Tag Archives: global hegemony

Caitlan Johnstone gets the policy, strategy and tactics right, in line what we have been saying here for some time. It's about the US maintaining and extending global hegemony in face of the challenge of China's rise. The 2018 US National Defense Strategy all but spells it out. We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order… Translation: The so-called international liberal order that held sway in the West since...

The United States has pursued a decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible, undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and maintaining what US policy papers call “primacy” over Asia. US policy has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China’s borders and along China’s geopolitical peripheries to divide and destabilize the immense and increasingly powerful Asian state. These networks are funded and supported regardless of who occupies the White...

How strategists think.Global GuerrillasDelaying Chinese Global Dominance John Robb

The bigger picture behind Official Washington’s hysteria over Russia, Syria and North Korea is the image of a decaying but dangerous American hegemon resisting the start of new multipolar order, explains Daniel Lazare.… Unipolarity will slink off to the sidelines while multilateralism takes center stage. Given that U.S. share of global GDP has fallen by better than 20 percent since 1989, a retreat is inevitable. America has tried to compensate by making maximum use of its military and...