by Eric Zuesse for the Saker Blog
On July 14th, the two conjoined gangster-regimes, U.S. & UK, simultaneously started, with deadly seriousness, their aggressive economic war against China.
Business Insider headlined “US Navy warship challenges China in South China Sea as US blasts Beijing’s ‘unlawful’ claims and ‘gangster tactics’” and reported that,
After the US Department of State declared Beijing’s maritime claims in the South China Sea and efforts to assert dominance to be unlawful, the US Navy destroyer USS Ralph Johnson further challenged China with a sail-by operation.
The Navy released a couple of photos on Tuesday of the destroyer sailing near the contested Spratly Islands, and a Navy spokesman confirmed that the ship conducted a freedom-of-navigation operation in the area.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) steams near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Ralph Johnson is deployed conducting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts for a free and open Indo-Pacific. U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anthony Collier
On the same day, Russia’s RT headlined “George Galloway: UK ban on Huawei is national self-harm. China’s riposte could devastate the ailing British economy”, and he reported that
Having alienated the remaining 27 members of the European Union and set Anglo-Russian relations back a century, Boris Johnson has just declared an economic war on China. … The proximate reason – that allowing Huawei into Britain’s 5G roll-out is a “security risk” – is patently false. If that were true for 5G, it would be true of 3 and 4G. If it were true then the company would have to be banished now, not in 2027 (by when, incidentally, 5G will be so last year).
There is not a shred, not a scintilla, not a jot or tittle, of evidence that Huawei has ever done anything wrong during its highly successful penetration of the British market, from which Britain has economically benefited mightily.
And if Chinese investment in 5G is not wanted – indeed, is being ejected – what of China’s powerful stake in Britain’s energy sector? What happens if China pulls the plugs on its nuclear power stations? Do all our lights go out? Has anyone thought this Chinese Kick-Away through? … BoJo’s decision to throw the Huawei 5G deal on the scrapheap shows UK poodle still obeys its US master
In this triple whammy of sanctions, gunboats and settlement, the brassy note of Jingoism plays ‘Rule Britannia’, but no one seems to have noticed that China is a vastly richer and more powerful adversary than it was when we extorted Hong Kong from them in punishment for their attempt to halt the flood of British opium into China which caused the addiction of 90 million Chinese people.
The economic sanctions imposed on China in the Huawei affair will be returned several-fold by Beijing.
Galloway might be correct, that China will be able to survive UK’s attempts to stifle China’s rise as a global economic competitor to the UK-U.S. empire, but if the U.S. is allowed to block China’s shipments through the South China Sea, then the war against China has already been won. It’s much more serious.
China has internationally been losing each one of the major rounds in its territorial disputes regarding its territorial claims in the South China Sea. It’s as if the U.S. were losing territorial claims in the Caribbean, except that the South China Sea is far more geostrategically important to China than the Caribbean is to the United States. So, China’s losses here are geostrategic ones. Those are disputes versus the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia, and the U.S. regime has played a decisive role in each case on the basis of its bilateral treaties, such as the 1951 U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty, which enables the Philippines to call upon U.S. military backing in case the Philippines needs muscle in order to assert a territorial claim against another country, such as, say, China, which is the giant in their neighborhood.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman strongly disagreed with his predecessor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s, opposition to imperialism, and he went for it almost as soon as he became the U.S. President. Actually, he became President at FDR’s death on 12 April 1945, and then, less than four months later, on 26 July 1945, committed himself to the Military-Industrial Complex’s dream of establishing an all-encompassing U.S. global empire. He made that decision, on 26 July 1945, which subsequently created the coups, military invasions, importations of thousands of Nazi officials into The West, to help America’s fight against the Soviet Union, and construction of the CIA’a program to control what international ‘news’ would be off-limits to report in the U.S., and in its vassal-nations.
Elliott Roosevelt, FDR’s son who accompanied his father during crucial international meetings, felt that Truman was a traitor to his father’s anti-imperialistic legacy. FDR, according to his son, Elliott, also wasn’t too fond of Churchill, who agreed with Truman because Churchill had always been a champion of British imperialism and he needed U.S. acceptance of that.
Elliott wrote:
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“Roosevelt and Churchill Discuss Colonial Questions, August 10, 1941, excerpt from Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946).”
Father [FDR] started it.
“Of course,” he remarked, with a sly sort of assurance, “of course, after the war, one of the preconditions of any lasting peace will have to be the greatest possible freedom of trade.”
He paused. The P.M.’s [Churchill’s] head was lowered; he was watching Father steadily, from under one eyebrow.
“No artificial barriers,” Father pursued. “As few favored economic agreements as possible. Opportunities for expansion. Markets open for healthy competition.” His eye wandered innocently around the room.
Churchill shifted in his armchair. “The British Empire trade agreements,” he began heavily, “are — ”
Father broke in. “Yes. Those Empire trade agreements are a case in point. It’s because of them that the people of India and Africa, of all the colonial Near East and Far East, are still as backward as they are.”
Churchill’s neck reddened and he crouched forward. “Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the British Do-minions. The trade that has made England great shall continue, and under conditions prescribed by England’s ministers.”
