Rakesh Krishnan Simha (Russia Beyond The Headlines) 

Asian nations are expanding their submarine fleets at breakneck speed, coinciding with a major comeback by Russia’s undersea boats

• China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh are existing or prospective customers for Russian-made diesel-electrics

US has stopped producing the super-quiet, diesel-electric submarines

This article originally appeared at Russia Beyond the Headlines

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n space, a black hole is an invisible killer star that destroys everything around it. There’s a different kind of black hole lurking under the oceans – a Russia submarine so stealthy that not even the American military can detect it. The US Navy openly acknowledges it cannot track the Novorossiysk-451 sub when it’s submerged.

In the wake of the “Black Hole” follows the “Beast from Beneath”, a state of the art Russian submarine that leaves the US Navy far behind. The Severodvinsk K-329 has been compared with the high-tech boomer that was taken over by a rogue Russian captain in the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October.

The submarine “Severodvinsk” (above) was laid on the “Sevmash” in 1993 and was the lead ship of the project 855 “Yasen” which provides for the construction of eight modern attack nuclear subs submarines for the Russian Navy. (Click to expand.)

While these monsters of the sea will remain the exclusive property of the Russian Navy, Moscow is making a high-octane entry into the huge export market, with advanced diesel-electric submarines. As well as being silent, stealthy and armed with the world’s deadliest missiles, Russian submarines are often the vessel of choice for an increasing number of navies, especially in cash-rich Asia.

According to David Isenberg of Asia Times, “Russian submarines’ unique capabilities and powerful armament are the two major attractions for foreign customers. In underwater duel modelling, Russian Kilo-class submarines invariably emerged the winner in virtual competition against German, French and Dutch submarines.”

Another reason is the US, which rivals Russia in naval technology, does not make diesel submarines any more, leaving the waters open for Moscow’s undersea boats. Moscow’s aggressive defence export policy backed by liberal finance terms has ensured Russian-built submarines are prowling the world’s oceans. But it’s in the Asia-Pacific they are most visible – or invisible, to be more accurate.

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The frenetic pace of economic growth in the region has made the security of the sea lanes a matter of vital importance to the littoral nations. Japan, for instance, imports around 96 per cent of its energy and South Korea imports 90 per cent of its food. As trading giants they are also highly dependent on export revenues.

Naval power is the key to protecting sea lanes, showing the flag and keeping out adventurists. However, most nations in Asia are too small to afford large capital ships. Those that can afford them lack the manpower to operate even a medium-sized fleet. For instance, Vietnam and Indonesia cannot hope to match China’s rapidly expanding navy ship for ship.

Submarines, however, are the great equaliser. This is because a handful of them lurking under the waves can keep the enemy’s fleet bottled up in harbour. Difficult to detect, they can destroy ships many times their own size.

Undersea race begins

Asia’s submarine race kicked off in earnest in 1997 when China struck a deal with Russia to buy the advanced Kilo class submarine. Thrilled with the performance of their Kilos, the Chinese placed an order for eight more for $1.6 billion in 2003. Although China has more submarines than US, its own subs are of shoddy build. Beijing is therefore betting the Kilos – and the much larger Russian Lada class submarines – will even the odds against the US Navy.

“China’s move is significant for economic, political, and military reasons. The Kilo-class submarine was designed for anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare in the protection of naval bases, coastal installations and sea lanes, and also for general reconnaissance and patrol missions,” explains Isenberg. “It is considered to be one of the quietest diesel submarines in the world. It is said to be capable of detecting an enemy submarine at a range three to four times as great as that at which it can be detected itself.”

As per the agreement, Russia has armed China’s Kilos with the supersonic Klub missile, presenting a major deterrent for rival navies. The St Petersburg-based Rubin Central Maritime Design Bureau is developing air independent propulsion (AIP) system – allowing subs to stay submerged longer, up to 45 days without surface – which can be retro-fitted in older Kilos.

China’s leadership realises the importance of an under-sea missile capability. In an editorial in the state-run newspaper Global Times, professor Han Xudong of the People’s Liberation Army National Defence University pointed to ongoing maritime disputes as sources of conflict that will eventually escalate into WW III.

The Russian “Kilo class” sub prototype. Nothing fancy but utterly capable and dependable.

“Judging from the contention of the global sea space, the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific and Indian Ocean have seen the fiercest rivalry,” he writes. “It’s likely that there will be a third world war to fight for sea rights.”

