However, this new "engagement" is all about Washington trying to enlist Western allies in a hostile camp towards China so as to better achieve American objectives.
At both the G7 summit and Munich Security Conference earlier this month, Biden repeatedly flagged up China and Russia as adversaries and threats for the Western "allies."
The trouble for Biden and his deep state handlers is that Western allies cannot afford to accommodate his policy of isolating China and Russia. It is detrimental to their own self-interests.
As the Global Times commented this week: The vitality of the Chinese economy is unstoppable" For the world, detaching from the Chinese market is becoming more and more inconceivable than detaching from the US market."
China is now the biggest trading partner for the European Union, having surpassed the United States. China is a key market for Germany's export-led economy and Germany is the de facto leader of the EU. Russia is also essential for supplying Germany and Europe with affordable secure energy.
There is no way that Washington's attempts to polarise the world as it did with the Soviet Union will succeed. It is futile. The multipolar world that China and Russia often speak of is a reality, which means partnership and cooperation between nations is the only viable way forward.
American power is like a lumbering dinosaur living in a world whose political and economic environment has been transformed. It's a beast whose modus operandi has expired and no longer applicable.
There is of course the danger of military confrontation prompted by a desperate waning American power facing extinction. But fortunately, China and Russia are formidable military powers which America cannot realistically conceive of attacking. (How damnable that such a contingency could even be contemplated, but that's the nefarious nature of American power for you).
Which leaves us with this consideration. If US power-play against China (and Russia) is futile and war is inconceivable, what will become of America?
If it wants to avoid internal collapse -- a process of decay already underway -- American society and its capitalist economy must in some way be radically transformed into a more democratic, egalitarian and drastically less militarist economy. Can the American people mobilise for this challenge?
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