"SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge

“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students."

Prem Thakker
Zeteo
March 30, 2025

https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east

#USA #fascism #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #FacialRecognition #Israel #Palestine #genocide #holocaust #colonialism #imperialism #capitalism

"Anti-genocide activists exposed by pro-Israel groups using facial recognition tech

Washington has revoked hundreds of student visas in recent weeks as part of a crackdown on foreign university students who oppose the mass killing of Palestinians by Israel"

The Cradle
March 29, 2025

https://thecradle.co/articles/anti-genocide-activists-exposed-by-pro-israel-groups-using-facial-recognition-tech

#USA #fascism #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #FacialRecognition #Israel #Palestine #genocide #holocaust #colonialism #imperialism #capitalism

"Gaza's stolen childhood
Who were the thousands of children Israel killed?"

By Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad
Al Jazeera
March 26, 2025

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/3/26/gazas-stolen-childhood-the-thousands-of-children-israel-killed

#Israel #Palestine #genocide #holocaust #colonialism #imperialism #capitalism #USA

"Kids Under Fire: An investigation into Israeli soldiers shooting children | Fault Lines Documentary"

Al Jazeera English
March 27, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0zrQZWwDE

#Israel #Palestine #genocide #holocaust #colonialism #imperialism #capitalism #USA

Why Mearsheimer is wrong about Russia and the war in Ukraine. Five arguments from Alexander Stubb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlB-pRqdyBg

#Putin #NATO #Revisionism #Georgia #Ukraine #Russia #WarOfAggression #Imperialism #ReligiousExtremism #Obama #Crimea #PoliticalRealism #SpheresOfInfluence #SelfDetermination #Tolerance #SuperpowerNostalgia

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eK4e_4fkzF0&feature=shared

Sammy is always on fire, but at the 5:20 mark of this clip, it allllll goes next level.

#sammyobeid #palestine #genocide #imperialism #occupation

#cdnpoli #canada #fascism #antifa #elbowsup

Tweet by Alan R. MacLeod:

"More people should know that The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped out of an Ivy League University to volunteer to be an IDF prison guard during the first Palestinian Intifada.

In his memoirs, Goldberg revealed that he helped cover up serious prisoner abuse."

https://x.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1904399844510249451

#imperialism #USA #genocide #Palestine #Signal

Hlava Sýrie před a po (puči zinscenovaném CIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore)

#imperialism #syria #propaganda #israel #sionism

Interview "The Making of the Modern Middle East: History, Politics, & Today’s Turmoil"

Today’s Middle East crises are rooted in 20th-Century European imperialism.

Attached image is adapted from the transcript at:

https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/history-politics-interview.html

#imperialism #zionism #palestine #ww1 #israel #us #uspol .

"Violence is never the answer" unless it is white people doing it

#palestine #ukraine #azov #Racism #capitalism #usa #liberals #imperialism

Please boost.

"....other countries keep asking why Americans aren't protesting, but we are & have been - the media isn't covering it...."
Protesters! Keep posting everything to social media. Over and over. Everyone, on every platform should be boosting it to help. Hopefully media from other countries will pick it up and we'll hear about it.

#protest #USA #imperialism #fascism #elon #tesla #uspolitics

“Trump Orders US Military to Plan Invasion of Panama to Seize Canal: Report”

by Brett Wilkins in Common Dreams @commondreams

“U.S. officials familiar with the planning said options for ‘reclaiming’ the vital waterway include close cooperation with Panama's military and, absent that, possible war”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-panama-canal-invasion-plan?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=b55950ce4d-Week+in+Review%3A+Sat.+3%2F15%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-59f0163267-600211431

#Press #US #Panama #Canal #Military #Seizure #Trump #SOUTHCOM #Imperialism

#usa #america #imperialism #fascism #capitalism #colonialism #statism #ausgov #politas

Speaking of the fun house mirror that is internal American political discourse; while our media class is busy trying to figure out how serious the fascist president is when he announces his plans to do fascist things, Israel's Finance Minister is busy bragging that Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is "taking shape" while revealing that the US administration and the Netanyahu government are working together to quickly make it a reality:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/smotrich-trump-plan-gaza

As Israel Pulls Plug on Gaza, Smotrich Says Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Plan 'Taking Shape'

"Israel's finance minister said Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is proceeding, remarks that came on the same day as Israel completely cut off electricity from the last receiving facility in the obliterated Palestinian enclave.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the far-right Religious Zionism party told fellow Knesset lawmakers that "this plan is taking shape, with ongoing actions in coordination" with the Trump administration.

