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Xi Jinping Promotes ‘Green Belt and Road’ at Biden* Climate Summit
Quote:Chinese dictator Xi Jinping used his appearance Thursday morning at the Biden administration’s Leaders Summit on Climate to promote China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a debt trap program in which China offers predatory loans to developing countries in exchange for helping build infrastructure.

President Joe Biden invited dozens of world leaders to address the virtual summit on the occasion of Earth Day, an unofficial holiday promoting environmentalism, and offer proposals to reduce global pollution rates and discuss international programs to slow climate change.

China is the world’s biggest polluter, responsible for 28 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. That rate is over twice the amount of carbon emissions as the United States, the world’s second-largest emitter. China has boasted that it intends to increase carbon emissions over the next decade and only “peak” by 2030, as permitted by the Paris Climate Agreement, while condemning Western nations whose carbon emissions have been steadily declining in the past decade.

President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement during his tenure, but Biden reversed course and recommitted the U.S. to the deal as one of his first acts in office.

China’s state-run Global Times described Xi’s presence at the Leaders Summit on Climate as a “challenge” to Biden and the United States generally on its presence as the world’s dominant political power.

“Chinese experts warned that it would also be a big test for the Biden administration, casting doubts over its role as a global leader on climate change and questioning its true intention,” the propaganda outlet claimed.

Xi used his time at the summit to promote a newly rebranded “Green Belt and Road” as a solution to climate woes, a global plan in which China builds — for a profit — allegedly “green” infrastructure in developing countries. To that end, he urged the world not to ignore the contributions that developing countries can make to improving the environment.

“We must be committed to multilateralism. We need to work on the basis of international law, follow the principle of equity and justice, and focus on effective actions,” Xi said, urging a rigid “global climate governance” presumably led by China.

“We need to deliver social equity and justice in the cause of green transition and increase people’s sense of benefit, happiness, and security,” Xi urged, adding, “developed countries need to increase climate ambition and action.”

The BRI works by offering predatory loans to poor countries — most of them in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America — the countries can then use to buy construction services from Chinese countries. This way, China keeps both the profits from the construction projects and interest from the loans. The projects tend to be geared towards improving transportation, such as new ports, railways, or highways in countries with minimal infrastructure.

At a Chinese economic summit this week, Xi declared China would use BRI to create universal “rules and standards” along the paths BRI projects created.
International experts have warned that BRI projects pose a significant risk to global ecology. A study by Tsinghua University, Xi Jinping’s alma mater, published in 2019 found that the BRI alone could doom Paris Agreement climate commitments.

“We have a business-as-usual scenario that says if you continue the way you are then even if every other country on the planet — which includes US, Europe, China and India — goes on a 2C pathway, this is still going to blow the carbon budget,” Simon Zadek, senior visiting fellow at the Tsinghua Center, told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) at the time. “The BRI growth dynamic is so large that if you get the carbon (emissions) wrong in a way it doesn’t matter anymore what anyone else does.”

Environmental damage has been particularly severe in Zimbabwe, where China has invested heavily in coal mining and road development through populated areas. Locals have denounced for over a year that Chinese companies are digging up entire villages and destroying ecological centers — including threatening national parks — in their search for fossil fuels.

On Thursday, while urging “ambition” on the part of the world’s biggest economies, Xi reiterated that China will openly increase carbon emissions through the next decade.

“China will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030,” Xi said, leaving open the possibility that China will continue to increase emissions past 2030, the year the Paris Climate Agreement requires China to change its output.

Xi emphasized that world leaders “must be committed to harmony between man and nature,” which requires “systemic governance” and adherence to the United Nations and “multilateralism.”

“Green mountains are gold mountains. To protect the environment is to protect productivity and to improve the environment is to boost productivity. The truth is as simple as that,” Xi said. “We need to make sure that a sound environment is there to buttress sustainable economic and social development worldwide … we must be committed to systemic governance.”

Translators did not note a statement thanking the United States for organizing the summit from the Chinese dictator and he appeared to diminish the role America could play in the climate challenge.

“China looks forward to working with the international community, including the United States, to join the alliance [of] global environmental governance,” Xi said.

Xi notably also omitted concerns regarding his regime’s policies regarding meat markets and wild animal consumption in light of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) publishing a 120-page report concluding the origin of the Chinese coronavirus was most likely a wild animal that infected a third-party animal that then infected humans. Senior Chinese officials stated in mid-2020 that they believed the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was the product of illegal wildlife meat sales at a market in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic originated. Animal rights groups have repeatedly urged Beijing to outlaw the sort of markets, known as “wet markets,” that lend themselves to illegal wildlife sales and allow on-site animal butchering for meat. The Chinese Communist Party has made no significant efforts to either ban or improve regulation of such markets since the pandemic began and has since shifted its theory on the origin of the virus to an unsubstantiated conspiracy by the U.S. Army beginning in Maryland.

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Quote:China warned Thursday “serious consequences” await Australia after it tore up a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) agreement between the two countries, cautioning “serious harm” to relations remain possible along with unspecified economic coercion against a country that refuses to be bullied.

