https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2018/10/30/US-Japan-start-biennial-Keen-Sword-military-exercise/9731540906625/?sl=12
There have been a few headlines regarding Xi Jinping's call
for the Chinese military to 'Prepare for War'. The Chinese leader wasn't
suggesting that war is about to begin, but was signalling that he sees war between
the United States and China as inevitable.
This statement was made two days after retired US general Ben
Hodges stated that there was a 'very strong likelihood' that China and the
United States would be in a state of war within 15 years of today.
When the US media covers Beijing it does so in accord with
Washington's policy. Beijing is painted as aggressive, especially in the South
China Sea, even while the media fails to explain that Beijing is not seeking to
'cut off' trade in the South Pacific. Rather, Beijing is seeking to ensure the
trade lanes remain open and accessible. What China fears is that the US will
seek to economically strangle them by shutting off trade.
These fears were all but confirmed by the Trump
administration's economic assaults on their country and the fact that the US
seems keen to expand their military footprint. Even now the US and Japan are
engaged in their regular but ever expanding series of war games in the region.
US support for the remilitarisation of Japan also sends a powerful signal to
Beijing, one that few in the West seem able to appreciate. This is accentuated
by fictitious US narratives regarding WWII and a failure and misunderstanding
to grasp the wider war and the suffering incurred in places like China.
Additionally much could be said about what happened with regard to Japan in the
first half of the 20th century. Though Washington and Tokyo became
eventual enemies, the rise of Japan must be viewed through a lens in which
Washington played no small part.
All of these things must be considered if one wishes to
understand Beijing's repressive moves in Xinjiang and their crackdown on what
are perceived to be Western-connected Church groups.
Beijing's actions cannot be defended. The regime while not
communist in any way shape or form is nevertheless authoritarian and
oppressive. It is but another of the Beast powers that haunts the Earth. That
said, its actions are no less immoral or aggressive than those of Washington
and the Western Bloc. At least it could be said that China is not fomenting
war, at least not at present. This of course is contrary to the assertions of
US media. China's interests have become global in terms of finance and due to
their growing footprint in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific they are
becoming increasingly involved in the political struggles in places like Sri
Lanka and Sub-Saharan Africa. Once again capitalism breeds empire and empire
inevitably means conflict and war.
We live in a time of wars and rumours of wars and it is (at
times) admittedly difficult to remain untroubled by this. That struggle is
difficult enough but unfortunately the Western Church has for the most part not
only rejected Biblical teaching but instead has joined forces with the Western
Beast in seeking to create war and generate strife. Not a strife born of the
Gospel but animosity and conflict born out of a desire for power, prestige,
covetousness and idolatry.
Meanwhile Christians in China and elsewhere are caught in the
middle, their suffering often exacerbated by the machinations of their Western
so-called brethren.
