WAYNE MADSEN : Obama Decides To Take On China And Russia ~ THE 5TH ESTATE ASIA

Sunday, May 25, 2014

WAYNE MADSEN : Obama Decides To Take On China And Russia

Sunday, May 25, 2014

White House madman seeks to start WWIII in order to divert from yet more scandals engulfing his administration; willing to destroy America to save own skin, avoid impeachment

WAYNE MADSEN REPORT
By Wayne Madsen
05/24/2014

Pentagon sources have told WMR that they are alarmed at the rapid pace at which the Obama White House has moved to increase tensions with China so quickly on the heels of a breakdown in U.S. relations with Russia.

Just a few weeks after the Treasury Department announced directed sanctions against senior officials of the Russian government, as well as Russian corporations and banks, the Justice Department criminally indicted five military officers of the cyber-war division of the Third Department of the People’s Liberation of Army of China, Unit 61398, for hacking into the computer systems of Alcoa, Westinghouse, U.S. Steel, the United Steel Workers’ Union, Solar World AG, and Allegheny Technologies and stealing trade secrets.

The indictments are the first ever brought by the U.S. government for criminal hacking by officials of a foreign government. The action not only places U.S. citizens, including U.S. military and intelligence personnel, in jeopardy for possible retaliatory indictments and possible arrest by China but also may result in Russia-like sanctions being placed on Chinese government officials and businesses if the five Chinese officials on the FBI’s “Wanted List” are not handed over by Chinese authorities to the U.S. The five Chinese military officers are Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, and Gu Chunhui.

Obama, according to Pentagon sources, has brought U.S. relations with Russia and China to their lowest level since early on in the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s. The Pentagon appears to have been largely bypassed in recent White House decisions that would increase military tensions between Washington and both Moscow and Beijing. The decision to impose tough economic sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis and the indictment of the five PLA officers came just hours prior to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s heralded trip to Beijing, where he inked a major pipeline deal with China and other agreements bringing the two Eurasian economic and political giants closer together. The move by Obama against China also comes after Obama’s saber-rattling tour of Asia designed to put China on notice that it is the target of Obama’s military “pivot to Asia.”

Obama has moved U.S. forces into confrontational positions with Russia’s military in Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Bulgaria. In addition, mercenary forces with the firm Academi, formerly Blackwater and Xe Services, have been reported fighting alongside Ukrainian military and neo-Nazi militia forces in eastern Ukraine. The CIA, using proxies within the non-governmental organization community, has began agitating against the Putin government from within the ranks of feminist, LGBT, and anti-conscription pressure groups.

But first and foremost, Obama has decided to replace governments friendly to China in Southeast Asia with ones more hostile to China and friendlier to the United States. No sooner had the CIA and its Thai allies used judicial contrivances close to the Thai royal family to oust the democratically-elected prime minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, from power but the CIA’s historical dirty fingerprints were found in a catastrophic plane crash in Laos. Top Lao government officials, including Defense Minister and deputy premier Defense Minister Douangchay Phichit, were killed when their Ukrainian-made AN-74TK-300 aircraft crashed while en route from Vientiane, the Lao capital to Xiangkhoung near the Plain of Jars, an area not heard of by most Americans since the days of the John Kennedy administration. Also killed was Public Security Minister Thongbane Sengaphone, Vientiane Governor Sukhan Mahalad, and Lao Communist Party Central Committee Secretary and head of the Committee’s Commission for Propaganda and Training Cheuang Sombounkhanh.

Almost immediately, CIA media outlets, some connected to Radio Free Asia, began reporting on an inevitable power struggle among the secretive Lao Politburo. The Voice of America began interviewing “experts” who maintained that the Thai military was merely fulfilling its traditional role of government busting based on the arcane Martial Law Act.

President Obama, who has used the 1917 Espionage Act, more than any previous president combined, to stifle critics with jail terms has obviously discovered a country with a draconian act that rivals that of the 1917 American law.

The crash was fortuitous for the Obama administration. Naval and coast guard vessels of China and Vietnam had clashed over disputed waters in the South China Sea. Laos has maintained a steady neutrality between Vietnam and China, the two Communist allies of Laos.

The death of Douangchay, a powerful member of the Politburo of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, the Communist party that has ruled Laos since 1975, was expected to set off a power struggle between pro-China and pro-Vietnamese factions within the party. Apparently, the Obama administration decided to go for broke after successfully deposing Yingluck, who is of Thai-Chinese heritage and maintained friendly relations with China. Somewhere deep within the bowels of the Obama national security apparatus is a Presidential Finding authorizing an operation against the Lao government aircraft.

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Douangchay was due to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers meeting in Myanmar to discuss regional security issues with his Vietnamese, Thai, and other ASEAN counterparts. The “constitutional coup” in Thailand coupled with the wiping out of the senior security ranks of the Lao government placed the ASEAN defense ministers’ conference into a quandary.

Douangchay was seen as close to Russia, Vietnam, and China while steering a middle course between the three. His death opens the possibility of a bloc more friendly to the United States and Vietnam coming to the helm in Laos.

No sooner had Laos recovered the bodies of the senior Laotian officials from the crash site, Thailand’s largely U.S.-trained and -supplied military announced they were imposing martial law in Thailand, effectively ending the rule of the democratically-elected government, headed by acting Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan since Yingluck’s ouster by a politically-motivated Thai court intent on throwing the populist-based Pheu Thai Party out of power.

Yingluck anf her exiled brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, himself ousted in a military coup in 2006, are supported by Thailand’s rural-based “Red Shirt” movement. U.S. intelligence contends that the Red Shirts include a number of Communists supported by China through Laos. The suspicious Lao plane crash followed by the Thai military coup have increased U.S. pressure on China’s influence in Southeast Asia.

Obama’s “pivot to Asia” has seen the Philippines invite the U.S. military to re-establish bases in their country, including one in western Palawan island at Oyster Bay. There are also discussions with Vietnam to permit the U.S. Navy to return to Cam Ranh Bay in southern Vietnam. Obama is the first president since Richard Nixon to preside over a massive U.S. military buildup in Southeast Asia.

WAYNE MADSEN

Investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, Madsen has over twenty years experience in security issues.

As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy.Madsen has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists

(SPJ) and the National Press Club, Madsen is based and reports

from Washington, D.C.