Welcome, and let's stop a U.S. - China Cold War!
Are you concerned about a U.S. - China Cold War? Well, I am, and I think we all should. In fact, if we let our leaders do what they do, they will march us into a conflict with China sooner rather than later.
In this blog, I want to show you what a new Cold War will look like, and what Western leaders are doing that moves us ever closer towards one.
We can expect new Vietnam’s and Ukraine’s, a ferocious economic war, and a relentless information war that will divide the globe into two opposing camps.
But of course, the people responsible will not be among its victims. Those in the White House, the Pentagon and State Department, and also those Western governments who follow, including the bureaucrats in Brussels, always make sure they are safe.
They will not be sent to the front lines. They and their families will not suffer from rising prices and shortages due to economic war. And if things really escalate, they will be safe in their underground bunkers, watching TV while the missiles rain down on American and European cities.
Yet for most of us who are just ordinary people, we will feel the pain. And not just people in the West and in China, but all around the world. The U.S. - China Cold War is going to be global. Both sides have interests all around the world. It may be, in fact, that the countries in the Global South in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America will suffer most.
None of us wants to go down that path. In an important book called the “Power Elite” from the 1950’s, as the world was in the midst of the first Cold War, the author Charles Wright Mills writes that they were living in an important time when big decisions were being made. But, he asks, do you feel you are making any? Today, we should ask ourselves that question again.
I sincerely hope that this blog will give you the information you need to help shape the important decisions that our countries are going to make in the years to come. It all starts with having good information, so that is the purpose of this blog.
The upcoming articles will analyze current events and give you information that the Western media, which has already given up its neutrality and are instead beating the drums of war, will not provide you.
The articles will use history, data analysis, and sometimes even artificial intelligence, to give you insights and understanding. The focus will be on the actions of Western leaders that are bringing us closer to war. Let the Chinese try to improve their own government. That is their responsibility, not ours. We, people in the West and in the rest of the world, should focus on our own governments, and try to make our leaders see sense, which is peace between the world’s superpowers.
Let us share information, discuss events, learn from each other, and inform others! Together people are able to bring about change. Alone we are powerless.
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Kind regards,
Wouter