{"id":39925,"date":"2022-06-03T19:48:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T03:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=39925"},"modified":"2022-06-03T19:48:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T03:48:02","slug":"ray-mcgovern-outright-flummoxed-splaining-us-china-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/03\/ray-mcgovern-outright-flummoxed-splaining-us-china-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray McGovern: Outright Flummoxed ‘Splaining US-China Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I flunked miserably yesterday when asked to explain<\/a> what this current generation’s “Best and Brightest” think they are doing in messing with the One-China policy that has kept the peace for 50 years.<\/p>\n

We led off with Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei; Duckworth said the purpose was to “emphasize our support for Taiwan security.” Tsai went further in spelling this out:<\/p>\n

“The U.S. Department of Defense is now proactively planning cooperation between the US National Guard and Taiwan’s defense forces; we are looking forward to closer and deeper Taiwan-U.S. cooperation on matters of regional security.”<\/i><\/p>\n

I sidestepped a question as to whether US China policy is devised and run by lunatics.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

On second thought, Biden’s foreign policy advisers Blinken and Sullivan, for example, seems to represent the same species of lunatic we’ve seen before.<\/p>\n

I am thinking, of course, of what used to be called WASPS. That was one acronym\/moniker used to describe the privileged, white, Ivy-mantled species of lunatic – like McGeorge Bundy and Walter Rostow – “exceptional people” – the kind who left three million Vietnamese dead only five decades ago. It turned out that their brand of exceptionalism-tinged-with-hubris could not even entertain the notion of being defeated by what were called “bare-footed brown feet in pajamas” – and communists, to boot!<\/p>\n

Reality check: <\/b>Biden’s economic policy advisers seem to be of the same lunatic species. Worth a read is Susannah Patton’s op-ed in Wednesday’s NY Times<\/i>, China is Winning in Asia. Biden’s Plans Won’t Change That<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This originally appeared at RayMcGovern.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. His 27-year career as a CIA analyst includes serving as Chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch and preparer\/briefer of the President\u2019s Daily Brief. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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