{"id":18842,"date":"2018-10-11T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=18842"},"modified":"2018-10-12T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:59:20","slug":"us%e2%80%88vice-president-declares-new-cold-war-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2018\/10\/11\/18842\/","title":{"rendered":"US\u2008Vice President declares \u201cnew Cold War\u201d against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speech brands China as foremost threat to US power<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>chinaworker.info\u00a0reporters<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pence, Trump\u2019s Vice President, is hardly regarded as an influential member of the US government. But his speech on 4 October to a right-wing US think tank marked a major escalation of the US-China conflict. The speech was a \u201cscathing attack on\u2008Beijing\u201d according to the Financial Times. It was significant because of \u201cthe magnitude of alleged offences piled up in one public indictment\u201d, noted the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>In strident language, Pence took aim at China\u2019s trade policies and \u201cwholesale theft of American technology\u201d, but also its \u201cauthoritarian expansion\u201d and \u201cnew wave of persecution\u201d against religious minorities including one million Uighur Muslims interned in prison camps. Solely to further its own imperialist agenda, the US government has suddenly discovered China is a dictatorship!<\/p>\n<p>Pence accused Beijing of creating \u201can Orwellian system\u201d of repression, failing to mention that US companies have supplied key technologies to China\u2019s police state, or that the US \u2013 a \u201cdemocratic state\u201d \u2013 actually spends more on internal security than China.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2017\/01\/26\/14009\/\">Read more \u27b3 Trump and China: Heading for conflict?<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2018\/09\/15\/18575\/\">Read more \u27b3 US-China trade war: A long conflict?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President\u2019s speech is seen by many as the declaration of a \u201cnew cold war\u201d with chilling implications for global peace. Capitalist governments, led by the US, will want to pour even more money into military programmes at the expense of much-needed social spending. His remark that \u201cwhat the Russians are doing pales in comparison to what China is doing across this country\u201d served a dual purpose: to shift the focus, with elections looming in the US, away from the \u2018Russiagate\u2019 scandal, but also to clearly brand China as the foremost threat to US power. Pence repeated allegations made by Trump in his speech to the United Nations that the Chinese regime was meddling in the US elections.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18843\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2018\/10\/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2018\/10\/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2018\/10\/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2018\/10\/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-98x55.jpg 98w, https:\/\/media1.chinaworker.info\/2018\/10\/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-310x174.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing with fire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pence\u2019s speech was clearly timed to coincide with several new measures by Trump\u2019s administration that escalate its multi-fronted conflict with\u2008China, which began over trade and investment issues, but has since spread to the military sphere. On September 21, the US imposed economic sanctions on Chinese officials following the purchase of Russian military jets and missiles. On September 30, a US naval destroyer in the South\u2008China Sea was involved in an \u201cunsafe\u201d encounter with a Chinese warship. A newly leaked report from the US Navy revealed plans to step up operations in these disputed waters as a warning to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s conflict is potentially more dangerous for global capitalism than the \u201ccold war\u201d between the US and Soviet Union in the past. China is a far more integral force in the global capitalist economy, meaning the economic fallout can be much greater. Trump\u2019s government are playing with fire.<\/p>\n<p>As we warned in an article on <strong>chinaworker.info<\/strong> in January 2017 (<a href=\"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2017\/01\/26\/14009\/\">Trump and China: Heading for conflict<\/a>?): \u201c&#8230; capitalism is dragging humankind deeper into crisis and calamity. Our optimism in the face of these dark\u00a0clouds is because we see the other side of these processes in the growing resistance of workers and young people around the world to capitalism and its political representatives&#8230; The necessary answer to Trump, to capitalism and right wing nationalism in all countries, is the\u00a0building of a mass working class political alternative with a clear socialist programme.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speech brands China as foremost threat to US power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,148,124],"tags":[174,216,12292,12296,2626,12294],"class_list":{"0":"post-18842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-china","8":"category-international","9":"category-news","10":"tag-china-2","11":"tag-imperialism","12":"tag-mike-pence","13":"tag-new-cold-war","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-china-conflict"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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