Adopted from OutSyed The Box
Around Oct 1st - 2nd, 2021 China Almost Sank The USS Connecticut - A US Nuclear Submarine - Off Hainan Island
The Americans have been up to no good again. And once again they have been punched squarely in the nose.
I did notice that from October 2nd till about October 5th there was this unusual news about numerous Chinese aircraft "encroaching" into Taiwanese airspace (US media bullshit). In four days (1st - 5th Oct) about 145 Chinese warplanes flew "near Taiwan".
Friday October 1st, 2021 - 38 Chinese fighters penetrated Taiwan’s airspace
Sat October 2nd, 2021 - China further increased provocations with 39 aircraft
Sunday October 3, 2021 - 39 Chinese fighter planes invade Taiwan’s airspace. US urged China to stop "provocative military activity" near Taiwan.
Monday Oct. 4 (UPI) -- 56 Chinese warplanes flew into Taiwan "air defense zone"
52 aircraft in the day, 4 at night -- highest total in a single day
36 fighters, 12 bombers, 2 Y-8 anti/submarine warfare planes, 2 AWACS
Then after 5th October 2021 there were no more reports of Chinese planes "encroaching" into Taiwan airspace. Everything went quiet.
Well the Chinese planes did not penetrate Taiwan's internationally recognised sovereign airspace but flew inside what the US Airforce has designated as Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone - which stretches into the Chinese mainland itself !! It was created by the US Air Force and has no legal status !!
Most of the Chinese flight activity was from the west to the east of China's own Pratas Island. (See map).
What had happened was that around the 1st - 2nd October 2021 the US Navy's nuclear powered Seawolf class attack submarine the USS Connecticut had approached to within 20 nautical miles (which is extremely very close) of China's Hainan Island. There is a major Chinese submarine base - the Yulin Naval Base - located on the south of the island.
Then the USS Connecticut was said to have "suffered an unknown underwater collision" at that time (1st - 2nd October). Here is some American news.
This news was first reported on Thursday 7th October - FIVE days after the unknown underwater collision happened.
Almost dozen sailors injured after U.S. nuclear attack submarine hit unknown underwater object in the South China Sea
Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) suffered an underwater collision while operating in international waters on Oct. 2 and is returning to port in U.S. 7th Fleet, U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed Thurs (7th Oct).
“Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) struck an object while submerged on the afternoon of Oct. 2, while operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region.
(OSTB : Indo-Pacific region? It was 20 nautical miles off Hainan Island.)
The extent of damage to submarine being assessed.
sailors hurt with moderate to minor injuries.
boat headed to Guam, expected to pull in within next day (Fri 8th Oct).
underwater "strike" occurred in South China Sea
attack boat making its way to Guam on the surface since Saturday
Note that it has changed from "unknown underwater collission" to "underwater strike". So did they collide or did they suffer a "strike"?
Here is a picture of a Seawolf class American nuclear attack submarine. This is the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN23), a "sister" ship to the USS Connecticut (SSN22). The Seawolf subs weigh about 9000 tons and are 353 feet long.
You can immediately dismiss press reports that this 353 feet long, 9000 ton monster submarine was damaged because it had hit debris and rubbish floating in the South China Sea - including silly stories about hitting 20 foot containers that fell off a container ship!! 20 foot containers would just bounce off the 9000 ton submarine's hardened outer hull.
The news said:
attack boat making its way to Guam on the surface since Saturday
This means the submarine was not able to dive or submerge anymore. Obviously there was serious damage to the pressure hull which prevented the submarine from submerging.
Fortunately for the USS Connecticut the sea around Hainan Island (and the South China Sea) is about 500 feet plus or minus, which is fairly 'shallow' for a nuclear sub and where the water pressure is well below its crush depth of 3,000 feet (Seawolf class).
Otherwise the sub may have sunk to the bottom of the sea. That could have been really embarrassing for the US - why did the US Navy put the sub at such risk and in such shallow water?
Analysts are saying that the Chinese detected the submarine so near to Hainan Island (within 20 nautical miles) and decided to take action. Hence the 39 Chinese aircraft that took off on Friday 1st October. They may have dropped underwater attack drones which caught the American sub and either collided with it or exploded against the sub. (Hence 12 sailors getting injured. There is no way 12 sailors can get injured inside a 9,000 ton submarine that hit floating debris in the water.)
