{"id":88774,"date":"2019-07-09T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88774"},"modified":"2019-07-09T07:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T11:25:23","slug":"iran-china-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88774","title":{"rendered":"Iran, China and US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran breaches nuclear enrichment deal, going to 4.5%, well above the 3.45% allowed, as of Monday.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/07\/08\/reports-iran-enriching-uranium-to-45-breaking-deal-limit\/<\/a><\/p>\n

TEHRAN, Iran \u2014 Iran on Monday began enriching uranium to 4.5%, just\u00a0breaking the limit set by its nuclear deal<\/a>\u00a0with world powers, while it is still seeking a way for Europe to help it bypass U.S. sanctions amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n

The acknowledgement by the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to The Associated Press shows that the Islamic Republic trying to increase pressure on those still in the 2015 nuclear deal. It also comes just days after Iran acknowledged breaking the 300-kilogram (661-pound) limit on its low-enriched uranium stockpile, another term of the accord. \u2013 Article<\/p>\n

This violates their agreement to stick to the lower level of enrichment and the volume, which was part of that agreement. While 4.5% enrichment is what will power Iran\u2019s only nuclear reactor, per the article, they appear to be heading towards the enrichment level that will allow them to build and test a nuclear weapon. Per the article, Trump is making China nervous about all of this, but there is more to it than just that. China has a vested interest in stirring the pot in the Middle East as part of its long-term plan to acquire control of South Asia.<\/p>\n

This article is from the Committee on Present Danger: CHINA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/presentdangerchina.org\/2019\/06\/china-the-post-afghanistan-u-s-adversary-in-south-asia\/<\/a><\/p>\n

China\u2019s interest lies entirely in having physical and economic control of South Asia, including being able to mine the rare earths in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which are estimated to be worth some $3 trillion when refined. And no, China will not give a damn if the entire area they mine is so contaminated that nothing, including algae, will grow on it. They just don\u2019t care. COL Sellin\u2019s article has more information and is less panicky than Spalding\u2019s.<\/p>\n

China is not driving us into the ground economically. A prior occupant of the White House almost did that while destroying a lot of jobs and benefits, but we\u2019ve been in recovery for some time now. It is simply taking advantage of the current idiocy in the USA that says a minimum wage should be $15\/hr, which is one way to shut down both jobs and those large companies that employ a lot of people. We need to find a way to reverse that.\u00a0 The most important thing is to understand that while China is currently dominating the manufacturing market now, it is not inventing anything new. It just isn\u2019t. Everything is still a copy of what someone else created, but they have no innovations. They still have this imperial mentality that you have to get permission to produce your bright idea.<\/p>\n

This is even more interesting, in that the USA helped to finance the rise of the Chinese economy by allowing companies like Apple to send their manufacturing overseas to China\u2019s cheaper work force.\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/presentdangerchina.org\/2019\/06\/u-s-china-trade-war-part-two-the-thucydides-trap\/<\/a><\/p>\n

That article makes a very good point: that wars of aggression (e.g., Japan v. USA) were not financed by the attacker\u2019s opponent. But we have funded China\u2019s rise by sending work there. Very good, referencing the Thucydides trap. Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Business Insider\u2019s view of Iran, China and the USA: https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pentagon-focused-o-russia-china-war-trump-focuses-on-iran-2019-6<\/a><\/p>\n

That article says essentially the same thing: someone is pushing the USA toward war, probably China, but to their detriment if they do. We can bring home all of our manufacturing in a heartbeat. We already have the robotics technology in place in many manufacturing processes here, and its showing up in fast food joints, too.<\/p>\n

And we all have to remember that the Middle East has been a war zone since its earliest settlements rose out of the grasses of the Fertile Crescent, when the last glacial maximum began to withdraw and people began domesticating livestock and grasses like wheat and barley and turning those water-softened grains into beer. It isn’t something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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