This week on China Watch: South Korea isn’t behaving like a docile American ally. There’s a reason for that and you’ll only learn the backstory here. And weird doings in Taiwan! Taiwan security services accuse a pro-mainlander public figure of getting half a million dollars from the PRC for a media influence operation. We apply the smell test to this allegation.
Meanwhile, the People’s Republic of China is doing that global superpower thing! Chinese media beats a dog in the water—that’s Donald J. Trump—and Xi Jinping does a mega-exhibition of PRC military power. Defense contractors, start your engines!
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Show notes
South Korea to unveil decision over ‘comfort women’ deal with Japan
Shame in San Francisco: America’s Betrayal of Korea My Asia Brief report on the profound sense of grievance and injustice at the joint US-Japan betrayal of the Republic of Korea that eats at the heart of anti-China containment alliance
Prosecutors: China paid Wang for propaganda
New Party suspected of trying to create paramilitary
Row over Trump’s mental health divides US
General MacArthur’s Conspiracy to Start a War with China! New Documentary Release & Interview! For purchase at Newsbud Store or for Purchase or View via Amazon or Vimeo
Douglas MacArthur made the first US attempt to parlay a Korean crisis into an existential confrontation with the People’s Republic of China. With the US milsec establishment, his ideas are more popular—and dangerous—than ever. My documentary uses first hand testimony and declassified archives to finally reveal the truth behind this long-suppressed event.