“You see,” said Father slowly, “it is along in here somewhere that there is likely to be some disagreement between you, Winston, and me.
“I am firmly of the belief that if we are to arrive at a stable peace it must involve the development of backward countries. Backward peoples. How can this be done? It can’t be done, obviously, by eighteenth-century methods. Now — ”
“Who’s talking eighteenth-century methods?”
“Whichever of your ministers recommends a policy which takes wealth in raw materials out of a colonial country, but which returns nothing to the people of that country in consideration. Twentieth-century methods involve bringing industry to these colonies. Twentieth-century methods include increasing the wealth of a people by increasing their standard of living, by educating them, by bringing them sanitation — by making sure that they get a return for the raw wealth of their community.”
Around the room, all of us were leaning forward attentively. [Harry] Hopkins [a major FDR adviser] was grinning. Commander [C. R.] Thompson, Churchill’s aide, was looking glum and alarmed. The P.M. himself was beginning to look apoplectic.
“You mentioned India,” he growled.
“Yes. I can’t believe that we can fight a war against fascist slavery, and at the same time not work to free people all over the world from a backward colonial policy”
“What about the Philippines?”
“I’m glad you mentioned them. They get their independence, you know, in 1946. And they’ve gotten modern sanitation, modern education; their rate of illiteracy has gone steadily down
“There can be no tampering with the Empire’s economic agreements.”
“They’re artificial …”
“They’re the foundation of our greatness.”
“The peace,” said Father firmly, “cannot include any continued despotism. The structure of the peace demands and will get equality of peoples. Equality of peoples involves the utmost freedom of competitive trade. …”
It was after two in the morning when finally the British party said their good nights. I helped Father into his cabin, and sat down to smoke a last cigarette with him.
Father grunted. “A real old Tory, isn’t he? A real old Tory, of the old school.”
“I thought for a minute he was [you were] going to bust, Pop.”
“Oh,” he smiled, “I’ll be able to work with him. Don’t worry about that. We’ll get along famously.”
“So long as you keep off the subject of India.”
“Mmm, I don’t know. I think we’ll even talk some more about India, before we’re through. And Burma. And Java. And Indo-China. And Indonesia. And all the African colonies. And Egypt and Palestine. We’ll talk about ’em all.”
At the Casablanca Conference
A similar kind of discussion occurred between Roosevelt and Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943. The following is Elliott’s description of his father’s talk with him one evening during that meeting:
His thoughts turned to the problem of the colonies and the colonial markets, the problem which he felt was at the core of all chance for future peace. ‘The thing is,’ he remarked thoughtfully, replacing a smoked cigarette in his holder with a fresh one, ‘the colonial system means war. Exploit the resources of an India, a Burma, a Java; take all the wealth out of those countries, but never put anything back into them, things like education, decent standards of living, minimum health requirements — all you’re doing is storing up the kind of trouble that leads to war. All you’re doing is negating the value of any kind of organizational structure for peace before it begins.
‘The look that Churchill gets on his face when you mention India!
‘India should be made a commonwealth at once. After a certain number of years — five perhaps, or ten — she should be able to choose whether she wants to remain in the Empire or have complete independence.
‘As a commonwealth, she would be entitled to a modern form of government, an adequate health and educational standard. But how can she have these things, when Britain is taking all the wealth of her national resources away from her, every year? Every year the Indian people have one thing to look forward to, like death and taxes. Sure as shooting, they have a famine. The season of the famine, they call it.’
He paused for a moment, thinking.
‘I must tell Churchill what I found out about his British Gambia today,’ he said, with a note of determination.
‘At Bathurst?’ I prompted.
‘This morning,’ he said, and now there was real feeling in his voice, ‘at about eight-thirty, we drove through Bathurst to the airfield. The natives were just getting to work. In rags … glum-looking. … They told us the natives would look happier around noontime, when the sun should have burned off the dew and the chill. I was told the prevailing wages for these men was one and nine. One shilling, ninepence. Less than fifty cents.’
‘An hour?’ I asked, foolishly.
‘A {day!} Fifty cents a {day!} Besides which, they’re given a half-cup of rice.’ He shifted uneasily in his big bed. ‘Dirt, disease. Very high mortality rate. I asked. Life expectancy — you’d never guess what it was. Twenty-six years. Those people are treated worse than the livestock. Their cattle live longer!’
He was silent for a moment.
‘Churchill may have thought I wasn’t serious, last time. He’ll find out, this time.’ He looked at me thoughtfully for a moment. ‘How is it, where you are? How is it in Algeria?’ he asked.
I told him it was the same story. Rich country, rich resources, natives desperately poor, a few white colonials that lived very well, a few native princes that lived very well, otherwise poverty, disease, ignorance. He nodded.
And then he went on to tell of what he thought should be done: France to be restored as a world power, then to be entrusted with her former colonies, as a trustee. As trustee, she was to report each year on the progress of her stewardship, how the literacy rate was improving, how the death rate declining, how disease being stamped out, how. …
‘Wait a minute,’ I interrupted. ‘Who’s she going to report all this to?’
