Biden’s favored defense secretary, Michèle Flournoy, is a China hawk with ties to the weapons industry whose main critique of Trump's foreign policy is that it failed to deliver on the military “Pivot to Asia”
Whether Trump or Biden, the New Cold War on China will forge ahead.
In a high-profile Foreign Affairs article, Flourney laid out what would be her policy priorities in office: to ensure "peace" in Asia by establishing unchallenged U.S. military supremacy, expanding war games in the Indo-Pacific, and continuing the "containment" of China
Flourney’s vision of “peace” in Asia is a U.S. military presence so dominant that it could “sink all of China’s military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships within 72 hours.”
That means buying a LOT of weapons from her military-industry friends.
Flourney is also a co-founder of the Center for a New American Security, whose top funders include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, and a co-founder of the consulting firm WestExec Advisors, which helps private companies net Pentagon contracts.
Whoever wins in November, U.S. hybrid war on China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and others will
continue.
The farce of liberalism and two-party electoralism is clear: when it comes to U.S. imperialism, there is only one party.
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