Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a speech to the American Jewish Committee (AJC) annual conference, centering on mounting US hostility toward China, and arguing that China and its foreign policy are a mounting challenge to both the US and Israel.
The AJC tends to take positions favorable to Israel, though in general the interests of Israel and China don’t conflict or intersect much. Pompeo played up the idea that China is a threat to the American “way of life” and endangers everyone.
Pompeo had recently visited Israel and pressed them to limit business ties to Chinese companies. This is likely an attempt to further spin China as a grave enemy of Israel, despite no real reason to think that is the case.
While this may or may not work, it also sets out the US course on China relations, with the Trump Administration likely trying to push more nations to disconnect from China increasingly.
Pompeo is an evil troublemaker. Will the USA ever stop fermenting around the world. The “American way of life” is not very desirable, it’s dog eat dog, rednecks and rabble, and made even worse under the guidance of the Pumpkinfuhrer.
paul,,U sound like a good little Marxist. 🙂
Capitalism is also Marxist.
we could crush china on a tuesday afternoon if we wanted to. we are that powerful.
LOL…more satire from the peanut gallery. China has no fear of the paper tiger…Uncle Sam is a perpetual loser.
Too bad they would make at minium Los Angeles a glass lake. Years back an American president made some type of first strike threat against China. Their reply, go ahead if you wanna lose LA… and that was the last we ever heard of that threat…
Good for CHINA – Somebody has to stand up to these bullies and Rogue Nations like Israel and USA
Israel is already selling itself as an ‘Asian’ country (its geographically in West Asia) with longstanding ties to China, India and Singapore.
Israel can also pretend a clean ‘new nation’ slate with Asia, with people like David ‘Opium Wars’ Sassoon having come from and represented other nations, (Iran and Britain) before there was a Jewish nation to imperialize from.
The notion that China is a growing threat to Israel, is kind of laughable.
But takes part in Eurovision, pretending to be Europeans.
It is everything you want it to be. Like Caesar, it is every woman’s ideal man, and every man’s ideal woman.
Who? Pompeo? No way 🙂
Its a ‘coat of many colours’ thing.
Russia even has a Jewish Autonomus Oblast, in Far East Russia. There had been talk of merging it with its neigboring oblasts and ending it, which would have been fair to the original inhabitants. However that idea died in a hurry.
Its located just north of Harbin, China on land seized by Russia from the Qing Dynasty by unequal treaty. Israelists, will doubtless find it very useful in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
Pompeo is seeking to form an alliance against China, which history shows is dangerous, portraying it as a threat to Americans’ ‘way of life’. Except that wars are only fought over interests.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
The U.S. sinophobes are a threat to America’s way of life on top of the other baseless phobes piling on in both domestic and foreign policy…
Made in China subsidized U.S. consumer culture; U.S. manufacturing jobs were already falling victim to technological change by the late 1970s.
Offshoring ducked a lot of labour unrest by making the changes invisible except as fewer manufacturing jobs. However, offshoring was not a Chinese policy and hardly something they were in a position to demand.
The service industry and manufacturing industries that grew up in place, were built around sourcing from as well as selling to China. Pompeo and oddly enough Trump seem to have had no real transition plan.
“The Corona Pandemic and Trump’s Trade War against China: America’s Dependence on “Made in China”” – Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, June 14, 2020.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-corona-pandemic-and-trumps-trade-war-against-china-americas-dependence-on-made-in-china-potential-disruption-of-the-us-economy/5713552
https://www.uschina.org/reports/understanding-us-china-trade-relationship
Trump’s reshoring hopes appear to have been based on MAGA mega infrastructure visions, which were doomed because of reliance on the rich pitching in through private-public partnerships. The rich aren’t stupid with money; they expect to make money with any investment and PPPs have generally disappointed all concerned.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-infrastructure-plan-public-private-partnerships-2018-1?op=1
All that’s going to happen, is Europe’s imperialist states gain a few more years of global hegemony at U.S. expense, as the U.S. and China take each other down a few notches in pointless conflict and Europe scoops America’s natural share of China’s economy.
