In a 3,900-word commentary, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has openly condemned nearly 80 years of U.S. political, military, economic, technological and cultural hegemony.
Breaking with its longstanding circumspection when criticizing other nations, the Chinese foreign ministry last week issued a blistering condemnation of post-war U.S. foreign policy. The broadside comes as the U.S. is ratcheting up pressure on Beijing over Taiwan amid allegations that China is preparing to help arm Russia in its war in Ukraine.
The U.S. economic and information war against Russia has accelerated a process already underway in which developing nations, under China’s lead, are creating an alternative economic, financial and commercial system from that dominated by the U.S. This could explain the new forthrightness of the Chinese foreign ministry.
For information purposes, Consortium News is republishing here the ministry’s statement in full.
US Hegemony and Its Perils
February 2023
Since becoming the world’s most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more boldly to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, pursue, maintain and abuse hegemony, advance subversion and infiltration, and willfully wage wars, bringing harm to the international community.
The United States has developed a hegemonic playbook to stage “color revolutions,” instigate regional disputes, and even directly launch wars under the guise of promoting democracy, freedom and human rights. Clinging to the Cold War mentality, the United States has ramped up bloc politics and stoked conflict and confrontation. It has overstretched the concept of national security, abused export controls and forced unilateral sanctions upon others. It has taken a selective approach to international law and rules, utilizing or discarding them as it sees fit, and has sought to impose rules that serve its own interests in the name of upholding a “rules-based international order.”
This report, by presenting the relevant facts, seeks to expose the U.S. abuse of hegemony in the political, military, economic, financial, technological and cultural fields, and to draw greater international attention to the perils of the U.S. practices to world peace and stability and the well-being of all peoples.
Political Hegemony — Throwing Its Weight Around
The United States has long been attempting to mold other countries and the world order with its own values and political system in the name of promoting democracy and human rights.
Instances of U.S. interference in other countries’ internal affairs abound. In the name of “promoting democracy,” the United States practiced a “Neo-Monroe Doctrine” in Latin America, instigated “color revolutions” in Eurasia, and orchestrated the “Arab Spring” in West Asia and North Africa, bringing chaos and disaster to many countries.
In 1823, the United States announced the Monroe Doctrine. While touting an “America for the Americans,” what it truly wanted was an “America for the United States.”
Since then, the policies of successive U.S. governments toward Latin America and the Caribbean Region have been riddled with political interference, military intervention and regime subversion. From its 61-year hostility toward and blockade of Cuba to its overthrow of the Allende government of Chile, U.S. policy on this region has been built on one maxim-those who submit will prosper; those who resist shall perish.
The year 2003 marked the beginning of a succession of “color revolutions” — the “Rose Revolution” in Georgia, the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine and the “Tulip Revolution” in Kyrgyzstan. The U.S. Department of State openly admitted playing a “central role” in these “regime changes.” The United States also interfered in the internal affairs of the Philippines, ousting President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in 1986 and President Joseph Estrada in 2001 through the so-called “People Power Revolutions.”
In January 2023, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released his new book Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love. He revealed in it that the United States had plotted to intervene in Venezuela. The plan was to force the Maduro government to reach an agreement with the opposition, deprive Venezuela of its ability to sell oil and gold for foreign exchange, exert high pressure on its economy, and influence the 2018 presidential election.
? The U.S. exercises double standards on international rules. Placing its self-interest first, the United States has walked away from international treaties and organizations, and put its domestic law above international law. In April 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would cut off all U.S. funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with the excuse that the organization “supports, or participates in the management of a programme of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.” The United States quit UNESCO twice in 1984 and 2017. In 2017, it announced leaving the Paris Agreement on climate change. In 2018, it announced its exit from the UN Human Rights Council, citing the organization’s “bias” against Israel and failure to protect human rights effectively. In 2019, the United States announced its withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to seek unfettered development of advanced weapons. In 2020, it announced pulling out of the Treaty on Open Skies.
