The Freedom Chronicles 4.13.26
In response to our attack on Iran, we must try to determine what China will do. Now that Vice President Vance has walked out of the talks in Islamabad and Trump has announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, it will be important to observe what Iran’s benefactor, nuclear-armed China, might do now.
Will China go to war with the US and its allies to defend Iran? Or will Chairman Xi, while so many American military assets are tied up in the Middle East, decide to invade Taiwan?
The blockade threatens to choke off China’s daily import of 7 million barrels of oil a day from Iran, which the regime sells at a steep discount. It threatens 13.4 % of China’s crude imports. In 2021, China and Iran signed a 25-year strategic partnership, with Xi promising $400 billion in investments across the banking, telecom, ports, and railway sectors, with projects now underway by Chinese companies, all of which are put at risk should the regime fall.
Readers of this column have come to expect us to report on the freedom movements waged by freedom fighters inside our enemies, China, Iran, Russia, and other anti-Western, totalitarian regimes. The good news is that the CCP is losing its once-firm hold over mainland China.
The Epoch Times, which maintains many high-level informants inside the CCP, reports that recent clashes between police and residents have broken out across multiple regions in China. The causes of the unrest range from land disputes to local governance issues. On March 8, in the central city of Wuhan (home of the COVID-19 virus), thousands staged a protest in the streets. When numerous protesters were arrested, they surrounded the deputy mayor’s car, demanding the release of their brethren.
As in Iran, the unrest in China is met with police force, brutality, and imprisonment. Expanded police presence to control crowds has even become evident in the center of Beijing. On March 29, barricades manned by police were photographed on Chang ‘an Avenue, the capital’s main thoroughfare, which passes Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.
China’s internal unrest is compounded by industrial-scale government theft and embezzlement that rival, perhaps exceed, those taking place in the US. An internal report secretly provided to Epoch Times reveals that while 4,200 were arrested at upper levels of management, a staggering 300,000 mid- and low-level officials were arrested, guilty of skimming off over a trillion yuan ($43.4 billion) from state-owned financial and defense industrial enterprises.
The theft is very large and very damaging because vast sums are extracted from the economy and leave the country to be invested in real estate or deposited in secret bank accounts in Australia or the UK. A man named Zhao, who gave only his last name to avoid reprisal by the CCP, told the Times the theft is so widespread it is “systemic, a form of spoils-sharing, the norm of monetizing power.”
There is an irony in the fact that wealth in China has become concentrated in the hands of the ruling elite, precisely the system that Mao’s communism would eradicate.
In addition to the growing unrest in the streets, an economy faltering from industrial theft and capital flight, Chairman Xi saw the Chinese anti-aircraft systems employed by the Iranians destroyed by the Israelis in June of last year, without the loss of one fighter plane. America and Israel have easily achieved complete mastery of the skies. To America’s relief, Xi’s response has been to sell the Iranians more war material and to forestall his move on Taiwan…for now.
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