Losing US Supremacy to China | Walter Russell Mead

@ChinaSongsCollection 11 ай бұрын

My best friend is from Hong Kong. When I first met him many years ago, he used to have negative views on China. That is to be expected as people in Hong Kong were brought up under the British media to think negatively of China. But after many years living in Australia, he completely changed his position on China. And during the height of Trump's trade war with China, he gave up his Apple phone and went and bought a Huawei phone as a symbolic support of China! He, like me, didn't start off on China's side of this debate. We were pushed to China's side by the crazy media in the West.

@WWLooi-js8rl 11 ай бұрын

I hear you, we have many people like your friend. It is not good for the collective West, especially the U.S. as many of us who used to think highly of them feel that they have been deceived. They will no longer trust the West like they used to.

@ChinaSongsCollection 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT I never said anything about China is better or worse. I was talking about the western mainstream media. (Edit : but yes I do think China is better in many respects. And the West is better in some respects)

@georgening6083 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT Interesting...I guess you can reply here very good Chinese after "spent years of Chinese culture and ..." 既然这么了解中国也这么关心中国的话题，大家用中文聊聊呗？对了，不是你一个人到世界各地旅游，这句话证明不了你言论的合理性和理性，只能显示一个人的傲慢和无知！

@pineapplesareyummy6352 11 ай бұрын

Speaks for me too! I am from HK, 42 years old, and what you wrote completely describes me. I did give up on Apple after the US started its economic war against China, as did the rest of my family. I now only exclusively buy phones made by China. Long live the CPC - the guardian of the Chinese nation, the Chinese people, and our collective interests!

@ChinaSongsCollection 11 ай бұрын

@@pineapplesareyummy6352 👍

@leogeek 11 ай бұрын

This guy talked the world like the whole world belongs to US, and never realized the root of danger for this world is the existence and mindset of people like him.

@junizhao 11 ай бұрын

The utter arrogance will lead the US to total destruction!

@HerrschmannNachmann 11 ай бұрын

... and, he has forgotten that "it is not a country, but just a business..." → kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4eZeHukrap9oMk

@scottstevenson8989 11 ай бұрын

He ignores the fact that the US military been turned into a money making machine, not for the common good, but for the good of those grafters who profit from it. War is a racket! Stop trying to push us into conflicts by fear mongering. The danger for the US does not come from outside our borders but from within. Money has corrupted our political process.

@viorica8402 11 ай бұрын

Hopefully China, Russia are now friends or at least partners, to make a multipolar world. America (usa at last) is a genocidal nation from the beginings

@dryeoh2023 11 ай бұрын

I agree with you!

@tinatang1 11 ай бұрын

Please do not dismiss the Chinese people's immense contribution to China's rise. It is indisputable that the Chinese people are incredibly hardworking.

@JunkSock 11 ай бұрын

Sounds like a shill, and you’re obviously correct: anything good that happened happened because of the people and not their political regime.

@kimchiba4570 11 ай бұрын

White people beliefs.... When they buy something from you, they get what they want but they are doing you a greater favour.. Delusional

@tinatang1 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT Yes, the role played by their government(s) is vital!

@stewatparkpark2933 11 ай бұрын

China's rise is 100% down to the West transferring their manufacturing jobs and technology to China .

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

No one in the West thinks that the Chinese aren't hard working; if we didn't care about the rights and wellbeing of normal Chinese citizens then there would be no need to criticise the one-party system in China, we'd just shut up and trade.

@utuber88018 11 ай бұрын

China is different. China never invaded, interfered, bombed, or colonized any country in its history. In fact, China was a tragic victim of foreign barbarians for centuries and suffered tragedies after tragedies in the aftermaths, and never wish it upon even its enemies. What was the Great Wall for? For millenniums even when China was the sole super-power it only seek friendly relationships, harmony, prosperity and trade.

@davidroberts6108 11 ай бұрын

Hello. Um, Tibet would like to have a word.

@utuber88018 11 ай бұрын

@@davidroberts6108 Word from 6.7 million Tibetans enjoying the best period of their life in its history in China or tiny, tiny fraction or to be precise, traitors, who were paid handsomely by the jealous West to smear China? No rocket science!

@beyondrecall9446 11 ай бұрын

@@davidroberts6108 Tibet is fascinating... Been to Tibet last year..

@sepam82 11 ай бұрын

@@davidroberts6108 Don't know how well you know the facts. Lots have been from the west and the unhappy antagonists e.g Falungong and Epoch Times funded by USA

@dimascennel2075 11 ай бұрын

@@davidroberts6108 hello., texas also wants to talk

@8spores 11 ай бұрын

America politics is sick, but it keeps insisting China takes the medicine.

@gunsumwong3948 11 ай бұрын

Hit the bull's eye!

@josephguo3429 11 ай бұрын

US is nothing to China since long before. problem for China is too many foreign currency in hand.

@zhoubaidinh403 11 ай бұрын

Bingo...

@andrewlim7751 11 ай бұрын

If it's medicines did works, one might wonder what happened to its own backyard.

@seekstruth5968 11 ай бұрын

The destruction of the American worker because of job loss to china is part of the cause of the present American political strife.

