Shakedown Timeline of America’s 21stC war on China

“Slowly at first and then all at once.”

With its entry into the WTO in 2001, China’s relations with the USA were assumed to be home and dry. However, less than a decade later, they started to unravel — and today they threaten to spin out of control and drag us into World War Three.

Shakedown is an epic contemporaneous timeline by Anna Chen charting more than twenty years of insights into the relationship between China and the West. Unique live commentary and analysis of US and UK-China political relations from within the belly of the beast.

Documenting events as they happened, in articles and radio broadcasts strung on a historical through-line, Shakedown makes visible what’s lurking beneath the surface, and tracks the political development of a British-born writer and national broadcaster of Chinese heritage.

Page 3: (This page) Shakedown Timeline 2020 to the Present. Covid, Joe Biden’s presidency to Trump’s 2nd term

Page 2: Shakedown Timeline 2010-2020. Obama’s Pivot-to-Asia to Donald Trump’s first presidency

Page 1: Shakedown Timeline 1997-2010. In the beginning … Hong Kong Handover and WTO entry to President Barack Obama’s Pivot to Asia

***To get the full chronological picture of the West’s growing hostility towards a developing China, start from Page 1 and read the extracts from the bottom to the top. This online publication features extracts of Anna’s BBC programmes and published articles (indented) with links. A pdf or eBook with full articles will shortly be available for download.

“Nip troubles in the bud. Sow the great in the small. Difficult things of the world can only be tackled when they are easy. Big things of the world can only be achieved by attending to their small beginnings. … Tackle things before they have appeared. Cultivate peace and order before confusion and disorder have set in. … A journey of a thousand leagues starts from where your feet stand” 
Tao Te Ching

Friday, 14 February 2025, MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE SETS USA AGAINST EUROPE: All change as US Vice President JD Vance chastises Europe, threatens to leave Nato and reinforces the far right. Secretary of Defence Hegseth reiterates peace negotiations with Russia that leave Europe and Zelensky in the cold. German Chancellor Pistorius reacts furiously.
In March 2022, most 300 European delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels voted for war after Russia invaded Ukraine despite the Minsk peace plans being on the table. Nothing much has changed except that Ukraine is already beaten.
Cheap energy has ended. German industry is on its knees. And nearly a million people have died on both sides.
Europe brought this nosedive on themselves. They were onto a good thing, benefiting from China’s rise bringing prosperity to Eurasia through the Belt and Road Initiative. But by following Biden’s line in Washington, they trashed their relationship with China. Instead, they supported Biden’s Ukraine land-grab, set in motion by his attempted imposition of EU membership under oppressive IMF conditions in 2013/4, ending up in a war in the making since the Maidan coup in 2014.
Even the destruction of their vital Nordstream gas pipeline from Russia couldn’t get them to focus on the dangers to the Europe bloc.
US-Russia peace negotiations begin in Saudi Arabia.

Wednesday, 12 February 2025, TRUMP-PUTIN PHONE CALL REVERSES EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ON UKRAINE ALL AT ONCE: And with one much anticipated ninety-minute phone call between the two superpower heads of state, Project Ukraine is at an end. The call sets Ukraine on course for a peace settlement that sidelines Zelensky and excludes the EU and perfidious Albion.
Turns out negotiations for a ceasefire, conducted by Trump’s US Special Envoy for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg, may have been a diversion from the true objective being hammered out: ending the war. The UK is particularly mistrusted for dirty tricks expertise including Boris Johnson’s trip to Kiev on 9 April 2022, scuppering the Minsk peace deal that was about to be concluded.
There’s also the matter of locating and reclaiming the $350 billion supposedly given to the Ukraine by the Biden administration, much of which has gone missing, lots of it in America.
Other issues up for horse-trading include ending sanctions on Russian energy, payments to continue in US dollars just as alternatives were being found, minerals, AI, Iran’s nuclear programme, Ukraine elections with maybe a federated government in Kiev (meaning no EU membership and no Nato), … and China. So far, a US-Russia anti-China alliance is “less certain” than anticipated in the media. But watch out for more games. More horse-trading to come.
Video overview of the state of Ukraine play.

Tuesday 4 February 2025: Chyna! Chyna! Chyna!
One key motivation behind Trump’s execrable and illegal announcement today to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinians and build a US powerhouse in its place, and maybe get his Trump Tower on Gaza beach, is to deprive China of influence in the region through Belt and Road and BRICS. That and swallow the large oil reserves off the coast.
He also cites China as the reason for menacing Panama over control of the canal which is run by Panama, not China. Two ports at the ends are privately owned by Chinese business.
Sanctions of 25 percent on Mexico and Canada were halted after Presidents Trudeau and Sheinbaum allowed Trump to save face by agreeing to border measures that had already been agreed last year.
Last week, Elon Musk — elected by no-one and not even an American citizen — sent in his youth squad of male hackers to government offices in the biggest data breach ever. Crashing the Office of Management and Disbursement in Washington, they froze all federal money using Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) as a smokescreen. With no legal backing or legitimacy, Musk is cancelling agencies and deleting chunks of the federal budget.
On Friday, they took over the payment system of the Treasury Department, welcomed in by Trump’s new Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessant.
Veteran Services wages are among many sectors in danger of being cut off. Thousands of state workers and experts were sent emails telling them to resign. Two million more are targeted to be replaced with MAGA henchmen.
Immigration enforcement is run on a war footing. Trans people are erased.
The Inspectors General who check for corruption were sacked. That protection of the Constitution? Trump says, “The constitution is unconstitutional”.
One bright spot is the closure of the euphemistically named US Agency for International Development (USAID) which, far from simply eking out crumbs and bribes to deprived nations, runs the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA front, which notoriously funds colour revolutions and destabilisation in America’s imperial target nations: such as the Hong Kong protests in 2019 (yes, under Trump’s watch).
All those Uyghurs who’ve been made unemployable by unfounded forced labour claims by ASPI and various China Watch outfits might be able to return to earning a living in the greatest expanding economy of the era.

