Officials must stay ‘keenly aware’ of challenges and prepare for ‘most extreme scenarios’, President Xi Jinping tells National Security Commission
Comments show China harbours no ‘illusions’ about fallout of US rivalry and has little hope of a lasting improvement in ties, analysts say
The New Cold War is here, folks.
:deeper-sadness:
To add an ideological dimension to this, in the United States there is no understanding of the material conditions of the Cold War. If it gets covered (the story of history usually ends with WWII in our classrooms), it's about how capitalist USA won because we're just better and free-er than authoritarian liberal-commie Stalinism. Our leaders assume this conflict will go similarly because they have no reason to believe otherwise - that China will just collapse like the USSR, for no other reason than "that's what central planning does". They grew up in a world were the reported threat of communism just vanished with - as far as they are aware - no warning.
Yep, they grew up on a unipolar world where the US have final say on everything, so they have a sense of superiority. There’s certainly a section of US elite doesn’t like this Cold War and tell the hawk to stop, but it’s going down hill way to fast to break
This is exactly why :DaBiden: made the statement that relations will soon thaw. There is this sense that all the US needs to do is remind everyone of their preordained superiority, and they will fall in line. There are some people who actually seem to understand materialism well enough to understand the cold war. But, most of them are retired like kissenger or out of favor like clinton. Biden is literally an idiot who wants all his buds in Washington to have a good time.
It's funny when lifelong professionals are worse at material analysis than fucking Donald Trump.
Imagine spending your entire professional life in politics. You make policy decisions and go on diplomatic missions. Throughout your career both you and many of your colleagues are successful in this. And your only explanation for that success is, America good, freedom, little countries being vewy vewy good listeners. Nothing about dollar superiority or the way the military actually projects power. You might not even know the USA genocided bangladesh and indonesia and flattened laos.
The DPRK is just a rogue state that needs to be brought back into the international community.
The CIA and FBI have a colored history but help "keep america safe." But, American political stability is maintained through liberal democracy not repression.
It's genuinely terrifying to watch them fumble around with the machinery of our political system.
This is exactly what I was taught in high school US history
I remember being taught that the proliferation of the fax machine was a big part of it. Apparently the ability for the people to share information and better coordinate themselves is what led to them dissolving the government. They use the Berlin wall falling to say that the soviets hated their government, and that their protest led to the government's destruction. The implication of that teaching is that cell phones and the internet make us more free which is, of course, pure :zizek-preference: