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Inflection EP17: US Plans for War with China
Week of September 20-24, 2021

This week we discuss the roll out of “AUKUS” and how it fits into long-standing plans to encircle and contain China as well as set the stage for what US war planners call a limited conflict with China aimed at destroying its economy, setting it and Asia back decades, and ensuring Western hegemony for years to come.

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.

References:

RAND Corporation - War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable (2016):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1100/RR1140/RAND_RR1140.pdf
US State Department, Office of the Historian - FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1964–1968, VOLUME III, VIETNAM, JUNE–DECEMBER 1965:
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 (1997):
https://carnegieendowment.org/1997/01/20/what-china-knows-that-we-don-t-case-for-new-strategy-of-containment-pub-266
Foreign Affairs - Beijing’s American Hustle, by Matthew Pottinger:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2021-08-23/beijings-american-hustle
Guardian - Alliance with Australia and US a ‘downpayment on global Britain’:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/15/alliance-with-australia-and-us-a-downpayment-on-global-britain
Global Times - AUKUS another hostile signal to China, worsens Asia-Pacific security:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1234460.shtml
Harvard University’s Atlas of Economic Complexity - Australia Exports, 2019:
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=14&product=undefined&year=2019&tradeDirection=import&productClass=HS&target=Partner&partner=undefined&startYear=undefined
DefenseNews - New pact with the US and UK is set to sink Australia’s historic submarine buy from France:
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2021/09/15/new-pact-with-the-us-and-uk-is-set-to-sink-australias-historic-submarine-buy-from-france/
France24 - France reimburses Russia for cancelled Mistral warship deal:
https://www.france24.com/en/20150805-hollande-putin-agree-compensation-cancelled-mistral-deal
Naval Technology - SSN Astute Class Nuclear Submarine:
https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/astute/
Naval Technology - HII unveils newest Virginia-class attack submarine Montana:
https://www.naval-technology.com/news/hii-unveils-newest-virginia-class-attack-submarine-montana/
New York Times - Defending David Against the World’s Goliaths in International Court:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/asia/south-china-sea-phillipines-hague.html
New York Times - Taiwan, After Rejecting South China Sea Decision, Sends Patrol Ship:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/world/asia/south-china-sea-taiwan.html
Republic of the Philippines, Department of Foreign Affairs - PHILIPPINES, CHINA CONVENE MECHANISM TO EASE TENSIONS, EXPLORE COOPERATION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA:
https://dfa.gov.ph/dfa-news/dfa-releasesupdate/28997-philippines-china-convene-mechanism-to-ease-tensions-explore-cooperation-in-south-china-sea
US Navy - 7th Fleet conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation (July 12, 2021):
https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2690226/7th-fleet-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation/
New York Times - U.K. and France Call in the Navy, Sort of, in Channel Islands Fishing Dispute:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/world/europe/uk-france-jersey-fishing.html
Voice of America - Indonesia, Malaysia Destroying Foreign Boats to Defend Maritime Claims (Archived 2017):
http://web.archive.org/web/20210211074538/https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/indonesia-malaysia-destroying-foreign-boats-defend-maritime-claims
Binh Duong News - Malaysian Navy seizes Vietnamese fishing boats:
http://baobinhduong.vn/en/malaysian-navy-seizes-vietnamese-fishing-boats-a143103.html
Bangkok Post - 3 Malaysian trawlers seized near Satun:
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/820904/3-malaysian-trawlers-seized-near-satun