Sensational statements from Trump administration officials concerning the threat China poses to the US have become commonplace. On Wednesday, the top civilian leader of the US Navy and Marines Corps added to the Cold War-style rhetoric against Beijing.
“I think [China] is probably the greatest threat to our country that Americans, writ large, do not understand,” Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite said at an event hosted by the Navy Memorial. “I literally believe with all my heart and soul — and I can’t stress this any more — what we are seeing emerging is a threat beyond any comparison ever in the history of our country.”
Braithwaite recently returned from a tour of the Indo-Pacific region, where he visited Japan, Singapore, Guam, and Palau. The US has been shoring up the support of Asian allies to counter Beijing in the region. But Braithwaite’s comments went beyond the typical warnings of Chinese military activity in the Pacific.
“There could be a day in our lifetime, my dear friends, that we will not have the freedom to speak our language the way that we do, to live with free and open society, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to congregate — all those things can be eliminated,” he said. “It is an unbelievable threat to our way of life.”
The coronavirus pandemic sharply escalated tensions between the US and China, putting the Trump administration’s hostile policies towards Beijing in hyper-drive. The Navy has been central to those policies, with the US increasing its military presence near China’s shores.
A new bogeyman to keep those $$$$$$ coming.
He may be correct but that change will come from domestic dictatorships, not from Chinese.
from the ridiculous to the absurd. and terrifying.
This is not some self-serving,rural redneck spewing his xenophobic virtually psychopathic views in a smoke-filled garage with drinking buddies. This is policy, and it is insidious. All these wasted resources flushed as toxic waste. i’d rather use the resources, for maybe,food,hunger,green energy,peace, education,homes,bridges https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/62754cd2bf55b14122a60a5d8b7e96544eb9309f3aebc03778c59223fc578ce4.jpg ,. And i’m the nut? im just really friggin’ traumatized.
The United States’ many “enemies” are actually on a list that the USA is more responsible in creating then any other nation, including those “enemies”! All the nations on this planet that either have been or are victims of USA aggression naturally want to buff up their defenses, so to speak, against a nation that has demonstrated a policy of subversion and aggression towards other nations consistently through the years, regardless of who was President. If you want enemies, just go around the globe and take whatever you can from other nations and you WILL have many enemies.
Do you really want to talk about the use and exploitation of resources? Then take a harder look at what China under Xi has become.
a civilized nation with little mental illness, crime, nearly no poverty, no homelessness, rape or violent crime
US= 4th worst poverty on earth, 2 million families in extreme poverty, most rapes per capita, 30+% mental illness (no civilized nation more than 6%, most violent/non violent crime per capita
while China has brought 850 million into the middle class in only 25 years, the US now possesses no middle class—the USA medium income now $34, 000 annually
“There could be a day in our lifetime, my dear friends, that we will not have the freedom to speak our language the way that we do, to live with free and open society, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to congregate — all those things can be eliminated,” he said. “It is an unbelievable threat to our way of life.”
Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet that day has arrived.
The greatest danger to the American people is the US government under ANY Republican or Democrat. The military industrial complex is so out of control that at some point Mexico will be deemed a threat.
The US is the biggest threat to humanity because it’s fragile ego cannot allow rational, and cognitive thinking. China is a mere scapegoat because it will never roll over to US hegemonic terrorism.