China: "The Arrogant US Has A Record Of Launching Wars On Deceptive Grounds"

While the lack of retaliation by Russia to Trump's Friday night Syrian airstrikes surprised some, Russia defended its stance of shrugging in response (and not escalating to full blown world war), by asserting that Soviet-made missiles intercepted more than half of the 105 cruise missiles fired at three Syrian facilities (the Pentagon denied any missiles were hit), and that the US, UK and French blitz was generally less aggressive than most had feared, perhaps thanks to extensive advance warnings by Trump that an attack was imminent.

Yet if Russia's managed response is understandable, one country whose vocal outcry to US strikes has been a surprise, is China.

As we reported yesterday, China was the first superpower outside those directly involved to slam the US airstrikes: "Any unilateral military action violates the United Nations charter and its principles and international law and its principles. [The strikes] are also going to add more factors to complicate the resolution of the Syrian crisis," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement on Saturday afternoon.

Beijing also called for an investigation into claims of a Syrian poison gas attack on the rebel-held town of Douma that rescuers and monitors say killed more than 40 people, and prompted the Western action: "The Chinese side believes a comprehensive, impartial and objective investigation should be conducted into the suspected chemical attacks and it should come up with reliable conclusions ... Before this, no conclusion by any side should be made,” Hua said.

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Then, on Saturday during the emergency session of the Security Council on Saturday, Russia proposed a resolution urging the US and its allies to “immediately and without delay cease the aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic and refrain from further aggressive acts in violation of the international law and the UN Charter." Not surprisingly, the proposal was voted down - and would have been vetoed by the US - but the roll call was surprising:  Russia and Bolivia voted in favor of the resolution... alongside with China.

If there was any confusion on whose side of the Syrian conflict China finds itself, that confusion is now officially gone.

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Finally, overnight China also reminded its population that while the US is engaging in a contained "hot war" with Syria, Beijing is currently fighting a trade war with Washington D.C. when in a front-page OpEd on the state-owned nationalist tabloid Global Times, the politburo authorized a scathing article in which it once again slammed Trump's involvement in Syria, claiming that "the facts cannot be distorted. This military strike was not authorized by the UN, and the strikes targeted a legal government of a UN member state... it has not been confirmed if the chemical weapons attack happened or if it did, whether government forces or opposition forces launched it. International organizations have not carried out any authoritative investigation."

And the most inflammatory accusation: the entire US attack was a false flag:

The Syrian government has repeatedly stressed that there is no need for it to use chemical weapons to capture the opposition-controlled Duma city and the use of chemical weapons has provided an excuse for Western intervention. The Syrian government's argument or Trump's accusations against the "evil" Assad regime, which one is in line with basic logic? The answer is quite obvious.

The US has a record of launching wars on deceptive grounds. The Bush government asserted the Saddam regime held chemical weapons before the US-British coalition troops invaded Iraq in 2003. However, the coalition forces didn't find what they called weapons of mass destruction after overthrowing the Saddam regime. Both Washington and London admitted later that their intelligence was false.

Finally, the Global Times pivots to what happens next, and how the US provocation could lead to further escalation in hostilities with Russia:

Washington's attack on Syria where Russian troops are stationed constitute serious contempt for Russia's military capabilities and political dignity. Trump, like scolding a pupil, called on Moscow, one of the world's leading nuclear powers, to abandon its "dark path." Disturbingly, Washington seems to have become addicted to mocking Russia in this way. Russia is capable of launching a destructive retaliatory attack on the West. Russia's weak economy is plagued by Western sanctions and squeezing of its strategic space. That the West provokes Russia in such a manner is irresponsible for world peace.

Finally, without stating it expressly, China makes it quite clear on whose side it would be should war break out between Russia and the US:

The situation is still fomenting. The Trump administration said it will sustain the strikes. But how long will the military action continue and whether Russia will fight back as it claimed previously remain uncertain. Western countries continue bullying Russia but are seemingly not afraid of its possible counterattack. Their arrogance breeds risk and danger.

Read the full Global Times op-ed here.

Comments

toady Pure Evil Sun, 04/15/2018 - 09:33 Permalink

It's a "boy who cried wolf" thing.

The U.S. keeps bombing people because some lies appear in the media. At what point do they question the lies?

Or conversely, the U.S. keeps lying in the media so they can bomb people. At what point does the world question the lies?

Either way, since the Iraq/WMD lies,  it's been an open secret. Probably way before that (Vietnam, the civil war?)

How do we get out of this?

