“Many in Washington See China as an Existential Threat”
Which is an absolutely absurd, irresponsible, and diversionary accusation. I’m discouraged to see such an otherwise reliable newspaper as the Guardian UK opting in to the American president’s misuse of their native language.
Shame on them.
Absurd, because the United States built modern-day China, selling off our post-war industrial power to make perfectly ordinary millionaires into extraordinary (and destructive) billionaires. Irresponsible, because naming China as a threat defeats the very rules-based international standards America claims to hold dear. Diversionary, because the current occupant of the Oval Office will use any tactic at hand to change the Jeffrey Epstein conversation. It shouldn’t even matter…we know he’s a pedophile, a convicted criminal, an inveterate liar, and a president who has broken every rule of law, including those sent down by our Supreme Court.
Donald Trump Says “My Own Morality is the only thing that can stop me from World Dominance. I Don’t Need International Law.” The U.S. Constitution says otherwise, but he rumbles across it like a speed-bump. “Many will see, many have said,” and “many believe,” are the words Trump uses, when solid evidence refutes his accusations.
Shame on us, as we stand idly by and observe.
The absolute worst possible worldwide economic outcome is for an American hegemony to rise above all others.
Amy Hawkins, the Guardian’s Senior China correspondent, went on to say, “An editorial in the Chinese newspaper the Global Times made Beijing’s pitch clear: headlined “Europe should seriously consider building a China-EU community with a shared future”, the state media article said the world risked “returning to the law of the jungle” and that China and the EU should cooperate in building “a shared future for mankind.”
A ‘pitch,’ was it?
Sounds to me like an earnest and well thought though effort to de-escalate what has suddenly become fashionable…looking at China through the lens of accusation. Even the nuances are negative. Constantly referring to Chinese newspapers as ‘state media,’ when our American media, with few exceptions, has been hijacked by billionaires. Is state-media less honest, or less biased? At the very least, China’s media carries the imprimatur of a dictatorship, rather than a commandeering by wealth and position, as in America.
China’s economic success, one never before seen by a communist government, has made it an enemy of a former economic partner.
Just who is it, if not the United States, who lifted China from relative poverty into the world’s second-place economic success? Offshoring our massive industrial strengths to China’s cheaper labor nearly destroyed our economic middle class, if not setting it back several generations. That’s not aggression by China, but a stupid ‘own goal’ by an American oligarchy that cares more for money than their country.
Ask Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg if it was worth it.
But don’t blame China for accepting the gift.
I am fed up with those fellow Americans that remain stupefied by a president who cares for no one but himself, by unidentified, armed Nazis terrifying our cities, and billionaires taking over every goddamned thing of value in a nation that was once the envy of the less privileged in the world.
We stood by ignorantly while our middle class was destroyed, and the functions of a well-ordered democratic republic bought out from under us. The destroyers are in Davos, plotting their next move and debating whether they should throw the American public a bone, by paying not a fair share, but a small increase in income taxes. They know, in their greedy hearts, that peaceful demonstrations on the streets will pass.
Ask how well that worked in Hitler’s Germany.
And then ask how far we have moved in that direction.