In the past, those who promoted anti-China policies would regularly insist that they were not trying to stop China’s rise, only to correct their ways. No longer. Secretaries Pompeo and Esper have made it a habit to denounce China for its supposed intention to take over the world, its “debt-backed economic coercion and other malign activities meant to undermine the free and open order,” as Esper recently put it.
This week, the EU’s foreign policy representative, Spaniard Josep Borrell, tried to outdo Pompeo and Esper, explicitly denouncing China’s effort to develop its technology as something that must be stopped. “China Dream” of becoming a fully developed nation, Borrell says, is a sinister plot to take over the world; and even Xi Jinping’s call for a “community of shared destiny” is nothing but an ”expansionist” and “authoritarian” effort whose “objective is the transformation of the international order towards a selective multilateral system with Chinese characteristics, in which economic and social rights are prioritized over political and civil rights.” Borrell lectures the EU members that they must “correct” their economic relations with Beijing before it is “too late.”
It is not a coincidence that this psychotic rant comes in the midst of a tour of Europe by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, during which he has had very positive discussions with the top officials of Italy, Holland, Norway, and France, and will conclude the tour in Germany on Monday. Other than the (hypocritical) complaints about human rights issues in some countries, all the European leaders expressed their mutual interest in increasing trade and cooperation with China, and look forward to a virtual summit later this month between President Xi Jinping and the European leaders to forge a trade agreement between the EU and China.
Rather than bowing to the EU dictates, or those of Pompeo, the European leaders are becoming far more assertive that good relations with China are absolutely crucial for escaping from the economic disaster sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, and for their future economic health.
In a similar vein, an former Australian judge who has written on the decline of the Western economies considered today: “The ascendant American view is binary — dividing the world between good and evil and advocating that the U.S. and its allies engage in a great Manichean struggle with China that will define the next century. Pompeo described the conflict as one between `tyranny and freedom,’ even proposing regime change in Beijing. There are no takers for this approach among the countries of East Asia.”
But it must be asked, cui bono? Although President Donald Trump has taken to blaming China for the coronavirus and for the economic crash which it precipitated, this was not his view of U.S. relations with China before the pandemic, and appears aimed primarily to divert the anti-Trump forces in the U.S. from blaming the pandemic and the economic crisis on himself. He was telling the truth in the beginning of the crisis, blaming the actual cause — the thirty-year economic decay imposed on the U.S. by the destruction of the American System policy of directed credit to meet the scientific, industrial and social needs of the population, in favor of the British system of free-market control of the economy by the banking interests, rent-seeking and speculation rather than production, and “globalization” policies which subverted national sovereignty here and abroad.
The same British financial and intelligence community interests which ran the Russiagate hoax are also the authors of the anti-China campaign, from Richard Dearlove to the infamous Christopher Steele, who followed up his “Russiagate” fake dossier with a similarly fake “Chinagate” dossier, and the House of Lords, which warned that Donald Trump must absolutely not be allowed a second term. The financial empire centered in the City of London and Wall Street can not survive without the imperial division of the world, and thus Donald Trump’s intention to build friendly relations with Russia and China must be stopped, they insist, even if it means a war.
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