{"id":65547,"date":"2023-07-23T07:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65547"},"modified":"2023-07-23T07:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T12:02:27","slug":"neocons-want-war-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65547","title":{"rendered":"Neocons Want War with China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neocons Want War with China<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian \u201cold friend of China\u201d Henry Kissinger in Beijing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse \u2013 exactly where Kissinger\u00a0first met in person with Zhou Enlai in 1971<\/a>, preparing Nixon\u2019s 1972 visit to China.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mr. Kissinger Goes to Beijing saga was an \u201cunofficial\u201d, individual attempt to try to mend increasingly fractious Sino-American relations. He was not representing the current American administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s the rub. Everyone involved in geopolitics is aware of the legendary Kissinger formulation: To be the US\u2019s enemy is dangerous, to be the US\u2019s friend is fatal. History abounds in examples, from Japan and South Korea to Germany, France and Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

As quite a few Chinese scholars privately argued, if reason is to be upheld, and \u201crespecting the wisdom of this 100-years-old diplomat\u201d, Xi and the Politburo should maintain the China-US relation as it is: \u201cicy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, they reason, being the US\u2019s enemy is dangerous but manageable for a Sovereign Civilizational State like China. So Beijing should keep \u201cthe honorable and less perilous status\u201d of being a US enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The World Through Washington\u2019s Eyes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s really going on in the back rooms of\u00a0the current American administration was not reflected<\/a>\u00a0by Kissinger\u2019s high-profile peace initiative, but by an extremely combative Edward Luttwak.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luttwak, 80, may not be as visibly influential as Kissinger, but as a behind the scenes strategist he\u2019s been advising the Pentagon across the spectrum for over five decades. His book on Byzantine Empire strategy, for instance, heavily drawing on top Italian and British sources, is a classic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Luttwak, a master of deception,\u00a0reveals precious nuggets<\/a>\u00a0in terms of contextualizing current Washington moves. That starts with his assertion that the US \u2013 represented by the Biden combo \u2013 is itching to do a deal with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neocons Want War with China It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian \u201cold friend of China\u201d Henry Kissinger in Beijing. Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse \u2013 exactly where Kissinger\u00a0first met in person with Zhou Enlai […]<\/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":[130,561,4076,19452,827,862,891],"class_list":["post-65547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-neocons","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-the-unz-review","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547","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=65547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65548,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65547\/revisions\/65548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}