I've been seeing a huge amount of anti-Chinese sentiment online, from obvious places like reddit, to even misinformed friends on social media falling victim to viral posts filled with misinformation.
What are we to make of this? Is this the slow march to war, by portraying them as pure evil, à la the fake story of Iraqi soldiers killing Kuwaiti babies to help get the public on board with our military response? It seems disadvantageous for the US and their allies to fight China, as we are incredibly reliant upon them economically and don't stand to gain much from the conflict.
Are these the irrational decisions of a dying empire? Or is there something else at play?
Ultimately the bourgeoisie of each "first world" country are acting in what they believe to be their best interests (no surprise there.) Most nations that aren't the US have made the assessment that China is unlikely to pose any large threat to them any time soon, even if they gain more economic dominance globally. The reason we see the American bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie of other nations acting in a way that is contradictory to each other is because the American bourgeoisie have something to lose if there is an economic "changing of the guard" from the US to China, whereas the bourgeoisie of other first-world nations would be relatively unphased by the transition.
I think the only one they might get to go along relatively easily is the UK, because they seem pretty desperate to be the US' good lap dog, so that the US in exchange is nice to them in the future when it comes to trade deals and all that.
What if, hear me out, the Anglosphere Boys got together for one last job?..