It’s been said(by Mark Twain?) that history doesn’t repeat itself but rhymes. A notable historical rhyme is between the current Taiwan crisis and the Manchurian crisis of the 1920s/1930s. In either case, a non-Chinese, even anti-Chinese, imperialist power attempts to pry away a key Chinese territory under dubious pretexts.

Japan coveted parts of northeast China, especially Manchuria(connected to Korea, already a Japanese colony)and concocted an ‘enlightened’ and ‘humanistic’ justification for the landgrab. Japan insisted that Manchuria or Manchukuo is an autonomous region worthy of independence from China, and its presence was as a brotherly power to secure the integrity of the Manchurian nation, one to be led by its rightful emperor(said to be on friendly terms with the Japanese counterpart).
Initially, Japan had set its eyes on swathes of Siberia as well and took full opportunity of the Russian Civil War to occupy its easternmost part. But when the Soviet Union grew in power and dealt a series of setbacks to Japanese ambitions, the two domains settled on a kind of compromise. Mongolia, long part of the Chinese Empire, would serve as a puppet state of the Soviet Union(though this process was initiated under the Tsar) while Japan would spread its influence over Manchuria.

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In both cases, there was a nominal illusion of national sovereignty when, in fact, Mongolia was a satellite of the Soviets while Manchuria was being transformed into the jewel in the crown of the Japanese Empire. The Mongolian case was somewhat contradictory because the Soviet Union was officially anti-imperialist, whereas Japan, along with the European powers, openly claimed to practice a kind of benign and enlightened imperialism, even at times preaching a kind of comradely pan-Asianism at odds with the non-Asian powers.

The Soviets could be faulted for hypocrisy, but one could argue a truly independent Mongolia wasn’t viable at the time. If the Soviets left it alone, Japan would have gobbled it up. As far as the Chinese were concerned, Mongolia should have been part of their civilization given the long interaction between Mongolia and China. (Besides, the Mongols, upon invading China in tandem with the Manchus, had de facto become a part of Sinosphere.)
At any rate, even though China was irate with both cases, it could afford to lose Mongolia, mostly a sparsely populated desert, whereas Manchuria was geographically, demographically, and economically essential to the development and security of China. (Similarly, Russia can tolerate Finland and Sweden as new members of NATO but not Ukraine serving as a dagger to the heart of Russia.)

As monstrous as Japan’s intrusion into Northwest China turned out to be, it was at least understandable given Japan’s limited resources and desperate economic straits. For all its rapid advancement and process into modernity, Japan’s place in the world was precarious given that the rest of the world had been carved up by Russia and the Western powers.
What is truly appalling about US neo-imperialism is that the US has so much and doesn’t need an empire for power, peace, and prosperity. America itself is an empire-sized country. Canada is essentially its front yard while Mexico(and much of Latin America) is its backyard. The US has Japan, South Korea, and Philippines as whore-puppets. The EU is now just a vassal of the US(as the Jewel in the Crown of the Empire of Judea).
Unlike Japan in the 1920s/30s, the US has tons of everything, land and resources and control of sea routes. And yet, it virtually lays claim to Taiwan as well and, in doing so, accuses China of aggression for seeking eventual reunification with an island that had long been part of China?
In this respect, the US empire is surely the most obnoxious in history, made worse by its craven servitude to the petty imperialism of Jewish supremacist gangsters who, despite all their riches, cannot let go of the dream of completing their once attempted rape of the Russian economy. Given its current character of utter depravity, the richest country in the world with an excess of billionaires and lots of fat people continues to occupy entire swaths of Syria to steal its grain and oil from a desperate people whose lives have been torn asunder by terrorist proxies of the US, Israel, and their duplicitous allies. The current US is many times worse than Imperial Japan as its policies are driven by vanity and avarice than necessity and desperation.

Fast forward in history, and Manchuria reverted back to Chinese control with the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army at the hands of the Soviet Union. And with the end of the Cold War, Mongolia gained something like full independence and now exists in a kind of limbo among the influences of Russia, China, and the US(with its cash prizes). In the future, Mongolia will likely remain independent but become absorbed into the Sinosphere. At any rate, there is no controversy about the status of Manchuria. It’s part of China.