Whatever they used, the Chinese hit the sub and damaged it. Enough to make the sub surface and stay on the surface. The Chinese will certainly not be telling anyone how they hit the sub.
Then over the next few days the Chinese air force kept an eye on the damaged submarine until it was well outside Chinese waters. Hence all those 145 warplanes (including 2 Shaanxi Y-8 anti/submarine warfare planes, 2 AWACS ) which were buzzing around the submarine.
I believe the Chinese could have sunk the submarine if they wanted to. They did not. It could have caused a war. This was a message to the US Navy that China can detect and hit their submarines. So stay away from us.
The last righteous war which the Americans fought was the Second World War. All other American wars since then have been wars of aggression. And the Americans have not decisively won a single war since World War 2.
Korea was a stalemate, they got their butts kicked out of Vietnam. Iraq was a farce, they got kicked out of Afghanistan.
In 1983 one Shia suicide bomber killed over 200 US Marines and kicked them all out of Lebanon.
In 1993 the Americans left Somalia (Mogadishu) in a hurry after the Black Hawk chopper incident which caused them serious embarrasment.
In 2019 the Iranians shot down an American Global Hawk drone at 60,000 feet. All American (and British) drone flights over Iran have since been cancelled.
Now it looks like the US Navy will not be sending any more submarines anywhere near the Chinese coast.
Who knows - maybe a US aircraft carrier may also hit an unknown object.
The US Navy may be changing from blue water to brown water.
WESTERN POWERS ESPECIALLY ARE ENVY WITH CHINA'S ABILITY TO UPLIFT IT'S 1.4 BILLIONS PEOPLE FROM POVERTY
Why Asia (including India) Must Rally Around China
PERSPECTIVE ON CHINA AND WORLD - Why The West Fears China
Toronto, June 18 2021 by Ismail Bashmori, an Egyptian writer living in Toronto
Taken from OutSyed The Box
4 October 2021
I'm going to give you a summary of my entire impression of China as an Egyptian observer. I've been studying the country intensely for the past year — its government, society, history, and transformation — and over the past 3 months I've spoken to hundreds of Chinese and China-haters on this site and heard everything they had to say. By now I’ve learned roughly as much about China as anyone can learn without knowing the language or living in the country, and I've reached my conclusion. You might think I'm crazy. That's OK with me. I've seen the facts and my opinion of the truth has become rock-solid. And China attracts a lot of haters, know-nothings and armchair experts.
The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilized, and best-governed country in the world of our time, by far. It is the first nonwhite, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. It can set a goal that seems completely outlandish, drug-induced, hallucinatory — and it can make it happen. That's precisely what it's been doing. Forty years ago a flush toilet in China was a luxury. Today it has its own indigenously built Chinese Space Station. Believe me when I tell you that that is a tiny example of China's capabilities.
I am a patriotic Egyptian and Middle Easterner. Yet I freely admit that compared to the Chinese, we are simply monkeys. A race of dumb animals. It doesn't matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can't do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China's story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China, my friends, is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn't need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically.
China is also standing up to the Western world all by herself. The West hates and fears that China is shooting up to the top. They can't believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn't happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That's why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes since I was born in 1988, your TV, newspapers, Google newsfeed, and social media are all cursing, condemning and pandering panic and hatred of China 24 / 7. China is the worst fear of our planet's Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that's done nothing to you, that hasn't invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn't overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. You'll hate China and pray for its collapse, so that the West can continue to do what it's done since the age of Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro — rape and pillage the earth from Latin America to Southeast Asia, and disguise its blood-spattered imperialism in the soft power and propaganda of “Western civilization" and world leadership.
China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened, and say, No, I'm not afraid of you. Do your worst. I'm just as big as you are. All other countries in the Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India — their leaders are busy listening to the United States, pen and paper in hand, writing down all its demands and going, Yes sir, Mr. Yankee sir. Let me get on that right away for you.
The 1500s—1000s BC were Egypt's time. Antiquity belonged to the Greeks and Romans. The 1700s belonged to France, and the 1800s to Britain. From 1945 to the present, the world has been under American overlordship. And the X’s y call it the Pax Americana but believe me, there isn't much Pax in it. There's plenty of Pax if you're in Europe or Australia. But the Middle East? Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran and Yemen in the past 20 years. Latin America? They've destroyed that part of the world beyond any hope of recovery. Africa? It's only been spared because of disinterest. The US sees Africa as nothing. The whole West does.
