US-China Relations: the Pentagon versus High Tech
Step by step, Washington is inexorably setting up a major
provocation against China. Until now, the Obama regime tightened a
military encirclement of China, expanding its armed forces agreements
with Japan, the Philippines and Australia. In addition, it has promoted
the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a regional trade
agreement which openly excludes China. Obama has ordered a major naval
build-up in the South China Sea and embarked on extensive
cyber-espionage of Chinese industries and the government via major US
high-tech companies, as revealed by Edward Snowden in his release of
confidential NSA documents.
President Xi Jinping
As President Xi Jinping prepares for his first US
visit as China’s leader on September 25, with the aim of extending
economic ties between Chinese and US business (especially with the high
tech corporations in Seattle and Silicon Valley), the Obama regime has
threatened to impose a series of punitive sanctions against Chinese
companies and individuals for ‘cyber-espionage’, essentially undermining
the purpose of his trip.
Characterizing the Chinese as ‘cyber-thieves’ and imposing sanctions
on Chinese businesses on the eve of Xi’s visit will be justifiably seen
as a deliberate humiliation and a provocation, designed to treat China
as a mere vassal state of Washington.
This will force the Chinese government to retaliate on behalf of
Chinese businesses – and President Xi is fully capable of imposing
retaliatory sanctions against multi-billion dollar high tech US
corporations, which had been flourishing – up to now – in China.
Obama’s decision to provoke China on multiple fronts reflects the
overwhelming influence of the militarist power configurations in
Washington: the Pentagon, the NSA and the Zionist –militarist
ideologues.
In contrast to Washington’s aggressive policy, the major US high tech
corporations are almost unanimous in their opposition to Obama’s
‘military pivot’ and are appalled by the threat of cyber sanctions,
rightly calling them a “needless provocation”.
