Sept 26, 2021, 15:25
Earlier this month, the United States House Committee on Armed Services passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022, boosting defense spending by $777.9 billion for military and national security programs. The bill named China as a “threat” to the US, and used this as an excuse to increase the US military budget in a bid to expand the military power of the country.
As history has proved, the US is a true threat to world peace.
The US has hyped the so-called “China threat” theory, holding onto a zero-sum game mentality
In the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance released by the US National Security Council on March 3, 2021, US President Joe Biden said that “America is back. Diplomacy is back. Alliances are back.” By hyping the “China threat” cliché, the US administration has again taken the wrong direction in ganging up with its allies to maintain American hegemony.
To maintain the country’s hegemony, the Biden administration shifted US military strategy from the “war on terrorism”, which the US has waged over the past two decades, to the competition arena of major powers. To complete its global strategic adjustment, the US withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, and continued to view China as a vital challenge.
In an interview with the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) on Feb.7, 2021, Biden said China is in for “extreme competition” with the US under the course of his administration. In the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, the US said clearly that “China, in particular, has rapidly become more assertive. It is the only competitor potentially capable of combining its economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to mount a sustained challenge to a stable and open international system.” The Guidance also defined the US’ China policy from three perspectives: cooperation, competition, and confrontation, while regarding addressing challenges from China as a national security priority.
As a guiding document on US national security during the current US administration, the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance is a demonstration of the US’ zero-sum game mindset, as well as an old trick of the US to trumpet the “China threat” with an aim to maintaining its hegemony.
The continuously increasing US military budget reflects the country’s ambition to maintain American hegemony
The US has the highest military spending worldwide, maintaining a large defense budget. According to a report on trends in global military expenditure in 2020 released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on April 26, US military expenditure last year increased by 4.4 percent over the previous year, representing the third consecutive year of growth. This expenditure accounts for 39 percent of overall global spending, and is equivalent to the sum of all the countries ranked between third to 33rd on the list.
In December 2020, during the Trump administration, in order to promote the country’s “Indo-Pacific Strategy”, the US Congress passed the national defense budget for fiscal year 2021, establishing the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a military fund to boost deterrence against China. The Biden administration has also continued its predecessor’s policy by further enhancing the US presence in the region.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 released in May showed that the US defense budget for operations in the Indo-Pacific region reached $66 billion, and $5.09 billion went to the Pacific Deterrence Initiative.
At a summit on global emerging technologies held in July, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin proposed the strategy of “Integrated Deterrence”, saying that the US needs to create technological advantages for itself in the competition between major powers.
In a word, the US government, in the past or at present, has always had strategic anxiety toward China, as well as ambition to maintain its hegemony.
The US has a notorious record of intervening in the affairs of other countries and waging wars around the world
“We add value to the stability to the region,” said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin before his visit to Asia on July 24, 2021. However, this is not the truth at all as US troops brought only chaos to every place they were found to be present and displaced local people.
It is a common practice for the US to maintain hegemony through waging wars. The US has only been at peace for less than 20 years since its independence in 1776. According to incomplete statistics, from the end of World War II in 1945 to 2001, among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions of the world, 201 were initiated by the US, accounting for 81 percent of the total number. The 800-odd US military bases located around the world frequently launched wars in foreign countries.
Since 2001, the US has waged unjustified wars and military operations in foreign countries, causing over 800,000 deaths and displacing tens of millions. On Aug. 29, the US launched a drone strike in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, under the guise of counter-terrorism operations, having claimed that two terrorists were killed in the action. On Sept. 17, the Commander of US Central Command Kenneth McKenzie admitted that the strike was a mistake because those who died were not in fact associated with terrorist groups, with the strike killing as many as 10 civilians, including 7 children.
The US is a big arms exporter and the “black hand” destroying world peace and stability
Apart from being directly involved in wars, the US has intervened in other countries’ affairs by supporting proxy wars, inciting anti-government insurgencies, carrying out assassinations, providing weapons and ammunition, and training anti-government armed forces. According to a research report by Brown University on Sept. 13, the Pentagon’s spending has totaled over $14 trillion since 2001, with nearly one-half of the total going to military contractors.
