THE OTHER TRANSITION

Everyone is talking about the unwillingness of Trump to allow a smooth transition to a Biden presidency.

But there's another transition both are unwilling to contemplate, that of working with China rather than against her.

The resistance of Trump and his people to allowing a smooth transition to Biden and his people is a purely political tactic. They know they can’t win out. Trump will NOT have a second term and will not be able to do what he was determined to do.

In a similar way, the world WILL transition to a new paradigm where the economic power of China will first inhibit and then virtually eliminate the ability of U.S. elites to threaten the world into submitting to them as their masters. That transition is underway and has been the clear and obviously inevitable outcome for many years now. China has won its right to be the forerunner of a more stable world based upon diplomacy, agreement and the mutual benefits of trade. The USA, the power which up till now has assumed the position of world dominator, couching its role in self-rewarding positive terms as the primary guardian of individual liberty and the “obvious” benefits of democracy is refusing to acknowledge this transition. And the world is suffering directly through this refusal.

Many of the regime change wars have this refusal at their basis as well as the more obvious motivation to strike at all anti-American entities as perceived by U.S. elites post 9/11. But make no mistake, as the twin determination; to achieve ‘full spectrum dominance’, also derived from 9/11 accepting the present strength and coming dominance of China was just as unacceptable in its own way as the continuation of those in the first category.

The USA and UK with assistance from most of Europe have primarily, to all intents and purposes, run the world till now. To contemplate giving up this status, especially after 9/11, is unquestionably anathema to their elites. That is not to say that China will run the world instead. China will rather set the climate for agreement across nations that trade and the benefits of trade far outweigh any perceived self-interested benefits in prioritizing differences that can be exploited by threat, destabilization and diverse other forms of warfare either overt or covert. China, along with relatively minor player Russia have no mission to dominate the world or mold the rest of it in their image, politically, socially or in any other way. Their focus is on trade, on creating frameworks and foundations for agreement quite outside of notions of some standard political system that MUST be in place before any benefits can accrue. In short they will focus upon the inviolate nature of national sovereignty.

The focus above is not new. It was demonstrated in 2003 when both Russia and China along with France opposed the illegal attack upon and invasion of Iraq pointing out that there was no legal validity to attacking a nation that had not committed any act of violence against its attacker. China and Russia have been consistent in their principles regarding this and there is no substantial reason whatsoever they will deviate from them in future.

Only the United States and its allies indicate that they have a mission to transform all other nations into mirror-images of themselves. And the elites of the USA are demonstrating on a daily basis that they believe, due to the events of 9/11, that this is a goal which they will not and believe they cannot ever relinquish as their conception is that the United States and its future security will be put at risk by any other eventuality.

These twin circumstances therefore, the desire of U.S. elites in particular (and other exceptionalist elites within the UK and on the European mainland) to maintain their patrician dominance, and their belief that this is of utmost importance for the sake of so-called 'liberal values’, plus the unrelenting and unquestioned determination of the USA to achieve full spectrum dominance, means that they will do everything possible to resist a smooth transition to the new, much more peaceful, stable and secure ethos that would come with a responsible acknowledgement that China, not the West promises the better future by far for humanity than the western era of dominance now ending.