Monday, 27 January 2025
Americans Embrace Their Red Note Epiphany On China
The one positive and profoundly moving sight since Trump’s inauguration is the millions of Americans who saw behind the veil thanks to Red Note. Watching this explosion of raised consciousness feels like an enormous sea-change taking place. Even history in the making. 
TikTok refugees flooding to the Chinese Xiaohongshu Red Note app to beat the ban returned on the reopening with tales of marvels they never believed possible. These modern Marco Polos rubbed the sleep out of their eyes and raged. 
“We’re third world, they’re living in the future,” is one common refrain heard from people who never knew how badly they’ve been exploited. “We’ve been lied to,” is another. The abrupt realisation that needing two or three jobs just to survive, with no healthcare, their infrastructure and economy crumbling all around them in the world’s richest nation is neither normal not acceptable has stirred a collective sense of injustice. Monstering China’s model only benefits the elites, so that schtick may have lost its potency.
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Monday, 20 January 2025, DONALD J TRUMP INAUGURATED AS 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Capitol Rotunda sees Trump sworn in at 17:02GMT in a ceremony reminiscent of Cleopatra’s cinematic arrival in Rome. The Tech Bros bunch up on the platform on the left. Former presidents on the right.
A slice of the world shudders.
Trump says God saved him from the assassin’s bullet to Make America Great Again.
Hundreds of immigrants without the necessary paperwork have already been rounded up for deportation as he declares a state of national emergency at the southern border. “Millions and millions” more will be expelled with the end of the “catch and release” policy.
The US army is immediately being sent to the Mexican border. The cartels are now designated terrorist.
Declaring an energy emergency, he will “Drill, baby, drill.” America has the largest amount of gas and oil of any country on Earth and Trump will use it all over the world. He’ll end the Green New deal, revoking the Electric Vehicle mandate, focusing on US autoworkers to produce.
Will tariff and tax foreign countries to “enrich our citizens”. External Revenue Service will collect all the wealth pouring in from foreign countries. He will establish the Department of Government Efficiency (run by Elon Musk).
All government censorship will end and free speech brought back to America. Fair and equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. Law and order brought back to the cities. Race and gender considerations ditched in public and private life. Colour blind and merit-based society. Only two genders: male and female.
Service members expelled for defying vaccine mandates to be reinstated with full back pay. Armed forces to focus on defeating America’s enemies. Will build the strongest military the world has ever seen. Success measured by the battles won, wars ended and wars not begun. Legacy will be peacemaker and unifier.
Implies Israeli hostage return the day before he assumed office was his achievement (shades of Reagan and Iran). Biden and Kamala applaud and join the standing ovation bouncing up and down like a Mexican wave. Talking of which, he’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Will take back Panama Canal, supposedly operated by China.
Will be disease-free, practise manifest destiny, plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars. Our Golden Age has just begun.
In other news, China’s Foreign office says it will allow ByteDance to make its own decisions regarding operations and acquisitions, reversing its previous decision to never sell.

Monday 20 January 2025
Donald Trump Sworn In As 47th President Of The United States
You could smell the avarice in the company of wolves on the podium at the Capitol Rotunda today. I’m surprised the Tech Bros weren’t openly salivating. Glittery eyes anticipated a feast as Trump threw them bone, meat, fillet mignon: the whole carcass. 
A 20,000-strong audience watched the Don sworn in at 17:02GMT in a ceremony reminiscent of Cleopatra’s arrival in Rome. They listened to his MAGA speech like it was the Second Coming, rewarding him with non-stop standing ovations in the Adoration of the Ham. The Silicon Valley elite bunched up on the podium on the left. Former presidents fading away on the right. The Oligarchy had arrived. …
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Sunday 19 January 2025 TIKTOK BAN TO START TODAY: TikTok changed 170 million American lives for the better over five years. Not only does it provide income streams, pulling many out of poverty in the richest country on the planet where many need two or even three jobs to survive, it also opens up relatively free communication where information is rapidly exchanged.
This loses the state its control over narratives such as Gaza. Israeli politicians fear a generational difference in political perceptions, rather than left-right, and their allies in the US call for a ban on the app, using the excuse that it is supposedly owned by China and is therefore a national security threat. In fact, only 20 percent is owned by the two Chinese techs who founded it in 2017. Sixty percent is owned by foreign investors, 20 percent by TikTok workers (including 7,000 in the US) and the CEO, Shou Zi Chew, is Singaporean.
In his first term, President Trump threatens a ban unless this highly profitable app is sold to an American entity. A bill, led by Republican Mike Gallagher who leaves politics early to work for Palantir, is signed by Joe Biden in 2024. TikTok vigorously resists sale of its valuable algorithm.
In a sleight of hand, the app goes dark a day before the ban is due to kick in and returns less than 24 hours later, only a day before Trump’s inauguration, possibly with a changed algorithm. Dissenting creators and content have been wiped off in the Night of the Delete Button. The Singaporean CEO is no longer named on his TikTok account as the CEO.

Friday 13 December 2024
ATTACKING CHINA REBOUNDS ON AMERICA’S LITTLE HELPERS
The list of nations who did US bidding and are now in trouble looks alarming. Ganging up on China has its consequences. From the Master Race nations to Pacific Rimmers, what’s happened to the countries whose leaders who kissed the Trump ring?
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17 November 2024, LAME DUCK PRESIDENT BIDEN ALLOWS LONG-RANGE US MISSILES TO STRIKE DEEP INTO RUSSIA FROM UKRAINE IN HIS LAST WEEKS OF POWER: Days later, US ATACMS (190 mile range) strike Russia having already allowed use of HIMARS (50 mile range). 19 November, Putin changes Russian nuclear doctrine: an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will now be treated as a joint assault on Russia. Putin tests the powerful Oreshnik non-nuclear long-range hypersonic ballistic missiles on 21 November and warns of a widening conflict beyond Ukraine.

5 November 2024, DONALD TRUMP WINS THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Trump defies media wishful thinking and wins a decisive victory across the board with every swing state and the public vote going to him. Despite this, his advantage in the House slips to the second lowest majority in history with Republicans on 220 seats to the Democrats’ 215. Trump holds the House, the Senate and the presidency.

Friday 25 October 2024
THE WEST IS FREAKING OUT ABOUT THE BRICS SUMMIT 2024
The dogs bark but the caravan moves on. BRICS is now officially the world’s biggest trade bloc. Saudi Arabia and others are joining the stampede into the core alignment of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which overtook the G7 in GDP in 2020.
How many BRICS members have been sanctioned or had their money confiscated by western banks? How many have had their resources pillaged by Empire? How many are excluded from SWIFT, the international payment system? 
The US overplayed its hand so this is where we are. 
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Thursday 24 October 2024
BRICS NOW THE BIGGEST TRADE BLOC ON THE PLANET
On the 16th BRICS summit, the UK is in danger of being left behind as the rising trade bloc overtakes the G7 and makes the US dollar an also-ran. Will the UK continue self-harming and stay on the sidelines to please the US?
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4 July 2024, LABOUR WINS THE GENERAL ELECTION:
14 years of Tory rule ends when the Labour Party wins the General Election under Keir Starmer. Due more to widespread loathing of the Tories than love for the incoming party and its rightward lurch, Labour wins with fewer votes on a smaller vote share (35%) than Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 (40%), when he lost by fewer than 3,000 votes. This is despite years of misery and shambles under Cameron, Johnson, Truss and Sunak.

