Neutrality Studies
The INSANE Plan to Bait China: Push Japan, Philippines Into WAR
Profs. S. Weigelin-S. & W. Powell
Published on Sep 8, 2024
While NATO has been demilitarised in the Ukraine Proxy-War and the US is already bogged down in yet another theatre of war in West Asia, the neocons won't give up on their biggest obsession; the great Showdown-War with China. Of course, this will be yet another proxy-war. After all, the Empire has learned to devastate not only its enemies but also its allies—binding them economically to the US mother-land for yet another couple of decades through debt traps and US corporate ownership.
But what exactly is Beijing's approach in all of this? China isn't sitting back and relaxing while the US preps its Asia War. In this episode I'm talking to two great Sinologists: Professor Dr.Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, from the University of Vienna and Professor Warwick Powell of Queensland University. Together we explore how Beijing is approaching the new multipolarity and the relentless provocations from across the Pacific.
Unfortunately, neocon insanity and lust for blood knows no limits and the peoples captured the neocon narrative are willing to go along. Just as Ukraine was. Hence the European playbook is being tweaked to fit the Asian case. While the US is trying everything to prepare its China Proxy-War, the question is where will it happen? On the islands of Taiwan, Japan, or the Philippines? Who will be the first to get caught in an escalatory spiral ending in bombs and devastation? While Taiwan looks the most likely, it might just as well be the Philippines where some "damned foolish thing" will push East Asia over the brink and into the chaos the Neocons love so much.
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Prof. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
professor of Sinology (since 2002) at the Department for East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna. Vice Dean of the Faculty for Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Sinology, Austria.
From the perspective of my knowledge of China, every scientific theory, the validity of which is not proven for China, and every scientific theory, that does not stand up to the infinite intellectual challenge to incorporate China, is incomplete. When this idea will one day be regarded as a matter of course, the discipline of sinology will be obsolete, as knowledge about China will not be regarded as exotic, but will be widely spread, so that specialists that make the knowledge about China available in all its diverse aspects and to a public largely uniformed about China, will not be needed any more. (cit. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik)
https://oikodrom.org/team/susanne-weigelin-schwiedrzik/
Prof. Warwick Powell
Queensland University of Technology | QUT Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
My work is at the intersection of digital innovation and technologies and international political economy, with a focus on the implications, possibilities and dynamics of distributed ledger and blockchain technologies. I focus on digital payments, data integrity and supply chains, including food systems, and have a particular interest in the place of China in the future of international economic and social systems.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Warwick-Powell
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