The new “Cold Trade-Political-Cultural War” has already officially begun after July 23, 2020, when the US President ordered the closure of China’s consulate in Houston. At the same time, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling for more creative and effective means of lobbying the Communist Party of China to change its stance on issues from Hong Kong security laws to China’s claims in the South Sinai Sea.
Indeed, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added in recent statements that: “the free world must change China, otherwise China will change us (free world) by making this work (china’s change) the mission of our time.”
by T.C.
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China in response to the closure of its Consulate in Houston closed the US consulate in Chengdu the capital of the Chinese province of Sichuan.
The EU trapped in the middle of the US-China confrontation is trying in every way to keep the balance. The EU’s aim is to defend the interests of its member countries in every way, but without doing anything that cools and isolates China and at the same time without destroying its relations with the US.
This is evident in the lukewarm press criticisms of the EU towards China regarding Hong Kong’s security regime but also for the rights of Uighurs (please see the analysis titled “The Oppression of the Uyghurs and the Role of China“) thus avoiding isolating China but at the same time they do not want to follow US President Donald Trump in his confrontation with China.
What most people in Europe and the US do not understand is that the ‘Cold War’ between the West (US) and the USSR did not end in 1989 with the collapse of the USSR.
In 1989, a part of the Communist world collapsed, which was also part of the winners of the Second World War, proposing a disastrous social and economic model that, if it prevailed in the world, would “wither” humanity.
The US “drunk” from its victory over the USSR at the time could not discern this fact, degrading the dynamics of the Communist Party of China which had the potential and predictability to adapt its ideology by adopting the market economy as the most successful economic model on the planet while imposing its nationalist and authoritarian side to describe and protect its “acquis” which are no more than full control and long-term China’s executive power.
Photo by Author: The White House from Washington DC, Source: President Trump’s Trip to Germany and the G20 Summit, Licensed Public Domain
Essentially from 1989 to 2012 China’s low profile in its international relations was a break in the after thing of the “Cold War” that enabled China to gain the valuable time it needed to develop and come into a position of strength and a position of direct confrontation with the US and the West in general.
If China’s authoritarian-communist economic-social model applied to a sixth of the world’s population is the most successful capitalist economic-social model on the planet, overstretching the economic-social model of the West (or the free world according to Mike Pompeo), then it will succeed and be adopted by all mankind.
The simultaneous withdrawal of the US from international organizations (NATO) and from many parts of the world (Middle East, Mediterranean Sea, South Sinai Sea, Indian Ocean, etc.) will enable them to emerge in their place and confront many ambitious local and pro-local forces-countries which will sooner or later seek economic-military support from China by presenting China as their political exchanges, military and economic benefits to China with the greatest of them adopting its authoritarian-nationalist communist type of capitalist economic-social model.
China has now become under the Presidency Xi Jinping much more authoritarian at home (see Hong Kong law enforcement) and more aggressive abroad in terms of the social-economic dogma that advocates, for example, rebuilding the Silk Road involving at least 70 countries and its claims in the South Sinai Sea, causing fear in the Asian states neighboring it.
The US President, who will emerge from the US presidential election in November 2020, will also be the one who, with his future policies in place, will determine whether to allow the American Empire and, by extension, the West to defend its global achievements, or to withdraw it by isolating it by leaving chaos behind the planet and in a greater and bloodier proportion to the chaos left behind by the British Empire when it in turn withdrew from its former colonies which, in order to continue its indirect influence, promoted nationalist governments against communist revolutionaries.
Only today the promotion of a nationalist authoritarian regime married to the market economy to fill the gap that the US will leave behind is the social-political-economic model that China stands for. In this case, China will not have to toil to “join” the former acquis of the West in its ranks. These will go to China on their own.
