What’s happened with Putin’s Russia is the opportunity to re-see China. We thought the cold war was over with Russia. And consequently we would all sing from the same hymnal and we could enter into normal relations with it. We were obviously mistaken; it was just a short ‘take a breath’ in a centuries’ long imperialism. We are now paying, but only the price; while worse, Ukraine is paying the price in blood.
But we have even more completely misunderstood China from the beginning of our opening to it. It’s time to recognize that China is at war with the West. We have failed to understand that to our dire peril. At it’s most basic, we have failed to see that China has turned the West’s fundamental understanding of war on it’s head. All relations with China must be understood in this context.
For the West, we understand war in accordance with von Clausewitz’ maxim ‘WAR IS REALLY JUST THE CONTINUATION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICY BY OTHER MEANS.’(“Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln.”) Stated another way ‘war is the use of force in order to compel our opponent to do what we want.’ (“Der Krieg ist also ein Akt der Gewalt um den Gegner zur Erfüllung unseres Willens zu zwingen.”)
China has turned von Clausewitz around: ‘ALL ECONOMIC AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ARE ACTS OF WAR BY OTHER MEANS!’
So economic activity & policy must be understood as instruments of war-even though disguised as “normal” economic activity. So Cultural and international exchange are equally to be understood as instruments of war. So political policy is a continuation of war by other means !
We once were blind, but now we can see: since the opening, for China ‘Peaceful Co-Existence is just an extension of war-by covert means’. So peace must be understood as a means to an end-and not an end in itself. For China the benefits of peace-are not the enemy’s benefits (that’s us)-rather those are their false “offerings” to their enemy (us) to waylay us-to cause us to lay down our guard. All for the purpose of infiltrating us and increasing their opportunities to weaken us from “within”.
In this sense it is an implementation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War prescription that the battle is won / is to be won before the battle. In this sense all exchange between China through its “arms”(e.g. business entities, Confucius Centers) and any U.S. entity is a disguised act of war – and must be conducted to inflict disadvantage. The goals are thus not purely “economic” as we understand them, but also to weaken the US as an enemy to enable China to take easier battle/war victory-when the time comes.
It’s now time to recognize Chemical Warfare-Chinese style: flood US with drugs.
It’s now time to recognize Germ Warfare-Chinese style: flood the West with virus-infected Lunar holiday travelers (for the second time).
Thus China’s Xi, per Sun Tzu, seeks to be that victorious strategist in its war with US who only seeks battle after the victory has been won-by other means.
common sense Blog 