By: Azhar Azam
*This is one of my opinion pieces (unedited) that first appeared at "China Global Television Network (CGTN)":
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-11-10/U-S-malevolent-strategy-towards-the-CPC-doomed-to-disintegrate-Lv2TxmD31K/index.html
Notwithstanding a series of Chinese benign gestures to untangle the trade war, huge investments, efforts to raise imports of American goods, and precluding fentanyl from flowing into America – the United States is unwilling to see anything good in China and is getting more reproachful of Beijing.
Washington one-eyed version essentially branded Beijing as a US strategic competitor and gave it a faint rationalization to embroil itself in one-sided strategic warfare with People’s Republic of China (PRC) from politics and trade to technology and defense.
Trump administration’s steady and persistent moves to slap tariffs on Chinese goods, restrictions on Mainland’s technology giants, sanctions on several China’s individuals and entities, and interference in PRC’s internal affairs provide a US paradigm of competing China by all means and at all costs.
US Vice President Mike Pence last month’s redundant “charge sheet” against China – accusing it for human rights violation, curtailment of civil liberties, construction of surveillance state, and increasingly provocative military action and standing for “democratic rights” of Hong Kong and Taiwan – epitomize that US is finding it increasingly difficult to withstand Chinese economic, military, and technological growth.
Lately, the US has transformed its China-strategy that additionally touts to criticize the incumbent Communist Part of China (CPC) in an effort to isolate it from Chinese people. The reformed strategy intends to achieve the same US foreign policy objectives of hurting China across disciplines.
While Pence speech presented the blueprint of the US CPC-focused strategy that threw down the religious card with the prognosis that economic engagement alone will not transmute Communist China’s “authoritarian state into a free and open society” – later on, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at CPC for being “truly hostile to the United States” and accused it for exporting an “authoritarian system.”
“They threaten the free and open international order by making extrajudicial territorial and maritime claims in places like the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait,” Pompeo said in a speech at a Hudson Institute. He alleged that CPC was seeking “international domination” and was pursuing a “global campaign” to sway countries on their side.
Pompeo’s latest speech again blasted China (and Russia) that pose to become the “formidable adversaries” of the US and its allies. He indicted CPC also for “shaping a new vision of authoritarianism”, which Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson described an attack on the “Chinese political system, rendering the so-called Chinese threats filled with ideological prejudice and the zero-sum game thinking of Cold War.”
The US is still riveted by the Cold War nostalgia that secured it a landslide victory over the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan, with the immense help from Pakistan. But Washington fails to realize that Pakistan supported the American Cold War with Soviets over threats to its sovereignty. Since China and Pakistan are strongly tied into an immeasurable deep relationship, the American wishful thinking about Islamabad hurting Beijing interests are doomed to flop right at the Launchpad.
Pence’s and Pompeo’s inimical comments at China indicates the US “good cop, bad cop” strategy in which US President Donald Trump would drive Beijing to enter into a trade deal with Washington and his aides to take on China on areas other than trade war.
The former Indiana governor further blamed that CPC was continuing to reward and coerce American businesses, movie studios, universities, think tanks, scholars, journalists, and state officials to influence the public debate in the US. His assertion only elaborated that Washington China-hatred campaign was falling in tatters and the Americans disallowed the US government’s China defamation crusade.
According to the most recent Chicago Council Poll, conducted in October, found that more than two-thirds Americans (68%) believed that the United States should pursue a policy of friendly cooperation and engagement with China rather to focus on limiting China’s growth.
US, which boasts about the oldest democracy in the world, should pay heed to the thoughts of its own people who largely do not support Trump administration’s harsh stance towards China and in addition, do not see the rise of China as a critical threat to their country.
In conclusion, the United States would not be able to spark differences between the people of China and CPC that has 89 million of strong membership base and under which China has pulled more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty and soared country’s per capita GDP from less than $200 in 1979 to in excess of $9,770 in 2018 – a mindboggling increase of 4785%.