But in the twenty-first century, we are witnessing the rise of China. We are decades away from China becoming the greatest power on earth. This will be China's time, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Attack China all you want, curse her and monger rumours and hysteria — but the truth is that none of your accusations are backed up by evidence, because you are a stooge of the Western press which is under the thumb of Western governments that want to stay on top of the world for all eternity. And the truth is that China is not affected by the noise and maneuvers of her enemies. What's going on now, this stupid new Cold War, is nothing. For her first thirty years, from 1949 to 1979, China was basically blockaded and isolated economically and politically by the West. It didn't even have a seat in the UN General Assembly. And it was dirt-poor in those days, barely a speck of the global economy, a tiny fraction of Japan's or Germany's GDP — not even able to prevent famine. And it still didn't submit to pressure or take any orders. Why on earth would it do that now?
China will be the next global power. There's nothing that can be done about that. The first stage is that its economy only needs to grow at 4.7 percent per year to become the world's largest by 2035. That means the usual, historical bare-minimum of 6 percent is already overkill. The US can build as many bases as it wants, slap as many sanctions as it wants, recognize whatever bogus genocides it wants. That's what it's been doing all along. Has any of it made a difference? China can adapt to any situation. It took China a mere ten years to go from being barred by the US Congress from participating in the “International" Space Station, to building its own Space Station from the zero.
See, the US has an $800-billion war budget, 800 military bases, 13,000 aircraft, 500 warships, 6,000 nukes — but it doesn't have what China has: invincible national resolve. It takes the US about 5 years to renovate a bridge, and it takes China 43 hours. There's simply no competing with that.
China doesn't need to be a military superpower or empire. That was never part of the plan. US troops, God bless their souls, will continue sitting in their bases, scratching their balls, costing their government $800 billion a year to do nothing. Meanwhile, China will continue to actually develop. That's the part of the equation that America totally missed, because it has barely developed since Reagan's day. China is a better place to live today than at any time in its previous 5,000 years; Americans saw their highest standard of living in the 1960s and those days will never come back.
So yes, China will be the next global power, and the Chinese are vastly superior to us in every way. This is a fact that everyone can attack but that nobody can change, like the theory of evolution. The difference between me and other people is that I ask, Why is this a problem? Why is this something to be afraid of? Why doesn't it mean — that the world will finally get better?
Look at you silly buggers, talking about China like it's going to be the next Nazi Germany. Even many Middle Easterners I know fit in this foolish category. Did you notice when the US invaded or overthrew the governments of 20 countries in the past 32 years (my lifetime)? Did you even know? You think just because you're ready to forget all that because of Beyoncé and Game of Thrones and Snapchat and other US cultural exports, it didn't happen and isn't still happening? But but, I’m scared! China's big and bad! Because the US is feeding me terror-bytes about Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, Great Leap Forward! I don't see any dead bodies, I can't show you one invasion or one example of Chinese regime change, I can't even find Hong Kong on a map or tell you one factual detail about Tiananmen Square, but the US State Department and all its media are telling me CHINA BAD! Wa, wa!
Even my father, brother, brother's in-laws have no real knowledge of any kind about the Western terror-bytes that have given them such an apprehensive feeling about China. And they're Egyptian and Syrian, so imagine how blank the typical Westerner is. Blankness doesn't stop prejudice and gullibility. That’s what most China-haters are. As gullible as children getting told about the boogeyman to procure their obedience.
Aren't you at least curious to see what a world with a nonwhite, non-Western leader might look like, after 400 years? Because God knows that leader won't be us. It won't be Brazil or Africa, or the Middle East or India or Indonesia or Nigeria or Pakistan. We're a mess. China was a mess too. But we remain a mess many decades after we achieved independence, and the Chinese went their own way, disentangled their mess and created their destiny. We’re not made of what the Chinese are made of. We might be one day, if we stop taking orders and cozying up to Western puppet-masters. I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.
Where's your concept of innocent until proven guilty? You turn a blind eye to the country that gave you dozens of destroyed nations and millions of corpses to see as proof of its brutality, because it also gave you some amazing sitcoms! While a country you don't have the slightest objective knowledge of, is already Nazi Germany to you because its adversaries, who are also your historical and present-day oppressors, tell you so?
