This Can't Be True. Tiananmen Tim Is Into Boys

 

“Where are the Americans” The FJB administration is allowing the Chinese to take over the island 90 miles from the United States. Of course they are, they all seem to bow down to Xi.

“The Bahamas are becoming Haiti, only closer”

(A long read, but a worthy read.)
The Bahamas are mostly known as a resort or cruise destination, only 90 miles to the right of Miami. Not well known is that the Bahamas have become one of the key locations for Chinese Communist Party Adventurism in the Americas as China exploits a disinterested U.S. Government and State Department. When I was in the Bahamas in late 2019, I went out of my way to talk to locals and see what was on their mind.  There were two common themes: The first was that the Chinese Communists were thugs. The second one was, where are the Americans?  In late 2023 I spent a number of days in Panama with Michael Yon and Ann Vandersteel to understand the extent of Chinese mischief in Panama. Funny – asking a Panamanian on the street would get almost an identical response to the Bahamians five years earlier.
In January of this year, the State Department put out an alert that rattled the islands and peeled back the illusion of conch soup restaurants, carefree citizens, and peaceful resorts. The State Department Alert was a “Level II Alert” on increased violence and murders in the Bahamas. In the first 24 days of January 2024, 18 murders occurred. So what is going on? When a U.S. Government Inspector General was appointed for Ukraine, suddenly Haiti collapsed (again) into unprecedented violence. It was no coincidence. Haiti is an international focal point for money laundering and human trafficking and business picked up with a sudden higher-level scrutiny of Ukraine. Haiti is only a short boat ride a few hours from the Bahamas. The Bahamas has become ungoverned space and as violence grips the islands, the clear winner is obvious: China.
The violence is now targeting members of the ruling elite of the Bahamas. On March 29, 2024, former member of Parliament, Don Saunders was gunned down while at a Restaurant in Gambier Village, nine miles to the west of the capitol city of Nassau and just above the international airport. After being shot, he was robbed of the keys to his car and the killers drove off in his car. Mr. Saunders was the deputy of the Free National Movement Party, the minority party in the Bahamian Parliament and the center right party. The FNM Party is the group most active and vocal in challenging the Chinese domination of the Island. This was the 35th homicide in the Bahamas in 2024.

 

https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver/status/1773458283644235833

This murder has rocked the Bahamas.  The party stance of the FNM while Chinese interests dominate the large archipelago of islands, that has a population of just over 400,000, is hard to overlook.  Gun ownership in the Bahamas is the highest in the Caribbean and owning a weapon is regulated but allowed.  According to the Royal Bahama Police, 90% of the weapons confiscated come from Florida.  As a branch and sequel to Fast and Furious in Mexico, the Biden Team seems to be enabling lawsuits by neighboring countries including the Bahamas against American gun makers as a proxy war against the American Second Amendment.  The mass violence and collapse of society in Haiti is only a few hours by boat away from the southern end of the Bahamas, so guns and bad people from Haiti enabling the growing chaos in the Bahamas should not be overlooked.

China is ever present in the resort industry and infrastructure projects like the gift of a $30M grant to build a national stadium.  The largesse of such gifts is overpowering to the small population of the Bahamas and the ruling Progressive Liberal Party.  Huawei is the leading provider of information technology and networks to the Bahamas.  Essentially the entire island is networked by Huawei up to the Internet Access Points at the undersea cable coming from Miami.
Where Huawei goes so does the Chinese capability to monitor, a job that the newly established Chinese Cyberspace Force will prioritize with their footprint in the Bahamas, a short undersea cable ride to the National Access Point of the Americas in downtown Miami.  China is leading the multi-billion-dollar development of the Baha Mar Resort, which is years behind schedule, but also includes the British Hilton Colonial Hotel in downtown Nassau, across the street from the American Embassy.  The Chinese overpowering presence and exclusion of Bahamian citizens from much of the infrastructure work does not endear the Chinese to much of the Bahamian population.
While General Laura Richardson, the Commander of Southern Command in Miami has warned repeatedly of the Chinese control of the Bahamas, U.S. State Department has apparently missed the memo.  There is no U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas, only the lesser position of “Chargé D’Affaires” which translated means, America does not care enough about the Bahamas to have a real Ambassador. 

