OMNI
US COLD WAR AGAINST CHINA ANTHOLOGY, #6, OCTOBER 4, 2024
COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE,
JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY
(#4, May 4, 2021; #5)
What’s at
Stake: Our only hope for
survival is to transfer the US away from its pathological hyper-active pursuit
of endless enemies for endless war, to a hyper-concern for the climate crisis
(and overpopulation, and pandemics).
CONTENTS
WAR
· Ben Norton. “Cold War II…25 Anti-China Laws in One Week.”
· Hannan Hussain. US Hegemony in Africa Declining.
· Bernard DiMello. “… India in Washington’s Anti-China
‘Pivot’.”
·
Chris
Fry. “US anti-China propaganda, a
prelude to war: Eyewitness views from China.”
·
Eve
Ottenberg. US Sanctions, China’s Rare
Minerals Control.
·
Webinar. “US Anti-China Propaganda, a Prelude to War.”
· Michael Klare. “Is a Cold War Still Possible in an
Overheating World?”
·
Finian Cunningham. “US Nuclear Scare Tactics.”
·
Black Alliance for Peace. US Accuses China of Human Rights Crimes, but
not Israel.
·
US Navy Preparing for Nuclear War.
·
China’s Great Balloon Threat.
·
Persecutions of Anti-war Left.
·
Biden’s Anti-China Campaign.
·
Glimmers of PEACE
·
Committee for a Sane US-China Policy.
·
US Hegemony in Africa Waning.
·
“75 Years of Chinese Revolution.”
·
China’s Rise from Poverty.
·
FDR Prevented from Meeting Mao Zedong.
·
Protesting US Aegis Warship Fleet
Under Construction.
·
China, US, Supply Chain Cooperation
Possible.
·
China Anthology #5
SOURCES
(In addition to transparency, this list reveals the
necessity of surveying international media in search of the full truth. –D)
Al Mayadeen
Black Alliance for Peace
Counterpunch
Committee for a Sane US-China Policy
Dissident Voice
Fighting Words
Geopolitical Economy
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Caitlin Johnstone
Monthly Review
mronline.org
NBC
Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
Newswire
Popular Resistance
Shadowproof
TomDispatch
TEXTS
[Note on font and color: When I began these Anthologies (originally
called newsletters), I encountered computer difficulties over graphics with RAM
space. I then eliminated all
graphics. I have much greater capacity
now, but I am continuing the uniformity and relative even-handed coolness of text
only. –Dick]
WAR AGAINST
CHINA
Ben Norton. “Cold War II: US Congress Passes 25
Anti-China Laws In One Week.” Geopolitical Economy. Popular Resistance.org
(9-23-24). The US House of
Representatives approved 25 anti-China laws in just one week in September:
a clear sign that Washington’s new cold war is quickly heating up. The hawkish
House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party proudly described these
days as “China Week”, boasting that much of the legislation had “overwhelming
bipartisan” support. NBC News noted that “many of the measures passed with
bipartisan support at a time when viewing [China] primarily as a geopolitical
rival is one of the few issues both Republicans and Democrats can agree
on”. -more-
“Sub-Imperialist India in Washington’s Anti-China ‘Pivot’.”
Bernard D’Mello .
mronline.org (9-11-24). (September
7, 2024)
Bernard D’Mello
describes India’s role as a collaborator in the U.S. anti-China Indo-Pacific
project. This role, he elaborates, grows directly from the
imperial/sub-imperial relationship between the United States and India, which
manifests itself in border disputes, military exercises, diplomacy, economic
ties, and more, has heightened hostilities in the Indo-Pacific region while
benefiting the power elite of both countries. | more… Source
US Propaganda System: Denigrate China’s Economy, Exalt
US’s.
Chris Fry. “U.S. economists ‘expose’ China’s
economy.”
Editor. mronline.org (8-4-24).
Originally published: Fighting Words on July 30, 2024 by Chris Fry (more by FIghting Words) (Posted Aug 03,
2024). Empire, Imperialism, Political Economy, StrategyAmericas, Asia, China, United StatesNewswirePeople’s
Republic of China (PRC)
Bourgeois economists, ever ready to proclaim the impending
demise of the socialist economic model in the People’s Republic of China (PRC),
find every opportunity to throw shade on China’s economic system. At the same time, they devote their energy to
proclaim the supposed superiority of the capitalist economies in the
imperialist world, in Europe and the U.S.
