Russophobia
and Sinophobia
By Pepe
Escobar
December 19, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
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"Sputnik"
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It's by now
crystal clear the coup-in-progress against Donald
Trump is a made in USA regime change op using
standard hybrid war techniques such as manipulation
of public opinion by mainstream media.
The coup has
been articulated by the usual suspects, from neocons
to neoliberalcons, "humanitarian" imperialists
included, with a special starring role for their pet
agency, the CIA, which during the Bush-Obama
continuum further specialized in fake
"intelligence".
And yet the
whole "Russia hacked our freedoms" narrative was
thoroughly
debunked by former UK diplomat and close
WikiLeaks contributor Craig Murray; he even knows
where the leak – not hack – came from.
Adding
(infantile) insult to (juvenile) injury, Queen
of War cum sore loser Hillary Clinton, at a private
donor event, blamed it all on a President Putin
vendetta. She may have internalized too many
Tarantino flicks – and her dialogue lines are far
from quirky; but still she
delivered a "He Came, He Saw, I Was Toast"
narrative according to which "Vladimir Putin himself
directed the covert cyber attacks against our
electoral system, against our democracy, apparently
because he has a personal beef against me."
And "the beef"
of course turned into a porterhouse steak with the
addition of the FBI as a Russian/WikiLeaks
accomplice – via Director James Comey's two letters
in the final days of the campaign. All bent
on compromising "the integrity of our democracy and
the security of our nation."
Cut to the
still ongoing legal "efforts" to turn Trump voters
around in the US Electoral College – spearheaded
by Democrat apparatchiks and widely applauded by the
glittering "liberal" galaxy. If facts on the ground
in Syria have smashed the "Assad must go" meme – an
Obama creation – at least now they have "Trump must
go" to rely on. Who wants (pregnant with history,
devastated) Aleppo when you can get Washington D.C.?
The same
old "who lost Russia" question still permeates the
Beltway. The answer is stark; the deep state-woven
Clinton-Bush-Obama continuum did, with their
obsession on unlimited, expanded NATO
Robocop-ization and regime change ops across the
Middle East and beyond, a GWOT (Global War
on Terror) plank essential to keep reproducing
terror ad infinitum.
And that's
exactly that modus operandi that the Trump era may –
and the operative concept is "may" – be willing
to shatter.
All
about Taiwan
So
Russophobia seems to qualify as a psychotic
obsession deployed by the neocon/neoliberalcon
factions bent on pulling off a regime change
on Trump – before or after his inauguration.
Now compare it
with what might be interpreted as the first symptoms
of budding Sinophobia – as deployed by the
President-Elect himself.
It started
with the famed Taiwan phone call – which I aimed to
deconstruct; that's Trump – blissfully unaware
of the complexities of the "One China" policy –
trying to use Taiwan as a bargaining chip.
Beijing
took its time and then reverted the call to send a
clear message Sun Tzu-style, without firing a shot –
and yet capturing a maritime drone in the process.
Trump's response via his by now legendary
"unpresidented" tweet clearly shows how he's
been wrong-footed.
Shen
Dingli, from Fudan University in Shanghai,
argues these are the convoluted throes of a
dying empire. It may be way more complex. The Trump
strategy on China seems to be shaping up as a
dual-headed hydra.
© Sputnik/
Alexei Druzhinin
In the
ExxonMobil Secretariat of State, under "T-Rex"
Tillerson, the emphasis will be on China as a huge
market for oil, gas and even clean coal technology.
On the Pentagon front, it will be all
about geopolitical spheres of influence.
Considering
Trump's previous conversations with realpolitik
stalwart Henry Kissinger – who also happens
to double as a war criminal – bets can be made that
a "Nixon in China" moment, as engineered
by Kissinger, will be on the cards, as in "Trump
in Russia". After all, Russia is a potential US
partner.
The problem
then switches to the "containment" of China – which
brings us to what may be configured as the Trump
White House line of attack; Divide and Rule – what
else – between strategic partners Russia and China.
Bets can
also be made that President Putin – as well
as President Xi Jinping — won't fall for such a
crude game; their strategic partnership – which
implies nothing less than massive Eurasia
integration – is constantly strengthening.
Considering
the Pentagon ranks Russia-China as the top
existential threats to the US, the only possible
strategy to have a shot at maintaining some
pre-eminence would have to be Divide and Rule.
So expect
all sorts of minor – hopefully not major –
confrontations all across the spectrum of Beijing's
access to the South China Sea, from the Indian Ocean
to the Western Pacific; that's where Taiwan fits in
– in that roughly 600 km maritime stretch
between Taiwan and Okinawa.
Sinophobia?
Not really; hardcore geopolitics. As the asinine
regime change attempt on Trump fades into the annals
of failed color revolutions, keep your focus on the
South China Sea.