But now, we have the Taiwan Problem. Just as Japan claimed the role of protector of Manchurian independence against Chinese resurgence or revanchism, the US professes to be the noble defender of Taiwanese independence and freedom, aka ‘democracy’.
Of course, the difference is that, whereas Japan didn’t acknowledge China’s claim on Manchuria, the US under the Nixon-Kissinger administration accepted that Taiwan is a part of China and hoped for a gradual and peaceful reconciliation and reunification between the two states.
But with growing anti-Chinese sentiment, the agreement(that Taiwan is part of China) has come to be in name only. In actual policy, the US is clearly working to drive a permanent wedge between China and Taiwan(as has de facto been accomplished with the division of Korea). As Xi Jinping said to Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken, “You say this but do that. It no good.”

There has been a kind of perfect storm developing in the politics of hostility towards China. The most obvious reason is the US became accustomed to its role as the lone superpower since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hubris is like an addictive drug. The US has also grown accustomed to the prestige as the hegemon over all of the Pacific, the East as well as the West, following the collapse of the Japanese Empire that, for a time, laid claim to the control of the Asian Pacific. (Especially as East Asia is the only part of the world that caught up more or less with the West in wealth-generation and technological prowess, the US maintains Western hegemony through the control of trade routes and positioning of military bases to encircle the Asian landmass.)

The Cold War justified American’s continued presence in the East Pacific, especially as China had fallen to the communists. Furthermore, in fear of Red China, non-communist Asian countries leaned to the US for protection, especially given the inferno in Vietnam and the Domino Theory.
But with the end of the Cold War and China’s acceptance of market economics(and interconnection with the economies all around Asia), the US could have receded from Asian Pacific but chose not to due to the military industrial complex, imperial pride, and paranoia that China as the newly risen counter-hegemon might pose a threat to America’s role in the world. (Ironically, China’s emphasis on global economic ties vs America’s emphasis on global military control may come to favor China in the eyes of the world. People would rather trade carrots than be threatened with the stick. If, during the Cold War, much of the world was willing to accept US military might as a nightstick against the commies, the idea that the world relies on US power for peace and prosperity is becoming ever more specious and far-fetched with each passing year, especially as any honest observer can see that the US, far from being a fair broker, is now essentially the aircraft carrier and bomber fleet for Zion.)

There is perhaps also, in the recesses of the White American mind, the Yellow Peril complex that began with the sudden rise of Japan in the 19th century. If a small island nation with limited resources could rise so fast and pose a challenge to the Western world order, what might the rise of China, with its vast population and considerable resources, mean for the world, especially Western dominance?

Of course, the current moral logic of the anti-Chinese argument differs from those in the past, at least in rhetoric. A century ago, the Yellow Peril thing was about the challenge the yellows may pose to the White Race, the White West, White Hegemony. Such is verboten today as whites, under Jewish influence, have accepted white self-loathing, race-mixing & jungle fever, diversity celebration via the great replacement(or White Nakba), and etc.
So, the argument against China is more along the lines of “Chinese are the real racists because China is mostly dominated by the Han Chinese.” In other words, white people are now supposed to hate China for having the kind of racial views whites did a century ago.
This is, of course, a stretch. China is mostly Chinese because it’s China. It’s not a colonial-settler state like the United States, Canada, and Australia where one people replaced another, though an argument could be made for Tibet and Xinjiang(but then, the West more or less accepted those areas as part of China before the takeover by the CCP).

China-bashing today has replaced the Japan-bashing of the 1980s, a period when Japan seemed poised to dominate the world through wealth, consumer products, and technology(whereas the Chinese then rode around in bicycles and were only beginning to assemble cheap lighters and can-openers.)
For a time, the US and China were loosely united in their anti-Japan stance. The US felt compelled to put Japan back in its place and make it do as told(instead of making noises like Shintaro Ishihara, the author of JAPAN THAT CAN SAY NO). China, in its post-Maoist phase, needed a theme to rally the nation around, and it became Japan-bashing by reviving painful memories of the past. China felt safe in targeting Japan that was, for all its wealth, politically weak. It was safer than bashing Russia or the US; and besides, if China, Russia, and the US had one point of shared narrative, it was pride in the defeat of the Axis Power of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. (In retrospect, it was stupid on the part of China as it only served to alienate the Japanese and sour future relations between the two countries, playing into the American hands.) But the steady decline of Japan and the dramatic rise of China(plus its political sovereignty) meant that the main rivalry would be between the US and China.

