Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War Against China

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking aim at China to deflect attention away from the American nightmare.

[blackagendareport.com]

{As the U.S. political class scrambles to cover up the social and economic collapse that COVID-19 has thoroughly exposed, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have kicked off their general election campaigns by taking aim at China to deflect attention away from the American nightmare.}

Have no doubt about it. When the saber rattling begins against China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, something is about to happen to distract from, or it's a distraction from the growing severity already going on. When both MSCM's are in unison with it, it's simply the evidence of their collaboration with the establishment. Which gives you the following to draw you back into the tribal division.

{Donald Trump made the first move with an attack ad on Biden that positioned Obama’s former Vice President as a friend of China’s rise, an obvious dog whistle to the notion that Democrats are the truest threat to the white man’s jobs. Biden came out with ads of his own that condemned Trump for praising China’s pandemic response and for claiming that the United States should “trust China.” It is clear that all sides of the U.S. ruling class are frantically seeking to blame China for the systemic failures exposed in the U.S. response to COVID-19.}

The very same tactic in the Russiagate bullshit. All the drama of manufacturing hype without giving us the main course of the real facts.

{While China sends millions of masks, ventilators, testing kits, and medical experts to 120 countries around the world, U.S. imperialism continues its sanctions regime against Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. U.S. imperialism has not ceased its engagement in “hot” wars in the Middle East, either, despite U.N. recommendations for a global ceasefire . The U.S. thirst for war far outweighs its concern for human existence and is the reason why Biden and Trump are making hostility toward China a central issue of the general election.}

"human existence"------ right here at home also.

{The TPP was considered a free trade agreement, but it was really a policy of economic containment directed at China. While popular protest ensured that the TPP was never ratified, economic warfare against China continued under Trump’s so-called “trade war.” Unlike the TPP, the trade war attempted to intimidate China by placing costly tariffs on key imports to the United States. This policy hurt U.S. capitalists more than China and has been viewed unfavorably by a significant section of the lords of capital themselves.}

In other words. Our government in their haste to diminish wealth and strength among our working class overlooked the measure of power they were handing China. TPP didn't pass the public test from experience so a trade war was manufactured out of one of the cons pulled by Trump on his supporters. As it has backfired though, this virus has presented its use towards another strategic move. Almost as though it was made for it?

The military and defense contractors how ever love it.

{The work from here is to expose the broader imperialist war behind Biden and Trump’s anti-China attacks and to make the end of hostilities with China part of a mass movement that demands the fulfillment of the basic material needs of the working class for healthcare, housing, education, living wages, and the dismantling of the mass incarceration and surveillance regime root and branch.}

Please watch the Hedges Dore discussion LetzGetReal posted. A lot of that last paragraph is brought up in that discussion. I know it's long but it's really about the best 95 minutes one could spend time on for dissenting imperialist opinions. I've pined it to the top of the message board for a while so it can be planned on in the future. I'll leave it up there for a couple of weeks or so until I see its getting no traffic.