Judging by statements from the Pentagon and Washington, the US
is preparing the public for war with China. Why such a war? China
is no threat to America and provides the low-cost goods on which
America depends. Since the rest of the world also depends on
Chinese goods, a war would wreck the global economy. Is this a good
idea? Has anyone asked the rest of the world? Why does Washington
want this?
Because China (and a rapidly growing Asia) threatens the
American military empire. You, gentle reader, may not be interested
in empire. You may want jobs, medical care, prosperity, good
schools for your children. But Washington wants empire. Wants it
badly, at any cost.
Thus we are being prepared. In particular we hear about Chinese
aggression, which for some reason America must fix. But it doesnt
exist. China is not militarily aggressive. Look at the record.
Choose a yearsay, 1800and count unprovoked wars started by China
against other countries. There was the annexation of Tibet,
arguably a war, in 1950. China fought a short war with Vietnam
after the American defeat, and took part in various border clashes
of disputed with India. Thats about it. China has one overseas
military base, at Djibouti. Americas has something like 750.
By contrast, since that date America and its European parents
have fought constantly against each other and invaded most of the
world. Whether the aggressiveness of the European races is genetic
is a question for those wiser than I.
China currently is at war with nobody and shows no sign of
wanting to be. It is a commercial nation. By contrast, America has
recently wrecked Iraq, spent twenty years killing in Afghanistan,
wrecked Syria and Libya, bombs Somalia, runs a war against Russia
in Ukraine which has killed some two hundred thousand Ukrainians
and Russians, and wrecked Europes economy, prepares to provoke a
war with China, and threatens to invade Mexico. Where in this do we
see Chinese aggression?
The underlying cause for the aborning war fever is of course
that the Asian economies will dwarf that of America. The proximate
cause is Taiwan.
Why Taiwan?
From Washington we hear the usual about freedom, sovereignty,
goodness, human rights, democracy, and niceness, about none of
which Washington cares at all. The real cause is Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC, which is the largest and
most advanced microchip manufacturer in the world.
Until Trump began Americas attempt to strangle China
technologically by cutting it off from supplies of advanced chips,
TSMC was happily making semiconductors for all the world.
Washington, grimly determined to maintain its imperial control of
the world, is terrified that China might take over Taiwan and its
chip fabs. This, not motherhood and human rights, explains the
constant provocations of China.
The plan seems to be to arm Taiwan, as it did the Ukraine, and
then provoke a...
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