Thanks to Dennis for directing this one my way
While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’
The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron without bothering about an inevitable array of sanctions coming by early 2025 and/or a possible collapse of the international financial system.
Last week, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his list of delusional US demands was welcomed in Beijing by Foreign Minister Wang Yi and President Xi Jinping as little more than an annoying gnat. Wang, on the record, stressed that Tehran was justified in defending itself against Israel’s shredding of the Vienna Convention when it attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
At the UN Security Council, China now openly questions not only the state terror attack on the Nord Streams but also the US–Israel combo’s blocking of Palestinian statehood. Moreover, Beijing, just like Moscow recently, hosts Palestine’s political factions together in a conference aiming to unify their positions.
Next Tuesday, only two days before Moscow celebrates Victory Day, the end of the Great Patriotic War, Xi will land in Belgrade to remind the whole world about the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese embassy by the US, UK, and NATO.
May 7, 1999 the US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade- They claimed it was in error- I’m calling bullshit on that!
The night the US bombed a Chinese embassy
US B-2 stealth warplanes were in the skies above Belgrade. They were locked-on to the precise co-ordinates of a target selected and cleared by the CIA. All Vlada heard at first was the whoosh of an incoming missile. There was no time to move. The doors shattered, spraying glass at them.
“The force of the first bomb lifted us off the ground and we fell… Then one after the other [more bombs landed] – bam, bam, bam. All the shutters on the block were ripped off by the blast, it broke all the windows.”
They were terrified but uninjured. All five bombs had hit the embassy, 100 metres away.
The US and Nato were already facing scrutiny over mounting civilian casualties in a bombing campaign conducted without UN authorisation and fiercely opposed by China and Russia. They had now attacked a symbol of Chinese sovereignty in the heart of the Balkans.
Back to Pepe
Russia, meanwhile, provided a platform for the UNRWA – the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, which Israel has sought to defund – to explain to high representatives of BRICS-10 the cataclysmic humanitarian situation in Gaza, as described by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
In short, serious political business is already being conducted outside of the corrupted UN system, as the United Nations disintegrates into a corporate shell with the US dictating all terms as the largest shareholder.
The SCO security show
But the key crossroads these past few days was the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. For the first time, the new Chinese Defense Minister, Dong Jun, met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, to emphasize their comprehensive strategic partnership.
Dong, significantly, stressed the “dynamic” nature of China–Russia military interaction, while Shoigu doubled down, saying it “sets a model for interstate relations” based on mutual respect and shared strategic interests.
Addressing the full SCO assembly, Shoigu emphatically refuted the massive western propaganda drive about a Russian “threat” to NATO.
Everybody was at the SCO defense ministers’ meeting – including, at the same table, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Belarus as an observer. Minsk is eager to join the SCO.
The interlocking Russia–Iran–China strategic partnerships were totally in sync. Apart from Dong meeting Shoigu, he also met Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, who lavishly praised Beijing’s condemnation of the Israeli terror air strike in Damascus.
Read the piece entirely at the Covert Geopolitics. I’ve included additional info about the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade- which was news to me! Neither hubby or I could recall this incident from 25 years ago.
4 replies on “The Russia–Iran–China Search for A New Global Security Order”
Thanks! The closest that I have to the bombing being intentional is a Guardian story with anonymous sources. https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans
you’re welcome Ms Cat
going to check your link too!
Reading through the Guardian link leaves no doubt in my mind the Americans knew that was the Chinese Embassy and they hit it intentionally.
“A Nato flight control officer in Naples also confirmed to us that a map of ‘non-targets’: churches, hospitals and embassies, including the Chinese, did exist. On this ‘don’t hit’ map, the Chinese embassy was correctly located at its current site”
“the CIA and other Nato intelligence agencies, such as Britain’s MI6 and the code-breakers at GCHQ, would have listened in to communication traffic from the Chinese embassy as a matter of course since it moved to the site in 1996.”
this reminds me so much of Israels hit on the Iranian consulate/embassy in Damascus- oh it was being used for military reasons, blah, blah blah.
Was it? Even if military personnel were meeting there with people from the embassy that doesn’t seem an unlikely or unusual thing.. in fact one would expect it.
example
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-special-operations-team-working-embassy-ukraine-sources/story?id=98543007
-A small U.S. military special operations team has been based at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv since early in the war in Ukraine that began in February 2022
-the U.S. military team does not go out on the front lines with Ukrainian troops and only operates out of the U.S. Embassy.
-this team provides isecurity for VIPs and intelligence assistance to Ukrainian Special Operations Forces,
that said the US strike on the Chinese Embassy, like the Israeli strike on the Iranian Embassy were both breaches of certain international conventions
I’ve seen these described as Vienna Conventions. (Ecuador’s attack on the Mexican embassy falls under the same breach of convention)
Anyway, long story short- the US knew this was the Chinese Embassy and they bombed it intentionally
Thanks! I thought of the bombing of the Chinese embassy when Israel bombed Iran’s embassy, too. My thought was that they learned from the USG!