Sunday 31 December 2023
HEROES AND VILLAINS OF 2023
Most of the public by now recognise Boris Johnson‘s role as all the Horsemen of the Apocalypse rolled into one overfed scary clown.
Johnson pauperised Britain with Brexit, losing us our biggest market that happened to be on our doorstep. Costs £100bn a year. Poverty kills.
He handed us over to the US war machine so we now do their bidding. World War III in the making.
Partied like Nero unbound while Covid spread. There are now 220K dead Brits, the second highest number in the developed world.
Personally scuppered the Ukraine peace deal negotiation, April 2022. NYT says 500K dead.
We were dragged from the EU frying pan into the US fire, on the referendumvote of 37% of the population. And now look at the state of us. Instead of delivering the yummy trade deals with China as promised, Johnson nailed us to the USS Titanic and torpedoed our global lifeboat. Now we send war fleets to China’s coast instead of cargo ships.
Xi Jinping could have taken the easy route and taken US heat off himself by letting Jack Ma’s 2020 Ant Group IPO slide by. Instead, Xi saved the economy, prevented a slow business coup and preserved the upward trajectory for China’s workers, enraging Wall Street. He continued this throughout 2023.
Benjamin Netanyahu was already in deep trouble, facing prosecution and unprecedented street protests in Israel for his power grab against the judges. Earlier in the year he pleaded with America to join him in a war on Iran. America said no. Well, he now has his wish. … continues
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Sunday 3 December 2023
US RATCHETS UP CHIP TECH WAR ON CHINA
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spearheads increasingly desperate attempts to cut off China from AI technology since the Chips and Science Act was passed in August 2022. The backfiring result is to hobble America’s top technology companies such as Nvidia rather than operate on a level playing field. Meanwhile, China is spurred on to be self-reliant and goes from strength to strength. … continues
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15 November 2023, XI JINPING ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO FOR TALKS WITH JOE BIDEN: The streets of San Francisco are cleared of the homeless tents crowding the pavements. Seeing the rapid clean-up, more US cities wonder if Xi couldn’t give them a visit.

7 October 2023, ISRAEL GAZA CONFLICT ERUPTS.
Hamas breaks out of the blockaded Gaza Strip and carries out an assault on southern Israel. Some call it a rebellion against occupying forces. They attack Israeli security posts, kibbutzim and the Supernova music festival, killing 1,400 (later revised to 1,200, some of whom are killed by the IDF) on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s watch.
In the furious backlash against Gaza, residential blocks are flattened, and bombings of hospitals and schools are decried by the UN with nearly 5,000 Palestinians killed in the first two weeks and more military operations to come. Israel cuts off water and supplies as well as the Rafeh crossing into Egypt.
Pro-Palestinian protests take place around the world. Hundreds of Jewish protesters storm the Washington Capitol demanding a ceasefire and negotiations to return over 200 Israeli hostages. China also calls for a ceasefire, calm and a permanent political solution for Palestinians. Biden appears to give Netanyahu carte blanche.
China hawks start a desperate diversion campaign to drown out international horror with a lame revival of human rights violations claims including the oft debunked Xinjiang narrative.
Eleven days later, on October 18, the UK is one of 51 countries to sign a UN resolution condemning China for purported human rights violations in Xinjiang while refusing to sign a resolution to block the actual collective punishment of Gazans.
Meanwhile, the inquiry into UK war-crimes in Afghanistan remains buried in bad news.
On 19th October, Biden pledges $100 billion to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the border – $60b going to Ukraine.

Sunday 29 September 2023
Don Quixote in the White House: Hollywood deconstructs the narrative
first published by Asia Times
Now that the Writers Strike is over, I can pitch my script for that blockbuster version of Cervantes’ classic crying out to be made: Don Quixote in the White House, updating windmills to stray weather balloons, complete with paranoia & moustache-twirling villains. (Oh. Democrats don’t do facial hair?) 
The B-story is a light romance set in the world’s seat of power. He loves Xi but the sweethearts fall out over a misunderstanding that Xi wants to ditch him and run off with Europe. 
Across the world, every two-bit, dime-a-dozen demagogue, any politician or public figure in need of a reputation cleanser or career booster realizes they can play the China “Get out of jail free” card, ready made for every grade ‘n’ shade of no-goodniks. … continues
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22 September 2023, NETANYAHU VISITS THE US AND ADDRESSES THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the 78th session at the UN General Assembly in New York that ‘Tehran must face a “credible nuclear threat” before his office corrected the record to “credible military threat”’. He speaks of Iran’s “terror proxies,” “terror tentacles,” “murderous intentions” and “murderous nature”. “Yet the regime’s aggression is largely met by indifference by the international community”. President Biden appears to decline the tacit invitation to war.

Tuesday 5 September 2023
Zoo Time at Operation Circe: How the Wolf Warrior was invented
first published by Asia Times 
Accusations had been blasted at China in a character-assassination broadside by both sides of the House from which neither facts nor history could save it. China, not Trump, had reneged on the trade deal. China was stealing IP. It was a currency manipulator, despite the fact that, far from undervaluing the yuan, China was spending vast amounts of its reserves propping it up. China, not the top one percent of the US that now owned as much as the bottom 90 percent, was the cause of America’s misery. 
You might suspect, from all the invective in high places, that the US didn’t actually want a stable relationship with its successful partner. … continues
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30 August 2023, UK SAYS DISENGAGEMENT WITH CHINA NOT CREDIBLE. The tiny 11-member foreign affairs committee refers to Taiwan as an “independent country” on the day the Foreign Secretary visits China and confirms disengagement is not on the cards. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly meets his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi who said, “Dialogue and cooperation are the key words … of China’s policy towards the UK,” and Vice President Han Zheng who wants the visit to “further promote the sound and stable development of bilateral relations”.

Monday 14 August 2023
We’ll always have Beijing – debut column for Asia Times
In the half-century since Bruce Lee’s early death in July 1973, the image of Chinese in western culture and business has come full circle with an added twist of spite. 
Prior to the martial arts deity’s explosion onto cinema screens in the 1960s, Chinese men were barely seen except as anonymous hordes reminiscent of the wave warfare that kept America at bay in Korea. Their ultimate sacrifice was presented in the west as an antlike lack of humanity rather than the collective courage we recognise from the allied storming of Normandy beaches. 
Is whitewashed Doctor Strange about to morph into Dr Strangelove or be eclipsed by Fu Manchu redux? … continues
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23 June 2023 OFFICE OF THE US DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (ODNI) SAYS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ORIGINATED IN A WUHAN LAB LEAK: Not only is it more likely that SARS-CoV-2 had been cooking up in nature before jumping to humans, there’s no evidence that the three WIV researchers at the centre of another lab-leak conspiracy theory had Covid in the 2019 flu season. “All agencies agree SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a bioweapon, and they agree it wasn’t genetically engineered.” Conspiracy theorists are enraged.
Evidence-free accusations of lab leaks, forced labour and human rights abuses rumble on while the US tools up for a devastating World War in a 21st Century Thucydides Trap that threatens to engulf us all.

