Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Wednesday that China is the “most significant challenge” the United States has ever faced.
“There is a recognition that this is the most significant challenge in our history,” Campbell told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to AFP. “Frankly, the Cold War pales in comparison to the multifaceted challenges that China presents.”
Campbell is a long-time China hawk and has been pushing for more of a focus on the Asia Pacific since the Obama administration and is considered the architect of the so-called “Asia pivot.” He was confirmed as the deputy secretary of state back in February and previously served as the top Asia official on President Biden’s National Security Council.
“It’s not just a military challenge; it’s across the board. It is in the Global South. It is in technology. We need to step up our game across the board,” Campbell told the committee. During the hearing, he called for Europe to get tougher on China and join the US in sanctions on Chinese companies.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian was asked to respond to Campbell’s remarks during a daily press conference and said they are “steeped in Cold War and zero-sum mentality.”
“China is committed to carrying out friendly cooperation with all countries in the world, and we do not target any third party when developing normal relations with other countries. By contrast, the US has been strengthening its military alliances, patching up small groupings against China, and coercing other countries to choose sides,” Lin added.
Campbell’s view that Beijing is the top threat facing the US is shared by the Pentagon. In the 2022 National Defense Strategy, the Pentagon declared China the “most comprehensive and serious challenge to US national security strategy,” with Russia named the second leading threat.
US military leaders are openly planning for a direct war with China in the future despite the risk of the conflict turning nuclear. This week, the US Navy unveiled a plan to prepare for a direct fight with China by 2027.
False. America’s greatest challenge is its rapacious greed. This is what drives its wanton bloodlettings, and systemic economic imperialism.
I am not certain that I fully agree, though, I fully understand your comments. The world itself is in a continuous realignment, or rather, a reshuffling, with regard to the powers that be…
In essence, not all of it is evil.
We need a world that is in balance, more equitable and less rapacious.
The question is if the decline of the US empire will go fast enough for humanity to survive into the next century. The US political system is replete with these imbecilic warmongers to such an extent that it pretty much assures us of answering the question in the negative.
Remember: the whole point has always been to "scare hell out of the American people" so that they will countenance ungodly amounts of the nation's wealth being plowed into useless military/security theater and nonsense.
But created bureaucracies develop a life of their own and pollute the environment to the point where they may completely kill the host. We're definitely getting there fast now …
A parasite species is a good analogy.
When the world outside U.S. empire lives in poverty and in permanent wars, there are no threat to U.S rulers. When the living standards are improving too much and people start to enjoy peace and prosperity, they become a threat.
you guys need a socialist government
Problem is, many Americans (and tons of Old White Canadians, most I seem to be related to) think all Socialists are Communists. And that Communism is ever in the shadows WAITING TO STRIKE !
I ask my insistent relatives how many Communist countries remain in the world, and who they are. They only get two of the five right (DPRC & Cuba, the easy ones) and tend to include Denmark or Sweden by virtue of their Socialism Equivalency mindset.
Yeah
When my american friends realise I’m socialist they say
“Ok wait, you’re communist?”
Or
“Oh, wait, you support a dictatorship?”
Americans don’t understand Socialism
And I don’t like the Chinese model of socialist, there’s more of this so called “deep state” than in America. Also, they have too long of hours and some of them work like 12-16 hours per day. Also, I don’t like the social credit. Also, I don’t like that they’re a dictatorship.
I know that Sweden/Dånemark aren’t socialist, but I like the “Socialism with a Human face”
Without the dictatorships, without the fascists
you should try living in China, as I did.. Outsiders really know nothing about the place. Only 14% belong to the Communist party; the majority are capitalists, who benefit from the progress made by the CPC. (35,000 miles of high-speed bullet trains).. Drunks, dopers & hooligans are not comfortable with the controlled society.. The people are the happiest & healthiest you will ever meet..
I still think they’ve screwed up socialism beyond belief
Thats why i’m a Market Socialist!!
the middle class of China is larger than the entire U.S. population,.. 83% of China is non-Communist, and always known as Asia's master traders..
