{"id":178477,"date":"2018-11-17T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/17\/irony-much-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T13:31:00","slug":"irony-much-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/17\/irony-much-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Irony Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to aggressive Chinese actions in the Pacific and Indian oceans, Vice Presidence announces, completly unaware of the irony, that, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-asean-summit-pence\/pence-says-empire-and-aggression-have-no-place-in-indo-pacific-idUSKCN1NK084?il=0\">Empire and aggression have no place in Indo-Pacific<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously?&nbsp; There has been nothing but since the East India Company became the furst trans-national firm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told leaders of Southeast Asian nations on Thursday that there was no place for \u201cempire and aggression\u201d in the Indo-Pacific region, a comment that could be interpreted as a reference to China\u2019s rise.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The prime minister of Singapore later said that Southeast Asian countries did not want to take sides when pulled in different directions by major powers, but that one day it may have to.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Leaders at the ASEAN meetings this week heard warnings that the post-World War Two international order was in jeopardy and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing could trigger a \u201cdomino effect\u201d of protectionist measures by other countries.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cLike you, we seek an Indo-Pacific in which all nations, large and small, can prosper and thrive \u2013 secure in our sovereignty, confident in our values, and growing stronger together,\u201d Pence said. \u201cWe all agree that empire and aggression have no place in the Indo-Pacific.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shameless.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2018\/11\/links-11-17-18.html\">Yves Smith says<\/a>, &#8220;Not the Onion&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to aggressive Chinese actions in the Pacific and Indian oceans, Vice Presidence announces, completly unaware of the irony, that, &#8220;Empire and aggression have no place in Indo-Pacific.&#8221; Seriously?&nbsp; There has been nothing but since the East India Company became the furst trans-national firm: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told leaders of Southeast Asian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[487,545,394,650,402,559,406],"class_list":["post-178477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-china","tag-far-east","tag-foreign-relations","tag-irony","tag-south-asia","tag-south-east-asia","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}