Neil Bush, ameriški poslovnež in filantrop (sicer pa četrti sin Georgea Busha starejšega in brat zloglasnega Georgea Busha mlajšega) je v intervjuju navrgel nekaj dejstev o odnosih med ZDA in Kitajsko, ki so objektivnim opazovalcem dokaj samoumevne. Njegove izjave so zanimive predvsem zaradi njegovega pedigreja, ker s tem rušijo moč uradne ameriške narative glede Kitajske.

The Chinese system works for China

He says, that after coming to the country 150 times in the past 50 years, he’s “come to the conclusion, and most Americans probably can’t even tolerate that I will say this, that the Chinese system has worked for China. The Chinese system has been so beneficial to hundreds of millions of people.”

The key reason for the US’s hostility to China is simply because China is rising and the US makes up paranoic “false narratives” about it

“[In] the book ‘Destined for War’ a professor from Harvard did a study of 16 cases where an established power like the United States is the strongest power faces a rising power. In today’s world China is a rising power and in 12 of the 16 cases it ended up in war over the past 600 years. And the reason is that a rising power and an established power end up in wars is because the established power feels threatened by the rise and they make up these claims that the rising power wants to take over and be the most powerful force on the earth, or the rising power is gonna take over my economy… They come up with false narratives. There are many false narratives being planted right now and I think it’s directly related to China’s rise and the perceived threat of that rise to our standard of living, to our way of life, to our national security. I just don’t I don’t believe that the rise represents a threat to America so I’m so I’m in a different camp than 90% of the American people right now and I agree with you that if more people could come [to China] they could make their own judgment and not listen to the propaganda and the demagoguery of the political elite in America that make China out to be some kind of devil.”

China doesn’t have hostile intentions vis à vis the US, it’s the US turning them into an enemy

“As China grows, clearly its military will also grow because that’s what countries do: they build up defense capabilities. And the question is what will China use that military for and is it possible that that military is going to be aimed at America in some hostile way? I don’t think that that’s China’s intentions at all. You know my father never believed that China was an enemy to the United States. And I guess you can turn a friend into an enemy if you treat them that way, you know eventually, but it would be devastating to both countries and to the world if we ended up engaging in some kind of a conflict.”

China-US economic relation is a win-win

“The bilateral trade relationship with China doesn’t have an evilness to it. It’s actually very healthy and that it’s been good for American consumers and good for America’s prosperity but it’s also been very good for China so there’s been this classic win win situation and I think Americans are [eventually] going to realize that Chinese aren’t bad people”

Vir: Arnaud Bertrand via X