Expecting Israel not to join in nabbing shares of Chinese economic pie the U.S. is just dumping, is a bit nuts, especially since they went through so much trouble to steal IP from the U.S. to sell in Asia.
https://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/01/27/stealing-success-tel-aviv-style/
The “made in China” was a decision long ago by businesses to seek a cheaper means of manufacture. Sure, we as purchasers may benefit, but in the long run we don’t due to stifling wages.
The problem is, workers’ wages aren’t the whole economic model. The economy has to support an ecosystem of production and consumption. Workers, are unfortunately tied to the technology of production.
Sure, Ford paid his workers well so they could buy his cars… but that was hardly a sustainable closed loop.
Ford and his cronies also cheatily recreated society such that everyone needed a car. Oddly enough, China may be folloiwing this flawed development model, to develop internal demand for electric cars. They’ll hit an environmental dead end fairly quickly if so…
“The American Love Affair with the Automobile: The Unspoken History of the Electric Car” – Larry Romanoff, Global Research, December 09, 2019.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-killed-roger-rabbit-oil-hydrogen-political-domination-electric-car/5697098
Capitalism operates like a pyramid scheme, and like a pyramid scheme, it collapses. However, unlike a pyramid scheme, it cycles anew because unlike a pyramid scheme, captialism doesn’t cycle currency, it cycles wealth and production.
Workers by default are the most expendable human component. As the tech expires so does the value of those jobs reflected in wages, and eventually the jobs themselves disappear. This happens not only with discrete technologies but systems of technological production.
US rose on the wave of British industrial revolution, and given its enormous resources prospered modeling its British imperial heritage. It moved into 20th century by the sheer force of limitless domestic expansion, limitless immigration and massive wealth accumulation. WWI and WWII added new impetus to the same dynamics.
But an exhaustion set in by seventies, and the process of virtual colonization appeared to be the solution. As mentioned, China was not in a position to demand this outsourcing. This was a loudly promoted idea, celebrating the decisions made by money to make the world their profit center. Driven
exclusively by the demands for cheaper production and acquisition of new markets, scant attention was paid to the consequences.
The continent that was the playground for the rich and powerful for one century, suddenly was not big enough for their model of money making.
What puzzles is the elites complete absence of transition plan. For Trump — it is just a deal-making, in which you keep opponent off balance, threaten apocalypse then make U-turn at will. This is not a plan — this is an assumption that China has no other game plan, giving us the initiative by continuous poking and prodding.
Which brings me back to the systemic issue. Dynamism was procured thus far by historic changes not entirely of our own making. Now, decisions are upon us. It is not just Trump. Is there a fount of wisdom anywhere that can reign in powerful impulses of imperial thinking — and chart a path to thought-out reforms?
To quote Edmund Burke — “A state without a means of change is without the means of conservation.”
The great FDR’s gandpa was one of the biggest opium dealers who made his fortune during the opium wars in China.It’s true!
FDR did some good things and some… really not good at all things, but he had the best vision for America.
What hobbled FDR was the militant streak in Progressivism that could easily be fooled into non-productive bloody wars ‘for the greater good’, and limited tools of Presidential office, which favoured essentially being a dictator with a war machine.
However, despite America being an Empire, FDR did not forget America’s anti-Imperial roots and the threat posed by European imperialists.
FDR’s vision of a de-colonialized, multipolar world led by the natural geopolitical giants of the United States, Russia, India, and China stands out against the European vision of eternal dominance by select European powers, hidden under the hubris of ‘The West’ and globalist ‘American Empire’.
“FDR’s Anti-Colonial Vision for the Post-War World: ‘As He Saw It’ Revisite” – Matthew Ehret, Strategic-Culture, April 12, 2020.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/save-queen/5693500
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/12/fdr-anti-colonial-vision-for-post-war-world-as-he-saw-it-revisited
FDR’s last blow from beyond the grave, was the destruction of the British Empire. Post WWII the U.S. engineered the seizure of British colonial markets, breaking the subservient loop of colonial raw materials supplying British manufacturing and credit. By then, however, the U.S. was buying into its own Imperial hubris with no small amount of help from the British.
“God Save the Queen. The US Destruction of the British Empire” – Larry Romanoff, Global Research, November 02, 2019.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/save-queen/5693500
Britain was far from done. The sun did set on the British Empire, and in the darkness, thrived an Empire of dark finance.
https://www.taxjustice.net/2019/09/29/tax-havens-britains-second-empire/
The ‘dumb giant’ model of geopolitics came into being, and while better used by France, which led the U.S. as their tactical enforcer into Vietnam, Libya, and French Africa.