‘The organization of the United Nations, when it’s been set up,’ answered Father. It was the first time I’d ever heard of this plan. ‘How else?’ I asked Father. ‘The Big Four — ourselves, Britain, China, the Soviet Union — we’ll be responsible for the peace of the world after. …
‘… It’s already high time for us to be thinking of the future, building for it. … These great powers will have to assume the tasks of bringing education, raising the standards of living, improving the health conditions — of all the backward, depressed colonial areas of the world.
‘And when they’ve had a chance to reach maturity, they must have the opportunity extended them of independence. After the United Nations as a whole have decided that they are prepared for it.
‘If this isn’t done, we might as well agree that we’re in for another war.’
Elliott’s book as quoted in the 17 September 1946 Look Magazine:
“Father remarked,” says Elliott Roosevelt, “on how British and French financiers had dredged riches out of colonies. …” He continued later, “How do they belong to France? Why does Morocco, inhabited by Moroccans, belong to France? By what logic and custom and historical rule?”
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Obviously, Winston Churchill’s dream came true when FDR died on 12 April 1945 and became replaced by Truman.
Among those statements by FDR, the one specifically regarding the Philippines has particular relevance today. The 1951 U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty violated what FDR had said to Churchill, “I’m glad you mentioned them. They get their independence, you know, in 1946.” That U.S. commitment, “freedom,” to the Philippine nation, had already been made. He promised to Churchill that it would be fulfilled, and that therefore Churchill would not be able to say that America is an imperialist power as England is. It was a basic commitment from him. Furthermore, FDR said:
“No artificial barriers,” Father pursued. “As few favored economic agreements as possible. Opportunities for expansion. Markets open for healthy competition.” His eye wandered innocently around the room.
Churchill shifted in his armchair. “The British Empire trade agreements,” he began heavily, “are — ”
Father broke in. “Yes. Those Empire trade agreements are a case in point. It’s because of them that the people of India and Africa, of all the colonial Near East and Far East, are still as backward as they are.”
And: “‘The peace,’ said Father firmly, ‘cannot include any continued despotism. The structure of the peace demands and will get equality of peoples.’”
He linked bilateral, and also multilateral, trade treaties, to the creation of both World Wars. The United States, after his death, has used them in exactly the same way — building toward a WW III. Truman was the death of FDR’s plan. For example, Barack Obama’s proposed TTIP international-trade treaty for the Pacific was specifically designed against China, so as to isolate and diminish China in international trade — precisely the sorts of things that FDR had condemned in his statements to Churchill. Obama was an anti-FDR, pro-Truman, Democrat, who repeatedly emphasized, “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.” Every other nation is “dispensable.” Hitler had agreed with Obama’s view, except that in Hitler’s mind, Germany was the only indispensable nation.
In a sense, Hitler posthumously won WW II. His ideology, imperialistic fascism certainly did.
The Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, condemns U.S. imperialism and repels any dependency of his country upon the U.S. military. He explains “I have nothing against America. They’re perfectly alright. Trump is my friend. But my foreign policy has shifted from the pro-Western one. I am now working on alliance with China, and I hope to start a good working relationship with Russia. Why? Because the Western world, the EU, and everything – it’s all this double talk.”
CONSEQUENTLY:
The path forward for China will be increasingly for China to serve as a defender of the independence of the nations in its area (such as the Philippines), so that they won’t need to accept the U.S. regime’s offers of military assistance. Either this, or else China itself will cede control of its own neighborhood over to a distant enemy-nation, the ceaselessly grasping U.S. regime, and might as well just quit altogether, and become an American pawn itself.
Either all of the nations in that area will thrive together, or else the U.S.-UK alliance will succeed at crushing and swallowing-up them all.
This means that in the conflicts that China has with its nearby nations, China must grant those nations’ interests as being also China’s interests. China must accept its obligation to defend their interests in order to become enabled to assert its own. Only if this is done will those nearby nations ally with China against the U.S. Empire, not just militarily, but also in regard to commerce and trade. For China not to take on this obligation would be unacceptable, not only for China, but for the entire world. Regardless of what China wants, China has this obligation, now, to protect its region, against America’s billionaires, and their military, and their corporations.
However, the U.S. regime’s unmistakable threat now to block China’s freight-traffic through the South China Sea will succeed if China becomes the first side to attack and tries to down any U.S. forces there. Even if the U.S. strikes without warning and with no clear excuse, China will need to hold back for a while, before retaliating. The U.S. has arrayed an awesome striking force in that area. China will have to wait until the U.S. attacks it first, in any event, but now is the time for China to negotiate with its neighbors. Otherwise China will have almost the whole world against it, if China provides the bad optics of having been the first to strike.
