‘China Must Be Destroyed’
by Peter Lee - China Watch
February 5, 2019
The hook was that the figs were from Carthage, Rome’s rival for supremacy in the Mediterranean. And the figs were fresh, because Carthage was only three days’ sail from Rome. And they were magnificent, because Carthage had survived its century of confrontation with Rome to become both bigger and wealthier than Rome.
This displeased Cato the Elder, who wanted Carthage to remain in an eternally submissive status to Rome.
So, he ended every speech in the Roman Senate with the statement, “Carthaginem esse delendam”: “Carthage must be destroyed”.
And guess what: because of Cato’s determination, and the fig stunt and, the fact that Carthage was the main center of agricultural and economic wealth in the Mediterranean not yet controlled by Rome, Carthage was destroyed in 146 B.C.
The Roman armies razed Carthage to the ground, sold the surviving population into slavery, annihilated its written culture…and Rome got a few more centuries at the top of the heap!
Well, today it’s Sinisem esse delendam: China must be destroyed. Instead of Cato the Elder, we got Marco Rubio. Instead of figs, we got Huawei smart phones. And we’ve got Indo Pacific Command thirsting for another couple decades as top dog in the western pacific.
And we have increasingly open and unambiguous calls for the PRC to be destabilized both from the so-called left and right wings of American politics…which are pretty much all right wing nowadays.
The last few days have seen open calls for China destabilization by George Soros, the activist patron of liberal internationalists in the Democratic Party, and William Kristol, the deep thinker of the GOP establishment who gave us Sarah Palin.
And the fulcrum for the U.S. effort is, as always, Huawei, the cutting edge Chinese telecommunications company.
The China war is real. We’re now in the Cold War phase and it’s going to get hotter and hotter. Count on it. It’s the plan.
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