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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Today marks 88 years since the beginning of the Nanjing Massacre: a six-week paroxysm of ritualistic mass murder and rape inflicted by the Imperial Japanese Army on a defenseless civilian population, ultimately claiming some 300,000 Chinese lives.
Arguably the single worst atrocity of the untold thousands perpetrated by Japan across China and the broader Asia-Pacific during its 1931-45 wars of colonial conquest, the Nanjing Massacre was a focal point for this year's 80th anniversary commemorations of its defeat.
A major cultural phenomenon complementing official acts of remembrance like the September 3 Victory Day parade was the release of the film Dead to Rights (originally 南京照相馆, lit. “Nanjing Photo Studio”), dramatizing the Nanjing Massacre, to both popular and critical acclaim.
Understanding Why China Abstained on the UN Security Council’s Gaza Resolution 🧵
On November 17, the UN Security Council passed a resolution endorsing a US-led interim governing authority and "International Stabilization Force" in Gaza. China and Russia strongly objected to its denial of Palestinian self-determination but opted to abstain rather than veto.
Prior to the vote, the US had secured public endorsements from a wide coalition of Arab and Muslim governments including the official representatives of the State of Palestine, while threatening a "return to war" if its draft resolution was not passed as written.
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."