During this time, therefore, China needs to be negotiating with each of the other regional players in order to persuade each one that only a unified facing-down against the U.S. in that region can even possibly salvage the independence of each one of them from now on. Russia may also need to be brought into the arrangement as a protector of China, just in case the U.S. turns out to be uncompromising in its intention to take over the entire world. Either Russia will soon enter this new World War that the UK-U.S. regimes are already waging, or else Russia will be forced to enter it only after Russia’s major allies will already have been swallowed-up by the U.S. The safer choice for Russia is consequently to enter the war sooner, as a guarantor for their side, their allies, the independent nations, than to enter it after those nations have already been defeated and swallowed-up.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
Satire: All tcountries China attacked for regime change. All those Chinese bases in other countries. What a international rouge country. So agressive thinking they are the greatest of all countries with the best medical and social care for their citizens. Watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvnSRG1mlIs&t=7s
Just a waiting game for China now. One senses that, contrary to all the current belligerent US posturing, the noose is tightening around the neck of the soon to be failed US regime, and not the Chinese. If nothing else, the US Navy – aka, “The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” – should be encouraged to congregate ships in the area, so that simple self-induced operational accidents can be relied upon to thin their numbers. Imagine the optics of the US being forced to beg for rescue assistance at sea from the Chinese! Oh my, won’t the Bombastic Orange One have problems then! The US Paper Tiger might just find itself in the maw of the Hidden Dragon before they know it, right where the Chinese want them to be.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/politics/navy-fitzgerald-mccain-collisions-report-avoidable/index.html#:~:text=Washington%20(CNN)%20The%20US%20Navy,in%20June%20and%20August%2C%20respectively.
Dear Dissaffected,
Do you remember the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where ‘Chief’ Evens (Evens gained that nick-name due to his being an American Indian) let a fleet of destroyers to attack the Japanese fleet, initially causing the Japanese to think they were American cruisers. Evens strategy worked but with the loss of many a destroyer, but it took the American commanders over a day to realise that they had survivors in the water who had been forgotten and ignored but still needed to be rescued.
Not the first time and it won’t be the last. Not a good thing to be a US sailor
The US also just burned up one of their ships. They couldn’t control the fire:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/explosion-fire-navy-ship-base-san-diego-21-injured-200713011027265.html
It’s a huge amphibious assault ship which looks like the French’s Mistral class type – the same type that Russia ordered from France but France refused to deliver after the Crimea annexation.
The AngloZionist Empire is sinking fast. It was first launched over 500 years ago, when Adam Smith proposed that economic liberalism, everyone left to his own economic devices instead of being controlled by the state, would result in a harmonious and more equal society of ever-increasing prosperity. Problem was, it only applied to Europeans. The rest of humanity was subject to gruesome colonization, racism, brutal enslavement, and the forceful stealing of land and resources.
When the Empire ran out of new continents to rape and pillage it devolved into the current corporate fascism where the wealthy elites control everything. Our political process is a shame. It makes no difference who is elected in November as both major parties are controlled by the same ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman entities.
“These obscure individuals who pretend running our world have never been elected. We don’t need to name them. You will figure out who they are, and why they are famous, and some of them totally invisible. They have created structures, or organisms without any legal format. They are fully out of international legality. They are a forefront for the Beast. Maybe there are several competing Beasts. But they have the same objective: A New or One World Order (NWO, or OWO).”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-reset-unplugged/5716178
But, again, the Empire is sinking fast. Unlike the Titanic which sank after a horrible accident, The Empire was actually torpedoed by these dark entities. The bio-weapon COVID-19 was cover for a total reset of the world’s economy. First directed at China it now targets the lower classes of both the USA and the UK. That China would beat it and the USA would blow it was all part of the plandemic. Trumpsters are doing their part by not wearing facemasks, hitting the bars and beaches, and even having COVID-19 parties to spread the virus around. This, too, was part of the plan. Millions of unemployed workers have been made as superfluous as pack animals in the new economy. Their menial labor jobs will never come back as they will be replaced by automation and robots. That they are now offing themselves in record numbers is also part of the plan.
These are dark times. The Empire will collapse and be replaced by a shadowy corporatocracy that may not even be human, just some automated profit algorithm that has determined that there are way too many humans on the planet. I don’t know if there is any way out of this. May Heaven help us all.
Oops, make that hundreds of years ago. Adam Smith lived from 1723 to 1790.
“The rest of humanity was subject to gruesome colonization, racism, brutal enslavement, and the forceful stealing of land and resources.”
Yes – and worse.
But they did introduce education and medical care and modern communication systems – no matter how miserly. And modern ways to run a state.
No matter how flowed, European colonisation brought these continents into modernity. With violence and plunder, racism and frequently cruelty, but the higher end was served: bringing the world to a state in which humans can communicate with each other across continents.
FDR saw colonisation’s unrealised potential for good, due to the selfishness of the colonial countries, which were so selfish that they were doing more harm than good – and now get out…
But in fine, colonisation – and its twin, missionary activism – did a fair bit of good.
I say this as one who was educated at a missionary school…
Yes, what you say is true. The third world did benefit to some degree from colonization, but it’s hard to look a Native American in the eye and say that the 500-year-old genocide perpetrated against indigenous people in the Americas was a good thing.
No matter. The Empire that did this horrible deed is sinking like the Titanic and the shadowy corporatocracy I referenced (Are they even human?) will soon be drastically culling the human herd. Through unchecked climate change, devastating plandemics, unrestricted nuclear warfare, etc. the planet will be made uninhabitable for all but cockroaches and robots. Maybe they’ll keep a few humans around as pets but I wouldn’t count on it.
