{"id":22720,"date":"2017-02-10T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22720"},"modified":"2017-02-10T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:07:46","slug":"unprecedented-moves-towards-war-with-china-would-upend-supply-routes-trigger-global-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22720","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Moves Towards War With China Would \u201cUpend Supply Routes, Trigger Global Recession\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unprecedented Moves Towards War With China Would \u201cUpend Supply Routes, Trigger Global Recession\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"russia-china-usa\"<\/p>\n

Economic tensions are tipping over into military ones.<\/p>\n

Warships have sailed, and the rhetoric of Trump\u2019s officials has shifted dramatically from the previous era.<\/p>\n

The larger threat to the petrodollar and the continuance of U.S. hegemony has been put face-to-face with a China gaining in power and confidence, and ready to depose American dominance. It has become bold enough to make fresh claims on territory, and the U.S. has taken it as a call to war.<\/p>\n

How much more pressure will this situation take before it explodes into a deadly confrontation? And why is world war three suddenly back on the table?<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration is starting off on a highly aggressive posture with China \u2013 with taboo calls to Taiwan, loose talk from President Trump (since the campaign trail) about a trade war with China, and now stern warnings from Secretary of State Tillerson about China\u2019s activities in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

It might come off as just a scolding, if not for the huge military assembly surrounding the region, and the unprecedented level of ICBM missile testing and genuine threats\/predictions of war to come. Someone clearly means business:<\/p>\n

via\u00a0London Independent<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

China has accused Donald Trump\u2019s administration of putting regional stability in East Asia at risk following remarks by the President\u2019s defense secretary that a U.S. commitment to defend Japanese territory applies to an island group that China claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang has called on Trump\u2019s administration to avoid discussion of the issue and reasserted China\u2019s claim of sovereignty over the tiny uninhabited islands\u2026<\/p>\n

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Unprecedented Moves Towards War With China Would \u201cUpend Supply Routes, Trigger Global Recession\u201d Economic tensions are tipping over into military ones. Warships have sailed, and the rhetoric of Trump\u2019s officials has shifted dramatically from the previous era. The larger threat to the petrodollar and the continuance of U.S. hegemony has been put face-to-face with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,7844,6489,6490,1442,827,834,862,891],"class_list":["post-22720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-mac-slavo","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-taiwan","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22721,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions\/22721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}