19 June 2023 SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN REITERATES US COMMITMENT TO ONE-CHINA POLICY AND SAYS HE DOESN’T BELIEVE CHINA IS GOING TO INVADE TAIWAN: Contrary to President Biden’s sabre-rattling provocations and lurid accusations, Blinken tells Xi during his visit to Beijing, “We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.” Xi repeats their position that “China respects US interests and does not seek to challenge or displace the United States”. An increasing erratic Biden derails the hopeful atmosphere by calling Xi a dictator the day after Blinken returns. His comments knock from the headlines his son Hunter’s guilty pleas to tax charges and possession of a gun while being a drug user. Blinken’s visit is followed weeks later by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellon on 6 July with some constructive results: “The world is big enough for the US and China”, she says.

Monday 13th February 2023
Stopping the Iraq War 2001-3 20th anniversary: How the press was done
Wednesday 15 February marks the 20th anniversary of the unprecedented million-strong anti-Iraq War demonstration in London.
… The left were expert at holding rallies and demonstrations, but often with little to show for it beyond a nice day out. This time, to prevent our activities disappearing as yet another walk in the park, we needed a coordinated press campaign, otherwise we’d be preaching to the choir. 
With an expanding anti-war campaign, I expected to be working alongside other press officers, in particular veterans from CND. Instead, my emails went unanswered and all attempts to speak to them failed. CND went AWOL. On 27 October, I emailed the STWC convenor asking for back-up to help me with the media work but answer there came none. This left me doing all the national presswork on my own while Marqusee continued to write the STWC releases. …
… Which brings us full circle to the USA’s current go-for-broke policy as the supposedly abandoned Project for the New American Century goes nuclear and the UK, the second biggest force in NATO, nails us to the USS Titanic. 
… I’ve been wondering why there has been so little push-back from the British Left since then over Libya, Syria and Ukraine and while vicious Yellow Peril narratives set like concrete. 
Our current rush to war with the rising superpower, losing us our cheap energy, mass produced goods and food, has gone largely unopposed. Where has the peace movement been in the past few years? Facing nuclear oblivion, the left has only just started to hold peace demonstrations and rallies, but virtually nothing about China. … continues
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Tuesday 3rd January 2023
China’s new Covid measures for 2023 and the West’s response
A welcome mild spell of weather in the UK takes some of the pressure off us from spiking energy prices under the new world order’s decoupling from China, our global lifeboat and factory. Every country that refuses to come to heel in the Rules-based order that has quietly replaced the Rule of International Law is now target for the declining US, riven as it is by a looming recession deflating the Mother of all Market Bubbles, an incipient civil war between two equally unpleasant opposing factions of north America’s ruling class, and Covid rendered endemic in pursuit of the rising rival. …
In December, under some of the most aggressive propaganda attacks ever fielded by the West, China finally decided to make a break for safety, taking advantage of the milder Omicron variant. The media’s screeching about “inhumane” lockdowns under the Zero Covid policy immediately turned on a dime to howls of rage that China dropped Zero Covid. Such doublethink barely masks the absurdity of complaining that China may end up giving us back the variants we’d been stewing up and sending there over the past three years. … continues
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7 December 2022, ANGELA MERKEL ADMITS THE 2014 MINSK PEACE AGREEMENT WAS A SHAM: “The 2014 Minsk Agreement was an attempt to buy time for Ukraine. Ukraine used this time to become stronger, as you can see today. Ukraine in 2014-2015 and Ukraine today are not the same.” The Russian Foreign Ministry stated, “everything that was done in 2014 and 2015 had only one goal: to divert the global community’s attention from the real problems, to buy some time, to pump the Kiev regime with weapons and to lead the situation to a large-scale conflict.” The signatories were Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko. In August 2023, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg admits the war started in 2014.

Monday, 28 November 2022
The Power of Propaganda: Barrie Weiss in conversation with Anna Chen and Robbie Barwick 
VIDEO: Parts 1, 2 and 3. A three-way conversation with Anna Chen in the UK, Robbie Barwick in Australia and Barrie Weiss (AKA Barrie V) hosting from China, 16th September 2022. 

September 2022, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PLANS CHIP TECH WAR TO HANDICAP CHINA FOR A DECADE: Following the $280b Chips and Science Act passed in August, massively subsidising American semiconductor manufacturers, Biden announces a plan to handicap China for a decade by banning high tech companies from building factories in China for ten years.

2 August 2022 TAIWAN AND THE ONE-CHINA POLICY: Nancy Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan attempts to throw a match into gasoline. Despite insisting that the 1972 One-China policy still holds, the US flouts China’s red line, sending arms and troops to China’s “rogue” province while Western nations sail warships off China’s coast. The US Navy has itself sailed warships through the Taiwan Strait since 2018, claiming them as international waters. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), to which the US is not signed up, defines the strait not as international waters (as it lies between two parts of the same country), but as China’s territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Biden continues US practice of selling weapons to Taiwan, including Patriot, Harpoon and Sidewinder missiles. In April 2023, Biden sends 200 troops to Taiwan. Nancy Pelosi was in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square conflict in 1989.

July 2022, BRITAIN APPROPRIATES VENEZUELA’S GOLD
Fronted by US-backed presidential claimant, Juan Guaido, over $1 billion of Venezuela’s gold reserves held by the Bank of England is purloined when the High Court rules against President Maduro. Reuters reports: “Maduro’s legal team has said he would like to sell some of the 31 tonnes of gold to finance Venezuela’s response to the pandemic and bolster a health system gutted by years of economic crisis. … Legal experts have said the latest case has been unprecedented as it has seen one of a country’s highest courts interpreting the constitution of another.” Venezuelans are subjected to continued poverty imposed not only by US sanctions on their oil sales but now by being denied access to their own national assets.

Wednesday 6 July 2022
A Brief History of the Chinese Who Came to Britain: Anna Chen’s Introduction to Hannah Lowe’s new poetry collection, Old Friends
Introduction written by Anna Chen 
How many Chinas are there? 
In 2022, two Grand Narratives jockey for position as the dominant conventional wisdom which will define China and its global diaspora: the one which demonises its subject, and the other which humanises.  
After enduring their “century of humiliation”, China achieves superpower status and finds itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. For the past few years, geopolitical stability has tumbled down a Sliding Doors rabbit-hole, splitting the narrative of the peaceful emergence of a multipolar world. One version portrays an existential threat to a western way of life already rapidly approaching its best-by date. The other, which it aims to topple, depicts the dragon reborn, a technological marvel raising 800 million out of poverty, battling the Covid-19 which has already felled western powers, while building beautiful futuristic cities and a new Silk Road. … continues
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Saturday, 28 May 2022
A short 21st century timeline of the race to World War III
VIDEO AND TEXT: When China explored the world in the 15th century and reached as far as East Africa, they traded a bit and brought back a giraffe. When Europeans landed in the Americas in 1492, they killed and enslaved its native peoples, stole their treasures and gave them smallpox blankets in an early form of biological warfare. 
In North America, 100 million native Americans were killed, Black Africans were put through slavery, Jim Crow and imprisonment. The USA was literally built on an ancient Indian burial ground, because that’s what they’d turned it into. 
And that’s pretty much been the template ever since … continues
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May 2022 DAVOS: Blackrock wins the prime role coordinating extraction of wealth from the Ukraine as JP Morgan did in Iraq in 2003. As China became Ukraine’s biggest investor in 2019 after years of investment, this makes a nice killing for the US as it’s unlikely that China will ever see its investments returned.

