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Why the Chinese Are Shocked About the Nazism of America’s Government

28 November 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

During World War Two, the U.S. was allied with China against Japan, which was allied with Hitler; so, China’s leaders today are dismayed that Japan, which had raped China not only in that war but also prior to it, is now, and ever-increasingly, allied with America to conquer China.

Germany’s Nazism was secondarily about eliminating all Jews, but was, above all, global-supremacist — viewing Germany as being God-ordained to rule the entire world, to subordinate ultimately the entire world to Germany’s control. This was clear in Hitler’s 1925 Mein Kampf but then carried even further in his “Secret Book” or unpublished (till 1960) 1928 SECOND BOOK, in which Hitler said that Germany’s last conquest would need to be of America, because America would be the toughest to defeat.

After World War II, Harry Truman promptly reversed FDR’s plan for the post-WW2 world order to be based upon FDR’s U.N., and he launched on 25 July 1945 the Cold War in the belief that if America wouldn’t take over the world, the Soviet Union would — he was persuaded of this by both Winston Churchill and Truman’s own personal hero General Eisenhower, and believed it to be true; Stalin was shocked at first, so much that he couldn’t believe that Truman really believed this way, but soon he realized Truman did. And all subsequent U.S. Presidents have continued in line with Truman’s ultimate objective that America must ultimately rule the world — this view subsequently even got names: one was “neoconservatism,” and another was “the [U.S.] rules based international order,” to replace the U.N.’s international-laws based international order, and so install the U.S. Government instead of the U.N. as being the ultimate creator of international laws.

This is the background to understand the (as-always deeply penetrating) commentary on November 28th by Alexander Mercouris:

https://theduran.com/xi-warns-japan-pm-takaichi-and-trump-to-back-off/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi79igqwC3M

“Xi warns Japan PM Takaichi and Trump to back off”

0:00

ALEX CHRISTOFORU: All right, Alexander, let's talk about

0:01

the situation that is developing between

0:04

Japan and China

0:07

and Xiinping's call to Trump, which was

0:11

a very significant uh significant

0:13

development. Xiinping actually uh

0:16

calling the US president. Uh it it looks

0:20

like Trump, at least at first, did not

0:22

understand the significance of uh of

0:25

Xiinping actually reaching out to him,

0:27

calling him. But um it seems like now

0:32

there is an understanding of of the

0:33

significance of uh of this phone call

0:36

and uh Japan and China over Taiwan. Huh.

0:43

That's an interesting development. What

0:44

are your thoughts?

0:45

ALEXANDER MERCOURIS: Well, it is — I mean, what has happened is,

0:47

that Japan has had one of its regular

0:50

changes of prime minister, and the new

0:53

prime minister who is a woman is um

0:58

somebody who is very much on the

1:00

nationalist wing of Japanese politics

1:04

and in Japan when one talks about a

1:07

nationalist wing of politics that often

1:10

translates into a anti-China or hostile

1:14

to China or suspicious of China

1:17

position. And she has made certain

1:19

comments about Japan defending Taiwan

1:23

and supporting Taiwan in its uh cause of

1:28

um protecting itself from reconquest by

1:33

mainland China. Now, for the Chinese,

1:37

this is absolutely unacceptable

1:39

language. Um as far as they're

1:41

concerned, Taiwan is part of their

1:43

country. Um uh there is no such

1:46

conception of Taiwan as an independent

1:50

state.

1:52

The reason Taiwan initially was

1:56

separated from the Chinese motherland, as

1:59

they would say, in the first place was

2:02

because in the 19th century as a result

2:04

of a war between China and Japan, Japan

2:08

conquered it. And here is the prime

2:12

minister of Japan, a country which waged

2:16

a massively aggressive series of wars

2:19

against China in the 1890s, but then

2:22

again mostly in the 1930s and the 1940s.

2:28

uh wars that caused enormous devastation

2:30

in China and which have never been

2:33

forgotten in China and which

2:38

the Communist Party of China conceives

2:42

of itself as having led China's

2:46

resistance to the Japanese. Obviously

2:48

this is disputed, but anyway um here we

2:51

have Japan the Japanese talking in this

2:54

way, and this has triggered a an

2:58

extremely strong reaction from China and

3:03

um I as I understand it and I've been

3:06

talking to people from China itself they

3:09

say that there's the mood there is of

3:12

people actually being ready and talking

3:14

about a a war between China and Japan

3:19

over Taiwan. So

3:22

Xi Jinping, um, who is obviously uh himself

3:27

insensed by this but quite possibly

3:30

under pressure too because remember this

3:32

is feelings in China about this are very

3:34

very strong. What he tries to do, what

3:37

he's done is he's called Trump, and this

3:41

is unprecedented. Um, apparently the

3:44

only other time when a Chinese leader

3:48

took the initiative of calling the White

3:52

House was after 9/11.

