Thread by @caitoz

Biden Will Escalate Aggressions Against China While Republicans Call Him A Beijing Puppet

"Team Biden is soft on China," Ted Cruz tweeted the other day, echoing a common accusation leveled against the president from the right with increasing frequency.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/biden-will-e…

Cruz, who biologically is mostly wetland parasites, is not being truthful. There is no evidence at this early stage that the Biden administration is "soft on China", and there is a lot of evidence that it will be the exact opposite.

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1358898010818826252

Just today the president announced a new Pentagon task force dedicated to countering Beijing which will be led by a virulent China hawk who has previously attacked Trump for being too soft on China. @DecampDave reports the following for @Antiwarcom:

https://twitter.com/Antiwarcom/status/1359675680569454592

Biden has been vocal about his desire to "confront China's economic abuses, counter its aggressive, coercive actions, push back on China's attack on human rights, intellectual property, and global governance."

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1357420525123993611

Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has restructured the National Security Council to prioritize countering China in the Indo-Pacific.
news.antiwar.com/2021/01/29/whi…

Biden's Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who furiously agreed with Trump's hawkish China policy, ripped Chinese officials over the treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong in his very first call to Beijing after taking office.
news.yahoo.com/blinken-presse…

Biden's Defense Department is sending war ships into the South China Sea.
9news.com.au/world/us-aircr…

Biden is plainly governing as a China hawk, and is giving every indication that aggressions between the two powerful nations will only get more heated in the coming years. Yet sleazy Republicans like Cruz will keep hurling accusations of Beijing sympathies at this administration.

How do I know this will happen? Well besides the fact that it is happening already and has been in the works for months, I know it because it's what happened last time.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/if-biden-wins-…

Throughout his entire four years in office, Donald Trump was consistently hammered with accusations of secret Kremlin loyalty, even after the Mueller investigation failed to indict a single American for conspiring with the Russian government.

These accusations did not harm Trump in any meaningful way, but they did in effect end up providing cover for him to escalate tensions against Russia more aggressively than any president since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/25-times-trump…

During the 2012 presidential race, Barack Obama mocked Mitt Romney for saying that Russia was America's greatest geopolitical threat, saying "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War has been over for 20 years."

Just imagine, for a moment, the reaction that American liberals would have had if they'd gone directly from that kind of narrative to the scary fascist orange man accelerating toward nuclear brinkmanship with the world's other leading nuclear weapons force.

Russiagate was first and foremost a mass scale psyop born of the US intelligence cartel and advancing the pre-planned agendas of the US intelligence cartel against a longtime geostrategic target.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/all-russiagate…

I said years ago that the ultimate target of Russiagate was not Trump or Russia but China, and we're seeing that playing out now.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/957421990884786177

Moscow's increasingly close relationship with Beijing means it needs to be shoved off the world stage via economic warfare and other maneuverings to weaken its ability to defend the real target China before its surging economic power can end US unipolar hegemony in our world.

If you can get leader of one political faction escalating aggressions against a targeted nation while the other faction is constantly accusing him of loyalty to that same nation, you've successfully manipulated the public into actively cheering for dangerous cold war escalations.

Biden will continue to roll out aggressions against China while the rightist political/media class keeps churning out narratives that he is soft on China.

This is such a perfect example of the way the Democratic and Republican Parties function like the jab-cross punch combination in boxing, each working together to set each other up for knockout blows.