- by Peter Farmer
- The Guardian
- Issue #2119
Photo: Nicolas Raymond – flickr.com (3.0 Unported)
The US House of Representatives approved 25 anti-China laws in just one week in September this year. US website geopoliticaleconomy.com calls this “a clear sign that Washington’s new cold war is quickly heating up.”
Congress has a Select Committee on the Communist Party of China. That committee called the passing of the laws “China Week.” Support for the measures is bipartisan, and NBC news has observed that “viewing [China] primarily as a geopolitical rival is one of the few issues both Republicans and Democrats can agree on.”
One of the “China Week” bills was called the “Countering the PRC Malign Influence Fund Authorization Act.” It gives US$1.63 billion ($2.4 billion AU) to the State Department and USAID over five years to fund worldwide anti-China propaganda.
Other “China week” bills seek to weaken the renminbi, China’s currency, and expand blacklists of Chinese companies. Continuing the US love of sanctioning other nations, other bills seek to impose unilateral sanctions on China and on other countries. Geopoliticalecononmy.com notes that the USA has already imposed sanctions on one-third of all countries on earth, including 60 per cent of poor nations.
