Letting an octogenarian bull wearing high heels loose in a china shop.

Posted by Pointman on August 8, 2022 · 14 Comments 

Like most people who watched the highly orchestrated psycho-drama of Nancy Pelosi and whether she’d touch down in Taiwan or not on her magical mystery tour of parts oriental, i wondered why risk a war with China by a needless visit that was obviously designed to both provoke China over an issue that had laid dormant for over 70 years and grab a lot of headlines in the West block. It succeeded on both of those. On any useful diplomatic level, it’s obviously lit a fuse to yet another Biden administration foreign relations disaster, which it has surely done, but there are other, longer effects.

If you load up the balance scales with the benefits versus damage done, it’s hard to see many advantages accruing to the US. As I wrote previously, the administration already manufactured a proxy war with Russia to the point where Russia is seriously considering breaking off all diplomatic links with the US and the latest adventure merely serves to push China even closer to Russia, who haven’t been slow leveraging the diplomatic misjudgement in expressing their support for China in the dispute.

Before discussing the single benefit I think the administration hoped to achieve by it, it’s worth covering the immediate damage it did because that’s what will determine the intensity of Chinese responses to it over the coming years. Note, I said years not weeks. By keeping their heads and not starting WW III over the visit, the Chinese exercised considerable restraint but in doing so, they still “lost face” which is still a very important cultural consideration in that part of the world. Pelosi waltzing in over their protests and out with the parting insult thrown over her shoulder that their protests “did not matter” really turned the dagger.

The years ending in 1949 are known as the Century of Humiliation in China, and with good reason. Up until then, the country was treated like a dismissable colony by various western countries and the people regarded almost like sub-humans, both at home and abroad. Exploited, resource raped and with a huge proportion of the population victims of a very profitable heroin trade supplied by the West. These days, they won’t even have Occidentals as permanent residents.

The final piece of damage is that it’s a characteristic of all totalitarian regimes like China that it becomes obsessive about winning completely. They’re used to getting their way with nobody resisting them. Winning the sham elections they occasionally hold with 95% of the vote is simply not good enough – it has to be at least 99%.

It’s yet another confirmation of something those countries fleeing the western “rules-based” system for BRICS have come to realise about America – it can no longer be trusted, neither in its deals nor how it acts. Leave your money or assets in their financial system and it’s liable to be stolen at any moment. Enter into any partnership deal with them and they’re liable to duck out of it without any notice leaving a mess like Afghanistan is your lap. Long standing agreements like the one-China policy can be dumped without any consultation.

They arrange proxy wars such as Ukraine/Russia, Kosovo/Serbia, Hungry and whoever with their latest effort being Taiwan/China. They’ve developed the habit of announcing agreements and deals made with other countries when no such arrangement has been agreed. They’ve deliberately decided any sort of diplomacy is old hat, preferring instead to conduct it using soundbites without ever consulting in advance the party they’re supposed to be negotiating with.

It’s no surprise that Russia decided recently to all but sever any formal diplomatic ties with America and China’s initial response to Nancy’s visit was to start doing the same in certain specific areas. It’s only a matter of time until they sever all ties as well. You simply can’t trust America anymore.

The one and only benefit of the visit I can see and even then, it would imply it was a month or two premature, is downplaying Russia’s coming success in the Ukraine. Looking at the Ukraine situation, what’s becoming increasingly obvious is the war is lost whatever America does, so that’s the big presentation problem the Biden regime has on the near horizon. At some point they have to get out but if possible this time avoiding another Afghanistan type shambles. Put some distance between yourself and it before it happens.

Looking at the subtly changed narrative of late coming out of government mouthpieces masquerading as mainstream news outlets, you can’t but get the feeling the Biden administration is disengaging, and Zelensky has definitely been chosen as the fall guy. Suddenly we’re told 70% of the armaments supplied disappear as soon as they’re handed over to the Ukraine and magically reappear on the international arms black market. Well done Sherlock, we knew you’d get there in the end.

As for the money, nobody’s dared do any investigation of what happened to the bulk of it, but when you hand over amounts of money running into billions USD and allow them to get away with insisting they’ll monitor its disbursement themselves, you can be sure it went in the front door and out the back one to comfy nests in places like the Cayman Islands, especially when you’re dealing with one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

The whole thing was just an exercise in prestidigitation, legerdemain, sleight of hand. The magician holds a card high up in the air dramatically and says ‘look at this! The audience do, but what they’re not watching is what his other hand is doing.

©Pointman

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