In this mailing: Gordon G. Chang: China Calling for Civilizational War Against America and the West Judith Bergman: Beheading Children in Mozambique China Calling for Civilizational War Against America and the West by Gordon G. Chang  •  March 22, 2021 at 5:00 am       "Gunpowder" is one of those words Beijing uses when it wants others to know war is on its mind. The term is, more worryingly, also especially emotion-packed, a word Chinese propagandists use when they want to rile mainland Chinese audiences.... China's Communist Party, therefore, is now trying to whip up nationalist sentiment, rallying the Chinese people, perhaps readying them for war. More fundamentally, Beijing is... trying to divide the world along racial lines and form a global anti-white coalition.... Deng Xiaoping, Mao's mostly pragmatic successor, counseled China to "hide capabilities, bide time." Xi, however, believes China's time has come in part because, he feels, America is in terminal decline. Xi is serious. In January, he told his fast-expanding military it must be ready to fight "at any second." That month, the Party's Central Military Commission took from the civilian State Council the power to mobilize all of society for war. Militant states rarely prepare for conflict and then back down. There was a "strong smell of gunpowder" when American and Chinese diplomats met in Anchorage beginning March 18, according to Zhao Lijian of China's foreign ministry. "Gunpowder" is one of those words Beijing uses when it wants others to know war is on its mind. Pictured: American and Chinese diplomats meet at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18, 2021. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) There was a "strong smell of gunpowder" when American and Chinese diplomats met in Anchorage beginning March 18. That's according to Zhao Lijian of China's foreign ministry, speaking just hours after the first day of U.S.-China talks concluded. "Gunpowder" is one of those words Beijing uses when it wants others to know war is on its mind. The term is, more worryingly, also especially emotion-packed, a word Chinese propagandists use when they want to rile mainland Chinese audiences by reminding them of foreign — British and white — exploitation of China in the Opium War period of the 19th century. China's Communist Party, therefore, is now trying to whip up nationalist sentiment, rallying the Chinese people, perhaps readying them for war. More fundamentally, Beijing is, with the gunpowder reference and others, trying to divide the world along racial lines and form a global anti-white coalition. Continue Reading Article Beheading Children in Mozambique by Judith Bergman  •  March 22, 2021 at 4:00 am       "I was at home with my four children," one mother told Save the Children. "We tried to escape to the woods, but they took my eldest son and beheaded him. We couldn't do anything because we would be killed too." — Telegraph, March 13, 2021. The jihadists are known in the area as al-Shabaab, but unlike the al-Shabaab that operates in Somalia, which is affiliated with Al Qaeda, the Mozambique group, also known as Ansar al-Sunna, is affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS). The terrorist insurgency threatens not only Mozambique and its people, in addition to neighboring Tanzania, which is fighting jihadists on the border; some analysts estimate that "the insurgency in Mozambique has the potential to destabilise Southern Africa and embolden Islamists throughout the region." Al-Shabaab... made a far more significant breakthrough in August 2020, when the group seized a key port in the province, Mocimboa da Praia, near the country's burgeoning natural gas field developments.... The gas field developments.... are worth an estimated $60 billion.... Al-Shabaab jihadists leading an insurgency in Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique, are now beheading children as young as 11. The terrorist group has killed more than 1,300 civilians and displaced nearly 670,000 people since it began its attacks in the country in October 2017, according to the US State Department. Pictured: The 25 de Junio Camp for displaced people in Metuge, where over 16,000 people from Cabo Delgado are now sheltered, on December 9, 2020. (Photo by Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images) Al-Shabaab jihadists leading an insurgency in Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique, are now beheading children as young as 11. Military and humanitarian personnel working in the area reportedly say that they have never seen anything like the brutality that the terrorists have unleashed on the region with people "often hacked to death and mutilated with machetes" as well as "mass Islamic State-style beheadings". "That night our village was attacked and houses were burned. When it all started, I was at home with my four children," one mother told Save the Children. "We tried to escape to the woods, but they took my eldest son and beheaded him. We couldn't do anything because we would be killed too." Continue Reading Article