I'm with you on this. It doesn't matter what Biden thinks, it is a matter of the people who are losing power as a result of China.
They will continue to pursue this path. It was never about whether China will invade but about various powerful people WANTING China to invade as an excuse for US escalation.
I get where this POV comes from and don't even necessarily disagree with it, but to me I guess it seems like the wildcard in the new Cold War is the fact that a big chunk of the ruling class in the US (just like in the EU and the rest of the West) is invested in maintaining some level of peaceful commercial relations with China to the extent that any major change would be catastrophic. Like I genuinely wonder to what degree the globalization of capital and deindustrialization has basically tied the hands the parts of the ruling class who do want to escalate at any cost.
I'm with you on this. It doesn't matter what Biden thinks, it is a matter of the people who are losing power as a result of China.
They will continue to pursue this path. It was never about whether China will invade but about various powerful people WANTING China to invade as an excuse for US escalation.
I get where this POV comes from and don't even necessarily disagree with it, but to me I guess it seems like the wildcard in the new Cold War is the fact that a big chunk of the ruling class in the US (just like in the EU and the rest of the West) is invested in maintaining some level of peaceful commercial relations with China to the extent that any major change would be catastrophic. Like I genuinely wonder to what degree the globalization of capital and deindustrialization has basically tied the hands the parts of the ruling class who do want to escalate at any cost.