Inflection EP08: US Containment of China: Fact or Fiction?

Week of July 12-16, 2021

Inflection is a weekly show featuring Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic, discussing recent headlines and in-depth discussion of topics shaping the shift from West to East and unipolarism to multipolarism.

This week we talk about the US strategy of containing China, how the Western media attempts to deny this, and the undeniable evidence of this strategy stretching back decades.

We also discuss news topics including a UK government-funded “monitoring” group focused on Myanmar, the US “withdrawal” from Afghanistan, the assassination of Haiti’s president, and the stabbing of a Hong Kong police officer by opposition extremists.

News:

RT - Haiti’s president killed by ‘foreign hit squad’ of ex-Colombian military & Haitian-Americans, 11 arrested inside ‘Taiwan embassy’:
https://www.rt.com/news/528753-haiti-assassins-colombian-american/
RT - The truth about US' 'unmitigated failure' in Afghanistan:
https://www.rt.com/shows/news-with-rick-sanchez/528749-truth-about-us-unmitigated-failure/
Global Times - HKU student union apologizes for 'lone-wolf' attacker praise:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1228279.shtml
Reuters - Myanmar rights violations under scrutiny from new task force:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-rights-violations-under-scrutiny-new-task-force-2021-07-05/
UK - Myanmar (Burma) and the UK:
https://www.gov.uk/world/myanmar/news
BBC - The police defecting as a new civil war looms in Myanmar:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-57739572
Columbia Journalism Review - Myanmar’s Other Reporters:
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/myanmars-other-reporters.php
AAPP:
https://aappb.org/
National Endowment for Democracy - Ko Bo Kyi:
https://www.ned.org/fellows/ko-bo-kyi/

Main Topic:

SCMP - A clash of civilisations played out at SCMP’s annual China Conference: the full debate (Question of US containment of China):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4grWwFxhe0&t=219s
US State Department, Office of the Historian - 189. Draft Memorandum From Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Johnson:
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v03/d189
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - What China Knows That We Don't: The Case for a New Strategy of Containment:
https://carnegieendowment.org/1997/01/20/what-china-knows-that-we-don-t-case-for-new-strategy-of-containment/5bdl?solr_hilite=Thailand
LD - Supranational ASEAN is Super Folly for Southeast Asia:
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/09/supranational-asean-is-super-folly-for.html
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Problem with Powell:
https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/470
White House Archives (Trump Administration) - U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific:
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IPS-Final-Declass.pdf
US Congress - H.R.7937 - Countering Chinese Communist Party Malign Influence Act:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7937/text
White House - Remarks by President Biden on America’s Place in the World:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/04/remarks-by-president-biden-on-americas-place-in-the-world/

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