The United States has also been a stumbling block to biological arms control by opposing negotiations on a verification protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and impeding international verification of countries’ activities relating to biological weapons. As the only country in possession of a chemical weapons stockpile, the United States has repeatedly delayed the destruction of chemical weapons and remained reluctant in fulfilling its obligations. It has become the biggest obstacle to realizing “a world free of chemical weapons.”
The United States is piecing together small blocs through its alliance system. It has been forcing an “Indo-Pacific Strategy” onto the Asia-Pacific region, assembling exclusive clubs like the Five Eyes, the Quad and AUKUS, and forcing regional countries to take sides. Such practices are essentially meant to create division in the region, stoke confrontation and undermine peace.
The U.S. arbitrarily passes judgment on democracy in other countries, and fabricates a false narrative of “democracy versus authoritarianism” to incite estrangement, division, rivalry and confrontation. In December 2021, the United States hosted the first “Summit for Democracy,” which drew criticism and opposition from many countries for making a mockery of the spirit of democracy and dividing the world. In March 2023, the United States will host another “Summit for Democracy,” which remains unwelcome and will again find no support.
Military Hegemony — Wanton Use of Force
The history of the United States is characterized by violence and expansion. Since it gained independence in 1776, the United States has constantly sought expansion by force: it slaughtered Indians, invaded Canada, waged a war against Mexico, instigated the American-Spanish War, and annexed Hawaii. After World War II, the wars either provoked or launched by the United States included the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the War in Afghanistan, the Iraq War, the Libyan War and the Syrian War, abusing its military hegemony to pave the way for expansionist objectives. In recent years, the U.S. average annual military budget has exceeded 700 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 40 percent of the world’s total, more than the 15 countries behind it combined. The United States has about 800 overseas military bases, with 173,000 troops deployed in 159 countries.
According to the book America Invades: How We’ve Invaded or been Militarily Involved with almost Every Country on Earth, the United States has fought or been militarily involved with almost all the 190-odd countries recognized by the United Nations with only three exceptions. The three countries were “spared” because the United States did not find them on the map.
As former U.S. President Jimmy Carter put it, the United States is undoubtedly the most warlike nation in the history of the world. According to a Tufts University report, “Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A new Dataset on U.S. Military Interventions, 1776-2019,” the United States undertook nearly 400 military interventions globally between those years, 34 percent of which were in Latin America and the Caribbean, 23 percent in East Asia and the Pacific, 14 percent in the Middle East and North Africa, and 13 percent in Europe. Currently, its military intervention in the Middle East and North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise.
Alex Lo, a South China Morning Post columnist, pointed out that the United States has rarely distinguished between diplomacy and war since its founding. It overthrew democratically elected governments in many developing countries in the 20th century and immediately replaced them with pro-American puppet regimes. Today, in Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen, the United States is repeating its old tactics of waging proxy, low-intensity, and drone wars.
U.S. military hegemony has caused humanitarian tragedies. Since 2001, the wars and military operations launched by the United States in the name of fighting terrorism have claimed over 900,000 lives with some 335,000 of them civilians, injured millions and displaced tens of millions. The 2003 Iraq War resulted in some 200,000 to 250,000 civilian deaths, including over 16,000 directly killed by the U.S. military, and left more than a million homeless.
The United States has created 37 million refugees around the world. Since 2012, the number of Syrian refugees alone has increased tenfold. Between 2016 and 2019, 33,584 civilian deaths were documented in the Syrian fightings, including 3,833 killed by U.S.-led coalition bombings, half of them women and children. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) reported on 9 November 2018 that the air strikes launched by U.S. forces on Raqqa alone killed 1,600 Syrian civilians.
The two-decades-long war in Afghanistan devastated the country. A total of 47,000 Afghan civilians and 66,000 to 69,000 Afghan soldiers and police officers unrelated to the September 11 attacks were killed in U.S. military operations, and more than 10 million people were displaced. The war in Afghanistan destroyed the foundation of economic development there and plunged the Afghan people into destitution. After the “Kabul debacle” in 2021, the United States announced that it would freeze some 9.5 billion dollars in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, a move considered as “pure looting.”