@ruggeddiscipline6026 11 ай бұрын

The arrogance of the Anglo-Saxons is incredible

@karimwylde2987 11 ай бұрын

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@khubza8999 11 ай бұрын

Not only ANGLO-SAXONS, but their FORMER COLONIES. Amazing imperial self-congratulatory arrogance on display.

@charmainewong6087 11 ай бұрын

It never fails that I want to puke whenever BBC comes to view. Shitloads of Arrogance and Propaganda.

@wondererasl 11 ай бұрын

You just nailed it Bro🎉

@annabellelee4535 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT The US is a third world country with Canada following at our heels. We have some of the highest homeless rates in the world.

@katprowler6805 11 ай бұрын

Henry Kissinger Quote - “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”.

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

@President Eden The quote clearly went over your head but not the Europeans.

@petergreen5337 11 ай бұрын

Precisely

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

@@nudisco7882 It's you who doesn't understand the quote; here it is in context: “Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu (South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu-ed.) before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

@@Christian___ Ummm. I know the. context. Clearly went over your head also.

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

@@nudisco7882 He was saying 'if we back out of South Vietnam, then we risk getting a reputation for not being willing to intervene to back up our friends.' i.e. the quotation was designed to argue for more proactive use of American military power to support US allies abroad, which I think is literally the opposite of what you're trying to use it for.

@tyko2686 11 ай бұрын

The biggest downfall for US is its unwillingness to look inside and the courage to do what’s necessary for themselves within, instead US politicians only choose to blame outside forces for their own problems at home. It’s easier to blame others as one need not to take responsibility

@augustusomega4708 11 ай бұрын

THATS NOT IT YOU GOOSE its much simpler than that. The international stage for a politician, especially a yank, is all upside and now downside. they can do and say whatever they want and nobody really cares. They might even curry favor but nobody will hate them in the US for taking a dump on Iran or china. ITS MUCH MUCH SIMPLER THAN A SOUL SEARCH...international politics is for the dumbest politicians because they cant lose, its a casino, say this, see the response...its about their personal fortunes not about the country or the health of the world

@What.7777 11 ай бұрын

The USA trying to destroy a successfully developed country like China by all means in every area to keep their power instead of improving itself, that's the problem, every one knows play dirty doesn't work.

@peacerespect98 11 ай бұрын

Yes, USA brings wars and sanctions to others.

@51Sable 11 ай бұрын

Another reincarnation of McCain keeps winging about lost international influence. To regain status of world gendarme would cost USA all infrastructure programs for next 30 years. I wish I would see Americans living in crippled houses driving over collapsing bridges with pride of running world from Washington. 😅😅😅

@steveperreira5850 11 ай бұрын

The fact is the USA is decadent. Pervert ls of every kind of thrive here, especially child molesters, and then there is the political orthodoxy, that killing babies is just fine. More than 1 million babies a year I killed before they are born in the USA. Something to be proud of?

@thefourthrabbit9516 11 ай бұрын

As a Chinese who observed over the years the "human fallacy" Prof. Mead talked about unfold, let me humbly point out what might be the true human fallacy here. (1) The idea that you can change the ideologies of other nations using military force and coups, rather than following a natural course of development-reform-change. This caused the US to repeatedly engage in useless foreign interferences that disturb a region, adding to its own problems. (2) Nowadays there seems to be a belief in the West that China never changed since 1949 and never "westernized". That is simply not true. In China, even today, most people are greatly impressed by the development of the US (still do) and admire the achievement of the US like people in any other country. Many aspects of our society are modelled after the US (except in some core aspects) or other Western countries (including Japan). (3) The diplomatic idea of "balance of power", which can be traced to 17-18 century European geopolitics, will not help to achieve peace or the long-term interest of the West. Not only will this "balance of power" strategy inevitably clash with "rules based order" but will also bring about dangers of nuclear wars. The once "brilliant idea" of stirring up regional conflicts and reap the benefit as mediator no longer works in a globalized era where everyone stand to lose from such conflicts. (4) The most fundamental fallacy is the belief that the rise of China, India, and other developing countries is a zero-sum threat ("they win, we lose"). One notable fact about China's economic growth from 1978 to 2018 is that it did not come at the cost of Western economies (as Donald Trump seemed to suggest). Instead, it was driven by open sharing of innovations in the West (e.g., computer science, the internet, the automobile industry), the growing consumer market of the West, and the industriousness of its 1 billion labor force. From 2010s, China's economy is also partly driven by indigenous innovations but still greatly reliant on exchanges with Western countries (like Japan and South Korea). Yet political scientists in the West today seems to exaggerate the innovative prowess of East Asian to such a degree that their reaction is more like a panic attack than a rational response. It does not seem to occur to them that to play a zero-sum game (against a player like China), you cannot starve it to death by isolation. Instead, both sides will have to relinquish all the accumulated growth in the past 30 years and rebuild entire economic models (just to replace the parts played by their "opponents"). You must first turn a "win-win" into a "lose-lose". And this is the idea that is being preached everywhere (even in China) and we are truly doomed if no one believes the alternative is possible.

@dkblack1289 11 ай бұрын

I think you are too cultured and educated for this man I have never heard of to understand you. This is the greatest stupidity for mankind to come to the piblic and say that white supremacy, which he labels as "American" was a given. These kind of people are not at Quincy, Hudson, Brookings or Foreign Affairs because they are bright, but because they are supremacists, racists, and honestly, low IQ. "They are chinks, and they cannot do better than us!" that is the message as they engage in white tribal mentality.

