Tag Archives: Sino-American relations

Understanding the Chinese mindset means understanding their history. Key Point: China plans on never being humiliated ever again. Bingo. Harry J. Kazianis nails it.The US-initiated "trade war" and the manufactured Hong Kong separatist revolt are eerily reminiscent of the British colonization of China and the Opium War. It is blazingly obvious to all Chinese people but is lost on the West that the intention is to keep China down and make it subservient to the the West, led by the US.China...

Zero HedgeBeijing Backs Iran, "Firmly Opposes" Unilateral US Sanctions Tyler DurdenSputnik InternationalGoogle Suspends Huawei Access to Android Updates After Trump’s Ban – ReportsReutersSchumer asks government to probe rail tech from China Sputnik InternationalChinese Users Call for Boycott of Apple Phones Due to US Trade War

Devaluation would be the most disruptive.FortuneChina Is Running Out of U.S. Goods to Tariff, But It Has Other Trade War Weapons to Unleash Eamon Barrett

More on China.I concur with most of the post. However, I disagreed previously with the view that the US has no China strategy and that the Trump administration is shooting from the hip. Instead, US policy is to aim between the eyes with a sniper rifle to disable the rise of China in this century. I continue to hold this view. It is part of the larger view based on the Wolfowitz Doctrine of not permitting a competitor to permanent US global hegemony, which involves neoliberal globalization...

Recent remarks by a senior Trump administration official suggest that the United States' current approach to China is dangerously misconceived. The rise of China under a one-party dictatorship should be met with a united front in defense of the liberal order, not talk of a clash of Caucasian and non-Caucasian civilizations.… Of course this is a civilizational conflict. Western imperialism and colonialism were racist at the core — "white-man's burden" and all that— and neoliberalism,...

Anyone who has followed the nuts and bolts of the Chinese miracle launched by Little Helmsman Deng Xiaoping in 1978 knows that Beijing is essentially exporting the mechanism that led China’s own 800 million citizens to, in a flash, become members of a global middle class. As much as the Trump administration may bet on “maximum pressure” to restrict or even block Chinese access to whole sectors of the US market, what really matters is BRI’s advance will be able to generate multiple, extra...

Vice President Pence in a speech about China some weeks ago essentially said that the United States and the West more broadly made a bad bet. The bet was that if Western countries participated in capitalism with China, that its political system would open up, that democracy would follow. He said that bet hasn't worked out, which does seem plainly true. Do you assume that China will never open up? No, I don't think we should assume that at all. In fact, I think a very important factor in...

These are some contributions the United States government has made to China's reform and opening up – one failed attempt at sabotage after another. And it won’t stop until the "America first" policy has become worn out, and China's reform and opening up policy has become unbreakable.... The message to the people of China. Western powers are still trying to humiliate China, now chiefly the US. This is the most powerful adversarial message short of accusing the US of threatening war.The...

Translation: The US needs to quit playing the victim when it is actually the perp.EcnsThe five fallacies in Pence's China speech Xinhua See also Reuters U.S. draws China FX into trade dispute as IMF calls for resolution Also Zero Hedge The Perfect Storm Bringing China And Russia Together Vanand Meliksetian via Oilprice.com Also Reuters U.S. security adviser Bolton vows tougher approach to China Also Valdai Club Eurasia’s Great Projects: Assets and Liabilities...

Backgrounder. Lots of pictures. And much that people in the West are unaware of regarding China and its historical relationship with the US. As with Russia, the US blew up its soft power with China.Interestingly, the turning point for both China and Russia seems to have been the US bombing of Serbia, a traditional Russian ally, during which the US also bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and made a weak excuse for it.At this point, both Chinese and Russians realized that spreading...