Trump Plays with Fire

Trump Plays with Fire

President Donald Trump could end up starting a war – either a civil war at home or an international one with China. Such is this president’s demagogic knack for wriggling out of responsibility for problems. Blame others and to hell with consequences. Let’s start from the premise that America’s grim experience of the COVID-19 pandemic…

As Trump Admin Legitimizes COVID-19’s ‘China Lab’ Origins Conspiracy Theory, Remember Iraqi ‘WMD’

As Trump Admin Legitimizes COVID-19’s ‘China Lab’ Origins Conspiracy Theory, Remember Iraqi ‘WMD’

By publicly entertaining theories linking the Covid-19 virus to Chinese research laboratories, US President Donald Trump and his administration are setting China up as the witch in a new political witch hunt. As the United States begins to grapple with the scope and scale of the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the national…

Is the United States About to Engage in Official State Piracy Against China?

Is the United States About to Engage in Official State Piracy Against China?

The Coronavirus crisis appears set to herald a new era of much poorer relations between China and the Western world, with Western countries having borne the brunt of the fallout from the pandemic and, particularly in the United States, increasingly blaming China at an official level for the effects.[1] Looking at the U.S. case in…

Hello ‘Chinagate’: Why Blaming Beijing Is All the Rage This US Election Cycle

Hello ‘Chinagate’: Why Blaming Beijing Is All the Rage This US Election Cycle

Forget the Covid-19 pandemic, both US President Donald Trump and his Democrat challenger Joe Biden intend to use China as a weapon to bash each other in the 2020 presidential race, promising a new Cold War no matter who wins. Trump’s China-bashing is not exactly new. He has called out Beijing for years over “unfair”…