'The flight, from Washington via Anchorage, made an unusual arrival, flying down Japan's Ryukyu Islands before turning to approach Taipei instead of taking the usual East China Sea route. According to the flight-tracking website FlightRadar24, this is well away from China.'
"The will of the Chinese people to defend our country's sovereignty and territorial integrity is immovable. Whoever the U.S. sends to show support for Taiwan is bound to fail," Wang was quoted by media outlets.
"China urges the US to abide by the one-China principle," he added'
Witnessing the start of an epic clash, in which the West might loose it’s advantage, and privilege, gained in the last 400-500 years.
Russia and China understand the West is now getting lazy, fat, old and broke and not willing to put up with a real (boots-on-the-ground) fight.
We, in the West still feel superior, however don’t understand the (declining) phase we have entered ..
The fourth turning describes this brilliantly. It’s now our crisis-time (winter) ..
Don’t forget the West hosts only 800mln people (500 EU+300 US)
BRICS is over 3 BILLION
The BRICS, including Brazil, decided not to sanction Russia. Quite a sign ..
BRICS countries are fed up with the western double standards, where invading a sovereign country is OK, as long as it is not a western/Christian friend …
Atlantic Council: For the 1st time, Beijing has joined Moscow in opposing NATO enlargement; Russia returned the favor by opposing the new AUKUS defense pact binding Australia, the UK, and the United States, as well as endorsing its One China Policy and growing role in the Arctic
'Xi and Putin reaffirm that the new inter-State relations between Russia and China are superior to political and military alliance of the Cold War era. Friendship between the two States has no limits, there are no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation ..
.. [emphasis added], strengthening of bilateral strategic cooperation is neither aimed against third countries nor affected by the changing international environment and circumstantial changes in third countries.”