Thank you for sharing this, @FrankGeroge69 ! Such a thought-provoking movie quote in our times of regime change color revolutions and election tempering in Europe and South America ! "An egg cracked open from the outside is destined to be eaten, but if you can peck your way out from the inside, you might just turn out to be an eagle!" The metaphor of the broken eggshell, used in the Chinese blockbuster "The Battle at Lake Changjin" , addresses a profound issue of personal growth and sovereignty. "An egg broken from the outside is food; broken from the inside is life". I can't think of a better way to describe foreign-sponsored color revolutions, whereby the "liberated" country soon becomes prey to the interest of Western corporations and oligarchs. Which country will be the first to single-handedly crack open its own shell and rise as an eagle ?

Thank you for sharing this, @FrankGeroge69 ! Such a thought-provoking movie quote in our times of regime change color revolutions and election tempering in Europe and South America ! "An egg cracked open from the outside is destined to be eaten, but if you can peck your way out from the inside, you might just turn out to be an eagle!" The metaphor of the broken eggshell, used in the Chinese blockbuster "The Battle at Lake Changjin" , addresses a profound issue of personal growth and sovereignty. "An egg broken from the outside is food; broken from the inside is life". I can't think of a better way to describe foreign-sponsored color revolutions, whereby the "liberated" country soon becomes prey to the interest of Western corporations and oligarchs. Which country will be the first to single-handedly crack open its own shell and rise as an eagle ?

First implement a food and medication embargo on a country. Famines and epidemics follow. The population grows restless and wonders if changing leadership would make all its problems go away. Meanwhile, encourage migration to the West of a diaspora which is promised to be the ones to take over if they assist in taking down the government. Foment rebellion and demonstrations through the patient, termite-like work of NGOs : leech on legitimate concerns of the population, provide training, tools and comms to radical groups, and turn up the heat on the demonstrations to the point they become violent and the government is now facing riots and has to send in anti-riot police. Have all Western mainstream media and chancelleries speak of "police brutality", even if there hasn't been any. Speak of "blood-thirsty regime", and challenge its legitimacy to stay in power. Have the Western audience basically say " I support the regime change because I love the people of that country, I juat hate their government". This is what China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. have been facing, some of them for decades !!

A must read, to understand the complexity of information warfare. It isn't as simple as "bad mainstream media vs good independent media and influencers". The oligarchy needs to corral back the black sheeps, not by antagonizing them, but by letting them gather behind a new media / influencer who at first ticks all the right boxes, sounds rebellious and disruptive, but at some point is activated to tweak its message on a particular issue, and take its followers to the "desired opinion". Nepal, IndoPacific, Venezuela, Oran, now Serbia. One regime change after another, the Sixth column reveals itself. There will be more to come.

Not my words > The man is genuinely talented at one thing: manufacturing low-stakes “debates” on China that make him look like the only adult in the room for foreigners hungry for a (much-needed) alternative narrative.

Physical threats ?! Lol An accurate description of that X account, which looks like AI-enhanced self-congratulatory team work, supported by a small ecosystem of sycophants who hope to get a few more followers by showering praise on the account. Unsuspecting readers are paying for "analysis" that the author(s) of that account, whoever they are, just finished compiling online a moment before publishing it, and packaged it as the result of experience and intellectual work. Readers are paying so the author(s) can learn about China on-the-go.

"Regional ambitions", "expanding the Military Footprint", "extend military reach", "a foothold in Southeast Asia", "a new outpost", "carving new military presence", showing "attack" jets, "encircling Vietnam", "quiet overseas expansion", etc. Can you guess which country gets so much speculation, worded in such loaded vocabulary, as to what its "real" intentions are for opening an airforce training facility in Laos with the local government and army ? International media claim since September 29th that China "has opened its second military base abroad in Ban Keun, Laos", (about 50 kilometers north of Vientiane, close to the Thai border). Both the Chinese and Lao governments officially described the site as a jointly maintained and operated training facility, rather than the exclusive Chinese military base that Western media report on. China’s Ministry of National Defense stated that the center is meant to help train Lao Air Force pilots, is not directed against any third party, and does not feature an independent Chinese garrison or exclusive PLA control. Lao officials and military representatives have pushed back against foreign media labels of a "military base," pointing out that Laos's constitution does not permit foreign military bases on its soil. Reuters deceived and lied about it right off the bat with its headline : "China's latest expansion of its overseas military footprint, which was "carved from a patch of farmland in Laos over the past year." Headlines like this one maliciously imply that on top of military expansion, China is destroying the livelihood of local farmers. In reality, it was already a military airfield used by the CIA-operated Air America airline during the Vietnam War, as a logistics and support hub for secret operations in the region. Not only is it not built on precious farmland, but the site is still certainly as heavily polluted as every other base abandoned by US forces when they are done with a country. It does not stop Western media outlets and security analysts (such as reports by Reuters, NPR, The Diplomat, and the Lowy Institute) to portray the facility as a significant step in China's incremental, low-key military expansion in mainland Southeast Asia. Satellite imagery confirmed a 2,000-meter runway with trainer/light attack jets (such as JL-8 / K-8 aircraft) parked on site. These jets are actually used for counter-insurgency, border patrol, and light strike missions alongside flight instruction. Not exactly a tool of hegemonic expansion. The 2,000-meter-long runway is also hardly a tool of power projection. Such an air strip is too short for large strategic bombers, and the parking apron can only accommodate 22 small training aircrafts. By that logic, should we conclude that the US has already opened its new military base in Taiwan, since former managing director of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen admitted herself that hundreds of US soldiers were back in Taiwan (including Jinmen and Mazu) to train Taiwanese forces ? And this is just the tip of the iceberg of how many US forces are actually stationed all over the island.