3:56

So this time Xi Jinping for the first time

3:59

ever has initiated a call with the US

4:02

president. And if you go to the Chinese

4:04

readout, it's quite clear what he's

4:06

talking about. He's talking about Japan.

4:08

He's talking about Taiwan. He says that

4:11

the United States and China fought

4:13

together against Japan in the Second

4:17

World War. He's reminding um Trump of

4:21

all of that history and of Japanese

4:25

militarism and Japanese aggressiveness

4:29

and he's basically calling on Trump to

4:31

bring Japan to heel. And uh Trump's

4:35

initial comments about this call on

4:38

truth social showed that it went

4:40

completely over his head, and he didn't

4:43

really understand the purpose of Xi's

4:46

call at all.

4:49

CHRISTOFOROU: So what happens uh now going forward? Uh

4:53

Brian Berletic actually did a video [and article] on

4:55

this on this, the situation between Japan

4:58

and uh and China, and and I think Brian

5:01

makes a correct uh point a correct

5:03

assessment

5:04

uh in his analysis, which is that Japan

5:07

would never be doing any of this

5:10

without some approval in in the United

5:12

States.

5:14

Very high up very significant approval

5:16

from from the United States. So

5:19

if you assume that the United States is

5:21

is behind pushing

5:24

Japan towards towards some sort of uh of

5:28

aggressive posture or saber rattling

5:32

against China, what

5:35

message does does Trump take from

5:38

this, given that that Xi Jinping is

5:40

basically telling him: bring Japan to to

5:43

heel? I mean, where do we go from from

5:44

here? Are we going to see a repeat of of

5:48

Project Ukraine [with Taiwan instead of Ukraine, and China instead of Russia]? Or will, uh, will some

5:51

more sensible, pragmatic, rational

5:53

people in DC say, "You know what? Um, we

5:56

decided to to test China.” Maybe that was

5:59

the purpose of this. I don't know. Maybe

6:00

there's something more to it, but

6:02

whatever. We we decided to to do this.

6:06

Obviously, China is not going to have

6:07

any of it. We couldn't get the better of

6:09

China in a trade war. You know that. That

6:11

tended very quickly with uh with

6:14

China basically saying no rare earths,

6:16

and we had to back off from that. Let’s,

6:17

let's not push it militarily at least

6:20

for the moment. What do you think this

6:22

is going to lead to?

6:23

MERCOURIS: Yes. The first thing to say is that I

6:24

completely agree with Brian. I I it is

6:26

inconceivable to me that any Japanese

6:30

government, even a very nationalist

6:32

Japanese government, would uh involve

6:36

itself in the Taiwan issue unless it had

6:41

some at least it was confident that it

6:44

had the support of the United States. In

6:46

fact, I would go further than this.

6:48

There's been lots of discussion about

6:50

Taiwan um in the American military

6:55

media, but also the neocon media and

6:58

what the United States has in fact been

7:00

trying to do or at least when I say the

7:02

United States, the military people and

7:04

the foreign policy people who have the

7:07

objective of trying to contain China and

7:10

who have been quietly

7:13

um leveraging the situation in Taiwan

7:17

have tried to move Taiwan gradually

7:20

slowly towards some kind of independence

7:22

from China because they see Taiwan first

7:25

and foremost and I I think I want to say

7:27

this as a m as a major naval base and

7:30

position that the United States needs to

7:33

retain if it is to retain control of the

7:36

Pacific. This goes all the way back by

7:38

the way to the n to the 1950s. Um,

7:41

Douglas MacArthur, you know, the famous

7:44

American general, wrote back wrote a

7:47

memo all the way back in I think 1950 in

7:52

which he spoke about Taiwan as being the

7:55

key to American control of the Pacific.

8:00

If the United States were supposedly to

8:03

lose Taiwan,

8:05

extraordinary thing to say, by the way,

8:07

losing Taiwan, but if they were to lose

8:10

Taiwan or if Taiwan were to fall under,

8:14

using MacArthur's words, communist

8:17

control, that would open the way for uh

8:22

the Chinese uh the Chinese who have an

8:25

increasingly powerful navy to contest

8:29

the Pacific, controlled of the

8:31

Pacific against the US fleet. So there's

8:34

been a lot of this all of this a lot of

8:37

this discussion going on and the US has

8:40

been saying to itself well you know

8:42

we're being out produced by China in

8:44

naval construction. The Chinese have

8:46

just unrolled their first super carrier

8:50

and they got two other smaller carriers

8:52

and they're building up their navy very

8:54

very fast. So what we need to do is not

8:58

just contest

9:00

China with our own navy where the odds

9:04

are starting to shift, the balance is

9:06

starting to shift in China's favor. But

9:10

we've got to involve our allies as well.

