By the yardstick that both the CIA and the IMF have adopted as the single best measure of national economies, China now has the largest economy in the world.
By the yardstick that both the CIA and the IMF have adopted as the single best measure of national economies, China now has the largest economy in the world.
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China vs. America: The Geopolitical Olympics
Yuck. This doesn't even work if you're just a propagandized USian. Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Taiwan, Former Soviet bloc countries like Yugoslavia, Latin America, South Africa, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, close nuclear calls, Israel, Reagan deindustrialization and financialization and the fact that the US was engaged in a literal "Cold War" and this is taught in American schools as a necessity to defend against a nation an entire ocean away from us.
There was no long peace, nazism was internationalized and wielded against the Soviets and now it has brought the world into the decadent stage of imperialism
Overall an interesting observation on China's growth and differing viewpoint on diplomacy but still reeks of neoliberalism which in a way makes it even more credible.
Articles like these are very useful as a window into the psyche of the kind of person that is responsible for maintaining US imperialism. They often have a good material analysis combined with some of the most idealist nonsense you've ever heard to justify being on the wrong side of the class struggle