TARGETING CHINA | RAMPANT PARANOIA OR FOREIGN POLICY?

What’s behind the fearmongering regarding China’s social media entities TikTok and WeChat?

Why is Huawei the target of western elite distrust?

Is this a symptom of paranoia, warranted or unwarranted... or is it based on a cynical tactic to hurt a competitor nation?

Trump is leading the attack upon Chinese tech companies, but he is not alone. Britain, India and Australia have taken action. Britain and Australia are the two closest allies of the USA, their political leaders are heavily influenced by what U.S. elites do.

What’s the evidence there is danger to the West from these companies?

There appears to be no evidence, at least no evidence has been divulged. As far as anyone knows outside of official circles there are only claims of the possibility of danger and no specific details have emerged.

We are all too familiar with this new low level of evidence required to target nations that the West happens to have an interest in instigating regime change within. Accusations are made, opinions are voiced, speculation is rife, insinuations tend to become routine until a detrimental meme regarding nations such as China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela enter the arteries of mainstream media and infect minds across the West.

It smacks of a psychological weapon designed to demonize.

As such the suspicion must be that there is CIA involvement and that of MI6 and quite possibly an interlocking campaign plan coordinated across them all.

Why would the West be worried about China?

China has the world’s most dynamic economy and it is clear what motivates western nations more than anything else, economic competition. For decades western politicians have talked of how their nations must become more competitive. This was a vital goal and top priority. But it has become clear in recent years that the powerhouse of the Chinese economy has become a seemingly unstoppable threat to western economic interests.

If it was simply a matter of economics this would not appear to be enough reason for western elites to begin a dirty war against China but it goes deeper than just economics.

The power of the western elites to affect and make changes in the world far from their national boundaries has always been relied upon as vital for a host of reasons. Western elites have for all our lifetimes considered they are the guarantors of peace, freedom, security and stability worldwide. This is a very real soft power they have had which has many hard power aspects to it, always ready in abeyance. Because this notion of being the world’s protectors is so strong it justifies a host of actions that would otherwise be labeled unwelcome interference.

Western nations have been the most powerful economically, politically and militarily for most of our lifetimes and at least since the end of the Cold War when their main rival, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.

This must surely be one of the primary factors affecting the current economic war against China if the underlying reason is NOT technical factors concerning the possibility of spying or of using software entities to garner potentially useful data by a potential enemy.

Western elites had been attempting to bring down the Soviet Union since the end of World War Two by every possible means. By these means in coordination with internal disaffection within the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations this was finally achieved. These western elites appear to have then believed that each of these separate nations would transform into virtual mirror images of their own nations in regard to political, economic, ideological and social matters.  

A problem with this view began to arise before even a decade had passed which evidently caused great alarm among western elites. In most cases things went the way western elites had foresaw them. Ex-Warsaw Pact nations joined the western orbit one after another joining the EU and NATO. During the time of Reagan and Thatcher the politicians in these countries were enthusiastic in embracing the West and invited their economic interests to assist them as they emerged with many needs regarding the restructuring of their economies and political systems.

The problem that arose was the attitude of Vladimir Putin. In 2007 he gave an address in Munich to a great many of the West’s elites. He began in apologetic terms stating his hope that his openness in talking of certain subjects would not offend his audience. He was right to be concerned. The effect of this one speech was to change entirely the way he was seen in the West. Before this speech he was a welcome guest in the West. he and George W. Bush had seemed to get on very well. Bush even said he had looked into Putin’s soul and found it good. Upon making his speech everything would change and never revert back to the West’s previous assessment of Putin. That assessment roughly was that Putin would be a sober version of Yeltsin and that western influence over Russia would remain.

Putin made plain in his speech that he was determined that Russia would follow her own destiny by having an independent, sovereign range of policies based upon her own best interests and though she would work in coordination with all other powers on matters of mutual interest she would not be subservient to any.

This speech  went down like the proverbial lead balloon with the assembled elites from the West. This was not what they wanted to hear. Not at all. But it was not as if Putin had not attempted to bridge the divide between Russia and the West. he had previously broached the idea that the Russian federation could join both the EU and NATO like the many ex-Warsaw Pact nations had done. But these seeds had fallen on stony ground. Russia was clearly seen as a nation requiring a degree of ostracization, to be kept at arm’s length to a significant degree while she was infiltrated with western expertise and interests.

Russia was to remain out in the cold.

Meanwhile as the 2000s progressed China was changing. More and more ring-fenced capitalism was being allowed to prosper. China steadily began to grow as less and less restrictions were placed on the special economic zones where capitalism was encouraged to flourish.

Now, twenty years later China has reached the point where she is arriving at a tipping point western elites fear most. That tipping point concerns the features of Chinese economic growth reaching a point where it transfers into the powers that western elites have had all to themselves at least since the end of the Second World War and indeed much earlier going back to the colonial era.

Russia has nowhere near the economic power of China but as the world’s largest nation and a previous enemy to the West its ability to use its natural resources and primarily oil to fuel its transformation to a significant power meant western interests demanded action. The campaign to weaken and remove Putin has been seen to be all-pervasive across the West since 2007 and continues to this day and for the reasons stated.

China is far and away the most primary economic and geopolitical threat to the economic interests and therefore the political and military power of the West to act when its interests are threatened and in whatever ways it sees fit. These ways range from diplomatic pressure by the West to a wide spectrum of levers from bribery, threat, muscular political and when deemed necessary, military action to get its way. The West is used to getting its way. China poses a very real, indeed an inevitable, threat to the long-standing patrician dominance of the West.

The economic interests of the West are without doubt conflated in the minds of its elites with the self-awarded notion that it is the world’s only sure guardian of decent values, the sole dependable guarantor of stability, freedom and democracy.

I predict, whoever wins the presidency in November of this year we will hear repeatedly the same watchwords heard so often during the Cold War, “The Free World”. Those aligned with the USA will work to further divide the world into those within “The Free World” and those who are “The Enemies of Freedom”, nations such as Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and others. This is the refrain from the Pompeo songbook we have heard often in recent years. That of Bolton too though he fell foul of Trump’s ego as so many have in recent years. Pompeo is adept at massaging that ego, or at least not being any threat to it.

For the reasons stated above I believe the reasons given for the attacks upon China are not as framed by the western elites of the UK, USA and Australia among others but are a result of waning western economic, political and military influence due to that nation’s ongoing economic rise. Covid-19 has hit China badly as it has the West. But China is recovering faster. This is making western elites even more anxious than ever and engendering in my view enough panic to have them mount the economic war they will now increasing engage in toward China.

John Pilger, the renowned, long-respected investigative journalist, commentator and critic of of western abuses of power has warned even a nuclear strike against China is not impossible to imagine.

This is not just about western elite paranoia, warranted or unwarranted concerning Chinese software and technology, this is a managed foreign policy designed with the goal of weakening the most vital regime change target yet solely for the self-interest of western elites and the maintenance of their position as world police.