Ad homiem removed … mod Colonialism destroyed Asian and African countries to a great extent than serving their social development. Take South Asia for example. The British created racial and other types of divisions in those societies which still are major causes for conflicts.
If you actually read my comment in context, I was agreeing with RMM that at least in his case colonization did a fair bit of good. As to whether I’m “delusional or ignorant”, I’ll leave it up to the moderators to decide if this was an Ad hominem attack or not. You could certainly have made your case without it.
One example I can think of is the practice of
sutteesati, in which a widow would (be forced to) burn along with her dead husband’s corpse. British rule largely ended this practice. At the same time, I am also aware of the various famines created by Britain.Another example is the continued use of the English language in countries like Ireland and India that, allegedly, suffered the most from British rule. Since the English language as we know it today originated in England, I doubt that said former colonies would be speaking it if they were never colonies to begin with.
It becomes striking when a faction of Irish and/or Indians despise Britain despite speaking English in their everyday lives. To me, it’s almost like biting the hand that feeds them. If they were serious about it, they would stop speaking English, if not boycott it, and speak the native language(s) of their respective countries (Irish for Ireland, and Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, etc. for India).
Similar things could be said about the relationship between African Francophone countries and France/Belgium, Latin America and Spain, Brazil and Portugal, Ukraine and Russia, etc..
“Similar things could be said about the relationship between African Francophone”
Language is always a vector of ideology including but not limited to catalysing connotations..
A derivative of Russian which some refer to as Soviet Speak would illustrate this, including by Mr. Bulgakov’s Heart of a dog on the “creation of a new man” although in translation this becomes diluted since many would be translators do not share the connotations.
However perhaps citing Mr. Zamenhof and Esparanto and “Modern Hebrew” and “Israel” may prove more illuminating ?
The US has forgotten how duplicitous it is. (Give me a bit of leeway here:: I am old) A few years ago (2013) I think, the Philippnes took their spratleys claim to the (UN) and the UN ruled in the Philippines favour against China. The US turned its back and whistled into the wind. At that moment the US lost any credibility in the South China Sea. Had the US come out for the Ruling and stood with the Philippines, this would be a totally different game now.
There is no picking up spilled milk.
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” The economic sanctions imposed on China in the Huawei affair will be returned several-fold by Beijing.”
Not so sure about this. So far China’s responses to all the provocations thrown at it have been very tame and limited. That might change, but not anytime soon, China is being very cautious for some reason.
The US trade sanctions against China result in higher prices for consumer goods in the US, that the general public can ill afford.
It seems to me that Trump is indulging in wishful thinking with regard to the US and China.
The US suffers from a total international trade deficit of $75 billion per month of which $50 billion is with China.
China is now the biggest creditor nation in the world with $2.3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves.
The US government is now the largest debtor nation with $26 trillion owed by the US Treasury to the private sector both foreign and domestic.
Because of US sanctions China is now increasing its trade with Russia and Iran, particularly for its oil imports.
The claim that the US has economic superiority is based solely on the US stock market, that is not the real economy.
The US is headed for a major recession with 50 million people unemployed.
China has no interest in direct military conflict with the US, but it will defend its interests in Asia.
Both the Korean War 1950-53 was a proxy war between the US and China fought on Korean soil, where the US suffered a humiliating defeat, particularly at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. After that President Truman fired General MacArthur. More US bombs were dropped on North Korea by the US air force than were dropped on Germany and Japan in WW2 1939-45.
Similarly the Vietnam War 1955-75 was a proxy war with China and Russia, who supplied weapons to the Vietcong. The US were again defeated despite using agent orange to defoliate the landscape and carpet bombing with high explosives dropped from B-52 bombers that killed 3 million Vietnamese with 58,000 American dead.
Ironically, the August 10, 1941 conversations between Cur hill and FDR took place on board the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales which found itself at the bottom of the South China Sea four months later, courtesy of the Japanese Air Force.
FDR’s so called anti-imperialism was in fact a cunning trick so US interests could get into those newly “independent” countries and make a buck out them and run them into debt with US banks (controlled by elites) and exert other forms of control. FDR was phase 1 and Truman phase 2.
As for China it is a loose cannon on the world scene, Huawei is a tech & security problem. It needs containment for the common good. The Chinese constantly steal industrial and tech secrets to enrich themselves. The CP ones behave like animals at times having little moral fibre. They have been acquiring strategic assets outside China to effect indirect control. Their military buildup is also a grave concern. It has to be nipped in the bud.
Just try to nip chinese military buildup!
As for the robbery of industrial and technical secrets , the US has got an unbeatable expertise on the subject. Since 1945, in Germany.
In fact, we non Americans, see the ‘muricans outcry of ‘victims’ of chinese spying as a loser ‘s weeping. and a hypocritical one for that matter.
Three months ago, the Brazilian airplane manufacturer Embraer, was in a process to ‘merger’, (i.e. naked sale) of their commercial jet lines to Boeing.
It was just a small trick for Boeing to add a plus in their competition versus the Europeans.
Well after many weeks of the Boeing engineers diving into Embraer ‘s headquarters plans, R&D and tech files, then just guess? The boeingers
simply declared there were not in the mood to purchase anymore.