In September 2022, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu commented at a rally that the United States has waged a proxy war in Syria, turned Afghanistan into an opium field and heroin factory, thrown Pakistan into turmoil, and left Libya in incessant civil unrest. The United States does whatever it takes to rob and enslave the people of any country with underground resources.
The United States has also adopted appalling methods in war. During the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War, the United States used massive quantities of chemical and biological weapons as well as cluster bombs, fuel-air bombs, graphite bombs and depleted uranium bombs, causing enormous damage on civilian facilities, countless civilian casualties and lasting environmental pollution.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Beijing. (Chinese Foreign Ministry)
Economic Hegemony — Looting and Exploitation
After World War II, the United States led efforts to set up the Bretton Woods System, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which, together with the Marshall Plan, formed the international monetary system centered around the U.S. dollar. In addition, the United States has also established institutional hegemony in the international economic and financial sector by manipulating the weighted voting systems, rules and arrangements of international organizations including “approval by 85 percent majority,” and its domestic trade laws and regulations. By taking advantage of the dollar’s status as the major international reserve currency, the United States is basically collecting “seigniorage” from around the world; and using its control over international organizations, it coerces other countries into serving America’s political and economic strategy.
The United States exploits the world’s wealth with the help of “seigniorage.” It costs only about 17 cents to produce a 100 dollar bill, but other countries had to pony up 100 dollar of actual goods in order to obtain one. It was pointed out more than half a century ago, that the United States enjoyed exorbitant privilege and deficit without tears created by its dollar, and used the worthless paper note to plunder the resources and factories of other nations.
The hegemony of U.S. dollar is the main source of instability and uncertainty in the world economy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States abused its global financial hegemony and injected trillions of dollars into the global market, leaving other countries, especially emerging economies, to pay the price. In 2022, the Fed ended its ultra-easy monetary policy and turned to aggressive interest rate hike, causing turmoil in the international financial market and substantial depreciation of other currencies such as the Euro, many of which dropped to a 20-year low. As a result, a large number of developing countries were challenged by high inflation, currency depreciation and capital outflows. This was exactly what Nixon’s secretary of the treasury John Connally once remarked, with self-satisfaction yet sharp precision, that “the dollar is our currency, but it is your problem.”
With its control over international economic and financial organizations, the United States imposes additional conditions to their assistance to other countries. In order to reduce obstacles to U.S. capital inflow and speculation, the recipient countries are required to advance financial liberalization and open up financial markets so that their economic policies would fall in line with America’s strategy. According to the Review of International Political Economy, along with the 1,550 debt relief programs extended by the IMF to its 131 member countries from 1985 to 2014, as many as 55,465 additional political conditions had been attached.
The United States willfully suppresses its opponents with economic coercion. In the 1980s, to eliminate the economic threat posed by Japan, and to control and use the latter in service of America’s strategic goal of confronting the Soviet Union and dominating the world, the United States leveraged its hegemonic financial power against Japan, and concluded the Plaza Accord. As a result, Yen was pushed up, and Japan was pressed to open up its financial market and reform its financial system. The Plaza Accord dealt a heavy blow to the growth momentum of the Japanese economy, leaving Japan to what was later called “three lost decades.”
America’s economic and financial hegemony has become a geopolitical weapon. Doubling down on unilateral sanctions and “long-arm jurisdiction,” the United States has enacted such domestic laws as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, and the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, and introduced a series of executive orders to sanction specific countries, organizations or individuals. Statistics show that U.S. sanctions against foreign entities increased by 933 percent from 2000 to 2021. The Trump administration alone has imposed more than 3,900 sanctions, which means three sanctions per day. So far, the United States had or has imposed economic sanctions on nearly 40 countries across the world, including Cuba, China, Russia, the DPRK, Iran and Venezuela, affecting nearly half of the world’s population. “The United States of America” has turned itself into “the United States of Sanctions.” And “long-arm jurisdiction” has been reduced to nothing but a tool for the United States to use its means of state power to suppress economic competitors and interfere in normal international business. This is a serious departure from the principles of liberal market economy that the United States has long boasted.
Technological Hegemony — Monopoly and Suppression
The United States seeks to deter other countries’ scientific, technological and economic development by wielding monopoly power, suppression measures and technology restrictions in high-tech fields.