*This is one of my opinion pieces (unedited) that first appeared at "China Global Television Network (CGTN)":
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-11-10/U-S-malevolent-strategy-towards-the-CPC-doomed-to-disintegrate-Lv2TxmD31K/index.html
Notwithstanding a series of Chinese benign gestures to untangle the trade war, huge investments, efforts to raise imports of American goods, and precluding fentanyl from flowing into America – the United States is unwilling to see anything good in China and is getting more reproachful of Beijing.
Washington one-eyed version essentially branded Beijing as a US strategic competitor and gave it a faint rationalization to embroil itself in one-sided strategic warfare with People’s Republic of China (PRC) from politics and trade to technology and defense.
Trump administration’s steady and persistent moves to slap tariffs on Chinese goods, restrictions on Mainland’s technology giants, sanctions on several China’s individuals and entities, and interference in PRC’s internal affairs provide a US paradigm of competing China by all means and at all costs.
US Vice President Mike Pence last month’s redundant “charge sheet” against China – accusing it for human rights violation, curtailment of civil liberties, construction of surveillance state, and increasingly provocative military action and standing for “democratic rights” of Hong Kong and Taiwan – epitomize that US is finding it increasingly difficult to withstand Chinese economic, military, and technological growth.
Lately, the US has transformed its China-strategy that additionally touts to criticize the incumbent Communist Part of China (CPC) in an effort to isolate it from Chinese people. The reformed strategy intends to achieve the same US foreign policy objectives of hurting China across disciplines.
While Pence speech presented the blueprint of the US CPC-focused strategy that threw down the religious card with the prognosis that economic engagement alone will not transmute Communist China’s “authoritarian state into a free and open society” – later on, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at CPC for being “truly hostile to the United States” and accused it for exporting an “authoritarian system.”
“They threaten the free and open international order by making extrajudicial territorial and maritime claims in places like the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait,” Pompeo said in a speech at a Hudson Institute. He alleged that CPC was seeking “international domination” and was pursuing a “global campaign” to sway countries on their side.
Pompeo’s latest speech again blasted China (and Russia) that pose to become the “formidable adversaries” of the US and its allies. He indicted CPC also for “shaping a new vision of authoritarianism”, which Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson described an attack on the “Chinese political system, rendering the so-called Chinese threats filled with ideological prejudice and the zero-sum game thinking of Cold War.”
The US is still riveted by the Cold War nostalgia that secured it a landslide victory over the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan, with the immense help from Pakistan. But Washington fails to realize that Pakistan supported the American Cold War with Soviets over threats to its sovereignty. Since China and Pakistan are strongly tied into an immeasurable deep relationship, the American wishful thinking about Islamabad hurting Beijing interests are doomed to flop right at the Launchpad.
Pence’s and Pompeo’s inimical comments at China indicates the US “good cop, bad cop” strategy in which US President Donald Trump would drive Beijing to enter into a trade deal with Washington and his aides to take on China on areas other than trade war.
The former Indiana governor further blamed that CPC was continuing to reward and coerce American businesses, movie studios, universities, think tanks, scholars, journalists, and state officials to influence the public debate in the US. His assertion only elaborated that Washington China-hatred campaign was falling in tatters and the Americans disallowed the US government’s China defamation crusade.
According to the most recent Chicago Council Poll, conducted in October, found that more than two-thirds Americans (68%) believed that the United States should pursue a policy of friendly cooperation and engagement with China rather to focus on limiting China’s growth.
US, which boasts about the oldest democracy in the world, should pay heed to the thoughts of its own people who largely do not support Trump administration’s harsh stance towards China and in addition, do not see the rise of China as a critical threat to their country.
In conclusion, the United States would not be able to spark differences between the people of China and CPC that has 89 million of strong membership base and under which China has pulled more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty and soared country’s per capita GDP from less than $200 in 1979 to in excess of $9,770 in 2018 – a mindboggling increase of 4785%.