it's, it's just common sense and so to look at it sort of city play and say, oh, the chinese arriving yesterday. and that's, that's really just so it's simply a manifestation of the changing realities of a now emergent multi polar world, where the united states and it's, it's allies in, in western gear are no longer the diamond center, you know, but it's, it's, it's something that they're not happy about the, the americans and their, their, their allies. but this is, this is just a change that's, that's going to take place. this is going to continue to one folders as the years and decades from now go forward and scale your i think will do best for itself. if it tries to, to pursue a path that allows it to, to, to profit in a sense from that change, you know, find is old position with in this new multi polar world. rather than just tying its fortunes to, you know, the continuing dominance of the united states to another battle ground in the

pacific is the tiny, solomon islands. australia is their closest mainland neighbor or nearly a 1000 miles away. but some on that island are asking them to intervene as a chinese state owned company is negotiating right now a deal to buy a deep water c port and a world war 2 error strip from coney era. china is already the islands main revenue source with 90 percent of extractive resources going to be j, despite assurance as by the prime minister, manasseh. so avari that china will not quote, have any military bases on the island. there's still a lot of distrust there, especially given that the solomon islands a band and their 36 year support for taiwan in favor of beijing. the us has recently reopened their embassy, their to boot. so why are there so many eyes on the solomon islands right now? well, i think that the shifting situation in, in the pacific region is, is, it's,

it's a, it's a story that's developing. it's a very dynamic situation right now. the solomon islands, not i think because of, of some particular circumstance in their location or anything like that. but because they have been kind of at the forefront of, of, of, of recognizing this changing world that we were just talking about. you know, i think that that for them to shift to their, their diplomatic recognition from ty bay to be jane. it's just a logical step. again in adapting to the emerging realities of, of the 21st century. i think it's a very pragmatic step. i don't think that the, the government at the solomon islands is particularly illogically oriented one way or another between the united states and, and china. but i think that they're, they're looking at the economics of their country. they're looking at a very challenging future with, with global warming and rising sea levels and all this,

they have many things they're going to have to be dealing with. and i think the idea that, that, you know, that china is somehow looking to establish some sort of military base in, in the solomon islands is, is, again, it's, it's an example of the kind of projection that, that western, especially american politicians, any leads you know, do with china, that, of course, the united states has hundreds of bases and countries all around the world, including all over the pacific. china has one military installation outside of its own borders, and that's in booty in east africa. and it's part of the united nations anti piracy initiative. it's located exactly next door to an american base. that at least in part, is, is involved in the same operation. so that's china is one military establishment outside of its own borders. but where ever they're involved in a lot of these development projects, especially when see ports are involved. we hear this about sri lanka. we hear this

about cambodia. we hear this about various african countries. the immediate suspicion is, oh, they're going to be establishing, you know, military bases, but there's no history of trying to doing that. china is one great venture in, in, in maritime exploration and all the way back in the early 15 century. it's didn't involve taking over other countries or setting up colonies or anything like that. it was simply sort of a diplomatic, uh, flag waving, you know, here we are kind of kind of series of expeditions. so, you know, i think that, that the solomon islands, you know, i don't know, maybe there benefiting a little bit from all the attention. maybe i think we see that the united states reopening the embassy. you know, they're going to try and maintain some of their, their influence there. but i think that the, the, you know, they're, they're, they're simply adjusting quite to, quite rationally and reasonably it pragmatically to do this involving situation in, in the world. yes,

i think you are right. i think it's important to highlight that the us is the country with the most foreign basis all around the world. history of course is very telling. okay, doctor, we gotta leave it posit right there. coming up next, we'll get into taiwan. that appears to be the trigger word for the bite and administration. we'll discuss it when we return with dr. ken hammond. sit tight, the m o will be right back. the the

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy on foundation. let it be an arms race is on all sides. very dramatic. the only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very unclear to get a time time to sit down and talk the russian states never is as tight as i'm sort of the most sense community best of all sense and the same assistance

as being the one else holes question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on the russians cruising and supports the r t. suppose that keeping our video agency roughly all the band on youtube, the fitness center for question, did you say a request to check the the welcome back to the m. o. i'm the miller chan. you heard president biden at the top saying the us would intervene militarily. should there be a confrontation between mainland china and taiwan?

