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Wednesday, 26 July

06:00

UAE investment in US under review over China ties: Report "IndyWatch Feed War"

UAE investment in US under review over China ties: Report

Due to national security concerns, the US is reviewing a plan by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala to take over a New York-based investment group

MEE staff Tue, 07/25/2023 - 21:00

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan gestures after a meeting with French prime minister at lHotel de Matignon, in Paris, on 19 July 2022

The US is reviewing a plan by Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund to take over the New York-based Fortress Investment Group, over national security concerns stemming from the UAEs ties to China, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

Mubadala, a holding company that serves as a sovereign wealth fund, agreed in May to buy a majority position in the $46bn US firm from Japans SoftBank Group. The Emirati fund hopes to seal the deal in 2024, a move that would give it a 70 percent stake in Fortress equity.

According to the Financial Times, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' (Cfius) review of the deal is in its early stages and a decision is not expected for several months.

But it is the latest case of the UAEs ties to China proving an irritant in its relations with Washington. Abu Dhabi's talks with Washington to acquire the F-35 fighter jet broke down out of concerns Bejing would gain access to sensitive US technologies.

In April, leaked US intelligence documents suggested that China h...

03:12

Rivers reach danger level as heavy rainfall triggers floods in Nepal "IndyWatch Feed World"

The Tinau and West Rapti rivers have surpassed the danger level as heavy rainfall continues to impact regions in Rupandehi, Nawalparasi, Palpa, Pyuthan, and neighboring areas of Lumbini since Monday night. The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology reported this morning that the water level at the Tinau River Flood Measuring Center in Butwal has risen significantly above the danger level and continues to increase. Given the high risk of flooding, residents residing in the coastal areas of Tinau River and nearby regions are advised to seek shelter in safer locations until 12 noon.

01:45

Kissingers Sino-Soviet Split 2.0 destined to fail "IndyWatch Feed War"

By Drago Bosnic | July 25, 2023

A bit over half a century ago, the United States under the Nixon administration sent its then-State Secretary Henry Kissinger to China in order to exploit the infamous Sino-Soviet split that nearly escalated into a full-blown war between Moscow and Beijing. The cold war between the two previously closely allied communist powers was a strategic gift to the US-led political West, as the belligerent thalassocracy was terrified of the prospect of facing a giant Eurasian monolith spanning from East Germany to Vietnam. The brewing ideological conflict between the post-Stalinist Soviet Union and Maoist China was heavily (ab)used by the US to somewhat soften the consequences of the humiliating defeat of Americas genocidal aggression in Indochina, where millions were killed in its indiscriminate attacks on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Henry Kissinger is often credited as the instrumental figure in engineering the Sino-American detente that gave the US much-needed geopolitical breathing room in the late 1970s and much of the 1980s after the belligerent thalassocracy pulled back to lick its Vietnam wounds. However, it should be noted that, despite Kissingers vast diplomatic experie...

Tuesday, 25 July

21:43

Blinkens Visit Supporting FIFA Threatens New Zealands Peaceful Reputation "IndyWatch Feed War"

By World BEYOND War Aotearoa, July 25, 2023

A global peace network has called out the U.S. Secretary of States visit to New Zealand as a threat to our peaceful reputation and not good old-fashioned sports diplomacy, as described by our Foreign Minister.

If Secretary Blinken was coming to New Zealand solely to support the peaceful U.S. womens FIFA soccer team, then Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta could justifiably welcome him as a close friend and partner, says World BEYOND War Aotearoa spokesman, Hon. Matt Robson, former Minister of Disarmament.

But he says the actual purpose of Blinkens trip is to drag New Zealand further into aggressive plans for the containment of Americas economic competitor, China.

Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta, representing New Zealands peace and diplomacy policies, needs to advise Mr Blinken that New Zealand, a signatory to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, does not support NATOs condemnation of that treaty.

Furthermore it does not agree with using the 400-plus US military bases from Japan to Australia, many of which are nuclear-armed, to threaten China, our largest trading partner.

Failure to do this, and agreeing to nuclear armed NATOs provocations against China, undermines the nuclear free status of New Zealand, and the antiwar policies that New Zealanders have developed, for which New Zealand has been praised, says Mr Robson.

The New Zealand public deserves to be made aware, not least by the media, of the implications of Blinkens visit and the costs and dangers of unthinking subordination of New Zealand interests to US strategy against China, says Mr Robson.

The post Blinkens Visit Supporting FIFA Threatens New Zealands Peaceful Reputation appeared first on World BEYOND War.

03:38

Arming Taiwan is an Insane Provocation "IndyWatch Feed World"

The Island of Taiwan has been turned into a powder keg by the infusion of U.S. weaponry, pushing the Taiwanese people into the abyss of disaster. These are the words of the Chinese Defense Ministry in reaction to the recent $440 million sale of U.S. arms to the island. And now the U.S.is also giving, not selling, arms to Taiwan, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

The First Island Chain Strategy of the U.S.

Taiwan is but one in a series of islands along the Chinese coast, often called The First Island Chain, which now bristles with advanced U.S. weapons. These are accompanied by tens of thousands of supporting U.S. military personnel and combat troops. The First Island Chain extends from Japan in the north southward through Japans Ryukyu islands which include Okinawa, to Taiwan and on to the northern Philippines. (U.S. ally, South Korea, with a military of 500,000 active duty personnel and 3 million reserves is a powerful adjunct to this chain.) In US military doctrine the First Island Chain is a base to project power and restrict sea access to China.

Taiwan is at the center this string of islands and is considered the focal point of The First Island Chain strategy. When the fiercely hawkish Cold Warrior, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, conceived the strategy in 1951, he dubbed Taiwan Americas unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Taiwan is now one source of contention between the U.S. and China. As is often said but rarely done, the pursuit of peace demands that we understand the point of view of those who are marked as our adversaries. And, in Chinas eyes, Taiwan and the rest of these armed isles look like both chain and noose.

How would the U.S. react in a similar circumstance? Cuba is about the same distance from the U.S. as the width of the Taiwan Strait that separates Taiwan from the Mainland. Consider the recent U.S. reaction to rumors that China was setting up a listening post in Cuba. There was a bipartisan reaction of alarm in Congress and a bipartisan statement that such an installation is unacceptable. What would be the reacti...