by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
During its North American aerial odyssey, The Big Chinese Balloon passed within intel-gathering distance of ICBM silo fields, strategic bomber bases, key global logistics hubs (Charleston for example), and major Army and USAF headquarters.
The balloon wasn’t just blowing in the wind. Its calculated military itinerary tells reasonable Americans and Canadians—reasonable being a qualifier that excludes media influencers and politicians bribed or blackmailed by communist China—that the balloon was spying on critical North American defense installations.
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Which means it had a War Mission. Note I did not write “pre-War”; I wrote “War.”
I’ll explain why in a moment, but first due praise for The Wall Street Journal’s Feb. 20 article titled: “China’s Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology—Its Courts.”
According to the report, U.S. and EU officials “accuse China of using its courts and patent panels to undermine foreign intellectual-property rights and help Chinese businesses. They say China is focusing such efforts on industries it deems important, including technology, pharmaceuticals and rare-earth minerals.”
Beijing has weaponized its legal system to steal technology.
Beijing’s lawfare is calculated and synchronized. According to the Journal the EU is suing China for attempting to bar European companies from protecting their patents in courts outside China. One company official lamented: “It is puzzling that so many cases went wrong at the same time.”
Actually—it isn’t puzzling at all.
At the bottom line, communist China is fighting a war to dominate the world. In pursuit of that goal the Chinese state has weaponized every technology, media, and means of personal and organizational interaction.
Informed minds assure us the study titled “Unrestricted Warfare” and published by the People’s Liberation Army in February 1999 isn’t a war plan. I’ll agree it isn’t a step-by-step plan, but it is a thoughtful and deadly intellectual guidebook China’s communist leaders are using to defeat the United States and establish a Chinese-mandated international order.
The authors are Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. When they wrote “Unrestricted Warfare,” both men were People’s Liberation Army Air Force colonels. Qiao later made major general.
Chapter 2 discusses full-spectrum warfare. Its title in English: “The War God’s Face Has Become Indistinct.”
Translation: In China’s long war with the United States, weather balloons and lawyer jargon are weapons that can degrade American capabilities.
The chapter lists several types of warfare that China can use to attack and harm the United States without risking a military counterattack.
Start with Drug Warfare. The authors add this comment on pushing drugs: “obtaining sudden and huge illicit profits by spreading disaster in other countries.” In 1999 it was one of Qiao’s and Wang’s speculative options. In 2023 fentanyl is savaging American society. Beijing’s delivery system for this weapon in Drug Warfare? Mexican cartels.
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