Blowhard Biden provocatively slapped China again — this is not going to end well

© 2021 Peter Free

 

29 April 2021

 

 

Only Americans leaders can be so obtuse . . .

 

. . . as not to be able to distinguish among varying levels of provocativeness.

 

 

Background — the President's speech last night

 

Blowhard Joe Biden made a speech last night that included all sorts of soaring ridiculousnesses. Including essentially bringing out-sourced manufacturing back to the United States.

 

I say "ridiculous" not because we could not do it, but because such a move would require Democrats to vigorously chomp off the Corporate and Financier hands that have long controlled the Democratic Party.

 

That ain't going to happen. Thus, everything Biden said in most respects is airy bullshit.

 

 

In that same flow — of La-La-La Mendacity and/or obtuseness . . .

 

Biden rode his sweetly constructed Erection of Insubstantial Principle into provoking China (again) for no good reason:

 

 

I also told President Xi that we will maintain a strong military presence in the Indo—Pacific just as we do with NATO in Europe – not to start conflict – but to prevent conflict. 

 

And, I told him what I’ve said to many world leaders – that America won’t back away from our commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms.

 

No responsible American president can remain silent when basic human rights are violated. A president has to represent the essence of our country. 

 

America is an idea – unique in the world.

 

We are all created equal. It’s who we are. We cannot walk away from that principle.

 

© Joe Biden, Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by President Biden — Address to a Joint Session of Congress, whitehouse.gov (28 April 2021)

 

 

Translated

 

Not only will the United States deny China the hegemonically assigned geographic fruits of its rise to power — but we will also continue to meddle in China's affairs with self-righteous, self-designated impunity.

 

The world (and presumably China) can count on the US to "prevent conflict".

 

 

Hmm

 

Those of you who know China's political and cultural history, can forecast how vigorously Biden's boastful blather adds Sino-anger to the coming confrontation.

 

The Chinese, we can predict, immediately intuit that —according to the United States:

 

 

China is the one that is causing conflict(s)

 

and

 

Angelic America is required

 

(by God or some such)

 

to stop the PCR's childish and tantrum-displaying

 

escalations

 

(of presumed nastiness)

 

against the world's inherently noble

 

US-ordered peacefulness.

 

 

This does seem to be culturally biased, don't you think?

 

Perhaps provocatively so?

 

Arrogance and America are virtually the same word.

 

 

Strategically speaking

 

It is generally unwise to unnecessarily provoke a capable adversary. Unless one hopes that the irritation thus fostered will lead to strategic mistakes on its part.

 

In China's case, major mistakes appear unlikely. China is easily one of the most capably led nations on the planet and, pertinently, one of the most patient and long-haul-oriented.

 

Pissing the PCR off (to indulge an apt colloquialism) is just going to see Chinese leadership re-orient some of its currently economy-prioritizing strategy to include a few calculated (probably military) dismemberings of the too-large-to-hold-onto American Empire.

 

Blowhard Biden's strategy is — therefore — kind'a like inviting a comparatively peaceful tiger to bite one's (already mildly dislocated) arm off at the shoulder.

 

 

The moral? — Wisdom and 'Ahmurhika' have little in common

 

We are parading a dementia-prone president — who is randomly spewing threats — as if we think both those conditions are admirable indicators of American superiority.

 

I suspect that History's eventual consensus is going to go the other way.