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J S Bach toady Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:12 Permalink

I think China's indirect point can be summed up in this thought experiment:

Suppose we have another civil disturbance in St. Louis.  The antifa and BLM are accusing the alt right of some bogus chemical attack on one of their rallies.  Syria and Russia blame Trump for giving the order.  Out of the blue, their missiles rain down and hit an alt right "base".  Some innocent Americans are indiscriminately killed.  Russian and Syrian media hail this act of war as "justifiable".  

I know this all may seem too insane to grasp, but it's essentially what is happening in the Middle East with the above-mentioned nations in opposite roles.

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brushhog beepbop Sun, 04/15/2018 - 13:12 Permalink

The fake Iraq WMDs is just one example. Remember the "incubator babies" that were used to justify the first Iraq invasion "desert storm"? The incubator baby psy-op is now a confirmed, admitted hoax. How about the gulf of tonkin attack that the US used as it's justification for war in Vietnam....it is now confirmed that it never happened.

It's called propaganda, and its so old and tired there's no excuse to fall for it anymore. All governments use it so dont start thinking that the US is the bad-guy and Putin/Xi are the good guys. They're all full of shit. And PS...if you havent figured it out yet, the media is just another propaganda arm of the government....there is no such thing as "independent media". Its the government, and yes, they are lying to you most of the time.

 

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PrayingMantis brushhog Sun, 04/15/2018 - 13:18 Permalink

 

... meanwhile, “Army Spokesman: Saudi Forces Use Chemical, Biological Weapons in Yemen's Ma'rib” ... 

>>> http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940721001520 ...

 

... and the F,UK, US reply? ... crickets ...

 

... and let us not forget ...

...”According to UN estimates, 17 million Yemenis, more than 60% of the population, are in urgent need of food. Out of these, 7 million are facing famine. The destruction of infrastructure has also left 15 million without any access to healthcare and generated an unprecedented cholera outbreak, with 900.000 cases and thousands dead already. 50.000 Yemeni children have died in 2017 as a result of disease and starvation. There is no hyperbole needed, this is a humanitarian disaster that is beyond words. Only it is not a natural catastrophe. More than something that is being allowed to happen, it is something that is being deliberately imposed on the Yemeni people.” >>> https://www.investigaction.net/en/yemen-a-western-sponsored-genocide/ 

 

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Give Me Some Truth J S Bach Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:52 Permalink

Regarding the Chinese op-ed, I particularly like the paragraph that asks the question about “basic logic.” Indeed. Did Syria NEED to drop one chlorine bomb on one apartment to clear out the rest of that city of its enemies? 

This helped them how? This would/could hurt them how?

And the Chinese ask the other key question. Why couldn’t the U.S. and Brits wait a few days and let the fact-finding team investigate some facts?

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Brazen Heist Give Me Some Truth Sun, 04/15/2018 - 11:06 Permalink

So many people in the West are fucking braindead sheep all too eager to swallow the stories, the illusions that they hail from the heroic side here to save the world. In actual fact, the West is just another full spectrum-esque empire, and all such empires are fundamentally based on extortion and deceit. Lots of it.

The MSM is totally taken over by CIA shills, the anti-war movement has been compromised from within and the propaganda is getting worse.

Zionists, Banksters and Imperialists are a big problem.

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Der Libertäre J S Bach Sun, 04/15/2018 - 12:30 Permalink

" I know this all may seem too insane to grasp..."

Why? Because nobody could be as insane than the US? I would agree with that, but even I think sometimes, when the US is again and again bombing the other side of the planet, that she needs a real war on home soil. My father was a kid in WW2 and my granddads were parents. Their stories are in me, they decide my doing (my move to Hungary as an example) I work everyday in earth, plant and clean, repair an old house. I learn basic things, remembering my Granddad who saved his family by getting them out of town to the countryside. I have enough money to call people to do all that, but I want to do it myself - its about knowledge for hard times. If nothing will happen I have no problem to give the house away for free and go back to my former life. Do I act insane?

I like your views Johann, but here I wonder. Only politicians like the US, the people like Russia. I do not remember a bigger canyon between leaders and people. So far we have only seen houseown killings in the US, which like 9/11 gave the UScits nightmares and many still suffer. What would some rockets do? The west is weak, but makes of high potence? The bluff is open to everyone.

I differ between people and systems, but if UScits do not scream to high heaven now (like Ken O'Keefe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3StSyLUM5oU&index=9&list=WL) I think the US could get totally wiped out. This was way too much and the Trump speech insulted my intelligence more than one time.

No Johann this is not too insane to grasp, I think it could well be the near future.

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rejected toady Sun, 04/15/2018 - 09:59 Permalink

"Or conversely, the U.S. keeps lying in the media so they can bomb people. At what point does the world question the lies?"

