Friday, October 30, 2020

Can You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking? — Pepe Escobar


Pepe comments on the fifth plenum of the 19th Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee that was just held in Beijing to plan the future course post-pandemic.

Strategic Culture Foundation
Can You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking?
Pepe Escobar

See also
Two elements had contributed to US hegemonic thinking such as its historically "Protestant evangelical vision" of manifest destiny, where leaders believed in providential right to dominate North America and later, the world, he [Jeffrey Sachs] explained.
18th century Enlightenment liberalism as a quasi-religion liberal internationalism as the basis for new crusade (liberal interventionism). Economically and politically, it is the quest for global dominance based on dominance-submission as an evolutionary trait of a humanity that is still maturing and has not yet grasped the potential of reason. Liberal internationalism has become a quasi-religious fantasy with very real consequences for the whole planet. Grow up already.

Sputnik International
US Cold War on China to End in Failure, Multipolarity to Replace Thucydides Trap Policy - Academics

4 comments:

Matt Franko said...

“ that is still maturing and has not yet grasped the potential of reason.”

But at the same time in thread above you are bitching and moaning about :

“ Conventional economists are barking up the wrong tree and refuse to recognize it. ”

How do you square that up?

In the former you’re advocating for reason then in the latter your saying it doesn’t work...

????

What is the potential of reason if it doesn’t work?

Peter Pan said...

Quasi-religious fantasies have trouble coming up with coherent strategies, or policies.

Matt Franko said...

You know Trumps strong preference for his “negotiation “ vs the previous policy of warfare is a form of your “reason”...

Trump says thesis ... Kim says antithesis ... they go back and forth ... eventually they reach a synthesis of the two thesis that are mutually agreeable... warfare avoided...

Trump saying right now about the Iranians “when I win the next day they will be in to make a deal with me”.... he’s not saying he is going to bomb them..

Yet you don’t support Trump...

Hypo (under) Krites (decide) .... you can’t make a decision...

Peter Pan said...

Get the US out of South Korea... that would be conducive to peace.