Alexander Mercouris
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Blinken Talks Confrontation with China, Says Its Economy Will Soon Surpass US
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Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Norah O’Donnell on CBS 60 Minutes
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-with-norah-odonnell-on-cbs-60-minutes-and-60minutesovertime-com/
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Blinky talks confrontation with china.
That’s funny since china is where most of the stimmy checks are gojng.
These guys are beyond ridiculous.
The main U.S export “commodity” for the past 30 years has been crisis, wars, sanctions and malignant influence of various NGO’s sponsored by the U.S government agencies such as the state-department and CIA as their subsidiaries aka George Soros. The U.S and it’s vassals the EU when challenged by a highly competitive economic peer adversary, such as China with a clear vision of the future, who sees cooperation amongst nation’s based on a mutually beneficial principle and without political and ideological strings attached, as much more effective and safer way to conduct business in, then the uncivilized and barbaric Western… Read more »
Daniel, I couldn’t agree more.
I think you have a strange view of china. It is, after all, a communist country run mainly by a mafia-like junta and corruption.
I have no idea why los americanos believe china is a threat. China has huge demographic problems following the one child policy, a water and ecological crisis and an insane economy consisting mainly of an insanely overvalued housing market and a casino stock market.
But then, as Newt Gingrich said, Joe Biden has consistently been wrong about everything for the last four decades.
In the 1980’s America was freaking out over the Japanese juggernaut. What did they think, that the same oriental work ethic once unleashed in global trade and applied to a population ten times its size wouldn’t eventually eat its lunch?
Japan today is where China will be in ten years – only worse.
Hardly a threat.
I remember well the Japanese economic scare. My God They (the Japanese) bought Rockefeller Center! The Sky Is Falling!
America has been run by fools for a very long time now.
Alexander makes two salient points: 1) as a matter of fact, China’s economy, when measured by the more reliable PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) rather than Nominal GDP, has already surpassed the United States by several trillions, and is the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter; 2) when the U.S. speaks of ‘the rules-based order,” it is referring not to international law, but to its own interpretation of its rights to invade, or impose unilateral sanctions against nations whose governments it doesn’t approve, in violation of the U.N. charter and decisions of its Security Council.
US media are virtually told what questions to ask these inept politicians.