My Take | China is not Soviet Russia – that’s why it’s threatening to the US
- China will not trouble ordinary Americans, but it is a serious challenge to America’s global power elites, both economic and political, and so ordinary US voters need to be brainwashed by its mainstream media into believing the China threat
China is not the former Soviet Union and it is a mistake for the United States to assume a “position of strength” to prepare for a new “cold war”, according to China’s new ambassador in Washington, Qin Gang.
He is half right: China is nothing like the defunct USSR. But for American politicians who realise that and therefore don’t necessarily share a cold war mentality, that is precisely why China is scary.
Despite all the cliched American rhetoric and propaganda, China doesn’t challenge the US democratic system and values. America’s partisan citizens and politicians have done a pretty good job doing just that.
But China, whether it wants to or not, does pose a threat to America’s global economic and hegemonic position, by virtue of its natural economic and political expansions.
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