11-17-2021, 01:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2021, 03:40 PM by Eric the Green.)
My CD player broke down yesterday after just 2 years. Feeling very upset, I looked at it and of course it said, "Made in China".
Alfred McCoy says that China is taking over the world and the USA likely would not win a war with China.
McCoy says in "To Govern the World" that while the USA has been wasting its resources on wars in the Middle East, China has been building pipelines, ports, transport and economic power to move into where the USA has failed to dominate with its poor and wasteful strategy. China seems to be more imperialistic than I had expected years ago. We have waged failed wars and also become more anti-war, while China has stayed out of war and become more pro-war. It wants to take over Taiwan, and the USA is committed to defend Taiwan. A conflict seems more likely.
China is breaking through US alliances and control ringing around Asia, and financing economies around the world. It seems to be in position to be the leading "empire" in the world. As McCoy points out above, the USA military has been able to ring China and Asia with alliances and a strong navy that patrols the coast, and China has started to punch through this ring. The USA did not have to wage overt wars to exercize this power over China, even as it wasted its resources on wars in southeast Asia, the Middle East and even America. On the other hand China and the USA are mutually dependent economically. But China can soon shift to other places to sell its goods.
I am becoming less anti-military, even as I been against these US wars. We can't allow the tyrants to keep taking over the world. Xi Jinping is the leading tyrant in the world. We should not allow China and other tyrants to put more people into subjection. We should not allow ourselves and other nations to fall under the control of tyrants. We will need to defend Taiwan against the growing military power of China.
It seems to me the key to keeping the USA able to defend freedom in the world and here at home is to end neoliberalism. If Republican neoliberalism takes over congress in 2022 and the presidency in 2024 (which it WILL if Harris is nominated for president then), we will lose both our freedom here at home and our power to defend it abroad. This is a key fourth turning issue. Only by ending neoliberalism/Reaganomics can we make decisions as a nation to rebuild our economy, military and trade dominance. We need to decrease our commercial dependence on China. We need to put up high tariffs and squeeze them hard. We can only do that if we commit to rebuilding our own industries and make what we need here in the USA. Why have we ceded our economy to the Chinese working class and its tyrants?
Because the CEOs of our industries don't want to pay their workers a fair wage, that's why.
US workers are already demanding higher wages. If we make our goods here, the industrial owners will have to pay higher wages, and not outsource work to China to get cheaper labor. Only then can we raise tariffs, as Trump rightly proposed and Biden seems to support as well, without bankrupting American industry and farmers. Neoliberalism is opposed to this step. It wants no regulations, tariffs and taxes on its clientele: the CEOs, owners and bosses. This Reaganomics/neoliberalism must end. Union power must be restored. The bosses must pay higher taxes so the wealth that the bosses get from higher productivity can be returned to the workers from which they extorted it, and so that we can support our farmers and small business too. The USA state must regulate our economy so it can be strong and free. Restoring our economy means prices will go up for Americans, and the workers and other consumers must be able to pay these prices! US industry and business must be required to enable them to pay. They must be required to pay higher wages, a living wage in a self-reliant USA economy, so that work can be done here in the USA again, and they must be prohibited from outsourcing their work to China and other cheap labor markets. The power of the Chinese economy must be trimmed back by cutting off much of its exploitation of the USA through cheap labor. The USA should open immigration so we can get more willing workers from this source.
Our military power depends on our economic power. China can't be allowed to win if we hope that we and other countries can live in freedom, and not submit to rulers like Xi Jinping, Putin and the Myanmar junta. We need to support the freedom fighters there, and we need to defend against China imposing further tyranny in the Eastern Pacific. We must strengthen and rededicate ourselves to democracy here at home too.
Do the trumpists and the Classic Xers REALLY want to make America great again? If so, it must ditch its neoliberal/Reaganomics opposition to taxes and state intervention, and permit more immigration. American greatness does not depend on protecting white power. It does not depend on allowing free rein to bosses and stopping state interventions in the economy. It depends on building our national power, which depends on taking national responsibility.
The era of decline of the USA to China coincides with its era of neoliberalism, combined with unnecessary militarism. In order to have the military power and the military aid potentials we need to defend freedom now, it must ditch neoliberalism and must apply its military resources in a sane way to defend real freedom fighters, and not to defend its access to outdated energy sources as we have been doing, or seek military imperial power through direct and unnecessary preventive interventions.