The United States monopolizes intellectual property in the name of protection. Taking advantage of the weak position of other countries, especially developing ones, on intellectual property rights and the institutional vacancy in relevant fields, the United States reaps excessive profits through monopoly. In 1994, the United States pushed forward the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), forcing the Americanized process and standards in intellectual property protection in an attempt to solidify its monopoly on technology.
In the 1980s, to contain the development of Japan’s semiconductor industry, the United States launched the “301” investigation, built bargaining power in bilateral negotiations through multilateral agreements, threatened to label Japan as conducting unfair trade, and imposed retaliatory tariffs, forcing Japan to sign the U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Agreement. As a result, Japanese semiconductor enterprises were almost completely driven out of global competition, and their market share dropped from 50 percent to 10 percent. Meanwhile, with the support of the U.S. government, a large number of U.S. semiconductor enterprises took the opportunity and grabbed larger market share.
The United States politicizes, weaponizes technological issues and uses them as ideological tools. Overstretching the concept of national security, the United States mobilized state power to suppress and sanction Chinese company Huawei, restricted the entry of Huawei products into the U.S. market, cut off its supply of chips and operating systems, and coerced other countries to ban Huawei from undertaking local 5G network construction. It even talked Canada into unwarrantedly detaining Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou for nearly three years.
The United States has fabricated a slew of excuses to clamp down on China’s high-tech enterprises with global competitiveness, and has put more than 1,000 Chinese enterprises on sanction lists. In addition, the United States has also imposed controls on biotechnology, artificial intelligence and other high-end technologies, reinforced export restrictions, tightened investment screening, suppressed Chinese social media apps such as TikTok and WeChat, and lobbied the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of chips and related equipment or technology to China.
The United States has also practiced double standards in its policy on China-related technological professionals. To sideline and suppress Chinese researchers, since June 2018, visa validity has been shortened for Chinese students majoring in certain high-tech-related disciplines, repeated cases have occurred where Chinese scholars and students going to the United States for exchange programs and study were unjustifiably denied and harassed, and large-scale investigation on Chinese scholars working in the United States was carried out.
The United States solidifies its technological monopoly in the name of protecting democracy. By building small blocs on technology such as the “chips alliance” and “clean network,” the United States has put “democracy” and “human rights” labels on high-technology, and turned technological issues into political and ideological issues, so as to fabricate excuses for its technological blockade against other countries. In May 2019, the United States enlisted 32 countries to the Prague 5G Security Conference in the Czech Republic and issued the Prague Proposal in an attempt to exclude China’s 5G products. In April 2020, then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the “5G clean path,” a plan designed to build technological alliance in the 5G field with partners bonded by their shared ideology on democracy and the need to protect “cyber security.” The measures, in essence, are the U.S. attempts to maintain its technological hegemony through technological alliances.
The United States abuses its technological hegemony by carrying out cyber attacks and eavesdropping. The United States has long been notorious as an “empire of hackers,” blamed for its rampant acts of cyber theft around the world. It has all kinds of means to enforce pervasive cyber attacks and surveillance, including using analog base station signals to access mobile phones for data theft, manipulating mobile apps, infiltrating cloud servers, and stealing through undersea cables. The list goes on.
U.S. surveillance is indiscriminate. All can be targets of its surveillance, be they rivals or allies, even leaders of allied countries such as former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several French Presidents. Cyber surveillance and attacks launched by the United States such as “Prism,” “Dirtbox,” “Irritant Horn” and “Telescreen Operation” are all proof that the United States is closely monitoring its allies and partners. Such eavesdropping on allies and partners has already caused worldwide outrage. Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, a website that has exposed U.S. surveillance programs, said that “do not expect a global surveillance superpower to act with honor or respect. There is only one rule: there are no rules.”
Cultural Hegemony — Spreading False Narratives
The global expansion of American culture is an important part of its external strategy. The United States has often used cultural tools to strengthen and maintain its hegemony in the world.
