Of course China is no threat
Posted by John, August 20th, 2014 - under Jacqui Lambie, US imperialism.
Tags: China, Chinese imperialism, Clive Palmer
With all this kerfuffle over Palmer United Party parliamentarians Clive Palmer and Jacqui Lambie making such anti-Chinese comments, I thought it appropriate to add my two bob’s worth.
Of course Chinese imperialism is no threat at all to the declining economic power of US imperialism. That must be why the Australian ruling class has given such a big base at Darwin to the US.
The Chinese might make a song and dance about the remarks of Palmer and Lambie but they know the real threat to their own imperialist expansion is US imperialism and that much of US foreign policy and strategy is about containing China.
The action of governments of both persuasions in Australia in joining the US-led China containment program is more of a worry to the Chinese ruling class than the caterwauling of a few PUPs. So too is Obama and Tony Abbott cosying up to a rearming Japan.
Who should the Chinese ruling class really be worried about? The Chinese working class they have created.
And who should we Australian workers be worried about? The Australian ruling class and its two political parties.
Here is Mark Textor, Tony Abbott adviser, in the Australian Financial Review in 2012 on the threat the right-wing really believes China poses.
Here is how The Canberra Times’ brilliant cartoonist David Pope captured it.
Comment from paul walter
Time August 20, 2014 at 5:18 pm
Thinking on it, I thought he’s right, there is problem for exactly the reasons he suggests, but the problem is neolib globalisation, of which the Chinese are but one component in a larger mechanism playing to the same rules as everyone else, imposed on all by those further up the pecking order even than them.
I think dropping the “Chinese” bit in the presence of Penny Wong was deliberate and tasteless to the point of imbecility.