Still, there is no single reason for China-bashing. Partly, it’s a convenient diversion for the globalist capitalist oligarchs in the US who fulsomely profited from shipping factories to China. By blaming China for ‘stealing American jobs’, populist working class ire is directed at China, thus deflected from the oligarchic class who shipped the jobs overseas to maximize their own wealth. The ‘stolen by China’ narrative conceals the ‘sent by oligarchs’ truth. It’s like Rush Limbaugh praising Walmart for its superb capitalism while dumping on the ‘Chicoms’ for the problems of globalism.

Also, China’s size and power abroad plus the Chinese minority’s relative silence and compliance in the US makes for easy criticism and revulsion. Even as China is painted as the big bad wolf, the Chinese in the US are either too timid, submissive, or craven to ever speak up for their own country(contra to the Jews who go to hell and back for Israel).
And speaking of Jews, there is also the factor of their tribal interests. China-bashing diverts attention not only from the betrayal of the capitalist-globalist oligarchs but from the domination by Jews. By ragging about the Chi-coms as Alex Jones does or blaming the Chinese as the ‘real racists'(or ethnocentric nationalists) as Tucker Carlson does, it creates the impression that China poses the real threat and may already control entire sectors of the US. If you’re a ‘patriotic’ conservative but too chicken to name the Jewish Power, how safer to harp about the Chicoms buying up all the farmland! Or screech that “China controls Hollywood!” or “China uses Tiktok to promote green-haired lesbians with piercings.”
Thus, Americans are duped into blaming China than Jewish Power for all the problems facing the US. Take the southwestern border. Instead of blaming the Jews-around-Biden like Mayorkas for destroying border security, run a narrative about how Xi is sending military-aged men across the border to set up a secret army to take over America, apparently like in the remake of RED DAWN.

There are plenty of Americans dumb enough to believe such fantasies(like the suspicion of Barack Obama being a secret Muslim agent when everything about his rise and policy was thoroughly Jewish/Zionist), but the anti-China hysteria is also useful to white brownnosers who do know the truth. These whites have been so browbeaten and conditioned to look up to Jews as the rightful masterful race that they simply cannot conceive of pushing back when Jews pummel and beat them to the ground. These whites operate on the foundation of “Jews rule and deserve to rule”, meaning that even when Jews do whites wrong, the most that whites can hope is for Jews to change their minds and be a bit kinder to whites. These whites know Jews got the power and abuse whites, but their position isn’t to push back and fight back but to do whatever is necessary to court favor with the Jews. By fulminating against China, they are signaling to Jews, “We whites and you Jewish whites, how about us joining together against the Real Other? You beat and kick us, but we never blame you and always stand beside or behind you all the way. So, how about we bash China together than you bashing us?” Of course, Jews see through this and hold such cuckery in contempt as wussy weakness(even as they take advantage of it).

Jews also hate China more than ever because of the Russia Factor. The Jewish Plan for Russia is hardly different from the Nazi German plan of ‘lebensraum’. If Germans had the numbers to actually invade Russia, hopefully defeat and colonize it with tens of millions of German farmers, Jews have no such means of outright conquest. But they know they can take over financially and culturally, reduce the Russian elites to cuck-maggot collaborators, and engineer a series of programs to reduce Russia more or less into a globalist colony of Jewish hegemony.
After all, Jews managed to pull it off in the Anglosphere where most white elites are cuck-collaborators and facilitate the policies of White Nakba. (Against such hostility, the most that whites can manage to dredge up is, “Master Jews, please don’t push diversity. Not because it hurts us whites, who don’t matter because it’s NOT okay to be white, but because it will likely hurt you wise and wonderful Jews, and you know that we whites place YOUR security and well-being above all else, not least over our own interests that have no validity as whiteness must be erased.”) Jews have succeeded with the White Nakba agenda in Anglosphere and most of the EU(as even Poland is going that way), and of course, Ukraine has been turned into a Jewish-gangster-paradise, more Blackrockville than anything like a sovereign Slavic nation. But Russia, despite its entrenched fifth-column network, hasn’t fallen to total Jewish Hegemony.
China, given that its meteoric economic rise owes much to US markets, was supposed to do the bidding of the US against Russia, not least because Sino-Russian relations have long been uneasy. But China sensed that Russia no longer poses any real threat to China and has kept to the terms agreed upon in the meeting between Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Contra Russia’s conciliatory approach to China, the US has been playing fast-and-loose with the Taiwan issue and ramping up military ‘alliances’ with Japan and other Asian puppets. Even as China worked with the US to isolate North Korea, the US has been drumming up South Korean animus against China. Also, the US naval bases are the most worrisome to China. The Russian/Soviet military threat that once breathed down China’s neck is all but gone.
Furthermore, Russia-China relations are based on multi-polarity and civilizational conceptions, i.e. both have their own systems of rule and cultures/traditions and respect each other as such, whereas the US/West pushes a single ‘rules-based-order’ for all, made worse by the fact that the so-called ‘rules’ are made up by the West, or more accurately by the Jews who control the West. These rules don’t apply equally to all but are bent and twisted to serve Jewish hegemonic interests. Even if the US cannot defeat China in the struggle over Taiwan, China’s takeover of Taiwan could be used as the rationale to sanction China and grab its assets in the West(and renege on debt obligations).

