Thread by @Kanthan2030

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away… US Presidents went to China and said, “We welcome the rise of China!”

Then a couple of years ago, they said, “We are not trying to contain China.”

Now, the containment policy is official & in the open!

But how does it work exactly?

The US is waging a multidimensional hybrid war that involves attacks on China’s:

🔹Economy
🔹Technology
🔹Soft Power
🔹Diplomatic Power
🔹Belt and Road Initiative
🔹Internal Stability
🔹National Security
🔹Military
🔹Currency

And so on.

USA always believed that China’s economy could not last — you know, communism and all. So, the Americans welcomed China into WTO. However, after the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. seriously started planning for a containment policy.

It involved external and internal threats

External: Recruiting India to counter China. The second was to place missile defense systems in South Korea.

Internal: Stirring up Uyghur separatists. Later bringing them to Syria get trained with Al Qaeda. The plan was to send them back to Xinjiang.

External threats have expanded a lot since then with

🔹formation of QUAD,
🔹having EU and NATO deem China as a threat, and
🔹militarisation of Japan

As for the attack on the economy, trade wars and tariffs were tried for the last five years, but have failed spectacularly.

Hence the targeted attacks on China’s high-tech industries —semiconductors.

Attack on China’s soft power includes a large circus of Presstitutes who churn out anti-China articles every day.

Social media influencers who spread anti-China viral videos & fake news are also key players.

Banning Confucius Institutes, censoring Chinese media also pivotal

Curbing China’s diplomatic power has been somewhat successful in Europe and extremely successful India.

Europeans who are not lobotomized now realize that being both anti-Russia and anti-China is 100% suicidal.

However, in Latin America, Africa, ASEAN etc., China is doing ok

In Belt and Road countries, 70% of the people have positive views about China.

And in the UN, China is playing the diplomatic game better than the US.

Chinese officials practise old-school diplomacy - respect, persuasion through win-win ideas etc.

To summarize, US efforts have failed in majority of the areas.

Technology and external threats are the only two arrows left in the quiver.

The containment war will intensify over the next few years.

BTW, even the proxy war on Russia is really a war on China.

So, let’s see how it goes. So far, China has handled this extraordinary hybrid war quite well…

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