...as you can see with my nil military experience, I know way more than boring Brian.

*yawn

The interesting point is the overlapping 'spheres of influence', of Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, with China and Russia.

This is the 'edge', and these countries and the 'autonomous province', while 'poor' in the sense that the common person does not earn a lot (about $750 a month) while the top boys do (nothing new), are rich in resources most especially including petroleum.

Two things are of interest - the classic divide between a resource rich nation/state which should be able to supply prosperity to all, and the reality that most of the cash goes to the self-appointed few* - and the fact that these resources are at the meeting point of these two great 'communist' nations.**

There lies the genesis of serious potential future conflict... again over control of resources.

I may be headed there this year, but at the moment entry is closed ..... though apparently airline services still run there from India and a few other nations.

* this is the root cause of the unrest seen recently in Kazakhstan, with the common folk being commanded to bear the burden of higher fuel costs on their $750 a month to support the profiteers at the top... more of a 'people power' movement than a religious or other kind of revolt... a bit like Xinjiang and the Falun Gong, no?

** bring on 'the great divide' to explain to we peons the delusion of our personal sovereignty v the state, while those at the top of the state, run along the lines he loves, are totally into personal sovereignty and capitalism for their own profiteering from the sweat and blood of their people who will be forced to comply .....

NYT’s Hannah-Jones Claims ‘Racialized’ Bias Coverage of Russia Invasion Due to Ukrainians’ ‘White’ Appearance[/size]

Left-wing New York Times reporter and controversial 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was slammed online after accusing journalists covering the Russian invasion into Ukraine of “racialized analysis and language” in their reporting, indicating their “sympathy” for white victims of conflict and refugees in particular while claiming Europe is a fictional continent intended to separate it from non-“civilized” nations.

On Sunday, Hannah-Jones, author of the debunked New York Times 1619 Project, called on fellow journalists to “look internally” regarding acknowledging their racial biases in their coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[url]Left-wing New York Times reporter and controversial 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones was slammed online after accusing journalists covering the Russian invasion into Ukraine of “racialized analysis and language” in their reporting, indicating their “sympathy” for white victims of conflict and refugees in particular while claiming Europe is a fictional continent intended to separate it from non-“civilized” nations.

On Sunday, Hannah-Jones, author of the debunked New York Times 1619 Project, called on fellow journalists to “look internally” regarding acknowledging their racial biases in their coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.


Later in the day, Hannah-Jones called the European continent a “geopolitical fiction” intended to separate it from Asia and which led to the “alarm” over an invasion of people who “are like us.”

“What if I told you Europe is not a continent by defintion, but a geopolitical fiction to separate it from Asia and so the alarm about a European, or civilized, or First World nation being invaded is a dog whistle to tell us we should care because they are like us,” she asked.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/28/nyts-hannah-jones-claims-racialize...


Its like that other tinted bint, Whiney Goldberg, saying the holocaust wasnt about race coz Joos are white.
For such bints EVERYTHING is about race, ALWAYS. (Except when arguing, like Bbwian, that there is no such thing as race, only white racism).

In a non nuclear war, China would roll up Russia and send it home in 2 weeks.

China today is seen as a threat to the West. A threat to the so-called global rules-based order that is itself rooted in a race-based order.

So much of the commentary around China ignores the question of race. So many of the commentators discussing China — predominantly white voices — do not have the racial literacy to begin to understand how race and racism inform China's rise.

In some ways, Xi's China may represent the end of whiteness. Except that the Chinese Communist Party itself mirrors whiteness.

The irony is Xi has also become what he opposes. He is a Han nationalist — his idea of Chinese power is ethnic Han superiority — persecuting non-Han, non-white people in his own country.

If whiteness is power, Xi Jinping is its champion.

The continuation of white power, in darker skin.

Stan Grant

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-16/race-and-whiteness-key-to-understanding-x...

China is the end of whiteness - and its continuation.

'Show me your registration papers, Sir'
'I don't have them. The car was parked so I took it'
'That's a crime'.
'Nah mate. It's rejuveantion. Rejuvenation. Oh wahta  feeling'.

'This beach is part of Taiwan'
'Taiwan? No such place. Anyway, we need it'
'Why?'
'For rejuvenation. I'm feeling rejuvenated already. Now, where's this Taipei place of yours?'