Again you miss the point entirely and resort to a lame personal shot.

China is fulfilling it’s geopolitical aims.

The West is doing nothing to stop that.

If you accept China is a legitimate superpower now annd no friend to the West, which I personally do, then you have to ask how that will change.

Multilateralism seems to be a answer, build an alliance to counter China’s influence, but that is not the current direction of travel.

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We don’t do multilateralism anymore because it’s globalism or something.

When the US started to abandon the post war institutions That it built to further the country’s goals because of some grievance or another, look at how fast the void was filled.

This all was an unforced error.

It’s not how the United States works. If it was, we’d already own the world after WWII. Our nature is to provide a helping hand for each country to improve from with in, not externally take over your country applying authoritarian control.

Which is exactly what China is doing in all those countries that voted for it.

It’s playing the same game, only winning.

I know that every day is like Groundhog Day, but remember a couple of weeks ago when we learned the President gave a green light to China to suppress and imprison an ethnic minority for soybeans and no one cared?

Yeah… that was being real tough on them.

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Entirely foreseeable.

Europe has to shoulder its share of blame as well, it outsourced foreign policy to the US for too long and abdicated any responsibility.

We were the world leader because we wanted to be.

Now… someone worse gets a turn at bat.

It’s going to be great.

Imagine if there had been a push to do so earlier.

Like some sort of a “Trans-Pacific Partnership” or something.

Hmm…

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At least you’ll give up trying to sell your crappy cars over here.

Capitalism has no national loyalty.

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And that wasn’t perfect and deserved the criticism it got.

What was absolute malpractice was blowing it up without having a plan of what will replace it.

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I know it wasn’t perfect.

But it was a step in the right direction.

And it was blown up because globalism.

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I suspect another era of rapid advancement is in the works. Developing countries are going to make a huge leap forward in the next 20 years.

Capitalism is the organizational harnessing of the force of greed and using it to achieve positive outcomes for many, while providing paths for those who willingly sacrifice their personal resources, in achieving professional outcomes.

And none of it will be done with an eye towards effects on climate.

There will be little difference because we put ourselves behind the eight ball in being slow in building up an economic alliance to counter what China was doing.

And then we completely blew up what little progress we had made on that front because Donald Trump thinks it’s all about one on one negotiation battles,

That’s what it should be and could be.

That’s not the capitalism we have today.

It’s the beat I march to and practice on a daily basis.

You quoted all that in the very next post.

Totally agree.