 

If the People question the lies then they have the responsibility to do something. No? 

Easier to be a bobbing head,,,no responsibility, no troubles. 

Ignorance is bliss! 

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The Ram toady Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:09 Permalink

We are actually getting out of this now....albeit very slowly.  The power and growth of the internet is such that truth is difficult to hide and so is deception.  We are living in a age of disclosure, so if you are hiding something, the truth will reveal, especially for those with the eyes to see and the ears to hear.  In 1964, few people knew about the deception in the Tonkin Gulf.  It took a couple of years before people discovered what really happened. For 9/11, the truth emerged much quicker with some people catching on right away.  In todays day and age, if you deceive, it will come out almost immediately.  If you are very intuitive (I would consider myself in this category), you will know the truth almost immediately, maybe not in grand detail, but your inner bullshit detector will go off.  Alas, the world will use the USA if they need to (like the Chinese), but they are well aware of the nature of the beast!  Eventually, the house of cards falls.  Just be patient and let nature take its course.  Like water running over huge rocks, it eventually wears them away.

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Give Me Some Truth Consuelo Sun, 04/15/2018 - 11:15 Permalink

Re: Those fact-finding investigators

It would be so refreshing - and maybe world changing -if this body issued a definitive statement, endorsing the groups who say this event was either staged, or perpetrated by the other side (not Assad’s military).

Instead, past events tell us we will get a statement that is the personification of ambiguity and weasel-speak. Maybe I am wrong, but I doubt it. Too much is at stake for too many for a clear-cut “verdict” to be announced. And the press is AWOL as usual.

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GreatUncle The Ram Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:41 Permalink

+1000 and you call it for what it is and others minds start to realise the truth far faster.

They have lost control of the narrative on anything they try now and it is not one mind tearing their lies amd deciet apart it is millions all looking, watching and observing.

It seems in the UK one or two people are now calling out May for treason after carrying out the bombing raid in her name. (So I am not the only one!).

 

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Giant Meteor The Ram Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:57 Permalink

"The power and growth of the internet is such that truth is difficult to hide and so is deception."

And also used well for even greater deceptions. Mostly self inflicted of course ..

"We are living in a age of disclosure, so if you are hiding something, the truth will reveal, especially for those with the eyes to see and the ears to hear."

The exact nature of human beings has not changed, nor evolved, in over 2000 years .. True there has always been what many have observed as the more enligtened among us, but history demonstrates clearly, they like most all else have had little to no great positive effect upon the emotional and spiritual development of the balance of humanity, still for the most part infants in the cradle, of civilization ...

It is a fact of life, most folks, knowingly or unknowingly prefer to be led. NEED to be led. This of course makes them easy marks .. as history demonstrates.

All deception of course begins with self. This realization is a mere beginning of greater realization, larger truths yet to be revealed.

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DisorderlyConduct The Ram Sun, 04/15/2018 - 13:19 Permalink

You are speaking as if you think the truth matters. That neglects to take into account that is the act of forcing people to accept and repeat the official narrative that is the whole point of the exercise. The truth does not matter. In fact, the more wild the lies, the more effective the process becomes.

Do you really think that regimes like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Kim Jung Un, Obama or Mao were really loved by their followers? No. The game is to force people to repeat lies, under the implicit pain of being ostracized or worse - up to and including death. The act of reciting lies and being obedient makes for an ideal population of brainwashed followers. So truth is not even on the playing field.

Speaking truth in that kind of environment will get you labeled as a conspiracy theorist, angry white man, mentally unstable, or whatever label they want to affix to you. The result is marginalization at least, and perhaps much worse.

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Giant Meteor toady Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:22 Permalink

Lying with impunity ..

On a fairly regular and consistent basis for a considerable time ..

As other's have rightfully pointed out, there is little effort at concealment of the lies, which are increasingly of the lowest quality, almost as if there is no downside in all this lyin, cheatin, murderin, and stealin.

As to your question, I have no idea on any grand scale the answer to the riddle. But I do know , it's going to become extremely unpleasant and incresingly painful for most of humanity , even a good many of whom are currently in on the caper, and enjoying the fruits of the present arrangement ..

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GreatUncle Giant Meteor Sun, 04/15/2018 - 10:45 Permalink

Or is it because you have the "new and modified equivalent of an s-400 anti-bullshit defence"?

I think that is the more likely answer they lie "same as it always was" (LOP copyright) you just got better at detecting it.

My ability to detect them telling the truth though ... nope that is totally fucked, kaput, bust gone.

Or is it because their truth is acually rocking horse shit?

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