The United States embeds American values in its products such as movies. American values and lifestyle are a tied product to its movies and TV shows, publications, media content, and programs by the government-funded non-profit cultural institutions. It thus shapes a cultural and public opinion space in which American culture reigns and maintains cultural hegemony. In his article The Americanization of the World, John Yemma, an American scholar, exposed the real weapons in U.S. cultural expansion: the Hollywood, the image design factories on Madison Avenue and the production lines of Mattel Company and Coca-Cola.
There are various vehicles the United States uses to keep its cultural hegemony. American movies are the most used; they now occupy more than 70 percent of the world’s market share. The United States skilfully exploits its cultural diversity to appeal to various ethnicities. When Hollywood movies descend on the world, they scream the American values tied to them.
American cultural hegemony not only shows itself in “direct intervention,” but also in “media infiltration” and as “a trumpet for the world.” U.S.-dominated Western media has a particularly important role in shaping global public opinion in favor of U.S. meddling in the internal affairs of other countries.
The U.S. government strictly censors all social media companies and demands their obedience. Twitter CEO Elon Musk admitted on 27 December 2022 that all social media platforms work with the U.S. government to censor content, reported Fox Business Network. Public opinion in the United States is subject to government intervention to restrict all unfavorable remarks. Google often makes pages disappear.
U.S. Department of Defense manipulates social media. In December 2022, The Intercept, an independent U.S. investigative website, revealed that in July 2017, U.S. Central Command official Nathaniel Kahler instructed Twitter’s public policy team to augment the presence of 52 Arabic-language accounts on a list he sent, six of which were to be given priority. One of the six was dedicated to justifying U.S. drone attacks in Yemen, such as by claiming that the attacks were precise and killed only terrorists, not civilians. Following Kahler’s directive, Twitter put those Arabic-language accounts on a “white list” to amplify certain messages.
The United States practices double standards on the freedom of the press. It brutally suppresses and silences media of other countries by various means. The United States and Europe bar mainstream Russian media such as Russia Today and the Sputnik from their countries. Platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube openly restrict official accounts of Russia. Netflix, Apple and Google have removed Russian channels and applications from their services and app stores. Unprecedented draconian censorship is imposed on Russia-related contents.
The United States abuses its cultural hegemony to instigate “peaceful evolution” in socialist countries. It sets up news media and cultural outfits targeting socialist countries. It pours staggering amounts of public funds into radio and TV networks to support their ideological infiltration, and these mouthpieces bombard socialist countries in dozens of languages with inflammatory propaganda day and night.
The United States uses misinformation as a spear to attack other countries, and has built an industrial chain around it: there are groups and individuals making up stories, and peddling them worldwide to mislead public opinion with the support of nearly limitless financial resources.
Conclusion
While a just cause wins its champion wide support, an unjust one condemns its pursuer to be an outcast. The hegemonic, domineering, and bullying practices of using strength to intimidate the weak, taking from others by force and subterfuge, and playing zero-sum games are exerting grave harm. The historical trends of peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit are unstoppable. The United States has been overriding truth with its power and trampling justice to serve self-interest. These unilateral, egoistic and regressive hegemonic practices have drawn growing, intense criticism and opposition from the international community.
Countries need to respect each other and treat each other as equals. Big countries should behave in a manner befitting their status and take the lead in pursuing a new model of state-to-state relations featuring dialogue and partnership, not confrontation or alliance. China opposes all forms of hegemonism and power politics, and rejects interference in other countries’ internal affairs. The United States must conduct serious soul-searching. It must critically examine what it has done, let go of its arrogance and prejudice, and quit its hegemonic, domineering and bullying practices.
You should reprint Putin’s recent “State of the Union” (or whatever its called in Russia) address. It had similar valid criticisms of the US and west.
The American people need to open their eyes. The corporate media won’t bring these truths and the “left” has sold out, so someone has got to do it.
For an ancient civilization that supposedly sees the world in some unfathomable way, this statement is surprisingly straightforward and clearly understandable (well, except a few finer points of international financial & technological manipulation, for me).
