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montyp165

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There's news of new Russian troop movements towards their southwestern areas, purportedly in response to Defense Secretary Austin's talk about expanding NATO to Ukraine. At this point it reinforces just how far the US is willing to impose itself against any possible strategic competitors.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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The Xinjiang issue is decades in the making and on this article dated as far back as 1998 illustrates how much of a scammer the C.I.A. really is as an organization. It failed to predict the Soviet collapse so it wanted to write a report that pushes the agenda of racial and ethnic strife in China as the way to split and ultimately break the country apart.


......He (Dr.Fuller) speculates that his research, which found that any breakup in China was unlikely in the next three years, ran counter to prevailing belief in the agency. He says he was reinstated as head of the project only after he threatened to sue the university over allegedly violating his contractual right to noninterference with scholarly research.

Fuller, who has been at UH for 29 years, further believes that the university retaliated by denying him the chair of the geography department. Malahoff said the UH Professional Assembly executive board is likely to agree to arbitrate that grievance in a meeting this weekend.

The office of UH President Kenneth Mortimer, who is in Asia, had no comment. The CIA, according to a Reuters news report, also had no comment on Fuller's study.

Richard Dubanoski, UH dean of social sciences, said he took Fuller off the research -- although the CIA gave no reason for its request -- because he believed he had no other choice. He learned later that the CIA had no right to remove Fuller, only to cancel the entire contract.

Dubanoski also decided that the CIA had treated Fuller unfairly, and returned the professor to the project. He said he made that decision before any threat of a lawsuit. A letter about his reinstatement later went to the CIA as part of a settlement of his grievance on being removed.

Dubanoski pondered accepting funding from "potentially tainted organizations," and only did so when he was assured that none of the research would be classified.

Dubanoski also said he gave an acting department chair to another faculty member after Fuller and a second nominee tied for the spot. He said his decision was based on the good of the department, not retaliation against Fuller.

Fuller, a geography expert on population studies chosen last year to head the study, said two CIA representatives came to the UH for an informal meeting on methodology in December. At the meeting, Fuller mentioned that any ethnic breakups in East Asia were unlikely. Shortly after, the representatives threatened to cancel the contract.

"They told us flat out that our report was useless unless it matched what officials on East Asia said," Fuller recalled.

Fuller, a consultant to the CIA since 1985 and once a scholar-in-residence at CIA headquarters, said he was unaware of anything wrong with the research. But under pressure from the CIA, the university removed him as supervisor of the research in mid-March.


"Without even a hiccup, they (university) said sure," Fuller said. "In fact, all they were interested in was getting payments from the contract."

Citing former colleagues at CIA headquarters, Fuller said that after the agency failed to predict the Soviet collapse, in-house analysts had apparently been moving toward the belief that ethnic conflict in China would spark a breakup there.

"People supervising these grants are under heavy pressure to get results that are satisfactory to everyone," Fuller said

According to Reuters, the CIA declined comment on Fuller's study, the reason for wanting him pulled, or its opinion on ethnic breakdown in China. But it praised Fuller's work in the past, according to references from a CIA official on Fuller's behalf in 1990.

"He has been instrumental in our efforts to identify problems of the next century before they assume crisis proportions," wrote Richard Stakem, then-director of the CIA's Office of Resources, Trade and Technology.

Reuters reported that the CIA said it often turned to academics to "challenge conventional wisdom and engage in healthy debate." Seven scholars across the country contributed to Fuller's August report.

It described Xinjiang province, home to Sunni Muslim Uygurs and Kazaks, as the major flash point for ethnic tension. However, "while it is not inconceivable that a portion of China might break off some day, we are convinced this will not occur within the three-year time horizon of this study."



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emblem21

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Wow Biden publically said this.. "Better relations", "good signals from the US", "Summit", "Cooperation"amirite?..
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Decouple from EU as well. Always said that EU is just a another US puppet
At a time when the EU is undergoing multiple crisis's and is busy pissing of everyone including Russia and somehow doing so when they have a gas crisis along with multiple nations having massive economic issues and with the potential of a massive migrant crisis looming, talk about shooting themselves in the ding ding multiple times reaffirm their position as America's bitch and even worse, most of the places that have the resources they desperately need to survive are currently thinking hard about whether they have any interest in dealing with multiple colonial powers in real decline since this is the best possible time to start inflicting some long over due payback.

Obviously. There is a reason why people from the Global South just say "West/White superiority" than bother to differentiate between US/Canada/EU/Australia etc.

They are all the same

Just remember that last year China made unilateral concessions to the EU for CAI. Well the fault China made was, as you say, that it believes in pragmatic hard-hitting geopolitics/geoeconomics.
Instead it is all about white superiority for the West

Which ultimately means that should the west instigate yet another war to prove their dominance, I pray that China and Russia along with many other nations that have been a victim of their crazy behavior finally inflicts the kind of loses that will finally be remembered so that the collective west can finally quit their love for wars on the pain of death and beyond
 
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Bellum_Romanum

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I think we all agree that this is US' strategy

The question is what is the EU getting out of it?

The US wants to shallow the EU, but what does the EU want... This is why we are saying it is a racial/CIA thing
What's "dirty steel" anyway? And why is China being singled out?
 

Jon

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I think we all agree that this is US' strategy

The question is what is the EU getting out of it?

The US wants to shallow the EU, but what does the EU want... This is why we are saying it is a racial/CIA thing
I think for them it is a matter of preservation of a certain statu quo that guarantees the long-term survival of the EU as it is. Ironically, a more fair and just new world order would be against the interests of the EU, as it has historically benefited from all the asymmetrical arrangements imposed by imperialism. A world where they don't get to make the rules anymore but have to play by fair standards is a world where they'd gradually lose any advantage they ever had. This in practical terms would mean a notorious degradation of living standards and loss of political legitimacy at home, with everything that could entail (ie. mass unrest and revolution). So they'd rather accept an arrangement where they're a junior partner of the US and still enjoy the spoils of imperialism.
 

MortyandRick

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What's "dirty steel" anyway? And why is China being singled out?
There's no such thing as dirty steel. It's a sound bite to attach Chinese products, just like Australians saying their coal is clean coal. It's all bullshit.

Mankind excuses to limit their market to Chinese participation. But when china did it, is political.

EU is not cohesive enough to stand up to their interests. People buy Chinese steel due to its price and quality. If they just buy among themselves it's just gonna increase cost and decrease competitiveness imo.
 

Overbom

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What's "dirty steel" anyway? And why is China being singled out?
"Dirty steel" is whatever the US/EU want it to be.

Same with dirty bikes. Dirty scooters. Dirty batteries. Dirty companies. Dirty factories. Dirty cotton. Dirty chips etc

Just change "Dirty" with "Chinese" and suddenly everything makes sense

Whatever is Chinese-made is to be (eventually) excluded from accessing their market. The start is steel and aluminum. In due time other Chinese exports will follow
 
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