Trump Wants to Cut Off China in Guilt-Projection Meltdown by Finian Cunningham!
(2020-05-16 at 13:18:04 )

Trump Wants to Cut Off China in Guilt-Projection Meltdown by Finian Cunningham!

So President Donald Trump, the self-declared business genius, wants to cut off the whole relationship with China and "save America $500 billion a year". That is what he told Fox News this week in an interview referring to the United States trade deficit with China. The fault of the chronic United States trade deficit with China (and much of the world), like that of the Covid-19 crisis in America, is classic 3-D Donald Trump: dissembling, distracting and dealing in guilt-projection.

Donald Trump is a simpleton, a narcissistic buffoon and a demagogue whose unhinged megalomaniac rantings are an incendiary incitement to war. Like all demagogues he has the knack for making complex problems sound as if they can be easily fixed - by scapegoating others.

He rails against trade "supply chains" coming from China supposedly costing Americans $500 billion a year in trade deficit. As if corporate America gave away its manufacturing base to China like a gift. American capitalists like Donald Trumps daughter and retail-fashion owner Ivanka took their businesses to China to avail of cheap labor and to export back to the United States at huge profit.

Cutting off Chinas exports to the United States will hit American consumers with crippling price inflation which will impoverish them even more in their low-wage, job-insecure dependency on cheap goods. Just like when Donald Trumps earlier tariff war with Beijing resulted in United States farmers getting clobbered from reprisal curbs on their exports of soybean and corn to China. The president has a unique way of hurting United States of Americans whom he claims to champion.

Unfortunately, Donald Trumps confrontational demagoguery towards China appears to be working to his benefit, at least on the short-term. Pew Research Center surveys that anti-China sentiment among United States of Americans is at an all-time high. Ever since Donald Trump entered the White House, he has taken public hostility towards China to ever-higher levels, with his toxic talk about how America is being "cheated" and "ripped-off".

With the Covid-19 pandemic, however, Donald Trumps rhetoric is going off the charts with irrationality and intemperance. He is blaming China for record deaths and economic destruction of America with unfounded accusations of Beijing "covering up" the outbreak of the disease and thus, allegedly, deceiving the United States into crisis. "They could have stopped it at source," he claims with irresponsible innuendo.

Donald Trump has caricatured the crisis as the "worse attack since Pearl Harbor". This is reckless, incendiary claptrap. But, deplorably, it seems to be galvanizing Americans into viewing China as an enemy.

In his interview with Fox, Donald Trump ramped up the animus and got personal. With regard to Chinas President Xi Jinping, Donald Trump said: "I do not want to speak to him."

The smear campaign to demonize China is being laid on with a grease gun. Donald Trump and his knuckle-dragging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accuse China of cover-up and releasing the virus from a laboratory. Donald Trump has even implied this was done to wreck his re-election as president in November. The irony of it: Donald Trump-the-Russiagate-victim, now playing the Chinagate card.

Washington,D.C. politicians want to cancel American debt obligations to China which holds about $1 trillion in United States treasury bonds. This is simply America self-licensing itself for grand larceny.

United States senators are pushing to impose economic sanctions on China if it does not satisfy their demands for it to prove innocence over the fabricated allegations about cover-up. Given the high-handed American arrogance not to mention meat-headed stupidity of its politicians, Chinas "guilt" is a foregone conclusion. Then what? War?

The Donald Trump administration is threatening to with-hold over half a trillion dollars in federal pension-fund investments in Chinas stock market. More chicanery under the guise of scapegoating; and further war moves. Just who is cheating and ripping off whom here?

And it is not just the Donald Trump administration knuckle-draggers who are wielding the clubs. The supposedly more liberal Democrats are also ramping up the anti-China rhetoric in a bid to out-do Trump in jingoistic China-bashing. The New York Times, often opposed to Donald Trump, has leaned into his demagogic demonization of China by hyping up baseless claims from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Chinese hackers are stealing United States research into vaccines for Covid-19. That inevitably insinuates China is harming Americas recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. Yet more cause for war.

American belligerence towards China has a sinister bipartisan front - as it always has.

So-called liberals and Democrats blame the Republican president for mismanaging the Covid-19 pandemic. They are correct in this. Americas shocking death toll from the disease is unprecedented.

It exposes the immense failure of United States society, its economy and government. But this is not entirely Donald Trumps fault. He is but the uncouth face of a failed system that has been cratering over many decades from its hyper consumer-capitalism dystopia. Rather than dealing with that reality, the Democrats and corporate media will join in Donald Trumps cynical campaign to scapegoat China for all of the United States of Americas deep-seated ills.

The only redemption for the United States is a deep and honest dive into the corruption of its political ruling class and their system of oligarchic enrichment, their obscene militarism, and tyranny of "national security" suppression of democracy.

To avoid that kind of democratic reckoning, Donald Trump and all the other Washington,D.C. wastrels and sociopaths will do everything they can to distract with slanderous incitement against China, no matter how ridiculous and no matter how reckless.

Cutting off the whole relationship with China? Donald Trump is delusional and dangerous. He and the whole United States of American political class are willing to jeopardize world security, even to the point of starting a war, as long as that conceals their corrupt rule.

China involved in pandemic cover-up? That is the most audacious American guilt-projection since the "War on Terror".

Sadly, though, United States of Americans seem so brainwashed and misinformed, the ruling charlatans may get away with murder, just like they are accustomed to do.

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