Acceleration of Universal History
In less than a month, the fifteenth BRICS Summit will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa (August 22 to 24, 2023). A significant number of nations, ahead of the reunion, already submitted theirs candidacies for membership of the BRICS group (Brazil : Russia : India : China : South Africa).
Moreover, even if the probability for the announcement at the same occasion of the BRICS gold-backed currency is not so high as expected, I still want to write down some information on the topic. China & Russia have gold reserves far above their officially declared amounts. For those interested, Dominic Frisby created on YouTube a 2022 update for China’s real amount of gold. In a nutshell, it’s a lot more than the ~8150 metric tons the US is supposed to possess (a serious audit under the supervision of an international commission would be most interesting). China’s true gold reserve is estimated at 20 000 to 25 000 metric tons, not the much smaller officially declared 2092 metric tons.
It’s part of the ongoing dedollarization process. Also, since the last 10 years, for the same goal of dedollarization, China concluded bilateral agreements for international trading usage of her currency, the Renminbi aka the Yuan.
What is extraordinary and marvelous is that a nation wishing to uphold a gold-backed currency doesn’t even have to possess a massive reserve of gold. It’s a question of political will and political will is maybe a more precious merchandise, so to speak, than a leviathanesque amount of gold. And here is the absolute subtlety you need to understand : what does “gold-backed” or “gold-pegged” truly mean ? “Gold-pegged” fundamentally means “not pegged to the USD”. And surfing on the inflation undergone by the USD, any given gold-backed currency will gain in value. Simple, innit ? Almost magical but it requires a lot of concentrated valor & wisdom called political will, and as I wrote above, political will is a rare and most precious ingredient on this Earth.
I also want to adumbrate MIR (Peace or the World in Russian) and CIPS (China International Payment System or Cross-border Interbank Payment System), the interconnected Russian and Chinese international interbank telecommunication systems created to avoid the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) controlled by the West.
China has always veiled the true amount of gold she possesses because it was tantamount of declaring war to the US. Since she declared war to the US on Monday Feb 20, 2023 by a document published on the official website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there is no need to be coy anymore concerning her true wealth. The title of the document is “US hegemony & its perils”. It’s an axio-epistemo-political proclamation upholding the legitimacy of the war she is now waging against the US as the de facto leader of the KFC-AZAEL (Kakistocratic Feudal Conglomerate of the Anglo-Zio-American EstabLishment). Using the Chinese political lexicon, it’s the proclamation of intention by the Chinese rulers to restore the Mandate of Heaven : essentially Harmony & Justice at the level of the Heavenly Timeless Universal Principles.
Here is the hyper-link for the article :
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html
This intention of restoring The Mandate of Heaven is made crystal clear and utterly pragmatic by 3 main inter-related projects :
** The GLOBAL Security Initiative.
** The GLOBAL Development Initiative
** The GLOBAL Civilization Initiative
There is no Civilization without Development and there is no Development without Security.
Those 3 inter-related initiatives are embodied by the BRI (the Belt & Road Initiative) and not forgetting the Agenda 2025 for acquiring and being excellent in the vital technological sectors.
The last 30 months have been filled with watersheds or at the very least extremely meaningful events and no one having a little bit of sensibility and a tad informed about the international events can escape the impression that we are going through an utter acceleration in the right direction of Universal History.
HERE ARE THE MAIN 15 EVENTS I WISH TO UNDERLINE :
1- At the Anchorage (Alaska) China-US meeting (March 18 & 19, 2021), His Excellency State Councilor Yang Jiechi put US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his rightful place, a more modest one compared to what Blinken probably had in his mind. Blinken, apparently, thought that he was speaking “from a position of strength” …
2- In February 2022, the renewed, at a much deeper closeness, Sino-Russian comprehensive strategic Partnership of Coordination for a New ERA.
On Feb 4, 2022, President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin offered a joint document called : Joint Statement of the Federation of Russia and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development.
