At what point does America break economic relations with China and confront them as a competing global superpower like they did the USSR? Because there's a lot of rhetoric pointing that way, but it's hard to really buy that shit when US companies still outsource all of their manufacturing to China. Supplanting the USD as the global reserve currency though is like the most direct threat a nation could make to the US as head of global empire, I can't imagine this would be allowed to happen without retribution
The US and its allies are desperate to provoke China into some sort of major conflict because they know if things continue as is, without some massive international intervention, China will slowly but surely continue overtaking more and more political capital globally as the us empire shrivels off into endless internal conflict and utter incompetence. This is why theres so much recent attention in the past few years and now specifically and creating conflicts within and around China. Westerners still dream that they're going to push China into some sort of position where military and economic intervention would actually disrupt their economic development because its the only way to keep western capital hegemony intact.
china has them backed into a corner. They could pull out, but that would decimate the accounts of the wealthy, taking the GDP with it, or sit back and watch as China over takes them. long game:deng-cowboy:
The older I get the more Deng seems like the only one who was actually playing 4D chess
The West: This dude is the Chinese Gorbachev! Finally the last bastion of communism will fall
Deng: :deng-smile:
And this is one of the reasons why anti-imperialism should be a central issue of the left movement in the US. We might be far away from our own revolution, but that doesn’t mean we can’t help to frustrate attempts by the US to maintain its empire.
