The Reader need only look just above the comments section to Mr. Rachman’s essay, to view these ‘News Stories’:
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Headline: FT Swamp Notes
For Biden — and America — it’s basically China from now on
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Headline: FT Swamp Notes
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Headline: News in-depthUS foreign policy
US military extends reach into China’s backyard with Australia security pact
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Headline: Why Aukus is welcome in the Indo-Pacific
Sub-headline: America’s efforts to strengthen deterrence of China are gathering momentum
The Financial Times is a Corporatist Newspaper, and Mr. Rachman it’s hireling. The New Cold War, in light of America’s utter defeat in Afghanistan, and the stalemate in Iraq, might offer what lessons about the exercise of it’s Power ?
‘Spheres of Influence’ that place-holder for thought, has long been abandoned as too unsophisticated, too crude a framing by the Foreign Policy Technocrats, and its would be aspirants, like Mr. Rachman. But it still hold true in the Western Hemisphere? Once Neighbors North and South had to follow … Should the Reader look at Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru , Brazil, Nicaragua, to see that American hegemony in this Hemisphere is waning?
China offers a different set of conundrums. Yet America also looks upon the ‘Indo-Pacific Region’, as Mr. Rachman presents it, as part of its ‘Sphere Of Influence’ its Global Reach. America can’t let go of its reality based fading Hegemony.
How many Theatres of Battle will the The New Cold War demand? Russia, China, North Korea, Poland, Hungary ? While not forgetting the already mentioned Southern Neighbors.
The political melodrama, that Mr. Rachman confects is not unconvincing, if a bit programmatic. If the Reader were unacquainted, with the The Financial Times and Rachman’s Party Line on China, as bad actors of this political moment: the political elasticity of which is almost limitless!
Philosophical Apprentice
https://www.ft.com/content/cac4b3b0-faec-4648-a49d-8dbcd96eac02