comments like this often leave his team scrambling to clean up the mess doctor can have and he is back with us. he is a china expert, an author of the book, china is revolution and the quest for a socialist future. thank you for staying with us dr. hammond. so as i mentioned, the u. s. embassy is once again fired up in the solomon islands. after being shuddered back in the ninety's, but another pacific island is seeing increased us presence. that's the philippines . under newly mentioned president ferdinand marcos junior, who, by the way, goes by the nickname, bond long did not make that up. he goes by bon gong president. bond bond has agreed to allow the us to build for new military installations on the island, bringing that total up to 9 bases. if you're basing doesn't this look to you like the george kennan philosophy of containing the soviet union, but pacific style as well, it is the, it does,

it does look like that. that's what it is. you know, back in 2011, when the president obama announced to the american pivot to asia. this is exactly what he was talking about. the, you know, talked about the, the read deployment of america military assets and military resources and intelligence resources to this exact vision you know, to, to, they can't, you know, entirely in circle china because they're rich. it's, you know, land where the frontier isn't any razor, but as far as the, the pacific and the indian ocean, that's the whole idea is to establish this is kind of at least half ring around china for uh, for a military operations for intelligence gathering for you know, carrying into various kinds of clandestine activities that we've dealt. we've seen the effects of over time. so yeah, so, so is, you know, the establishment of,

of these bases and the existing bases and bases in many other countries. that is exactly the, a new version of, of, of containment. and again, you know, it, it's, it in the, in the, in the, from the perspective of american politicians and, and american a leads and media and all that. this is just business as usual. of course, it's perfectly fine for the united states to go out and have these bases all around in the world. you know, secretary of state clinton back in the obama administration published a for and i think it was in for an affairs article about the call for review american pacific century. this idea that the pacific is sort of our tours and, and you know, so we can just do whatever we want out there. and, and, you know, china is the, i'm not exactly, not necessarily directly challenging that but, but it doesn't acknowledge or accept that and, and goes about its own business. and, and the u. s. is,

is trying to counteract that, trying to contain china trying to somehow to i don't know a d re all this, this is reconfiguration of, of global relations. and i think that that's, that's pretty much a full there. and i think that that, as i say this is, this is a deep historical process. it's not something that is going to be offset is certainly at this stage in the game. so you know that there's a, there's a, there's a sort of cognitive gap between this fantasy that, that somehow try to, is establishing bases or, or during this, which doesn't, doesn't hold up. and the reality of america is continued projection of power wherever it can around the world to. so obviously, taiwan is the main island of contention. here in the pacific, the us says it recognizes the one china policy on diplomatic documents, but washington's rhetoric and actions seem to allude to another philosophy

altogether relative to china. we've heard some very provocative language from the us side. you know everyone from navy admirals to president biden himself, even outright diplomatic disregard when the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi took a trip to type pay last year against the wishes of beijing. what do you think is going to happen with taiwan as well? i wish i knew. yeah, obviously it's a very uh to well to a situation right now and i think a very dangerous one right now. i think that, you know, there, there is a clear, a record of your policy on the part of the united states here because it repeated communiques and agreements uh, over the years beginning with, with president nixon's visit way back in 1972. you know, the united states has committed itself to acknowledging and recognizing that people on both sides of the street. i understand that the, you know, the,

the taiwan is part of china is only one. china, taiwan is part of china. there's a disagreement between the local authorities on the island and the central government and aging as to who's in charge, who runs the whole country. but if you go to type a and buy a map and it says, you know, republic of china, it shows the whole country. and if you go to a page and you buy a map, it says people's republic of china, and it shows the same country. so, you know, that's the, that's the reality. the question is resolving this sort of left over legacy from, from the 1940s. you know, from the end of the civil war and the victory of the revolution back in 1949, when the nationalist withdrew to the island. you know, this is something that has come down. and it has been a consistent position of the government and, and begging that this is a pro question that has to be solved by the chinese people on both sides of the street in their own way, in their own time without outside interference. and the us committed itself to

reducing its military engagement with taiwan to him, to, you know, a withdrawing its diplomatic recognition. but, you know, i radically as, as nixon's attorney general john mitchell used to say, watch what we do, not what we say. and when we look at america's actions, we see that they are very different from these formal legal commitments. the formal diplomatic recognition, which is extended to the government of aging, not just by the united states, but by what a $182.00 countries around the world, the united nations, all these international organizations. that's the reality. but the us, as part of its efforts to us demonize china and try to de, rail its progress, do rail its efforts to improve the livelihood of its own people. you know, perpetuates these actions or perpetrates, these actions that, that can only be seen as provocations as efforts to, to, to provoke china,