Smotrich said that he is working with Cabinet members including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz to establish a "migration administration" that will oversee the removal of an indeterminate number of Gaza's approximately 2.1 million people, most of whom are descendants of Palestinians who fled or were ethnically cleansed from what is now Israel during the modern Jewish state's founding in 1948."

Folks, just because two fascist governments don't call removing a population based on ethnicity so you can build luxury condos on the ashes of their homes, "ethnic cleansing," does not in fact mean it isn't ethnic cleansing. In fact, if I'm being honest the term ethnic cleansing itself is a bullshit cop-out; the fact is forcingly removing a population based on ethnicity is in fact part of a process legally recognized as genocide; which is pretty on brand for an Israeli government credibly accused of genocide by international courts and a US government that's been actively arming, funding, and enabling the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza across multiple presidencies now, particularly the last two. Furthermore, while Smotrich claims the removals will be "voluntary" there is very little reason for anyone but the most credulous rubes to believe him. First of all, Israel has already engaged in an ongoing attempt to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and they just cut off electrical power to an area that is essentially always in a state of humanitarian crisis even though they know that action will kill innocent Palestinians. Additionally, there is no reason to believe Palestinians who have fought to keep their homes in Gaza intend to leave "voluntarily" and every single country the US and Israel have said would be happy to accept "voluntary" Palestinian "refugees' is stridently opposed to the plan because they recognize it as ethnic cleansing. Finally, this very same fascist government in Israel has repeatedly and publicly made no bones about their intentions to remove every Palestinian from Gaza, by lethal force or otherwise.

Friends, say what you will about Russian ministers bragging that Trump owes them one for political points, but Israel is not a geopolitical rival of the United States; they're allied with the US government and we send them billions of dollars worth of military and financial aid. Smotrich has no reason to lie about Trump's intentions and cooperation; in fact, he clearly couldn't be happier to have an American president working to accomplish the Netanyahu regime's odious intentions. Just don't expect a pro-genocide American media and political establishment to explain all this to you; they would after all much rather debate whether or not Trump is "serious" about getting rid of all the Palestinians and turning Gaza into a luxury resort complex for all his rich friends, until it's already a genocidal reality.

#Fascism #Imperialism #Genocide #Trump #Gaza #Israel #Netanyahu #Smotrich #EthnicCleansing #Media

"It has been clear for some time that the US needed a new and much more restrained formula for foreign policy. Bernie Sanders, in the idiom of the old US left, called for an end to American imperialism. Barack Obama advocated restraint, although Hillary Clinton, his secretary of state, favoured a more expansive line.

Joe Biden oversaw a profoundly untimely revival of American claims to global leadership. The result was an administration that committed the US to the defence of Ukraine, backed Israeli escalation in the Middle East and engaged in brinkmanship with China. This satisfied the Washington “blob”, revived the spirits of Atlanticists and fed complacency in Europe. But despite the Biden administration’s claim to be pursuing a foreign policy for the US middle class, popular support for its approach was fragile.

Of course, Trump is a vandal. But in tearing down the status quo he does no more than confirm the obvious — that the elite coalition that favoured US global leadership has lost its political grip. If Europe wants something it likes to call a “rules-based order”, it will have to make it for itself."

https://www.ft.com/content/4d594c51-f1a1-4701-8a8d-975beb28780a

#USA #Imperialism #Trump #Europe

Syrian State HTS Forces Commit Massacres, Hundreds of Field Executions on Syria’s Coast

Syria's new government security forces carried out a series of massacres in the towns and cities of the country's coast, leading to the deaths of hundreds of Alawite civilians in just three days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on 8 March.

