The gulf between the interests of ordinary people and the American elite continues to grow regardless of the political party occupying the halls of Washington. An equally wide gap exists between the American commitment to unipolar hegemony and the interests of humanity.
With each tragedy, the supporters of unfettered access to killing weapons voice excuses and platitudes to deny the need for taking action.
Pundits and politicians in Washington tend to read Beijing’s actions as a test of will. From this perspective, anything China does probes the boundaries of the U.S. willingness to react; any reaction but the most extreme will convince U.S. opponents that it’s weak.
What the U.S. really needs is to avoid being trapped in a game of out-competing China. The gist of China-U.S. relations is not about being the winner, but about being the one who can really lead global progress.
This erosion of trust is another example of the decline in America’s self-touted and often-boasted claim to exceptionalism.
This time, U.S. protests over the Chinese balloon appear to be a case of the wolf who cried wolf.
It is bad enough that the U.S. political elite and many of the country’s most respected news agencies now look like fools for banging that anti-China drum as it did.
The U.S. cannot defeat China by acting like an economic bully.
The United States ultimately opposes the idea of other countries integrating for common prosperity and strives to create fractures through the promulgation of geopolitical conflict in order to sustain its dominance.
Indeed, as a champion of planet Earth, the U.S. should perhaps be a little more concerned about the future of humanity, rather than letting unintentional incidents balloon.
The first is it was nothing more than a media-hyped story created to keep Americans in suspense.
Washington’s Cold War mindset and bloc politics strategy is a dead end and negatively affects relations with China not to mention relations with the rest of the world.
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