to somehow act in a way that would allow the united states to either further criticize it or the worst case scenario for there to be some sort of actual conflict, military conflict between, you know, between the countries and that would be the devastating for the people that i want to be bad for the people on the mainland. it would be bad for the american people. and yet our politicians, our political leaders, are many in the media, you know, speak out over and over again with these inflammatory statements, that you only undermine the process of a peaceful, stable resolution of this historical dilemma. so the u. k. has just signed onto the new c p t p p. the comprehensive agreement for trans pacific partnership. that's similar to the now defunct obama era, t p. p. it's a trade pact between 11 pacific rim countries. there's vietnam, there. singapore, australia, new zealand, peru, sheila brunei, canada, japan, malaysia,

and mexico. the region is estimated to account for 54 percent of global economic growth in the coming decades. some say this is this move by the u. k solidifies, this sort of reorientation of the global economy in the new millennium, the coming boom of the global south and, and multi polar world if you will. would you agree with that assessment to? well, i think this is a, this is an effort by, by breaking to try to position itself within that, that emerging multi polar reality. but i think that it's, it's, it's problematic in, in, in, in some very particular ways. in part, i mean probably for the most part because it doesn't include china. and if you're talking about, you know, the emergence of a multi polar world, you certainly would,

would probably want to have some engagement with the country that's likely to be at least one of those uh, those centers of, of production and development and innovation and creativity. of, you know, this is a, obviously, you know, there, there's, or there's an old saying and chinese about, you know, crossteck crossing the river by sealing the stones, you know, sort of just making your way without having a really clear, you know, what your goal and your objective is what you don't know exactly what the, what the way is to get there and you have to take it sort of step by step. so, you know, this is, this is an ongoing process. it's a historical transformation that's going to continue to play out in the coming years of decades. written, you know, has always been very closely tied to the united states. and i think it's interesting that they're taking this step and making this gesture how substantive that will prove to be written, especially after brett's it finds itself in a very difficult situation. they've kind of brought their bridge to the most

logical center that they might have been closely connected to. so they're, they're looking for new options and i think, you know, this is just not a bad thing for them to be doing this. but i think that they need to adjust their, their sort of reality perspective and recognize that, that, that excluded china and, and really taking part in something which by, by some people at least is seen as being directed against china. i think that they need to to, to take that into account and try and cautiously a dr. ken hammond. i gotta leave it right there. unfortunately, thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. it's been a pleasure. thanks for have all right, that is going to do it for this episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host manila. chad. thank you so much for tuning and we'll see you again next time to figure out the m. o the

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today as russian allies such as china, under unexpressed supports. you must go over the weekends events. on israel simmons, the ukraine, i'm about to the full publicly accusing israel of no supposing ukraine, then they'll fight the mid day on monday in moscow, mine is beat to scott and wherever you joining us from, welcome stood. 2 minutes of news and analysis, the forces have been seen withdrawing from key russian regions, claiming that heading back to the field comes after negotiations ended. the groups meets in the attempt. the latest voltage shows columns moving through the new guns republic, after withdrawing from the russian city of roast of on done. but they seized a number of military facilities on saturday. the volume in chief guinea pig ocean agreed to stop the mutiny and leave restful bellows at the thoughts with the brother russian presidents, location,

which were coordinated with the russian president vladimir putin. aussies roman costs. that takes a look at the aftermath of volume. his presence in most of the bloodshed here and rest all minds on having that verses. members are private company have and now left the city. we are right next to the headquarters. all the military here in law solve on dawn and it's back under their control. you submitted through police. here you can see the guys are back to work. however, the consequences of this farm easily for me. so let's take a look at this uh, gauge is been destroyed by say solve the wagner military group. there are 10 tracks on the street as well, but the role so being a blog. now of course, so the situation here was a very tense on saturday. and i tried to gauge people's opinion about

what happens here that they need to sort out their relationship after victory. it broke my heart, seeing what happened, we wore it, but now everything is fine. we're very glad that everything worked out safely and without bloodshed been generally vulgar forces a note that they just did a bad thing. i think what took place should never have happened, though they behaved comedy and polite just citizens. they let people to come up to the vehicles, take pictures, but nevertheless, i'm a gang subtractions. they don't improve the authority of how country to be here in the center of the city and on the outskirts of the city as well. people are now able to move around freely. however, on saturday, the situation here was very sense. indeed. they weren't shots flyers. we heard the sang sang explosions as well as people ran for their lives. take a look at how it whole happened.

the 1st of military facilities, including the air fields, were taken under control. who wants to talk with the chief of staff and defense minister, but they are not here. we have blocked the rest of the region and are headed to moscow. the,

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a stand ready to do our part in order for the incidents to be resolved in a calm and peaceful manner. meanwhile, the mainstream media widely covered the attempted mutiny and surprisingly,