America's Flailing China Policy Is Taking The World To A Scary Place

Dr. Annelle Sheline research fellow for the Middle East at the Quincy Institute for responsible statecraft. Her latest report is called ending counterproductive U.S. involvement in Yemen. In this video she focuses on the US policy toward China and how dangerous it is for the world.

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So I mean you mentioned China this is a bit of a pivot but I am curious about your thoughts on I mean this has been long foretold the pivot to Asia. We've effectively wrecked the Middle East. And we got a bunch of Middle Eastern countries to come to the side of Israel. So that means that the United States has influence there and we also have oil Partnerships with them. So all right like the West has ruined the Middle East enough. So now we're increasing militarism towards China. The reopening of four Philippines bases that have been defunct for a while but were United States Colonial operations in China's back door. Plus our agreements with Australia. So we have more Weapons on the coast of China. And then this news from yesterday about 600 million in our 600 million arms potentially going to Taiwan. What is the end game here? And as somebody who studies U.S. policy in the Middle East, what are your number one concerns? It's hard to nail down the number one concern. I think I think in general you know so much of what is driving this is the capture of U.S. politics by the weapons industry. Which has systematically taken control of our political process. You know they've been very intentional in making sure that every member of Congress has some kind of weapons Manufacturing in their District. Such that if that were to be cut they would have their constituents saying why do you know we want to keep these jobs. This is part of why we're seeing these massive military budgets being pushed through. you know that Congress allocating even more money than Biden himself had requested which was already Beyond you know what we'd seen under Trump. At a time when we are not a sense you know we're not fighting we're in Iraq anymore. We pulled out of Afghanistan; we're not yet involved in a war with China. And so this question of how much money would be involved in actually trying to fight China let alone the risk of nuclear apocalypse. You know this is not just invading and subjugating a much weaker country like Iraq. I mean this is going against a fellow nuclear-armed power whose economy Rivals our own. So I think my number one fear is that people may have this notion that we won the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Or yeah the war in Iraq wasn't great but you know it wasn't that big of a deal. Because for many Americans you know are all a volunteer Force you know many many people don't feel directly the impact of what that war meant. whether it was for U.S. veterans or for populations in the Middle East.