Will Washington foment war between China and India

 

Will Washington foment war between China and India? By Paul Craig Roberts What is Washington's solution for the rising power of China? The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India. The staging of the fake death of Osama bin Laden in a commando raid that violated Pakistan's sovereignty was sold to President Obama by the military/security complex as a way to boost Obama's standing in the  polls. The raid succeeded in raising Obama's approval ratings. But its  real purpose was to target Pakistan and to show Pakistan that the U.S.  was contemplating invading Pakistan in order to make Pakistan pay for  allegedly hiding bin Laden next door to Pakistan's military academy. The  neocon -- and increasingly the U.S. military -- position is that the  Taliban can't be conquered unless NATO widens the war theater to  Pakistan, where the Taliban allegedly has sanctuaries protected by the  Pakistan government, which takes American money but doesn't do Washington's bidding. Pakistan got the threat message and ran to China. On May 17,  Pakistan's prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, as he departed for China,  declared China to be Pakistan's "best and most trusted friend." China  has built a port for Pakistan at Gwadar, which is close to the entrance  of the Strait of Hormuz. The port might become a Chinese naval base on  the Arabian Sea. Raza Rumi reported in the Pakistan Tribune (June 4) that at a  recent lecture at Pakistan's National Defense University, Husain  Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the US, asked the military officers  whether the biggest threat to Pakistan came from within, from India, or  from the U.S. A majority of the officers said that the U.S. was the  biggest threat to Pakistan. China, concerned with India, the other Asian giant that is  rising, is willing to ally with Pakistan. Moreover, China doesn't want  Americans on its border, which is where they would be should Pakistan  become another American battleground. Therefore, China showed its displeasure with the U.S. threat to  Pakistan, and advised Washington to respect Pakistan's sovereignty,  adding that any attack on Pakistan would be considered an attack on  China. I do not think China's ultimatum was reported in the U.S. press,  but it was widely reported in India's press. India is concerned that  China has stepped up to Pakistan's defense. The Chinese ultimatum is important, because it is a WWI or WWII  level of ultimatum. With this level of commitment of China to Pakistan,  Washington will now seek a way to maneuver itself out of the  confrontation and to substitute India. The U.S. has been fawning all over India, cultivating India in  the most shameful ways, including the sacrifice of Americans' jobs.  Recently, there have been massive U.S. weapons sales to India, US-India  military cooperation agreements, and joint military exercises. Washington figures that the Indians, who were gullible for  centuries about the British, will be gullible about the "shining city on  the hill" that is "bringing freedom and democracy to the world" by  smashing, killing, and destroying. Like the British and France's  Sarkozy, Indian political leaders will find themselves doing  Washington's will. By the time India and China realize that they have  been maneuvered into mutual destruction by the Americans, it will be too  late for either to back down. With China and India eliminated, that leaves only Russia, which  is already ringed by U.S. missile bases and isolated from Europe by  NATO, which now includes former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire. A  large percentage of gullible Russian youth admires the U.S. for its  "freedom" (little do they know) and hates the "authoritarian" Russian  state, which they regard as a continuation of the old Soviet state.  These "internationalized Russians" will side with Washington, more or  less forcing Moscow into surrender. As the rest of the world, with the exception of parts of South  America, is already part of the American Empire, Russia's surrender will  let the U.S. focus its military might on South America. Chavez will be  overthrown, and if others do not fall into line, more examples will be  made. The only way the American Empire can be stopped is for China and  Russia to realize their danger and to form an unbreakable alliance that  reassures India, breaks off Germany from NATO and defends Iran. Otherwise, the American Empire will prevail over the entire  world. The U.S. dollar will become the only currency, and therefore be  spared exchange-rate depreciation from debt monetization. Gold and silver will become forbidden possessions, as will guns and a number of books, including the U.S. Constitution. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the U.S.  Treasury in the Reagan Administration, Associate Editor of the Wall  Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution,  Stanford University, and held the William E. Simon Chair in Political  Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown  University. He is the author or coauthor of nine books and has testified  before committees of Congress on thirty occasions.

 

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