Ring of Chaos Around China

[Philippine LaRouche Society (PLS)]

The following is a collection of short articles on the British  

destabilizations across Asia, encircling China with chaos. The  articles cover Vietnam, 

Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and  Myanmar. I will shortly send 

out an accompanying article by Tanu Maitra on the  Afghan/Pakistan crisis. 

    This will appear in the next EIR.    

                 Mike Billington   

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British Operations Create Ring of Chaos Around  China

 

 by Michael  Billington           June 28,  2008

 

 A glance at the map suggests that someone is trying

to overthrow  the governments of many of China's neighbors

to the east, south, and  west.  Exactly so!  Some nations,

like Vietnam, are under merciless  economic attack from

abroad. In Thailand, South Korea and elsewhere, masses  are

taking to the streets, demanding "throw the bastards out,"

often over  local issues.  The raging food and fuel crises

symptomatic of the  exploded world financial system,

provide plenty of grounds for mass anger and  outrage.

But who is it who wants to weaken or destroy  these

governments?  Would that help overcome the food and  fuel

crises? Just the opposite: it would leave Asian

populations totally  unprotected; they will be decimated.

Some of the grievances may be local, but  the falling

dominoes game is global, and it's being played  from

London.

London is trying to line up Europe and America for  a

war against Eurasia, especially against Russia and China.

London's  attempted overthrow of these Asian governments is

part of the war  plan.

Lyndon LaRouche was asked recently to comment on the

fact that  ``most of the neighbors of China, to the east

and south, are fighting,  basically, extinction, fighting

day to day to exist as governments.''  LaRouche pointed to

the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy, which views Asia, where  the

majority of the human race resides, as a primary target.

``If  you are Prince Philip,'' LaRouche said, ``and

you are campaigning to reduce  the world's population from

6.5 billion to 2 billion--and many people are out  for a 1

billion target--then what the hell do you think is going

on? I  mean, people who are sympathetic to the British

monarchy have to be really  degenerates. You have Prince

Bernhard, who is now dead (we hope!), who  married the

Dutch princess. His qualification was that he was a member

of  the Nazi SS, and since he was marrying a Dutch

princess, he had to give up  his membership in the SS. So,

he sent a letter of resignation from the SS  personally to

Adolf Hitler, and signed it, {Heil Hitler}! What do  you

expect from this guy?''

Identifying Al Gore as a lackey of the  same British

policy, LaRouche continued, ``So, when you get rough on

these  guys, as I do sometimes, and somebody comes up and

screams about, `you can't  attack respectable people!' I

say, `I think your morality is defined by what  you think

is respectable.' And turn it around that way. This is

what's  lacking: People always make apologies for these

things.''

So,  without apologies, here is a brief report on the

British operations to  destroy the nation-states of Asia,

with China as the ultimate target. The  following sections

cover: Vietnam; Thailand; Malaysia; Philippines;  South

Korea; Myanmar; and Afghanistan/Pakistan.

 

 1. Vietnam: Assault by  Speculators

In a move which closely parallels the 1997  attack on

the Thai baht and other Asian currencies by George Soros

and his  hedge fund cohorts, the British financial locusts

have launched an assault on  the Vietnamese currency, the

dong, driving it down by 29% on the futures  markets.

Vietnam Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh announced that  the

government would defend the dong, while also trying to

slow the  runaway inflation, now at 25%.

As in the 1997-98 so-called ``Asian  crisis,'' the

speculators have more money than their  targetted

governments; in this case, they plan to wait until Vietnam

runs  out of foreign reserves defending the dong, then

collect a fortune on their  futures contracts when the dong

collapses. Such a collapse could spark a  ``run on the

bank'' across Asia, as in 1997--only this time the  entire

world banking system is bankrupt and could explode from

such a  spark.

Vietnam still has certain controls over its  currency,

although these were loosened when the country joined the

World  Trade Organization (WTO) in 2006. Speculators are

now working primarily with  ``non-deliverable forward

futures'' in the currency derivatives market. At  the

forefront of the locust horde is Morgan Stanley, which has

forecast  (better to say, ``announced'') that the dong will

be devalued, with forward  contracts betting on a 29% drop

over the year. The ``hit men'' from the  rating agencies

have joined this criminal attack, with Standard &  Poor's,

Moody's, and Fitch all lowering Vietnam's credit rating  to

negative, thus further driving up borrowing costs. A

primary target is  Vietnam's huge state-sector industries,

which the speculators want privatized  so they can be

bought up on the cheap.

