As tensions keep growing progressively worse, experts in US-China relations say that the risk of any specific incident escalating into a war is much greater than in years past, saying that intergovernmental communication needs to be shored up.
Every encounter, every US warship sent into the South China Sea, is another risk, and communications are getting worse and worse, leading a Chinese thinktank to counsel efforts to keep chains of communication open, warning relations could get very childish without that.
Warnings about the state of the US-China relationship have been growing for months, with an ugly trade war, and recent threats by President Trump to totally decouple the US economy from China adding to the mounting risks.
The two major powers got into this situation through mutual acrimony, and it would take a lot of cooperation for the two of them to repair the relationship for the sake of avoiding a costly war. It’s clear no one would benefit from a war, but it’s not clear there is interest in repairing ties.
We aren’t going to have a hot War with China. The World would end in less than 3 hours.
Pentagon seems to believe the longer they wait, only the stronger China will become. Russia will have to decide its position…
It has been decided back in June 1999 (Kosovo) and formalized in 2000 as SCO. Became mighty open by 2008 (Beijing Olympics opened, Georgia attacks South Ossetia), and then cemented in 2014 (Ukraine). Their military developments are complimentary to avoid duplication of efforts.
For better of for worse, the Eurasian landmass integration has been evolving for a while.
Let’s see today — on Red Square, troops marched from the entire landmass of continental Asia. Not one country was absent. Besides China and Russia, troops were present from India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and from Eastern Europe, Belarus, Moldova and Serbia.
In fact, there are quite a few other members of SCO (on different membership level). They are: Iran, Pakistan, Turkey. Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia, Sri Lanka.
There have been too many processes under way for too long. This is not an ad hoc process.
‘The’ hot war is the negative climate impact we are in against this planet coupled with a sixth-mass extinction we are responsible for.
As shown in this article, Americans are being prepared for a hot war with China:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2020/02/preparing-masses-for-hot-war-with-china.html
Washington is doing whatever it takes to propagate a new Cold War with China.
Arms merchants and war industry in general needs money. I just want to know WHO got those three trillion dollars shelled out by NY Fed in two days of March — AND who is on hook for paying it back.
The man’s name is inflation… And he’ll pay it back from the pocketbooks of Americans and the blood sweat and tear labor of the rest of the world.
Or it all crumbles and Mr inflation cancels all monetary debt and takes the full amount from everyone’s blood sweat tears and labor…
Exactly — we know who will pay.
What I would like to know is — who took it? We believe in magic — as if the money just disappeared; somehow the money was delivered to someone. And if our elected somebodies cannot tale care of money — what are they for?
Well there is that whole requirement to post accounts of money on Congress in the Constitution…. But that is as inconvenient for politicians as the rest of the document so it’s a no go on sharing info part. Besides, it’s just bad form to name the people who’ve bought your vote as a politician.
Retired US general Ben Hodges expects war between the US and China. That would be in keeping with the pattern of history, that the world is on course for another global conflict. No one would benefit: yet nobody knows how to stop it.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
Mutual acrimony, really? This kind of mainstream evenhandedness gets in the way of understanding.
Not to worry, the classy Don is trying hard to keep the peace. Now if they’d just own up to their role in the spreading of “Kung Flu”.
Gawd, such a tool…
And his followers wildly cheering him on. Or his talking Barbie doll who just refused to admit that the term might be offensive to some people. Man is she a piece of work.
Nah, no chance of war with China. We are a bully and only pick on weak nations.
So much spent on weapons that can’t be used outside a suicide pact, between children called leaders who must not be seen as the first to step down the rhetoric. Why shouldn’t China dominate their region? Why shouldn’t the US with its vast military dominate everywhere? Thus we drift and stumble towards ever bigger disasters, no off-ramps in sight.