Allies Revolt?

Allies Revolt?


The New York Times recently reported in “Hostility From U.S. as China Lures Allies to New Bank” that,

“ When Xi Jinping, then the newly minted Chinese leader, first broached the idea of a new Asian development bank in a public speech in 2013, few in Washington paid it much heed.

“But as Beijing systematically recruited longtime American allies to help fund and oversee the new bank, it became clear that the push was more than a public relations gesture to China’s Asian neighbors.  It was also a direct threat to the post-World War II financial institutions led primarily by the United States, and to President Obama’s pledges to make a “pivot” to Asia in American foreign policy.

“Now with Britain, France, Germany and Italy signing up to join the new bank, despite direct pleas from Washington to steer clear, the question is whether the Obama administration mishandled a significant challenge from China, and what it might have done differently.”


No, that’s not “the question”.

“The questions” are:


1) Does the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) signal that the end of the US fiat dollar is not only inevitable but near to hand?

2) By joining China’s new bank, do our European allies (Britain, Germany, France and Italy) signal that they believe the fiat dollar’s days are numbered?

3) By joining China’s new bank, do our European allies signal that they’re not merely responding to the mathematics that tell us that the fiat dollar is doomed, but are instead so sick and tired of Washington’s financial bullying (FATCA), military invasions and false-flag revolutions, that their decisions to join the AIIB demonstrate a real break in US-European relations?

4) Is it merely a coincidence that Britain, Germany, France and Italy have all almost simultaneously announced their decisions to join China’s new bank?  Or do those simultaneous announcements indicate a previous, underlying agreement (and even secret conspiracy) between those four nations (and Europe in general), to distance themselves from, and defy, the Obama administration?

5)  Given that major European powers have already joined China’s AIIB, how many more nations will follow suit and also join the AIIB—and how soon?

“The question” is not whether the Obama administration has mishandled the single issue of the AIIB, but whether President Obama and former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have mishandled such a multitude of foreign policy issues for so many years that they’ve alienated former allies and much of the world.

If some of the world’s nations are joining the AIIB because they’re angry at US foreign policy, they’re certainly angry at Obama and probably angry at former Secretary of State Clinton.  If so, these foreign countries are unlikely to support Hilary’s election as our next President.  If US foreign policy abuses and failures under the Obama administration have alienated a number of US allies, will that alienation work against Hilary’s election as President to any significant degree?