Pepe Escobar, who’s followed Asian development for years, says the report marks a point of no return for Chinese diplomacy with the U.S. hxxps://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/28/the-stage-is-set-for-hybrid-world-war-iii/
And more than that, according to millennia long tradition, such a proclamation, according to scholars, was used to justify a serious war against “…the entity judged to be troubling the Harmony of the Universe…”
But it’s not as if the freakish mavens of unipolarity have shown signs of heeding anybody’s warnings.
Escobar puts China’s statement in the context of Putin’s recent address & the industrial terrorism on the Nord Stream pipelines as convergence toward full-on Hybrid War. Though Pepe sounds a bit too gleeful about a possible comeuppance for the global hegemon, imo, given the dire nature of such developments.
From the article:
“the upstart Hegemon as the premier source of chaos, inequality and war across the planet. Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder, in a nutshell.”
I doubt many would argue with that. It’s a good article. I only wish it didn’t have as much “flowery” language and more straight forward.
There does seem to be more talk these days of world war.
If a government, any government walks like an authoritarian (bully) government, talks like an authoritarian (bully) government, and acts out like an authoritarian government to other nations and it’s own populace, the chances are pretty good it will be considered as being a danger to all.
On page 174 of Sun-tzu’s Art of War by Ralph D. Sawyer, Copyright 1994 #2 last Paragraph, we find this statement:
“Thus the army values being victorious; it does not value prolonged warfare. Therefore, a general who understands war-fare is Master of Fate for the people, rulers of the state’s security or endangerment.”
Just previous to this statement in the proceeding text the dangers of over-extending one’s military are explained.
Words of caution from the man who knew. Seems pretty obvious to me that some lessons have been forgotten by our military leadership!
Thanks CN
I’ve been impatiently wishing for China to assert itself in this manner for at least 20 years now. I’m not naive about China/Chinese any more than I am about the US/”Americans.” All humanity is alike everywhere, below the superficialities and the disparities in “modern civilization.” Pared down to essentials, we all act the same. No, I’ve been waiting for them to stir because someone has to put the brakes on the US drive to attain that which is not destined to be – the permanent hegemonic US empire/order of things.
The US can begin a conflict in Asia/Eurasia but it will not finish one. It would collapse in debt, military defeat, and world criticism; once it begins, the piling on would be beyond suffocating, it would be crushing. I’ve long suspected that the proponents of US exceptionalism and permanent world domination are quite personally afraid of turnabout as fair play. But it may finally, at long last, be too late to claim a deferment from justice-through-retribution. We’ve had every opportunity to do differently, and have chosen empire, conquest, and violence every time. Nothing exceptional there; all very historically repetitive in fact, Santayana be damned.
I reckon the “current era” to begin with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the public remark of GHW Bush that “There will be no peace dividend.” Indeed, no truer words were ever spoken by a US leader, as we find our sad little planet embroiled in multiple conflagrations sparked by US machinations, with more and bigger to come – they have PROMISED us this.
Do I know what a world inherited by the new Chinese power from the self-destructed US will look or feel like?
No.
How could I?
All I know is that those that have guided the US to this point and seem to have committed to a doctrine of “if not victory then annihilation” will not stop or reform on their own, they must be stopped by others and removed from influence. What comes after, should this come to pass, is all conjecture.
Nice article but the big 3 elephants play the same games against each other and their own people.
They don’t trust each other and they will continue to exert themselves against each other.
The things they do to each other is nothing new when you study world histories and wars.
The question is when will they learn from history and each other and work as people to reform
themselves for the betterment of all humans in our planet?
The greatest tragedy of this is the lost potential; USAmerica has all the tools at its disposal to be a truly beautiful, benevolent, and peaceful nation. It is not human nature that has prevented this. But that is always the argument put forth by the aggressors. Alas.
If ever there was a country just begging for a comeuppance, it’s ours. Many if not most USAmericans will not be able to look at themselves critically, even though everything in this piece is objective, verifiable truth.