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

I agree with 1, 2 and a lot of 4... The problem with Liberal Institutionalism is that the rules-based order runs over the top of stable power structures created by power balancing. You can see from the history of the League of Nations how rules mean nothing in an unstable asymmetric system.

@udhayakumarMN 11 ай бұрын

American will choose (lose- lose) situation then a (win-win) situation....

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

@@udhayakumarMN We're having the discussion in the video precisely because US policy for a generation has been based on a win-win approach. The concern today is that, while western markets have been almost completely open to Chinese, the Chinese have not reciprocated. Further, Chinese innovators can rely on Western authorities to protect their IP rights, but western innovators know that as soon as they contract manufacturers in China, their IP will be stolen. The current situation is lose for the West and win for China--it's not sustainable, especially with China's more aggressive foreign policy under president Xi.

@thefourthrabbit9516 11 ай бұрын

@@Christian___ I completely agree that stable power balancing within a polity is necessary for a rule of law. This is the case in most Western democracies and this is something that is unfortunately absent in China's politics and political philosophy (this would cause periodical troubles within our society, but it is mainly our problem to worry about). But balance at the between-state level is entirely different. Balance of power in a divided world is actually dangerous because it only postpones wars that are potentially far more devastating than wars between unequal powers as both sides will try to win at all costs. In a sense, today's Ukraine is just the lastest victim of this "balance of power" game, which Russia used to its advantage in the past 20 years.

@casteretpollux 11 ай бұрын

Why on earth does this person think he should rule over anyone ?

@angelxxsin 11 ай бұрын

Typical neocon.

@fallennarcotic6981 11 ай бұрын

Because he comes from the U.S. I wonder if that was the attitude of the ancient romans too

@klchai7884 11 ай бұрын

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

@antpoo 10 ай бұрын

Ppl need to be ruled. Not just due to the fact that most people are followers, But due to efficiencies of scale, the world always gravitates toward empire as a scientific fact. Multi polar worlds are no where near as efficient as empire, However empires do tend to abuse their power. Iran is a natural hegemon of the Middle East, China is a natural hegemon of Eurasia, and even possibly the world. The US cannot sustain global empire across the pacific, it’s too energy inefficient.

@billgates1212 10 ай бұрын

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@lingwengyeap5993 11 ай бұрын

Sri Lanka's recent foreign debt issue was due to debts owing to the West, not China. The debt exposure to China is only 10%, the balance is owing to the West and Japan.

@ubermenschen3636 10 ай бұрын

As China resurrects from the ashes of WW2 and civil war and once again assumes its position as the “Middle Kingdom” the ‘Green eye’ West resorts to demonization of China. According to Martin Jacque, the author of “When China Rules the World,” the center of gravity has already shifted to the East from the West.

@sophiam2434 10 ай бұрын

I haven't looked into this. Thanks for sharing!

@fauziachoudhry5312 10 ай бұрын

Correction it's less than 8%. The total breakup - Blackrock 23%, IMF 13% and China < 8%. Its not just West. Its private hedge funds who are responsible. They are doing this not just internationally but even within US. The idea is to gobble up assets dirt cheap and keep people in debt forever.

@davidlim5 10 ай бұрын

Stop misleading the world. Enough of fake news & lies ya.

@fauziachoudhry5312 10 ай бұрын

Actually they owe China 8%. 23% is owed to Black rock and 13% to IMF. None to Japan.

@jdg7327 11 ай бұрын

Breathing the air of "Superiority" is the downfall of every empires.

@2841guilherme 11 ай бұрын

they are literally: OMG we’ll have to speak another language, people won’t listen to our songs anymore and we won’t have a final saying on everything that happens around the world 😭 I mean, I like the USA way more than China but the way they think they are superior and can’t be beaten is funny af 😂

@seanou2837 10 ай бұрын

@@2841guilherme why do you like the USA way more than china? are you brainwashed to like america? think about it before answering...you are in your early 20's I bet.

@aihong2971 11 ай бұрын

Aussies like me believe we should be collaborating with China not America. Let’s get on the right side of history. Do Aussies want to be dumped like Afghanistan. That is a fact.

@HS-PGA 11 ай бұрын

Just a friendly reminder it’s called COMMUNIST CHINA . just in case you forgot . 🙈

@pasofino9583 11 ай бұрын

@@HS-PGAread up on what the Australian did to the aborigines see if they any better.

@pasofino9583 11 ай бұрын

@@BrianT-jj3ei primitive people says the convict dropped on a continent.

@annabellelee4535 11 ай бұрын

You don't want to die for the US dollar? The US is disappointed with you.

@pasofino9583 11 ай бұрын

@@BrianT-jj3ei those people were free now you them are all slaves.

@dordorfromhk-hj5vo 11 ай бұрын

The military expenditure of China is only 1/3 of US. China invests in infrastructure and business to gain monetary return and influence, while US overborrows to waste money in military. Should US reduce its military expenditure and spend the money on infrastructure and its poor people(build more social housing) ? 56% of Americans can't cover a $1,000 emergency expense with savings!! Reduce military expense can reduce the debt burden of the government. Can't just print money!

