Catastrophic Timebomb Of Escalating US-China Confrontation: Who Is The Big Bully? Who Are The Hapless Victims?

By Terry Nettle

The vicious confrontation between USA and China has developed over much of the last decade since 2016 into a tense, vexatious, dangerous, dramatic and longstanding confrontation between the two superpowers.

Many strange things have happened in this terrible US-China confrontation, and many blunders were made by both sides.

But the military buildup, arms race, and the military confrontation across a wide range of issues and over wide geographic areas are the most dangerous of all.

Has US miscalculated by creating now two new war fronts in Europe and in Asia, after its Afghan debacle that ended only in 2022?

Clearly, storm clouds are gathering over the Indo-Pacific. The worst is yet to come.

The new approach that needs to be taken by both USA and China is obvious. They need to start by winding down the toxic rhetoric against each other.

They should then abandon their fierce confrontation, trade wars, technology wars, and economic wars, and dial down their massive military buildups, and follow up with sensible dialogue and reconciliation.

The future of humankind and the world depend on these two greatest superpowers doing that.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terry Nettle
• Release date: Jun 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223866145

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1. History Of Wars

If one looks at the world history since WW2, one would be struck by the terrible confrontation that has arisen between the West and the East.

In particular, one would be wondering how both USA and the Soviet Union managed to so spectacularly squandered away the massive peace dividend, opportunities and leverage they both gained from their impressive victories over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. They truly had the opportunity to reshape the world for enduring peace and prosperity, but they instead chose vicious competition and confrontation to further their separate goals of hegemony.

The world has never recovered from the toxic confrontation and conflict that resulted from those fateful decisions by the two superpowers at the end of WW2, even after the implosion of Soviet Union in