As the rivalry on the sea grows intense, Xudong says China’s military should shift its focus from land to maintaining its rights on the sea.

As well as Kilos, China is in talks with Moscow for the Lada class submarines. “The Ladas are designed to be fast attack and scouting boats,” says Strategy Page. “They are intended for anti-surface and anti-submarine operations as well as naval reconnaissance. These boats are said to be eight times quieter than the Kilos. This was accomplished by using anechoic (sound absorbing) tile coatings on the exterior and a very quiet (skewed) propeller. All interior machinery was designed with silence in mind. The sensors include active and passive sonars, including towed passive sonar. Russian submarine designers apparently believe they can install most of these quieting features into improved Kilos, along with many other Lada features.”

Due to their increased cruising range, the Ladas will be able to operate in the Pacific Ocean at a considerable distance from their Chinese bases. Compared with the Kilos, the Ladas have a much lower level of visibility, which increases their chances for overcoming Japanese antisubmarine warfare vessels and aircraft.

Further, Moscow is developing a new advanced submarine class and may sell them to China, says The Diplomat. The head of the Russian Navy, Admiral Viktor Chirkov, says Russia would build new fifth-generation submarines dubbed the Kalina-class.

Domino effect

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s China prepares for a high stakes naval duel, its neighbours [ constantly agitated by the US] are getting the jitters. In the South China Sea, a clutch of nations such as Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia are seeing aggressive Chinese naval patrols. In the East China Sea, Japan and Taiwan are contesting Beijing’s claim to the uninhabited Senkaku Islands.

Vietnam has quietly got itself an insurance policy. In 2009, Hanoi signed a $3.2 billion deal that includes six Kilo class submarines and construction of a submarine facility at Cam Ranh Bay. The last of the boats is scheduled for delivery by 2016. “Up to 50 mines may be carried as an alternative to torpedoes and missiles, an important area-denial capability,” says a report by the US Navy Institute.

Indonesia’s Defence Strategic Plan 2024 calls for a fivefold increase in the number of submarines over the coming decade. The country has a long history of operating Russian submarines. In 1967 it acquired 12 Whiskey class submarines from Moscow.

Lately, Russian efforts to sell subs have foundered. In 2013, Indonesia held talks with Russia to procure a number of Kilo-class submarines but no deal was struck. But Moscow isn’t giving up. This year the Russian government has again approached Jakarta to offer brand new Kilos to bolster the country’s maritime defence.

Thailand, Malaysia and Taiwan are other nations set to expand their undersea fleets. Pro-western Thailand may be a hard market to crack but Malaysia – which operates Russian Sukhoi-30MKM aircraft – could be persuaded to look at the cost-benefit aspects and strike capabilities of the Kilos and Ladas.

Taiwan has four rust buckets and is desperate for replacements, but is finding major suppliers shying away from it because of Chinese pressure. If Russia can get around that, then it can get into the good books of one of the richest armaments buyers in the region.

Another nation in the periphery that may end up buying Russian diesel-electric submarines is Bangladesh. It had initially wanted to buy Chinese subs but India – which operates ten Kilos – convinced Dhaka to buy Russian submarines instead.Defense Radar reports that Bangladesh proposes to purchase two submarines from Russia.

The rush of new submarines into Asian waters is partly fuelled by the insecurity that results from being stuck in a crowded geopolitical hotspot. But in a region where mistrust runs deep, submarines could prove to be the one deterrent that contributes to stability.

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Dispatch from Beijing No. 1 /  2015.6.22
The Hong Kong “umbrella revolution”, managed by Washington, is merely the latest, most visible attempt to destabilize China, says correspondent Jeff Brown. The intrigues continue.

The modern Chinese calendar is a three-in-one affair. In the top center is the Gregorian date, Monday the 22^nd, along with its 26^th week and the month of June, up top, which is decorated with a stylish logo for the Year of the Ram. Below it on the gold scroll is the Chinese lunar date and below that is the Chinese solar calendar’s reminder that it is the summer solstice. Based on the solar agricultural calendar, to the left in red, is a list of “Do’s”, such as, get married, take a trip and break ground. On the right, in black, is a list of “Don’ts”, like, have surgery, (re)open a store for business or buy/sell an entry ticket. The Chinese calendars have been working like a charm for 4,000 years. (image by www.44days.net)

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Hong Kong

[dropcap]H[/dropcap]appy Dragon Boat Festival on June 20^th. Happy Summer Solstice on the 22^nd. The first European ship landed on China’s shores in 1513 (the story goes that they lied through their front teeth, to take advantage of oriental hospitality, claiming a damaged ship and severe illness, neither of which was true). Pope Gregory XIII would not correct the ever drifting Julian calendar for another 69 years, in 1582.