And sometimes they have to stretch all logic and common sense to make
their billionaire masters and the workers and oppressed here believe in the eternal
superiority of U.S. imperialist hegemony over the social and economic system of
China, even as the Pentagon scrambles to prepare their war on the PRC. . . .
MORE
Eve Ottenberg. “Sanctions on China, Export Controls on Rare Earths for the
U.S.: Two, It Turns Out, Can Tango.” Counterpunch (July 28, 2023).
If
Washington intended to bully Beijing economically and indefinitely, July 3 was
a rude awakening. That’s when China announced export controls on two, vital
rare earth metals, germanium and gallium. In and of itself this move clobbers
one sector of U.S. industry, such as it is. But even worse is what it portends.
China has 60 percent of the world’s supply of rare earth minerals. The other 40
percent are in locations of dubious accessibility. But that’s not all. Ninety
percent of the processing of those rare earth minerals occurs in the country
U.S. sanctions have royally pissed off, namely China.
Why
are rare earth minerals so critical? The technology for wind and solar energy
and for electric vehicles depends on them. Also, microchip production requires
gallium and germanium. High-tech defense weapons use rare earth minerals as
well. Personally, I think not being able to flood the planet with those weapons
any longer would be a boon for mankind. But I doubt armament moguls agree.
Bigwigs at Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are probably far from pleased by this
latest development, about which Wei Jianguo, former Chinese vice minister of
commerce, said to China Daily that these new export controls were basically
just the beginning. If the Biden bunch keeps adding technology sanctions, more
rare earths will be restricted. In other words, certain kinds of U.S.
manufacturing will grind to a halt. . . .
MORE
“US anti-China propaganda, a prelude to war:
Eyewitness views from China” CounterPunch (7-29-23).
[The
webinar is past but not its important subject.
–D]
Even as
the war in Ukraine rages, the US has increased its aggression towards China
including increasing its military presence around China, provocations over
Taiwan, heightened propaganda ON XINJIANG and claims of a Chinese spy base
in Cuba. Recently two US antiwar
activists returned from a trip to China. Hear from these antiwar
activists and from others presently in China about the real situation in the
country. Does Blinken’s trip to China
mean any change in US war threats?
US AGGRESSION AGAINST CHINA, THE ARMS RACE, CLIMATE
CATASTROPHE, AND NEED FOR COOPERATION
Tomgram: Michael Klare, “Is a Cold War Still Possible in an Overheating
World?” TomDispatch
tom@tomdispatch.com via uark.onmicrosoft.com 8-24-21.
https://tomdispatch.com/china-2049/?utm_source=TomDispatch&utm_campaign=ce12e396aa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_07_13_02_04_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1e41682ade-ce12e396aa-308836209
Think of
it as an irony of the first order that Joe Biden's foreign-policy team came
into office promoting new cold-war policies against the rising power on this
planet, China. After all, even if it is that, it's rising in a world that only
recently experienced its warmest month on record. The very term "cold
war," in fact, seems like an artifact of ancient history at a time when,
among other places, the U.S., Europe, and Canada have all been setting new heat
records and experiencing fires of a sort seldom seen before. In this sense, the
Biden foreign-policy team and the Pentagon, as they maneuver to confront the
Chinese Navy not off the California coast but from the Indian Ocean to the
South China Sea to the Taiwan Strait, couldn't seem more out of touch with the
deeper realities of our world.
I
guarantee you one thing: at the moment, they're doing their planning for
forming alliances against a rising China in air-conditioned rooms, because it's
been hot as hell in Washington -- or by Zoom because it's still a pandemic
country. Yes, against all reason and sense, the U.S. continues to build
ultra-expensive new nuclear weapons (having in recent years dumped several
nuclear treaties), while fretting eternally about China's upgraded but still
relatively modest nuclear arsenal. As it happens, though, the future
"battles" the U.S. and China might find themselves in, as TomDispatch
regular Michael Klare, author of All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's
Perspective on Climate Change, writes today, could be of a very different,
even if still world-endangering nature. To be won, they would have to be fought
not against each other, but together.
Welcome to a new-style hot-war world. Tom
China,
2049
“A Climate
Disaster Zone, Not a Military Superpower”
By Michael
Klare.
In recent
months, Washington has had a lot to say about China’s ever-expanding air,
naval, and missile power. But when Pentagon officials address the topic, they
generally speak less about that country's current capabilities, which remain
vastly inferior to those of the U.S., than the world they foresee in the 2030s
and 2040s, when Beijing is expected to have acquired far more sophisticated
weaponry.
