Trump’s America has become an unstoppable,
out-of-control bully
The current regime running the US risks plunging
the world into war with its hegemonistic
belligerence in general and escalating
provocation of China in particular
By Yonden Lhatoo
July 27, 2020 "Information
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Listen to the screams of panic-stricken
passengers, children’s voices among them, crying
in terror and calling out prayers, as an Iranian
airliner is intercepted and harassed by US
warplanes over Syrian air space just the other
day.
There’s nothing that Iran – already debilitated by
US-led sanctions and ravaged by the coronavirus
pandemic – can do about it, except complain to a
United Nations that is powerless to confront the
world’s biggest bully as it gets more belligerent.
This is the new world order as US
President Donald Trump, facing the
growing prospect of a drubbing in an
election he is desperate to win at
all costs, seeks to distract voters
from blaming him for the social and
economic carnage wrought by the
pandemic and his own abject failure
to contain it.
On the home front, his
administration has sparked a
potential constitutional crisis by
sending federal forces to crack down
on anti-racism protests in cities
that don’t want that kind of
interference upending the separation
of powers between state and national
governments.
To those who would argue that
protest violence justifies federal intervention and
media reports have misrepresented demonstrations as
being entirely peaceful, that’s exactly what
happened in Hong Kong, remember, and yet the same US
government painted every attempt by authorities here
to restore order as “repression”. How do you like
them apples?
And now, in addition to cutting off Hong
Kong’s nose to spite Beijing with punitive acts that
only serve to hurt the city, China’s weakest link, the
Trump administration has gone into overdrive to
ostracise and stigmatise Beijing as the ultimate
bogeyman.
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Washington’s escalating and reckless
provocation seriously risks triggering a military
confrontation that could prove catastrophic for the
whole world, but there is no power on the planet to
counter its hegemony and aggression.
While openly coercing America’s cronies and
lobbying other nations to gang up against China,
Trump’s thuggish top diplomat Mike Pompeo made
an unhinged rant of a speech this weekthat was beyond appalling in its
ignorance and Sinophobia.
“The truth is that our policies, and those of other
free nations, resurrected China’s failing economy,
only to see Beijing bite the international hands
that fed it,” he said. “We must also engage and
empower the Chinese people – a dynamic,
freedom-loving people who are completely distinct
from the Chinese Communist Party.” Really.
The most eloquent and fitting response
to this nonsense came from former diplomat and veteran
China hand Robert Daly, who told
US News & World Report magazine: “China is not a
land of innocent captives and evil master trolls.
US-China relations are not a children’s story. In China,
the United States faces something far more formidable
than Secretary Pompeo suggests: China is a vast,
complex, wealthy, ambitious, aggrieved nation …
“In confronting China, we’re not dealing with a
wholly good people who have been ‘imprisoned’ or
‘enslaved’ by a purely malign party. Chinese are
often frustrated by a government [that] ignores
their wishes, moves too slowly or moves in the wrong
direction, but the available evidence is that, as
citizens of the PRC, most Chinese people feel proud
and enabled, not constrained.”
All that’s left to say to Pompeo and his master is
what Boston lawyer Joseph Welch once famously told
anti-Communist witch-hunter Joseph McCarthy during
one of his Salem trials-style hearings: “Have you no
sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left
no sense of decency?”
Yonden Lhatoo is the chief news editor at the Post -
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