The greatest threat to Americans (and the entire world) are the deep state psychos in Washington DC, Israel and Western Europe.
whats a deep state? Is it just a conspiracy or a real thing?
First it is important to recognize the difference between Country, Nation, and State. (I had to go through this yesterday with Major Burns – he's an ignorant clown, you're just genuinely unfamiliar with the concepts)
For example – the COUNTRY of Ukraine is everything within the map lines that legally delineate "Ukrainian territory". The NATION of Ukraine is you, your family and neighbours, and all social and cultural things that make someone "Ukrainian" (for many of us in Canada, Ukrainian means great sausage, perogies, and fancy Easter eggs).
The STATE of Ukraine is its government, government structure, elected (or not) leaders, legal system, rules, foreign and domestic policies.
Thus in the case of the USA, the STATE is the Biden Administration, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Supreme & lower courts, Cabinet, NSA CIA, Joint Chiefs et. al.
The American DEEP STATE is thought to be the wealthy, connected, influential current or former politicians, industrialists, intelligence and military officers, whose secretive influence guides the STATE in all manners of affairs (regardless of who is President) to either ensure their own pro- or pseudo-"American" vision and goals are met and/or maintained OR that the American "identity" as a NATION does not stray outside "mainstream capitalism".
In fact one could easily say in Ukraine's case, Zelenskiyy & co run the STATE, but the American STATE is Ukraine's DEEP STATE.
ah ok
Deep state is constututed of the trained and educated personnel that run the foreign policy and also myriad dometic policies in pursuit of the counyry's interests .
The moment ,thry become tainted with the interests of the political parties,they turn into an inimical force.
When trained professionals prioritize political party interests over national ones, it can compromise their effectiveness and lead to conflicts of interest. This shift can undermine trust in institutions and skew decision-making, potentially harming the country's long-term interests.
Oh
The deep state is those in government who pursue ajenddas incompatable & outside of democratic governance!!!
From 3:07 on there is interesting talk on the deep state. 3:50 'Can you define the deep state?' (…)
look into Yale: Skull & Bones
The second greatest threat to Americans are the American mushrooms who continue to vote democrat.
The Chinese at this point cannot possibly logistically move enough people across the Pacific to create an invasion beachhead, so this is fearmongering at its worst. The most significant challenge to America at the moment happens to be the foreign entanglements of neocon blatherers pushing all toward a nuclear fate.
Hells, neither the Germans in EITHER world war, nor Imperial Japan in the second, could have mounted a successful invasion across EITHER ocean – even taking the "short" routes.
Unfortunately, the notion of manifest destiny is still thriving in the US.
How about the Kingdom of Hawaii then? In the 1890s some considered Hawaii a potential threat close to US shores. So it was annexed.
Decolonize the US! Provide lethal aid to the Kingdom of Hawaii!
I don't know much history. When I was young I did learn a story from a relative who was a retired US Army General. I was there with him and other adults when he told the story. What I basically learned was the Hawaiian King had sold out his people.
Thanx for your reply. I don't know much about it either. There is the Hawaiian Kingdom Blog.
Maybe you find this article interesting:
An act of war of aggression: United States invasion of the Hawaiian Kingdom on August 12, 1898
Does the link work?
Why would the Chinese want to invade America? And while were asking the intelligent questions, why wouldn't the US want to invade the South Pole? Answer me that! I heared from some truly patriotic Americans in the know that there are vast stretches of land between the Great Icewall and where you could really fall off the edge (seems really unsafe not to fence that off) that have no US military bases yet.
I can't answer that because like you of course I believe that's the only way they could even begin to be a threat. But why would they want to? They obviously know more about how to economically use military spending, whereas, our government does not.
