In the U.S. the whole subject of China is being politicized, and only in one direction. China is becoming enemy number one, militarily, economically, socially and from a human rights perspective, leading to cold war tactics and even fast approaching military confrontations. All branches of governments, including all its agencies, plus the private sector including powerful think tanks, media and analysts are all on board for this shift of policy. We're willing now to forgive Russia for its century's long bad behavior and confrontational attitudes, we're forgiving many long term enemies including terrorism and rogue entities, to give ourselves fully the full scope, and be well prepared for the biggest of all wars, adventures and confrontations.
Ex one term president Trump, was pivotal in this approach and in brain-washing American minds, with the propaganda of bad China, dangerous China, he used all possible words to influence the experts and the population at large to start looking and considering China as the enemy number one, the feared enemy who is going to eliminate our way of life, our liberties and our wealth, even our religiosity, and mostly our superiority and dominance.
Mr. Trump, his oligarchy and administration used every possible occasion to belittle China's progress and achievements, including calling the pandemic of Covid19 the Chinese virus, maybe it was a Chinese originated virus, but that does not make it as we officially claimed that China had deliberately manufactured and released the virus as a biological weapon, against The U.S. or civilization.
Many official politicians echoed the words of Mr. Trump knowingly or ignorantly, leading in some instances to mass attacks against anyone who shared the Asian physiognomy and looks, many innocent, especially elder people from generations of Asian immigrants were harmed for no other reason than sharing the looks of the makers and perpetrators of the Chinese virus crime.
In Congress one of the earliest advocates of these false rhetoric was Senator Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas, who often criticized China, and who has a history of promoting falsehoods, like election fraud and other Trump's allegations. Even the media went along for a while and covered his flawed arguments, suggesting that China had deliberately released the virus as a biological warfare. Whereby many, too many unfortunately, seem to decide that if Cotton believed something, and Fox News and Donald Trump echoed it, the idea has to be right, substantiated and Q-Anoned .We challenged every report and investigation body of the global health officials, simply because their reports were not conformed to our official dictum and end-strategy.
The virus origins do not affect any part of the fight against it, be it Covid, Ebola, Sars, Mers or bird flu, The previous administration failed to impose proper travel restrictions, testing, contact tracing, social distancing, ventilation, masking and vaccination. We are still paying for these purposely or negligently delayed actions, with millions of cases and unnecessary deaths.
The Senate is currently debating "the strategic competition act" A bill loaded with anti-China framing and policies that are certain to entrench the new cold war even further, and the Pentagon backed by the war-machine, were more than ready to send a guided-missile destroyer straight into disputed islands in the south China sea, triggering Chines planes and warships into high alert, each side accused and blamed the other of violations. This act was predictable and intentionally deliberate, as the ship set sail just hours after president Biden specifically laid into China in a speech. We are surely getting ready for some big actions and lots of hostilities, Rambo style.
The war machine, defense industry and their Pentagon pals, are already urgently pitching and lobbying Congress on the need to buy more weapons and increase Pentagon budget, while our existing war budget is currently 4 times the size of China's. Again we're headed in the wrong directions, and we're not trying to stop the Washington's growing harmful approach to China before things spiral further out of control. It's a continuous philosophy and demagogy of ours and we're not showing any signs of relinquishing, we're not learning from our past 5 or 6 decades of failing, pretentious adventures.
We all know that more militarization and demonization of China is a distraction and a self-defeating strategy toward the true security we need here at home. What we need is more innovation, cooperation and multilateral approaches, not more hostility and confrontations, working together for a better future to both countries and humanity, and not just continuously fighting each other and competing for supremacy.
As always, my deep gratitude for your time and patience.... please stay safe and well.
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