US - CHINA RELATIONSHIP

US-CHINA RELATIONSHIP Kissinger warns: The situation is similar to the period that led to World War I. The policy of the American administration is going in the direction of a conflict that could be accepted by the belligerent government in Beijing By: Željko TrkanjecPosted: October 9, 2020 6:23 pm Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Peter Klaunzer / AFP Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail "If we give in now, the children of our children could find themselves at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party, whose actions are the primary challenge to the free world at this time. The free world must triumph over the new tyranny. " With these words, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently spoke and made it known what policy the Donald Trump administration intends to pursue if it wins the election. In the same speech, he mentioned Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State, in a negative context. "Our and their leaders need to discuss the boundaries to be adhered to when it comes to threats," Henry Kissinger said at a virtual hearing hosted by the New York Economic Club on Wednesday night. He added that it is then necessary to find a way to conduct such a policy over a longer period. “You can say it’s completely impossible,” he added. "And if that is completely impossible, then we will find ourselves in a situation similar to the First World War," Kissinger concluded. He is 97 years old, but his intellect is still extremely sharp, and he is known for his thesis that “21. century to define the relationship between the United States and China ”. And that relationship can be cooperation or conflict. Another American professor, Graham Allison, focused on the latter possibility and warned of the danger of the United States and China falling into "Thucydides' trap." It is about a Greek historian who wrote the work "Peloponnesian War" in which he explained that this, according to ancient Greece, destructive war, was caused by the threat that the previous force, Sparta, felt before the emerging power, Athens. Allison described a series of historical cases in which Thucydides' trap was repeated, the last being in the Pacific, between Washington and Beijing. image Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Nicolas Asfouri / AFP Kissinger, who was the architect of China's policy of opening up to the world - an important step towards limiting the power of the Soviet Union to subsequently agree to a series of concessions that would eventually lead to the end of the Cold War - considers China's coexistence, preferably peaceful, necessary. and now. Otherwise, the world is facing disaster. It is interesting that in many newspaper and professional texts, the current relationship between the United States and China likes to be called the Cold War. RELATED NEWS Donald Trump and Xi Jinping DRAMATIC CHANGES A world on the brink of a new Cold War? 'There is a big rearrangement going on, everything is going in a dangerous direction' IN THE MIDDLE OF TENSION Xi Jinping in a speech to the United Nations: 'China has no intention of waging either a cold or a hot war' Kissinger deeply disagrees with this and believes that the situation is more similar to the period that led to the First World War. And I totally agree with that. There is no difference in economic concepts in the competition between China and the US, the world is not divided into Chinese and American blocs, and the rivalry is extremely warm, almost hot, at all levels. But, unlike the Cold War, and despite numerous disagreements, the two countries are still aware that their cooperation is needed. "Chimerica" ​​died, but the connection remained. The period before the Great (First World War) was defined by the emergence of a united Germany in 1871. Which had a great leader, the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck , a master of maintaining balance between European powers. However, the conflict intensified, so Germany envisioned the construction of the Berlin-Baghdad railway, which is very reminiscent of the Chinese project One Belt, One Road (only in the opposite direction). image Henry Kissinger Profimedia And then Kaiser Wilhelm II removed him and began a policy of militarization. Which is reminiscent of Xi Jinping, who abolished the term of the presidency and focused on the navy and the projection of military power. In that period, there was also a race in technological progress that corresponded to today's situation. And knowledge and patents were stolen. Like today. Kissinger, with all this in mind, said that the United States needed to "change its mindset" to realize that the world was too complex (one of the theories of international relations describes the current order as "complex interdependence") for a country to achieve such unilateral supremacy in strategy and economics so that no one could threaten us ”. The EU is also moving in the direction of the "magician of international relations" by creating a policy that sees China as a partner in negotiations and cooperation, a competitor when it comes to the economy, but also a systematic rival when it comes to governance models. Democratic adviser Joe Biden's foreign policy advisers are announcing, in case of victory, a tough relationship with China, especially on human rights, but by no means one that would lead to a kinetic conflict. Pompeo is leading the world through Wilhelm II, and Kissinger and the EU in the direction of avoiding conflict and creating an environment that will prevent an “international order with Chinese characteristics”. It is not difficult to choose who is right. Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail #Xi Jinping #Mike Pompeo #Otto Von Bismarck #Beijing #Washington # Technological Revolution Do you want to supplement the topic or report an error in the text? Show comments