Trump Accuses China Of Interfering With US Election

Roughly a week after Axios published a leak claiming that President Trump was preparing to launch a new "broadside" against China that would tie "Russia and China" together, the substance of this mysterious hint has finally been revealed.

During remarks before the UN Security Council (the US, one of five permanent members, assumed the chairmanship this year) Trump accused China of launching election interference efforts similar to those purportedly orchestrated by Russia. China's goal, Trump said, was to stop him from winning reelection in 2020.

"They do not want me or us to win because I am the first president to challenge China on trade. And we are winning on trade. We are winning on every level," Trump said.

"We don’t want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election."

However, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there would be "no question" that the midterms will be safe from foreign influence.

Back in July, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said China, along with Russia, Iran and North Korea, "are penetrating our digital infrastructure and conducting a range of cyber intrusions and attacks against targets in the United States," though he added that Russia "has been the most aggressive foreign actor."

Following the Pentagon's decision to approve a shipment of $300 million worth of military aircraft to Taiwan - not to mention the still-simmering trade war - we imagine Chinese President Xi Jinping won't take too kindly to this.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-26/trump-accuses-china-interfering-us-election

S-300s in, Patriots out: US to withdraw missiles from 3 Middle East countries – report

The Pentagon will remove four batteries of PAC-3 Patriot missiles from three Middle-Eastern countries, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report said the missiles are needed elsewhere to counter China and Russia.

The US newspaper said Jordan and Bahrain will lose one battery of US long-range anti-aircraft missiles next month, while Kuwait will part with two. The systems are not meant to be replaced, so the withdrawal would permanently reduce the defensive capabilities of the three nations. The systems are already offline and are being prepared to be moved, a military source told the WSJ.

The report would not disclose where the Patriot missiles would be redeployed, but said it was part of the Pentagon’s strategy of changing focus from the Middle East towards China and Russia, which were named as the main threats to US global interests in the Trump administration’s defense strategy review.

The MIM-104 Patriot is the US counterpart to the Russian S-300 and S-400 systems. Currently in its PAC-3 version, the long-range air-defense system is used to defend strategic locations from enemy aircraft and missiles. Ironically, the US move was announced just as Russia decided to supply the S-300 system to the Syrian government, after the downing of a Russian Il-20 plane by outdated Syrian air-defense forces during an Israeli air raid.

https://www.rt.com/usa/439497-us-withdraws-patriot-missiles/

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Now this Anon gets it! Those Q+ POTUS crew forget this signature

Washington cannot dictate who Europeans should and shouldn't trade with - Belgian PM

The United States has no right to tell European companies who they can trade and develop economic relations with, according to the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel.

“We cannot accept that the US decided the regions with which European companies can or cannot do business,” Michel said in an interview with Belgian French-language broadcaster RTBF shortly after meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in New York.

The Belgian PM was the first among Western leaders to hold a bilateral meeting with the Iranian President on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Belgium will get a two-year non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as soon as next year.

Michel stressed that Belgium and the EU are not naive when it comes to the issue of Iran and regional significance of the Islamic Republic.

The comments come amid Washington's hard stance against Tehran. In May, US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal, signed between Iran and a broad alliance of world powers. Under the historic agreement, decades-long anti-Iranian sanctions were lifted, opening up the country’s market for Western corporations.

In August, the White House reimposed unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic, putting restrictions on the country’s car industry, carpets, metals trading and banning access to US banknotes.

Further penalties, scheduled for November, will reportedly hit Iran's oil and shipping sectors. Washington threatened secondary sanctions on any nations or corporations that conduct transactions with Iran.

So far, the threat of US penalties has forced out a wide range of European firms, including Daimler, Peugeot, Renault, Siemens and Total, from ventures in the Islamic Republic.

Earlier, the EU’s foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said that the bloc’s signatories – Britain, Germany and France - remain committed to the nuclear deal and that the EU is working on a payment system to allow trade and business with Iran to continue.

https://www.rt.com/business/439463-us-dictate-trade-belgium-minister/

PANIC, as Trump dictates to the EU! Brilliant!