by B. R. GOWANI
land stolen through deceit and wars from Native Americans
land bought at dirt cheap rate from France
land annexed from Mexico through wars
land (Alaska) bought from Russia for 2 cents per acre
land (Hawaii) grabbed by overthrowing its ruler
land covers territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam, etc
all these lands make the United States the 4th largest country in the world
black slave labor, Chinese “coolies,” and others built the US economy
now the labor from developing countries is providing goods and services
in plain English, the US is a parasite or leech who wants everything free
basically, the US has got everything almost free or at cut-price
this resulted in US becoming the Super Power — #1 in no time
in the #1 game, it always happens, that #1 makes serious blunders
history has witnessed the fall of innumerable empires
the US empire is no exception; it is bound to fail & fall
one has to admit though that it’ll take a little longer for it to fall
2 reasons: it is the 1st global empire, and the most destructive
so it’ll do everything, howsoever deadly, to stay in that position
is there any power, alliance, or country that’s trying to topple it?
not really …
China’s economic, technological, and military advances scare the US
not that China is stopping the US from competing in any of the above fields
China & US are capitalists, they do business in 100s of billions of dollars
it’s just that China, who has its faults, does a lot for its people too
in China, there’s still a thing called government who has power
whereas in the US the government is powerless
a succinct way to describe the rotten US system is
the US is a whore, politicians are pimps, and capitalists are customers
the motto of the capitalist world is: customer is always right
i.e., the big customers are always right – the small ones, no one gives a damn
the small ones, the people, survive on crumbs thrown by the capitalists
China’s economy has overtaken the US which the latter abhors
in China, the CCP has control over the economy and not the capitalists
(CCP is the ruling Communist Party of China)
the US hates any country where the capitalists do not have total control
the US has been busy for quiet some time to provoke China
US puppet Trudeau Canada kidnapped Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou
the US later asked Canada to release Meng Wanzhou
she spent more than 33 months under house arrest in Canada
in August 2022, Pelosi visited Taiwan to provoke China
the 1972 US government policy on Taiwan:
“The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves.”
the US has realized that on Taiwan issue, it cannot win war with China
Jared McKinley and Peter Harris wrote a paper in November 2021 called
Broken Nest: Deterring China from Invading Taiwan
(published by the US Army War College Press)
McKinley and Harris
“The US lay plans in Taiwan for a targeted scorched-earth strategy that would render the island ‘not just unattractive if ever seized by force, but positively costly to maintain.’”
Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition for scorched-earth is
“relating to or being a military policy involving deliberate and usually widespread destruction of property and resources (such as housing and factories) so that an invading enemy cannot use them”
the US has been in the business of scorched-earth since it stole Native land
it’s natural to the US
burning, looting, killing, and destroying people, villages, cities, and objects
if situation gets worst, the US will evacuate TSMC engineers to the US
on Nov. 10, 2022, Trump’s National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said
“The island [of Taiwan] contains a chip manufacturer called TSMC and a whole ecosystem of chip manufacturers associated with TSMC, which make 95% of the advanced computer chips that we use.” “Not only in our military products, but in our cars and smartphones.”
“If China takes Taiwan and takes those factories intact – which I don’t think we would ever allow – they have a monopoly over chips the way OPEC has a monopoly, or even more than the way OPEC has a monopoly over oil.”
O’Brien is literally talking about destroying TSMC
Chinese exports to US in 2021 was US$577.13 Billion
assuming:
China invades Taiwan and stops exporting TSMC chips to the US
the logical outcome:
the US will stop importing any goods from China
no country in the world consumes and wastes as much as the US
so what is China going to do with goods amounting to almost $600 billion?
China has always maintained that Taiwan is part of China
but China is not in a rush to pursue any move that would turn foolish
it’s taking it easy while building up its armed forces and economy
it is the US which is in a rush to prove that US is still the only Super Power
let’s look at the double standard …
the White House Asia Coordinator Kurt Campbell said on Dec. 9, 2022
“India has a unique strategic character. It will not be an ally of the United States. It has the desire to be an independent, powerful state and it will be another great power. But I think there are reasons to believe that our strategic alignment is growing across the board in almost every arena.”
why wait for India to be “another great power”
why not accept the already great power China
but then the US will have no enemy
who will the US arms manufacturers sell their latest deadly weapons to?
what will the Quad alliance (Australia, India, Japan, US) do?
what will the US leaders, intoxicated with US greatness & leadership, do?
hope Taiwan’s next leader is not like Ukraine’s Zelensky
who put his country in the service of US to fight Russia
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.om