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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/china_s_covert_pursuit_of_global_dominance.html

China’s global ambitions are rooted in the allure of an ancient concept for the Chinese people—the Middle Kingdom, envisioning China as a divinely appointed ruling nation that is central and superior to others. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu crystallized this idea into the ideal of a benevolent Chinese emperor conquering the entire world—Tianxia, or All-Under-Heaven—without violence or destruction.

But trust the communists to twist the very antithesis of Marxism — a God-based, imperialistic idea — to serve their own designs. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), positions himself as central to a Chinese world order “that will surpass and supplant the Westphalian system” by 2049. Therefore, his actions must be viewed in light of Tianxia.

A year after he came to power in 2012, he launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious investment in infrastructure aimed at connecting East Asia and Europe. This initiative has since expanded to Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. The BRI must be recognized for what it is: a covert, long-term operation for military expansion and strategic presence.

Through BRI’s extensive loans and assistance in building ports and highways, China has gained significant economic and political influence in nearly 150 of the 193 U.N. member countries. The U.S. and its allies must prepare for China transforming such vast influence into military advantages, as it has already done in many areas. In confronting the dragon, we must remain wary of its winding tail.

China’s influence-mongering is ideology-agnostic. If a country aligns with China’s strategy to displace the U.S. as a global power, the type of regime—whether fascist, authoritarian, Islamist, or communist—matters little. In fact, writes Col. John Mills (Ret.), China has primarily partnered with countries where regimes are insecure and individual rights are non-existent—much like in China.

He claims that Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Pakistan, and South Africa are all now “de facto colonies of China.” At the same time, he points out that China aims to dominate the U.N. and other international organizations. In this struggle, he argues that the efforts of those advocating for a free world have been undermined by globalist elites who pander to China when it benefits them.

China’s strategic activities in Africa and the Middle East over the last two and a half decades serve as a case study of how the dragon operates. The advantages China has gained now threaten U.S. interests in the Horn of Africa, which includes Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, and provides significant control over the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean.

https://dianebederman.com/elbows-up-my-ass/

The Elbows Up campaign fooled Canadians and that led to too many Canadians voting for the Liberal libtards: again.

How many times do Canadians have to be hit in the head before they realize it’s time to say “No More”?

We are now learning that PM Mark Carney; appointed, installed, erected to his position, lied through his teeth. He lied about the tariffs. He talked the talk and crawled the walk. And now, because he only won a minority government, suddenly there are all these recounts and ALL of them are going Liberal. A playbook right from the Democrats. It isn’t going to work.

As a Boomer, I am appalled and disgusted that my age group voted Liberal, again. I spoke to 40 year old men with children who told me before the election that they thought Canada would be better for their children and grandchildren if Canada were to become 51st state. Now that’s a switch.  It has been said, if you vote Conservative when you are 20, you have no heart. If you vote Liberal when you are 40 you have no brain.

Trump was trolling. Do you really think Republicans want Canada? It is Liberal.

But Carney said he would be tough on Trump

“We must respond with both purpose and force,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said in response to American tariffs. Those comments were made on April 3 as Carney stood in Ottawa reacting to Donald Trump’s flurry of tariffs on his so-called “Liberation Day.” 

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/ukraine/ukraines-stolen-generation/

Myroslava Kharchenko is at the heart of the operation to repatriate thousands of Ukrainian children who have been deported, displaced, or just plain kidnapped in the occupied territories held by Russian forces since February 2022. She is the Head of the Legal Department for Save Ukraine, the independent NGO, that works with mothers and families to get their children back. She and her colleagues have had to resort to creating false documents and inventing cover stories or ‘legends’ for the mothers and close relatives who go into Russia to reclaim their children.

With the help of resisters in the Russian occupied territories in the east and south of Ukraine, and in the Crimea, Save Ukraine identifies the whereabouts of displaced children in so called ‘summer’ or ‘health’ camps, and rehabilitation institutions. They find their close relatives in Ukraine and begin to organise the children’s repatriation. Bereft parents get in touch with Save Ukraine for help, and sometimes the children themselves hear about the organisation and call a hotline.

Since the Russian invasion in February 2022, 19,500 children have been identified as having been deported or displaced by the Russians from their homes in the occupied territories. Those are just the ones Save Ukraine knows about — they have a name, a birth certificate, ID documents. It’s estimated there could be tens of thousands more since Russia took Crimea and part of the eastern Donbas region in 2014. Save Ukraine has managed to rescue and repatriate 1,236 children; 640 since February 2022.

