A relatively short article with some key assertions. The first paragraph is definitely going to irritate some people here. But the main thrust of the article is presented later, which is -
China’s late Cold War role as the great anti-communist power in the East, and its subsequent role in financing the American empire as it invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
The article lays out a lot of history as it relates to the Sino-Soviet relations and shows how as a result -
The CCP picked the side of capital in the Cold War, doomed the international communist movement in the process
Most important is this paragraph w.r.t the Cold War -
The first sign of betrayal was China’s active role in supporting Pakistan during the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh By 1972, Mao’s meeting with Richard Nixon signaled that the full anti-communist pivot was complete. With this pivot, China became a close American ally and the bulwark of anti-communism in East Asia and beyond. By the middle of the decade, the CCP was giving out loans to Pinochet, supporting UNITA in Angola alongside South Africa and the US against Cuba and the Soviet Union and had opened diplomatic relations with reactionary capitalist powers, from the Marcos regime in the Philippines to Japan. Deng Xiaoping sealed this alliance by invading Vietnam in 1979 in defense of the US-backed Khmer Rouge which the Vietnamese government had been attempting to overthrow. The CCP claims to have killed 100,000 Vietnamese communists in that war, which broke the back of the communist movement in East Asia and essentially ended it as a Cold War front , thus allowing the US to fully pivot to its massacres in Latin America and Africa in addition to the defense of Europe against the USSR and domestic communist movements.
And in the post-Soviet world -
Unlike other major American bond purchasers (Japan, South Korea, Germany) who are American military protectorates and can thus even be coerced into increasing the value of their currency, China subsidizes the American war machine ... CCP funds America’s wars in order to maintain the high value of the dollar relative to the yuan, which gives China a massive competitive edge in manufacturing and is a critical source of China’s massive economic growth.
In coalition with the East Asian American military protectorates, China filled the massive budget shortfalls that resulted from the combination of the Iraq War, Bush era tax cuts, and the early 2000s recession, propping up the flailing US economy as the war commenced. Chinese bond purchases intensified with US spending in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Indeed, the CCP became an eager participant in the new War on Terror by allying closely with Israel, adopting American counterinsurgency techniques and technologies from the rapidly burgeoning trade, and eventually hiring American mercenary Erik Prince for themselves for deployment in “Xinjiang.”
Overall this is a great comment, but I do have to disagree with this bit(I am assuming this is 100% serious). First of all fascists are delusional by nature so if anything this whole idea that China is going to collapse at any moment is their own coping mechanism. Remember the enemy is weak and strong, the evil CCP must be destroyed, yet it is about to collapse at any moment now. Basicaly what we see online today is just what the capitalist class believed 20 years ago. It is not a psyop but 100% what these ghouls generally believe and how they see the world.
Secondly analyzing the capitalist economy we know profitability is decreasing historically. The neoliberal period starting in the 80s is a counter tendency. But this isn't enough and by the late 90s early 2000s there is a further decline.
So how to cope with this? Imperialism of course, China opens the floodgates for US companies to move their manufacturing overseas as a counter tendency to falling profitability at home. There are many questions as to why China became the manufacturing center of the world instead of either one of the infamous BRICs. The reason is simple the CCP proved capable of providing the support for rapid infrastructure/industrial development something countries like Brazil or India could never aspire to(historical and material reasons for this) and in the case of Russia would come with far too many strings attached.
Then there is the fact that the past 30 years the US has been busy in other far more profitable wars. Why bother invading a country with over 1 billion people when you could make the ME your backyard. Also nukes.
So my point here is that I'd say the main reason the US missed out on invading China was because this wasn't a US government decision that could be made without consent of the capitalist class, back then and even more so today. Overseas expansion was the only answer to the profitability crisis and if you took out China the future would be even more uncertain. There was never a good alternative for overseas redeployment of such a large scale industrial complex at a scale necessary to counter the falling rate of profit. If you looked at the world in the year 2000 and suggested moving your industry to Taiwan/Vietnam/Philippines/Bangladesh etc instead of China or at least the BRICs you would be laughed at. Eventually some of those countries got some industrial investment but not nearly enough.
This is such an important point. In my liberal days, I always used to wonder (and ask others) why hasn't the US managed to stop China from rising (like it has done countless times before to countless other countries). Now I know the government is subservient to capital and capital is addicted to China.