Here is the hyper-link to the document :
http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
3- Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine started on Thursday Feb 24, 2022.
4- Two days later, on Saturday Feb 26, 2022, the imbecilic, foolish & idiotic Western ruling class seized the Russian assets. Russia being the first nuclear power; Russia having developed hypersonic missiles; Russia being a major provider of energy, commodities and food; Russia being a permanent member of the United Nations Organization Security Council; Russia being a nation known for her numerous military victories; Russia having a super-amped, patriotic, proud, rather cohesive population boasting a charismatic & efficient leader, the same for the last 2 decades. Do I need to add more ? By resorting to such an abysmally stupid act, the Western ruling class was shooting in its feet by utterly & definitively destroying the global trust in the Western financial system and more simply, destroying forever the global trust in the Western system, destroying without return the global trust in the word of the Western ruling class.
5- At the end of September 2022, the rogue state US/KFC-AZAEL, assisted by 2 vassal states (Sweden & Denmark), by an act of international terrorism, destroyed the Nordstream II pipelines buried under the Baltic Sea. According to Professor Hans-Benjamin Braun interviewed by the German reporter and documentary films maker Dirk Pohlmann, the terrorists used a mini nuclear bomb. Nuke or no Nuke, the pipelines have been destroyed to put Germany down, Russia out and the rogue state US/KFC-AZAEL in. This has been clearly stated in 1949 by Lionel Ismay, the first Secretary General of NATO as the pre-eminent goal of the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.
Nowadays, the formulation of this NATO’s general policy might be slightly changed as follows : keep Russia down, China out and the rogue state US/KFC-AZAEL in.
But Russia is not Germany
And China is Russia’s Comprehensive Strategic Partner of Coordination for a New Era.
6- China’s Declaration of War to the US on Monday Feb 20, 2023 :
The text “US hegemony & its perils” : The Chinese Sovereigns traditionally offered to the World the exhaustive written enumeration of the depredations of the criminals to be destroyed before going to war. In the present case concerning the US/KFC-AZAEL (Kakistocratic Feudal Conglomerate of the Anglo-Zio-American EstabLishment), the crimes have been grouped in 5 categories :
I- Political Hegemony – Throwing its weight around
II- Military Hegemony – Wanton Use of Force
III- Economic Hegemony – Looting and Exploitation
IV- Technological Hegemony – Monopoly and Suppression
V- Cultural Hegemony – Spreading False Narratives
For details, please refer to the main text, hyperlink below :
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html
7- March 20 to 22, 2023, President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow . When leaving Moscow on March 22, 2023, His Excellency said to his dear friend President Vladimir Putin :
-RIGHT NOW THERE ARE CHANGES WE HAVEN’T SEEN FOR 100 YEARS, AND WE ARE THE ONES DRIVING THESE CHANGES TOGETHER.
President Vladimir Putin replied : I AGREE.
President Xi : TAKE CARE PLEASE, DEAR FRIEND.
President Putin : HAVE A SAFE TRIP.
8- April 6, 2023 : the diplomatic documents for the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement signed in Beijing. Less than a week later, a truce was agreed for the war in Yemen where Iran & Saudi Arabia were fighting a proxy war for years.
9- Orthodox Easter Sunday : April 16, 2023, President Vladimir Putin received the Chinese Defense Minister and State Councilor Li Shangfu for discussing a closer Sino-Russian military cooperation.
10- May 2023 : CIA Director William Burns “secretly” visited Beijing. He was the first senior US official to visit Beijing after the so-called Chinese spy balloon has been shot down in February 2023. Among the numerous things discussed, he managed to get the approval of the Chinese rulers for a visit by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing if Blinken makes a request for an official visit to China. Let’s remind that Blinken cancelled his January 2023 trip to Beijing under the pretext of the so-called Chinese spy balloon floating over the “American” sky. By international laws, at the altitude where the balloon was, it’s considered that the balloon was moving within international aerial space/sky.
