Dr. Uwe Behrens

The ‘No-Rival’ Policy of the U.S.A.

This is the edited transcript of the presentation of Dr. Uwe Behrens to Panel 2, “Runaway Inflation or Glass-Steagall?” of the Schiller Institute’s June 18-19 Conference, “There Can Be No Peace Without the Bankruptcy Reorganization of the Dying Trans-Atlantic Financial System.” Dr. Behrens is a logistics manager and author based in Berlin. Subheads have been added, as well as links to the most important documents mentioned by the speaker.

Human Rights Commissioner in Xinjiang

In May 2022, finally the High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Commission, Mrs. Michelle Bachelet, and her team could visit the Xinjiang province, China, the home of the Chinese Muslim minority, the Uighurs. She held talks with the officials of the province, with people on the street, visited prisons, vocational training camps, schools, hospitals, factories, and workshops. After four days travelling in the province, she returned to Guangzhou, where she replied to the questions of the international press. She pointed to … the anti-terror action of China on one side to improve the living condition of the entire population, including the Muslim minority, in order to dry out the ground of terrorism; and on the other side, to tighten the security measures. The visit was not an investigation, but gave the possibility to talk with the people and the authorities.

With this outcome, she did not match the expectation of the anti-China politics in the West. For this, the Western media launched, again, a campaign by claiming a whistleblower sent the internal files of the Xinjiang police to the well-known but doubtful evangelist, Adrian Zenz; the so-called “Xinjiang police files.”

I [looked] into the files and had to realize [that] all the files are at least four to five years old. The photos of the police ready to shoot escaping inmates are out of internal Chinese police training material, and the text which was published by the BBC, was written with software for writing Chinese language. This software is not in use in China, but abroad. The English translation of the original files is misleading and parts change the meaning completely. For example, in the copied speech of the Xinjiang party leader, he referred to an actual case that one prisoner could escape since the guards did not use their arms, they did not shoot; but they should have done so. The translation indicates the guards must shoot in any case, but the special case this Xinjiang leader mentioned, was not mentioned in the translation.

All this supports the supposition that the files are misleading, or even fake. For anti-China politics, it is not important that those files are fake. Important for them is only that the people in the Western countries believe it, and the trip of Michelle Bachelet can be criticized.

China Seen as the Only Rival

What does all this have to do with the No-Rival Doctrine of the U.S.A.? After the Second World War, the U.S.A. achieved becoming the dominating power in the world, ruling the international relationships worldwide, within the UN, the World Bank, and the IMF. The only challenger at that time was the Soviet Union, jointly with the Warsaw Pact states. Already in 1946, U.S. diplomat George Kennan formulated the strategy for the Cold War against the Soviet Union, the so-called “Long Telegram.” By 1990, the U.S. finally succeeded; the Soviet Union was dissolved. Mr. Fukuyama blew the trumpet: “The end of history” had been reached.

In 1993, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney published a No-Rival Doctrine. Never again shall any power be as strong as the Soviet Union, to challenge the hegemony of the U.S.A.

But in 2001, Russian President Putin proposed to Germany and the EU to combine German technology with Russian resources. Eurasia would be an area in peace, and strong in developing the livelihood for its people. But exactly this, the U.S.A. didn’t want: a new strong power which could be a challenge for American hegemony. Mr. Brzezinski wrote in his several books that Ukraine would be the key to divide Europe and Russia. In 2004, the color revolution was financed by the U.S.A.; in 2014, the Maidan revolution.

The intention to extend NATO up to the Russian borders followed. Russia finally secured its military safety, the security of the Russian people living in Ukraine, and acted with arms. Mission completed. Russia and Europe are no rivals anymore. In 2021, the Atlantic Council formulated the so-called “Longer Telegram,” the strategy how to contain China. It works out today on three levels—militarily, economically, and politically respective ideologically.

Militarily, the U.S. formed the so-called Quad, an alliance between the U.S.A., Japan, Australia, and India. They will deliver nuclear submarines to Australia, to form the so-called AUKUS and the permanent presence of the U.S. Navy in the South China Sea. Economically: Trading restrictions, with tariffs, embargoes, and sanctions against certain goods, forming an economic alliance against China.

The new alliance is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. Just two weeks ago, Biden launched it in Japan: Politically, ideologically to focus on the fault lines among Xi and his inner circle, aiming at changing their strategy course, to support Taiwan to claim independence from China. It means to divide China, or to support the political activists claiming more democracy through independence of Hong Kong from the People’s Republic of China. And finally, blaming China for human rights violations in Xinjiang. This is the chain link between the Xinjiang police files, the visit of Michelle Bachelet, and the No-Rival Doctrine. China is challenging the hegemonic power of the U.S.A.

Now, China is the only rival for the U.S.A. for the next coming years. At the moment, I think the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is most probably only the foreplay for the coming conflict between the U.S.A. and China.

This coming conflict has to be prevented. All the facts—the “Long Telegram”, the No-Rival Doctrine, and the “Longer Telegram” of the Atlantic Council—are published and available on the Internet. But unfortunately, nobody is looking into it. Nobody looks at the connection of all this. Instead, everybody is believing the misleading information, half-truths, and even fakes of the main media.

The Xinjiang police files are just one part of this strategy to contain China. It is highly important to inform about the outspoken politics of the U.S.A. and NATO and their intention. We have to stop any source of further escalation. This finally begins with the conferences the Schiller Institute organizes. For this, I thank the Schiller Institute. Thank you very much.