A stupid move from the third rate rightwing Bolsonaro administration, yes, who trusted the empire buccaneers. (or expected for a tip)
Now they will perhaps hand over a share to a Chinese manufacturer…
Yes, thieves are everywhere – as I noted in the first para of my post re FDR & Truman.
No I don’t think so, Brazil Embraer will not court China: bolsanaro hates the Chinese, he’s blaming covid on them like most of the world. I’m not sure who they might try to sell their crown jewels to, but it won’t be China, the USA won’t let them. Maybe Embraer will sell to Russia.
I’d like to thank Mr. Zeusse for a thoroughly entertaining article, of course, none of his suppositions and affirmations can substantiated by actual facts and proof. As for Huawei having backdoors into their equipment, it is absolutely true: I witnessed this myself when Huawei engineers logged into to our core network despite the fact that all passwords were changed and we were just at the beginning of a maintenance window and had not handed them access just prior to an upgrade. When we hit the roof, chinese engineers apologized profusely, that they were only trying to speed up the upgrade in order to minimize any potential downtime (which didn’t nmake sense since these mission critical system are active-active systems with all control transactions handled by the mirror clusters.) The Huawei engineers were so scared that they begged us to not to file an official report without management: we didn’t becywe know how hardworking and stressed these engineers are. Now I don’t think any spying occurred in the incident, they really were trying to cut corners to speed up the upgrade, but fact that they could get privileged access into our system tells you there must be several layers of backdoors. There is no question about that.
The even more wishful are the comments that have gone completely disconnected from reality: it is China that’s in deep trouble, the country is a mess right now with devastating floods, the massive economic damage from covid19 the PR nightmare they are suffering because the USA, UK, France, ASEAN, Japan, Korea South, Indonesia, India, Brazil, many African countries are blaming China for covid 19.
Multinationals are already shifting production out of China (only 1000 have announced, 300 have actually started the transition, and admittedly that is a small number, but before 2019 it was zero).
Santiago:
You are totally wrong concerning that only the Chinese steal and others didn’t.
The whole history tells us of stolen invention property. Chinese silk, Chinese porcelain, British weaving tools (machines) after implementing of the industrial revolution, while the original idea came from India, Middle Eastern mathematics and astronomy (from ancient times as well as Islamic times), same goes to optical drawings and devices respective tools, paper from China brought (stolen) by Middle Eastern people and made of it more practical invention from Islamic times. A lot of it stolen by Europeans.
This list could go on and on.
However, not to forget what had been stolen/taken by US from German intellectual properties are a lot of inventions after the end of WWII !! Thousands !! Many of it had been put later forward as invention made by USA !! Not to forget that USA by some actions (“paperclip” for example) took famous German Nazi scientists and gave them posts in US research projects after WWII in USA!!
Please be more cautious while accusing anyone country when it comes to stealing intellectual properties.
At the moment it is just extremely ridiculous and absurd that especially USA accuses China of something which is does by itself for many, many years and the whole Europe as well as many other countries are monitored by USA, it goes up to the point that private conversations, telephone calls, e-mails, bank accounts and so forth are monitored and registered and so forth. More over the “Five Eyes” as is already well known is located in some areas to “put and listen” to people in other countries !
So your “claim” concerning China is just laughable !! China doesn’t put taxpayers money into illegal wars murdering and stealing around our globe as USA is doing for many, many years !! China puts its money into its own country with an excellent education program, infrastructure and so forth of which USA citizenry can only dream about !
The list and comparison could go on and on ….
Last but not least USA is bombing and China is building. USA murders and steals and China builds infrastructure in other countries ! Thats the big, big difference ! USA is devastating our environment ! Every bomb is damaging our air and soil, too many marine ships pollute our seas.
In comparison: Rome was also extremely cruel to other countries however, they built in their subdued countries excellent streets (can partly be seen until today), conducts, theaters, market places. libraries, walls etc.
No stealing there. Once a human discovers something – i.e., taps into “the rain-cloud of knowable things”, which hangs there for all humans who can tap into it – then what he finds is for all humanity. Of course, the discoverer should be compensated for it, but not hoard the discovery.
Certainly no country should benefit alone from that discovery, merely because one of their citizens made it.
And definitely Big Pharma – for instance – has no right to monopolise medical discoveries, simply because they funded the work – usually only in part, the rest being forked out by the taxpayer.
Yes you make relevant points Monnalisa.
But I dont believe there were patent laws for silk or porcelain etc …in place in the olden days.
US acquisition of German technology was in fact part of deal done dating back to 1918 & 1945 to get Germany out of WW1 & WW2 debt & reparations & trade concessions and provide defense post 1945. A lot of Germans involved with that technology secretly got let into the US from 1945 and setup businesses to develop it. There are flows back and forth. If they hadnt it would have been stolen by the USSR.
China has been taking technology and breaching copyrights and patents and not remitting royalties both to US & EU. Taiwan has also done this in the past. Mainly taking about businesses in C & T. It is part of the reason for the US balance of payments and trade deficit.
But also China has supported wars in third world countries and backed that animal in Cambodia called Pol Pot. Which the Vietnamese had to (rightly) deal with to stop the genocide.
