THE PROSPERITY
OF CHINA VERSUS THE IMPERIAL OF US.
If the US Empire to remain the first of global
military powers in a way that is beyond challenge, it has no choice but to keep
China down. There is an unavoidable contradiction between US military dominance
and Chinese economic development. Moreover even China’s economic power by
itself is at odds with the hegemonic man oeuvres of the US Sanctions on
sovereign nations, embargoes and blockades by the US will not work if China is
willing to trade with the threatened nations. This forecloses US economic
control of other weaker nations.
American exceptional-ism is missionary; it insists
that all the world be like us. One can see one of the most fanatic incarnations
of that in Hillary Clinton and other humanitarian, imperialists, many regarding
themselves as progressives. China’s exceptional-ism, on the other hand, is a
high self-regard for its culture but no desire to spread it. If the rest of us
do not want to follow the Chinese way then we have missed out and it is not business
of the Chinese to change that in their view.
However there is no necessary conflict between the
two nations, china and the US or the two peoples. The prosperity of China does
not preclude a high level of prosperity in the US Economic development and
prosperity is not a zero sum game. As the Chinese repeat at every turn, there
can be a win and win situation for all nations of the World with China’s
development. That has already proven true in the present great recession where
the Chinese economy has been the main driver of the global economy, perhaps
preventing the great recession from tumbling into the great depression.
Furthermore the United States is in no danger from a
powerful China. We are separated by a vast ocean from China and the power of
nuclear weapons make a challenge to US sovereignty impossible except on a
suicidal basis. But the US remains a largely self sufficient economy with
resources aplenty. Only severe paranoia could lead us to fear economically
prosperous china and more than that as lay many others points.
That was true even in the early 15th Century
when China was the greatest naval power in the world, sailing giant ships to
Africa and elsewhere long before Columbus set foot on a ship. There was trading
but no conquest and no enslavement. Conquest and enslavement turned out to be
the work of European civilization. Even now with the China the second largest
economy in the world it has not a single overseas military base even though it
provides more UN peacekeeper personnel than any other nation.
The bloody history of US over the last century is
quite a different matter. If the United States insists on its status as the
dominant and unchallengeable military power, then we are on the road to conflict, certainly a new Cold
War the beginning of which the pivot represents
and quite possibly we are on the road to WWIII. We in the United States are the
ones who can control this and perhaps save the world from the very worst suffering
and deadly conflict.
The answer of all of this is to abandon Empire,
dismantle to end our occupation of foreign nations, including South Korea,
Japan and Germany etc. adopt a defensive strategy to protect our land and come
home. Trade and talk yes. Military intervention, but no. we have potential
partner for peace in China. Let them give it a try establish trust and verify
it. Finally a paradise awaits us here. So let us leave other in peace to constructor
their own.
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