But, in spite of often voiced fears, China does not threaten liberal democracies or a “liberal rule-based world”. Unlike Western nations with their long history of military and political intervention around the world, China has shown little interest in how other countries are governed and is not in the habit of imposing regime change. Moreover, it has learned to benefit from peaceful conditions of free trade and globalization, both of which were promoted by the United States and the institutions it helped to create. China’s Belt and Road initiative is meant to capitalize on this success by improving inter-regional connectivity and logistics...Bill Totten's Weblog
The Spectre of a “China-centric World”
Yakov M. Rabkin | professor emeritus of contemporary history at the Université de Montréal
Originally at Koine
“It’s a different Chinese Communist Party today than it was 10 years ago,” Pompeo told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." “This is a Chinese Communist Party that has come to view itself as intent upon the destruction of Western ideas, Western democracies, Western values. It puts Americans at risk.” — US Secretary of State Mike PompeoPolitico
Pompeo says China poses an ongoing threat to the West
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Who is right? Or is this just more great power competition? In my view, it is a matter of what kind of globalization the world will have — neoliberal globalization under the "leadership" (read "control") of the US, Where "the US rather than a country like China makes the rules" (Obama), or a multilateral type of globalization that seeks win-win and places the emphasis on eradication of poverty (China's publicly stated position).
Whether one agrees that this is China's actual intention, it is reasonable goal. The other is a not so subtle push for continuation and extension of US and Western hegemony and the extension of Western empires that dominated the world for the previous 500 years, the last being the British Empire now having morphed into the American empire post-WWII.
Who is right? Or is this just more great power competition? In my view, it is a matter of what kind of globalization the world will have — neoliberal globalization under the "leadership" (read "control") of the US, Where "the US rather than a country like China makes the rules" (Obama), or a multilateral type of globalization that seeks win-win and places the emphasis on eradication of poverty (China's publicly stated position).
Whether one agrees that this is China's actual intention, it is reasonable goal. The other is a not so subtle push for continuation and extension of US and Western hegemony and the extension of Western empires that dominated the world for the previous 500 years, the last being the British Empire now having morphed into the American empire post-WWII.
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Globalism and consumerism threaten us all. We must oppose those projects as much as we oppose war and imperialism.
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