However, Britain helped foster the strategic neocon/neoliberal American Empire model. Britain’s apparent split with the EU, is less a break from the Continent, but more like European imperialism keeping a leg in both major poles of Western power, the Five Eyes and the EU itself.
“The ‘Special Relationship’ Is Collapsing… and That’s a Good Thing” – Matthew Ehret, Strategic-Culture, August 1, 2019
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/01/special-relationship-collapsing-thats-good-thing/
China’s apparent transition plan from supplying the U.S., were the twin pillars of the Belt and Road project, and developing China’s vast internal consumer economy. Both are now under the gun from COVID-19 and economic war..
Far less under the gun, perhaps, than might be hoped by the Deep State in the U.S. or Euro globalists. Passenger travel has collapsed; shipping of consumer, commercial, and industrial goods continues, limited only by market demand.
Any font of wisdom, comes from We The People.
The power elite cash in on the labour of commoners, and that includes the creativity and intelligence. Trump offered to be our messenger and negotiator, and really, no-one else capable of reaching the Presidential level of politics is pitching such offers as to withdraw from bad deals like the forever wars.
EU won’t ally with US against China, EU foreign policy chief says before Pompeo meeting.
Let`s see if the spineless puppets can walk the talk.
To which “spineless puppets” do you refer, the ones in the U.S. or Israel. Actually it is more dangerous for Israel, so to speak, to sleep with China and be good buddies, than to be on neither great nor bad terms with the vast Sino Bohemoeth: as in.. A mouse should never sleep with an elephant.. One wrong turn while asleep could/would flatten the insubstantial rodent fatally. It is also an axiom of statecraft between very large & weighty states when cozyING up to smaller and less robust ones or visa versa…
Pom Pom is full of s### and a war monger,,if he call himself a Christian he is a very poor example. 🙁 Just like Prez. holding up the Bible in front of the burned church,,, looking like a clown. Those who did burn the Church should of burned along with it.
Pompeo is cut from the same cloth as was Lady Clinton. He has the same culture and follows her policies with even more vehemence.
Has he made us forget Bolton already?
They just circulate them — and when these guys start looking like a dog food on the shelf with past expiration date — it is time for a rebranded same crap in a newly designed can.
Bolton is back, promoting his tell-all Trump White House book.
Actually, Pompeo is a far smarter and capable operator than Hiliarity.
Same cloth; far from. Its like comparing high end polyester to cheap nylon.
Yup, the porcine one is a Christian alright.
Trump’s church walk changed, at least temporarily, the tenor of the race riots and made them more peaceful for a time. He dominated the crisis and reset the agenda to faith, law, and order.
Evangelicals even have a name for that kind of church walk; a Jericho Walk.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/donald-trump-church-photo-op-evangelicals
Whatever you call it, the action delegitimized the use of violence by the rioters. Blacks are a bastion of American Christianity, as are many whites and latinos. Even non-religious people would get the message; most Amercans are non-observant secular Christians.
It took the police killing of a couple more, more or less innocent black men by white cops, to renew the thirst for violence.
Trump’s church walk was a powerful statement; by humbling himself before God, Trump speaks solidarity to the Christian masses across races, and reminds them to aspire to something higher.
Trump also reminded rioters that God is the ultimate judge, an action that also implies, no man may judge him… and perhaps that Trump is above the judgement of man. Or at least Democrats and the Deep State.
Religion is applied social mass psychology, and the Bible represents one of the oldest working systems of such psychology.
“Trump’s church walk changed, at least temporarily, the tenor of the race riots and made them more peaceful for a time. He dominated the crisis and reset the agenda to faith, law, and order.”
At least for you he did. By the reaction of the majority it was more of a bad photo op that should never had happened. Even the general at his side regrets it.
… Commandment 3: You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name
in vain.
You think that had no effect on even the General?
The U.S. military is very Christian.
General Mark Milley probably knows all the Ten Commandments off by heart backed with some religious scholarship. Milley would also know his own motivations for joining Trump on that Church walk.
If joining Trump was based on cynical motivations, then Miley’s regret is motivated as much as by his awareness he violated Commandment Three, as much as displeasure from his faction at helping Trump delegitimize riot violence.
