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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October 10th marks the National Day of the Republic of China. On this day in 1911, an armed uprising in Wuchang (present day Wuhan), under Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Tongmenghui resistance movement, launched an attack on the local Viceroy. (2/13)
Soon afterwards, protests erupted throughout China leading to the abdication of the Qing throne and the end of millenia of dynastic rule. This historic process was an international movement that involved popular support both in China as well as overseas Chinese communities (3/13)
It’s sad to see Westerners who’ve been politicized enough to see through the lies their governments and media tell about Palestine go on to repeat imperialist talking points about China, Iran, Venezuela, etc. What they lack is a systemic analysis of how imperialism functions.
The mainstreaming of Palestine solidarity in the imperial core has come at the cost of removing Palestine from its larger regional context, especially its Iranian and Syrian allies, and China’s support for both states.
Whether in the Middle East or East Asia, US monopoly capital sees the threat of regional war as a chance to secure new weapons contracts and captive markets. Which is why the same weapons manufacturers that arm the genocide in Gaza also enable billion dollar arms sales to Taiwan.
The "Beijing Declaration” is a historic statement of Palestinian unity agreed to by 14 Palestinian factions who met in Beijing today.
The document promises to “unify national efforts” to resist Zionist aggression and to seek the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
The statement concludes inter-factional talks hosted by Beijing including Hamas, Fatah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and others, and builds on dialogues held between Hamas and Fatah in Beijing in April.
It was revealed that Jordan attempted to sabotage the unity talks, pressuring Fatah to initially withdraw from the second round of talks. Jordanian officials argued the talks would “legitimize” Hamas and increase China’s role as a mediator in the region.
Qiao Collective is thrilled to publish our analysis of why the argument that Western leftists must make “principled critiques” of Global South nations right as they are being targeted by the Western imperialist machine facilitates imperialist intervention. qiaocollective.com/en/articles/wh…
How many times have you seen pseudo-leftist Westerners piously claim that "we should attack both the U.S. and X nation under attack from the U.S."?
Read our thorough analysis on how these narratives inherently advance Western imperialism.
"Given the fact that there has never been a successful socialist revolution in the West, its suspicious that Western leftists jump to legislate what is and isnt socialism in the Global South."
Rising anti-Asian violence in the West cannot be separated from empire—the military encirclement of China and relentless propaganda which paints China as duplicitous, conniving, and invasive.
Yet liberals are *shocked* when the Sinophobic violence they sow abroad comes home.
The same forces that have spread conspiracies about a Chinese COVID-19 "cover up" and lies about China blocking WHO investigations in Wuhan are now up in arms about anti-Asian hate violence.
They like their imperialism with a side of performative "anti-racism"
The ruling class would prefer we don't connect the dots between domestic racism and global imperialism. That way they can define "anti-racism" as representation in a settler colonial system while the murder of Global South peoples abroad goes unchallenged.
We’re reeling from news of the murder of 8 people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta. The tragedy coincides with the 53rd anniversary of the My Lai massacre—a reminder that violence against Asian women is a direct outgrowth of the US military’s racial & sexual abuses in Asia.
This abuse disproportionately affects Asian women in the sex trade. The figure of the violable & disposable Asian woman sex worker is proliferated in US accounts of imperial war in Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines, and Korea, brutally allegorizing the imperial conquest of Asia.
We remember the racist “Wuhan Plague” plaques posted in Atlanta last spring, as racist conspiracy theories about a Chinese “coverup” were floated by Democrats and Republicans alike. A year of blaming China for COVID has created a hostile environment for Asian peoples worldwide.