Introduction
The Chinese Communists (ChiComs) are pursuing two well-publicized strategic initiatives aimed at achieving world domination: Belt-Road Initiative (and its related “Roads”) and Made in China 2025. Parts III, IV, and V of this series summarized those initiatives. To the strategic ends in those initiatives, a number of intertwined secondary goals have been established by the Chinese Communist Party that are aimed at ChiCom domination in all spheres of human economic endeavors: trade, policy, regulations, legal, technology, etc. A number of those secondary objectives exploit basic human greed, fears, intimidation, coercion, blackmail, basic human psychology, and other subtle and overt processes to achieve the desired effects. Their ultimate objective is world economic dominance because that makes possible geopolitical and military dominance, and that leads to the ChiComs’ penultimate goal: world leadership in all human endeavors.
Secondary Goals of the Spider Dragon
Parts VII – XIII of this series have covered 48 secondary goals of Communist China in their quest for world domination. Several more are discussed in this part of the series. All of these goals reinforce each other, comprising a gigantic “spider’s web” of interlocking efforts all working to return the Spider Dragon to the CCP-perceived rightful leadership of the world consistent with their interpretation of human history.
Monopolize and control the world’s energy supply. Energy is what makes the modern world possible. Abundant energy supplied by so-called “fossil fuels” made the Industrial Age possible, and the Industrial Age accelerated the advancement of mankind into all spheres of human endeavors, making possible all of the wonders of the modern world (to include indoor plumbing and long-distance travel in hours, not weeks or months!). Cheap and abundant energy supplies made the American economic miracle possible. Competitive manufacturing, cheap transportation, and inexpensive heating/cooling/refrigeration are hallmarks of advanced economies and societies in the 21st century.
The ChiComs are well aware that “cheap and abundant energy supplies” are important for their economic dreams, too. That is why that China built more coal power plants in 2020 than the rest of the world has retired (in the West’s misguided efforts to “go green”). They also understanding that controlling the energy supplies of the future provides them with geopolitical leverage to achieve other objectives. That is why they are exploiting their competitive advantages to capture the energy production market around the world:
Today it is the dominant provider of wind and solar systems throughout the world. Yet the Chinese are equally happy to sell high-polluting forms of power generation, including coal-fired plants.
China is currently building at least 350 such plants, including seven in South Korea, 13 in Japan, 52 in India and 184 at home.
Wind, solar, and coal? Check! What about oil and gas? This is shocking but not surprising:
[T]he People’s Republic of China (PRC) is rapidly and quietly consolidating a dominant presence in the [the Arabian Gulf] with the active support of Russia.
[T]he PRC offer to oversee and guarantee the establishment of a regional collective security regime — itself based on the Russian proposals and ideas first raised in late July 2019 — is now getting considerable positive attention from both shores of the Persian Gulf. Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, and Oman appear to be becoming convinced that the PRC could be the key to the long-term stability and prosperity in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula.
“Security” first; control later. And getting the Gulf Cooperation Council States to supplant US security guarantees with ChiCom promises is a harbinger of things to come. Control the world’s energy resources means controlling the economies of the world. Checkmate!
Dominate the small nuclear reactor marketplace. This objective is interwoven with the preceding but deserves its own treatment because of its importance in the evolving false narrative held by globalists and others interested in controlling the world’s economy: the notion that it is imperative for the world to move to so-called “green technologies” in order to “save the world” from the bug bear of climate change. As mentioned above, the ChiComs are already leveraging (and fueling) the world’s rush to wind and solar energy production. However, the only real energy production technology capable of achieving the carbon dioxide reductions desired by green energy advocates is nuclear power (refer to heat exchange ratio comparisons among green energy technologies and the laws of thermodynamics, as well as the German experience with wind and solar as described here!). And the ChiComs are moving rapidly to corner the market on exportable nuclear energy capabilities that could be feasibly budgeted by many nations.
Consequently, the ChiComs are forging ahead with the development-for-export of “small nuclear reactors”:
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) launched on Tuesday the construction of the first onshore small nuclear reactor in the world, in its efforts to gain a leading position in the modular reactors market. Once completed and commissioned, the small nuclear reactor is expected to meet the annual power needs of around 526,000 households.
According to the World Nuclear Association, interest is growing in small and simpler technology to generate nuclear power, due to lower costs and the desire to provide power away from large grid systems.
“Overall SMR research and development in China is very active, with vigorous competition among companies encouraging innovation,” the association says, noting that the U.S., the UK, and Canada also develop and support their respective domestic small reactor technology.
