Any attempt to contain China is “mission impossible”, the country’s defence ministry warned the US on Thursday, as the Biden administration works to shore up its Asian alliances against Beijing.
Military tensions between the two superpowers worsened under former US President Donald Trump, who adopted an aggressive stance on regional flashpoints such as Taiwan and the South China Sea. AFP
The evil rogue American Empire is at it again, trying to control and contain the rise of China. This evil Empire has been in this game since it became the number one super power after WW2. It went about building military alliances to contain the growth of the USSR and communist countries with NATO, CENTO and SEATO, to encircle the USSR, China, Vietnam and North Korea. It was successful in bringing down and breaking up the Soviet Union in 1991.
This evil Empire does not believe in peaceful co existence. Countries are either with them or against them. And to be with them, countries must accept the Empire and adopt its form of fake democracy and fake human rights that it did not practise in homeland USA. Historically and factually, the USA is the biggest violator of human rights and the practitioner of fake democracy. Just ask what happened to the native Americans and the blacks and coloured people in the USA, even today with the whites killing the blacks freely as if it is a right.
Many countries are forced into abject poverty by the sanctions and containment of the evil American Empire, not allowed to participate in international trade, forced into isolation, and this evil country could claim that these victimised countries chose to isolate themselves from the international community.
Countries like North Korea, Cuba, Iran, now Venezuela and several Latin American countries and Asian and African countries are still locked out of the international trading system by this evil Empire.
Why can't this evil Empire just let other countries to live the way they want, choose their own leaders and political and economic system? Did not this evil Empire talk about freedom of choice, freedom to elect their leaders in what they called democracy?
Why can't this evil Empire just spend its money and resources to build a better country, a better system and a better life for its people and those they chose to adopt its way of life and political system and let others choose their own if different from the evil Empire? Would it not be better to do their best in creating a better system for the rest of the world to admire and to choose instead of sending their warships and soldiers everywhere to fight wars of oppression and kill innocent people and destroy countries that did not want to follow the rogue American way?
The evil Empire has been conducting wars of oppression and destruction since the end of WW2 till now and not stopping. And it claims to be a free country, a protector of democracy and freedom of choice and human rights when it is doing everything against these ideals?
What is wrong with China choosing its own economic and political system? China is not forcing any country to be like China and not imposing its system on the rest of the world. China is actually practising freedom of choice, respecting the rights of countries to be free and to choose their own political and economic system unlike the hypocritical evil American Empire that do not allow others the freedom to choose.
Stop the white lies and let the rest of the world be free to be what they want, to choose how to run their countries and manage their economies. Stop the wars, stop the oppression, sanctions, isolation of countries that do not want the evil American ways.
China is showing the rest of the world that there are alternative ways, alternative path to economic prosperity for its people. China's rise is not through wars or conquest or killings like what the western powers did, like what this evil American Empire is doing, wars, wars and killing and more killings. The Americans would destabilise countries to keep them in trouble, dysfunctional and poor.
The Chinese way is a better way, but China is not forcing anyone to choose. It is the evil American Empire that is forcing every country to choose. And those that chose not to go the American way would be crushed. This is how pretentious, how hypocritical and how deceitful the Americans are. Free world, free to choose? My foot!
The evil American way is the way to destruction like what they forced upon the Middle Eastern countries, and the poverty they imposed on those countries they sanctioned and locked out from the international community and world trade. The American way is about oppressing and suppressing others from becoming better. Instead of competing to become better, it seeks to destroy others to preserve its dominance over others. They are the warmongers, the trouble makers of the world.
Countries of the world can choose to follow the evil Americans into more wars and more death and destruction, or to follow China to grow their economies for the betterment of their people.
PS. Look at how the evil Empire is containing the export of vaccines to the rest of the world that it preaches to protect... It is all about their own interest, America First, Covid19 vaccines only for the Americans, not for the rest of the world. Are the dummies listening?
The war to get vaccines for their own people is getting hot with Europe being left out, with the bulk of the vaccines going to Americans and Brits. The European countries are getting very angry and impatient and have turned to Russian and Chinese vaccines. Any vaccines that work is ok, now that their chances of getting the American and British vaccines is slipping away.
In the eyes of Western elites, Westerners can have the privilege to eat meat while Chinese should just eat grass.
Time magazine on Friday posted an article entitled "How China could change the world by taking meat off the menu." The author draws a connection between Chinese eating meat and global environmental problems. It said: "Livestock farming produces 20 percent to 50 percent of all man-made greenhouse gases… Halving China's animal-agriculture sector could result in a 1 billion metric-ton reduction of CO2 emissions."
In 2018, the Atlantic published a piece with the headline of "China's love for meat is threatening its green movement." In 2019, the Economist released an article entitled "The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat." It is reported in June 2020 that Pat Brown, chief executive of Impossible Foods, a company developing plant-based substitutes for meat products, even said, "Every time someone in China eats a piece of meat, a little puff of smoke goes up in the Amazon."
Chinese people's eating patterns remarkably differ from people in the West. Chinese mainly eat grain and vegetables, supplemented by meat, while for Westerners, meat has been their staple food. The proportion of meat in the diet of Westerners is much higher than that of Chinese.
The Time article states that China consumes 28 percent of the world's meat. This data has been cited by Western media outlets since 2016. Western media tend to criticize China by referring to the total amount. As China is the most populous country in the world, using a total figure as a benchmark is unfair to China. Yet based on meat consumption per capita, the West far exceeds that of China.
In terms of beef, the OECD shows in 2020 that China's consumption of 4.2 kilograms per capita lagged behind the world average at 6.4 kilos. The figure for Argentina was about nine times as much as that of China, and the US more than six times that of China. The consumption of many Western countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK, was also much higher than China's.
According to media report, beef production causes five times more climate-warming emissions than pork. If having less meat is essential to "change the world," it is more than fair to urge the West to reduce its beef consumption. The US consumed far more meat per capita in 2020 alone, so how can they pass the buck of Amazon destruction to China?
When interviewed by an Australian media outlet in 2010, former US president Barack Obama said, "If over a billion Chinese citizens have the same living patterns as Australians and Americans do right now, then all of us are in for a very miserable time. The planet just can't sustain it."
In the eyes of some Western elites, Westerners can have the privilege to eat meat while Chinese should just eat grass. They are reluctant to see Chinese are living an increasingly abundant life, and that the living standards of the Chinese are getting closer to the Westerners. They feel their sense of superiority including the one toward their political system challenged when they see Chinese, whose political path and values sharply differ from them, can also enjoy a better life.
January 25, 2021 12:20 pm
By Anonymous