The Trillion-Dollar Grift: The Long-Term Plan for US-China Decoupling — Peter Lee

Summary:
Keeping the negotiations creeping along while encouraging the decoupling dynamic through tariffs & sanctions allowed the China hawks to dodge the onus of hurting the US economy for the sake of US hegemonic goals.Now, as we're entering a phase of pretty much open economic warfare, maybe that mask is ready to drop.... Preparing for the showdown.As I have been saying,  the sine qua non for permanent US global hegemony is dividing Russia and China into smaller states that can never challenge the US. Then, the US can effectively manage them through the neoliberal economic/financial/political world order based on an empire and its vassals. Although in his later years Zbig withdrew from the grand chessboard geostrategy based on Halford Mackinder and Nicholas Spykman that he made famous, it

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Chimerica, US-China decoupling

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