On Monday, 10 MAY 21, on New Paradigms with Sargis Sangari, Episode #51, Ms. Clare M. Lopez, the Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC, & former #CIA Operations Officer, discussed the Middle East reeling, #Israel under attack w/rockets fired from #Gaza, rioting #Palestinians on the #TempleMount, attempted terror attack out of #Tulkarem – on Friday 7 MAY 21 Al-Qods Day, with Monday 10 May 21 as #JerusalemDay – with Wednesday 12 May 21 the last day of #Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, that commemorates the 624 CE Battle of Badr (1st Islamic victory on the field of battle vs infidel force).
The major issues include perception of weakness, internal disunity in Washington DC (#WDC), #Jerusalem & #Ramallah – lack of strong US leadership in the world inevitably has invited aggression & chaos.
Transitioning to China: Clare and I discussed the multi-billion USD deal w/Iran that will exchange Iranian oil for promises of Chinese investment in Iranian infrastructure, thereby helping #Iran out of its financial difficulties due to sanctions that will now be bypassed helping #Beijing with both much-needed oil & to extend its Belt & Road Initiative (#BRI) all the way westward to the Persian Gulf.
Meanwhile, in East Asia, #XiJinping is pushing to see how a compromised U.S. administration will allow him a pass: threatening #Taiwan, encroaching on neighboring countries’ Economic Exclusionary Zones under China’s claim to rights within so-called “9-Dash Line”, and building military bases out of artificial islands in the South China Sea.
CCP is also taking advantage of US weakness on US soil, deploying its propaganda arm, the “United Front Work Dept.”, to conduct influence operations via US Media outlets – US TV, legacy print media & social media – even using Houston Chinese Consulate to infiltrate undercover People’s Liberation Army (#PLA) team to draw up a list of potentially vulnerable American citizens who would be susceptible to supporting #ANTIF & #BLM – then sent them Tik Tok videos on how to stage street protests & riots.
Finally, in Clares October 2020 Epoch Times article, “Race, Revolution & the CCP”, she describes how today’s BLM revolutionaries are being backed, used & even funded by the CCP – in much the same way as black revolutionaries, including Black Panthers, were used by Mao Zedong & Zhou Enlai back in late 1960s-early 1970s to encourage race divisions, rioting & eventually communist revolution in America.
Join Clare and me on The Near East Center for Strategic Engagement, next week, when we will include notes on how China is collaborating w/Mexican drug cartels to funnel tons of #fentanyl & #methamphetamines into the US – in addition to extending the reach of Beijing commercially into countries across Latin America – including the #Caribbean.