Brian Cloughley, a British military historian with books on the Pakistan army and international terrorism, published a piece in the Strategic Culture Foundation website today warning that Pompeo’s effort to demonize and isolate China is leading the world to war.
Under the title: “Washington’s Campaign Against China Could Lead to War,” Cloughley writes: “There is a campaign of denigration being waged by Washington against Beijing ..., ‘Communist China and the Free World’s Future,’ was a venomous diatribe aimed at persuading the world community to combine against the P.R.C.” He notes, however, that such “rudeness and abuse directed against a country’s leader are more likely to have the effect of binding citizens together in a nationalistic fashion than uniting them in opposition to the leader whom the foreigners want them to overthrow. And the word ‘overthrow’ is not used lightly, because Pompeo is encouraging the people of China to rise up and renounce their government and do just that. He declared that ‘we must also engage and empower the Chinese people, a dynamic and freedom loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party.’ This is flagrant encouragement of revolution.”