Vietnam's Central Bank has  increased borrowing costs

three times this year, to 14%, the highest in Asia,  trying

to squeeze out inflation. The stock market has collapsed

by 60%  this year--the largest fall of any market in the

world.

The  government has resisted lifting fuel subsidies,

retaining a safety net for  its population and thus

preventing, so far, the kind of social explosion  taking

place in other Asian nations. But this is a huge drain on

the  budget and currency reserves. The trade deficit

tripled in the first five  months of the year, from $4.25

billion one year ago, to $14.42 billion,  further draining

reserves, and increasing Vietnam's vulnerability to  the

locusts.

 

 2. Thailand: Anarchy  Looms

The same motley crew of anarchists who brought  about

a military coup in Thailand in September 2006, against

highly  popular Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, are at

it again against the newly  elected government of Samak

Sundaravej. Under the leadership of Sondhi  Limthongkul, a

publishing tycoon, and former Gen. Chamlong Srimuang,  now

the head of a Buddhist cult, both professional anarchist

organizers  who hide under the banner of ``democracy,''

about 25,000 demonstrators  marched through police lines to

surround the Government House (the office of  the Prime

Minister) on June 20, where they plan to stay until  Samak

resigns. Similar demonstrations in 2006 (although much

larger)  provided the cover for the military coup which

overthrew Thaksin. After two  years of military rule, an

election in December brought supporters of Thaksin  back

into power, under Prime Minister Samak.

The only complaint the  demonstrators have against

Samak, is that he is too close to Thaksin, who is  himself

officially out of politics while fighting scurrilous  legal

charges. Wrapped in royal colors and claiming to support

the King,  the mob was confronted by 8,000 police, but the

police were ordered not to  use force to stop the illegal

demonstrations.

As in 2006, the  demonstrators are mostly from the

urban middle class, but this time students  are largely

absent--the youth apparently now recognize that  the

``pro-democracy'' demonstrations are a cover for yet

another military  coup. However, the anarchists enjoy the

full support of the Dow Jones (i.e.,  Rupert Murdoch) rag

in Bangkok, {The Nation}, as they did in  2006.

The labor unions and farmers have not joined  the

demonstrations--the majority were strong supporters of

Thaksin's  pro-growth policies and his general welfare

support for the poor, and believe  Samak will continue

those policies.  But the fuel and food price hikes  are

provoking protests which could intersect the  anti-Samak

demonstrations. Already fishermen in the South held a

public  boat-burning, claiming that fuel costs made every

trip a losing venture.  Truckers had a similar complaint

and threatened to protest with their trucks  in Bangkok.

The government calmed the waters with fuel subsidies, but

this  is clearly a temporary solution.

Rice farmers, too, threatened to set  up camp in

Bangkok. Despite the huge rise in rice prices, the profits

went  to the corporate exporters, and rice farmers got

little or nothing. The  government placed a floor on the

price paid to farmers, and began issuing  food stamps to

the poor--all necessary and humane, but as  the

hyperinflation grows, such subsidies could prove

impossible to  sustain.

Meanwhile, Chamlong can be expected to attempt a

repeat  performance of his 1992 coup effort, when he

marched his followers into the  military lines, provoking a

bloody confrontation which brought down the  government.

Political analyst Thitinan Pongsudhirak of  Chulalongkorn

University concurred with the government party's

assessment  that the mob under Chamlong's direction is

``agitating for blood. They are  going for broke every day

to bring down the government.''

The 1992  demonstrators were exposed at the time by

{EIR} to have been funded and  trained by USAID, the Asia

Foundation, the AFL-CIO, and the National  Endowment for

Democracy, all with U.S. government money and approval.

This  operation set Thailand up for the assault by George

Soros and his fellow  hedge fund thieves, leading to the

mass looting of Asia in the 1997-98  ``Asian crisis.''