The UK-based war monito

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17406/

#News #hts #imperialism #massacres #repression #syria #WestAsia

#Jadaliyya Long Form pod ep 2

"In this sit down conversation with #BassamHaddad and #SinanAntoon, #TalalAsad takes a bird’s eye look at the political landscape since #Israel’s genocidal war against #Gaza and reflects on the state of our world."

https://youtu.be/N85KBEalrTQ

#Palestine #oPt #GazaGenocide #colonialViolence #imperialism #PalestineSolidarity @palestine

#Trump’s #AI #Propaganda

Just before midnight on Feb 25th, Trump posted a 33-sec video…featuring the tagline “#Gaza 2025 whats next?” The clip shows victims of war scrabbling in gray rubble & running from soldiers, until the color palette suddenly brightens & the people pass through an archway into the promised land of “Trump Gaza”: a grotesquely slick seaside metropolis of modernist beachfront mansions, hotels, & casinos branded w/Trump’s name.
#geopolitics #imperialism
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/donald-trumps-ai-propaganda

"Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever"

by
Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye
March 4, 2025

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trump-vulgar-us-global-shakedown-same-one-ever

#colonialism #imperialism #capitalism #USA #NATO #Europe #Ukraine #Russia #Palestine #Israel #China

"Even if the United States rescinds its tariffs and ends its trade war, it has already shown it’s a rogue state that cannot be trusted. It’s lashing out at its allies, reneging on its obligations to international institutions like the World Health Organization, not to mention the Ukrainian people, and there’s no guarantee that will change in four or eight years. The United States has spent the past century meddling in countries around the world, overthrowing their governments, financing forces that served its own interests, and enforcing punitive measures like it has on Cuba for sixty years.

That should have never been acceptable. But now, as it starts throwing its closest friends under the bus, it’s long past time to embrace — and even hasten — the end of American hegemony and the horrors it’s brought on the world. If countries that have long claimed to believe in an international rules-based order truly believe in human rights and international law, it’s time for them to break with the United States, reject their ongoing subordination to its tech dominance, find new friends and allies, and build a better tech infrastructure that enables a better world for everyone."

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united-states-has-gone-rogue

#USA #Trump #Musk #DOGE #Imperialism #TradeWar #Tariffs #Protectionism

I saw the BBC evening news the other night, and learnt something interesting.

Palestinians don't have names, but Israelis do.

It's a cultural thing apparently, you see the journalists and programme editors are RACIST, IMPERIALIST LACKEYS!

Just thought you'd like to know about these curious cultural differences ...

#Palestine #freepalestine #gaza #imperialism

"Now as China is forming new global supply chains, it’s building on existing ones established by Japan and South Korea as well as the West. Chinese EV makers can build on Toyota and Nissan’s supply chain in Thailand. Chinese electronics companies can build on Samsung’s manufacturing base in Vietnam.

And, like Japan before it, China is using these economic linkages to support its own national interests while framing them as mutually beneficial partnerships. China is not the only country that loves using the phrase “win-win” when describing international partnerships. Shinzo Abe used it frequently when talking about Japan’s relationship with the US, EU, Russia, Asia, and of course China. For decades, Japan claimed credit for using aid and investment to help its Asian neighbors develop economically while turning the region into Japan’s manufacturing backyard. Throughout this whole process, Japan was careful to maintain control over core technology and prevent technology “leakage” to other countries. Now China is doing many of the same things with a similar framing.

But there is one important difference. China appears willing to leverage its control over technology, machinery, and critical inputs to actively undermine the industrial development of other countries—India being the prime example. In a not-so-ironic twist, China’s approach looks more like that of another great power, namely US efforts to cut out China."

https://www.high-capacity.com/p/china-is-trying-to-reshape-global

#China #PoliticalEconomy #Imperialism #Manufacturing #SupplyChains

"Such passivity makes sense once you understand a simple point: Britain is not a sovereign country. As the American Empire shifts from subtle to overt dominance, our genuflection is becoming similarly conspicuous. Trump’s extraordinary dressing-down of Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House yesterday is further evidence that British efforts to move his position on Ukraine are an entirely fruitless exercise.