When the myth of wind and solar is finally debunked due to basic thermodynamics, the ChiComs will be well-positioned to exploit the next wave of “green energy totalitarianism” via small nuclear reactors made for export.
Control and manipulate the world’s strategic commodities. A strategic commodity is a raw material or agricultural product that is considered critical to a nation’s economy such that the economy would suffer significantly if that commodity’s trade and supply is interrupted in any way. Strategic commodities are the natural resources that fuel a nation’s economy. Examples include rare earth elements, oil, natural gas, gold, silver, copper, livestock, rice, wheat, and corn. Strategic commodities are purchased and sold as investments (e.g., as commodity futures) or for ongoing consumption.
The ChiComs have been successfully acquiring control of strategic commodities for years while building up strategic reserves as both an inflation hedge and also as a means of market manipulation to influence targeted countries. Besides their outright purchase of commodities using trade surpluses with countries like the US, the ChiComs have been gaining control of commodity sources and/or production as part of the Belt-Road Initiative wherein benefiting countries pay for Chinese-built transportation infrastructure with natural resource rights and commodity deals. Of particular concern is ChiCom control of rare earth elements, as noted here:
Comprising 17 elements that are used extensively in both consumer electronics and national defense equipment, rare earth elements (REEs) were first discovered and put into use in the United States. However, production gradually shifted to China, where lower labor costs, less concern for environmental impacts, and generous state subsidies enabled the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to account for 97 percent of global production.
The importance of rare earth elements in the production of key high-tech products should not be underestimated. Control of the sources provides the ChiComs with enormous leverage, especially during future crises:
Rare-earth elements (REE) are necessary components of more than 200 products across a wide range of applications, especially high-tech consumer products, such as cellular telephones, computer hard drives, electric and hybrid vehicles, and flat-screen monitors and televisions. Significant defense applications include electronic displays, guidance systems, lasers, and radar and sonar systems.
Control foreign narratives through the use of artificial intelligence and fake social media. This secondary goal is intertwined with many of the other secondary goals of the Spider Dragon. The ChiComs have been using aggressive information warfare (IW) tactics to influence foreign leaders, diplomats and other key decision-makers in order to achieve CCP strategic goals and objectives. Part of their IW campaign involves the exploitation of social media. While much of the focus of the US political class was on “Russian bots” after the 2016 election, the reality is that that focus greatly benefited the ChiComs by shifting attention away from their vastly larger social media influence operations:
[Russian and Turkish] social media propaganda efforts were tiny compared to the Chinese Communist Party’s Twitter infrastructure. Twitter had taken down almost 200,000 bots and fake accounts being used to advance the Chinese government’s line on issues like Hong Kong. According to Twitter’s report, this enormous bot army consisted of some 23,750 accounts as part of a “highly engaged core network” involved in content production, with an auxiliary network of 150,000 bots used to amplify this content.
While it’s important to keep in mind that these dismantled networks may represent only a portion of their host countries’ social media propaganda efforts, the numbers that we have seen serve to illustrate the serious strategic blunder that American politicians and intelligence agency leaders made by failing to scrutinize Chinese operations during the course of Russiagate.
An excellent example of how the ChiComs converge artificial intelligence and information technologies to create false networks aimed at pushing pro-ChiCom propaganda is described in this report from the UK released last week (.pdf of complete report available for download):
The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) today revealed a network of social media accounts that distort international perceptions on significant issues, elevate China’s reputation amongst its supporters, and discredit claims critical of the Chinese Government.
The coordinated influence operation on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube uses a mix of artificial and repurposed accounts to push pro-China narratives and distort perceptions on important issues.
The narratives amplified by the accounts are similar to those promoted by Chinese Government officials and China state-linked media.
Other examples of fake ChiCom social media accounts are detailed here (AI-generated faces on Facebook), here (a bot army on Twitter), and here (fake Facebook and Instagram accounts removed). ChiCom IW practices are relentless and well-funded. Russia’s efforts pale by comparison in terms of size and scope.
Conclusion. The summary of the Spider Dragon’s list of interlocking second tier goals continues. The four goals mentioned in this part of the series range from control of tangible assets to psychological information warfare and social media influence operations. The ChiComs are active in and seek to dominate all spheres of human endeavors, and the public statements of Xi Jinping and ChiCom diplomats advertise those objectives for all the world to see and hear. Forewarned is forearmed!
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