Although
Donald Trump continues to show some signs of resistance to the US
deep state hysteria that blames Russia for almost everything, despite
his further retreat
towards the neocon agenda, his hostility against China continuously
grows.
We have to
assume that Donald worries that the US big capital interests are
being threatened by the aggressive Chinese economic expansion
throughout the globe. An open front has been opened with Germany too,
where the banking and corporate supergiants have started a
transatlantic economic war
in the background. While it would be unthinkable for the US to
confront directly its ally, Germany, China is being continuously
provoked in the South China Sea.
Otherwise,
we have to assume that Donald has no idea of where things are going
right now.
As bloomberg
reported “Donald Trump won’t send an official representative
to the annual gathering of the world’s economic elite in Davos,
taking place next week in the days leading up to his inauguration,
although one of the president-elect’s advisers is slated to attend.
[...] A senior member of Trump’s transition team said the
president-elect thought it would betray his populist-fueled movement
to have a presence at the high-powered annual gathering in the Swiss
Alps.”
If it's not
another impressive show, like those that Donald gives against the
mainstream media, then perhaps he should read the conclusions of last
year's report from Davos. Briefly, as mentioned,
the study estimates that there will be no "widespread
societal upheaval—at least up until the year 2020", due to
the takeover of jobs by artificial intelligence, that is, until the
end of Trump's term.
This means
that the current major concern of the elites is the probable rapid
rise of instability that will threaten the current status quo, as
they rapidly hyper-automate production and millions of people are
being thrown out of the workforce.
Yanis
Varoufakis was informed of the new conditions, as has been described
already back in 2014: “When I returned to my office, I went
straight to find a colleague who knows well what's going on. He
informed me that the workplace I saw, was the new factory of Apple to
produce MacBook Pro. It was true that, it was constructed through
almost complete automatization. [...] I asked him about the
move of Apple to produce computers in America, by bringing back in
the US the production from China for the first time after decades.
'How's that?' And the answer was the expected one, although quite
impressive: 'Wages are of no importance. The export of
productive processes from America to China (off-shoring) was only an
intermediate stage. The production has returned to America, but not
the jobs. The new factory of Apple, not only is constructed without
American workers' sweat, but will also produce MacBook Pro through
complete automatization, without hiring Texans. Welcome to the New,
Brave World', ended with a smile, referring obviously to
the Brave New World of Aldous Huxley.”
We should
not forget that, after 9/11 attacks, the Chinese government kept the
exchange rate of the country at a low level. Therefore, the Chinese
products became cheap and flooded America. And to pay for them, the
US dollars flooded China. But rather than spend this money for the
population, the Chinese leaders loaned them immediately back to
America by buying government bonds. It was a perfect system of cheap
goods and cheap money inflow in the US, all controlled by the Chinese
political power. And that's what created stability. From this, came
an orgy of lending from banks to even most unreliable borrowers in
the US. Although this time, the deregulated market had been
stabilized thanks to the political intervention of China, the bankers
wanted to make more money.
So, when the
'party was over' with the big crisis of 2007-08 because of the
Western financial mafia, the US discovered again the 'evil' China.
Therefore, China is not only the key enemy of the Western big capital
in the global economic field. It is used also as the scapegoat to
distract people from the primary reason that is currently responsible
for the loss of jobs, which is artificial intelligence and
hyper-automation, not foreign workers.
If Trump
really wants to defend the interests of the US working class, he
should stop provoking China and start to seek ways of cooperation
that would be beneficial both for the American and the Chinese
people. Because, we've already pointed
that “Everything shows that Trump is
determined to continue the Obama 'Pivot to Asia' anti-China legacy,
but this would be also his biggest mistake. [...] If
Trump thinks that Putin will sit back and watch this happening, he is
completely mistaken. Apart from the fact that Russia and China are
committed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which is
expanding
on security and defence issues,
Putin knows that, if China falls, Russia will be next. Therefore, it
would be a major mistake for Trump to obey to the lunatic neocon
plans because the gates of hell towards WWIII will be opened for
good.”
The worst
part of the story, is that plenty of Trump's fanatic Right-Wing
followers are buying the narrative of 'evil' China. They will listen
to whatever Trump says. Again, Trump is either not well-informed of
the current situation, or, he provokes China on purpose to defend the
interests of the US plutocracy. But the interests of the US working
class are totally opposite. People should stop adopting without
criticism whatever Trump says. They should stop demonizing China and
focus on their real enemy which resides inside their country.
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