Our era is the birth of a global economy and world civilization. That's what our new era post-1890s is all about. No one power must any longer be allowed to dominate, as the supposed great imperial power.
Alfred McCoy says that China is taking over the world and the USA likely would not win a war with China.
McCoy says in "To Govern the World" that while the USA has been wasting its resources on wars in the Middle East, China has been building pipelines, ports, transport and economic power to move into where the USA has failed to dominate with its poor and wasteful strategy. China seems to be more imperialistic than I had expected years ago. We have waged failed wars and also become more anti-war, while China has stayed out of war and become more pro-war. It wants to take over Taiwan, and the USA is committed to defend Taiwan. A conflict seems more likely.
China is breaking through US alliances and control ringing around Asia, and financing economies around the world. It seems to be in position to be the leading "empire" in the world. As McCoy points out above, the USA military has been able to ring China and Asia with alliances and a strong navy that patrols the coast, and China has started to punch through this ring. The USA did not have to wage overt wars to exercize this power over China, even as it wasted its resources on wars in southeast Asia, the Middle East and even America. On the other hand China and the USA are mutually dependent economically. But China can soon shift to other places to sell its goods.
I am becoming less anti-military, even as I been against these US wars. We can't allow the tyrants to keep taking over the world. Xi Jinping is the leading tyrant in the world. We should not allow China and other tyrants to put more people into subjection. We should not allow ourselves and other nations to fall under the control of tyrants. We will need to defend Taiwan against the growing military power of China.
It seems to me the key to keeping the USA able to defend freedom in the world and here at home is to end neoliberalism. If Republican neoliberalism takes over congress in 2022 and the presidency in 2024 (which it WILL if Harris is nominated for president then), we will lose both our freedom here at home and our power to defend it abroad. This is a key fourth turning issue. Only by ending neoliberalism/Reaganomics can we make decisions as a nation to rebuild our economy, military and trade dominance. We need to decrease our commercial dependence on China. We need to put up high tariffs and squeeze them hard. We can only do that if we commit to rebuilding our own industries and make what we need here in the USA. Why have we ceded our economy to the Chinese working class and its tyrants?
Because the CEOs of our industries don't want to pay their workers a fair wage, that's why.
US workers are already demanding higher wages. If we make our goods here, the industrial owners will have to pay higher wages, and not outsource work to China to get cheaper labor. Only then can we raise tariffs, as Trump rightly proposed and Biden seems to support as well, without bankrupting American industry and farmers. Neoliberalism is opposed to this step. It wants no regulations, tariffs and taxes on its clientele: the CEOs, owners and bosses. This Reaganomics/neoliberalism must end. Union power must be restored. The bosses must pay higher taxes so the wealth that the bosses get from higher productivity can be returned to the workers from which they extorted it, and so that we can support our farmers and small business too. The USA state must regulate our economy so it can be strong and free. Restoring our economy means prices will go up for Americans, and the workers and other consumers must be able to pay these prices! US industry and business must be required to enable them to pay. They must be required to pay higher wages, a living wage in a self-reliant USA economy, so that work can be done here in the USA again, and they must be prohibited from outsourcing their work to China and other cheap labor markets. The power of the Chinese economy must be trimmed back by cutting off much of its exploitation of the USA through cheap labor. The USA should open immigration so we can get more willing workers from this source.
Our military power depends on our economic power. China can't be allowed to win if we hope that we and other countries can live in freedom, and not submit to rulers like Xi Jinping, Putin and the Myanmar junta. We need to support the freedom fighters there, and we need to defend against China imposing further tyranny in the Eastern Pacific. We must strengthen and rededicate ourselves to democracy here at home too.
Do the trumpists and the Classic Xers REALLY want to make America great again? If so, it must ditch its neoliberal/Reaganomics opposition to taxes and state intervention, and permit more immigration. American greatness does not depend on protecting white power. It does not depend on allowing free rein to bosses and stopping state interventions in the economy. It depends on building our national power, which depends on taking national responsibility.
The era of decline of the USA to China coincides with its era of neoliberalism, combined with unnecessary militarism. In order to have the military power and the military aid potentials we need to defend freedom now, it must ditch neoliberalism and must apply its military resources in a sane way to defend real freedom fighters, and not to defend its access to outdated energy sources as we have been doing, or seek military imperial power through direct and unnecessary preventive interventions.
Our era is the birth of a global economy and world civilization. That's what our new era post-1890s is all about. No one power must any longer be allowed to dominate, as the supposed great imperial power.