The Economist Seeks U.S.-China Confrontation To Head Off Trump Reelection

Dec. 27, 2019 (EIRNS)—The City of London weekly The Economist has published over this Christmas period at least two forecasts of volatile hotspots in 2020 through which President Donald Trump could, it hopes, be brought down: Those are China and an economic “downturn.”

Read these scenarios as British intention, not merely “evaluations.” This weekly has functioned as the mouthpiece of British Empire intelligence since its founding in 1843.

Start with the article, “Donald Trump, Accidental China Hawk.” The Economist complains that President Trump has not campaigned for “structural changes” in the Chinese economic and political system that many of his advisers champion; he has avoided confronting China over Hong Kong (The Economist drily describes externally-run rioting in Hong Kong as “a crisis that could have been tailor-made to appeal to American public opinion”); and his commitment to defending Taiwan has been “weak.”

But The Economist proposes that “events in 2020—notably around China’s periphery, in border regions and contested territories where Beijing struggles to impose its autocratic will,” could, especially “in an American election year, when there will be no political downside to talking tough on China ... push Mr. Trump into Cold War-style confrontations that he has avoided until now.”

The Economist adds a succession crisis in Tibet and the possible re-election of the pro-independence president of Taiwan in 2020, to the Hong Kong crisis and their attempts to revive the Uighur terrorist independence movement. “All in all, China’s periphery will be a source of unpredictable risks and threats,” they promise.

Thus, The Economist brazenly confirms EIR’s charge in its provocative November 2019 special report, “End the McCarthyite Witchhunt Against China and President Trump,” that the wild McCarthyite attacks on China in the United States are part and parcel of the British-directed coup against President Trump.

Now, turn to their Dec. 25 article, “Buckle Up for America’s Ugly Election and Faltering Economy.” This brazenly projects that interacting economic and geopolitical volatility in 2020 can bring about the global war the British imperialists have been desperately seeking. They write that “a noticeable cooling of the American economy,” stock market “wobbles,” and “stumbling” financial markets in 2020 will “challenge” the claim that Trump has Made America Great Again, and help create the electoral conditions under which they hope the U.S. can be driven to war.

In their words: “With America’s politicians distracted by electoral rivalry at home, opportunists elsewhere will be tempted to try their luck. If that exposes the superpower’s weakness, the embarrassment could in turn push an argument over America’s role in the world to the heart of the election campaign, potentially precipitating an international crisis as the President feels himself compelled to react decisively.

“Such a crisis is the last thing a faltering economy needs. But America’s febrile politics of 2020 make one likelier than usual. Get ready for a wild ride.”