“China has
invested heavily in new technologies, with a stated intent to complete the
modernization of its forces by 2035 and to field a ‘world-class military’ by
2049,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified in June. The United States,
he assured the Senate Armed Services Committee, continues to possess “the best
joint fighting force on Earth.” But only by spending countless additional
billions of dollars annually, he added, can this country hope to “outpace”
China's projected advances in the decades to come. . . . MORE
Excellent Exposure of US Nuclear Scare
Tactics
“Security U.S. fears of China nuclear expansion… déjà vu of Soviet missile
gap hype.”
Originally published: Dissident Voice on August 5, 2021 by Finian Cunningham (more by Dissident
Voice).(Posted Aug 07, 2021).
Empire, Strategy, WarChinaNewswireNuclear Weapons
China is providing the equivalent scaremongering of the Soviet “missile
gap” in order to sustain America’s militarist-dependent capitalist economy.
. . .The Wall Street Journal reported:
“China Appears to Be Building New Silos for Nuclear Missiles, Researchers Say”.
While CNN headlined: “China appears to be expanding its
nuclear capabilities, U.S. researchers say in new report”. Despite the lack of definite information that
didn’t stop Pentagon and government officials from saying they were “deeply
concerned”, thus adding a veneer of factuality to reports that were
speculative.
Here’s another consideration. So what if China is expanding
its nuclear arsenal with new silos? The People’s Republic of China has a
stockpile of warheads numbering 350. The United States has a stockpile of some
5,550 warheads, according
to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The U.S. has a nuclear offensive power 15
times greater than China. So even if China is planning to double its arsenal of
nuclear weapons, according to the Pentagon, that increase is still a fraction
of American destructive capability. Beijing
maintains that the onus is on Washington to de-escalate its nuclear arsenal.
The United States and Russia have resumed talks this week in Geneva on renewing
arms-control efforts–efforts that have been put on hold by Washington since the
Trump administration. Washington and Moscow–both possessing over 90 percent of
the world’s total nuclear warheads–need to get on with their obligations for
disarmament before China is reasonably brought into the discussion, along with
other minor nuclear powers, such as Britain and France.
Another consideration for context is the ramping up of
hostility by the United States towards China. The Biden administration is
continuing the aggressive agenda of its Trump and Obama predecessors. Arming the renegade Chinese island territory
of Taiwan, sailing warships into the South China Sea, media vilification of
China over allegations of human rights abuses, genocide, malign conduct in
trade, cyber attacks, and the COVID-19 pandemic. All of this speaks of stoking
confrontation with China and inflaming U.S. public opinion to accept war with
China.
Pentagon officials tell Congressional
hearings that they consider war with China a distinct possibility in the near
term.
Given this context, it would be reasonable to expect China
to expand its nuclear defenses in order to shift the American calculation away
from contemplating a war. The problem is not the alleged Chinese military
buildup. It is Washington’s criminal policy of hostility towards Beijing that
is fueling the risk of war.
But here is another key factor: the United States is
undergoing a trillion-dollar upgrade of
its nuclear arsenal. That began under Obama and was continued under Trump and
now Biden. That puts alleged Chinese expansion into perspective. The United
States has already nuclear power that dwarfs China’s and yet the U.S. is
expanding what is a provocative threat to China. . . . MORE
|
“Why Human Rights in China and Tigray, But Not in Haiti, Palestine or
Colombia?” Editor. Mronline.org (7-17-21). July 16,
2021. Newswire. |
Originally published: Black Alliance for Peace on July 12, 2021 (more by Black Alliance for Peace) (Posted Jul
16, 2021). Empire, Fascism, Human Rights, InequalityHaitiNewswireAntoinette (Netty) Duclaire, Diego Charles, Human rights violence, U.S./UN/OAS backing
. . .This is why the white West’s deployment of
“humanitarian intervention” because of the “Responsibility to Protect” is so
cynical. The West is responsible for the barbaric treatment and conditions
colonized peoples have faced for centuries. The U.S. ruling class has shown
nothing but contempt for the lives of workers inside its borders and for the
millions worldwide who live in abject poverty as a result of the global
U.S.-dominated capitalist-imperialist system.
Why the concern about Muslims in China
while Biden and Democrats greenlight Israel’s war crimes against predominately
Muslim Palestinians?
Whenever the United States raises humanitarian issues—be it
in the Horn of Africa or in China—we know it can only mean one thing: The
United States has strategic interests that have nothing to do with the humanity
of the people they pretend to care about.
