Anti-China rhetoric raises threat of war

[blindpig]

Anti-China rhetoric raises threat of war

The bill that was poised for passage in the US Senate Thursday with bipartisan support, mandating a US currency war with China, is a cynical diversion. Amid a rising tide of protest directed against Wall Street, the Democrats are taking the lead in an effort to provide a foreign scapegoat for the crisis of American capitalism.

The bill was introduced by Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, one of the states hardest hit by the collapse of US manufacturing, and it had the fervent support of other industrial-state Democrats like Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Charles Schumer of New York and Robert Casey of Pennsylvania.

Twelve Republican senators joined with most of the Democrats to provide the 62-38 margin to invoke cloture and end debate on the bill. These include some of the most notorious reactionaries in the Senate, including six from southern states devastated by textile mill shutdowns: Richard Burr of North Carolina, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson of Georgia, and Jefferson Sessions and Richard Shelby of Alabama.

One of the arch-warmongers in Congress, Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, backed the bill in a 79-19 procedural vote Monday to bring it to the floor of the Senate. Graham was one of nearly two dozen Republicans who support the bill but voted against cloture in an effort to add several reactionary amendments.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/pers-o07.shtml

[Enrique]

1. I'm surprised by this stance

is the WSWS pro-China?

[blindpig]

2. I don't see that.

Just pointing out the dynamics of the situation.

It was this sort of capitalists crisis which lead to WWI, with the capitalist powers all trying to export their way out. Quite impossible for all of them to do that simultaneously and so trade war, which upped the ante and lead to Bismark's 'politics by other means'....

[DonCoquixote]

3. So wsws

You do realize that the People's republic is the enabler of non union sweatshops, and, for all the communist trappings, is the main reason why organized labor has been castrated?

[blindpig]

4. Not the point.

See post #2

And don't forget that the 'enabling' started with US and other capitalists chasing that cheap labor like dogs in heat.

[DonCoquixote]

5. and that removes china;s blame

how?

[blindpig]

6. It's not about blame.

It is about the danger of war if capitalism follows it's well worn path.

War between capitalists powers is capitalist's competition by other means.