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Sobering Assessment
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Sobering Assessment
https://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176460/

Quote:China is an ascending superpower, riding a wave of rapid economic expansion with a burgeoning industrial and technological infrastructure, a growing share of world trade, and surging self-confidence. The United States is a declining hegemon, with a crumbling infrastructure, a failing educational system, a shrinking slice of the global economy, and a deeply polarized, divided citizenry. After a lifetime as the ultimate political insider, Xi Jinping became China’s president in 2013, bringing with him a bold internationalist vision for the economic integration of Asia, Africa, and Europe through monumental investment in infrastructure that could ultimately expand and extend the current global economy. After a short political apprenticeship as a conspiracy advocate, Donald Trump took office in 2017 as an ardent America First nationalist determined to disrupt or even dismantle an American-built-and-dominated international order he disdained for supposedly constraining his country’s strength.


Sounds like a book worth reading.
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RE: Sobering Assessment
Well, the excerpt sounds good. Can't say there'll be anything surprising.
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#3
RE: Sobering Assessment
Learning how seriously fucked one is tends to be surprising.... at the least!
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RE: Sobering Assessment
That’s how I felt the night Trump won the election.
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