has previously said he’s far from confident in the country’s GDP estimates, calling them “man-made” and unreliable, according to a leaked document from 2007 obtained by WikiLeaks. He said government data releases, especially the GDP numbers, should be used “for reference only.”
“Quite frankly, we don’t believe them at all. It’s not only that they come in suspiciously close to the target, which is pre-set. They’re produced remarkably quickly and rarely revised,” Danny Gabay, director at Fathom Financial Consulting, said last month in a radio interview with the BBC.
Gabay said he recalculated economic growth “based on Premier Li’s advice, which is that the GDP data are untrustworthy and we should use alternative measures to gauge the level of activity in China like electricity use, credit growth and other domestic indicators.” He said the actual growth number is “closer to 3 percent. Not 7.3 percent.”
But even if the 6.5 percent growth target between now and 2020 seems a little optimistic, it’s a clear recognition from the Chinese government that economic expansion now is not what it once was. China enjoyed double-digit annual growth between 2003 and 2007, and 2014’s 7.4 percent jump was still significantly higher than the global average, even though it was China’s worst year in more than two and a half decades.
For comparison’s sake, the U.S. economy hasn’t grown by 7.4 percent or more in a single year since 1951. And double-digit annual growth hasn’t been seen in America since 1943.
Part of the problem is that once an economy gets to a certain size, it’s just harder to keep up the momentum, which is likely at least partially responsible for China’s gradual slowdown. It would be unreasonable to expect the Chinese economy to plug along at a double-digit pace, just as it would be unreasonable to expect the U.S. economy to suddenly grow by 10 or 12 percent for a prolonged period of time.
But China’s government is able to influence market activity in a way America’s is not, which could artificially prolong China’s still respectable levels of economic growth beyond what would happen naturally. Most expect to continue to see relatively positive GDP numbers out of China for some time, even if such releases could be filled with a little bit of hot air.
“As an economy closely linked to international markets, China cannot stay immune to the lackluster performance of the global economy,” Chinese President Xi Jinping told Reuters in an interview last month. “We do have concerns about the Chinese economy, and we are working hard to address them.”
Andrew Soergel is an Economy Reporter at U.S. News.
Red China’s Economic Expansionism is not sustainable and her economic collapse is simply inevitable. Red China’s Economic Meltdown is indeed a Blessing to all of us.
