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Baiting the Hook
The US strategic approach to China and Russia has driven them into each other’s arms. The plan to collapse Russia to weaken China has had the opposite effect.
Do you think US policymakers read the Chinese classic “The Three Kingdoms”?
In The Three Kingdoms Cao Cao, the strongest warlord at the time, finds himself fighting the allies Lv Bu and Liu Bei. Instead of attacking head on, Cao Cao employs the “Baiting the Hook” strategy in which he encourages them to start fighting among themselves.
He offered Lv Bu the opportunity to fight together against northern invaders, making Liu Bei feel insecure about his alliance with Lv Bu. This sowed the seeds of distrust and started the process of infighting between Liu Bei and Lv Bu, who started weakening each other.
Eventually Cao Cao was able to kill Lv Bu and disperse Liu Bei without having to put up a fight…
The lesson here is that instead of piling up pressure upon pressure, the US could also take a step back and be actually nice to Russia and China.
What would happen if the US would take China’s side in its border dispute with India and instead of implementing tariffs on Chinese goods, remove all trade barriers for Chinese goods?
While at the same time keeping tariffs on Russian products? And to make matters worse for Russia, the US should sell resources to China at a price below what Russia can provide them to China for…
It’s just a thought of imagination, but it would have been interesting to see if the US could pull off again what Nixon pulled off before…
The US strategic approach to China and Russia has driven them into each other’s arms. The plan to collapse Russia to weaken China has had the opposite effect.
Do you think US policymakers read the Chinese classic “The Three Kingdoms”?
In The Three Kingdoms Cao Cao, the strongest warlord at the time, finds himself fighting the allies Lv Bu and Liu Bei. Instead of attacking head on, Cao Cao employs the “Baiting the Hook” strategy in which he encourages them to start fighting among themselves.
He offered Lv Bu the opportunity to fight together against northern invaders, making Liu Bei feel insecure about his alliance with Lv Bu. This sowed the seeds of distrust and started the process of infighting between Liu Bei and Lv Bu, who started weakening each other.
Eventually Cao Cao was able to kill Lv Bu and disperse Liu Bei without having to put up a fight…
The lesson here is that instead of piling up pressure upon pressure, the US could also take a step back and be actually nice to Russia and China.
What would happen if the US would take China’s side in its border dispute with India and instead of implementing tariffs on Chinese goods, remove all trade barriers for Chinese goods?
While at the same time keeping tariffs on Russian products? And to make matters worse for Russia, the US should sell resources to China at a price below what Russia can provide them to China for…
It’s just a thought of imagination, but it would have been interesting to see if the US could pull off again what Nixon pulled off before…