Canberra pulled the deal late Wednesday, as Breitbart News reported, in a move destined to provoke Beijing but justified by the conservative coalition government as necessary to prevent Australia hosting a giant infrastructure scheme “used for propaganda.”

China is Australia’s biggest trading partner, but Australian leaders have previously shown no hesitation in standing up to Chinese political and economic influence, evidenced by Australia’s decision to ban Huawei from any participation in a national 5G network.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison also led the global call 12 months ago for an independent international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, an action which was condemned by the Chinese Communist Party.

Australia last year enacted new powers — widely seen as targeting China — that allow it to scrap any agreements between state authorities and foreign countries deemed to threaten the national interest.

Canberra’s first target was the BRI, a vast network of investments that critics say is cover for Beijing to create geopolitical and financial leverage.

Beijing laid into the Australian government on Thursday, saying it would damage trust between the two countries, and warning it could take further actions in response.



The move “recklessly interferes in and destroys normal exchange and cooperation, and seriously harms China-Australia relations and mutual trust between the countries,” said foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin at a briefing in Beijing.

“China reserves the right to take further action in response to this,” AFP reports.

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Quote:There was a headline yesterday in one of the ChiComs’ state-run media outlets, People’s Daily, that really made me laugh out loud: “Xi says countries should bear in mind shared interests of mankind and make responsible, wise choices.” That must have been a bad attempt at satire by the president of Communist China because surely he knows better. The agit-prop article explained further:

“China calls on all countries in Asia and beyond to answer the call of the times, defeat the COVID-19 pandemic through solidarity, strengthen global governance, and keep pursuing a community with a shared future for mankind,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping in a keynote speech delivered via video link at the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 on April 20.

“While we live in an age rife with challenges, it is also an age full of hope,” Xi said, noting that the combined forces of changes and a pandemic both unseen in a century have brought the world into a phase of fluidity and transformation and that instability and uncertainty are clearly on the rise.

He’s kidding, right? This must have been some kind of ChiCom slap-stick routine for the Conference attendees. Did they get the joke? Maybe not, but they all got the virus courtesy of Xi’s henchmen, as well as the bill for defective ChiCom masks and inefficient vaccines.

With the ChiComs – as with all Communists and also wannabe Communists like the Democrat Party – one needs to parse their words VERY carefully and translate certain words into what the Communists/Democrats really mean them to be. For example, take the word “competition”, which is what the ChiComs supposedly really, really support, as noted in state-run China Daily here. Except that what the ChiComs mean by the word competition is this: “We are free to use any means available to us, including military and economic espionage, predatory trade practices, opaque financial reporting, and violation of international norms when it suits us, in order to ‘compete’ and win at all costs, and we are thankful that you blithely accept the Merriam dictionary definition of the word, which makes our winning so much easier to accomplish.”

Let us now decipher Xi’s admonition to make “responsible and wise choices”:

“…answer the call of the times, defeat the COVID-19 pandemic through solidarity…” Yeah, how did “solidarity” work for the rest of the world when the ChiComs sat on early information about their virus for months? They were cynically and criminally irresponsible in withholding that information from foreign medical authorities (e.g., we still don’t know who Patient Zero was), but we’re supposed to believe Xi’s call for
“solidarity” is somehow genuine over a year into the “pandemic”?

“…strengthen global governance…” Hmmm. Does that include following the lead of UN-related organizations like the World Health Organization, which the ChiComs have corrupted to deflect from Communist China’s culpability for the virus? Or does that mean the ChiComs are all in on the New World Order and the accompanying “Great Reset” being pushed by Davos elites at the World Economic Forum? That’s a hard “no” from me.

“…pursuing a community with a shared future for mankind…” This flowery phrase means a shared future according to the CCP vision, i.e., Communist China’s leadership of an authoritarian capitalist remake of the world order, with the ChiComs the center of the world’s production and the rest of us kowtowing to Beijing for all time.

“…an age rife with challenges…” Reminds me of the Democrats’ “not letting a crisis go to waste.” Funny how the biggest challenge ongoing is economic recovery from lockdowns as a result of the ChiCom virus, as well as a regaining of individual freedoms lost through arbitrary authoritarian government actions everywhere.

“…an age full of hope…” Yes, the ChiComs are indeed hopeful that the rest of the world continues to focus on their own problems while Beijing continues its march toward world hegemony and dominance.

“…brought the world into a phase of fluidity and transformation and that instability and uncertainty are clearly on the rise…” Just as the ChiComs (and globalists) have planned! The more orchestrated instability through open borders in Europe and the US, the more economic and political chaos – all good for the ChiComs. The longer the economic lockdowns, the better for the ChiCom production and export market.

If only one could administer a little truth serum to Xi Jinping before these and other of his periodic public statements! Now THAT would be funny.

I wonder if Xi has even the tiniest twinge of embarrassment when he gives these speeches. Someone at that conference should have replied, “You mean wise and responsible choices like withholding Wuhan virus-related information from the rest of the world and making bank on defective PPE and vaccines through ‘Chinese philanthropy’ (an oxymoron)?”

You would have been able to hear a pin drop.

The end.

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