{"id":35348,"date":"2018-06-22T05:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35348"},"modified":"2018-06-22T05:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T10:17:43","slug":"the-united-states-is-pushing-toward-war-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35348","title":{"rendered":"The United States Is Pushing Toward War With China"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"article-header-content\">\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/176438\/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_is_a_war_with_china_on_the_horizon\/\">Is a War With China on the Horizon?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"article-body  abody-284515 \">\n<div class=\"article-body-inner\">\n<aside class=\"left full-width-mobile image wide indent\"><a class=\"gallery imgHover\" title=\"Ships travel in formation in the Pacific Ocean during the Rim of the Pacific  multinational naval exercise, July 25, 2014. (Reuters \/ US Navy \/ Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shannon E. Renfroe \/ Handout)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/USNavy-PacificOcean-rtr-img.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/USNavy-PacificOcean-rtr-img.jpg?scale=896&amp;compress=80\" alt=\"US Navy Pacific Ocean\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Ships travel in formation in the Pacific Ocean during the Rim of the Pacific multinational naval exercise, July 25, 2014. <span class=\"credits\">(Reuters \/ US Navy \/ Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shannon E. Renfroe \/ Handout)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There\u2019s no other imperial tradition like it.\u00a0 For two millennia, dynasty after dynasty rose and fell, spread and shrank, reaching into Southeast Asia and far out into the steppes of Eurasia, its commercial fleets &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/500-years-ago-china-destroyed-its-world-dominating-navy-because-its-political-elite-was-afraid-of-a7612276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3,500 ships<\/a> in the fourteenth century &#8212; voyaging as far as Africa.\u00a0 It\u2019s true that ours is a remarkably westernized and, more recently, Americanized version of history that has left little place for the tale of imperial China, but what a history it had.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t known as the \u201cMiddle\u201d or \u201cCentral Kingdom\u201d for nothing.\u00a0 And now, of course, it\u2019s back, a new \u201cdynasty,\u201d even if it goes under the more modern rubric of a \u201ccommunist\u201d state.\u00a0 The latest version of imperial China has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-43036302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing military<\/a> and plans to create a trillion dollar \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/13\/business\/china-railway-one-belt-one-road-1-trillion-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Belt, One Road<\/a>\u201d infrastructural grid of pipelines, rail lines, highways, and other links of every sort across significant parts of Southeast and South Asia, as well as the former Central Asian &#8220;stans&#8221; of the Soviet Union and Iran, a future grid that&#8217;s meant to reach all the way to Europe.\u00a0 At least in the expansive dreams of China\u2019s new rulers, such a network of infrastructure would bind a vast world of trade and wealth to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a vision that should take your breath away and, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/blog\/176422\/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_the_road_to_hell_in_the_middle_east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>TomDispatch<\/em> regular<\/a> Michael Klare writes today, it has indeed done so in at least one key precinct of this world of ours: the Pentagon.\u00a0 There, China\u2019s One Belt, One Road vision is being greeted not with enthusiasm but with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/china-military-expansion-global-construction-keeps-me-night-us-navy-secretary-837140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anxiety<\/a> and consternation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a War With China on the Horizon? Ships travel in formation in the Pacific Ocean during the Rim of the Pacific multinational naval exercise, July 25, 2014. (Reuters \/ US Navy \/ Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shannon E. Renfroe \/ Handout) There\u2019s no other imperial tradition like it.\u00a0 For two millennia, dynasty after [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,11761,7413,827],"class_list":["post-35348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-michael-t-klare","tag-tomdispatch","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35348","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=35348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35349,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35348\/revisions\/35349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}