The reaction of the majority, seems more of angry disappointment at the unwelcome reminder of higher purpose. Its like being told the party is over before it begins.
Miley joined the walk because he is a kiss ass general. Even kiss asses have remorse once they realize their ass kissing didn’t go over well. I’d say Miley really didn’t want to go on the walk but was more concerned about his career than the supernatural and the silly commandments. In fact, I’d venture to guess that his faith is also as phony as the walk.
I’d bet not. The Long Warriors are true believers in that mission. When the draft ended, the U.S. military ceased to have a healthy spectrum of social outlooks.
Religious blinkers is the only rationale that works. Christianity sets a very easy bar; just believe in God for redemption.
The rest, is just proving fidelity within the rules that allow one to sin for the cause even on Sunday.
I don’t believe there is such a thing a “true believer”. In my opinion everyone is agnostic if they are being honest with themselves. I’ll leave it at that.
That’s the thing right on the head – agnosticism is uncertainty, and nothing nags at the brain like an uncertainty.
Most people will quietly cover their blamelessness bases as best they know how.
Milley may not be a true believer in full overt Bible thumping convention, but odds are he will believe in that extra something.
notice who keeps a copy of this book, which said this would happen: https://www.worldcat.org/title/china-the-jews-and-world-war-three/oclc/638652072&referer=brief_results
So the focus is shifting from Iran where the US managed to bully the EU somewhat, a nation that Israel is fully onboard fighting, to China which the US can’t effectively fight on our own. None of our allies are interested in the fool’s errand either. So it seems to be a perfect scenario for isolating and marginalizing the US, the most dangerous of rogue states.
Couldn’t happen soon enough!
The corporate US is a threat to humanity and world peace.
..and all living and inanimate things.
Let’s see China stopped us in Korea and also helped stop us in Vietnam even befror the military modernization. Pompeo is right to be nervous about China and would be wise to keep his yap shut.
During the Korean war, we went to the China border, as we were killing more than two million North Koreans (and some South Koreans along the way). China attacked in force.
The Vietnam deal was explained in the Pentagon Papers. The “war” resulted in the killing of two million Vietnamese.
Both were civil wars.
Our MIC has to have a boogeyman. China. Russia. Iraq. Iran. Even big, bad Cuba.
Soviet Russia backed China as well as North Korea and Vietnam in both wars.
China did not have the economic strength or technology to act alone.
Israel, though, is a master of soft power imperialism; its China that should be worried.
Oh yeah sure. The mouse gonna flip the elephant on its back. Size and GDP are the WMDs of the future. The Chinese are smart and an ancient power. China won’t wory about Israel anymore than my pit worries about mice & bluebirds.
I’m sure the Ottomans felt the same way when the first Zionist migrants entered Palestine.
Why would Israel have a problem with China? That sounds like wishful thinking on the part of Pompeo.
There’s presently no overtly powerful Israel lobby in China. Israel may have a problem with that.
China does business with Israel, but also, with all of Israel’s rivals, including Iran and Syria. Israel may have a problem with that.
Israel doesn’t have to say much about its problems with China; Israel has the U.S. to make their problems with China, America’s problems with China.
All the while, Israel may do business with China as if nothing’s amiss.
Pompeo should be careful. China might offer 5 billion per year.
That is not exactly something to joke about.
A powerful Israel lobby in China, effectively makes Israel a global empire in terms of ‘soft’ power.
Israeli soft power in the U.S. is hardly used benignly.
Who said I was joking?
Eeek!
Pompeo is just milking Israel for US companies…We give you $4 billions per year provided you spent $3 billions hiring US companies…!
Pompeo is getting the message everyone else has known all along: Israel is for itself only. The US has problems other than Israel’s problems? Good luck with that.
Actually, I don’t think the US problems with China are what Pompeo makes of them. But Israel just does not care either way.
I love European sophistry. Watch the redefinitions of terms as we go along. Just to prevent China from slamming brakes and sending their feeble economy into tail spin. But the it will be like Iran. We are soooo supporting Agreement, keep on adhering to it, good boys. We just cannot at this time do anything, poor us, feeble. Thus China, keep in giving all we need, as for things you need — poor us , feeble, have pity, and keep on buying our products.