I don't take issue with the criticism of American imperialism, but with the straw man that it's all just another Yellow Peril Cold War US thing, seeking issues

I don't take issue with the criticism of American imperialism, but with the straw man that it's all just another Yellow Peril Cold War US thing, seeking issues where there is none to distract from domestic issues. Leica and Mercedes Benz are German companies, and they and others already kissed the ring. That won't do. And then there is this: > The future of the United States, and the world, rests on American-Chinese co-operation in a global society of genuine internationalism. But that is too obvious to require discussion. But it does require discussion, it should be questioned, because the "Chinese" in that sentence isn't Chinese, it's the CCP. Another Orwell quote comes to mind: > Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible. -- George Orwell, letter to Noel Willmett (1944) There is something that is actually worse than war. Humanity survived countless wars, it would not survive global totalitarianism, be that in one bloc or several.