1. There's a lot of talk about how the recent wave of anti-Asian American violence is a product of an attempt to start a "New Cold War" and I think that's an incredible misreading of a propaganda campaign designed for domestic consumption.

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2. Real conflict between China and the US is patently absurd, both countries have nuclear weapons and economically the two are completely intertwined from the macro level, where China owns 1.1 trillion dollars of American treasury bonds, which

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3. represent an enormous investment in the strength of the American dollar and the stability of the American system. Meanwhile at a micro level American corporate supply chains are completely intertwined with Chinese production to the point where

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4. a huge portion of American logistics (particularly the ports on the West Coast are designed to move goods from China to the US. Meanwhile huge amounts of American capital are sunk into Chinese production facilities and firms especially as the

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5. CCP lifted ownership controls on Chinese firms in the last few years. This means that a huge portion of American capital (particularly finance capital and firms involved in logistics, like Amazon) doesn't want anything to do with a "New Cold

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6. War". Now there are sections of American capital that do want this, particularly the American manufacturing sector and large elements of the American petite bourgeoisie. Those people's man was Trump and what they got was a trade war that nearly

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7. destroyed the entire global economy and Trump's advisors actively conspire to pull him back from the brink. So if all of this is true then what is the point of anti-Asian sentiment? Well there's a few things going on here, one, as we've seen

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8. with expansions of American missile bases in the Pacific is that the American weapons industry really wants to ramp up tensions as a way to get more military spending in more expensive, high tech weapons. This is also why there's all of this

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9. fear mongering about hypersonic missiles and the nuclear weapons gap. That shit is about weapons procurement contracts and it's going to keep going, but again the point isn't an actual war with China it's massive weapons buildup. Another angle

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10. is pure racist electioneering. This is a lot of what the China virus and Plandemic conspiracy shit was about: building a (multi-racial) nationalist anti-Asian base for the Republican party and for far right extremists to recruit from. You also

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11. saw Biden try to counter this by doing his own fear mongering about Trump being connected to China after Trump accused Hunter Biden of being connected to China. This shit is racist but it's also an EXTREMELY cynical attempt to scrape a few

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12. more percent of the racist vote off the floor. Another reason for it that we're seeing now is as a way to deflect attention away from the fact that the US has fed half a million people to a plague. Blaming the virus on China and pushing for

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13. shit like "reparations" (which a lot of liberals got in on too) is an easy way to cause people to forget their anger at the American state and business owners for fucking murdering them and redirect that anger at China. Finally it's also a way

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14. to destroy any attempt at solidarity between the American and Chinese working classes, who are both being exploited often literally by the same people and who's rulers have left them to work themselves to death while they compete over who has

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15. the most billionaires. Keeping Chinese and American workers at each other's throats means that neither of them will ever blame capitalism, racism, sexism and the thousand other violences that are destroying their lives for their suffering,

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16. instead blaming a billion unseen workers who "took their jobs". The consequence of all this is that anti-Chinese sentiment is taken out on Asian Americans. We pay for their rhetoric with our bodies and our lives. We are the human price of

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17. their continued power, our blood lubricates the gears of capital. And they will continue to kill us for as long as is necessary to maintain their grip on this country.

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