Abstract
While the world has been distracted since the American war in Vietnam and the Soviet and western adventures in Afghanistan, as well as a rising tide of rebellion directed against symbols of the west by Islamic fundamentalists, a curious contest has appeared on two fronts: Russia and China. At the same time the west is distracted by populist movements whose theme is focused on immigrants from former colonial nations or non-whites in a context, as in America, where aboriginal peoples have been slaughtered and marginalized. The specific nature of this conflict is economic in general form, yet political in rhetoric, especially from western sources. From the Ukraine to the Pacific a kind of “Phoney War” has crept along in starts and stops with overtures of friendship interrupted with threats of violence and minor acts of aggression. Investigation of some of the underlying factors in the East illuminate potential trends for the future. At the same time a new revitalization movement is reshaping the Anglo-American west, one that challenges the role of China in trade and policy.
Highlights
Fear of China is growing in the west, and especially in America
While the world has been distracted since the American war in Vietnam and the Soviet and western adventures in Afghanistan, as well as a rising tide of rebellion directed against symbols of the west by Islamic fundamentalists, a curious contest has appeared on two fronts: Russia and China
At the same time a new revitalization movement is reshaping the Anglo-American west, one that challenges the role of China in trade and policy
Summary
Fear of China is growing in the west, and especially in America. Concern arises from both China’s economic achievements and the potential of its political and military capabilities (Economist, 2007, 2016; Mizokami, 2014; Stokes, 2016; Kynge, et al, 2017). We should be specific about the nature of this “fear,” it is psychological fear of personal danger, or loss, or is it a concern that is based on economic competition, or is it a manifestation of the unfamiliar or strange differences shown by differences in physical type as when Europeans where first encountered by native peoples a great distances from Europe?. Fear in North Korea of China isolating Kim reported by Newsweek Oct. 2, 2017 in link to Russian firm TransTeleKom. It is strange that politicians and philosophers as well a social scientists should argue that the massacres, tortures, slavery and cultural genocide of the post-1492 holocaust against non-European people should be considered a thing of the past and irrelevant to the future as some like Niall Ferguson have. It is often argued that most colonialized people are not revolting, do not support Boko Haram, etc. (Obeidallah, 2014) nor did they support the Mau-Mau (Chandler & Beckett, 1994), but the same argument was made in 1776 about American rebels. Commager and Morris (1958) reproduce and cite a number of documents critical of the American revolutionaries
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