Is China Setting Conditions for a Just War?
China’s rhetoric continues to increase in regards to its territorial disputes with its neighbors:
Under Chairman-for-life Xi Jinping, Beijing’s belligerent rhetoric has been scaling new heights.
“Chinese people don’t want war, but we have territorial disputes with several neighbouring countries instigated by the US to confront China,” the Communist Party’s Global Times propaganda service declared in September.
Again, neighbouring countries would disagree over the identity of the instigator.
China has sea disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. It has land disputes with Russia, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Mongolia, Tibet and Myanmar.
But the intended audience isn’t those neighbours. It’s the rest of the world.
It wants to plant the seed of plausible deniability in the minds of the international community.
“First, we must make it clear that the other side, not China, is the one that breaks the status quo,” Communist Party appointed editor Hu Xijin states. “Second, we need to make it clear that the other side is the provocateur in a complex situation.”
He goes on to argue that any scenario must be couched in such a way as to justify China’s behaviour. That way “a just war can be started in an upright manner”.
News.com.au
You can read more at the link, but analysts believe that it is more likely than not that China will eventually use their military to enforce territorial gains. What is going on now is that they are trying to set conditions to where it looks like they are not the aggressors. That is why the U.S. and its allies have to be careful to not give the Chinese their rationale for a “Just War”.
This is complicated by Beijing’s use of paramilitaries, most notably their militia fishing boats that are used to provoke confrontations that Beijing can then use as propaganda domestically that country X is picking on the poor Chinese fishing boat who is just trying to make a living.
I despise MacArthur, but occasionally I think he might have been right to nuke China. But Truman agonized over bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki, so not bombing China was an easy decision for him, plus he knew Mac was an unhinged egomaniac.
I have an idea!
Let’s release a virus in China that locks down their businesses, destroys their economy, corrupts their politicians, diverts their attention, misguides their priorities, squanders their resources, demoralizes their population, empowers their scold class, and encourages them to buy American products on credit due to depression and boredom.
I bet that would really mess them up!
CH, that would truly work except they already locked up all the Uighurs, chased off the Dalai Lama, co-opted the Catholic Church, killed all of the Falun Gong willing to admit their religion, and bought Joey Fingers a bowl of Corn Pop and some kids to stroke his wet leg hairs in the pool…
…So don’t be a “lying dog-faced pony soldier”…
Have you ever seen termites react to poison? If the workers start acting sickly, the soldiers bight off their legs and seal up the tunnel they’re in. That’s why Wuhan went from 11 Million to 6 million practically overnight.
‘So don’t be a “lying dog-faced pony soldier”’
I’m afraid I only rank as high as a “one horse pony”.
Well, that’s a better rating than mine. I’m afraid there’s quite a few that have me pegged for trying to find the pony under all that cr@p in the stable…
BTW, China probably thinks they can get all the oil they need from the Middle-East without worrying about ships being seized in the event of a war.
Do they have bomb-proof pipelines?
A “just war” doesn’t mean one they can win. Unless Joey Fingers accidentally nukes Tokyo, Taipei, and Manila…
And I don’t think India will be eager for their rival to gain more control. Heck, with the mistreatment of the Uighurs, Pakistan and India might join forces against Beijing.