Antarctica? Well if we want to rule the world, a pretty good place to start. Nobody to occupy or terrorize, no collateral damage, should be an easy one. /s
Invasions by or of nuclear bomb powers are a thing of the past to a large degree, especially if Russia starts using tacts as putin is warning. Very very low yield at first it first but being upped after the first shock passes. The strong will squeeze the weak more & more. There is a lot of false narratives being pedaled around by various states. No. 1 in my mind lately is Americas "New Super-fuse" which is being touted as some breakthrough. What it is, is their fuse to light off WWIII. It's very very alarming for me that our war planners are so stupid or misguided that they tout this fuse as some breakthrough on par with hypersonic missiles, Super Nuke Torpedoes!!! Their fuse in nothing more than a dangerous scam to try to appear to be keeping up with the Russians in military technology when in reality the U.S. has fallen very dangerously far far behind!!!!! What is the core functio of their super fuse?? It is to detonate the nuke a missile carries directly over the top of Russian missle silos to effectively destroy the missiles inside. But that assumes there would be a missile inside, and not already launched on it's way to the U.S. mainland!!! Do these sceewy planners think Russia will not notice a large launch of enough missiles to make a MAD (Mutulally Assured Destruction) reply by Russia possible???? What is likely to happen is that the Super Fuse missiles will detonate over empty silos because their missiles are halfway to New York & Washington D.C. & do no real harm to Russia but will have squandered American deterrence forces leaving America defenceless in a nuclear war. What kind of innovation is that????? It sounds more like some Israeli plan to take out America & Russia so they can be the top tough guy!!!
First one to launch a nuke (of any type) goes down in history as one of its archest villians.
It is about military and economic supremacy in the Northern Pacific Ocean. In the past it was Japan which considered us the greatest threat to its economic, financial, and military survival. After losing the war, Japan has accepted our need for that supremacy. China, which participated in winning the war against Japan, has no reason to accept out hunger for supremacy.
"Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Wednesday that China is the “most significant challenge” the United States has ever faced."
Campbell – tell me you were born in 1946 without telling me you were born in 1946.
He must not have lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis.
US policy is indebted young students who are then life-time cash cows for the wealthy.
US Policy is indebted people stricken with healthcare bills.
US policy is help Blackrock financiers own every US home so the entire population struggles to pay rent from low paying burger flipper jobs.
US citizens are grist for the wealthy and have no time to create or invent. These kinds of policies are why America has become a loser,
Even Houthis have weapons America can't make or intercept.
How come the headline on the main page here, says, "China is the biggest THREAT, but then when you click on it the headline here says, "China is the biggest CHALLENGE? There's a big difference between biggest threat and biggest challenge. The headline is something the State-affiliated media does to please the warmongers.
The most difficult challenge for our political leadership is to grow the fuck up.
I think Lin Jian is speaking honestly. China doesn't want war with the US. They want us to play by the rules enshrined in the WTO. China has taken, and will probably hold the lead in international trade for a long time. But, for those who endorse the theories of Adam Smith, this can be a win/win scenario.
Campbell evidently doesn't believe that the US can make an economic comeback. I do. But both China and the US face a far more serious problem than competition with one another. Both countries are losing jobs to automation at an increasing, exponential, rate. If we (the people of earth) will not address that problem satisfactorily, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 loses.
No, wait, machines will liberate the proletariat to work at things they really choose!
This week, the US Navy unveiled a plan to prepare for a direct fight with China by 2027??
Nowhere are American fantasies more fantastic than in the realm of warfighting. Not only has the US never won a war, it has been routed twice by Russia and once by China (in the most humiliating defeat in modern military history). Now the world's remaining superpowers are sharing their core competencies as no allies ever have: Russia handed China its S-400 IP in 2019, for example and China responded by accelerating the development of the astonishing S-500.
Ukraine has revealed that it lacks the manufacturing muscle to qualify it as a great power, and its small, geriatric navy is so poorly armed that a single Type-55 cruiser could destroy two USN fleets without coming within range of their weapons.
I could go on but, what's the point? These guys are bros, and the US doesn't have a friend in the world.
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And, 'we'll' have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them on Main St. USA. I find it amazing that anybody can't see what a bunch of evil people inhabit the US gov. If there is a devil, he's got both parties on board with the coming catastrophe, and the hoi poloi are mostly silent as the world gazes into the abyss that is staring back.
Your choices for president:
A. Guy who already sold his soul to the Devil.
B. Lady who's about to.
It's worse than it's ever been. Really!