Inflection EP08: US Containment of China: Fact or Fiction?

We talk about the US strategy of containing China, how the Western media attempts to deny this, and the undeniable evidence of this strategy stretching back decades.

We also discuss news topics including a UK government-funded “monitoring” group focused on Myanmar, the US “withdrawal” from Afghanistan, the assassination of Haiti’s president, and the stabbing of a Hong Kong police officer by opposition extremists.

Inflection is a weekly show featuring Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic, discussing recent headlines and in-depth discussion of topics shaping the shift from West to East and unipolarism to multipolarism.

News:

RT – Haiti’s president killed by ‘foreign hit squad’ of ex-Colombian military & Haitian-Americans, 11 arrested inside ‘Taiwan embassy’:
https://www.rt.com/news/528753-haiti-…

RT – The truth about US’ ‘unmitigated failure’ in Afghanistan:
https://www.rt.com/shows/news-with-ri…

Global Times – HKU student union apologizes for ‘lone-wolf’ attacker praise:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20210…

Reuters – Myanmar rights violations under scrutiny from new task force:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pa…

UK – Myanmar (Burma) and the UK:
https://www.gov.uk/world/myanmar/news

BBC – The police defecting as a new civil war looms in Myanmar:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asi…

Columbia Journalism Review – Myanmar’s Other Reporters:
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/my…

AAPP:
https://aappb.org/

National Endowment for Democracy – Ko Bo Kyi:
https://www.ned.org/fellows/ko-bo-kyi/

Main Topic:

SCMP – A clash of civilisations played out at SCMP’s annual China Conference: the full debate (Question of US containment of China):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4grW…

US State Department, Office of the Historian – 189. Draft Memorandum From Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Johnson:
https://history.state.gov/historicald…

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – What China Knows That We Don’t: The Case for a New Strategy of Containment:
https://carnegieendowment.org/1997/01…

LD – Supranational ASEAN is Super Folly for Southeast Asia:
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/20…

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – Problem with Powell:
https://carnegieendowment.org/publica…

White House Archives (Trump Administration) – U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific:
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/…

US Congress – H.R.7937 – Countering Chinese Communist Party Malign Influence Act:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-c…

White House – Remarks by President Biden on America’s Place in the World:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-r…