11- Saturday June 3, 2023 : the USS Chung-Hoon, accompanied by the Canadian HMS Montreal, lost a brinkmanship type confrontation when challenged by the Chinese warship Suzhou in the Taiwan Straits. A week later, a US airplane was chased away above the South China Sea by the Chinese airmen.
12- June 6, 2023 : Iran launched her first hypersonic missile, the Fattah (the Conqueror). The Fattah has a range of 1400 km and is capable of moving at 15 times the speed of sound (Mach 15). The Iranian leaders said Iran will further the development of her missiles’ program.
13- June 18, 2023 : US Secretary of State Antony Blinken received in Beijing at his request. He discussed for 7.5 hours with Qin Gang, then China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Then 3 hours with Wang Yi, State Councilor and Director of the CPC Bureau for Foreign Affairs. President Xi met him for 35 minutes, reminding him the extreme importance of mutual respect in international relations, among other things.
14- July 6, 2023 : Janet Yellen kow-towing without success in Beijing concerning the USD bonds market.
15- July 18, 2023 : the 100-year-old Dr Henry Kissinger was received at the Villa no 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse (as it was the case in 1971) in Beijing and discussed warmly with President Xi Jinping about the China-US relation. The old Dr Henry Kissinger was “unofficially” visiting China and most probably wanted to salvage what can be salvaged of his legacy. Maybe even establishing in advance some potentially useful protocols to be activated once a future China-US kinetic war will be in process, thus minimizing the damages both sides will certainly undergo …
I would like to quote the last 4 paragraphs of the piece penned by Pepe Escobar published on July 21, 2023 by Sputnik. The original title of the article was “The definitive 21st century war is on, AND IT’S NOT A WAR ON CHINA”. I wished to adumbrate this first title because it reflects , according to my understanding, the reality. The second title, having been chosen, is “Neocons want war with China” and it expresses the desire of the most dangerous group of hubristic psychopaths living on Earth nowadays. It is most interesting that it has been selected as the definitive title because it stresses rightly, ironically and powerfully, among other things, the utter unreality within which are living the members of the Western ruling class & the Western intelligentsia serving as their political advisors.
REALITY versus UNREALITY.
REALITY versus NARRATIVES
REALITY versus SHADOWS
Being able to see the reality as it is, is consubstantially part of belonging to the upper class, the ruling class. The utter lack in the Western upper class of a supposedly consubstantial quality to its members is a clear sign of utter degeneracy. That degeneracy most probably coming from intrinsic biological factors because of excessive inbreeding, abuse of toxicomaniac substances, neglect of self-discipline, loss of true understanding of authentic classical timeless values.
The centenary Henry Kissinger’s visit to China on July 18, 2023 was the occasion, so to speak, for a deep analysis of THE NEXUS of circumstances, of the seriously accumulated flawed judgments, because of a toxic mix of hubris, fecklessness, corruption and utter idiocy (from the Greek word “idiotes” meaning living exclusively in one’s own bubble) coming from the predatory entity I call the KFC-AZAEL (Kakistocratic Feudal Conglomerate of the Anglo-Zio-American EstabLishment) and of the coalition of the last 3 Sovereign Civilizational States (China, Russia, Iran) & all the global partners willing & capable to participate to The Great Endeavor of unremittingly eroding and ultimately annihilating the KFC-AZAEL’s exploitative global system.
I consider that the last 4 paragraphs of the aforementioned article by Pepe Escobar offer the quintessential gist of geopolitical penetration and truly deep grasping of Universal History concerning the present global situation :
The title for the last 4 paragraphs is perfect :
** Destroying the rules-based international order ** ( In my bombastic wording : KFC-AZAEL DELENDA EST !!! )
And here are those last 4 paragraphs summarizing the fundamental geopolitical reality of our present World :
” The crucial difference today, compared to 7 years ago, is that the US is incapable, per Brzezinski, “to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture in such a way that the violence (…) can be contained without destroying the global order.” It’s THE RUSSIA-CHINA PARTNERSHIP that is taking the lead – followed by the Global Majority – to contain and ultimately destroy the hegemonic “rules-based international order.”
