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Background
Washington and Beijing have traded barbs after US President Joe Biden labeled his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a dictator.
Biden sparked fury on June 20 after he called Xi a dictator and suggested the Chinese leader was “embarrassed by the balloon debacle earlier this year”. The US says it shot down a Chinese balloon carrying spy equipment over US territorial waters back in February [2023]. In reaction, Beijing denounced Biden’s comments as absurd, irresponsible and a blatant political provocation. Still later, the US State Department clapped back at China over its reaction, saying Washington will not hesitate to call out areas where the two countries disagree.
Press TV: What do you see behind this?
Peter Koenig: Either Joe Biden in his dementia doesn’t remember that his top diplomat, Antony Blinken, visited China and President Xi last Saturday (17 June 2023), or Biden is simply back at his game of provocation – because it never really was the US intent to improve relations with China.
What Washington wants is control over China, beginning with control over Taiwan – which according to all historic records is clearly part of mainland China.
Washington wants Taiwan for strategic reasons – imagine the US military bases they could build right in front of mainland China and for technological reasons, especially IT.
Would Washington go to war for Taiwan, or is it just propaganda type of “positioning” itself, vis-à-vis the indoctrinated West, which thinks that the Western empire led by Washington will eventually take over the One World Order?
Frankly, Washington cannot afford another war, not with China, not with Russia.
But they can provoke one, as they are in the process of doing with Russia via Ukraine.
Let’s never forget, we are in the midst of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) declared Great Reset and the UN Agenda 2030, which is basically identical with the Great Reset… and the objectives are clearly the same:
- massive population reduction
- total control
- through digitization of everything, including money and including the human brain – they call it “transhumanism”; and
- the so-called Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which would put handcuffs on all non-elite humanity.
You may think this is a diversion from the real question – NO, it is not. We must connect the dots. And within the foreseeable future whatever happens is linked to this huge Great Reset / Agenda 2030 that is attempting to take over the world in a One World Order type government.
PressTV: And what are your views on the strange Chinese weather balloon story?
PK: The US knows exactly that it was a stray Chinese weather balloon, because they let it fly over the entire territory of the US. It entered the US on the West Coast in California and left the US on the East Coast in the Carolinas. Only then did the US decide to shoot it down when in theory, it could have filmed, recorded, and transmitted during its entire trajectory over the United States.
Think about the fakeness of this “Chines spy balloon” story.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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