MIXED VIEWS AS TO THE ULTIMATE
IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONFLICT
While observers have thus far struggled to agree
on the probable short-term and longer-term
consequences of the latest jostling between the
two countries, there is little doubt that all parties
involved could have plenty to lose – but also
that it could bring perhaps unexpected benefits.
One man to have been especially scathing
towards the U.S. position is journalist and
lecturer Matthew J. L. Ehret, who lamented
that “American policymakers continue their
delusional bid to control the world, exhibiting a
scale of denial that would make Hitler’s belief in
Germany’s possible victory during his final days
in the bunker appear to be totally reasonable.”
Writing for Asia Times, Ehret continued that
“this McCarthyite attack on... the potentially
cooperative platform of U.S.-China scientific
partnership” could be traced back to the 2011
banning of China’s involvement with NASA.
He explained: “This act, which led to China’s
elimination from the International Space Station
(ISS), forced an incredible leap to technological
self-sufficiency when China created its own
space station (Heavenly Palace) and ambitious
Change-e space program that has quickly made
it a world leader in space tech.”
However, Ehret also suggested that “the current
ban on China’s technology may in fact be
beneficial to the necessary renewal of the world
economy as nations of the West adopt a pro-
industrial growth policy for the first time in half a
century, bringing their economies into harmony
with the multi-polar long-term growth agendas
of the new China-led paradigm.”