2021-09-20: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-09-20). French officials warn AUKUS alliance undermines US-Europe relations. wsws.org Paris denounced Washington's sudden announcement of an Australia-UK-US alliance targeting China, and the related cancellation of a French-Australian submarine sale.

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-20). China gives U.S. advice on how to preserve NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Excerpts from The Global Times. An aggressive military bloc with thirty full members and forty partners on all inhabited continents which has waged unprovoked wars on three of them is evidently no problem to China, Russia, the United Nations, etc. Just business as usual. US-France tussle over AUKUS upsetting NATO, EuropeBy Cui HongjianThe author is …

Adriel Kasonta (2021-09-20). AUKUS the latest attempt to push for war with China. asiatimes.com Surprise, surprise! After a "candid" phone conversation with President Xi Jinping the previous week, aimed at "responsible managing the competition between the United States and the PRC" and ensuring it "does not veer into conflict," US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his country was joining a new trilateral security coalition comprising Washington, London …

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). China stresses aircraft disinfection to prevent COVID-19 case import. ecns.cn China has rolled out a protocol on the disinfection of passenger aircraft arriving from outside the Chinese mainland to reduce the risk of COVID-19 case import.

Mark Valencia (2021-09-20). US should beware of advice based on wishful thinking. asiatimes.com A recent article in the prestigious American journal Foreign Affairs made a series of recommendations for US policy in the South China Sea. However, US policymakers should beware of such recommendations based on questionable assumptions and wishful thinking. Following them could lead to another US foreign-policy failure. The article in essence supports the idea of …

Thom Hartmann (2021-09-20). The Real Crime That General Milley Exposed. counterpunch.org Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley stepped outside the realm of his constitutional power to prevent Donald Trump from starting nuclear war with China or Iran. It was definitely unconstitutional and probably illegal. But he's not the true villain in this story; the true villain is almost never mentioned in the press. Trump's advisors aren't

WSWS (2021-09-20). Beijing condemns military pact between the US, Britain and Australia. wsws.org The Chinese regime fears that Biden is accelerating the confrontation with China and preparations for war that began with President Obama and was expanded under Trump.

Bertil Lintner (2021-09-20). US encircling China on multiple new Cold War fronts. asiatimes.com The Indo-Pacific's Cold War is heating up as the region splits ever more decisively into opposed camps with a loose alliance of US-led democratic powers on one side and authoritarian China and its aligned satellites on the other. And the first economic salvos of the contest launched by Donald Trump's trade war are becoming more …

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). Ties with China necessary, essential for Latin America, says Cuban academic. ecns.cn For Latin America, ties with China are necessary and essential, a Cuban academic said following Chinese President Xi Jinping's message to the recently concluded 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

ecns.cn (2021-09-20). China-donated vaccines arrive in Kenya amid intensified pandemic fight in Africa. ecns.cn Senior Kenyan government officials on Saturday received a batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses from China as the East African nation ramps up inoculations for high-risk populations against the virus, saying they would reinvigorate the pandemic fight in the country.

Anonymous103 (2021-09-20). India Wants Quad To Get More Involved In Afghanistan. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe issue of the Taliban will be discussed in the first-ever Quad summit, and it is once again all about containing China. | Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | The US has announced the Quad's first-ever Leaders' Summit to take place at Washington D.C. on September 24. Last Friday, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) held summit meetings at Dushanbe, Tajikistan. India was represented in the latter occasion and shall be in the former also. Currently Taliban-controlled Afghanistan a…

TASS (2021-09-19). Telegraph: AUKUS partnership was discussed at G7 summit without Macron's knowledge. tass.com According to the report, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab assisted in the preparation of the agreement despite the warnings that such agreement will harm the relations with Beijing and Paris…

Newsclick (2021-09-19). Understanding the Australia-UK-US alliance. peoplesdispatch.org In this episode of Mapping Faultlines, Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha analyses the recently announced AUKUS alliance and its positions on China. He also analyses the role of European powers and the economic consolidation of Eurasia.

ecns.cn (2021-09-19). China to expand cross-border use of RMB. ecns.cn China will expand the use of its currency, the renminbi (RMB), in cross-border payments amid efforts to advance RMB internationalization, said a central bank report released on Saturday.

Staff (2021-09-19). China Firmly Rejects Illegal Detention of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com On Friday, September 17, the People's Republic of China firmly rejected the illegal detention of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab and urged the United States to respect the norms that govern international law. | Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry, stated at a press conference that the US "has been playing a shameful role in regard to Venezuela. The US has constantly abused political and judicial maneuvers, including sanctions and extraditions; with the purpose of meddling in the internal affairs of Venezuela." | Lijian went on to point out that the US harassment policy "affects the…

Ana Perdigón (2021-09-19). VI CELAC Summit: Latin America and the Caribbean to Expand Relations with China. orinocotribune.com The Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held this Saturday, September 18, in Mexico city, opens the doors to broader relations with China and the European Union (EU). | During the VI Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC, several nations called for the dismantling of the Organization of American States (OAS ), and on the contrary, to consolidate Latin American integration and inter-relation, far from the interests of the United States and Canada. | Comparto la foto oficial de la VI Cumbre de Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de la CELAC. Un encuentro de grandes p…

Andy Kroll (2021-09-19). The U.S. Military, Post-Afghanistan. tomdispatch.com Yoda, the Jedi Master in the Star Wars films, once pointed out that the future is all too difficult to see and it's hard to deny his insight. Yet I'd argue that, when it comes to the U.S. military and its wars, Yoda was just plain wrong. That part of the future is all too easy to imagine. It involves, you won't be shocked to know, more budget-busting weaponry for the Pentagon and more military meddling across the globe, perhaps this time against "near-peer" rivals China and Russia, and a global war on terror that will never end. What's even easier to see is that peace will be given no chance at all. Why? Because…

teleSUR, NG (2021-09-19). China señala de vergonzoso el papel de EE.UU. contra Venezuela. telesurtv.net Desde China destacan que EE.UU. afecta los intercambios regulares de personal internacional y pone en peligro la cooperación entre países.

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