9 April 2022 UKRAINE RUSSIA PEACE DEAL SCUPPERED BY BORIS JOHNSON: A peace deal between Russia and the Ukraine is on the table and already signed when British PM Boris Johnson travels to Kyiv to relay UK and US displeasure. “Prime Minister pledges UK’s unwavering support to Ukraine on visit to Kyiv: 9 April 2022. PM set out new military aid and an additional $500m World Bank guarantee to support Ukraine’s economy.” Peace deal off, war back on.

24 February 2022 THE UKRAINE WAR BEGINS: Following eight years of provocation, repression and and killings of Russian speakers in the Donbass since the US-backed Maidan coup in 2014, Putin does what his enemies want and invades the Ukraine. NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg openly admits the war started in 2014.

BEIJING 2022 WINTER OLYMPICS hosted by China 4-20 February 2022: The Same day that China’s winter games begin, the Biden admin enacts another act of spite and passes the “Competes Act for 2022”.

4 February 2022, 2ND US BILL ATTACKING CHINA IS PASSED: Congress passes the the House’s “Competes Act for 2022“. It follows the “United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021” (USICA) of 8 June 2021 with which it will be merged. Prospect says: USICA creates a “Countering Chinese Influence Fund” totaling $1.5 billion over a five-year period, “with more than a third of funds aimed at media outlets.” The bill “aims to crowd out Chinese investment in developing countries, and also encourages criticism of China’s projects in those markets”. The “push for anti-China coverage … could potentially undermine the credibility of journalists involved in the reporting. …doesn’t really qualify as genuine journalism.” “Otherwise, this funding is just an exercise in crude soft-power projection, with many sources at risk of being much more easily dismissed or repressed as pawns of a U.S. geopolitical strategy.” “The terms [‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation’ ] are not defined in either bill.”

January 2022: KAZAKHSTAN COLOUR REVOLUTION ENDED. In January 2022, after 30 years of peace in this stable Stan, a colour revolution attempt in Kazakhstan (fourth largest country in Asia, nestled between Russia and US target region Xinjiang) breaks out and is swiftly ended by Russia and China in cooperation. It becomes clear that, in order to defeat China, the US axis will have to cut the legs out from under it – prime target, Russia. 

Thursday, 2 January 2022
PARTYGATE: another day, another diversion from 176,000 Covid deaths in the UK
UK frogs still being boiled slowly as the government declares Covid-19 to be endemic and ends restrictions. System failed but mission accomplished 
So was it negligent homicide, homicidal negligence or mass murder? No, it’s worse: attending parties during lockdown. 
It may have been illegal under their own rules, selfish and hypocritical while people were dying, but the charging elephant in the Downing Street garden party is the mainstream media’s news blackout on how China eradicated Covid by day 43 of its unprecedented 76-day lockdown of 23rd January 2020. … continues
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Tuesday, 2 November 2021 
A Permanent Reservoir of Scapegoats: how racism drives the geopolitics of China’s rise
VIDEO AND TEXT: America has become a supernova, both imploding and exploding at the same time, leaving a fragmented shell of its former self. Unfortunately, it seems intent on dragging us all to hell with it. 
Racism is more than an ugly word shouted at us, more than an assault on any individual. It goes wider than the gunshot massacre of Asian women in Atlanta. Racism is a poisonous force which could, on this trajectory, result in the mass murder of millions of human beings if the USA and its Western allies get the war for which they are busily manufacturing consent, throwing huge resources at it to get their way … continues
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15 September 2021 AUKUS LASH-UP BETWEEN THE US, UK AND AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCED: The trilateral military pact between the US, UK and Australia to pour military hardware and troops into the Asia region is formally announced. Biden continues to manufacture his casus belli around Taiwan despite the long-established One-China policy. France’s lucrative submarine deal with Australia is dropped. Within 24 hours, France’s Pasteur Institute announces that they found a closer relative of SARS-CoV-2 than RatG13 and they found it in Laos, not China.

Thursday, 2 September 2021
Open letter of complaint to Channel 4 Dispatches “Covid Leak”: politicising Covid-19 for partisan US agenda
Channel 4 squanders its reputation as a serious investigative news channel by regurgitating overwrought right-wing claims about lab-leak theories, which have been regularly debunked by virologists who the programme makers fail to interview for the programme.
Timed for the release of Biden’s Covid Origins report, Channel 4 Dispatches cheerleads the USA’s Cold War, reinforces the side with its fleet in China’s back yard, threatening war on the upcoming rival just as China’s economy is about to draw level with America’s … continues
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30 August 2021 US EXITS AFGHANISTAN AFTER 20 YEARS: Biden pulls the US out of Afghanistan in a messy exit, ending a 20 year war that’s achieved nothing.

Thursday, 17 June 2021
Opium Wars 2 and the propaganda war on China: No Cold War launch
VIDEO AND TEXT: Tonight, I’m going to discuss the current build-up in hostility towards China in the context of the Opium Wars of the 19th century and the propaganda war leading us there once again. 
At the start of the first Opium War in 1839, China was the most technologically advanced country in the world. It had already invented hydraulics, gunpowder in the 9th century, ships’ rudders, the stirrup, paper, moveable type printing and much more. 
But it was their beautiful porcelain and silks, tea, lacquer (the first plastic) and furniture that drove the enthusiasm for chinoiserie in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. 
Because Britain had little to trade with China that they didn’t already have – rough woollens and clockwork toys being top of the list on offer — Britain’s treasury was being drained to satisfy the public’s appetite for all things Chinese. 
Britain’s solution to the trade imbalance was to grow cheap, mass-produced opium in stolen Bengal and sell that to China. Up until then, opium had been an expensive habit only used by the wealthiest Chinese … continues
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8 June 2021, THE FIRST BILL TARGETING CHINA INVESTMENT AND INDUSTRY IS PASSED: the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA) is passed by Congress: It aims to “crowd out Chinese investment in developing countries, and also encourages criticism of China’s projects in those markets”. It is followed by the Competes Act 4 February 2022.

