Submitted by: M Mulukin
'From: Mike Claydon - Aus
Sent: Monday, 5 July 2021
China prepares to move into Afghanistan as American troops Move out of Bagram Base.
05 July 2021
American troops have finally departed their main military base in Afghanistan China has been waiting in the wings in order to do a deal with Kabul
The country wants to extend its 'Belt and Road' program to Afghanistan That Program would see a direct land corridor between Afghanistan and China through northwest Pakistan constructed.
The Deal could give China a strategic foothold in the region for trade with the country acting as a central hub connecting the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe But there remains the air of unpredictability with lasting peace uncertain with Taliban likely to make a resurgence in the region
As American troops left their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, marking a symbolic end to the longest war in U.S. history, China is now preparing to enter to war-torn country to essentially fill the vacuum left by U.S. and NATO troops.
First launched in 2013 by Chinese president Xi Jinping,the Belt and Road Initiative was written into the Chinese constitution in 2017, it is billed by Beijing officials as a global infrastructure development fund which aims to better connect China to the rest of the world.
Aimed to be completed by 2049, China has been offering huge loans to countries in order to support them in creating better infrastructure including the building of new highways, railways and energy pipelines between Pakistan and China, to Afghanistan.
Saudi Arabia [Sheba and Dedan] moves towards the Gulf peace train with Israel.
Indications of a radical policy turnaround in Riyadh towards jumping aboard the peace wagon rolling forward between Gulf nations and Israel were highlighted in a column published on July 1 by Asharq Al-Awsat, the London- based publication close to the Saudi royal house.
Last week’s visit by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to the United Arab Republic and Bahran,[pictured above] the first by an Israeli minister to the signatories of the Abraham Accords, was extensively covered in the Saudi media as an historic event, the columnist noted.
One paper front-paged a picture of Lapid backed by the Israeli flag, And TV channels have begun inviting Israeli pundits to live talk shows, often introducing them as experts “in Jerusalem.”
Decades-long taboos are being tossed, as the Saudis eye the booming trade ties their neighbours are binding with the Jewish state.
Saudi and other Arab commentators have come to believe that Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has already come around to recognizing that Riyadh is being left behind by clinging to an out-dated policy that links recognition of Israel to the Palestinian conflict.
This no-war-no-peace stance that this has become leads nowhere.
MBS has long realized that the kingdom’s-oi-based economy can no longer sustain a population which has grown to 35 million and is expanding. Diversification is the way as the Emiratis’ have already shown. To branch out as a hub of services, tourism and trade, the Saudis will likewise have to eschew conflict and embrace good relations.
The Crown Prince understands he must choose sides between the two blocs fast emerging in the Middle East.
One led by the Arab states and Israel based on their peace relations as a strong engine for generating wealth and prosperity for their peoples, and the other one, led by Iran and its focus on developing a nuclear weapon and aggression while its population stays hungry.
The minutiae of Biblical prophecy continues to fall into place? “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof shall [stand back and mildly protest to the Gog/Magog coalition in the “latter Days”] Art thou come to take a spoil? Hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver & gold? [Ezekiel 38; 13].
Iran boasts UAVs with range of 7,000 km.
04 July 2021
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Chief General Hossein Salami boasted in a recent interview with IRNA: “We have unmanned aerial vehicles – drones with a long range of 7,000 km. They can fly, return home and make a landing wherever they are planned to.”
Military experts judge this claim as hyperbole typical of Iran’s practice of exaggerating its weapons capabilities – both to impress Americans and to raise the morale of a suffering population. If true, however, those Iranian drones could threaten any point in the Mid-East including US forces and reach continental Europe.
The timing of this latest boast is intended to illustrate the hardening of Iran’s negotiating stance in nuclear talks under its new president. It also coincides with Tehran’s cut-off of camera images that enabled the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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