That is why BAP will continue to tell the truth, no matter
the consequences. . . .
MORE
“Pentagon whistleblower under investigation after warning about risks of
war with China over Taiwan.”
Editor. Mronline.org
(6-27-21).
Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl has been
part of the United States Marine Corps for over four decades. He spent the last
months trying to warn U.S. government officials and the public of the threat of
becoming entangled in a war with China over Taiwan. June
26, 2021. Newswire.
Originally published: Shadowproof on June 24, 2021 by Kevin Gosztola (more by Shadowproof) (Posted Jun 26, 2021). Human
Rights, Media, Strategy,
WarChina,
Taiwan,
United StatesNewswireFranz
Gayl, Pentagon whistleblower, U.S.
Government, Whistleblower
The following was
published as part of The Dissenter Newsletter, which is a project of
Shadowproof.
Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl has been part of the
United States Marine Corps for over four decades. He spent the last months
trying to warn U.S. government officials and the public of the threat of
becoming entangled in a war with China over Taiwan.
Yet instead of seriously considering his perspective, Gayl
faces a counterintelligence investigation into articles he wrote and early
retirement.
He published an open letter to President Joe Biden on
LinkedIn on June 22 in a last-ditch effort to reach the White House and
communicate his concerns over the increased potential for an “ill-advised
foreign war.”
Gayl warned. . . .
MORE
CIRCUS
FEATURE OF THE GREAT CHINESE THREAT:
Greatest Security State in World Can’t Differentiate Between a Balloon
and a Weapon.
“NBC cites balloon ‘threat’ in fawning coverage of NORAD.” Bryce Greene. Mronline.org (8-15-23).
The “Chinese Spy Balloon” has been an important story for
fueling New Cold War animus against China, but it is based on a dubious
premise.
SINOPHOBIA
TODAY RECALLS THE OLD MCCARTHYIST BIGOTRY v. SOVIET UNION AND CHINA
“New York Times helps Marco Rubio push persecution of antiwar leftists.” Caitlin
A. Johnstone. Mronline.org
(8-15-23).
Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio
published a letter on Wednesday that he’d sent to Attorney General Merrick
Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups,
claiming they are “tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with
impunity in the United States.”
US NEW COLD WAR v. CHINA
BIDEN/US HOSTILITY TOWARD CHINA
“What does Biden’s summit spree tell us about the future of U.S. empire?” Eds. mronline.org
(6-20-21).
Originally published: Newspaper of the Party for Socialism
and Liberation on June 17,
2021 by Walter Smolarek (more by Newspaper
of the Party for Socialism and Liberation). (Posted Jun
19, 2021)
MovementsGlobalNewswireNew Cold War, President Joe Biden
Joe Biden took part in
several key international meetings over the last week covering a wide range of
issues but with one key goal in mind: intensify the new Cold War with China and
construct a global front towards this end.
June 19, 2021. Newswire.
|
CONGRESSIONAL
SINOPHOBIA AND ENDLESS ARMS RACE Committee for a Sane
U.S.-China Policy Issue #1 ~ June 11,
2021 ~ Subscribe at: sanechinainfo@gmail.com saneuschinapolicy.org / follow us on
Twitter at @NoWarWithChina |
On June 8th,
the Senate by a vote of 68-32 passed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a
bill championed by Senator Chuck Schumer of N.Y. which incorporated many of the
anti-China measures included in the Strategic Competition Act of 2021,
originally introduced by Senator Menendez of N.J. and opposed by many peace,
justice, and faith-based groups. The Senate bill now moves to the House, where
a version crafted by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D.-N.Y.), the "Ensuring American
Global Leadership and Engagement Act," or EAGLE Act, is expected to be
debated in the weeks ahead. Please tell your
Representative to exclude the hostile military aspects of the Schumer bill
in the House version. The Committee will be sending future alerts on specific
elements of the EAGLE Act deserving of particular approbation.
Forthcoming Events:
Daniel Ellsberg:
Preparations for Nuclear War with China over Taiwan – Then and Now
An Interview Moderated
by Joseph Gerson
June 23, 7 p.m. EDT, 4
p.m. Pacific
Register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcuGvrDotGNV4Jr-RL6UPQI-yM-2YlDX9
Analysis of Recent
Developments:
Biden Defense Budget for
Fiscal Year 2022 Aggressively Focused on China
Analysis
by Michael Klare, June 11, 2021
The $715
billion Department of Defense (DoD) Budget Request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022
released by the Biden Administration on May 28 calls for a Pentagon-wide effort
to prepare for full-scale war with People’s Republic of China. Unlike in past
years, when the Armed Forces were expected to prepare for a multitude of
threats – ranging from terrorist strikes to regional conflicts in the Middle
East and Asia – this year’s budget request subordinates all other such concerns
to the overriding task of confronting the PRC. Even Russia – once partnered
with China as a “great-power adversary” – has been downgraded as a secondary
threat when compared to that purportedly posed by China.
