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The US government is trying to divide the BRICS bloc and recruit India for its new cold war on China.

Biden doesn’t care that far-right Prime Minister Modi is closely linked to fascistic Hindu-supremacist groups that violently oppress minorities.

The US wants to repeat the Kissingerian “triangular diplomacy” it used to divide China from the former Soviet Union. But the circumstances are completely different today. US economic hegemony is in rapid decline.

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/23/us-india-far-right-modi-cold-war-china/
The US voluntarily de-industrialized and financialized its economy, so corporations could make more profits by outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China, to exploit workers with lower wages.

Now China has become the world's manufacturing superpower, training highly skilled workers, significantly raising their living standards, and building its own local industries, which are out-competing many US corporations.

So the US instead changes the rules of its beloved "rules-based order", imposing sanctions and waging economic war on Chinese companies.

Meanwhile, Washington blames Beijing for this reversal, ignoring how the USA's own polices of de-industrialization, financialization, and outsourcing destroyed its industrial base.

As the Financial Times puts it in this article, "America is feeling buyer’s remorse at the world it built": https://archive.fo/Hh3US
What's ironic is that the US has long accused China of so-called "forced" technology transfer, because Beijing didn't just want its workers to be exploited by foreign capital; it wanted to develop its own industrial capacity, by requiring foreign investors to partner with domestic firms in joint ventures.

Washington constantly complained about this, although US investors willingly complied, because they were profiting.

But now that China's industrial economy has overtaken the financialized US economy, "industrial policy" is suddenly a popular term that everyone in Washington is talking about. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan just gave a big speech openly calling for a return to industrial policy.

So when the Chinese state guides the development of its economy, Washington wants us to think it's horrible, and "authoritarian", and "inefficient", and a supposed violation of the hallowed laws of "free trade".

But now that the US government is openly engaged in industrial policy (not to mention sanctions and economic war) aimed at undermining Chinese competitors, suddenly state intervention in the economy is a-okay for the "free market" lovers Washington.

This is how the US always operates: "Do what I say, not what I do", and "There's one set of rules for me, and another set for you".
This article by a Stanford law professor summarizes how what the US calls China's supposed "forced" technology transfer is not actually forced:

"'Forced technology transfer' is a central issue in the ongoing U.S.–China trade row. The phrase encompasses a number of different practices, but the most significant according to various commentators involve measures that require foreign investors in China to partner with domestic entities as a condition of making an investment, either by forming a joint venture or affording Chinese investors a controlling equity stake.

"These 'corporate structure requirements' empower prospective Chinese partners to bargain for technology transfer as a condition of forming a new venture or otherwise enable them to learn the details of foreign technology through participation in the business enterprise.

"Foreign investors are free to reject such requirements and forego the associated investment opportunities, and in this sense any technology transfer pursuant to China’s requirements is 'consensual'".

https://law.stanford.edu/publications/the-economics-of-forced-technology-transfer-ftt-and-its-implications-for-trade-and-investment-policy-and-the-u-s-china-trade-war/
US officials constantly claim that de-dollarization is exaggerated or not even really happening.

But the US Congress held a two-hour hearing to discuss the growing "threats" to the “supremacy” of the dollar.

I highlighted the main points:

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/20/us-congress-dollar-dominance-hearing/
Western sanctions are failing, even backfiring:

The EU is importing Russian liquified natural gas at record levels, despite pledging to boycott its energy.

China is making advanced chips and strengthening tech sovereignty, despite US export restrictions.

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/09/05/sanctions-eu-russia-gas-china-tech/
China has accused the US government of continuously hacking Huawei's servers and conducting cyberattacks to steal other critical data since 2009.

China said US Big Tech companies install backdoors in software, apps, and equipment, to steal vital data from other countries.

Chinese security experts extracted spyware called Second Date while investigating a cyberattack on a university.

They found that Second Date is "cyberespionage malware developed by the US NSA, which operates covertly in thousands of networks in many countries around the world".

https://archive.ph/oV70n

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Huawei-crackdown/China-accuses-U.S.-of-hacking-Huawei-servers-since-2009
International piracy: The US stole 1.1 million rounds of ammunition from Iran, and now it's sending them to Ukraine.

The US has also been stealing Iranian oil shipments.

Stealing from a country to fuel a proxy war in another: it's the Rules-Based Order

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/4/us-sends-1-1-million-rounds-of-seized-iranian-ammunition-to-ukraine
Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza on October 17, massacring 500 civilians. But then the apartheid regime absurdly blamed the victims, falsely claiming that the explosion was the result of Palestinians "misfiring" a rocket. US President Biden echoed this blatant lie.

A weapons expert and US Army veteran debunked Israel's claim. He examined the evidence and explained that Israel attacked the hospital using a "standard American munition".

The UK's state media outlet Channel 4 investigated and came to the same conclusion. It even showed how Israel fabricated a "recording" and how Israeli officials contradicted themselves in their own lies to the public.

This was a monstrous Israeli war crime, facilitated by the United States.