The Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) has issued a report titled “How China Is Weaponizing the Belt and Road Initiative.” Its primary author, ASPI Vice President Danny Russel, was the key architect of Obama’s imperial “Pivot to Asia,” which launched the anti-China military build-up which is now being extended under Pompeo and Esper, to drive President Donald Trump into conflict — perhaps war — with China.
Beyond the lie that the many ports being built by China in Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean and Africa are in fact aimed at military domination of the Indo-Pacific, the report actually is an open admission that the intent of U.S. intelligence (for which ASPI is an asset) is to stop the rise of China altogether, and in particular to stop the development of the underdeveloped nations. In a video by Russel describing the report, he says the ports in many cases “don’t make commercial sense” (an idiotic statement), but he admits that they are not fortified as military bases. “So what is the rationale?” he asks. His answer: to “increase leverage and influence.” The BRI is “widening an ecosystem of commercial, technological, diplomatic, informational and military connectivity.” Horror of horrors!