That we are a vassal state of Washington is no longer a Left-wing talking point but an inescapable truth. US corporations have more employees in the UK than Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Sweden combined, while the largest American companies sell more than $700 billion of goods and services to the UK — more than a quarter of national GDP. A combination of Big Tech and private equity has taken this trend to new heights. In the 2000s the likes of BP, HSBC and even Vodafone would feature among the world’s largest companies. Today, by contrast, Apple is worth more than the entire FTSE 250 combined. Facebook and Google receive two-thirds of all UK spending on search and advertising. That money should be going to British broadcasters and outlets to pay for public interest journalism. Now it goes to California instead.

Then there is defence. Debates around Trident being an “independent deterrent” focus more on deterrence than independence, but both are equally important. While Britain builds its Vanguard-class submarines at home, and manufactures the nuclear warheads, the D5 missiles are leased from the Americans — and can only be serviced in Georgia."

https://unherd.com/newsroom/starmers-dc-visit-confirms-britains-subordination/

#UK #Starmet #VassalState #USA #Imperialism #Trump

This stupid old man #trump #dictatortrump and his lapdog #vance has complitly misunderstood what the Ukraine War is and who had started - trumps friend: #putin Trump has literally thrown Selensky out of the White House! #putinspuppet #notmypresident #imperialism #impeachment now !

'When an empire is upset'

“And when an empire is upset, they lash out in an incredibly violent and unrealistic way.”

“That’s what we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years, and that’s what I feel we might see in Gaza and elsewhere in the months and years ahead.”

Antony Loewenstein

@palestine
#quotes
#imperialism
#Gaza

"As the CIA’s man in Port-au-Prince at the start of the millennium, (ambassaor James) Foley was on the frontlines of a brutal #coup that displaced popular, legitimately-elected, #antiimperialist President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power, and all the horrors that followed."

#USAID Exported #CIA #Balkans Terror (paid for #Osama-recruited #KLA #Kosovo mercs... essentially #alQaeda) to #Haiti
https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/26/usaid-exported-cia-balkan-terror-to-haiti/ #Destabilization #DestabilizationOperation #Imperialism #alQaeda #terrorists

Israel and USA just loveeeeee killing

#israel #usa #palestine #capitalism #imperialism #killing #rickandmorty #genocide #KrombopulosMichael

"Trump is instinctively committed to the idea that the world is a jungle in which the big players take what they want. As such, it would be wrong to trivialise his repeated designs on Greenland, the Panama Canal, the Gaza Strip and even Canada. He divides the world into spheres of interest. There is a consistency to Trump’s sympathy with Putin’s claims on Russia’s backyard. There is also a symmetry in Trump’s reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine in which the US has domain over the western hemisphere.

Some have projected on to Trump a clever chess move in which he is luring Russia away from its “no limits” partnership with China in a reverse of what Richard Nixon did in the cold war. But that is wishful thinking. Any such manoeuvre would make sense only in concert with America’s allies. While promising to lift sanctions on Russia, Trump is readying for a new transatlantic trade war. After three generations of US leadership, it is always tempting to believe that Trump does not mean what he says. Perhaps this is a feint in some grand art of the deal. But allies and erstwhile friends must banish those self-soothing thoughts. With Trump, what you see is what you get. America has turned."

https://www.ft.com/content/1511aa42-a9ad-4952-99c8-98bea07d0414

#USA #Trump #Imperialism #Russia #Putin

"Four years ago, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) — the central bankers’ central bank — unveiled an innovation project that carried the ugly moniker “mBridge”.

This aimed to create a cross-border central bank digital currency linking the central banks of China, Hong Kong, Thailand, UAE and (latterly) Saudi Arabia.

