China Tensions and a Suspicious Fire

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/25/huge-fire-breaks-out-at-huawei-facility-in-china

The context for this potentially controversial fire is one of military drills, cat and mouse confrontations between the Chinese and American navies in the South China Sea and growing tensions over Taiwan.

Washington remains hostile to Huawei and its growing global influence. But there's also the question of 5G technology and you can be certain there's a fair bit of espionage taking place as these networks are not only new but there are still open questions as to their capabilities and full potential. It's a new front in the new Cold War.

The US is engaged in aggressive diplomacy putting maximum pressure on allies and non-hostile states to drop Beijing and have nothing to do with Huawei.

From the standpoint of Beijing the US is certainly behind or at least augmenting the unrest in Hong Kong. And while the CCP is undoubtedly brutal they are being subjected to a massive disinformation campaign in the Western media regarding the overall situation in Xinjiang. By some estimations a lot of the information regarding the internment/re-education camps is less than accurate and deliberately so.

And the campaign is aggressive. Any dissenting voices that challenge the Western mainstream narrative are painted as akin to Holocaust denial. It's also reminiscent of how the Munich card is employed whenever someone opposes the latest attempt at militarist aggression.

As far as the Chinese Church goes we can only sigh in exasperation. They have been politicised. I have to believe the vast majority of them never sought this course but they've been used and abused by Western Evangelicals and politicians and not a few of their own leaders have sold them out and turned the Church into a political arm of the Western order. I find that in many cases I cannot trust Western sources and even (I'm sorry to say) Christian sources. They lie and manipulate. In many cases they're not information sources or news outlets but political lobbyists and activists that generate 'news' that is meant to energise the domestic political base – motivating them to vote and just as important get out their checkbooks.

So what of the fire? It may have been an accident but the timing is suspicious. If it was sabotage and connected to agents of the United States, the Chinese government is unlikely to admit it though they will certainly react.