@LAURENTMICHEL0N A, followed by many ignorant western masses, has no structural thinking let alone political perspicacity even his English is inaudible. B, has perhaps limited still more understanding of Chinese politics. Masses, incl 🇨🇳,ignore the deep infiltration by evil financial forces in 🇨🇳

In 2021, Admiral Davidson warned the US Senate Committee on Armed Services that "Taiwan is clearly one of China's ambitions before 2027. The threat is manifest during this decade, in fact, in the next six years." Mainstream media build up a story on that, explaining that it was plausible since 2027 is the centenary of the founding of its People's Liberation Army... I am NOT saying that this was the original intention, but this totally made-up timeline drove Congress to authorize $7.1 billion for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative in 2022, $2.1 billion above Pentagon requests ! Never mind that in 2022, a panel of 64 US experts on China surveyed by the US think-tank CSIS was overwhelmingly doubtful that there was such a deadline. The respondents eloquently said that recent Chinese military exercises did NOT indicate that China was accelerating its timeline for using large-scale military force against Taiwan. Furthermore, 83% of the respondents "rejected the idea that China was planning to use significant kinetic military force against Taiwan by 2027." It did not deter CIA director William Burns to double down in 2023 and say that intelligence showed that "President Xi Jinping had instructed the PLA to be ready to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan by 2027". Despite this erroneous oracle, Western mainstream media kept peddling, for about 6 years, the 2027 "China attack" deadline on the Taiwanese question. As faithful as Gordon Chang to his 2010 oracle on the "imminent collapse of China", which he religiously revises every year, the mainstream media is now selling the narrative that the missed deadline of 2027 was not a strategic planning blunder, but was meant as a "preparedness deadline for US forces". Some kind of team-building motivational device. As for for China, the new story line in Western think tanks is that Beijing may be "losing its ability as well as a sense of immediacy to attack Taiwan." So first the media, intelligence agencies and think tanks frame China as the aggressor who has already set a deadline for the Mother of All Attacks, and when this is proven wrong, the narrative changes to "China can't meet its own deadline, it's not even ready, but we wisely used that time to get ourselves ready." In Fantasyland, you can be the hero at every twist of the plot.

@MrRunon I know Kim Iversen takes money from an organization who attacked and lied about me and my family. Then when confronted about it she told me she couldn't care less. Honest people would realize that this makes Kim untrustable.

Exactly, there actually wasn't any debate. Besides, the Institute organizing this fake "debate" chose someone completely unknown at the time, with zero credentials on Xinjiang, to "debate" Zenz. They chose their own harmless opposition.

@KimIversenShow @BrianJBerletic Interesting, I don't see a history of you publicly broadcasting whom you're inviting on your show before said invitee has accepted an invitation. What's so different this time? Is this some new journalistic etiquette? Or, is there an alternative rational for acting in this way?

@LAURENTMICHEL0N Doesn't speak Chinese. Doesn't speak English (I've heard him speak, he has the language skills of a first-grader), in contrast with his posts, and is as you mention entirely opportunistic. I had a bad feeling about him when he started popping up, and it slowly became certain...

@thucduyen16 @LAURENTMICHEL0N Exactly. We don't have to agree 100% with what he and others say/write. Just recognize the authenticity and honesty. Life would be so boring if I had only people I agree with around me 😅

Sadly too many want to be in good terms with the guy as he is has a big following, not many dare to confront him and might be also into this for views, exposure rather than exclusively on a mission for truth. I Could not care less about being liked or not, the truth/facts are far more important than one’s ego. If I get attacked by some it will be people of the same profile wanting to “fit in”. Arnaud is nothing less than a Macron.2 with the “en meme temps” > pleasing everyone and wanting to get support from the mainstream.