Posted on 12/02/2022 1:22:14 PM PST by elpadre
Gérard Araud was not mincing his words. As France’s former ambassador to Washington, he had seen enough. At a November 14 panel hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar Word?” Araud decried the “economic warfare” being waged by the United States against China, expressing the view that Europe was concerned by the evident “containment policy” being pursued.
Araud is very much the establishment figure, having also served as French representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2014. But despite his pedigree, he was most keen to fire off a few salvos against such concepts as the “rules-based order” so treasured by the Anglosphere and the “West” more broadly defined. “To be frank, I’ve always been extremely sceptical about this idea of a ‘rules-based order.’” Both he and the French in general loved the United Nations, “but the Americans not too much.”
With unerring frankness, he also noted that the UN and broader international hierarchy was dominated by the U.S.-European bloc. The undersecretaries to the organisation reflected that fact, as did the stewardship of the World Bank and the IMF. “So that’s the first element: this order is our order.”
The second element was historical: the balance of power as it was in the war-ruined world of 1945. “Really people forget that, if China and Russia are obliged to oppose [with] their veto, it is because frankly the Security Council is most of the time, 95% of the time, has a Western-oriented majority.”
French President Emmanuel Macron has adopted elements of Araud’s thinking, notably regarding the problems and limits of U.S. domination, while still reasserting the value of France’s own global imprint. Such actions and sombre strategizing are taking place in the shadow of the West’s decline...
(Excerpt) Read more at intpolicydigest.org ...
excerpted:
“...Then came the finger-pointing, sharply directed at the biggest of culprits and the underminers of the West. “Within Western countries, many wrong choices the United States has made in the face of crises have deeply shaken our hegemony.” It was not something that began with the Trump administration; previous U.S. presidents “made other wrong choices long before Trump, Clinton’s China policy, Bush’s war policy, Obama’s world financial crisis, and quantitative easing policy.”...”
and another:
“..A simple policy shift that can be made is having President Biden make more public statements clearly articulating the dangers of cooperation with the CCP. China’s Xi Jinping made a speech in April which advocated for “the common security of the world,” led by the CCP. Biden should make similar statements directly pushing back on the notion that the U.S. will allow the CCP to revise the international system to its benefit....”
“..Chicoms are in a complete authoritative rule over the Chinese people...”
absolute control - the question is how much control does have of Biden????
I really believe Biden is compromised.
“..It was not something that began with the Trump administration;...”
No one seems willing to state that Trump who, as a world leader, was truly a peacemaker.
He kept the world at peace for four years.
Well, we could just withdraw back into our own borders and be isolationists again. Then wait maybe 15-20 years until the French come begging us to save them once more.
FTA: “Both he and the French in general loved the United Nations...”
Well, I see a problem right there.
It's the Golden Rule, pal.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
When you whiners start paying your fair share, then maybe the adults will listen to you.
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