Money stolen from US businesses by failure to pass on royalties due is why it can fund China’s education system and other building projects.
“The Chinese constantly steal industrial and tech secrets to enrich themselves. The CP ones behave like animals at times having little moral fibre. They have been acquiring strategic assets outside China to effect indirect control. Their military buildup is also a grave concern. It has to be nipped in the bud.”
Unimaginative, boring re-hash of old anti-Soviet slanders. Gorbachev’s willingness to destroy the USSR and its military didn’t dampen the West’s insatiable drive to all-out mayhem, war, and lawlessness; it encouraged it. Do you really believe China should give it another try? And that the world is somehow unaware of the fact that the West is dying and decomposing?
Yes we live interesting times however once you realize the US is manipulated by EU elites things become clearer. China may be a red herring trap for Russia for EU. But China is a different brand to USSR. Remember it is the last communist power left.
US ability to wage and continue wars is being undermined by domestic leftists who are CHICOM operatives who push the peace movement and are behind all the recent mayhem – riots, BLM, CHAZ, etc…. It includes most of those running the Democratic Party aka Barrack & Hilly. This is another reason China must be dealt with – it is behind domestic destablization. The right in US want its influence removed and correctly so.
The whole thing is a giant chess game with more than 2 players. With a hexagonal shaped chessboard.
Thnx for the buzzword essay mr/ms Santiago, i needed a good chuckle.
I find great amusement in reading imperial buzzword salads occasionally😂
The Vikings were also thieves as well.
Dark Age loose cannons.
The US/UK are putting task forces into the South China Sea. So what? They steam around showing the flag and threatening. Result? The people of China are even more resolute to not allow another intervention like in the 1800’s. The defenses of China can very quickly sink the entire US/UK navies in the region.
China realizes war is likely but are quietly lining up their chess pieces and will not strike first. The recent strategic agreement between China and Iran is one piece. They don’t beat their chests and gnash their teeth so much in the open like the US/UK as they and Russia know its a sign of weakness. The more the US pressures and threatens the more it assembles its coffin and digs its own grave.
The idea in the West to reign in China is a pipe dream. It will be touch and go, very dangerous, but the coalescing emerging East will not be subdued, neutralized, or defeated. History will hand the US its hind end.
I agree with the point that China should build closer ties with its neighbors. As far as the current state of affairs continues, China will be seen as a bully who wants to dominate the region, just like India does in South Asia.
Instead, China should be willing to compromise. As long as they don’t make the first step, it gives the US regime a reason and opportunity to have closer ties with the regional countries and pretend to be the ‘protector’.
Since when has the U.S. ever cared about unlawful actions and gangster tactics?
A bit rich coming from a nation that has prospered from unlawful actions and gangster tactics.
I thought the U.S. was world leader in unlawful actions and gangster tactics and would appreciate someone imitating them. Most artists flattered when someone else covers their work, but apparently the U.S. is more concerned about plagiarism.
”Most artists flattered when someone else covers their work, but apparently the U.S. is more concerned about plagiarism.”
Haha, that’s precisely the kind of contemptuous amusement I would love to see the Pindos (state and people alike) become subjected to courtesy of the inexorably rising resistance countries. Ergo: Before striking a Pindo target or inflicting heavy economic losses upon a Pindo corporation, a representative for the attacking side should tweet the Orangeman, asking politely:
— We are about to resort to one of your typical niceties as part of attacking you. Since we do respect intellectual property, are you willing to accept $100 as due fee?
Very obvious.
The path towards any consolidation of a newly developed, large and resourceful nation, is to connect, reconnect and expand its relations with neighbors.
Which starts with building up confidence among all of them.
Every great nation has done it since Charlemagne and why dhould the empire of the middle do otherwise?
a disappointing reading.
One of Eric’s better articles!
I am very familiar with “As He Saw It” by Elliot Roosevelt often cited in Lyndon LaRouche’s speeches and writings which I first discovered in the 1980s.
They are online at larouchepub.com
LaRouche was stationed in India when FDR died, and often wrote of the experience of being called upon for his assessment of the situation, that week in Mid-April 1945…. by a group of his Indian friends, although Lyn was only 22 years at the time of FDR’s death.
They asked if they would still get credits for capital goods, especially for textiles, that the British always kept strictly for themselves while their fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers had toiled for all their lives with zero opportunities to own such machinery.
The young American serviceman told them the truth: “I am worried, because I am afraid that a great man has died….and a very little man has become president in his place.”
Santiago’s cynicism …..”FDR’s so called anti-imperialism was in fact a cunning trick so US interests could get into those newly “independent” countries and make a buck out them and run them into debt ……” is quite ironic and characteristic of the Victim Identity, as regards China today….as though every successful person or nation owes every LOSER the shirt off their back….and to never make “a buck”……i.e ANY re-investable profit EVER again…or help themselves or anyone else ever again, subsequently!
Good luck with that nonsensical sort of “Santa Claus Socialism”!
Not even Communist China…..in bringing MUCH more development to the continent of Africa than the British, French, Belgians ever did….can just be One Big Jolly Saint Nicolaus, handing out gifts with no regard for the maintenance and reproduction of plant, equipment, technology and management capacity to generate any further gifts for anyone!