As
explained by the Pentagon, China’s military poses the greatest threat to U.S.
security and so constitutes the “pacing challenge” – the most fearsome peril
that U.S. forces must be capable of overpowering in any future war. If capable
of defeating China, the logic goes, America’s Armed
Services
(the “Joint Force”) will be more than adequate to overcome any lesser threat,
including Russia and North Korea.
“China
poses the greatest long-term challenge to the United States, and strengthening
deterrence against China will require DoD to work in concert with other
instruments of national power,” the DoD’s Defense Budget Overview for FY 2022
asserts. “A combat-credible Joint Force will underpin a whole-of-nation
approach to competition and ensure the Nation leads from a position of
strength. Accordingly, DoD will prioritize China and its military modernization
as our pacing challenge”. . . . MORE
Whatever
final amount Congress ultimately agrees on, there is no doubt that military and
political leaders in China will view this request as evidence of a
single-minded drive to prevent China’s rise and erode its defensive
capabilities in the Western Pacific — an assessment that will no doubt prompt
them to enhance their own military capabilities, prompting calls for even more
China-oriented military spending by U.S. lawmakers and an ever-accelerating
arms race with no end in sight.
Washington’s Influence in Africa Waning.
“For China and Africa, U.S. hegemony a common target.”
Editor. mronline.org (9-22-24).
Originally
published: Al
Mayadeen on September 19, 2024 by
Hannan Hussain (more by Al
Mayadeen) | (Posted Sep 21, 2024). Movements, StrategyAfrica, Americas, Asia, China, United StatesNewswireBRICS
(Brazil and Russia and India and China and South Africa), Forum
on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)
The aftermath of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
(FOCAC) is clear: Washington’s economic and diplomatic influence on the
continent is set
to wane even further. Beijing has backed a consensus to
help African states increase “their influence and role in global governance,”
and 30 clean energy projects stand to deepen development cooperation in the
coming years.
In stark contrast, Washington doesn’t have the diplomatic
foresight, economic muscle, or investment potential to
rival such a consensus. Instead, it insists
that China is spreading misinformation across the Sahel to “undermine”
so-called U.S. influence. That influence was lost a long time ago through
unwarranted sanctions, diplomatic meddling and military interference.
Washington’s present anxiety is set to grow as Beijing and African states ramp
up their cooperation across a range of fields, regardless of what the U.S.
thinks. . . . MORE
HISTORIC ANTECEDENTS TO
PRESENT US PLANNING FOR WAR AGAINST CHINA
“Seventy-Five Years of the Chinese
Revolution”
Tings Chak and Vijay Prashad. Tricontinental Institute. Mronline.org (10-2-24).
MovementsGlobalNewswireNew
Cold War, President Joe Biden.
Tings Chak and Vijay Prashad take stock of seventy-five
years of the Chinese Revolution.
Ralf
Ruckus. The Communist Road to
Capitalism: How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China's (R)evolution
since 1949. PM Press, 2021.
Publisher’s description
|
The
Communist Road to Capitalism explores how a dynamic
of social struggles from below followed by countermeasures of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) regime has pushed the historical evolution of the
People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1949. Under
socialism until the mid-1970s, during the ensuing transition until the
mid-1990s, and in the capitalist period since, the CCP regime responded to
the struggles of workers, peasants, migrants, and women with a mix of
repression, concession, cooptation, and reform. Ralf Ruckus shows that this
dynamic took the country into a new phase each time—and eventually all the
way from socialism to capitalism: in the 1950s, labor struggles and the
Hundred Flowers Movement were followed by the regime’s Great Leap Forward; in
the 1960s, the Cultural Revolution led to the CCP’s failed attempt to
revitalize socialism; in the 1970s, social unrest and movements for a
democratic socialism made room for the regime’s Reform and Opening policies;
in the late 1980s, the Tian’anmen Square uprising triggered more radical
reforms; in the 1990s, peasant and state worker unrest could not stop the
capitalist restructuring; and in the 2000s, migrant worker struggles led to
concessions, tightened repression, and the regime’s global capitalist
expansion strategy in the 2010s. The Communist
Road to Capitalism breaks with established orthodoxies about the
PRC’s socialist “successes” and myths on its later rise as an economic power.
