{"id":33428,"date":"2018-04-15T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33428"},"modified":"2018-04-15T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T15:16:31","slug":"china-the-arrogant-us-has-a-record-of-launching-wars-on-deceptive-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33428","title":{"rendered":"China: &#8220;The Arrogant US Has A Record Of Launching Wars On Deceptive Grounds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-15\/china-arrogant-us-has-record-launching-wars-deceptive-grounds\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">China: &#8220;The Arrogant US Has A Record Of Launching Wars On Deceptive Grounds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\"><\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>While the lack of retaliation by Russia to Trump&#8217;s Friday night Syrian airstrikes surprised some, Russia defended its stance of shrugging in response (and not escalating to full blown world war), by asserting that Soviet-made missiles intercepted more than half of the 105 cruise missiles fired at three Syrian facilities (the Pentagon denied any missiles were hit), and that the US, UK and French blitz was generally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-14\/people-are-dancing-streets-syria-russia-iran-shrug-more-limited-feared-airstrikes\">less aggressive than most had feared<\/a>, perhaps thanks to extensive advance warnings by Trump that an attack was imminent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/syria%20map%20attack.jpg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/syria%20map%20attack.jpg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/syria%20map%20attack.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/syria%20map%20attack.jpg?itok=b9SfL1dE 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d541d13d-6178-489a-a55f-e1697d216197\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet if Russia&#8217;s managed response is understandable, one country whose vocal outcry to US strikes has been a surprise, is China.<\/p>\n<p>As we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-14\/china-slams-syrian-airstrikes-germany-and-italy-refuses-participate\">reported yesterday<\/a>, China was the first superpower outside those directly involved to slam the US airstrikes: &#8220;Any unilateral military action violates the United Nations charter and its principles and international law and its principles. [The strikes] are also going to add more factors to complicate the resolution of the Syrian crisis,&#8221; Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing also called for an investigation into claims of a Syrian poison gas attack on the rebel-held town of Douma that rescuers and monitors say killed more than 40 people, and prompted the Western action: &#8220;The Chinese side believes a comprehensive, impartial and objective investigation should be conducted into the suspected chemical attacks and it should come up with reliable conclusions &#8230; Before this, no conclusion by any side should be made,\u201d Hua said.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Saturday during the emergency session of the Security Council on Saturday, Russia proposed a resolution urging the US and its allies to \u201cimmediately and without delay cease the aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic and refrain from further aggressive acts in violation of the international law and the UN Charter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China: &#8220;The Arrogant US Has A Record Of Launching Wars On Deceptive Grounds&#8221; While the lack of retaliation by Russia to Trump&#8217;s Friday night Syrian airstrikes surprised some, Russia defended its stance of shrugging in response (and not escalating to full blown world war), by asserting that Soviet-made missiles intercepted more than half of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,2954,333,2864,1426,655,694,776,2080,827,862],"class_list":["post-33428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-deception","tag-france","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33429,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33428\/revisions\/33429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}