Unobstructed Views – China & the "Longer Telegram" -adsmember
cftni
10:02 pm
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Disagree. The author was spot on to say (I quote) the US should stay "laser-focused on Xi". It is quite clear by this point the world has entered into another era of budding strongmen: Erdogen the sultan, Putin the Tsar, Xi the "Hanwu" emperor, et al. Benign or not, this ideology will find many enthusiasts especially in the African continent.
The Chinese and their allies aren't seeking to topple western governments – they can't anyways since they change every 4-5 years; instead they have been trying to subvert the Democratic *processes*. Bribing politicians, eroding confidence in the integrity of elections, even outright meddling via social media and cyber trolls.
The prescriptions in the report are vague and yet it garnered some extreme vitriol from CCP trolls because it touched on something real: should the US succeed in rallying old allies under its banner once more it would make China's attempt to "build a common destiny for mankind" (bleh) that much harder.
One last thing, if the revamped Foreign Service successfully frustrated Xi's pet project at every turn, it may drive him towards taking extreme measures to uphold his image. Gambit of the decade. Wookie chess, anyone?
Good analysis. The Longer Telegram wants to keep suppling the dollar as a world reserve currency and reindustrialize at the same time without a solution to Triffin's dilemma. It proposes technological, moral, and econ preeminence and at the same time maintaining alliance structure (which implies sharing the things which TLT wants to keep for the USA.) In today's world from the macroeconomic point of view, TLT is a bit childish.
The longer we wait the bigger the CCP get and the more American lives will eventually be lost. All this diplomacy and elite capture is how China cunningly came into the position they are in today. The longer we wait to crush the CCP the more dangerous they will become.
Pull out US assets ASAP and let the Chinese economy fall. Then the Chinese ppl can deal with the CCP. That’s the only way to avert catastrophic war. The US will not role over and allow a communist power to slowly take over the world. That would be basically to lose the Cold War with the Soviets over the long term.
So much for the end of history.
Longer telegram? If the Anglo Saxon people wants to fight with the Chinese people.. then they better prepare for a real fight to the death!!! or they can learn to live and let live with the Chinese
…Either way, it is fine with the Chinese people!!!!
I watched a video about the longer telegram and read the last paragraph of the longer telegram. Basically, that author draws an equal sign between China and USSR. Also, he draws the red line that he doesn't want China to cross inside the red line that China draws and doesn't want the US to cross.
"Second objection": sounds sensibly sceptical.
Reflective point on "regime change" and "FBI".
What is role India might have to play
https://youtu.be/w_nT-4QykuE
https://youtu.be/w_nT-4QykuE
Now, this an analysis of another analysis, now the readers and viewers are confused, which analysis is correct/ accurate. If you are on the right the Atlantic article is closer to the truth and if you are centre-right you probably think this video is more accurate take your pick.