My Take | America wants dominance, not peace
- Iran, China and Russia all want to normalise relations and avoid conflicts with the US, but Washington is not interested, not unless those regimes commit suicide, which is a very unlikely prospect
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says China has recently acted “more aggressively abroad” and was behaving “increasingly in adversarial ways”. He has previously said the same or similar thing about Russia and Iran.
In all three cases, though, it has been Washington that is committing the most aggressive and provocative acts that amount to existential threats or at least threats against the core security and territorial interests of its three main adversaries. The pattern of American aggression is too unmistakable to be denied.
Nothing wrong there; that’s what you do to your enemy. But at least American leaders such as Blinken could spare us the holier-than-thou propaganda.
“We offered this to President Biden’s administration as soon as he took all the necessary oaths and assumed power. I mentioned this to Secretary of State Blinken.”
Likewise, Beijing has been trying to play nice with Biden from day one. In his latest article published in People’s Daily, China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, has practically bent over backwards to reassure Washington.