@dnotleythere 11 ай бұрын

Very true. China builds bridges while the US builds bases and promotes endless wars. China encourages trade and peace through diplomacy in the Middle East and the Global South. China and Russia does not preach to them hypocritically or bully them as the US has or judge them. They do not sanction or weaponize their currency and commerce. China and Russia have convinced most of the planet that Ukraine is a proxy war for corrupt Western elites involved in the military industrial complex and it is time to detach from the western dollar. You see that in Brazil, India, Africa and the Middle East.

@danhtran6401 11 ай бұрын

Is that why Chinese citizens can't withdraw money from their banks?

@garysetiadi366 11 ай бұрын

Can and will keep on printing money!

@danhtran6401 11 ай бұрын

@@garysetiadi366 they complain when the dollar is too strong, then when we print money to weaken its value, they cry like a little B... 😂, After a while, one would think they're just complainers.

@andrewwotherspoona5722 11 ай бұрын

@@danhtran6401 This is all good until it isn't. Sooner or later the world will ditch the dollar...it is actively working on its demise. Living standards in the US will collapse just like the British did when the pound lost 25% of its value overnight. Once this happens America will undergo a massive cost cutting exercise...beginning with its overseas military.

@teknikairaoulolgandessabek4102 11 ай бұрын

The best way to understand how someone thinks (ie: The Chinese) is to ask them. The Chinese have such a long written history that they are able to compare today's challenges to similar events that have happened hundreds of years in the past. So studying and understanding Chinese history is key here.

@colinlee9678 11 ай бұрын

The bulk of the Australian population does not perceive any evidence of any external threat to Australia , only the politicians keep perceiving huge fictitious external theats! Australia has fought as many wars as the US ever since the end of WW2 , such as in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan , etc. ! The only obvious question that needs to be asked and answered is which, if any, of these countries had ever threatened and tried to militarily attack, invade and occupy Australia and the US to justify Australia and the US to militarily attack, invade and occupy these countries and killed without any justification , many thousands and thousands of their citizens? Such brutal and wanton homocides of their innocent citizens are nothing short of horrific war crimes! The only country that had deliberately threatened, militarily attacked, invaded and occupied Australia and the US territory was Japan who is ironically embraced as the best Asian friend , despite its horrific war crimes against the citizens of Australia and the US!

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

Australian population definitely felt the economic threat of China trying to buy out Australian companies, real estate assets, natural resources on unfavorable teems.

@colinlee9678 11 ай бұрын

@@nudisco7882 Economic threat is not a military threat and that distinction needs to be made! There is factually and truthfully no perceived military threat from any country to Australia , unless of course , Australia allows its US bases on Australian territiory to to used to launch attacks on the countries! against which the US govt wants to go to war!

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

@@nudisco7882 -- China does not believe in military war where innocent lives are taken. But it will challenge any country economically. Therefore, AU should be creating economic partners in their region, not across the Pacific where they have an "America First" policy.

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

@@mandrews1245 you might want to check with India on that. Do your homework

@bessiebassey-vp4nb 11 ай бұрын

Australians are just a puppet and together with Britain they jumped when America says jump. Their history has alot to do with their mentality shameful.

@louistan7560 11 ай бұрын

Why the need for supremacy instead of peaceful coexistence and cooperation?

@khubza8999 11 ай бұрын

ABSOLUTELY!!! Playing with 19th century MINDSET

@gunsumwong3948 11 ай бұрын

This is the sickness of the US. The simple answer is the west, unlike China, has no morality! They do not see anything wrong to invade a foreign land, exterminate the indigenous natives, take over it as another country, give up their original culture, identity and root. China assumed the west had morality and nearly being colonised. Now China has learned the lesson, has the military modernised to defend itself and is now being accused taking away the US supremacy! when the US military budget annually bigger than the next 9 to 10 countries put together. So don't don't be fooled by the speakers of this video.

@annabellelee4535 11 ай бұрын

We, the US, has to force other countries to do cross border trading in approved Western currency. It makes trade much more expensive but it floats the US, UK, and EU economies. It's the only way we can print money without hyperinflation. That is why we have the US proxy war in the Ukraine, trying to reestablish supremacy and control over the Eastern Hemisphere. Our colonies have revolted.

@sleepyjoe4529 11 ай бұрын

Because America doesn't like sharing power. What it says, goes.... until now.

@annabellelee4535 11 ай бұрын

@@sleepyjoe4529 Yes, and the US isn't handling the fall from world domination very well.

@ngatatan2597 11 ай бұрын

Similar to Ukraine and Russia red lines that were while ignored by the USA, the Taiwan problem will come to the USA ignoring China's red lines with equal impunity as Russia redlines were ignored. Until a couple of US carriers are sunk with thousands of fatalities, the hubris of the USA will go unchecked.

@OzixiThrill 11 ай бұрын

Taiwan's real value to China is the microprocessor manufacturing titan that it is. They start a war there, chances are, they can kiss that asset good-bye, ultimately starting a war that they have a very legitimate chance to lose, only to gain nothing in return. And America has a far better tolerance to the Taiwanese microprocessor industry collapsing than China does. In fact, China acting like Russia did with Ukraine could very well cause the brains behind the Taiwanese microprocessor industry to move to the USA, resulting in China giving up the status quo for an infinitely worse position; Should that happen, China almost immediately ceases to be a power on the global scale. In short, the situation with Taiwan is radically different, and military action regarding Taiwan can only put China in a worse position.

