Alliance of Democracies Summit: The Glass House Where the Power Elite Gather to Throw Stones
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VIDEO: BOOK SUMMARY OF “CHINA: GREATEST DISRUPTION TO AMERICAN CENTURY”
Australia is playing in the international greyzone: it is time to get out of our unthinking alliance with the US
The current animosity between the United States-led western world and strategic partners Russia and China is all about power. It is not about human rights, democracy, trade, intellectual property, the ‘rules-based international order’ or any of the other canards used by politicians, commentators and the media to describe current events.
The United States had for a historically brief period, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a unipolar moment where it could largely do as it pleased in international affairs. That period of global hegemony is now history but the myth of US exceptionalism within the minds of its elites, and their acolytes, persists.
China and Russia on the other hand, both having learned the folly of empire, have rather more limited goals. But in a case of projection, Western powers assume Russia and China seek global domination. This is based on the fallacious logic, as argued by former US ambassador and Assistant Secretary of Defense Chas Freeman, that because the United States had the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny these countries must too.
At this point, it is highly unlikely that the United States along with any grouping of its allies can militarily defeat China and Russia in any plausible scenario. Thus, the conflict between these two poles is primarily informational and to a lesser extent economic (e.g. sanctions). In other words, this is a grey-zone conflict, otherwise known as political warfare.
Australia is playing in the international greyzone: it is time to get out of our unthinking alliance with the US
James Bradley, Author of Flags of Our Fathers, #1 New York Times Best-Seller, Speaks Out Against the U.S. Military Encirclement of China
The China Mirage ends with a warning for today. Bradley writes that, “from those early days [19th century] until now, America has dispatched its hopeful sons and daughters to faraway Asia in search of a mirage that never was. And never will be.” That mirage is the idea of China as moldable in American hands. Now, according to Bradley, we have entered another disappointment phase as an ascendant China has gone about its business of expanding its economy and hence its worldwide influence. The danger is that Washington will not get over its disappointment. Bradley in fact describes the current situation—where the U.S. encircles China—as akin to dry tinder ready to spark a war.
Tell the truth, America… the G7 meeting is all about trying to contain the rise of China + US, UK and Allies Must Work Against China’s Threat to ‘International Rules-Based Order’
European Double-Think Blames China for Endangering Peace
It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse
UK to send largest Carrier Strike Group since Falklands/Malvinas war to South China Sea
Biden: US in Competition With China to ‘Win the 21st Century’
In his first address to Congress on Wednesday night, President Biden took the Cold War rhetoric against Beijing to a new level and declared that the US was in competition with China to “win the 21st century.”
US in Competition With China to ‘Win the 21st Century’
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Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China
Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by Taiwanese money is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China.
Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China
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