Editorial
Washington’s global ambitions
are predicated totally on an adversarial
agenda.
August 06, 2021"Information
Clearing House" - "Strategic
Culture Foundation "
The United States and its allies are on an
ever-quickening collision course with China that
runs the risk of inciting an all-out war. These
reckless, unrelenting provocations are arguably
bordering on criminal aggression.
This week saw Washington announcing a $750
million weapons sale to Taiwan, the island territory
which is recognized internationally as an integral
part of the People’s Republic of China since the
victory of the 1949 civil war. As Beijing angrily
remarked in reaction, the proposed arms deal
blatantly undermines China’s sovereignty and
national security. It also seems a calculated move
to destabilize the region. The supply of American
weaponry to Taiwan – the first such deal under the
Biden administration – will likely embolden
separatist factions on the island to declare
independence from China. In that event, Beijing has
warned that it will militarily invade the territory
and reclaim authority. That would inevitably throw
China and the United States into direct conflict
since the latter has made controversial declarations
to “defend Taiwan”.
The proposed U.S. arms sale to Taiwan follows a
pattern of previous Washington administrations.
Under Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, the number
of weapons deals with China’s renegade territory hit
a record high. These military transactions are a
violation of Washington’s own avowed One China
Policy which purports to acknowledge Beijing’s
territorial sovereignty over Taiwan. That policy was
formulated in the 1970s as a way to align China with
the U.S. in opposition to the former Soviet Union.
Over the decades, Washington has shifted its
geopolitical calculus to designate Beijing as the
main threat to American hegemonic ambitions.
Cynically, and unscrupulously, the One China Policy
has become redundant for pursuing U.S. interests.
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Selling arms to Taiwan is only one of many facets
in the systematic effort by the United States and
its allies to provoke China. Last week saw the
seventh American warship to transit between Taiwan
and mainland China since Biden took office in
January.
The Taiwan Strait is only about 130 kilometers at
its narrowest. It has been the locus of numerous
dangerous military crises between the U.S. and China
over the decades when at times the use of nuclear
weapons was considered by the American side,
according to veteran whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Washington calls its naval exercises “freedom of
navigation operations”. The operations are thinly
veiled challenges to Beijing’s territorial claims.
They are part of a general build-up of military
forces in the region by the United States and its
allies.
This week sees the U.S. navy engaging in huge
military drills in the South China Sea along with
Australia, Japan and India. The U.S.-led group known
as “The Quad” has adopted a strident stance of
challenging China and hemming it in.
A British-led carrier strike group comprising
American and Dutch warships has also entered the
South China Sea on a regional display of power.
France recently sent a nuclear submarine to “patrol”
the sea which is a vital commercial shipping route
for China and which also possesses abundant
subterranean oil and gas reserves. Germany announced
this week that it was deploying a warship to the
South China Sea – the first such mission to the
region for Berlin in two decades.
Meanwhile, Jens Stoltenberg, head of the U.S.-led
military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, has the brass neck, or stupidity, to
repeatedly claim that “China is coming closer to
us”.
So the so-called transatlantic alliance is moving
to the Pacific and Asia to presumably defend Western
democracy and security from the threat of China.
Only a thoroughly brainwashed subject could possibly
believe such nonsensical double-think.
The overt militarism towards China is part of the
“hybrid warfare” that Washington and its imperialist
surrogates (NATO, Five Eyes, corporate news media,
etc.,) accuse Beijing (and Moscow) of waging. The
other aspect of this hybrid aggression is
informational warfare.
China is constantly vilified and demonized by
Washington and its allies with groundless
allegations of genocide against the Uyghur ethnic
minority in Xinjiang western province and of human
rights abuses in its other renegade island territory
of Hong Kong. China points out that its Uyghur
population has grown significantly and prosperously
in recent years.
Beijing has also been accused of conducting
global cyberattacks and more recently of expanding
its nuclear arsenal. All of these accusations can be
more substantially and accurately leveled at the
United States and its allies.
A further twist in information warfare is the
politicization of the Covid-19 pandemic.
U.S. politicians and media are shoring up tenuous
claims that the deadly novel coronavirus originated
from a medical research laboratory in the Chinese
city of Wuhan. This week, U.S. intelligence agencies
claim to have surreptitiously obtained genetic data
from the Wuhan Institute of Virology which could
allegedly demonstrate that the virus escaped from
its laboratories.
This is setting up a “smoking gun” scenario which
can then be used by Washington to incriminate China
over the global pandemic. It is not dissimilar to
how in the past the same intelligence agencies
falsely cooked up “evidence” of weapons of mass
destruction that justified the U.S. launching a
genocidal war on Iraq.
For its part, Beijing has vehemently dismissed
all of these allegations as part of Washington’s aim
to create a new Cold War. On the origins of the
pandemic, in particular, China points to evidence
that implicates the U.S. biowarfare laboratory, Fort
Detrick, Maryland.
The American objective here is to divide the
world into adversarial camps so that it can dictate
the terms of engagement. European allies are being
manipulated and forced to damage their own
burgeoning economic relations with China.
Washington’s global ambitions are predicated
totally on an adversarial agenda. The unique and
dubious privilege of the U.S. dollar as a universal
exchange currency is fundamental to maintaining this
global power. The economic rise of China and the
emergence of a multipolar world is anathema to –
indeed the nemesis of – the U.S. empire. This
explains the madcap efforts by Washington to whip up
antagonism at every opportunity. But this criminal
madness is stoking all-out war
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