@lorenaledger6547 10 ай бұрын

Not the world between Ukraine and Russia is been going for over 8 years, and the US provoke the war. Us is the most agresive country in the world

@zdzislawmeglicki2262 11 ай бұрын

The loss of supremacy to China is inevitable, primarily because they are… better people. They are better educated, they work harder, they are more tenacious. Also, China today has way better infrastructure than the US, way better supply and distribution chains. All this will translate into military superiority in due course too.

@sew_gal7340 11 ай бұрын

All you have to do is look at a walking video of chinas mega cities to see the level of futuristic technology they have...just the fact that their health system is better than ours is already a big red sign that something is wrong here in the US

@mrmalcolmification 11 ай бұрын

That's the dumbest un thought out thing I've ever heard

@BaronTaiwanese111 11 ай бұрын

No, they don’t. Please don’t become china’s propaganda machine here

@cringelord7542 11 ай бұрын

Respectfully disagree. Although I do think that the american led alliance will lose out relatively compared to the rest of the world. But that‘s more so because of india, ASEAN countries and potentially africa. The way things are going right now I have a hard time believing china will surpass the gdp if the US. Ofc china may inplement reforms to fix their structural issues like debt and money supply spiraling out of control, total factor productivity that has collapsed in the 2010s and their demographic issues. India has a shot at overcoming the US in the next half century. I‘m very optimistic about india.

@zdzislawmeglicki2262 11 ай бұрын

@@cringelord7542 China has surpassed the US in GDP PPP already. China's is $33.015 trillion, ours (the US) is $26.855 trillion. This difference will inevitably grow to double-in favour of China-within a decade.

@garybusey7625 11 ай бұрын

Mead looks flushed with a combination of frustration, fear, & cheap American whisky. He forgets that Taiwan is part of China.

@petergreen5337 11 ай бұрын

Precisely

@yaoypl 11 ай бұрын

Empires rise and fall, and the US Empire is no exception. No doubt, the US is in decline. Like the collapse of the Soviet Union under its own weight, the United States' problems are also self-inflicted wounds. The US spends $800 billion on the military annually which is larger than the next 10 countries combined while more than 50% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings and the US government amassed $31 trillion in debt. The US has overreached with 800 military bases around the world. The US foreign policy of interfering in other countries affairs has only resulted in debacle after debacle...the US has fought many wars since the end of WW2 but has nothing to show for it. If the US warmongers are thinking of going to war with Russia and China and at the same time, they are out of their minds! The world has changed, a conventional war (goes nuclear we all die) with China and Russia will not save the US Empire and it will end the US hegemony even faster.

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT It wouldn't be better for the West if the US empire ended. US exports it's security blanket to the entire West. When they stop, the decline that's already happening in the West will accelerate. Europe would go back into constant warfare.

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

The same people who say that the US cannot possibly maintain its pre-eminence indefinitely seem to believe in infinite economic growth for the Chinese Communists...

@DionisoBaco. 11 ай бұрын

@badofi Or maybe states like California might want to secede from the US and proclaim independence. This can happen.

@PeteHagen-sm4tn 11 ай бұрын

There's one thing your post misses. If the US is going down it will take China and Russia with it.

@JT-cm9di 10 ай бұрын

@badofi why US is panic? because they so called elite well aware that the end of the supremacy means they no longer have any power to sustaince the stability of their country, no more way to hide the real inner threat & corruptions, no more outer enemy to blame to divert and their own people will see what a failure their country really is. Imagine what their citizen will do to the goverment, and they all have 🔫 👀

@shamoo260 11 ай бұрын

A big part that you miss is America and China relationship in Africa. America is so occupied in spreading their social decadence they are losing sway in Africa to China, Russia, India and Iran.

@danhtran6401 11 ай бұрын

Like China helping Sri Lanka collapse, Russia is doing really well with the war,lol, or Iran smuggling weapons to Russia...are you talking about those three clowns ...

@wilmeramadoraguilar47 11 ай бұрын

Due to historical reasons, the US is fully aware their engagement with África is bound to be expensive or futile

@danhtran6401 11 ай бұрын

@@wilmeramadoraguilar47 nah, it's not that, US won't start a project if they knew their partners are unreliable nor have the means to cover the debt.

@crescent4996 11 ай бұрын

Chinese efforts in Africa have smelled of Neo-colonialism though, so far they mostly just wasted a lot of money there with poor return on investments.

@JS-ih7lu 11 ай бұрын

@@crescent4996 China is playing the long game. It’s investing in Africa’s future with short term losses. China wants to build Africa’s middle class so they can afford to buy Chinese manufactured goods. For this Africa needs infrastructure and capital, which China can provide. This is a win-win situation for both China and Africa. Africans know this and are jumping onto the BRI bandwagon with their eyes open.

@jojoeverycat7726 11 ай бұрын

Listening to two dinosaurus talked about western superiority makes a great morning fun day!

@nopt1118 10 ай бұрын

Çouldn't agree more; self- assuring monstrosity.