Monday, 3 May 2021
The Roots of the Clash between the United States and China: Virtual Vigil for the Victims of the Atlanta Shootings 
VIDEO AND TEXT: After a year of increasing anti-Asian violence encouraged by unscrupulous politicians and media, we took another lurch to the dark side when eight people were killed in the Atlanta shootings (16th March 2021), six of them Asian women. Elsewhere, Asian people are being regularly maimed and murdered. 
Why have we been beset by this wave of sinophobic hatred when only four years ago, Christine Lagarde (International Monetary Fund) was remarking on the even pace of economic growth in the world? We had relative stability — if you weren’t a Palestinian, a Venezuelan or Iranian under US sanctions or a Black person in Ferguson — and as a species, for one glorious historical moment, we seemed to be headed towards the light.
But just as China’s economy was drawing level with the American superpower, we got the Thucydides Trap – classically the conflict that occurs when an established power feels threatened by a rising one — and now, more than 2,000 years after the original Sparta-Athens knock-down, we find ourselves being dragged into a war with a nuclear power which is also our global growth engine, the factory of the world and our lifeboat … continues
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Wednesday, 7 April 2021
Standing up to sinophobia: how racism has its roots in politics
VIDEO AND TEXT: So here we are in April 2021 as America’s anti-Chinese pogrom goes full blown. We’re seeing almost daily attacks on Asian people who’ve been caught up in this vicious wave of sinophobia. Britain is thankfully further behind but is being dragged in the same direction. 
In the deadly Atlanta attack, six out of eight people who lost their lives were Asian women. 
After Atlanta, we saw a brief display of crocodile tears from the government and media but then a return to business as usual. 
Because this isn’t about being nice to minority victims. This is about turning a group of people – in this case 1.4 billion human beings – into a dehumanised blob so that the American superpower can retain top position as ruling hegemon in a unipolar world. 
President Joe Biden finally admitted to what Victor Gao calls “Tonya Harding Syndrome” — with the declining superpower trying to smash the kneecaps of its upcoming rival. Biden declared that “China will never grow wealthier or more powerful than us on my watch”, despite China having four times the population, a lot of talent and an aim to raise the tide that floats all boats … continues
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” … to the China haters spinning this atrocity porn, every drop of poison, every toxic word, every lurid rape fantasy: what you’re saying about China doesn’t tell us who they are. It tells us who you are.” – Anna Chen, 7 April 2021

March 2021 PRESIDENT BIDEN “NOT ON MY WATCH”: “China has an overall goal … to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world,” he told reporters at the White House. “That’s not going to happen on my watch.”

Wednesday, 13 January 2021
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from the West’s Own Id: No Cold War on China
I first realised that China was the likely end game in the Project for America in the 21st Century, in 2005, watching Dubbya Bush standing in the rubble of the Iraq war and declaring China to be a competitor.
America’s wars since carving up YUGOSLAVIA have been like ticking off boxes in a steady stream of horror: Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Venezuela, Bolivia and now Cuba – not forgetting YEMEN where British and American weapons are killing people even now. China is the big prize at the end of their list of imagined foes.
President Carter told Donald Trump that the reason China does well is that it doesn’t have wars and invests so much in the country – unlike America which has barely had a period when it hasn’t been at war, spends 20 times more than China on its military, and starves the US of investment … continues
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6 January 2021, JUAN GUAIDO DOWNGRADED BY THE EU
All 27 states of the EU stop recognising US favourite Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela and head of the National Assembly following December’s legislative elections, even though the EU does not officially recognise the vote. Designating him an “important actor” and “privileged interlocutor” instead, there’s an unmistakeable sound of distance made while saving face, although he’ll come in handy in 2022 when he helps the Bank of England purloin Venezuela’s gold. The term “free and fair” elections joins “democracy” and “human rights” in the lexicon of euphemisms meaning the complete opposite in service to empire.

3 November 2020 CHINA’S REGULATORS HALT MASSIVE IPO OF JACK MA’S ANT GROUP.  In the cage fight of communist ideals versus raw capitalism, the government wins. After years of tension, Xi Jinping and the Chinese regulators quash the $350-450 billion initial public offering of Jack Ma’s giant Ant Group in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The biggest stock offering in history, this mega debut threatens to make Ant too big to fail. Furthermore, Ant Financial defies regulatory protective measures by working outside the rules. Ma openly dismisses the regulations set up to prevent systemic financial risk as “red tape”. Aware that business runs government in the ailing USA, reaping low taxes and endless bailouts, the CPC is never going to allow the same to happen in China. As a result of the last-minute halt, the Chinese economy is no longer allowed to run too hot into a crash, bitterly disappointing Wall Street investors.
One might have thought that, in a communist society, the people who helped make Ma’s ecommerce titan Alibaba (which birthed the Ant Group) one of the most profitable companies in the world, should be pampered and share in the wealth (even John Lewis does this in the UK). Instead, Jack Ma further pushes his luck by defending dreaded 996 conditions (9am-9pm, 6 days a week, 72 hours a week) for his workers and China’s workforce.  
In this one move, Xi saves the economy, prevents a slow business coup and preserves the upward trajectory for China’s workers. He is subsequently traduced by the west. The fight is on in earnest.

November 2020 JOE BIDEN WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Joe Biden is elected president and raises America’s military spend to $780 BILLION a year. He later tops this by placing a fat bounty on China’s head when he budgets $500m a year specifically on anti-China propaganda in the House’s “Competes Act for 2022,” 4 February 2022.  This follows the Senate-led 8 June 2021 “United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA)” which aims to “crowd out Chinese investment in developing countries, and also encourages criticism of China’s projects in those markets”. The terms “disinformation” and “misinformation” are not defined in either bill. 
After promising he won’t start World War 3, Biden forms AUKUS with Australia, and UK in September 2021, bringing the prospect of nuclear war to the prosperous region of Asia to add to the noose of hundreds of bases surrounding China. 

9 September 2020 NEWS BREAKS THAT TRUMP KNEW ABOUT COVID DANGERS SINCE 28 JANUARY 2020. Published in The Washington Post, former president Donald Trump admits he knew about the coming deadly coronavirus pandemic from at least January 2020 when he was briefed by the NSA. Despite his knowledge, and having already dismantled the White House pandemic team and the CDC office in Beijing the previous year, he would continue to pump the markets, downplay the coronavirus, call it a hoax, undermine the science, stigmatise masks, hold super-spreader rallies, allow sporting and music events to go ahead, and suggest injecting bleach. On 13th March the president had performed his reluctant U-turn and declared a national emergency, saying, “I don’t accept responsibility at all”. The State Department sends a cable Friday 20 March, based on National Security Council points, to federal agencies, telling them to blame China. This is reinforced by a detailed 57-page strategy document from the National Republican Senatorial Committee  to candidates on 17 April 2020.    

