While the West has greatly assisted Ukraine against Russia’s aggression, China has substantially supported Russia despite China’s professed strong attachment to the principle of national sovereignty. How can we understand the China/Russia axis? How solid is this partnership? What does the future hold?
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0
The prospect of the 21st century becoming an ‘Asian Century” is fading from view. Rather than adapting to an Asian Century, the paramount challenge for the West is now learning to live with illiberal regimes and resisting illiberal forces within its own countries.
Shanghai, Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Many speculate that leadership of the world order is passing from the US to China. But a more likely outcome could be growing world political disorder and anarchy.
The US needs to temper its dreams of a love affair with Vietnam helping its geopolitical contest with China.
Today, US/China relations are at virtually their lowest ebb since US President Nixon went to China in 1972. How did relations end up in such a parlous state? What does the future hold?
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On this day of America’s 246th birthday, let’s clearly recognize what America truly is: the last big colonial power, collapsing!
In this post, I will clearly define China’s state capitalism as communism + capitalism. This will help my fellow Americans best understand China, as well as the world.
America is by far the most violent country in human history. This is true both abroad (Jimmy Carter Lectures Trump: US ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World’) and at home. It is seen especially in terms of gun violence (List of countries by firearm-related death rate) and incarceration (U.S. has World’s Highest Incarceration Rate). And need I mention slavery in the old days and lynching in the South up to the 1960s?
The American version of “free market” is a big, fat lie! It’s time to denounce it as such!
The 2nd Amendment is obsolete, if not a mistake in the first place (What is the American Revolution, anyway?). However, let’s leave it alone for now, or we may face another civil war (America: Guns vs. Slavery). Instead, reform our failing political system, as I have suggested (History 2.0 – China’s Comeback vs. America’s Decline)!