You might think this is arcane. If so, think again: the geeky project symbolises a bigger battle that could matter deeply under US President Donald Trump.

More specifically, last autumn, just before the US election, the BIS unexpectedly pulled out of mBridge, in effect ceding control to China and the rest. BIS claimed this was just because it had reached “minimal viable product” stage. But few believe this. “The Americans demanded [the BIS] stop because it’s a threat,” one participant tells me, explaining that Washington worried that “it might be used to evade [dollar] sanctions”.

And while Agustín Carstens, BIS head, publicly denied that, speculation bubbles on — not least because Trump is undeniably on the monetary warpath: on Truth Social last month he repeated threats to impose “100% Tariffs” on countries trying to “replace the mighty U.S. Dollar” with new currencies or payments systems."

https://www.ft.com/content/bfafb8f7-bd1c-48bb-85f4-8ba25475c0a3

#USA #Dollar #Imperialism #China #MonetaryPolicy #BI #DigitalCurrencies #CentralBanks

#Trump ’s threats on #Greenland, #Gaza, #Ukraine and #Panama revive old-school #US #imperialism of dominating other nations by force, after decades of nuclear deterrence https://theconversation.com/trumps-threats-on-greenland-gaza-ukraine-and-panama-revive-old-school-us-imperialism-of-dominating-other-nations-by-force-after-decades-of-nuclear-deterrence-249327

The former defence force lawyer sent to prison for exposing #war #crimes in #Afghanistan has filed an appeal, the outcome of which is important to us all.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/this-is-not-just-about-david-lawyer-eddie-lloyd-on-the-forthcoming-mcbride-appeal/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/51664

#adfa #adf #australia #wariscapitalism #waristerror #military #army #navy #airforce #classwar #genocide #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #fascism #oppression #repression #statism #colonialism #imperialism #usa #america

Ukraine, The Alternate Truth





A #documentary that presents the #conflict in Ukraine in a bit different light, built in a time line from 1930 until today with intent to #inform us on #historical #facts for us to build our own opinions.
Every statement is backed with real #evidence, video footage, statements, phone calls.

A must see documentary ~ For the world to see the truth!


#ukraine #ukrainian #alternate-truth #Nuland #war #history #Russia

Ukrainian nazis bragging about their role in the Maidan coup in 2014.



Source:

Far-right group at heart of Ukraine protests meet US senator – channel 4




#nazis #McCain #USA #US #NATO #imperialism #fascism #Maidan #coup #Tyahnybok

Western Media about Ukrane Before and After:



The Guardian
“Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe”


Reuters
“Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problern”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary-idUSKBN1GV2TY

Vox
“A Ukrainian comedian-turned-president is embroiled in Trump’s impeachment Mess”


Neweurope
“Ukrainian president’s rule becomes increasingly corrupt, authoritarian”
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/ukrainian-presidents-rule-becomes-increasingly-corrupt-authoritarian/

#politics #Western #media #bought

The United Nations was established to ensure world peace and suppress acts of aggression. It has failed us for eighty years.
The reason for that failure is the attempt of the framers of the UN Charter to protect the Imperialist ambitions of five founding nations through the Unanimous Consent clauses of the charter. There is an exception to the Unanimous Consent rule which is intended to protect against abuse of Unanimous Consent. A permanent member which is party to a dispute must abstain from voting.
It is time to enforce Article 27 Section 3 and it is time to take the steps necessary to amend the UN Charter to eliminate the Unanimous Consent clauses.

#nomorewar #un #unitednations #gaza #ukraine #politics #imperialism

How the West promised the USSR that NATO would not expand eastward, by Roland Dumas, former minister.


In a late interview, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, back then German Foreign Minister, said that a NATO expansion eastward had never been an issue during the talks:

There is however this video clip from the time of the talks, where he says quite the opposite in front of cameras and also the news person says that “it was promised not to expand NATO eastward”:


#Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #history #politics #europe #NATO #imperialism #war #Western #deception #lie #anglo-saxons

Tohle není nacistické Německo 1940.
Tohle je Izrael 2025.

