In this mailing: Judith Bergman: China's Military Modernization Grégoire Canlorbe: A Conversation with Anne Marie Waters China's Military Modernization by Judith Bergman  •  November 16, 2021 at 5:00 am       "[W]e are being more effectively challenged militarily today than at any...any other time in our history." — US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, September 20, 2021. China aims to "complete national defense and military modernization by 2035." — Jamestown.org, March 26, 2021 China's modernization of its military is taking place on all levels. "The PLA [People's Liberation Army] ... seeks a force capable of winning a number of high-end regional conflicts, including the forcible unification of Taiwan, while dissuading, deterring, or defeating third-party military intervention." — Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, before the Senate US Armed Services Committee, April 26, 2021. "Hypersonic weapons, a full range of anti-satellite systems, plus cyber, electronic warfare, and challenging air to air missiles are all part of the growing inventory of Chinese capabilities." — US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, September 20, 2021. "In 2019, the private PRC-based company Ziyan UAV exhibited armed swarming drones..... During the past five years, China has made achievements in AI-enabled unmanned surface vessels, which China plans to use to patrol and bolster its territorial claims in the South China Sea." — The Pentagon, Annual 2020 Report to Congress on the Chinese military. "We're not a decade ahead." — Eric Schmidt, former executive chairman and CEO of Google and the chairman of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, National Defense Magazine, October 30, 2020. "[W]e are being more effectively challenged militarily today than at any... any other time in our history... Hypersonic weapons, a full range of anti-satellite systems, plus cyber, electronic warfare, and challenging air to air missiles are all part of the growing inventory of Chinese capabilities." — Secretary of the US Air Force Frank Kendall, September 23, 2021. Pictured: Military vehicles carrying DF-17 missiles, which are able mount the DF-ZF Hypersonic Glide Vehicle, participate in a military parade in Beijing, China on October 1, 2019. (Photo by Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) "Since 2010, I have been pounding the drum about how serious a threat the People's Republic of China's military modernization program is to the ability of the United States to project power into the Indo Pacific, and more broadly our ability to protect our interests and values around the world.... While America is still the dominant military power on the planet, we are being more effectively challenged militarily today than at any...any other time in our history." These were the words of US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall at the Air Force Association's Air, Space & Cyber Convention on September 20. Continue Reading Article A Conversation with Anne Marie Waters by Grégoire Canlorbe  •  November 16, 2021 at 4:00 am       "We live in a UK where free speech is a thing of the past, our media is merely a mouthpiece of government diktats, and where decent people are demonized and smeared for holding informed opinions. We are in a Britain that resembles the communist Soviet Union: fear, censorship, excessive government control." "Please do not forget that many Muslims, especially women and children, are the victims, as well. Those people are entirely unrepresented." "We do not want to 'Build Back Better' as the globalists keep demanding; we want to Bring Back Britain." "The political and media elite are entirely wedded to the global project of bringing down nation-states. This cannot be done without mass migration." "We are a society of science, and reason, and evidence, and just as we achieve that, we open to the door to medievalism and are catapulted back in time. Secularism and free speech, equal rights between the sexes, the protection of children, all of this is being sacrifice for 'political correctness'". "Most of these people are coming here illegally and this is simply allowed to take place while we watch. What is even harder to take is how these illegal immigrants are elevated above the native population. There are thousands of homeless British people in the UK, and yet illegal immigrants are housed in hotels until permanent accommodation is provided to them. No such relief or help is available to homeless Britons." "Now that we are about to receive a massive influx of Afghans, some of whom are already responsible for crimes throughout Europe, there are plans in place to give them homes, medical care, training and employment, and even free university attendance. Britons must pay thousands of pounds per year per year to attend university. It is a profound injustice." "White children are actively taught that they are racists, colonisers and oppressors." "First and foremost, we must stop the immigration. We cannot deal with these problems while the borders are still open.... The rights of terrorists and rapists are considered more important than the safety of the British public....We must scrap all 'hate speech' laws and allow our citizens to speak freely. We must enact laws that prevent the press smearing political candidates as 'fascists' for daring to tell the truth....We must... deport those who engage in honour violence, FGM, or child marriage... It is also absolutely essential that all of those who express support for jihad, who support terrorists, or who want sharia law, and who are not British citizens, are deported from our country.... These steps are just the beginning but if we were to take them, we would be in a completely different place. The world would no longer see Britain as a soft touch or a hub of jihad." "We live in a UK where free speech is a thing of the past, our media is merely a mouthpiece of government diktats, and where decent people are demonized and smeared for holding informed opinions. We are in a Britain that resembles the communist Soviet Union: fear, censorship, excessive government control." — Anne Marie Waters. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Anne Marie Dorothy Waters is a politician and activist in the United Kingdom. She founded and leads the For Britain Party. Grégoire Canlorbe: Please tell us about the political party you founded and are currently leading, For Britain. What are its ambitions—and its strategy? Continue Reading Article