Come on. Let's wait to see one dead body, one invasion, one regime-change operation from the Chinese, before we fly into rage and hysterics about them! Is that so crazy? We've seen centuries of horror from the US and we're still giving 'Murica the benefit of the doubt, even when the brutal truth is crystal-clear.
For myself, I see China as hope. Hope that a colonized, brutalized, primitive and humiliated country, can rise above its past — refuse to be weak any longer — rebuild itself from nothing, with iron resolve, and become too strong to be overrun by the West again! Hope that a nonwhite, non-Western country can look deep within itself and find its own solutions to its problems — proving that (foolishly) trusting the West to guide us isn't necessary! Proof that if we can do what the Chinese did, there will be no limits for us.
Imagine a world where the US, France, Britain, Australia, are no more important than Uzbekistan or Paraguay. A world where the World Court might be headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, the World Bank in New Delhi, the United Nations in Jakarta, the IMF in Cairo. A world liberated from the US banking system and the dollar as its reserve currency, so that Washington can no longer tell 200 other countries who they can and can't trade with. A world where an American can be tried for war crimes at the Hague, not just an Iraqi or Liberian or Serb. A world where we don't hear about a non-Western-made vaccine and grunt to ourselves, Oh, it must be poison. A world where we don't have to immigrate to the same countries that turned ours into hellholes, to work as sales clerks or taxi drivers, or even if we're brilliantly employed — to drain our brains from our homelands in the best of cases, and use them to reinforce Western riches and supremacy in exchange for a fat paycheck, instead of using them to make our own countries semi-habitable. When I hear that China has built its own Space Station, landed a rover on Mars, ended extreme poverty, built the Earth's biggest city, dam, telescope, 5G network, highway, air purifier, or whatever the heck it is that will come tomorrow — I feel the same pride as if I were Chinese. It's not happening for all of us, but it's happening for one of us and that's a start. There's got to be such a thing as developing-country nationalism — a common nationalism for all the countries that were colonized and plundered, and remain economically and politically captured by their ex-rulers. A nationalism for the Global South. We are too divided, too brainwashed, too fooled and weak — most of us still worship the countries that destroyed us, are non-Western on the outside and Western on the inside, are hating and fearing and buying all the lies about the only one of us that's made it, and are leaving our countries in droves to let them burn while we “make a better life for ourselves" in the West.
Do you want to live on a Western-dominated Earth for another 400 years? If you do, keep doing what you're doing. But I don't!
You know what'll happen for all of us if America's sick wishes come true and its global thuggery does make China collapse? Nothing. Eternal repetition of the status quo. More enslavement, hijacking of our resources and weak corrupt governments, neo-colonialism, invasion, regime change, sanctions, MISERY. Haven't we already seen this? Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, the Soviet Union. Rest in peace. Even FRANCE and JAPAN for God's sake. What does the United States do when any other country says NO, or simply becomes too powerful, too good at honest competition? IT CRUSHES IT LIKE A BUG. Japan was a Western-style democracy crawling with US troops, with a US-authored pacifist constitution and almost no military and an extremely pro-US government and populace, and it STILL got crushed when it looked like it would become the #1 economy in the 80s. Do Indians really believe that if China goes down, India will be allowed to become a great power? Do they not see that a strong or wealthy India would immediately fall victim to the same despicable US tactics? Don't make me laugh.
I remember 10–15 years ago when China was still relatively poor and impotent, and Bush and Obama would talk about China as sweetly as swans. Obama happily had dinner with Xi Jinping in late 2015, called China a crucial partner of the United States, and said the US welcomed China's rise; it was all horseshit. Today Biden, who was there with Obama in late 2015 as Vice-President, angrily rebukes a reporter who merely said that Biden and Xi were old friends.
America has taken off its mask.
China made it, it wasn't supposed to make it, so now it must die. What a difference 5 years can make. China went from “crucial partner" to “number one threat.”
We should be helping and supporting China to keep climbing to the top, and giving her some serious solidarity as she withstands the new Cold War of Western imperialism. It’s been a long 400 years. China is the first non-Western country to even come close to reaching a status of ultimate global importance. She is akin to the the first member of an impoverished family to go to university. That is our family of nations. And when China gets to the top, believe me, it won't be a repeat of the French, British, or American Empire. Not a single developing country on earth will be worse-off because of China becoming #1. There will be something good in this for all of us, so let's wake up.bbb
