“Strategists Admit West (USA) is Goading China Into War” YES, WE WANT WAR WITH CHINA But just a small one, please, followed by a quick surrender. 戰略家承認西方（美國）正在將中國推向戰爭” 是的，我們想與中國開戰，但請只是打一場小仗，然後希望中國迅速投降

Strategists admit West is goading China into war

Key Points

♦️US needs to do something because Asia’s growth to become world’s economic heartland has become unstoppable.

♦️West fears being left behind if it lets the East continue to rise at its current speed.

♦️China must be contained, as international media joins the US side in the biggest culture war of all.

Excerpt

The United States is diligently working with Australia and the UK to goad China into what they hope will be a limited war over Taiwan, according to military strategists. The aim is to force it to fire the first bullet—and then use that to paint China as the protagonist, the bully that the rest of the world must unite against.

To prepare for this, their partners in the scheme are teaming up. The Western media is playing a key role in this process.

1. The media trivialises or turns a blind eye to the increasingly long series of clearly aggressive moves by the United States, including:

🔸Parking warships on China’s doorstep;

🔸Holding Naval sailing regattas in the Taiwan Straits;

🔸Landing senior US officials on Taiwanese soil in military planes;

🔸Creating an artificial “Taiwanese air space” zone and falsely alleging “incursions” or “violations” of it;

🔸Secretly providing military trainers on the island while lying about it;

🔸Inviting Taiwan to a summit on democracy as if it were a nation;

🔸And numerous other military and diplomatic moves which are clear and undeniable departures from crucial “status quo” agreements.

2. The media paints China’s entirely predictable responses that it “will not stand for attempts to promote Taiwan’s independence” as evidence of shocking new acts of “increasing aggression”, while the truth is that all China-watchers know they are the same statements they have issued for decades, often in virtually the same words.
3. The media pushes exaggerations and misinformation about the “death of Hong Kong”, the “genocide of Xinjiang”, the “imminent invasion of Australia” and so on.

Why are the Western powers doing this? They certainly want to destabilize China and set back the country’s development and positioning in the world by several decades. But that’s just part of a larger goal. They feel the need to do this primarily because the Western powers have recognized that Asia will soon be the center of global economic power.

Nothing will stop that happening. This means that time is running out.

The media has been preparing the world for the conflict for years. America’s hawks put huge sums of time and money into financing dissent in Asia and partnering with the Western media to create the impression that the people of Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and Taiwan, want independence from mainland China – although surveys overwhelmingly show that this is the opposite of the truth.

These imaginary “cries for independence” are necessary for the next stage in the process: to push China into what can only be described as a deluded and limited war over Taiwan; being aimed to attain the larger objectives of undermining both China and ASEAN.

The war or “coming conflict” with China has been discussed in multiple forums and publications, not least of which is a book by Elbridge Colby, one of the writers of the US National Defense Strategy. It argues that escalating Taiwan tensions into a conflict gives America a chance at winning, unlike a Cold War arms race, therefore desirable.

An arms race would eventually be won by China, which is on its way to being richer and stronger than America, Colby points out. And “the economic costs could be crippling, seriously stressing the US economy, the ultimate source of America’s military strength”.

Instead, the US can push China into a limited conflict over Taiwan, with the media painting China as the bully and the US as the white knight. Done right, the skirmish would unite the rest of the world’s countries against China and on to the American side.

This strategy is receiving significant interest and or support from other US hawks.

“China must be provoked into initiating any escalation of the conflict, so that it will always appear the aggressor,” writes defense journalist Aris Roussinos, summarizing the Colby strategy.

What about Taiwanese casualties? China “must be permitted to strike as indiscriminately as possible,” in this scenario. “Colby further urges the US not to provide potential civilian targets with air defences, reasoning that collateral damage will whip up public anger against China, necessary to winning a war,” Roussinos adds.

In other words, deaths of Taiwan citizens (the ‘collateral damage’ as he mentions) would be a public relations coup for the US side.

Nury Vittachi