They have no ability to do anything of consequence, like organize a national boycott or direct their nation’s foreign policy
Trump tried to do tariffs on China and it kinda-sorta stuck. Now Biden's getting on the Sanctions bandwagon and doing China Bad press events during every spare moment when he's not doing Russia Bad.
It looks like making China and Russia the new National Enemies is absolutely working. The ramp up is slow, because we're so far in bed with the Chinese that we can't cut ties overnight. But given the rise in stochastic violence aimed at Asian communities, the all-in commitment to China Bad from every corner of the mass media, and the endless waves of agitprop echoing through social media, I wouldn't be overly surprised if we saw something like an anti-China BDS or another round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks intended to economically fence China in before 2024 married to the kind of Chinese Exclusion Act attitudes espoused by Tom Cotton. Insecure underperforming White Americans would love nothing more than to purge Asian Americans from state universities and ban them from government jobs, for instance.
I don't think its going to work, simply because American foreign policy has been dogshit for decades and everyone knows it. But I can absolutely see a new consumerist Red Scare, particularly as we try to explain the contradictions of climate change in a way that doesn't offend domestic capital.
Trump tried to do tariffs on China and it kinda-sorta stuck. Now Biden's getting on the Sanctions bandwagon and doing China Bad press events during every spare moment when he's not doing Russia Bad.
It looks like making China and Russia the new National Enemies is absolutely working. The ramp up is slow, because we're so far in bed with the Chinese that we can't cut ties overnight. But given the rise in stochastic violence aimed at Asian communities, the all-in commitment to China Bad from every corner of the mass media, and the endless waves of agitprop echoing through social media, I wouldn't be overly surprised if we saw something like an anti-China BDS or another round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks intended to economically fence China in before 2024 married to the kind of Chinese Exclusion Act attitudes espoused by Tom Cotton. Insecure underperforming White Americans would love nothing more than to purge Asian Americans from state universities and ban them from government jobs, for instance.
I don't think its going to work, simply because American foreign policy has been dogshit for decades and everyone knows it. But I can absolutely see a new consumerist Red Scare, particularly as we try to explain the contradictions of climate change in a way that doesn't offend domestic capital.