So China (just like Santiago accuses FDR!!) is accused of setting “debt traps”.
The Ingratitude!
BRI projects must ALSO “make a yuan”….or even any Chinese Communist Party official knows that BRI would very soon fizzle….and die….uncompleted.
Basic!
This is a “Law of Nature” that only the clueless and thoughtless adherents to a victim identity wish better men (whether FDR or Xi) would abandon in suicidal foolishness.
And FDR was a much better man than Harry S Truman. And his failing health and early death cost the developing sector…(a major point of Eric’s article………FDR’s policy toward South America was “The Good Neighbor Policy” which is suggested China emulate or be isolated…. unsupported!) and the USA (which is whole other story!) quite dearly.
And what do you do with hard lessons, and mistakes, if you have any wisdom??
You learn them, without complaint or quibble……or repetition of the same errors.
And even then, it won’t be easy, automatic, or just “rolling out of bed” ready to receive.
A human right is equality of opportunity….not automatic, freely gifted equality of outcome…..which never ever happened in the past, and is not likely to ever happen in the future, either.
”US ability to wage and continue wars is being undermined by domestic leftists who are CHICOM operatives who push the peace movement and are behind all the recent mayhem – riots, BLM, CHAZ, etc…. It includes most of those running the Democratic Party aka Barrack & Hilly.”
I’m glad to hear you say that. Whoever is undermining the ability of the US to wage and continue wars is doing a Sterling service to Life on Earth. If China is masterminding the whole thing, then 👍 for 🇨🇳
@Mr. Eric Zuesse
Regarding the Philippines:
The Philippines regards its former colonizer as its savior (sort of Stockholm syndrome). President Rodrigo Duterte is the first sensible president to see the error of this. However, a great majority of his cabinet members, members of the corrupt congress still hold on to the “US as our savior” mantra. The Philippines is irreversibly hopeless. I see hope in Malaysia.
IN 2008 Russia and china had the opportunity to destroy IMF and world bank and the american -british system of looting the world ;but foolishly these two countries ,on prompting from parasite england, recommended IMF and world bank to lead new economic system! How stupid of these countries and that is why they never go up in world because of their stupidity.
therefore china and russia must prepare for war which is coming there way-but these stupid countries are allowing anglosaxon to win in libya and now in syria on one pretext or another. Following the lead from anglos must Russia and china arm all those who oppose anglosaxon evil empire. and must Russia support insurrection in england and usa then have those countries bombed as anglos have done in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran etc?
Ofcourse not.
But what about the saying ” what is good for the gander—“?
“but foolishly…”
Evaluation is always a function of purpose and not everyone shares the same purpose simultaneously.
Interpretation is a function of evaluation and not everyone shartes the same facility simultaneously.
Purpose of some with limited facility is a projection of their expectations/prejudices as illustrated “What is good for the gander-ness” ergo emulation.
Thank you for your cooperation in illustrating some aspects of the opponents’ illusions/practices.
4th June, 2007.
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President Putin is wrong when he says ( in Munich security conference 2007) that Russia should or will target the missile on Europe if america goes with anti missile defence plan in Poland in Europe.
]In fact it was not America but england which asked for ABM against Russia. BBC spy journalists were harassing presidential candidate Gore not to go ahead with Florida recount on ground” ally like britian want to conclude AMB deployment in Yorkshire as soon as possible so there should be no delay in govt. formation.” In other word accept fraudulent win of bush for sake of england !
Russia must target (rather than should) the nuclear missiles with multiple war heads against all ( including military instalations) of england because this cold war -like the one before- is being started by england for the benefit of english race only-.it is race war between the english parasite race versus the rest of the world-the sooner the rest of the world realizes that better it is for the world.
look how Germany was vilified soon after fall of soviet union-look how russia is being vilified immediately after Putin made russia strong.
Russia’s “partners” understand only two things: the big wallet and the big gun, as satan understands only Saint George’s spear. Time is near.
-such is the evil propaganda of british spies inside america. .
Poland is nothing but a proxy for the british bastards.
It is no use targeting Poland -target the main villain which is england and the english nation which must be sorted out by the world.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-world-order-the-founding-fathers/5445255
face 0f the evil.
When someone asked Bismark once what he would do if the British invaded, he said he’d have the border police arrest them (or words to that effect).-thaqt is how low the germans thought of the English army capability –and the Germans were right as was shown the cowardice of non fighting coward English trrops in both world wars-they instigated others to fight but remained behind in actual fighting till late.
Remember Bismarck said that when the pirate empire called british empire was at height of her pseudo power-in other words Prussians could defeat the English race at the height of their so called power. and that was at height of pirate empire of the british at Victoria’s time.And rightly so. english then and now are ready to fight only unarmed civilians.
Prussia was the strongest army in the world at that time. It tells you how low English race is compared to the Germans and how much Germans could have gone up had they been not made to fight Russian in plot created by the English race-that plot is called world war one and two.
“Russia’s “partners” understand ”
“War” tends to benefit more from the opponents’ not understanding rather than the opponents’ understanding.
Thank you for your futher illustration of some of the opponents’ beliefs/practices/wishes.