@sabejreid2072 9 ай бұрын

Fool I'd rather have wise men than sicko young guns / traitors - Trudeau, Macron, Newsom, Albo. Get Real Dude 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇺🇸🇦🇺🇺🇸🇦🇺

@oscare014 11 ай бұрын

Here we go again... John and Walter want us to believe that America is saving the planet.... 😂😂😂😂

@petergreen5337 11 ай бұрын

Agreed 100%

@isoboy2125 11 ай бұрын

And portraying that one country that successfully lifted hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty as dangerous. I guess having less desperate workers to exploit is dangerous for the capitalist class? 🤔

@didyoumissedmegobareatersk2204 11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂democracy incoming

@lamrof 11 ай бұрын

This is no better than two thugs talking, no less bad.

@klchai7884 11 ай бұрын

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

@gregwong2132 11 ай бұрын

America didnt let Ukraine negotiate for peace last year, which is why the conflict is still going on.

@kye4216 11 ай бұрын

How can you negotiate while the invader is still burning your homes? If Russia were interested in peace they would leave no?

@Max-jv4gi 11 ай бұрын

Another pro-Kremlin expert. Let me rephrase it for you, America didn't sell out Ukraine to Putin last year, which is why the conflict is still going on

@klchai7884 11 ай бұрын

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

@zartic4life 11 ай бұрын

The huberous of this man is awe inspiring.

@JS-ih7lu 11 ай бұрын

Mead refers to “national security” as the goal of US foreign policy. What does that even mean? Is there a single country in the world with the intent or capability to invade the US mainland? The answer is a resounding NO. Not even close. The Chinese and Russian military are structured for regional conflict. Every other country with a sizeable army is a US ally. It requires foreign military bases to engage in long-distance warfare, the US has 800 military bases and China has 1. So who is the aggressor and who is the defender here? So why does the US NEED global hegemony? This is because the US political and economic system is based on colonial exploitation, not only of Global South countries, but of its own citizens. The US forces the world to trade in the US dollar, so it can buy foreign goods at undervalued prices. It uses its military, regime change and sanctions to overthrow the govt of any country that doesn’t play ball. Despite all of these, the rest of the world is uniting to free themselves from the shackles of US neocolonialism and moving towards a de-dollarised multipolar world. At home, the US has hypnotised its own people with the “American Dream”, so they overlook the fact that they have no affordable access to healthcare or higher education, their infrastructure is crumbling, wages have been stagnant for the past 30 years and 40+ trillion dollars of wealth have been transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. The US political system is ultimately a system of corruption. US elites are afraid that their own people will wake up and see there are better models of governance in the world. Hence the propaganda machine goes into overdrive with nonsense like “national security”.

@diceman999 11 ай бұрын

I think your spot on with this assessment

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely right!

@jacklouie8096 11 ай бұрын

The US are using their allies to fund their war by selling weapon to their allies

@terryl858 11 ай бұрын

This man should read a history book he would benefit amazing ly

@MicheleLLOYD-bk2mt 10 ай бұрын

You assume he can read.........lol

@ObeyNoLies 10 ай бұрын

This guy is exactly the personality type that is causing people to turn away from the US as a world leader. Arrogance, narcissism, dismissal, short sightedness.

@dampergoldenrod4156 7 ай бұрын

@@ObeyNoLies creepy zionist ghoul is what this freakture is

@verymarrano 11 ай бұрын

Superiority is what he just keeps saying and thinking, yeah that attitude is what eventually is gonna bring you down

@gunsumwong3948 11 ай бұрын

Don't worry, the supremacy of owning $31.4 trillion national debt will never be lost or taken away by China or any nation in the world!

@UpperZenith 11 ай бұрын

Speaking with some old colleague back in 2018, I told my colleagues then that the story of America will be first of a kind in all of history, denoted as a historic decline based solely on the fact of greed and turning over the very industrial prowess that made us magnificently powerful to China, and losing our superpower status to them. Not defeated by war, but defeated by our own loose standards and unquenchable greed to offshore.

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely right!

@haroldong4616 11 ай бұрын

US copied wat Britain did. Now she (Britain) couldn't even built a proper aircraft carrier.

@lavendereucalyptus3225 11 ай бұрын

That’s because US government serves the Capitalist oligarchs, they don’t care if jobs are outsourced. Than later the government deflected their sold out to corporation and BLAMED CHINA for ‘stealing’ Americans job, and dumbed down Americans believed that BS scapegoating. China didn’t put a gun America’s head to ‘force’ anyone to move their business to China, it’s all done with legal trade agreements. Now the corporations just need to hire lobbyists and politicians to protect them from being targeted, so the easier thing is to blame a foreign country who can defend itself from US dominant international media narrative, if all medias tell the public same lies, the public would believe they ‘must be true’. This is how deeply interconnected US imperial mechanism works.

@MrMSalexanderMK 11 ай бұрын

The rest of the world wants equality for all not. Excluding the USA

@user-ju1qd3ok2g 11 ай бұрын

China has no future. Just like the Soviet Union it will have disappeared in 2 years - 8 years. China has begun an economic and demographic collapse. China thus has no future. 😊 The population is approx. 900 millions ( not 1.4 billion) the real GDP is 40% - 60% lower than the official Stats.

@georgekostaras 11 ай бұрын

7:40 it's important to mention that after the cold war, the USA military budget blew up. It never once got cut. And the number of foreign military interventions by the USA also went up.

