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The US has been the champion of free trade assuming that it was win-win or that if would win when others loose. As soon as it looses while others are winning (
by gonvaled 9y ago
The US has been the champion of free trade assuming that it was win-win or that if would win when others loose.
As soon as it looses while others are winning (in some areas) they are trying to bend (again) the rules on their favor.
The American era has been a waste: one country trying by all means to impose its agenda, to claim its divine right to progress and dominance, to unfairly try to control the rest of the economic actors. Let's hope the Chinese era is more fair and balanced.
- rm_-rf_slash 9y agoHa! Chinese economic policy is proudly mercantilistic. They have no pretentions towards a balanced playing field. China will do what is best for China.
- gonvaled 9y agoAs has the US, to the point (just one example) of lying on the Security Council to justify taking control of relevant geopolitical resources. It didnt even work. Not only covertly America First, but also incompetent.
- baq 9y agoChina has no reason to be better than the US. Why would it if it worked for the states after all?
- gonvaled 9y agoI do not know, maybe their ideology is more fair?
- refurb 9y agoFair in the sense that as long as you agree with it? If you don't you'll be silenced?
- gonvaled 9y agoThe US does not silence you until it does (ask Snowden, if you find him). And, more importantly, its game does not require silencing political oponents as long as they are irrelevant (communism in todays US), but extending soft-power around the world (with some aircraft carries for support). This model worked in the US interest for decades, but is not so effective anymore. What the US did to the USSR, China is doing to the US: outmanouvering. I find it just, since I consider the US attitude highly hipocrital, and criminal throughout.
- refurb 9y agoSnowden has been silenced? I just saw a video of him on the internet sharing his opinion.
- gonvaled 9y agoWith the full support of the US government /s If it was in the US hand, Snowden would be rotting in Guantanamo. As said, the US is criminal and incompetent. Luckily there are other global players balancing power.
- adventured 9y ago> The American era has been a waste Ah, really? You mean the modern world, in which violent conflict is at an all-time recorded low? Wars between major powers have been almost entirely absent for 70 years. Global famine and poverty is at an all-time low. Child mortality has plunged radically and is at an all-time low. Truly vast progress has been made across all aspects of science and technology. The real standard of living at the global median is at an all-time high. Global economic growth and trade has been extraordinarily consistent and enduring. Annexation of territory by powerful nations - a commonality throughout all prior history - has been brought nearly to a stand-still. Sure doesn't sound like a waste to me. The last ~70 years have been the best 70 years in all of humanity's existence.
- gonvaled 9y agoSorry but when you are living through the phase of fastest technological progress in human history, with a huge amount of goodwill after a catastrophic first half of the 20ieth century (in which the US dropped two nuclear bombs, lets not forget); when you emerge as the only global power, leading the world in nearly every aspect, and the best that you can achieve is the current situation, it is a waste. Not only, it is a disgrace. You have missed the chance to make the world a more just place, and you have probably demonstrated that humanity is hopeless. Maybe the error was to put so much trust in the US to begin with.