20 August 2020 HONG KONG PROTESTER VIOLENCE IGNORED BY WESTERN MEDIA: Western media and politicians continue to ignore violence done by the protesters to Mandarin speakers and any Chinese who disagree with them — chiefly women and elderly men as seen in the flood of videos posted online — and ignore the trashing of the infrastructure. The British ambassador leaves out of her Twitter thread the key six words from the 1884 Joint Declaration on Hong Kong? “… EXCEPT IN FOREIGN AND DEFENCE AFFAIRS.” The MSM keep repeating this omission ad infinitum.

TWEET: “The first, is based on the Joint Declaration, agreed by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher which is an international treaty lodged at the United Nations. It agreed that Hong Kong will have a high degree of autonomy for 50 years after the handover.” 5/8— UK in China 🇬🇧 (@ukinchina) August 19, 2020
The British ambassador to China continues to omit the final crucial six words of the Joint Declaration clause: a high degree of autonomy “EXCEPT IN FOREIGN AND DEFENCE AFFAIRS”

Sunday, 26 July 2020
Early Coronavirus chronology after COVID-19 found in Spain from March 2019
Coronavirus fact check chronology: Very interesting development that a strain of the Covid-19 virus — SARS-CoV-2 — has been discovered in a frozen sample of sewage in Barcelona dating from 12th March 2019, indicating (as some scientists have posited) that the virus was already circulating the world before exploding so virulently in Wuhan in December 2019.
America needs to provide an explanation as to why they were able to brief NATO and Israel about the coming pandemic in November but failed to warn China in the middle of a vicious trade war. (The Pentagon now denies this.) In a bonfire of the virus protection measures: Trump disbanded in May 2018 the pandemic team set up by Obama, slashed their Beijing CDC office until no staff remained by July 2019, threatened to pull out of WHO and defunded research … continues
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TWEET: “The #COVID19 outbreak has changed everyone’s life. Here is a video on the lives of ordinary people in #Wuhan, the epicenter of the #coronavirus outbreak, where a “pause” button on life has been pressed for the past 20 days.” pic.twitter.com/DuApPpA1lb— T-House (@thouse_opinions) February 15, 2020

Tuesday, 23 June 2020
‘Let’s Blame China”: an infantile disorder when Covid-19 comes knocking 
How the White House turned “China bought us time” into “China lied, people died” and put the world at risk
Up until Trump’s U-turn in mid-March, most were impressed with the record time in which China identified, sequenced and shared the “strange pneumonia’s” gene code as they struggled to make sense of what was happening since the first case was confirmed on 27th December 2019. Having finally confirmed human-to-human transmission 20th January after initial confusion and missteps, they turbocharged their efforts. Three days later on 23rd January, they shut down the city of Wuhan, and Hubei, a province of 66 million (about the same population as Britain), and halted its air traffic. The purpose was to starve the virus of hosts in order, not just to contain it, but to wipe it out completely. 
Trump wasted precious time as Covid-19 seeded itself in the population leading to chaos and recriminations. Then on 13th March the president performed his reluctant U-turn and declared a national emergency, saying, “I don’t accept responsibility at all.” 
Cue blame game.
A week later on 20th March, the same day the UK went into lockdown and news emerged of US senators selling their stocks on the eve of the long-awaited crash finally triggered by the coronavirus Black Swan, the White House sent a cable to State Department officials, issuing “guidelines for how U.S. officials should answer questions on, or speak about, the coronavirus and the White House’s response in relation to China.” … continues
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Sunday, 14 June 2020
Plague, protests and how the hybrid war on China is prolonging Covid-19 pain in the West
I’m back after a long break following my bout of strange, dry bronchitis in December (Loved One had a dry hacking smokers’ cough in parallel) which lost us Christmas and New Year, through the coronavirus crisis, a ramped up Cold War on China, and world-wide Black Lives Matter protests set off when African-American George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police on camera in front of us over an agonising 8 minutes and 46 seconds of horror, supposedly over a $20 bill … 
In the UK, arrogance and incompetence from the Boris Johnson/Dominic Cummings government has brought Britain to its knees. Instead of learning from the Covid-19 road map drawn for us by China, as New Zealand’s Jacinda Arden did, the political, media and even some of the science establishment got jealous and arsey about China’s unprecedented lockdown of 1.4 billion human beings in order to contain the virus and starve it of hosts. 
The mainstream media (MSM) mostly joined the news blackout on anything positive about China’s management of the virus after Trump’s U-turn in March led to co-ordinated attacks on China. While China sent a medical team to the UK at the end of March, along with PPE and 300 ventilators when hospitals were running out, the BBC countered with the bogus “faulty equipment” smear and the ever-hateful Guardian spun it as “China portrays itself as a global benefactor”. Because, of course, the Yellow Peril can never act out of altruism, empathy, humanity, ethics or just plain practical understanding that the virus doesn’t respect borders … continues
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17 June 2020 US CONGRESS FORMALISES OPENING XINJIANG FRONT AGAINST CHINA: Congress formally reverses years of partnership with China on the War Against Terror with the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act. Three Washington-based or funded entities feed thoroughly rebutted claims of genocide, millions incarcerated and forced labour: ultra-hawkish Australian think tank ASPI, also financed by the military industry as well as the US government and the tech giants; the World Uyghur Congress (WUC); and the right-wing Evangelical statistics abuser Adrian Zenz who believes Jews will burn in “God’s fiery furnace” and that he is “led by God” on a mission against China. Practically every story about Xinjiang in the western mainstream media names one of these three as their source, latterly joined by the NED-funded Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). Xinjiang is hugely rich in natural resources including oil and gas deposits and rare earths, already eyed up by US companies. Strategically located, it is China’s back door into Europe through which the Belt and Rail new Silk Route runs, is almost the size of Europe and sits at the heart of the central Eurasia landmass coveted by the US.

17-19 April 2020 AUSTRALIA FOLLOWS US COVID LINE ON CHINA AND KICKS ITS BIGGEST TRADE PARTNER IN THE TEETH: A few months after Scott Morrison returns from his stay at the military resort in Hawaii, Oz Ministers Peter Dutton and Marisa Payne begin a barrage of unfounded claims against China just as it wins its fight against the coronavirus, clearing the virus by day 43 of a 76-day lockdown and setting a model for eradication. Trump had pursued a super-spreader policy and delayed action for months, calling the pandemic a hoax, holding giant infectious rallies, stigmatising masks and suggested injecting bleach. His U-turn in March is sidelined by the 57-page “blame China” instruction manual released by the National Republican Senatorial Committee on 17 April 2020, the very same day that Dutton launches Australia’s campaign.

13 March 2020, PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CORONAVIRUS U-TURN:  The president performs his reluctant U-turn and finally declares a national emergency, saying, “I don’t accept responsibility at all.” A week later on 20th March, the same day the UK goes into lockdown and news emerges of US senators selling their stocks on the eve of the long-awaited crash finally triggered by the coronavirus Black Swan, the White House sends a cable to State Department officials, issuing “guidelines for how U.S. officials should answer questions on, or speak about, the coronavirus and the White House’s response in relation to China.” “NSC (National Security Council) Top Lines:  [People’s Republic of China] Propaganda and Disinformation on the Wuhan Virus Pandemic.”