Yet, before the European colonialists’ arrival, China had and continues to use its own very sophisticated lunar and solar calendars, going back 4,000 years, around the time Abraham was making his way across the Fertile Crescent, from Sumer to Palestine. Chinese calendars know nothing of the Julian and Gregorian time units, like June, Saturday, Monday and the 20^th and 22^nd of the month. The Dragon Boat Festival, which dates back to 100-700 years before Christ, depending on which region of China celebrates it, is marked on China’s lunar calendar. The summer solstice is one of the 24 points on the solar, or agricultural version. Like these intertwined, ancient time chronicles, in order to appreciate and understand China, you must know a little about its long, illustrious history.

The Communists led the Chinese people in their heroic struggle to reconquer their dignity and freedom.  

The impact of Euroamerican-Japanese colonialism on China reached its zenith during the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. It took the Communists to finally liberate and modernize New China, from 1949 until today. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping brought their people from the cruelty and misery of Western colonialism, to China’s rightful place, as an economic titan on the world stage. Xi Jinping is melding their two starkly different visions into his own, the Chinese Dream, so that his citizens can continue to stand tall, proud and independent from foreign exploitation.

Mao during the Long March (Oct.1934-Oct 1935), an strategic retreat from Kuomintang forces to avoid annihilation, with elements of the First Red Army. Later this and other units would coalesce to form the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

But there were and are some historical blemishes on China’s modern narrative. Taiwan was created with the help of the United States, to serve as an anti-communist, rebel Chinese province.  Then, there are Hong Kong and Macau, former colonies of dying Western capitalism. There are also the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, “given” to the Japanese by Richard Nixon, just six months before his historic trip to Beijing, in 1972.  The many conflicting South China Sea claims are a legal matter that should be decided by the United Nation’s International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). But Uncle Sam’s pathological, imperial meddling off China’s shores, is making any proper ITLOS judgment impossible.

Last week, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (Legco, or unicameral legislature) refused to pass a law that would allow all Hongkongers to vote under universal suffrage, for the territory’s chief executive (governor) in 2017. The candidates running would be chosen by Hong Kong’s current Electoral Committee, which was a deal breaker for Hong Kong’s American manipulated, NGO “democrats”. If you are in front of the Great Western Firewall’s mainstream media, propaganda foghorn, you would almost think that China is gunning down these so-called democrats in the streets. The West ignores China’s and Hong Kong’s history for a reason, because the truth lies there for all to see.

Hong Kong’s Legco members, from its colonial founding in 1843, were totally under the iron fist control of London, as was the governor. Hongkongers were not citizens. They were vassal subjects of the British Empire and had few to no rights, except for wealthy local families and their compradors, who lorded over the local 99%, like Ellis, the Lackersteen’s and U Po Kyin, in George Orwell’s semi-autobiographical novel, Burmese Days. Orwell’s characters called the locals niggers, who were economic slaves and treated as such, Hongkongers included. I call these people The Dreaded Other. Andre Vltchek calls them Un-People. Both appellations are from the standpoint of white, Western privilege. The same is true today, as yesteryear. From my hopeful and respectful point of view, I call all the world’s dark skinned peoples, The Moral Majority or The 80%.

The constant repression and official violence needed in Orwell’s colonial Burma, to keep the “niggers” on their knees, was used in Hong Kong as well. Human dignity would regularly boil over and try to free itself from the boot heel of colonial fascism. In 1925-26, Hong Kong was almost destroyed by a mass exodus of locals to the north, into Guangdong (Canton), China. For sixteen months, Hong Kong’s courageous, oppressed 99% went on strike and created their own boycott-divestment-sanction (BDS) movement, in protest over the massacre of more than 60 fellow brothers and sisters, who were gunned down like dogs, on Shanghai’s and Shamian’s streets, by British brown shirts. Hundreds more were injured and many thousands imprisoned. After the popular pilgrimage north, BDS’ed Hong Kong literally became a Twilight Zone ghost town. Only a loan (being good capitalists, it was not a grant) to Hong Kong’s 1% treasury, prevented its opium and morphine fueled, colonial economy from imploding.

