{"id":133265,"date":"2023-03-26T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T23:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133265"},"modified":"2023-03-26T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T23:14:35","slug":"how-china-lost-its-clout-on-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/26\/how-china-lost-its-clout-on-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"How China lost its clout on Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

e-Con e-News<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

A rather forgettable news column rang alarm bells. Tucked away in the Sunday Times<\/em>, at the very bottom segment of its ST2 <\/em>supplement, its very last link, was a Project Syndicate<\/em> article, clumsily headlined \u2018How China lost its clout on<\/em> Asia\u2019 by Yoon Young-kwan, \u2018Exclusive to the Sunday Times<\/em>, SL\u2019, datelined to \u2018New Delhi\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     ee<\/em><\/strong> (11 March 2023) has recorded before that Project Syndicate <\/em>is a US CIA outfit. At least one Syndicate<\/em> article per week in the Wijeya Group media network appears to be a requirement by the US embassy\u2019s news supply section. Yoon Young-kwan turns out to be \u2018a former minister of foreign affairs\u2019 of US-occupied Korea, where he is a\u2019 Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Seoul National University\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     What is hilarious is that this article appears at the end of a week that saw some of the most important events in recent world history, signaled in February, when China publicly exposed US hegemony, launched a \u2018global security initiative\u2019, and offered a peace plan for Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     On March 10 China mediated an agreement between Saudi Arabia & Iran. On March 15 Moscow invited Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who then went to the UAE for talks. Iran & Iraq signed a security cooperation agreement to stop CIA-sponsored terror against Iran. King Salman of Saudi Arabia invited the Iran President to visit Riyadh. After at least 30 years of US-sponsored mass murder (20 years ago it illegally invaded Iraq) \u2013 China, \u2018by peaceful means, changed the balance\u2026 within just one month\u2019 (MoA}.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     China\u2019s President Xi went to Moscow to meet Russia\u2019s President Putin. An article by Putin was published in the People\u2019s Daily<\/em>, while Russian media published a signed article by Xi. In the Ukraine, the US has openly come out against a ceasefire and peace talks, and is actively sabotaging the Chinese peace plan in Europe, and the Saudi-Iranian deal, while creating anarchy in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     On the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of the invasion of Iraq (March 20) and 12th<\/sup> anniversary of the invasion of Libya (March 19), the US has their puppy dogs at the International Criminal Court (who the US will not submit to, and even vows to attack if they dare name a US war criminal) declare Russian President a \u2018war criminal\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     So what \u2018Asia\u2019 then is this slavish US-Korean diplomat referring to, and what \u2018clout\u2019? The US media and education system promotes within its borders a funny definition of \u2018Asia\u2019 and \u2018Asian\u2019, which usually refers to East Asia aka the \u2018Orient\u2019. Such ignorance is reflected by this \u2018former minister of foreign affairs\u2019 who no doubt spends too much time in the USA or their Anglosphere. He reduces over 500 years of colonial invasion, claiming, \u2018Since the dawn of international politics, smaller states have faced the formidable challenge of navigating great-power rivalries.\u2019 At the same time, his country is not navigating anything but occupied by US troops, just as Japan and Taiwan are. Clout indeed. (ee Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong>, How China lost its clout on Asia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

e-Con e-News A rather forgettable news column rang alarm bells. Tucked away in the Sunday Times, at the very bottom segment of its ST2 supplement, its very last link, was a Project Syndicate article, clumsily headlined \u2018How China lost its clout on Asia\u2019 by Yoon Young-kwan, \u2018Exclusive to the Sunday Times, SL\u2019, datelined to \u2018New Delhi\u2019.      ee (11 March 2023) has recorded before that Project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}