Monday, April 3, 2017
More on Balance of Power
I wrote a piece entitled "Balance of Power" e few weeks ago. Here is some historical backup.
U.S. and China on a Collision Course for War: Analyst
History suggests that the United States and China are on a collision course for war, argues Graham Allison, director of Harvard’s Belfer Center, in the Washington Post.
“Historians know that when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, alarms should sound: extreme danger ahead,” Allison writes.
“…A major nation’s rise has disrupted the position of a dominant state 16 times over the past 500 years. In 12 of those 16 cases, the outcome was war. In the four cases that avoided violent conflict, that was possible only because of huge, painful adjustments in attitudes and actions on the part of challenger and challenged.
I sometimes wonder if we already lost an economic war with China and we're not aware of it, or our leaders are complicit. China has surplus money to spend and lend, because they don't honor any gold standard. Their pricing practices have knocked the US out of markets; for example, rare earth metals. We are no longer natural resource independent. We've allowed them to buy US assets, such as real estate, so they literally own parts of us. Their culture measures time in terms of dynasties, while we only think in terms of decades.
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