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

Because the US only knows how to dominate. It does not know how to negotiate. It perceives they must be the only hegemony in the world. They planned the Ukraine/Russia attack thinking Russia was weak. Admitted they had no intention of honouring the Minsk Agreements while for 8 years, they built up Ukraine military. They also did not understand the number of Russian allies. Soon they will blame Zelensky for the loss and Ukraine will be required to surrender.

@astroganov 11 ай бұрын

This guy just really doesn't know what he is talking about

@klchai7884 11 ай бұрын

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

@mengsiongkheng113 11 ай бұрын

India, often cited as the next China. I think India needs to sort out various internal and domestic issues before one can seriously consider them as the next China. china has far higher GDP growth and for many years at the early stage of opening up. 1. Corruption - this was a major issue in China and Xi has to actively purge the tigers and flies of corruption. He was accused of using this as a tool to remove his competitor. It was not easy as corruption is widespread and seen as part of a Chinese culture over thousand of years. 2. Protection of domestic industries. This is endemic in India. Hiw often have you seen a successful foreign companies. India is littered with failed foreign investments. The local state will ignore any country wide direction. 3. Education - both general and STEM graduates. China is far ahead even at similar stage of development. 4. Women - equal opportunity and treatment of women in general. You cant ignore almost half of your population. 5. Discrimination / Caste system - liberate your people. 6. Hardwork - more work and less talk. You will know what i am talking about if you have worked in China. China speed is frightening. 7. Intelligence - dont know anything can be done with this. Go google IQ by country and see for yourself.

@roro4787 11 ай бұрын

Most of these issues are being improved in india as we speak of i mean if I compare for even 10 years ago the development is phenomenal, but surely China is far more developed, but India will improve at its own pace...we are not competing with china. IQ is dependent on education and upbringing. There are many smart people in both countries and average will improve as quality of life improves, and finally we (China and India) should cooperate together.

@seowlingwee4693 11 ай бұрын

India can't be the next China, such horribly messy country.

@xena6894 11 ай бұрын

@roro Agree ! I just wish India would resolve its issues with China. I hope they (India) sees very well that the US is trying to drive a wedge between them in order to devide andconquer

@lavendereucalyptus3225 11 ай бұрын

Chinese has much more DISCIPLINE and GOAL oriented, and motivated and driven by their pride for their long culture and long history, and their LOVE for their LAND and ANCESTRY, they are deep rooted civilization that bond them strongly.

@lavendereucalyptus3225 11 ай бұрын

Very well said! 👍👍👍

@Killane10 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the interesting conversation. We are moving into a multipolar world. All need to down weapons, high morals, hatred and ego to start a dialogue about how we can live together peacefully on this tiny spaceship.

@goranmiljus2664 11 ай бұрын

The problem is, war is VERY profitable for some individuals, and very often those individuals have a grip on warring governments.

@robertholland7558 11 ай бұрын

@@goranmiljus2664maybe so but those seeking power and control remain a tiny minority! The general population do hold the absolute power, if only they realised such, and stop subscribing to the devising tactics of the above mentioned minority.

@petergreen5337 11 ай бұрын

Precisely

@havencat9337 11 ай бұрын

mentality needs to change and accept that a country with 5X population has the right to be overall producing more GDP. This is something natural but people in US cant accept.

@klchai7884 11 ай бұрын

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

@andrewbaldwin4454 11 ай бұрын

Near the end of the interview Mead makes the extraordinary assertion that India, now the most populous country on earth, has a GDP only 17% as large as China’s. This is a number consistent with the IMF’s estimates for nominal GDPs by countries in 2022. In fact, India’s GDP, based on IMF projections for GDP on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis for 2023, is 39.5% of China’s, or more than double what Meade has said it is. This is really not a contentious subject. The most recent international System of National Accounts manual, dating from 2009, in its section on international comparisons, starts by briefly discussing nominal GDP estimates adjusted to a common currency, pointing to their obvious inadequacies, before switching to the far superior GDP on a PPP basis estimates. It is endorsed not only by the UN, but also by the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD and the European Commission. Meade is not an economist or a statistician, so we should assume that he is genuinely clueless about the proper way to measure economies. It hardly justifies, but partly explains, his neo-con warmonger views on appropriate US foreign policy. In his world, China still has a smaller economy than America’s, although in fact, it has a larger GDP than the US, Mexico and Canada combined. In his world, Russia has the 12th largest economy in the world, when in fact it has the world’s 6th largest economy. (Condoleezza Rice, the former US Secretary of State, and alleged Russia expert, has actually opined that Russia may have the 12th or the 15th largest economy in the world. I am a Canadian, living in the country that actually has the 15th largest economy in the world. It baffles me where that ranking comes from. People who make their living as experts in a particular country generally talk up its importance rather than talking it down. But I digress.) Richard Connolly has noted that Russian military spending never rises above 14% of America’s from 2005 to 2018, while if one converts to necessarily crude PPP estimates, Russian military spending rises to as high as 35% of America’s, in 2016. Meade obviously lives in a world where he thinks Russian military spending is less than half of what it actually is. If we haven’t bullied the Russians into accepting American hegemony, let’s just bully them a little harder. Meade is wrong in thinking that 2014 was the hinge year in international relations since the Cold War ended. The hinge year was 1999 when unindicted war criminal Bill Clinton launched a war of aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a war that ended with the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from the Serbian province of Kosovo, and led to the breakup of the FRY into three states: Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. This led directly to a previously obscure Kremlin apparatchik named Vladimir Putin becoming president of Russia. Putin was, in a sense, an American creation.