That China has chosen to back Russia in world affairs is taken by Jews as a kind of betrayal. Of course, China doesn’t see it that way. As long as it’s concerned, the main obligation of China is to look out for its own national interests, and if China’s ties with Russia are good for China(and Russia believes it’s good for Russia), then there should be no problem. It’s just diplomacy.
But such a perspective requires a multipolar vision of the world of sovereign countries. Jews, in their Judeo-Centrism, believe that goyim exist to revolve around and serve Jews. As far as Jews are concerned, they helped build up China to use it as a piece(a big piece to be sure) in the Judeo-Centric Puzzle. Thus, whatever China does, it mustn’t obstruct the grand global design of the Jews.

Jewish arrogance along these lines was aggrandized by total white cuckery to the Tribe. Having grown so accustomed to all the goyim in the West groveling before and carrying water for Zion, Jews are easily triggered and offended when some countries refuse to similarly toe the line. They feel ‘betrayed’ given their unipolar(or Junipolar) vision of the world.
It’s like polytheism allows for different peoples to worship different gods, but monotheism denounces anyone who rejects the one true god as a heathen, infidel, or worse. Jews are into self-worship and expect all the world to worship them, and the white race added fuel to the fire by sucking up to Jews at every turn, but then, just about all the goyim do the same in the West. Be they white, black, brown, yellow, or etc. they are busy sucking the Zionic dong. Blacks like their bling, and as long as Jews shower them with da gold and shit, dey be acting da co-imperialist in the Zionist global hegemony. They don’t own the limousine but get to drive it and receive good tips.

Given all these factors, the failure(due to incompetence, rashness, or willfulness) of diplomacy can well lead to a major conflagration over Taiwan, just like the Manchurian issue set off the conflagration between China and Japan. That’s where the histories then and now rhyme, but of course, current conditions are nothing like in the past. If China then was divided(mainly between the pro-communists and the KMT) in its war with Japan, China is today united as a single force. And if China was in the infancy of industrial development when Japan invaded, China today is the biggest manufacturing power in the world. Although still dwarfed militarily by the US and would easily be defeated in a Midway kind of scenario — navy vs navy in the middle of the Pacific — , it has enough missiles to sink the US fleet close to Chinese shores.

One advantage of the US is its vast network of alliances in the Pacific. If Imperial Japan increasingly found itself isolated as the war dragged on in China without a clear victory, even resulting in the oil-and-iron embargo by the US, the US today has Japan, South Korea, Philippines, and of course Taiwan on its side. But, are Japan and South Korea willing to fully join with the US in a war with China that they know will only grow stronger in the coming years, especially as the young today in those countries are ‘herbivorous’ sissy soyboy gay-K-pop dorks? South Koreans may worry that if they join the war, China may back North Korea against the South in a big way. If the Japanese are smart and imaginative, they could use the anti-China hysteria to build up their military and then use it to wrest itself from the clutches of Uncle Sam, but don’t expect the shallow and craven Japanese to think that far ahead. Japan is now just a shameless whore-mamasan of the Jewish-run US. It has a globohomo Zionist dildo deep up its arse(and enjoys it like the bitch that it is).