The main imperialists arguing at the table, while China protests: Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan. Lesser powers also clawed their way into smaller shares of plunder.

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ritain’s Hong Kong police state was able to keep Orwell’s “niggers” in their “proper” place, until these 99% were inspired by China’s liberating communist and socialist revolution. Like their soulmates to the north, Hong Kong’s Dreaded Other also wanted to free themselves from the shackles of Western colonialism and imperialism. So they rose up in violent protests in 1956, 1966, 1967, 1981, 1982 and 1984. Through all this, hundreds of Hong Kong’s Un-People were killed and injured, while thousands were arrested. Martin Luther King, Jr. observed, “A riot is the language of the unheard”, which is true whether you are American or Chinese.

Except for Hong Kong’s privileged white people and their wealthy local compradors, such was the reality of life for the colony’s 99%, although behind the Great Western Firewall, the world’s former drug depot was and is vaunted as a halcyon utopia of unfettered “free” trade and “unregulated” capitalism. Thus, when Margaret Thatcher came to the negotiating table with Deng Xiaoping and China’s Communists in 1984, it was not out of altruism or a sense of justice. She and London were desperate to unhinge themselves from Hong Kong’s ignominious, 140-year Burmese Days history. They were sitting on a powder keg of anti-British hatred and they knew it.

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Eight nations participated in the defeat of the Boxer rebellion, and Britain invested some of her colonial and dominion troops.  (Click to expand image.)

[learn_more] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he humiliating colonialist past is hardly forgotten in China. The West has never given up its habit of looking upon nonwhite populations as inherently inferior, or subject to domination, and for a long time regarded the Far East, along with Africa and other regions, as ripe for the plucking. China and India constituted the major prizes, and force and treachery were regarded as the natural and legitimate path, albeit idealized as a “civilizing mission.” As late as 1963, Hollywood, the West’s main engine for imperialist propaganda before worldwide television, was still producing blockbusters depicting the colonialists as the “heroes” in the plot. A good example of the genre is Sam Bronston’s blockbuster 55 Days at Peking, directed by veteran Nicholas Ray, with Charlton Heston, David Niven, and Ava Gardner in the leads. The film was a dramatization of the siege of the foreign legations’ compounds in Peking (now known as Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion which took place from 1898-1900 in China. The “natives”, of course, were the heavies, the savages. But it was not difficult for Hollywood to turn the Boxers into villains: rising against highly photogenic heroes is bad enough, but having the temerity to rise against Christianity was seen as unforgivable. (In 1975, Hollywood did it again, this time producing Kipling’s classic The Man Who Would Be King, but this time the natives in the Indian subcontinent were mere silly canvas for the antics of the heroes, Sean Connery and Michael Caine, two non-com renegades in the British army, playing two ingratiating “buddies” bent on having a grand old adventure among the barbarians. Gunga Din had shown the way in 1939.

Main poster for 55 Days at Peking.

The besieged Europeans (and one Japanese diplomat) confront the Chinese hordes.

55 Days: Intrigue at the court.

Poster for Asian markets.

The refined, superior foreigners.

Boxer soldiers, 1900.

One of many images of the time, depicting the rebellion. Most of the time the Westerners saw the uprising as a form of insolence.

Magazine cover of the time.

Boxer prisoners, in chains.

White soldiers dispensing their civilizing mission.

The world powers fighting over the China spoils.

China: Spheres of influence.

The European powers fighting over China shares. Dignity does not exist among thieves.

A grande dame of the age (Ava Gardner). Esthetic beauty is supposed to go with higher political and moral purpose.

Rebels at the gates.

Caine and Connery in Man Who Would Be King.

Another still from Man Who Would Be King.

Heston proving his White superman chops with an uppity native.

Still from Gunga Din. The film saw nothing wrong with British colonialism.

Gunga Din's highest purpose in life is to die defending British rule in India. So say Kipling and Hollywood.

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These negotiations went on for years and became what is known as the Basic Law, which came into effect in 1997. Relative to the aforementioned Legco’s vote not to allow universal suffrage for the chief executive in 2017, four Basic Law tenets are germane,

1. Hong Kong was reunified with the People’s Republic of China in 1997. In other words, it is 100% under the jurisdiction and control of Baba Beijing (my wry appellation for China’s Communist leadership).