The opposition party has taken advantage of  the

crisis to hold a no-confidence debate in the Parliament,

although it  has no chance of passing. Prime Minister Samak

has refused to back down from  his electoral mandate, and

has warned that the those occupying the streets  will have

to be removed. The government has thus far succeeded in

calming  angry truckers and fishermen, who are being

crushed by fuel costs, with  subsidies and pay raises, but

this has obvious limits.

 

 3. Effort To Destroy  Malaysia

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia  Anwar

Ibrahim, wholly owned by London and London's U.S. assets

Al Gore,  Paul Wolfowitz, and George Soros, was deposed and

imprisoned in 1998, at the  same time that then-Prime

Minister Mahathir Mohamad saved his nation from  Soros and

his fellow speculators by imposing currency controls on

the  Malaysian currency, the ringgit. After his release

from prison in 2004, Anwar  was sponsored by Wolfowitz and

his cohorts, providing him several lucrative  positions at

universities in Washington and Oxford, at the World Bank,

and  at foundations in Washington and London. The warchest

thus accumulated is now  being put to work, to buy his way

into becoming prime minister, the position  he had been

denied by Dr. Mahathir in 1998.

While the global food  crisis exploded over the past

year, Malaysia, which had allowed itself to be  more than

50% dependent on food imports, was faced with both  food

inflation and potential shortages. This, coupled with the

spiking  fuel prices, provided a crisis environment for

Anwar to launch his attack on  Malaysian sovereignty, on

behalf of his Western sponsors. He pasted together  a

``strange-bedfellows'' opposition alliance, which cut into

the  government's majority in Parliament during the recent

elections. Anwar began  bragging that he would ``persuade''

MPs from the government party to defect,  and that he would

soon be prime minister.

Although most Malays hold  Anwar in contempt for his

subservience to the British financial oligarchs,  the

population is being crushed by the hyperinflation caused

by those same  oligarchs. To the extent the government

fails to rally the nation to fight  those oligarchs, it

could further lose popular support.

Prime  Minister Abdullah Badawi has implemented a

series of necessary measures to  double food production,

and has initiated serious discussion on the  develpment of

nuclear power. He also truthfully identified the

speculators  as being behind the hyperinflation, noting

that ``If our own financial  institutions were involved, I

have no doubt that we would have been subject  to

vociferous criticism.'' He added that ``Each country faces

a different  situation, but we should share recognition''

of the cause, and work  internationally for a solution.

 

 4. Philippines: New `People's Power'  Scam?

The Philippines never recovered from the  ``regime

change'' of 1986, which deposed President Ferdinand

Marcos, on  orders of neocon godfather George Shultz and

his deputy Paul Wolfowitz. With  that coup, the

Philippines' leading role in Southeast Asia  was

systematically dismantled: The fully completed nuclear

power plant was  put in mothballs (although the country had

to pay every cent of its  construction cost); the Green

Revolution which had made the nation  self-sufficient in

rice was dismantled, in favor of the globalization  of

food; and industrialization was scrapped in favor of

process industries  and the export of labor. The nation now

suffers the highest electricity costs  in Asia, and is the

world's largest importer of rice. Hyperinflation  is

driving the Philippines to the brink of catastrophe.

President  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo owes her job to the

same crew who overthrew Marcos in  1986, and is herself

complicit in the current disaster. Nonetheless, she  has

taken some steps to break from the globalization

dictatorship. She has  expanded relations with China, and,

with Chinese help, made efforts to revive  the Green

Revolution. That program stalled in 2004, but in the

desperate  conditions of the current rice crisis, she is

attempting to get it started  again.

Most importantly, the government is seriously moving

to  reopen the mothballed nuclear plant. This would be both

a victory for the  nation, and a symbol to all of Asia that

the anti-science, anti-production  globalization process

unleashed in the 1980s can be reversed.

But  the government is fragile. Desperate and hungry

people are lining up for  hours every day in Manila to

obtain small amounts of subsidized rice, while  food

shortages also threaten other areas of the country.

President Arroyo  has been under threat of various coups

continuously since she took office in  2001, and has only

stayed in power through extra-legal means. Only  an

extraordinary commitment to return to the economic vision

of the Marcos  era can put the Philippines in a position to

weather the global storm, and  to  join other nations in

building a new world economic order.

