{"id":8927,"date":"2015-06-08T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8927"},"modified":"2015-06-08T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:18:19","slug":"did-china-really-say-war-with-the-united-states-is-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8927","title":{"rendered":"Did \u201cChina\u201d Really Say \u201cWar\u201d With the United States is \u201cInevitable\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/06\/08\/83159\/\" target=\"_blank\">Did \u201cChina\u201d Really Say \u201cWar\u201d With the United States is \u201cInevitable\u201d?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"mainauthorstyle\"><strong>The Stenographic Press Strikes Again!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"main-text\">\n<p>Spoiler: No.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem a certain amount of foreign affairs reporting starts out as pabulum fed by the government and its loyal allies to available journos, who further if incompletely digest it and then crap it out on the digital pages of various newspapers, magazines, and think tank white papers for the delectation of a somewhat undiscriminating public.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the media is often just the messenger, and there\u2019s no point in getting aggravated about crappy coverage and blaming the messenger when the real problem is crappy policy.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes, especially in the runup to a big foreign policy show\u2014which the U.S. South China Sea gambit certainly has become\u2014the evolution and devolution of media coverage provides useful insights into who\u2019s pushing what and why.<\/p>\n<p>I currently have a piece up at\u00a0<em>Asia Times<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/atimes.com\/2015\/06\/china-hawks-crosshair-obama-on-south-china-sea\/\">China Hawks crosshair Obama on South China Sea<\/a>\u201d on a rather important example.\u00a0 It extensively fisks an interesting and rather ugly op-ed by Bloomberg View\u2019s Josh Rogin, which seems to represent only the most recent iteration of sustained a campaign by China hawks to ensure that President Obama has no political alternative but to greenlight a yearned-for act of escalation: a US Navy Freedom of Navigation sail-by within 12 miles of one of the PRC\u2019s reclaimed \u201cisland\u201d features in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did \u201cChina\u201d Really Say \u201cWar\u201d With the United States is \u201cInevitable\u201d? The Stenographic Press Strikes Again! Spoiler: No. It would seem a certain amount of foreign affairs reporting starts out as pabulum fed by the government and its loyal allies to available journos, who further if incompletely digest it and then crap it out on [&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":[130,6216,324,6218,6217,1494,827,862,891],"class_list":["post-8927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-china-hawks","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-media-coverage","tag-military-hawks","tag-press","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927","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=8927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8928,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8927\/revisions\/8928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}