An Anatomy of America’s Global Hegemony: What Led to Its Incredible Success and What Will Cause Its Unavoidable Decline — Claudio Gallo

Qiao Liang is a former People’s Liberation Army Air Force major general that became famous in 1999 with the book “Unrestricted Warfare” co-authored with his colleague Wang Xiangsui. Western media immediately presented the study as the herald of a new kind of war waged by China against America. The authors tackled the concept of asymmetrical war against a stronger enemy, foreshadowing future events like the attack of 9-11. A few years ago, Qiao wrote a new book, “The Arc of Empire”, translated now into Italian for the first time outside China. The study is edited by retired Italian lieutenant general Fabio Mini, Commander of the NATO-led KFOR in Kosovo from 2002 to 2003. Mini also introduced in Italy “Unrestricted Warfare”, his Italian foreword is now translated in the last Chinese edition. Qiao’s new work is a study of the American superpower. It explains its incredible success and the reasons for its unavoidable decline. According to Qiao, the United States has overcome the colonialist imperial logic of the 19th century British Empire by adopting a revolutionary system of economic domination, which has reached its peak with the 1971 Bretton Woods agreements. The power of the dollar as a universal currency supports the first financial empire in history. The Pilgrims Fathers’ City upon the Hill loved by Reagan, the image of American exceptionalism is, in reality, The Mint upon the Hill. With this “colonial financial economy”, American wealth is paid for by the rest of the world. Qiao writes that Pentagon’s “endless wars” are designed to ensure “that not only do dollars flow smoothly out of the country but also that capital moving around the world returns to the United States”. We have asked general Mini to introduce Qiao’s conception of the U.S. Empire and its decline....

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An Anatomy of America’s Global Hegemony: What Led to Its Incredible Success and What Will Cause Its Unavoidable Decline

Claudio Gallo, former La Stampa foreign desk editor and London correspondent

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