MCEBISI JONAS: False flags in China-US fight
With elections looming in the US, Donald Trump has upped his anti-China rhetoric. But he needs the country if he’s going to pull the US out of the economic doldrums
25 June 2020 - 06:00
British author Norman Angell, in 1909, argued in The Great Illusion that the international commercial entanglements of the 20th century had made war irrational.
When World War 1 broke out five years later, he was proven dreadfully wrong...
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