SPRING 2020: TRUMP LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT CHINA’S SINOVAC VACCINE PROGRAMME, Reuters reveals 14 June 2024. During the pandemic breakout periodwhen vaccinating the population is a race against time, the US puts politics before public health concerns and turns the Philiipines against their Sinovac lifeline.

12 March 2020 THE INVENTION OF THE WOLF WARRIOR: Throughout two years of Trump’s aggressive trade war, China has been walking on eggshells, with chief negotiator Liu He famously polite and diplomatic despite relentless US character assassination of his country. Following violent NED-backed riots in Hong Kong, the Trump administration’s decision to “blame China” for the Covid pandemic, naming it “Wuhan flu” and “China flu”, is the last straw. On 12 March, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian mounts a robust defence, raising the Wuhan Military Games as a possible point of infection, opening on 18 October 2019 (same day as Event 201, the table-top pandemic exercise laid on in New York by the Johns Hopkins Institute, WEF and Bill Gates). Zhao is instantly raged against as a “Wolf Warrior” in the western media, an animalistic label that literally dehumanises him and other China critics of US policy as “a fierce, bloodthirsty, and cruel animal”. Speaking out of turn in defiance of the flailing hegemon is met with the political equivalence of sticking fingers in ears and yelling. And the points being made are never addressed.
COVID PANDEMIC: A day later, 13th March, Trump finally declares a national emergency after weeks of playing down the pandemic as a “hoax”: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
On the same day in the UK, Sir Patrick Vallance defends the Koch-backed ‘herd immunity’ strategy: “40m Britons would have to contract coronavirus to prevent future outbreaks”. Both the US and UK continue to ignore effective action in China and other countries, politicians and mainstream media relentlessly vilifying China while the virus seeds itself in the population.

February 2020 HUAWEI, THE UK AND BORIS JOHNSON’S SUPERMAN SPEECH: The healthy growth in the world economy since emerging from America’s Great Crash of 2008 with China’s stabilising support starts grinding to a halt due to Trump’s protectionist trade war on the rising superpower. In his “Superman” speech (3 February 2020), Boris Johnson notes Trump is letting all the air out of the the tyres of the global economy. A few days later, Trump rages at him for not ceasing trade with Huawei and ripping out billions worth of 5G infrastructure as instructed to by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the previous February (during Theresa May’s government), by the US delegation to the UK in May 2019 and again on 13 January 2020 (during Boris Johnson’s tenure as PM). US Vice President Mike Pence says that the Trump administration had made its disappointment with the UK “very clear to them”. Former British ambassador to the US, now Lord Kim Darroch, says there were no “compelling technical arguments that undermined GCHQ’s case” and that the US case was “political”. Johnson ditches Huawei in June 2020 after Trump bans the company from using US-made chips. Neither May not Johnson gets a post-Brexit trade deal with the US out of this.

24 February 2020, NAMASTE TRUMP- THE PRESIDENT IN INDIA: Trump visits Modi in India to revitalise the Quad like the Joker in the White House getting his gang together. A trade deal doesn’t materialise, aside from India buying US military equipment and LNG, and India still has a foot in the Russia camp. The Western establishment changes the name of the region from Asia Pacific to Indo-Pacific even though India is completely round the Malacca Strait corner from the Pacific. On 6 May India is constructing a road and crosses the Line of Actual Control (LAC), entering the China controlled Galwan Valley, and in June, August and September, India and China have their first border clashes in 45 years.
Back in the USA, by 24 February, the CDC’s own designed Covid test is found not to work. When a teenager tests positive in Seattle, the federal government tells the doctor to cease and desist as it sinks in that the virus has been around a lot earlier than officially admitted.

20 February 2020 US MARKET CRASH The Black Swan event everyone’s been waiting for: After two years of the Trump Pump, pressuring the FED’s Jay Powell to turbo-charge Quantitive Easing and inflate the Mother Of All Bubbles, the US markets begin a spectacular collapse. The S&P500 will drop 30 percent over the next few weeks, hitting a low on 23 March when reloading begins. It emerges that US lawmakers were unloading their stocks at the all time high in the days preceding the crash after receiving classified briefings on the Coronavirus threat while Trump played it down.

23 January 2020, COVID LOCKDOWN BEGINS. BEIJING LOCKS DOWN WUHAN AND TWO OTHER CITIES IN HUBEI PROVINCE: HUANGGANG AND EZHOU. 15 OTHER CITIES IN HUBEI FOLLOW THE WUHAN MODEL THE NEXT DAY.

22 January, COVID PANDEMIC IN THE US: Trump says, “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control”. Meanwhile, China warns that the virus could mutate and spread and steps up precautions. Trump is fully briefed on the seriousness of the coming pandemic 28 January 2020.

15 January 2020, TRUMP’S TRADE WAR – PHASE ONE CHINA TRADE DEAL SIGNED: Wall Street closes at an all-time-high: Throughout 2018 and 2019, Trump has pressured the FED’s Jay Powell to keep rates low with Quantitive Easing, resulting in the Trump Pump as the US nears election year. Trump’s Phase One trade deal with China is finally signed, boosting the markets. China agrees to buy an additional US$200 billion of American goods and services over the next two years. Meanwhile, financial pundits are waiting for the Black Swan event that will burst the Mother of All Bubbles.

January 2020, THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Initial panic settles into action as the novel coronavirus is identified, sequenced and shared by 11 January. China reports its first death 9 January, same date as the US with the death of Lovell “Cookie” Brown. A Chinese study in The Lancet warns: “Preparedness plans and mitigation interventions should be readied for quick deployment globally.” The WHO says in its 14 January press briefing that, while there is “no clear evidence” yet of human to human transmission, “it is certainly possible that there is limited human-to-human transmission”. H2H transmission confirmed 19 January.

30-31 December 2019, Wuhan, China: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission notifies its medical institutions about a “strange pneumonia” and on the 31st posts a public warning on its Weibo account about the novel coronavirus that is not SARS. The news is picked up by the agencies and the WHO and reverberates around the world. This is Day Zero for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Later, samples in France, Barcelona, Italy, Brazil and Red Cross blood samples in the US show Covid has been quietly circulating in 2019 but is first identified in China.

Page 3: (This page) Shakedown Timeline 2020 to the Present. Covid, Joe Biden’s presidency to Trump’s 2nd term

Page 2: Shakedown Timeline 2010-2020. Obama’s Pivot-to-Asia to Donald Trump’s first presidency

Page 1: Shakedown Timeline 1997-2010. In the beginning … Hong Kong Handover and WTO entry to Barack Obama’s Pivot-to-Asia