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The [Wolfowitz] doctrine announces the U.S.'s status as the world’s only remaining superpower following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War and proclaims its main objective to be retaining that status. Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional...

Anyone see a pattern here? Any wonder why there is a push for multilateralism to counter unipolarism (read world dominance).News in AsiaLaughable: US Claims ‘Free and Open Seas,’ Tries to Push China Out of Indian, Pacific Trade Pepe Escobar SouthFrontMike Pompeo Says Foreign Actors Must Leave Venezuela, So That US Can Rebuild It

Brook no competitors. Huawei is nothing new. But taking a country the size of China is. The US did not need the Japanese or French markets. The Chinese market is quite a different matter.KenyaTalkBefore the US started harassing Huawei, there was Toshiba of Japan and Alstom of France in the same boat OkwonkwoSee also The consequence of the the 737 MAX accidents give China a tool to exert pressure of its own. The credibility of the U.S. regulator FAA is damaged as it was the last one to...

President Putin sees this plainly: “The Americans keep on indulging in these games as the actual goal of such games is not to catch Russia in violations, and compel it to abide by the treaty; but to invent a pretext to ruin that treaty – part of its belligerent imperial strategy”. Or, in short, to impose a ‘rule-less, US, global order’. What is happening is that Bolton and Pompeo seem to be precisely taking Trump back to the old 1992 Defence Policy Guidance document, authored by Paul...