1. With Hong Kong now an integral part of Communist China, Baba Beijing promised not to introduce Chinese socialism into Hong Kong for a period of 50 years, or until 2047. Baba Beijing is scrupulously respecting this and calls it one country, two systems, with the proviso that the sovereignty, unity and integrity of the one country takes precedence over the two systems. Until Hong Kong’s phony, fifth column Umbrella Revolution was hatched by Uncle Sam in 2014, Baba Beijing had no reason to be concerned about this caveat.

1. There is the possibility, but not the guarantee of universal suffrage for the election of the chief executive, starting in 2017. The key verb here is can be, which is conditional, not will, which is certain.

1. Article 158: most importantly, the final interpretation of the Basic Law is vested in the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) whose power is derived from the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China. China’s NPC Standing Committee is 100% Communist Party and socialist. In other words, Baba Beijing makes the final determination on all of Hong Kong’s laws and regulations, in perpetuity. Go to Tiananmen Square, face west and see that big building there? That’s where they work.

Under the watchful eye of the Western mainstream media, the British finally allowed the first ever Legco elections, via universal suffrage, in 1991, after being shamed into having indirect Legco elections in 1985 and 1988. This would never have happened, if the colonial Brits did not have China’s Basic Law hanging over their heads, after 140 years of dictatorial rule. These Legco elections have continued successfully until now.

There are two broad camps in the Legco, Pro-Beijingers and Pan-Democrats. As a result of the latest 2012 election, the Pro-Beijingers hold a solid majority, with 43 of the 70 Legco seats and 400 of the 507 district (neighborhood) councils. Their platform: Chinese nationalism and socialism, conservatism (à la Confucius and Lao Zi) and economic liberalism (à la Deng Xiaoping). If the Hong Kong citizenry does not like this platform, they can vote for the Pan-Democrats, whose platform is direct, social and radical democracy and (social) liberalism. The people have spoken. The Pan-Democrats got their butts whipped by the Pro-Beijingers, in a free and fair election.

Thanks to the Basic Law, Hong Kong selects its chief executive just like the United States’ president, using the indirect voting process called an electoral college (committee). Hong Kong’s Electoral Committee is composed of 1,200 representatives and just like in the United States, they are chosen by the powers that be. In the US, it’s the Democratic and Republican wings of the unitary Corporate Party and in Hong Kong, it is status quo, establishment lobby groups, such as Tourism, Medicine, Finance, Insurance, Labor, Real Estate, Social Welfare, etc. – 38 in all – who pick their Electoral Committee members.

As usual, the US has sent powerful warships to the Spratly Islands in an effort to intimidate Beijing. Gunboat diplomacy has never really died. It has deep roots in the Western mind. (Pictured: USS Abraham Lincoln battle group. USN photo.)

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]aba Beijing is comfortable with Hong Kong’s Legco and district council direct elections, because they closely resemble China’s local elections at the village level. China’s one million villages vote for their leader (mayor), as well as their local People’s congress. And for Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, Baba is comfortable with its Election Committee, because in China, national, provincial, prefectural, and township congresses are elected similarly, via indirect vote, as is America’s president. Baba Beijing knows that Hong Kong’s sober, hard-nosed Electoral Committee is never going to allow a fifth column candidate to be chosen, who might try to destroy the Basic Law Treaty, turning Hong Kong into a color revolution bloodbath. Equally, the United States knows its Electoral College is never going to allow a socialist or a communist to have any serious chance of becoming president. Cornelius West said, “Obama was selected before he was elected”. You can go all the way back to George Washington. Nothing has changed.

As a backdrop to all of this, the United States has spent untold billions of dollars, relentlessly and pathologically trying to bring down Communist rule in China, via the US military, CIA, NSA and NGOs, using Tibet, Xinjiang, Vietnam, Burma, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, North & South Korea, Australia, the South China Sea and more recently, in Hong Kong (search any of these references at www.44days.net for well researched articles on this subject).

Hong Kong protests. The fuse can be traced to Washington.  (Click to expand.)

