Rise & Fall of democracies and Sino-American conflict in post cold war era.
Can Trump handle it?
What Trump is doing is not a new thing but it is continuation of an old policy in different packing. ٰIs democracy still a main deterrence against anti-people aggression? Misuse of campaigns for Rights & democracy are on cards. Love with Hong Kong but silence on Kashmir, Palestine or vice versa is enough to understand gimmicks of power play.
In his book (Published in 1992) American out of box thinker Noam Chomsky had revealed that future US rulers would be more brutal then their predecessors and would use hammer extensively to control the disturbed balance of post cold war crisis.
Although Chomsky was more clear on cold war mantra, designed in post WW2 era to protect US interests and deconstructed so-called ideological camp theory well yet his analysis of US ruling elite threw ample light on future. Even after 28 years, it is more close to reality in many ways. He wrote that the United States has deliberately fought against democratic, progressive movements in order to pursue its coercive, capitalist interests.
At that time China was in making yet deterioration of USSR was on cards. Like early 1950s & late 1960s, UK unsuccessfully tried to use it in favor of her but finally compelled to play the role of subservient agent under US WOT.
In a review of Chomsky's book writer had explained US interests as,
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Noam Chomsky's latest book, Deterring Democracy, is an exhaustively researched , impassioned and reasoned analysis of American foreign policy. It defies dismissal. Chomsky argues that the United States historically has pursued "stability" instead of "democracy" overseas while claiming to pursue both. These two pursuits, Chomsky asserts, are incompatible because democratic history is an unstable terrain, a dialectical process wherein laboring classes (peasants, urban proletarians, trade unions) struggle against repressive regimes (corporate, military and political elites). In the midst of these inevitable conflicts and in an age ofcapital-intensive modernization, urbanization and surplus labor, twentiethcentury American foreign policy has been made. The U.S. Government, Chomsky persuasively argues, is ruled—albeit democratically—by a politico-corporate elite that has consistently sided with repressive regimes in the developing world, whose "assigned 'function' . . . has been to serve the needs of the industrial West." American business elites have demanded access to overseas markets, cheap labor and primary resources which repressive governments have been willing to exploit for a price. That price has been American financial, military and diplomatic support for regimes which in turn stifle democratic reform movements through violence, coercion, death-squad killings and widespread jailings. Chomsky further suggests that the United States has perpetuated an ideological system that masks these practices because they are morally reprehensible . The press, he shows, serves the corporate-governmental elite by defending and disguising U.S. Governmental hostility towards the political and economic freedom of laboring classes throughout the world. Chomsky addresses in detail the press's ideological commitment to the state's exceptionalism and "democratic mission." Chomsky establishes, therefore, that the United States has deliberately fought against democratic, progressive movements in order to pursue its coercive, capitalist interests''
If you analysis post 1990 Pakistan you may easily find implementation of US interests against democracy by the non-elected elite well. Not a single government or political party could review Pak-US relations. US role expanded in South Asia in post 9/11 era and in his book ON China Henry Kissinger threw ample light on it. Re-emergence of China Containment policy expanded ample spaces for the elite of India & Bangladesh to save their petty interests. uring 1990s, the mantra of Offshore investments was coined to strangle Non-British & Non-US elite and it is serving well even in 2019. The mantra was, '' if you can control elite, you can influence deep states''. One may check rise of anti money laundering gods in this perspective too. But these arrangements were not enough to control things so civil rights campaigns and democracy got ample space in US foreign policy agenda to combat others.
To be continue