Ms Kharchenko, who is also one of Save Ukraine’s Directors, said through an interpreter: “We discuss every case individually and in detail. Sometimes we have to use methods we can’t discuss in public to get the children out.

“We carefully brief the mother or close relative on what to say at every stage when they go to get their child. They are given a story, or ‘legend’, which they have to stick to when questioned by frontier guards at the borders and the airports, at checkpoints, or by the officials at the camps and institutions where the children are living.”

Save Ukraine is constantly identifying the easiest or less dangerous places to enter and leave Russia. Sometimes, at great personal risk, their own staff may accompany a group of mothers and relatives. Sympathetic drivers and organisers on the other side help. During each mission, staff at Save Ukraine maintain a 24/7 contact with the relatives, advising and holding their hands at a distance.

Since the borders between Ukraine and Russia are closed, the rescues are planned via round-about routes from Germany, the Baltic States, and other EU countries. The relatives will often fly into Russia — Moscow, for example — and then make their way by bus and car south to the occupied territories.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21637/iran-nuclear-program

[T]he Obama administration and some figures in the current administration insist on pretending that a deal can be made to keep Iran’s nuclear program peaceful.

Defenders of rebooting Obama’s 2015 JCPOA Iran nuclear deal have taken to calling critics “globalists,” and claim that bringing back Obama’s old policy is somehow “America First.” They insist that being realistic about Iran’s nuclear program is a plot by the military-industrial complex and the CIA.

But it was the CIA and the ‘intelligence community’ that bailed out Iran during the George W. Bush administration, by falsely declaring in the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that “we judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.”

The Trump administration can… maintain sanctions, it can take out the program, or it can do absolutely nothing. But it should be clear-eyed about what Iran’s nuclear program is and what it’s for. Deals with terrorists and terror states are worthless. Any agreement with Iran can only end one way, and that’s with a terror state whose motto is “Death to America” gaining the ability to carry out that threat against us.

Iran’s civilian nuclear program is as much of a front as a mob chain of pizza parlors. Negotiating with Islamic terrorists is a waste of America’s power and credibility. And it seduces those who negotiate with terrorists into believing that a deal is possible no matter how high the red flags fly.

Iran has some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The average cost of electricity in the United States per kilowatt-hour is $0.181.

In Iran it’s $0.004/kWh.

A country where electricity is vastly cheaper than America isn’t looking to lower power costs.

Iran joins Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar and other oil-rich countries as having some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. Countries with vast energy reserves and production don’t need nuclear energy the way that Germany or France, which depend on imports, do.

https://quillette.com/2025/05/19/a-disunited-kingdom-snp-swinney-forbes-europe/?ref=quillette-daily-newsletter

Many European states have political parties that exist to convince a part of their population to secede and make their own way in a separate polity. Most of these parties are small, electorally insignificant, and only occasionally violent (as on the French island of Corsica). But they are all likely to be assisted by the turbulence of our political moment.

Germany hosts two separatist parties—the Bavaria Party and the Free Voters of Saxony, both of which have local followings but attract only a small number of votes. In Italy, the Northern League was established in the early 1990s to create “Padania,” a new state freed from the corruption of Rome. It has since contracted its name to The League to become a small right-wing party and a partner in the current right-wing government. Belgium is divided between Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north and French-speaking Wallonia in the south. The country was expected to split after the 2024 election, but the far-right secessionist party in Flanders, Vlams Belang, came second to the more moderate, centre-right N-VA. After seven months of talks, the N-VA formed a national coalition government with Wallonia’s centre-right party, and Belgium is holding together—for the time, at least.

Spain is a country of passionately autonomist regions and it is currently experiencing a period of strong economic growth. But the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, is under constant attack, and the fragile coalition he leads has been dependent on the support of Catalonian independence parties. An election in the region last year, however, showed a significant rise in support for Catalonia’s pro-government socialist party. This has weakened both of the region’s secessionist parties and the grip they exercise over Sanchez.

So, a tentative peace has settled over the governments of Europe, relieved for now of the immediate worry that their borders will be challenged and that politics will return to a hectic series of late-night meetings called to avert a national break-up. Yet one country still threatens to split into separate states through the process secessionists like to call liberation, and it is the state that most boldly proclaims its national wholeness: the United Kingdom.