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Why the U.S. is adopting such a belligerent stance wrt to China today? A personal musing.
From environmental issues, CO²emission, coal over dependent, Taiwan cross straits issue, South China Sea claims dispute, human rights, technology theft, trade & commerce (e.g., Huawei 5G), digital Yuan and its exchange rate valuation, Xinjiang, etcetera, etcetera, the U.S. is employing all sorts of unsavoury tactics in its strategic plan to undermine, provoke and contain China's rise as a global power. U.S. can hardly suppress its ingrained predisposition to not allow any nation or people to be better than them in any aspect(s) of human endeavour. That's why their unrelenting and vigorous campaign of myth-making, fabrications, wicked disinformation to distract, confound, ensnare and, ultimately, to allure and induce other countries to join its orbit of influence, vainglorious hubris and hegemonistic tendency. Including its much fantasised delusion of ever lasting greatness and grandeur. In other words, their historic assertion of the supremacy of the ideals (& virtues) - for a large part of their 200-plus-year history , yes or true, but since one or two decades ago, no longer true - of democracy, human rights and freedom of choice ( i.e., the so-called individual pursuit of happiness & liberty), have been unrealistically overrated, abused and gradually but increasingly unfulfilled ( i.e., hollowed fact of life). As prime examples, just observe their outdated, dilapidated infrastructures, esp., rails, roads, expressways, bridges; internal political, ethnic, social class divisions; seemingly irreconcilable, disparate ideologies, power play of vested interest groups, societal groups increasingly acute rends, fractious discontent, random incidents of shooting & terrorist act, , etc, etc. Hence, finding scapegoats and other red herrings as a natural escape hatch is not at all too stunning a surprise. |
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