Just a snap Overview...
Saturday, July 6, 2024 5:26 PM
Dear Friends + Interlocutors,
It is a question of attitude and outlook. Today’s post-Mao China, the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, is a creation directly and indirectly of the U.S. This started with the Nixon-Kissinger initiative of 1972. The same could be said about Russia due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 which brought the Cold War to an abrupt end.
It is a mistake to regard these countries as enemies or adversaries of America. If they seem to be, it is because Washington’s relatively recent policy has made them so. Deliberately. It should be easy to fix that. Like turning a switch.
China in particular can be regarded as an American asset, just like the other three countries in what I call the golden quadrangle in the Far East…Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The American economy is dependent upon them. The world is dependent upon them. This is a fact of life. It would be most unwise to turn the area into a battleground with Washington manipulating from afar.
It is in America’s own interest for Washington to promote peace and harmony among these four major economic powers. Washington's current confrontational policy with China is an extravagant distraction, counter-productive, indeed self-destructive.
Instead, we should embrace China. Moreover, we should also embrace Russia. There would not have been a war in Ukraine if we had. There would not now be an unnecessary arms race in the Far East.
It would be madness for the U.S. to go down a dead-end off-ramp with China as Washington has shamefully done in the Middle East and in Russia.
In the former, Washington has enabled mass murder by its so-called ally and turned its back on justice. Why? In the latter, American foreign policy deliberately engineered a proxy war against Russia and lied about it. Why? There is no rational justification. None of it benefits America.
Patrick
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