So, what had China done before and after Trump's first term? In fact, thinking long term, China and Russia already started the ball rolling with the formation of BRICS in 2009, followed by China's BRI project in 2013, well before Trump's first term, having seen the trajectory of the USA's agenda against China under Biden and Obama.
It is rather difficult to pinpoint the straw that broke the camel's back that pushed China to prepare itself for the oncoming anti-China mantra over the last two to three decades. But it was a blessing in disguise that China took the bull by the horns and decided on a path that was plainly seen as a decoupling move, slow but undaunted mindset.
Which is why serving the Global South countries is so important a step to be taken. The preparation was strategic; the commitment total and the result is positive enough to make the USA worried and paranoid. Otherwise, why is Trump unnerved by de-dollarization and even threatening countries joining BRICS with punishing tariffs. Trump can do what he does best, but countries are still giving Trump their middle finger and queuing to join BRICS.
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Deng Xiaoping already saw the agenda of the Whites after what happened to Germany and Japan. What happened to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi and the violence against them later by the USA was even more obvious. The USA does not tolerate any country and any leader attempting to upset the status quo of the USA hegemony. It was and is an agenda built into its playbook. Small countries have no leverage under the USA's threat.
ReplyDeleteChina's leaders outsmarted the USA by first becoming stronger militarily and economically in order to withstand the expected attempts by the USA to put China down. Chinese leaders followed Deng by hiding its strength and humbly kept up its industrialization agenda. During that period, the USA was preoccupied with its wars against Iraq and Afghanistan and occupying itself with fighting terrorism. After all, over the decades, Chinese people were still seen as harmless and incapable of progress. After all, Chinamen can only be expected to be chefs and laundrymen, or so they think. It was to give China much breathing space to move forward uninterrupted.
The icing on the cake was Russia moving towards China over attempts by USA and the West to turn Russia into a stone age country. Their combined military power and the formation of BRICS gave both countries much needed beef to keep the USA at bay. By the time the USA woke up seeing China rising, it was too late with China already locking itself into becoming the factory of the world and exporting all over the world.
When China started its nuclear and missile programmes, all the scientists, technicians and people in the projects became non existence. No one knew where they went, just disappeared. They spent 30 to 40 years as nobody, to protect the projects and themselves. The Chinese knew these experts would be targeted by the West. They literally went underground.
ReplyDeleteJ. D. Vance claimed that the USA allowed China to rise. Is he kidding? Why leave out the fact that the USA cannot compete and is jealous of China's achivements? Without the blood and sweat of the Chinese people, would China be able to rise to what it is today? Without the capable leaders doing the guidance, planning and strategy, would China be able to dominate in so many sectors today?
ReplyDeleteJ. D. Vance still thinks that progress and prosperity is the right and prerogative of the Anglo-Saxon Whites and non-White countries must always remain poor and beholden to the USA? Any country able to progress and grow rich is always attributed to USA's benovalence.