Statistics by the SIPRI indicate that the US has remained the world’s largest arms exporter. Between 2010 and 2020, more than a third of all weapons traded worldwide were manufactured in the US. In August, Mexico filed a lawsuit against multiple US gun makers, arguing that the American companies knew that their practices would facilitate gun violence in Mexico and yet still did nothing to stop selling guns to Mexico regardless of the buyer’s record.
Peace and stability is the shared aspiration of people all over the world. However, with US politicians refusing to take responsibility for creating chaos around the world, while trumpeting the “China threat” in an attempt to justify the US’ soaring military spending, the US has proved once again that it is the biggest threat to global peace and security.
The practices of the US will inevitably lead to more humanitarian disasters if the country does not discard its zero-sum game mindset, refrain from intervening in the affairs of other countries and stop waging wars in foreign countries. The right path for the US to take is to view China in an objective manner, and adhere to mutual respect and cooperation, so as to control divergences, safeguard global peace and stability and improve the welfare of all mankind. （Source: People's Daily)
''There's one born every minute.'' Possibly you're just a slow learner since you keep on buying these dud products then complaining about them afterwards. Switch tactics and buy Chinese made electronics and tractors, you'll feel much more at ease ploughing your fields and tending your crops. Win-win.
Since US President Dwight Eisenhower, US finances its military expenditure at expenses of wars on other nations that do not obey or act according to its demand.
Not surprise to see that US improve and upgrade its military hardware continuously and progressively. Unfortunately, many nations due to personal ambition did more harm than good to their own citizens. Haiti is an excellent example.
Biden's three priorities remain Covid, Climate and China.
In the minds of the US, all three have one thing in common: coldness. The covid virus thrives in cold, the climate should be cooled more, and China can be made out as a threat so that the US can start a cold war using its Soviet Union Cold War 1.0 playbook on her.
That first playbook had played on Russia's concerns about her borders and the decimation of her peoples during WWII which therefore caused her to run an arms race with the US during a period when the US economy and industry were humming whilst hers were moribund. Inevitably, the Russian framework took an implosive hit. The US today thinks it can reboot and replay the same tactic on China.
But China today is unlike Russia before. In many areas, she is economically and industrially more cohesive than the US and militarily eclipsing even Russia's cutting edge in some key areas.
Her peoples believe in their government more than the US peoples believe in theirs.
Neither is she imposing her way of ideologized governance on any other country that would invite asymmetric countermeasures.
And unlike the Soviet Union of past, she has no satellite states the US could nibble away although it had tried and has failed with Tibet, HongKong and Xinjiang but is still trying with its Taipei separatists now facing the stark post-Kabul realization the US will militarily abandon the island because it will become an extraterritorial graveyard for US lives the moment the US pacific fleet crosses its second ring.
However, the US still thinks its play must go on, if only for its geopolitical motive of not losing its post-WWII alliances. They have separate sovereign and economy-saving ties with China so that by so doing, the US will only isolate itself as a result of trying to isolate China.
In fabricating that dystopian specter of a China as a threat in order to rally its allies to its side, the US is trying to decouple from her economically and industrially while coaxing its allies to do the same in order to marginalize her standing, ignoring the historical records of her islandic and maritime assets, and making her government out as the enemy of democracy when itself as a paragon of democracy is combusting instead as a political plutocracy which is reflected by the rise of divisive populism in its midst.
Moreover, the US omits to recognize that historically there have been two international orders. The first was from the post-WWII era when the US dominated Europe and projected its military presence globally. The second was when it financialized its economy to establish its dollar as the reserved global currency and globalized its industries.
Initially the world went along. After all, emerging nations had growing populations to succor and economies to rebuild. But then all started to notice that the US was using its international institutions and military to secure and maintain its way of life by exploiting the oil and labor resources of emerging nations while selling them its version of a rules-based order which will brook no contest from those who challenge those rules, enforced however without justifiable recognition that if they don't, they will never be able to achieve self-determination.