As the indispensable Michael Hudson has summarized it, the ULTIMATE question at this INCANDESCENT juncture is ** whether economic gains and efficiency ** will determine World trade, patterns and investments, or ** whether the post-industrial US/NATO economies ** will choose to end up looking like the rapidly depopulating and de-industrializing post-Soviet Ukraine and Baltic States or England.
So is THE WET DREAM OF A WAR ON CHINA going to change these geopolitical and geoeconomic imperatives ? Give us a – Thucydides – break. THE REAL WAR IS ALREADY ON – but certainly not one identified by Kissinger, Brzezinski and much less Luttwak and assorted US neocons.
Michael Hudson, once again, summarized it : when it comes to the economy, the US and EU ” STRATEGIC ERROR OF SELF-ISOLATION FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD IS SO MASSIVE, SO TOTAL, THAT ITS EFFECTS ARE ** THE EQUIVALENT OF A WORLD WAR **. “
** Please meditate deeply on the numerous ramifications of the 4 powerfully worded paragraphs above **
Speaking of wet dream, Sun Zi (544 BCE to c. 495 BCE) considered that “The Supreme Warrior wins without fighting”. That can be interpreted on more than one level but if I simply read it as ” The Supreme Warrior wins without having to fight a kinetic war”, it is already more than satisfactory, at least having the least possible of that dimension called “kinetic war”.
The first paragraph of Master Sun’s Art of War :
Master Sun said : The Art of War is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road to either safety or ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Here is the article I wrote recently on ‘The Everlasting Civilization’ which might contribute to the understanding of the fundamental principles underlying the present practical maneuvers by the Chinese rulers & their advisors.
https://risingtidefoundation.net/2023/07/06/the-everlasting-civilization/?amp=1
That the present US ruling class needs a centenary man to go to Beijing for exploring the possible overtures in the China-US relation is a glaring sign of the utter emptiness and incompetence of its nembers. That’s for Henry Kissinger (1923- ). Moreover, I warmly recommend his 2011 book “On China”.
Concerning Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017), let’s remind that his 1997 Magnus Opus was named :
The Grand Chessboard, American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives
In that 1997 book, Brzezinski summarized as ‘American primacy’ (or GAS : Global American System) the Anglo-Zio-American EstabLishment’s (AZAEL) endeavor for global Empire.
Fifteen years later, in 2012, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote a sequel to the Grand Chessboard : Strategic Vision. In this book, Brzezinski calibrated downwards the ambitions for the US and was capable of taking into account the new realities of China’s revival and of Russia’s return from the ashes, like 2 splendid reborn phoenixes.
Let’s remember that in 2009, when Hillary Clinton was the US Secretary of State, Zbigniew Brzezinski was sent to Beijing as the US Special Envoy offering to the Chinese leadership the G2 Partnership (US-China). The Chinese rulers explained that many rules and institutions created by the US (and generally by the Western powers) need to be changed for a G2 to be considered. It was out of the question for the Americans. So the Chinese politely declined. A Sovereign Civilizational State like China cannot be a subordinate to the US. And the rest is History.
Brzezinski was capable to change his mind but he died in 2017, 5 years after his second major book, ‘Strategic Vision’, was published. His followers apparently are not of the same caliber.
Let’s not be neither complacent nor naive. The KFC-AZAEL will not go down without a serious fight. Let’s be aware of this reality and let’s be ready. And it is not excluded, far from it, that it will be a multi-generational endeavor.
Kwan Lee
Addendum
An excellent piece by Dmitri Orlov on the BRICS currency, the general category of gold-backed currency and the infamous reserve currency status. It’s in French, so if you don’t speak Molière’s mother tongue, please use the automatic translation function of your device. The translation usually is perfect from French to English.
https://lesakerfrancophone.fr/les-brics-en-or