{"id":47623,"date":"2019-08-05T19:28:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47623"},"modified":"2019-08-05T19:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:29:32","slug":"new-cold-war-unleashing-geopolitical-chaos-china-reacts-to-us-offensive-missiles-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47623","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New Cold War&#8221; Unleashing &#8220;Geopolitical Chaos&#8221;: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-04\/new-cold-war-unleashing-geopolitical-chaos-china-reacts-us-offensive-missiles-asia\">&#8220;New Cold War&#8221; Unleashing &#8220;Geopolitical Chaos&#8221;: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Global Times&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>the communist country&#8217;s hawkish, belligerent&nbsp;state&nbsp;tabloid&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>has responded to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-03\/us-ditches-inf-mid-range-missiles-be-deployed-asia-sooner-rather-later\">Pentagon&#8217;s Friday announcement<\/a>&nbsp;stating the US is&nbsp;looking to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles to Asia&nbsp;&#8220;within months,&#8221; warning&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;it will certainly trigger an intense arms race in the region.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its editorial board, long understood as a mouthpiece of the state, has slammed remarks made by&nbsp;US&nbsp;Defense Secretary Mark Esper outlining the new mid-range ballistic missile deployment plans, crucially&nbsp;which came immediately on the heels of the formal collapse of the landmark US-Russia INF treaty, saying&nbsp;<strong>American greed and naked drive for hegemony will spark a dangerously unprecedented arms race which will fuel further &#8220;instability&#8221; across Asia<\/strong>. The&nbsp;<em>Global Times&nbsp;<\/em>commentary&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1160322.shtml\">opens with<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The US is greedily pursuing an absolute and all-sided military superiority to consolidate its hegemony. It refuses to accept any relative balance of power. Such a stubborn and overbearing country has become&nbsp;<strong>the largest source of Asia&#8217;s instability<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/china%20arms%20race.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authors further warn US plans will &#8220;break the status quo&#8221; in Asia,&nbsp;<strong>unleashing &#8220;geopolitical chaos&#8221; by deploying offensive weapons<\/strong>, because &#8220;Any country accepting US deployment would be against China and Russia, directly or indirectly, and draw fire against itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Asian countries&nbsp;<strong>must collectively resist<\/strong>&nbsp;the US&#8217; attempt in creating new crisis in this region and prevent it from provoking extreme arms races and forcing all countries to take sides,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1160322.shtml\">the editorial<\/a>&nbsp;urges further.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New Cold War&#8221; Unleashing &#8220;Geopolitical Chaos&#8221;: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia China&#8217;s&nbsp;Global Times&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;the communist country&#8217;s hawkish, belligerent&nbsp;state&nbsp;tabloid&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;has responded to the&nbsp;Pentagon&#8217;s Friday announcement&nbsp;stating the US is&nbsp;looking to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles to Asia&nbsp;&#8220;within months,&#8221; warning&nbsp;&#8220;it will certainly trigger an intense arms race in the region.&#8221; Its editorial board, long understood as a [&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":[34,130,149,6390,3040,827,4318],"class_list":["post-47623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-cold-war","tag-global-times","tag-missiles","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47623","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=47623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47625,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47623\/revisions\/47625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}