National security justifications for the New Cold War mask the real cause

Evidence

But neither China’s communist regime nor its stance on Taiwan were new, urgent or unexpected. Moreover, where were these ‘concerns’ when Apple, and many other American conglomerates, were setting up camp across communist China’s coastline from the mid-2000s onwards? Or when Washington was moving heaven and earth to let China into the World Trade Organization in the 1990s? Or after 2008, when Beijing boosted investment from around 30 per cent of national income to more than 50 per cent, creating global demand for Europe’s and America’s products and thus helping to save USdominated financialised capitalism from itself? Why did these ‘concerns’ suddenly, and well before the war in Ukraine, yield a New Cold War? — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 555

Categorization

• QUESTION: The rhetorical challenge is the crux of the chapter — worth pressing: is there hard evidence the cloudalist threat, not national security, drove the 2019-2022 escalations?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 555
• XREF: connects to: US covert operations were justified as necessary for national security. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 385; The U.S. military invents new threats to justify its size after the Cold War.

Broader Connections

• US covert operations were justified as necessary for national security. #exemplifies (0.85) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 385
• The U.S. military invents new threats to justify its size after the Cold War. #corroborates (0.82)