U.S. President Donald Trump and a number of U.S. allies have started talking about China’s responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic. The matter goes to the big conflict between China and the United States, which may reach an armed confrontation. The main beneficiary of this conflict is Russia: the U.S.-Chinese blade forever destroys the project “Chimerica” – a global peace based on an alliance of the U.S. and China. “Chimerica” was the worst that could happen to Russia, because only this scenario made real the dreams of Russophobes of its final defeat and destruction.
In the big U.S.-China conflict, the only winner would be Russia.
Washington is threatening to default on U.S. debt to China, and the U.S. media is promoting the conspiracy that COVID-19 was artificially created by the Chinese at Wuhan’s biological laboratory.
Conservative channel Fox News, the main media mouthpiece of the Republican Party of the United States, has released a story that “patient zero” with COVID-19 was an employee of a biological laboratory in Wuhan, that the new virus was created by the Chinese artificially, and not mutated in the markets of seafood and wild animals.
Where did Fox News get this information? They were told it by “sources”, and what kind of sources are they, the TV people, of course, will not tell anyone.
The hand of the master will be recognized immediately. The level of evidence is about the same as in the story of the poisoning of Sergei Skrypal, which was very likely organized by Russia. No evidence of this has been presented in two years, nor has the Fiddler himself, but this has not prevented NATO countries from launching a grand anti-Russian campaign based solely on the highly probable expulsion of Russian diplomats and the spell of “the first use of chemical weapons in Europe after World War II”.
Now the West is preparing for an order of magnitude more aggressive anti-Chinese campaign, the purpose of which is to hang all dogs in the Celestial Empire for coronavirus, to make the Chinese apologize and compensate for the damage, and strategically undermine the position of China as the new number one superpower.
US President Donald Trump said that China has deprived Americans of “the best economy in half a century”. Lawsuits are being written against Beijing demanding material compensation for the pandemic; the amount of alleged damage is estimated at $6 trillion. In Washington, they are discussing the refusal to return American debts to China.
The scale of the impending conflict could have been smaller without this year’s US presidential election. But turning America into the world’s most coronavirus-affected country in the midst of an election campaign leaves Trump no choice but to declare a crusade against China. Otherwise, anti-democratic antagonists will hang all dogs on the incumbent head of state.
Trump is played for by the fact that Democrats in recent decades have viewed China positively and considered it an important part of America’s global economy.
So the current owner of the White House, closer to the election, will surely remember his rival Joseph Biden and his business trips to Beijing by service plane with personal goals, and the $1.5 billion that China’s investment company of Biden’s son received. The former vice president of the United States will be declared a Chinese spy as a drink.
The Democratic Party understands the threat and plays ahead, even louder than Trump, accusing China of American troubles. “Chinese spy” Joe Biden is so blunt and states that Trump and China are to blame. Trump confided in the Chinese leaders and thus let America’s epidemic.
It has come to the point that both the Republican and Democratic Parties have bought up advertising space in the “wavering states” to educate voters about the gift-free policy toward China pursued by the past Barack Obama administration and the current Donald Trump administration respectively. Paradoxically, for all the depths of the American establishment’s split, a negative consensus has emerged within it: America’s main enemy is China.
The consequences of this new foreign policy treaty are far more important than Trump’s re-election or non-election.
The doctrine of Chimerica, a global world built on the financial and economic symbiosis of China and the United States, is finally and irrevocably collapsing.
The Sino-American economic tandem as the basis of liberal globalization in the West has been discussed since the 1970s. At the origin of this idea was the great U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who went for tactical rapprochement with Chinese Communists to weaken the Soviet Union’s position.
In the decades that followed, China’s economic growth increasingly conditioned the material well-being of the “golden billion” countries and became the key to the success of globalization. For the US, turning China into a “workshop of the world” was the guarantor of their global dollar empire. It is true that America itself turned into an importing country, which buys everything necessary in the same China, but all the world’s finances and world trade were closed to the green papers of the Federal Reserve.
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States broke the usual pattern. Trump called for the return of production to America and launched trade wars with China.
The global world order, as the U.S. had been building it for decades, began to collapse for the United States itself.
Until recently, the apologists of this order had hoped that sooner or later the Democrats would return to the White House to restore everything as it was. After all, Barack Obama’s team was loyal to China to the last time, which resulted, among other things, in cooperation with the Chinese company of Vice-President Biden’s son.
Now it’s clear to everyone that it won’t be possible to rewind the tape. It’s impossible to go back to globalization and Chimerica. China is the main strategic enemy for America (and, presumably, for its NATO allies).
Is it very bad? Well, it depends on who it’s for. For Russia, for example, it is very good.
“Chimerica was the only geopolitical scenario that made it real for Russia after its defeat in the Cold War: the final defeat and destruction as a single state.
Russia would not be able to confront the United States, which is in alliance with China. How could it not confront the Soviet Union. It would have had to integrate itself into western globalization on American terms and on the rights of a periphery like Eastern Europe. That is, with the renunciation of sovereignty, the transition to external governance and the forgetfulness of the very notion of “national interests”.
After that the most painful and sadistic fantasies of Russophobes would become possible. It would begin with the deprivation of nuclear weapons, then there would be the declaration of Chechen independence, the secession of all other national republics from Moscow, the squeezing of Russia to the borders of the Moscow princedom, its division into “ten bleeding pieces”, compensation to the Baltics for the “Soviet occupation”, the “return” of Kuban to Ukraine and Kaliningrad to Germany, penance to the Germans and their allies for the victory over Hitler, the proclamation of the Red Army as a criminal organization, the glorification of General Vlasov and “Abrams” in Red Square.
All this could have been. But now it can’t.
History has turned its back on the most dangerous trajectory for Russia.
Now Moscow has a critical interest in it on both opposing sides and a hypersonic weapon that will not allow either of them to force Russia to move to its side of the barricades.
Today, Russia can allow itself to stay above the battle, think about balancing and active neutrality, and eventually become the third rejoicing in the biggest clash of the 21st century.
US NATO allies can only dream about such opportunities.
Alexander Nosovich, Rubaltic.Ru.