Does America Really Need to Contain China?

[rangerrebew]

April 23, 2021

Does America Really Need to Contain China?

Is the moment propitious for a return to an older containment doctrine that might serve as the animating spirit of the Biden administration?
by Jacob Heilbrunn Follow JacobHeilbrunn on Twitter L

SEVENTY-FIVE years ago, George F. Kennan, who was charge d’affaires in the American embassy in Moscow, sent what has become known as the “Long Telegram” to the State Department. The frustration that Kennan had felt for years over what he believed was a naïve and excessively concessive policy toward Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union welled up in him as he drafted an 8,000-word missive. In it, he ranged widely across history to warn about the Soviet threat. Kennan diagnosed a uniquely dangerous ideological amalgam of traditional Russian imperialism and Marxism-Leninism that had emerged after 1917 to constitute

a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with US there can be no permanent modus vivendi, that it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted…the international power of our state be broken if Soviet power is to be secure.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/does-america-really-need-contain-china-183420

[rangerrebew]

Why would the US worry about this nonsense when they have REAL issues to work out?  Like are there enough gays and trannies in each branch?  Are uniforms for women (oops, gwarks)  made for their physique?  Are physical requirements for jobs adjusted for gwarks?  Never use gender specific words to insure everyone is equal.  Make sure white, conservative "terrorists" are rooted out and expelled from the military.  THESE are some of today's real worries.

[Fishrrman]

"Does America Really Need to Contain China?"

Ultimately, it will not be America that answers this question.
It will be China.

[Cyber Liberty]

Ask me that again after China invades and subjugates Taiwan.

[skeeter]

Setting aside the old western standard of opposing expansionist tyrants, the answer to the writers question seems to be as long as China is paying off the right people here, no.

[libertybele]

With Dementia Joe at the helm, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that China will be contained.  Joe is bought and paid for and I'm afraid he has already sold us down the river long ago.

[The_Reader_David]

Read one way, the answer is plainly "Yes", in as much as it is in our national interest to do so.  Read another, the answer is "No":  India, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, (believe it or not) Russia, the United Kingdom and America need to contain China.