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With the blood of Chinese protesters still staining the streets of Beijing (following the June 4 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and surrounding districts), a covert US delegation; headed by Brent Scowcroft (President Bush’s National Security Adviser) and then Deputy Secretary of State, Laurence Eagleburger, arrived in the Chinese capital.
Their clandestine mission was about fence-mending. To reassure the Chinese Regime that, despite growing international calls for sanctions against China, it was to be ‘business as usual’. After all the economics were (and remain) key drivers of America’s policy on China. As Henry Kissinger wrote, just a few weeks after China’s murderous crackdown, it would be “too important for America’s national security to risk the relationship on the emotions of the moment“ (emphasis added) Source: Los Angeles Times July 30 1989
The response of the US Administration exposed its prioritization of commercial and corporate interests over issues of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Although at that time Levi’s pulled its Chinese operations, many corporations continued their profit-seeking presence in China as if nothing had happened. A position facilitated and protected by the President, the State Department and pro-China lobby groups; including those headed by Kissinger’s America-China Society. Which, as chance would have it, included as consultants both Eagleburger and Scowcroft!
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Such is the realpolitik of US relations with China, even today it is economic interest which dominates. Which partly explains CIA Director Bill Burns’ undercover trip to China during May this year. We were told it was to ‘reset relations’ and call for ‘intelligence channels to be maintained’, but like the delegation of 1989, his brief would have a key objective, commercial relations with China.
Meanwhile, the tyranny has not just continued, but intensified to a condition of complete control over virtually every aspect of life, courtesy of mass-surveillance, facial-recognition systems, digitized big-data analysis, bio-metric ID controls and increasingly AI processing. The people of China, and militarily occupied lands of Tibet, East Turkistan and Southern Mongolia are suffocating under an extreme and dystopian totalitarianism. But don’t let that get in the way of business, right Mr Secretary-of-State?
This post was originally published on Digital Activism Im Support Of Tibetan Independence.
