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The “loss” of China in 1949 was perhaps the biggest blow to strike American hegemony in the post-World War II era, and it is felt increasingly to this day. During the past 70 years, Washington's strategy towards China has been to destabilise and fracture one of the world's oldest and largest nations. These imperialist policies have clearly failed to attain their objectives. Nevertheless US efforts to undermine Chinese power have been steadily growing over the past 30 years, in part spurred on by the Soviet Union's demise in 1991, partially also due to China's increasing clout. The danger now is that the American elite became overconfident after the collapse of the USSR and now believes that China under the Chinese Communist Party will inevitably be next, only given some nudging. The
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The “loss” of China in 1949 was perhaps the biggest blow to strike American hegemony in the post-World War II era, and it is felt increasingly to this day. During the past 70 years, Washington's strategy towards China has been to destabilise and fracture one of the world's oldest and largest nations. These imperialist policies have clearly failed to attain their objectives. Nevertheless US efforts to undermine Chinese power have been steadily growing over the past 30 years, in part spurred on by the Soviet Union's demise in 1991, partially also due to China's increasing clout. The danger now is that the American elite became overconfident after the collapse of the USSR and now believes that China under the Chinese Communist Party will inevitably be next, only given some nudging. The
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The “loss” of China in 1949 was perhaps the biggest blow to strike American hegemony in the post-World War II era, and it is felt increasingly to this day. During the past 70 years, Washington's strategy towards China has been to destabilise and fracture one of the world's oldest and largest nations. These imperialist policies have clearly failed to attain their objectives.
Nevertheless US efforts to undermine Chinese power have been steadily growing over the past 30 years, in part spurred on by the Soviet Union's demise in 1991, partially also due to China's increasing clout.The danger now is that the American elite became overconfident after the collapse of the USSR and now believes that China under the Chinese Communist Party will inevitably be next, only given some nudging. The outcome of this will turn out to be either one of the greatest strategic triumphs of history, cementing US semi-permanent hegemony, or else the most disastrous strategic blunder, leading to the collapse of the American empire and Western global dominance.
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