The Foreign Service Officer encumbering this neutered position is Jason Crosby who has a most unusual and atypical background, coming from the Diplomatic Security Service Office.  Jason should know better and should 24/7 be driving China out of the Bahamas.

The U.S. Navy has a large and sensitive facility in the Bahamas used for submarine training and research.  The ones and zeros of all the data from this facility transit the Huawei IT pipes as they travel to Miami.  With the growing alarm over Volt Typhoon, the Chinese cyber-attacks on American critical infrastructure, creating a non-Chinese IT backbone for the Bahamas including the rip and replace of Huawei is intuitive.  The average Bahamian gets it and asks, “where are the Americans?”.  That is a great question and one more reason November 2024 is so important.

United States Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/bahamas-are-becoming-haiti-only-closer/

 BREAKING: Senate overwhelmingly approves TikTok bill.

(I don’t really know if this means anything. I don’t use TikTok and I think it’s just another tool for child trafficking and other sordid abuses.)
The Senate has just passed the bill which would force TikTok to divest from the Chinese Communist Party.
They passed it 79-18.

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(STFU Brandon)
US President Joe Biden said on Saturday the United States does not support the independence of Taiwan, after Taiwanese voters rebuffed China and gave the ruling party a third presidential term.

Earlier in the day, the Taiwanese ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te came to power, strongly rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, and pledged both to stand up to Beijing and seek talks.
"We do not support independence..." Biden said, when asked for reaction to Saturday's elections.
(Speak for yourself, Brandon, you moronic POS. You are NOT “WE”.)
Hours ahead of the polls opening, Washington had warned "it would be unacceptable" for "any" country to interfere in the election.
Taiwan, a neighboring island China claims as its own, has been a democratic success story since holding its first direct presidential election in 1996, the culmination of decades of struggle against authoritarian rule and martial law.
The United States is Taiwan's most important international backer and arms supplier despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties with the island.
The Biden administration has feared that the election, transition and new administration would escalate conflict with Beijing.
Biden has worked to smooth relations with China, including agreeing to talk through differences on security matters at a California summit with President Xi Jinping in November.

 

https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/world-news/747180/biden-us-does-not-support-taiwan-independence/en

 Taiwan Casts Its Lot with Freedom

Taiwan just pushed back against bully China’s threats and elected a pro-Western, pro-sovereignty candidate to be president of the island nation.
William Lai Ching-te, the current Vice President of Taiwan and candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party defeated his rivals from the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP). He won the election handily, as by 8 p.m. Taipei time, Lai had garnered 40% of the vote. His closest competitor, Hou Yu-ih, candidate of the KMT and mayor of New Taipei, lagged behind with 33%.
Moreover, Lai’s predecessor, current President Tsai Ing-Wen enjoyed eight years as leader of Taiwan, so it appears the Taiwanese strongly approve of the party’s leadership. The DPP has stood for continued independence and firmness against Chinese aggression.
Needless to say, Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party do not approve of the election.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw7pqGQj03A