9:12

And that means the Philippines and South

9:16

Korea, but South Korea can't be

9:19

completely relied upon because it's got

9:22

its own prickly relationship with China,

9:26

and and anyway it's sometimes gives

9:30

impressions of wanting to go its own way

9:33

and the Philippines is not a you know

9:36

powerful industrial country, the powerful

9:39

industrial country in this area which is

9:43

our ally is Japan, and there's been a lot

9:46

of talk for quite a long time about

9:49

enlisting Japan's help and Japan has a

9:52

significant navy to try to defend Taiwan

9:56

on along the alongside the United

9:58

States. So I think this is where this

10:00

comes from. action. I don't think this

10:02

has come out of the blue, and I think

10:04

this is one of the reasons also why the

10:07

Chinese have reacted so strongly because

10:10

Japan is a significant industrial and

10:16

military power in East Asia, and it is

10:19

also by the way a uh country which could

10:23

quite quickly acquire nuclear weapons

10:26

should he choose to do so. So this is

10:29

this is this touches on many Chinese raw

10:32

nerves. Now um the extent to which Trump

10:37

himself

10:38

is involved in any of this I think is

10:42

massively open to doubt. What he needs

10:46

to understand is that this is a very

10:49

dangerous situation which could very

10:52

easily escalate in ways that would be

10:56

dangerous for the United States and for

10:59

him because if the Chinese get the sense

11:03

that the Japanese and the Americans are

11:05

now ganging up against them um over an

11:10

issue like Taiwan, which is a very red

11:14

button issue in China, then the Chinese

11:17

will start to take counter measures and

11:19

they will start to take counter measures

11:21

that will extend beyond the very

11:26

significant military buildup that is

11:29

going on in China at the moment. It

11:32

could very easily lead, for example, to

11:34

the Chinese again restricting exports or

11:37

or further restricting exports of rare

11:41

earths um stopping exports of rare

11:44

earths to the United States in order to

11:48

upset the American military buildup.

11:51

They would say this is nothing to do

11:52

with economics anymore. It's nothing to

11:54

do with trade. It's about it's about

11:57

Taiwan. It's about uh military affairs.

12:01

So we can't we can't arm our own

12:06

military enemy. So we could see all of

12:09

that restart and very quickly by the way

12:14

and we could see the Chinese starting to

12:16

take other measures as well, um um pre

12:20

you know stopping supplies of important

12:24

materials to the United States and

12:27

perhaps also

12:29

um the Chinese taking further steps to

12:32

strengthen their relations with their

12:35

allies. Now the key ally of course here

12:39

is Russia. The Chinese might say to

12:42

themselves, "If the Americans are going

12:44

coming after us over Taiwan and are

12:47

enlisting the Japanese, then we need the

12:50

Russians fully on side with us. That

12:52

means we got to end the war in Ukraine

12:54

fast. How do we end the war in Ukraine

12:56

fast? We start doing what we have up to

12:58

now not done, which is we start sending

13:01

weapons directly to the Russians. and

13:05

our massive industrial and manufacturing

13:08

um economy can provide Russia not with 4

13:13

million shells or 5 million shells.” It

13:15

could quite easily provide Russia with a

13:18

100,000

13:20

a 100 million shells which is what the

13:24

Soviet Union produced every year during

13:26

the Second World War. So you know you

13:28

you you can see how this could play out

13:30

if it isn't handled well. So what

13:33

Cinping was trying to get Trump to

13:36

understand

13:38

is that this is a very dangerous

13:40

situation and it's one that could easily

13:45

turn out very wrong because for China as

13:51

Cining has repeatedly said um Taiwan is

13:58

a red line that China will not, never,

14:02

back away from if Ciin Ping were to back

14:06

away from

14:08

Taiwan, you know, the issue of Taiwan's

14:11

reunification

14:13

with China, he would cease to be Chinese

14:16

leader very fast.

14:19

CHRISTOFOROU: Yeah, I think Xi Jinping has finally

14:21

realized that uh that they have no

14:23

reverse gear.

14:24

No, you're right. to the United States.