It combines a historiography of workers’, peasants’, migrants’, and women*’s
struggles with a searing critique of exploitation, authoritarian state power
and gender discrimination under socialism and capitalism. Drawing lessons
from PRC history, Ralf Ruckus finally outlines political aims and methods for
the left that avoid past mistakes and allow to fight on for a society free of
all forms of exploitation and oppression. |
“China pulls itself out of poverty 100 years into its revolution.” Vijay Prashad. Mronline.org (7-9-21). On February 25, 2021,
China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people
had pulled its people out of poverty as it is defined internationally.
July 8, 2021 | Newswire
“How FDR
Was Manipulated and Betrayed by His Own Naval Intelligence Chief in the Fateful
Last Months of WWII.”
CovertAction
Magazine via gmail.mcsv.net By James Bradley on Jun 23, 2021.
Unknown
for decades, declassified documents show that FDR’s mail was deliberately
diverted and falsified to prevent a historic meeting with Mao Zedong that might
have shortened the war, changed history, and reshaped the modern world.
AGAINST PREPARING FOR WAR, CHOOSE PEACE
PROTESTING
US NAVY PREPARING
FOR NUCLEAR WWIII: 6 MORE DESTROYERS WITH CRUISE AND INTERCEPTOR MISSILES. The lethality of these
destroyers are more dangerous than WWII cruisers or battleships. As during the First Cold War, again in the
Second Cold War the US is building both First Strike Weapons (hit them before
they hit us) and Anti-Retaliatory
Weapons (prevent them from hitting us).
If both work as intended (the eradication of Russia and China), US
opponents will be defenseless. If you
were the leader of China and Russia, what would you do? --Dick
Bruce
Gagnon via sendinblue.com. “Where do these BIW made
Aegis destroyers go?”
ARRT! is
led by long-revered artist/activist Natasha Mayers who has been a regular at
the protests at Bath Iron Works (BIW) where naval Aegis destroyers are
built. The banner was conceived with
these questions in mind: Where do these destroyers go when they
leave Bath? How do they impact the rest of the world politically and
environmentally? BIW Aegis destroyers do
not actually carry nuclear weapons. They carry cruise missiles that could be
outfitted with nuclear warheads. They are primarily
first-strike attack weapons.
Aegis also
carry SM-3 interceptor missiles whose job is to take out any retaliatory
strikes after the US launches a first-strike attack on China or Russia.
(So-called 'missile defense'.) SM-3 missiles are not nuclear - they
are called 'kinetic' which means they crash into the other missiles and they
both explode.
In Maine
most people just think about BIW as a jobs engine but the impact of these
warships is far more than just jobs. If we were really concerned about creating jobs we'd be
building commuter rail systems at BIW as well as tidal power systems to help
us deal with climate crisis.
The war
economy must end. . . .
Please....help
speak out against the madness.
Our
only hope for survival is to turn America away from complicity with corruption,
endless war, and climate crisis. . . .
'Thank God
men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.' ~ Henry David Thoreau
Global Network Against
Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
P.O. Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011 globalnet@mindspring.com
(207)
389-4606
James K. Galbraith. “China and the supply chain: a comment on the June 2021 White House review.” Editor. Mronline.org (7-16-21).
Contrary to rhetoric
from Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. has an economic
interest in trade and peace with China.
July 15, 2021. Newswire.
Originally
published: Institute for New Economic
Thinking on June 23, 2021 (more
by Institute
for New Economic Thinking). (Posted Jul 15, 2021).
Financialization, Imperialism, Labor, Political EconomyChina, United StatesNewswire
. . .If there is an Ariadne’s thread to these four areas,
it is the trading and competitive relationship with China. The reports do not
focus solely on China and give what is largely a fair-minded and wide-ranging
assessment of vulnerabilities in each sector. For the reader not previously
immersed in the structures of semiconductor production or the technology of
electrical storage, this document, at 250 pages, is a mine of information. But
China lurks in each section, sometimes looming large, in other places only in
the background.
CONTENTS CHINA ANTHOLOGY #5, June 21, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-us-cold-war-against-china.html
Threatened War
Political Conflict
Economic
Technological
Psychological
Media
Peaceful Alternatives
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