I’m tired of it. I’m tired of the willful ignorance of so many of my fellow citizens, it’s embarrassing and shameful. We’ve allowed our government and corporations to become the tyranny of the world,and those of us here who attempt to rectify it in whatever way, are smeared as “hating America”, “communist” or whatever else. “Summit For Democracy “? What a f***ing joke, the arrogance and hubris is stunning. What hope is to be had when we allow ourselves to become the biggest hypocrites on the planet?
I too am tired; believe me, it’s the same in europe: corruption, lies, cheating, stealing, greed (and that’s just the banks).
Oh I’m sure, and that being the case, how refreshing would it be to see Europe’s “leaders” get some backbone and stand up to US gov machinations? To just refuse to further support any further warring over there? The only reason USAmericans are able to ignore it is because it’s happening thousands of miles away and across a vast ocean- are the European citizens as nonchalant about it as so many USAmerican citizens are, considering how much closer the former are to it?
Beijing’s much needed and long overdue condemnatory report regarding the bloody and rapacious Washington-militarist empire could go down as the most important document of the 21st century.
It’s a stunningly groundbreaking treatise that lays the groundwork for China’s eventual defensive kinetic response to attempted American hegemony in the eastern hemisphere.
The imperialist machine that the U.S. elites (and Israeli elites) utilize does absolutely nothing for the common working folks of America, except hollow out their country, exploit them, leave them in debt, or kill them. Root for China.
I think we should all remember that the Chinese “blast” was not meant for “Western” eyes and ears. As Freeman wrote on February 28 on CN (The Tunnel at the End of the Light) China and Russia are speaking to the 90% of humanity that doesn’t buy the Washington line. Anyone who has been watching Chinese diplomacy and trade – call it the Belt and Road Initiative – for the last several years will know that China has been very successful at building mutually beneficial relationships all over Africa and Asia. (I liked the reference to West Asia, an accurate and sensitive geographical term China has used for at least 65 years in contrast to the continued use in the “West” of imperialist and colonial terms like “Middle East” and “Greater Middle East” for countries in West and Central Asia.) Words and deeds will ultimately mean more than 800 bases or military might.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have an intelligent occupant of the White House? Jimmy Carter almost qualified, but really the last best hope for detente was JFK and his top advisers. The USA has fallen deep into the diplomatic rabbit hole with the likes of inept Foreign Secretaries and advisers like Clinton, Blinken, Bolton, Pompeo, Nuland, and the former head of an oil conglomerate, to name only a few of the miscreants.
and a goddamned former board member of Raytheon as Sec of Defense, no less! The writing is on the wall…
No argument here–the numbers, where I know something about them, are the most conservative available.
Even to have this so simply and thoroughly said will surely come as a relief to very many people.
All accurate charges of course. Washington still operates under the illusion it doesn’t have to listen to anyone. Karma is coming. Sooner rather than later I’m afraid. What a rude reality check it’s going to be.
As a citizen of 5 Eyes vassal NZ I couldnt disagree with anything in their statement.
Possibly the best “reading of the riot act” in modern times, and it’s going to blow-back hard on US lefties because now we’re all “spouting Chinese talking points” without realizing it, just like always.
Boy, that critique pretty well nails-it, at least in my book, especially regarding the militarism and gun control. There’s nothing in the article that an objective observer could honestly/effectively dispute, factually or conceptually. I suppose I’ll be called a communist/useful idiot/etc by the right-wingers here in the US, but I’ll just have to cry myself to sleep about that.
After years of openly anti-China rhetoric, policy, economic warfare (sanctions), dangerous military provocations, lies about genocide of Uighurs, lies about COVID 19, etc., China is finally stating the hard, ugly truth in clear language. This alone, speaks volumes.
Looks like China has got fed up with Anglo/American imperialism, war crimes, atrocities, meddling, interference, exploitation, provocation and general malfeasance. They aint gonna “kow-tow” to the Anglo-American devils no more.
Now, the US/UK (and vassals) will poke the dragon in the eye again to see what happens. (Let’s corner the Bear and poke it in the eye at the same time and see what happens eh).
Probably fed up with all the China bashing of late too. Interesting times ahead.
That’s one hell of a blast. The US will pay it no mind.
No, but others will. There will be negative consequences for the united snakes regardless or whether they listen or no.