Baba Beijing continues to counterattack these aforementioned acts of war,  as well as studying assiduously the same Western modus operandi in the Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Chechnya, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Macedonia, Iran, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Mali, (South) Sudan, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, Argentina, Bolivia – and if you include Europe’s ongoing, secret service Gladio army  – Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, the UK – and on and on, around the planet, during 500 years of Euroamerican colonialism, which all intensified post-WWII, into anticommunist zealotry.

This excellent map does not include the many false flags in the US and UK (JFK, RFK, MLK, 9/11, IRA, etc.), nor destabilization in Venezuela, Thailand, Mali, Nigeria, Tunisia & elsewhere; CIA drug trade in Burma, financial plundering in Argentina (and support for a fascist military junta), safeguarding 9,000 Nazi criminals in South America (including unmarked Uruguay and Argentina), the military occupation of Japan and on and on. Throw in all the assassinations, government overthrows and rigged elections by France’s DGSE across Africa, (http://44days.net/?p=1971) MH370 in Malaysia (http://44days.net/?p=1776 & http://44days.net/?p=2356) – add them all up – and there are only a handful of countries in the world, if any at all, that have not been subverted by Western Empire (image from www.killinghope.org)

A pro-“democracy” protester, as featured on the South China Morning Post

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]aba Beijing understands that Hong Kong’s ersatz, American manufactured, financed and orchestrated Umbrella Revolution (Occupy Central) is all about spurning Hong Kong’s 2012 Legco and district council popular vote, which was for a solid Pro-Beijing majority, while trying to subvert Hong Kong’s Basic Law, in order to destabilize and eventually overthrow China’s Communist Party.  This, so that the West can balkanize and control the People’s Republic of China.

Despite Washington’s subterranean efforts, the Hong Kong “color revolution” unrest eventually fizzled out because the grievances were not deep, and the protesters were mostly comfortable members of the new middle  class, useful fools in the West’s new phony crusade. 

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]aba Beijing knows that the United States, its vassal countries and their 1% compradors around the world, lust for the glorious, colonial days of Orwell’s powerless niggers, to extract and profit usuriously, from these Dreaded Others’ precious natural resources, just like it did in China for 110 years, during what the Chinese bitterly call, their Century of Humiliation. Baba Beijing is not going to let Hong Kong be turned into another fascist hellhole, like the Ukraine.

Thanks to strong, national leaders like China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Argentina’s Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Cuba’s Raul Castro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki and others, the Hyenas of the Western Empire, for the first time in five centuries, have a real, down and dirty, global fight on their genocidal hands.  Here’s to hoping the Dark Side finally loses in the 21^st century, spectacularly. The survival of a free humanity depends on it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

[box] Beijing correspondent Jeff J. Brown is the author of “44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass” (2013), “Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast” (2015), and “Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English” (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, “Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping”, due out in 2016. He is a member of The Anthill, a collective of authors who write about China. Besides The Greanville Post, he also submits articles on Oped News and Firedog Lake. His articles have been published by Paul Craig Roberts, The Saker, Ron Unz, Alternative News Network, Russophile, 15 Minute News, The Daily Coin, Hidden Harmonies and many other websites. He has been a guest on Press TV.

In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin. Jeff is a dual national French-American. [/box] 

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[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or years, Jeff has been perplexed as to why in the West, Mao Zedong is reviled as a mass murdering butcher, a veritable 20th century monster of unparalleled proportions, yet just as universally, he is loved and admired by today’s Chinese. How can this incredible dichotomy exist? What’s going on? Knowing that he needed to find out, in order to do justice to his current book project, “Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping”, Jeff did weeks of research and investigation to find out, including spending hours in local museums, and was stunned at all that he learned. You will be too.

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Today’s show is titled, “Mao Zedong: A Quick Review”. Further his much listened May 1st show about Mao Zedong, Jeff replies to a number of emails he received as comments. If you have not heard that one, it makes sense to do so first, then do this one. It is a fast five minutes, so don’t get distracted while you listen. Happy Mothers’ Day for those fans who are celebrating today.

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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]otally censored in the US, May 9th 2015 was a hugely symbolic celebration of the Chinese-Russian anti-Western juggernaut, and it was all on display at the 70th anniversary parade of Russia’s victory over the fascist Nazis, that ended World War II. About all Xi and Putin didn’t do last week was to publicly urinate on an effigy of Uncle Sam. It was a giant F.U. to the West from start to finish. This show will give you all the details. It is a fast seven minutes, so buckle up.

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