Furthermore, this conclusion was reinforced by their observation that states which had not accepted US ambitions out of their own domestic aspirations or limitations were shown the highway subversively or malignantly even to the extent of the US breaking its own rules meant for all.
The end result is a lot of tensions, mistrust and instability in the world. To protect its self-serving way of life, the US engaged in a series of disastrous wars away from itself which only increased the political power of its military-industrial complex and the unjustifiable increase of its military budget every year to be ready to fight enemies of its own imagination besides ruining its national budget to such an extent that by next month, the US government may default again.
At the same time, its border has become porous until 43 million Americans including its whites today still have low literacy rates in a world moving towards a future of work which will be AI-operated.
Meanwhile parochial education and easystreet lifestyles have resulted in lost jobs, declining wages and rising income inequality which next persuade its elites to overplay the international financial system, thus creating financial crises.
And all this is happening today as China ascends and Russia resurrects so that the world including Washington may conclude the US' unipolar era has ended outcome of the US' own humbuggish hypocrisy of hubristic hegemony supported by its slavish fact-twisting media and analysts.
If wiser, the US should recognize no one is a threat to it , least of all a rising China in a multipolar world which should therefore be welcomed even more. It should therefore abandon its unipolar posturing and preparatory hedging, give others face as it would want others to give it face, and work more positively with China, free of sanctions, coercions and instigations, to rebuild a world challenged by the greater threats of covid and climate.
It must always ask itself before any decision and action: so if we do this, what's next? Will we have to send all of them to Mars?
In the very process of an even higher renormalization and reengagement, it can help China help others so that she can help it solve by inward investments some of its nettlesome domestic problems such as lost jobs.
But China shall not bail out the US ever again, and may be excused for not trusting the US first anymore. Moreover, US trade tariffs and technology sanctions on her must be lifted first and US warships must no longer traverse the China (Taiwan) Straits or give the Taipei separatists for that matter Canberra, London and Tokyo any idea of safeguarding themselves through fomenting a clash of civilizations by drawing both countries towards a definitive and final conflict. If in its strategic autonomy, India doesn't harbor that notion of a clash of civilizations, why should smaller minions?
By so doing these things with China, Biden can recover his presidency for foreign relations what his democratic party administration is failing for its domestic relations. He won't have much time left to do so.
But will his puppetmasters allow that?
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One of the reasons I bought a PC with no mechanical hard drive was the fast boot up that was promised.
But as the vermin at Microkrap issue over the air updates, the PC has massively slowed down on boot ups.
The vermin have also programmed in manipulation of the tab-order. So switching from one application to another changes by itself, causing further nuisance.
Everything is also a lot slower than when I first bought it. It's like Apple who were sued because they deliberately slowed down one of their iPhones to generate sales of the newer model. When caught their lame-assed excuse was to preserve battery life.
John Deere did the same with their krappy tractors, crippling the krudmobiles whenever there was a fault, so that farmers couldn't fix it themselves and had to go back to JD to get it fixed.
This is clearly gangsterism.
US under Dwight Eisenhower created war to fund military expenses of US. Under no circumstance, US will start war to enhance its economy, science and technology. Unfortunately, the world does not see it but assumes that US has done more good than harm as peace and order keeper for stability. Hence, support pours in without thought. Now, it is this same hegemony that is returning to haunt US.
They can't compete and that causes problems for everyone else. The Great Satan idiocracy produces Boeing 737 MAX flying turds, Tesla self-crashing, self-immolating death pods and Microkrap Windows 10 which is so bug-ridden, unstable and slow that it's virtually unusable. I thought I could get away with buying one last copy of this s**tware because I was only going to use it for browsing. Yet, it's still a pain to use.
To survive, the Anglo and the Jew need to impose World Domination. That's where the problems start.
They've just released hostage Meng Wanzhou, but still have Julian Assange imprisoned on NO CHARGES. Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, has been evicted from the Labour party after they mounted an anti-semitic witch-hunt and then cheated him in the heavily gerrymandered election that chose, instead, a flagrant f**kwit as poodle-minister.
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