China Getting with the Times By James Reed

     With the US/China trade war now apparently called off by the orange joke,  Trump, China, being once more victorious, has issued a warning to the world, well summed up by this recent Newsweek headline: “CHINA'S MILITARY WARNS U.S. MUST GET WITH THE TIMES: 'THOSE WHO RESIST WILL PERISH'”
  https://www.newsweek.com/china-warn-us-perish-1446338

“China's military called on the United States to adopt a modern way of thinking in dealing with the People's Republic, warning America that it risked falling behind. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang condemned the Pentagon's recent Indo-Pacific Strategy Report, which accused Beijing of seeking "to reorder the region to its advantage by leveraging military modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics to coerce other nations." He said the ministry was "firmly opposed to its negative contents concerning China," citing some specific points of contention. "No strategy should go against the times," Ren explained. "The trend of the world is mighty and overwhelming. Those who follow it will prosper while those who resist will perish. Peace, development and win-win cooperation are the trends of our times. Any strategy that is closed and exclusive, which is against the general trends, is doomed to failure." He also argued that "no strategy should harm the well-being of people all over the world" or "underscore the confrontation side of relations," calling for greater international dialogue and less unilateral behavior.”

     Of course, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so the idea of prosperity for all in the China millennium needs to be taken in by Taiwan as well, so they had better like the coming invasion:
  https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/06/article/chinese-infiltrators-plotting-taiwan-takeover/

“Beijing’s long-threatened invasion of Taiwan is well underway, but its shock troops are not the foot-soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. They are the shadowy agents of the United Front Work Department (UFWD), Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “magic weapon,” who over the past decade have infiltrated Taiwanese society and institutions. Since 2015 Xi has doubled the budget and responsibilities of the United Front, which aims to rally support for Chinese Communist Party objectives at home and abroad, often by creating groups and organizations that have no obvious affiliations with the party. In Taiwan there is evidence that United Front operations distorted the results of last November’s municipal elections using the weaknesses that characterize any open democratic system. Social media was used to spread blatantly false stories. Campaign funds were given to candidates favored by Beijing. And the leaders of villages and small municipalities were suborned into campaigning on behalf of candidates the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wanted to win. In the run-up to the November elections Taiwan’s National Police Agency said it had received 64 reports of purposefully fabricated false information circulating on social media.

A representative example was a story that the administration of President Tsai Ing-wen had contributed the equivalent of millions of dollars to the Hong Kong activists protesting for political reform, but had spent nothing on the eradication of dengue fever in Taiwan. The story was utterly false. Some media in Taiwan also reported unusual efforts in China to try to create “buzz” around the campaigns of candidates favored by the CCP. Large bets were placed on certain candidates through illegal betting channels on pro-Beijing candidates. Some of the largest bets came from Shanghai, according to the National Police Agency. “By inserting funds into the gambling black market, the Chinese government is able to shape the local rhetoric as to which candidate the citizens favor and further influence voting decisions of local voters,” wrote Ketty Chen of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in a report on the CCP’s subversion campaign in the municipal elections. The head of the Ministry of Justice’s Investigative Bureau, giving evidence after the elections to the Legislative Yuan, the parliament, said his officials were investigating 33 allegations of Beijing funding pro-CCP candidates.”

     Whose idea was it again to wake the sleeping dragon?