Despite the name “progressive,” don’t confuse the DPP with the far-left, ostensibly Marxist politics seen in the United States. Tim Mak, who writes on Ukraine and Taiwan for his Substack The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak, notes that the DPP is  a “newer centrist party.” It favors a pragmatic and non-partisan approach to reform and modernization, as well as greater independence from China.
What Inspires the Taiwanese is Ukraine
Tim Mak writes:
“The last few elections in Taiwan have been heavily colored by outside factors – more often than not, China … This year? The wars in Ukraine and Gaza.”
You’d think that wars in two very disparate nations would not affect an election in Taiwan. But the Taiwanese have been watching and taking note of the fate of Ukraine in particular. And they also firmly support Ukraine in its war with Russia. Some Taiwanese even dedicate prayers to the sea goddess Mazu for Ukrainian peace.
More ominous, however, is that the Taiwanese no longer trust the United States.
For example, Angelica Oung, who supported TPP in the election, told Tim Mak:
“Here in Taiwan… there are some people who just don’t believe that the United States is ever going to step up for us. And I myself actually found it harder and harder to argue that case… [Taiwanese voters see] how the U.S. is treating Ukraine as a possibility for how it might treat us in the future. And there’s a strong fear… that Taiwan might become a second Ukraine.”
In addition, Dr. Shen Ming-Shih, who heads National Security Research at a Taiwanese think tank, said:
“If Ukraine loses the war, it will encourage Xi Jinping, because [he will say,] the United States, your power has decreased. You cannot help Ukraine… [therefore] you cannot help Taiwan.”
It’s no wonder people in Taiwan look at Ukraine and worry. Especially since we have a weak president in Joe Biden and a noisy and growing isolationist wing in the Republican party.
As Mak wrote:
“It’s a reminder of just how interconnected all these seemingly-disparate events are: fighting in the trenches in Zaporizhzhia, arguments in the U.S. Congress, and balloting on the islands of Taiwan.”
No matter how much anyone thinks they can hole themselves off the rest of the world, it never, ever pans out like they expect. Just like socialism, isolationism doesn’t work.
What’s Next for Taiwan?
Taiwan may have voted for continued independence, but Xi Jinping will continue to bully the nation. In fact, the pressure will probably increase.
As writer Cindy Yu wrote in The Spectator World just before the election:
“Xi has made it clear that, whoever holds power in Taipei, reunification with Taiwan is his “unswerving task.” “Re-uniting the motherland is a historical necessity,” he said in his new year’s message.”
Helen Raleigh, writing in The Federalist as well as her own Substack Confucius Never Said, cites Beijing’s long-time meddling in Taiwan’s affairs.
Raleigh should know. She grew up in Communist China, came to the United States as a student, and became a US citizen in 2013. From her experience, she writes that a free Taiwan is a threat to Beijing:
“Beijing sees a democratic Taiwan as a threat to the CCP’s legitimacy. It must thus be eliminated because a free and prosperous Taiwan discredits Beijing’s claims that Chinese culture and democracy are inherently incompatible and that the Chinese people can have peace and prosperity only under the CCP’s totalitarian rule.”
Meanwhile, Xi Jinping makes no secret as to his designs on the island nation. Last month he warned Joe Biden that Beijing will eventually reunite with Taiwan. And, in his New Years address to the Chinese people, Xi reiterated that the two countries “will surely be reunified.”
Plus, China has a history of meddling in Taiwan’s affairs. In 2019, for example, a Chinese spy claimed he interfered in Taiwan’s 2018 election through media and internet companies. China has also loudly disapproved of the teaching of Taiwanese history and culture in its schools.
Beijing has even gone so far as to investigate a popular Taiwanese rock band for the “crime” of lip-synching, or, as they term it, “deceptive fake singing.” (The investigation came about, as a source told Reuters, because the band “Mayday” refused to say something positive about China prior to the election.)
And then there are the missiles the Peoples’ Liberation Army has fired into the waters off Taiwan, as well as Chinese fighter jets that fly into their airspace. China also conducts frequent military exercises near the Taiwan Strait. On top of that, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense has reported spy balloons — similar to the one that floated over the United States — have been flying over the island.
Despite the threats, Taiwan has chosen to continue to its status as proudly independent.  She will not be bullied. The question is, however, will the United States support Taiwan in her bid to remain free of China? Sadly, Joe Biden is a feeble leader, and the current populist climate in the GOP is to abandon President Reagan’s lofty goal of “peace through strength.”

https://victorygirlsblog.com/taiwan-casts-its-lot-with-freedom/