U.S. Imperialist Chieftain Clinton Issues Threats Against Asia
Under the hoax of providing so-called "regional stability," U.S. imperialist chieftain Bill Clinton last week issued threats against the peoples of Asia, warning them to submit to his military might. "First we share the view of almost every nation in Asia that a strong American security presence remains the bedrock for regional stability," said Clinton, on the eve of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in Manila. Which particular "nation in Asia" wants a "strong American security presence" Clinton did not specify. Could he be speaking about the People's Republic of China, or the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the Baathist Republic of Iraq? No, he had in mind the Asia of the monopolies, those who are paying the U.S. imperialist mercenaries to protect them from the wrath of the peoples' revolutions in Asia.
"We will maintain about 100,000 troops across the Pacific just as we maintain about 100,000 troops in Europe. We will keep them well-trained, well-equipped and well-prepared," Clinton said with great assurance. "We will continue to revitalise our core alliances, both bilaterally and regionally. These efforts, let me say clearly, are not directed against any nation. They are intended to advance security and stability for everyone so that we can grow together and work together, all of us, in the new century," Clinton said. If people were to go strictly by what Clinton so brazenly states, and the actions of his military, they would become extremely alarmed at how boldly and openly U.S. imperialism is attempting to establish a "unipolar world" under its own dictate!
The U.S. aggressive troops in Asia are anchored by their navy, with fleets in the Pacific proper, off the coast of the Korean Peninsula, encircling the island of Taiwan, prowling the waters of the Indonesian Archipelago, the Persian Gulf, and elsewhere. These naval fleets are centred around aircraft carrier battle groups and are bolstered with submarines that can be virtually anywhere. They also have various land bases such as in south Korea, Okinawa, Guam, Australia, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in Asia. The massive U.S. military force in Asia is armed with nuclear weapons.
This "strong American security presence" is the bedrock of the U.S. imperialists' threats against the security and well-being of the peoples of Asia and the world. This "security presence" is the greatest factor for war in Asia and the world, and a constant threat to the sovereignty and independence of every Asian nation. The U.S. military has directly slaughtered millions of Asians in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and elsewhere, dropped atomic bombs on two civilian Japanese targets, and has been the protector and source of weapons for the most reactionary and bloodthirsty regimes the world has ever seen, such as the mass-murderer Suharto and his band of thugs in Indonesia who were responsible for slaughtering over one million communists and their supporters, and the renegade fascist gang in Taiwan.
As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is the People's Republic of China (PRC) that is singled out and warned by U.S. imperialist chieftain Clinton, the self-styled biggest empire-builder of them all. Accept the carrot of acquiescence or suffer the consequence of imperialist war, Clinton warns. "The direction China takes in the years to come...will help to decide whether the next century is one of conflict or cooperation," Clinton declared with much bravado. Bill Clinton could not be farther from the truth. It is not the PRC, but the peoples of Asia and the world who will determine "whether the next century is one of conflict or cooperation." As long as there is imperialism there will be danger of conflict. As soon as imperialism is overthrown there will be cooperation.
How are the peoples of China and the rest of Asia to be "contained" by U.S. imperialism? Will it be by annihilating the Korean people, occupying the whole of the Korean Peninsula with a joint U.S.-Japanese military force and striking at China from the east, and using Taiwan and Australia to strike from the west, meanwhile hitting at Iran and other countries from its bases in the Persian Gulf? To accomplish this, U.S. imperialism needs the control and backing of Europe with its industrial and financial strength, and a pacified Russia, which it is attempting to do through its expansion of NATO up to Russia's borders. But this is going to be tough going as Europe of the monopolies has its own schemes of establishing a "unipolar world" under its own dictate.
Next to Canada, Asia is U.S. imperialism's biggest trading zone. Eleven per cent of U.S. exports are to Japan, 6.8 per cent to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and nearly 13 per cent to other parts of Asia, principally China. Its exports to the APEC economies are worth $360 billion and its imports are much larger at $508 billion. U.S. direct investment in nine East Asian countries alone is now approximately $56 billion in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines and China. Surplus product from these areas plus Japan is being massively invested in the U.S. and is greatly responsible for funding its huge military.
Imperialists eventually become embroiled in war, and when they are out to subjugate the entire world, like U.S. imperialism, this can only mean a catastrophic world war. Contrary to the bragging of Clinton, it is the U.S. armed forces that are the greatest threat to the security and stability of Asia. The U.S. has not learned from its previous disasters in Asia since the Second World War, where it has not been able to defeat the people. Maybe it wants the twenty-first century to teach it the greatest lesson, that People's Asia will be the "bedrock for regional" and world stability. Alongside the working class and peoples of Europe and North America and the entire world, the Asian people will yet teach the U.S. imperialists their final lesson by overthrowing them and all other imperialists in Asia, and replacing Asia of the monopolies with Asia of the fraternal peoples, a People's Asia that is fraternal to all the peoples of the world.
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 6 - August 17, 2022
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