#concentrationcamps #sionism #freepalestine #icc #warcrime #colonialism #imperialism #israel #USA #freedom #propaganda

“Trump and his distant predecessor”

by Atilio A. Boron in Al Mayadeen English

“Trump represents a danger to international coexistence and a return to the most brutal and shameless phase of imperialism”

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/trump-and-his-distant-predecessor

#Press #US #Imperialism #Trump #McKinley #ImportTariffs #Tariffs #Taxes #Canada #Greenland #Gaza

“The masks are off. Trump and Israel have turned the planet into real estate”

by Hamid Dabashi in Middle East Eye

“Trump’s idea of expelling Palestinians from Gaza and conquering their homeland for Israel is the most revolutionary idea of all time. He is just too stupid to understand what he is suggesting”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/imperial-alliance-bullies-israel-us-want-remake-world-how?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_traffic

#Press #US #Trump #Empire #Imperialism #Israel #Zionism #WhiteSupremacy #Jordan #Egypt #Palestine #EthnicCleansing #Genocide

Concentration camps nearby Cuba - very, very typical of the U.S. Empire...

"The Trump administration has moved more than 30 people described as Venezuelan gang members to the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, as U.S. forces and homeland security staff prepare a tent city for potentially thousands of migrants.
About a dozen of the men were brought in from El Paso, Texas, on Friday, as Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, arrived at Guantánamo. She is the first senior member of the Trump administration to visit the migrant mission on the base in southeastern Cuba.

Ms. Noem was taken to the rooftop of the base’s aircraft hangar and observed as U.S. security forces led the deportees down the ramp of a C-130 military cargo plane to an awaiting minibus. Maj. Gen. Philip J. Ryan, the army commander overseeing the migrant mission, stood beside her in combat uniform, and a Chinook transport chopper could be seen in the distance.

“Vicious gang members will no longer have safe haven in our country,” Ms. Noem said on social media, calling the men “criminal aliens.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-migrants.html

#USA #Trump #Imperialism #Cuba #Guantanamo #ConcentrationCamps #Migrants

"Alex Karp, the creepy CEO of creepy defense contractor Palantir, just can’t stop talking about killing people. During a recent call with investors, the billionaire let it slip that he doesn’t mind a little bloodshed, just so long as the money keeps pouring in.

“Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them,” Karp said, with a smile on his face. The CEO added that he was very proud of the work his firm is doing and that he felt it was good for America. “I’m very happy to have you along for the journey,” he said. “We are crushing it. We are dedicating our company to the service of the West, and the United States of America, and we’re super-proud of the role we play, especially in places we can’t talk about.”

Mother Jones reports that Trump’s re-election and subsequent enactment of police-state style policies have been mighty good for Palantir’s stock— which makes sense since Palantir is a police-state kind of company."

https://gizmodo.com/palantirs-billionaire-ceo-just-cant-stop-talking-about-killing-people-2000560597

#USA #Palantir #PoliceState #Trump #Imperialism

"The Chinese economy is in a precarious position, and the country’s overcapacity problem is forcing it to increase exports and creating pushback across the world. China’s economic future is uncertain, and the downturn may not be reversed even with active government intervention, regardless of what the United States does.

Yet Chinese leaders remain confident that, even if the country’s economy suffers, four years of Trump is unlikely to send it into a full-blown crisis. And they anticipate that if Trump follows through on his declared policies, such as those on trade and territorial expansion, he could do severe damage to the United States’ credibility and global leadership. Beijing thus sees Trump’s second term as a potential opportunity for China to expand its influence farther and faster. In this view, competition with the United States is not in itself the driving force behind China’s grand strategy. It is instead one component of a larger process: China’s rise and displacement of the United States as the world’s leading superpower, what Xi often describes as “changes unseen in a century.” Beijing assumes that Washington’s own policies will dismantle the foundations of U.S. global hegemony, even if it creates a lot of turbulence for other countries in the process. China’s top priority, then, is simply to weather the storm."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-trump-strategy

#China #USA #Trump #Imperialism