US China War - Only mad savages can think of it

 China's technological progress is causing undue distress to the USA. Allowing China to continue with its present trajectory and motivitation of moving ahead on its own ingenuity and tenacity, shows the USA that it is perfectly capable of doing whatever it puts its heart and soul to embark on, which is putting the USA in a dilemma.

With everything to show regarding China's success in space projects like the Tiangong Space Station, the landing on the dark side of the moon, the probe sent to Mars, the satellite communication setups, the industrialisation projects, Chinese EV domination against which they are again taking steps to put down, AI and super computers, and now the progress seen in the chips sector as well, every move tells the world that China cannot be stifled. Not even with the USA bringing together all the alliances to sanction China in the chips sector and those sectors that China had been forbidden to participate in.

There is an urgency and perceived haplessness in the USA, not knowing what lies ahead in its efforts to counter China. Taking on China in a conflict right now is not a sure win proposition, while not taking action now is giving China more of the opportunity to strengthen its resolve to build up its deterrent as time goes by. With Russia as its strategic partner, and adding North Korea to the equation, that adds to the dilemma of the USA, as taking on the three of them is out of the question. That is why so much effort had been made to pry them apart with fabricated narratives trying to throw spanners into their relationships. They even tried that by dragging in Indonesia's name in a fake Pentagon joint statement claiming condemnation of Russia and vilifying China, which the Indonesians were quick to distance themselves.

ASEAN figures prominently in the USA's desire to drag the grouping into the war over Taiwan. ASEAN is trying desperately to distance itself from the USA/China tensions, with the current military and naval drills involving only ASEAN members, a first time that this is happening, clearly telling the USA and China that ASEAN resolves to remain neutral, whatever the Philippines and Vietnam choose to do. But this had been earlier construed by the Western media as a drill with an eye on the Chinese threat and harping on the South China Sea dispute.

Xi Jinping had already mentally prepared the PLA to be ready for eventualities, and China is definitely not sleeping under the rug and putting preparations in slow motion mode. That is not the Chinese mentality. The Chinese may have immense patience, but indulging in procastination is never their strong point. They endured and put up a century of patience under the White's and Japan's humiliation, but when it comes to determination, four decades is all they needed to overtake Japan and others, leaving them in the dust. The USA knows it too will be overtaken, thus it is using all out attempts to put China down, by fair means or foul.

The indications are the USA is betting on igniting the conflict earlier to take advantage of their perceived 'theoretical' edge that it thinks it still holds, but not knowing what the odds are without a clear knowledge of what the Chinese have in their retaliative arsenal. The outcome is therefore not as certain as they want to admit, but given the desperate position the USA is now in, who knows?

What is apparent in the narrative today indicates that the Ukraine War is unwinnable for the USA and Nato, which is why they are talking about a long war with no resolution and admitting that Ukraine is only able to retake small pockets of territory from Russia with its counteroffensive so far. The USA is therefore clearly shifting its focus towards China, looking at the way they are building alliances frantically around China. Even ASEAN is not spared, with the Philippines having fallen to the dark side and Vietnam being given the clasp of the 'fatal' friendship hand by the USA.

Anonymous