14:25

No matter what deals you come up with,

14:27

trade or or negotiations, the pressure

14:30

is never going to to stop. It's never

14:32

going to end. The desire to to to bring

14:36

China to heel.

14:38

The US unipolar hegemon desire to

14:41

to bring China to heel is never going to

14:45

go away. And I think from the US side of

14:47

things, uh they realize that time's

14:49

running out for them. Yeah, I think the

14:51

trade negotiations were a big wakeup

14:53

call for all of the all of the neocons

14:56

and then the deep staters who were who

14:58

were talking about how they have all the

15:00

leverage on China and China's an

15:03

insignificant power compared to us like

15:05

the Scott Bessents of of the Trump

15:07

administration. You know, we have all

15:08

the leverage. We're going to handle

15:10

China no problem. Uh we're the we're the

15:13

hegemon. They're weaker than us. And

15:15

then then you get into the trade talks

15:17

and and China's like, okay, no rare

15:19

earths. That was it. Game over.

15:21

Yes.

15:21

Right. So, I think that was a wakeup

15:23

call to to all of these guys to say, you

15:24

know what? We need to we need to get uh

15:27

get this whole military encircling China

15:31

Taiwan thing. We have to get this this

15:32

moving quickly because time is running

15:35

out. Uh China is getting stronger and

15:37

stronger, if not uh already economically

15:40

stronger. They're also getting

15:41

militarily stronger and and we have to

15:43

deal with Ukraine. We have to figure out

15:45

that we're bogged down in Ukraine. What

15:46

what do we do there?

15:47

Yeah. Yeah. So, so I think this is

15:49

what's driving driving driving a lot of

15:50

this. But no doubt to me Xi Jinping has

15:52

finally realized if you didn't know this

15:55

already,

15:56

that uh that that the US say that they

15:58

have no reverse gear. The neocons have

16:00

no freaking reverse gear on any of this

16:02

stuff. Uh and and he's never going to

16:04

get them to back down to be quite

16:05

honest.

16:06

MERCOURIS: Yes, you you're completely right about

16:08

the neocons. And by the way, just just

16:10

to um emphasize the point, underline the

16:12

point you've just made. A couple of

16:14

weeks ago, a report appeared in, that was

16:18

published by, Rand. a a Rand report [“Stabilizing the U.S.-China Rivalry”] which

16:23

actually suggested a change of policy

16:25

towards China

16:27

seeking some kind of rarprochment and understanding

16:31

with China. And a lot of people became

16:34

very excited about this, including by the

16:36

way in China, and said that the American

16:39

ship is changing direction and this is a

16:41

sign that uh the neocons are losing this

16:45

argument. What then happened about a

16:47

week ago was that Rand suddenly deleted

16:50

that article. So it was a sign that that

16:54

report not obviously raised hackles with

16:58

a lot of people. There were clearly

17:00

complaints about this and um the article

17:05

the report was deleted which again tells

17:09

you who is in the ascendant here. It's

17:14

exactly the people you said the people

17:16

who have no reverse gear [i.e., that the U.S. Deep State is PURE win-lose, NO win-win, and so it’s heading straight for nuclear war, which would ACTUALLY be lose-lose]. Now, the

17:19

Chinese by the way have struggled to

17:21

understand this. Um I can remember long

17:23

ago, not so long a actually a few years

17:25

ago. Um back in 2014 to be precise, I

17:29

remember being told by somebody from

17:31

China, you know that “we in China, we

17:33

understand the Americans very well. We

17:35

managed to get on with them. We have no

17:37

problems with them. Our trade is doing

17:40

so so well. Why can't the Russians do as

17:44

we do? you know what is it with these

17:47

Russians that they end up all the time

17:49

getting themselves into conflicts with

17:51

the Americans?” And I tried to point out

17:53

that actually you know the Americans are

17:55

not quite as easy to to handle as you

18:00

appear to think/ And I can remember this

18:03

person didn't quite understand me and

18:06

that was a very very strong and

18:08

persistent view in Beijing in China for

18:12

a very long time. And it's only, I think,

18:17

in the last three or four years that

18:21

China’s, the Chinese leadership, has begun

18:25

to understand that in fact things are

18:29

not as easy with the United States as

18:31

that they as they they'd imagined. That

18:34

is, the Russians had problems with the

18:36

Americans. It was not just because the

18:38

Russians were clumsy and bungling and

18:40

incompetent, but because

18:43

everybody in the end has trouble with

18:46

the Americans. And it's taken a long

18:50

time for the Chinese to come to this

18:52

point, but I think you're right. I think

18:54

they now have.

18:56

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.