My Take | A true voice of reason in the ‘China threat’ debate
- In a recent debate between two famous public intellectuals, Kishore Mahbubani and Orville Schell, it’s clear which one talked the most sense
Over the years, I have come to have more respect for real hardline anti-China hawks in Western capitals than those liberal China “experts” who follow the party lines in Washington and constantly gauge which way the political wind blows. It’s much easier to take a forthright enemy seriously than a sneaky hypocrite.
At least those Western hawks are consistent and honest, and they make no bones about what the fight is really about: China’s potential to challenge the global hegemony of the United States.
Geopolitics is a very cruel and ruthless business. It’s little different from gang warfare, and has as much moral legitimacy as the latter. That’s why there is all this massive 24/7 propagandising going on in the mainstream Western media to cover up the underlying real conflict.
When one gang boss declares he has to take out a rising rival to nip the threat in the bud, I can respect that. It’s not pretty but they are at least brutally honest about it.
It’s all the constant holier-than-thou moralising and editorial misdirection from Western pundits, “experts” and politicians about fighting evil China to save humanity and freedom that gets on my nerves.