 

 5. South Korea Pushed to the  Brink

South Korea is facing a series of revolts  which

threaten to topple the newly elected government, despite

its  overwhelming victory in the December Presidential

election and the April  parliamentary election.

Demonstrations began soon after President  Lee

Myung-bak travelled to the United States in April, aiming

to repair  strained relations which developed during the

former administration of Roh  Moo-hyun. As a concession to

Washington, Lee had agreed to lift restrictions  on beef

imports from the U.S., which had been imposed during the

``mad-cow  disease'' crisis in 2003.

The demonstrations expanded rapidly, driven  by other

issues than beef imports: soaring food and fuel costs;

President  Lee's perceived aloof CEO-style of governing (he

was once CEO of Hyundai);  and historic anti-Americanism,

which has grown stronger during the  Bush/Cheney years.

A strike of truckers in June nearly closed the  ports,

just as the daily demonstrations peaked at several  hundred

thousand. President Lee has since changed course

drastically,  granting significant subsidies and pay raises

to the truckers and others  affected by soaring fuel

prices, removing nearly all his top advisors,  promising

cabinet changes, negotiating a comprimise agreement  with

Washington on the beef issue, and apologizing to the

Korean  people.

Seoul is also fighting a potentially existential

battle with  the hedge funds that have moved into South

Korea since the 1997-98 Asian  financial crisis. Efforts to

prevent the looting of national industries, and  to stop

the intended British break-up of the huge {chaebol}

conglomerates  which have made South Korea the 12th-largest

economy in the world, have had  only partial success.

The immediate crisis has been contained, but  tensions

remain high. The government hopes that new,  strengthened

relations with its Asian neighbors, especially  joint

development projects with Russia in the Russian Far East,

can revive  the economy and restore the administration's

popular base of support. This is  preceisely the Asian

alliance which the British wish to disrupt.

 

 6. British War Plan for  Myanmar

Cyclone Nargis, which laid waste to much of  Myanmar's

rice production area in May, was immediately seized upon

by the  British as an opportunity to implement their new

colonial scheme, known as a  ``League of Democracies.'' The

argument: The UN is now worthless, since  Russia and China

use their veto power to prevent military  interventions

against nations that refuse British dictates; therefore,  a

new ``coalition of the willing'' must take over, to effect

regime change  where desired--militarily, if necessary.

A related concept to be tested  in the planned

``humanitarian'' invasion of Myanmar was a concept  called

``responsibility to protect,'' recently adopted by the UN

for  countries deemed guilty of genocide against their  own

people.

Myanmar's ruling junta had no difficulty  recognizing

the intention, and refused to allow U.S. or European

military  forces to deliver aid to cyclone victims,

insisting that all aid be turned  over to the government

for distribution by the people of Myanmar  themselves.

Two crucial actions stopped the British colonial

scheme.  First, the United States--at least its military

leaders--rejected it  absolutely. Pacific Command chief

Adm. Timothy Keating accepted the  conditions laid down by

Myanmar, arranged for over 100 C-130 transport  flights of

aid to be delivered to Yangon and turned over to the

military  government, while the British and the French

military ships sat off-shore  threatening to invade.

Second, the ten members of the Association  of

Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which includes Myanmar,

accepted  Myanmar's request to coordinate all foreign aid

for the cyclone victims and  for reconstruction, thus

effectively telling the British they would have to  deal

with all of ASEAN if they chose to invade.

The immediate threat  has passed--the British have

shifted their focus to Zimbabwe. However,  Myanmar remains

a favorite target of British subversion, in large  part

because its geography makes it a strategic hub for India,

China, and  its fellow Southeast Asian countries. As these

nations continue to  participate in the development of

Myanmar, especially its regional  transportation grids,

facilitating economic cooperation and expansion,  the

British must be expected to escalate their plans  for

destabiization.

 

 7. Break-Up of Pakistan and  Afghanistan

The long-standing British plan for the  break-up of

Pakistan and Afghanistan has reached critical mass,  as

reported elsewhere on this site. [see separate e-mail  -

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