Of course, the China-bashers will say they have nothing against the Chinese, only against autocracy, ‘communism’, tyranny, and etc., i.e. they are not ‘racist’ against Asians and only oppose Chinese authoritarianism. After all, they are full of praise for the Asian democracies. But this is nonsense given that US hostility in the 1980s was mostly directed at ‘democratic’ Japan than at autocratic China, which received friendlier and more sympathetic Western press at the time.
What the US really means is that it can accept Asians as collaborators, servitors, satellites, and puppets but not as a truly sovereign power that conceives of its own interests and forges its own path.
The US position on Asia is much like the Jewish position on whites. Whites having autonomy, agency, and pride isn’t tolerable. It’s ‘far right’ and ‘extremist’. But whites doing the bidding of Jews and outsourcing their agency to Zion is all very well. Whites can be successful and rich(like Asians in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan) but they cannot be independent of the Jewish Will. Whites must be satellites, cucks, and dogs of the Jews.
Likewise, the US can accept a poor and backward Asia(like China in the 80s) or a rich and servile Asia(like Japan and Taiwan), but it cannot accept a rich, independent, and powerful Asia, which China now seems to be(and what Japan was feared of becoming in the 80s with its rising wealth and influence). Besides, a sovereign China is far more difficult to contend with and/or contain than, say, Vietnam, also a sovereign state but hardly a major power in world affairs.

It could be that the US hoped that China, despite its size and pride of history, could be made subordinate to the West, especially given the fate of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea(and ironically, even the ideological dynamics of China, Vietnam, and North Korea under communism). This owes to the spiritual shallowness of East Asia. India has spiritual richness and autonomy with Hinduism. Countries like Indonesia and Malaysia have Islam, a spiritual force that has resisted both Christianity and communism.

While Confucianism has a kind of quasi-spiritual depth in its reverence of ancestors, the rise of modernity made way for Neo-Confucianism that spat on the graves of ancestors and focused almost entirely on test-taking for material success and status. Thus, if traditional Confucianism kept the elites reverentially rooted to the past, neo-Confucianism has made modern Asians obsessed about the future, even to the point where East Asians don’t want to have children (1) as obstacles to their enjoyment of the futuristic or (2) unless they can be assured that their children will do well and have a niche in future success.

Even in the acceptance of communism, East Asia became future/foreign driven, what with Maoism unleashing the Cultural Revolution that called on revolutionary youths to lay waste to all things old and reactionary. And before Mao’s triumph, Chiang Kai-Shek of the KMT had converted to Christianity(like his wife before him). With Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism, East Asians almost entirely rejected their own traditions in favor of a foreign ideology.

Without a powerful spiritual grounding, East Asia and its brand of neo-Confucianism is success/status-obsessed. And as the West, especially the US, has come to represent all things rich, powerful, progressive, cool, and what-have-you, most of East Asia naturally tilt to the West. After all, Japanese, Taiwanese, and South Koreans seemed to relish imitating all things Western in fashion, attitude, culture, and ideology. Much of anime is Japanese imagining themselves as white, and K-Pop seems to be Koreans basing themselves on anime characters.

To be sure, Japan was a special historical case, somewhat unique in East Asia. Unlike China, Korea, and even Vietnam that allowed Confucianism to smother the deeper ‘pagan’ roots of the culture, Japan maintained its unique spiritual essence via Shintoism and reverence for the Emperor. Thus, it possessed a kind of spiritual depth or at least peculiarity, but it was all lost when Japan met defeat in the Pacific War and the emperor was reduced to a kind of Japanese Charlie Chaplin, a ridiculous figure. And in time, merchant mentality replaced samurai mentality, and Japan’s been a soulless place ever since.

As for China, despite its defiance spirit against the West and the pride of finally having ‘stood up’, it was rather incredible that a people with such depth of history and civilization could so totally take up a foreign ideology(Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism) and use it to ruthlessly wage war on their own culture. Mao’s China was politically independent but enslaved to the vision of a modern Jewish prophet and its Russo-Soviet secular-priesthood.

Then, it’s understandable why the West thought that the spiritually shallow East Asia would eventually fold and fall in line. West would lead, East would follow, the formula for the New World Order. West would invent, East would imitate. West