Friday, September 03, 2010
Red Dawn Alert: Red China’s DM arrives in Mexico to promote military cooperation
1st PLA unit arrives in Kazakhstan for Peace Mission 2010
- 5,000 Communist Bloc Troops, Including 1,000 Russian Soldiers, to Participate in Fourth "Peace Mission" Anti-terrorist Drill (Anti-NATO War Game)
Since the late 1990s rumors have circulated that small numbers of Russian, Red Chinese, North Korean, and Cuban troops have been conducting reconnaissance operations south of the US-Mexican border. In 2003 journalist Scott Gulbransen endeavored to document these activities in Silent Invasion. In this work he contends that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been pumping arms through Hutchison-Whampoa-controlled Mexican ports like Ensanada and over the US-Mexican border with the complicity of corrupt US Border Patrol agents.
The purpose of these covert shipments, suggests Jeff Nyquist, who reviewed Gulbransen’s book, could be to establish arms dumps in the Continental USA prior to a Red Dawn-style invasion.
Along this theme, a delegation from the People’s Republic of China recently visited Mexico City to attend a permanent bilateral commission tasked with advancing their strategic partnership, formed in 2003. With the arrival in Mexico of Red China’s defense minister Liang Guanglie, the Sino-Mexican partnership’s military component has been revealed. After meeting Mexican counterpart Guillermo Galvan Galvan on September 1, Liang summarized the intentions of the new Sino-Mexican military alliance:
Mexico is China’s good friend and partner in the Latin American region. China attaches great importance to developing ties with Mexico. China is willing to boost its military ties with Mexico and deepen bilateral military exchanges and cooperation in various fields. We are grateful for the Mexican government’s support to China on the issues of Taiwan and Tibet.
For his part, Mexican defense minister Galvan gushed: “China is a great country, and Mexico has high expectations for boosting military ties with China. The two sides can strengthen exchanges to expand military cooperation.” Liang also met Mexico’s Navy Minister, Mariano Francisco Sainez Mendoza, with whom he pledged to promote military exchanges and cooperation. Liang’s official visit to Mexico will last four days. He is pictured above, reviewing an honor guard at the defense ministry in Mexico City.
Nothing is specifically said in this article of joint Sino-Mexican military exercises, but this is a distinct possibility. Certainly, the quotes above from Xinhua indicate that the PLA and Mexican Armed Forces will exchange officers and troops for training, and that the PRC will probably sell weapons systems to Mexico.
No doubt, the Mexican government would be very keen on procuring more firepower to combat the powerful (Russian Mafia-armed) drug cartels that are close to pushing the country into total anarchy.
After all, the Obama White House has closed the door to further counter-narcotics military assistance to Mexico.
Earlier this year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton--whose husband Bill is a possible SVR/KGB asset—and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traveled to Mexico City where they conveyed this disappointing news to President Felipe Calderon.
When Mexico’s revolutionary constitution, with its many ideological influences including socialism, came into effect in early 1917, months before the Bolshevik Revolution, many Americans referred to “Soviet Mexico.”
After 70 years in power, however, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which inherited the torch of the Mexican Revolution, became a mildly social democratic entity and the threat of a Communist Mexico evaporated. Now the PRI is seeking to regain the Mexican presidency from Calderon’s center-right National Action Party.
However, should communist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who enjoys the endorsement of Fidel Castro, and his hard-left Democratic Revolutionary Party reverse their 2006 defeat and win the 2012 general elections, Mexico’s absorption into the Communist Bloc would likely accelerate.
In that case, Sino-Mexican military drills and/or United Nation-sanctioned Chinese “counter-insurgency” operations south of the US border could become very real scenarios.
Last year, business leaders in the war-wracked Ciudad Juarez begged the UN to send peacekeepers to their city, which is just across the border from El Paso, Texas.
Incidentally, the retooled version of the Cold War action film depicts a Communist Chinese invasion of the USA, with some help from America’s old nemesis, Russia. The movie is scheduled to hit the screens in November 2010.
The original 1984 film depicted a Soviet-Cuban invasion, in which the invaders had to contend with a band of high school students who organized themselves into a guerrilla outfit called the Wolverines.
Beijing’s sympathizers have already set up websites to express their displeasure with the new film, which is guaranteed to tarnish the PRC’s image as a reliable economic partner.
Meanwhile, the PLA has dispatched its first contingent of 107 troops to the “former” Soviet republic of Kazakhstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Peace Mission 2010 “anti-terror drill.” This will be the fifth Sino-Russian military exercise, following the first, Peace Mission 2005, and three others, Peace Mission 2007, Peace Mission 2009, and Norak Antiterror 2009. The SCO not only includes Russia and Red China, but also Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Observer state Iran has applied for full membership. A total of 5,000 Communist Bloc troops, including 1,000 Russian soldiers and 130 tanks and armored vehicles, will participate in Peace Mission 2010, which runs from September 9 to 25. State-run Novosti reports: “The drills will test the interoperability of the SCO armed forces in rendering assistance to a member state involved in an internal armed conflict or subjected to a mass terrorist attack.”
Many geopolitical analysts perceive the SCO and the Collective Security Treaty Organization as Eurasian counterweights to NATO. The SCO and CSTO are already committed to inter-bloc cooperation, but no one in the Pentagon appears to be alarmed by this new and improved Warsaw Pact Version 2.0, which preps for war against the West under the cover of “anti-terrorist” drills. Last month, for example, the US military thought nothing of participating in the Kazakh army’s annual Steppe Eagle war game. Kazakhstan is a member of NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.
Most people born after the contrived “collapse” of the Soviet Union and the communist regimes in Eastern Europe will have little awareness of the ongoing world communist threat.
For example, last month I was talking to a 20-year-old, iPod-savvy individual about the Red Dawn remake. He had never heard of the original film.
This is the ideological vacuum the West is facing today.
posted by Perilous Times at 2:21 PM 5 comments links to this post![]()
Bookmarks