Foreign minister-level talks between China and the United States in Alaska could have been a routine act of diplomacy, but they immediately unfolded in a completely different direction than the original scenario had suggested
Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, addressed the Chinese delegation with his usual imperial arrogance, saying that Washington was very concerned about the Uighurs, democracy in Hong Kong and the sovereignty of Taiwan, after which Wang Yi, head of the Chinese delegation, asked sharply: “What business is it of yours!?” He unmistakably and in an unusually harsh tone said that these were Chinese internal affairs and no one in the world, especially the US, had anything to do with how China dealt with these issues.
All the more so, the Chinese foreign minister stressed, that Beijing also sees troubling political and humanitarian processes in the US, and the country itself is increasingly plunged into civil war, but for its part Beijing considers this an internal matter for Washington, so they refrain from even expressing their views.
He then made two more statements that were hitherto completely unthinkable.
One was that since China still holds over a trillion dollars in US treasury bills, the United States would be kind enough to be a little more accommodating.
Another surprising announcement was that there are over six million Chinese living in the United States, which is higher than the 5, 6 million Jews living there, a welcome development as it encourages both sides to seek agreement on all contentious issues, and the Chinese community in the United States has as much (if not more) power to influence US economic and political developments than the Jewish communities.
It would probably be just as interesting to reflect on what we can expect after this in US-China relations, especially in the mirror of the system of world domination.
China has been the dominant power in the world for the last two or three thousand years. This is still reflected in the two characters in the Chinese alphabet with which they identify and which stand for “Middle Kingdom”.
Despite its immense power, China has never shown much intention of expanding over the centuries. On the contrary, while studying and understanding the “nature of the West”, it has tried to pursue a strategy of outright isolation. It is noteworthy that Japan and Korea have also taken the path of isolation. It seems to us, and history also confirms, that they had grounds for suspicion.
In China, for example, the West, invoking the ‘sanctity of free trade’, used the ‘opium wars’ to humiliate and ruthlessly pillage the ancient, centuries-old Chinese empire.
Unsurprisingly, the Communist forces were able to gain power with an easy victory through the “civil war of the long march”. They declared total isolation from the West, and their communist theory served as a consistent ideology for most Chinese. Later, in the latter half of the seventies, over nearly thirty years of communist rule, the system based on isolation began to fail, threatening the total destruction of China. True, not without the “democratic efforts of the West”.
Then, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, and later Deng Xiaoping, there was a turnaround in China, the essence of which was that, while maintaining the entire power structure of communism, there was a rapid and successful reintegration into the system of global capitalism, which would later, before our eyes, make China once again the largest economic and technological power in the world.
The American empire ruling the world at this time was friendly and cooperative towards China (“as far as possible” said Henry Kissinger), wanting to drive a wedge between the USSR and China. Beijing, instead of closing down, has created an extremely open system where today the Communist Party has over a hundred dollar billionaires in its ranks, such as Jack Ma, owner of Alibaba.
China now holds complete monitoring and control of global trade, and its monetary and media infrastructure is a prerequisite for coming to world power, meaning that China has begun its new “long march” to control more and more of the processes taking place in our world.
World trade has been under complete control of Beijing for the last decade and even the “US trade war against China” can no longer take back these positions from Washington.
Today, all signs and events in the world indicate that the complete loss of that control has actually provoked the structures of US empire to realise that this is already the ‘beginning of the endgame’, that there is and will be no way to stop China, and of course the conflicts between Washington and Beijing are bound to become increasingly acute before our eyes.
Through threats and sanctions, the US is trying to prevent China from “taking over all the pillars of the world”, i.e. financial, economic, and, indeed, military power. Paradoxically, however, US sanctions are forcing China and simultaneously Russia to create alternative procedures to undermine the power of the US empire, its global monetary and military power, even at the global level of the dollar’s position.
Moreover, this interdependence pushes Washington to adopt new and new attempts to stop China and Russia. From this perspective it is indeed understandable why the US empire is willing to do anything to try, in the eyes of the world, to “turn China and Russia into evil empires” through its vassal media and discourage all other powers from cooperating with China and Russia.
In our view, all these attempts can only slow down “the transition of control of all the pillars of the world” into the hands of China, Russia and probably even India. However, the question remains open as to what China’s role and importance in the future of the world will be. That remains the great mystery of the future for now.
Dr Laszlo Bogar, Miklós Köveházy, Hungary, specially for News Front