@bazs7669 11 ай бұрын

Great post thank you

@petergreen5337 11 ай бұрын

Well said and well OBSERVED. Thank you for the clarifications.

@randycrownover5580 11 ай бұрын

1999 was a an important date but I would argue 12-26-91 is more important for the events we are witnessing today. And before that, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

@sizif717 11 ай бұрын

Well, you pointed that out - it is the difference between the nominal GDP and PPP GDP. It is obvious that they refer to the nominal one - where still the US is number one and Russia is 12th and not 6th.

@andrewbaldwin4454 11 ай бұрын

@@sizif717 Kiril, you miss my point, although I think I made it clearly enough: all the major international institutions that matter prefer GDP on a PPP basis to nominal GDP for ranking the economies of countries. If nominal GDP estimates were better, no-one would bother calculating GDP on a PPP basis estimates, because they are costly and time consuming to calculate. It is especially silly to do so in a case like Meade's, where he is trying to get a feel for India's fitness to be an American ally, and its military potential is an issue. There is a strong labour component in military spending and any comparison of the labour component of military spending for China and India based on nominal GDP estimates adjusted to a common currency (by convention, American dollars) is going to exaggerate the spending of the higher-income country, China. This is hardly a theoretical construct. It is exactly what Richard Connolly found in his comparisons of military spending among countries: "The most notable difference between using market exchange rates and PPP exchange rates is seen in the position of India, which in 2018 was comfortably the third largest military spender in the world ($250 billion)." Russia doesn't look like the 12th largest country in the world when it is fighting a war against Ukraine, even though Ukraine is supported by NATO, because it isn't the 12th largest country in the world.

@gareafu5622 11 ай бұрын

China had been through many many great power competitions in our history, whereas Americans only with Soviet Union. We see the competition in a very different perspective, most distinctively is that we do not believe that competition with great power which will inevitably lead to over extension of power will only weaken your position as a great power, sooner or later. Bear this in mind would u understand the meaning of China’ approach of living in harmony.

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

China owes its existence to the US and its allies defeating the Japanese; the Chinese would have struggled to defeat the Japanese on their own, they may have failed altogether. The whole American led post-war order is focused around the UN and living in harmony. In order to do that, states need to conform to expected norms and behaviours. In its history, the US has competed with many great powers--most obviously against the British Empire for its independence, but also against Spain and the Ottoman Empire.

@gareafu5622 11 ай бұрын

@@Christian___ oh existence how arrogant you ? To say owe its existence…….. US never deployed any troop in China, and Japan never was able to occupy China even when China is at its weakest point, China may benefit from US fighting Japan in the pacific, while obviously US also benefited from China for pulling JAPAN main power or at least a large proportion of their military in China mainland which made Japan not able to focus all its might on fighting America after attacking the pearl harbour, which would remind you that US went into war with Japan for Japan’s attack on US.

@Ballardian 11 ай бұрын

@@Christian___ "The whole American led post war order is focused around the UN and living in harmony" Ha ha ha ha, what an absurd fairy tale. First off, the US has often gone against or ignored UN based international law (see it's sanction policy towards Cuba, which is only supported by one other country). They only side with international law when it suits them. Secondly, the US has often violated the sovereignty of other countries, often via sending the CIA in to create topple leaders (including democratically elected ones). The US led 'harmony' has often been acheived through force, and with a huge cost of lives.

@beyondrecall9446 11 ай бұрын

@@Christian___ UN and living in hrmony... aham... i can't believe that peopke really have these deranged thoughts

@Christian___ 11 ай бұрын

@@beyondrecall9446 I was just putting it in the words used by the original poster. Do you think that the PRC has adopted the approach of living in harmony?

@inuwooddog3027 11 ай бұрын

I really do not agree on the part of the US reduced its military spending after WW2.

@joey3291 10 ай бұрын

He spoke for the military companies, just watch Fox news, their US politiciant guests are still crying for more military spends everyday...3 times that of China's apparently isn't enough, really ridiculous

@user__100 11 ай бұрын

Britain took $45 Trillion from India over 200 years of rule

@gunsumwong3948 11 ай бұрын

Let's hope the Hindu in Downing Street finally does something for India.

@wondererasl 11 ай бұрын

Yes, concrete fact.

@sleepyjoe4529 11 ай бұрын

skill issue

@sleepyjoe4529 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT India was never under the Chinese tribute system so why bring that up.

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

@@BrianT-jj3ei My God do you not know that Britian enslaved and killed more than 144 million Indians? They still haven't returned the jewels they took. They left it with a British approved Raj...

@agoodchow 11 ай бұрын

The guest speaker does not believe in multi-polarity and Global South. Keep on saying how isolated China is, How isolated Russia is.

@chaitanyakada1341 11 ай бұрын

He won’t speak about a multi polar world because he LOVES his “ overwhelming superiority”

@s.c8410 11 ай бұрын

US politician focus all their attention on maintaining their power instead of solving proplem the society needed. The US national interest now a day changed to the interest of big defense complex, not the interest of general public.

@maxdc988 11 ай бұрын

The fact that the world is in chaos and beset with conflicts is because people nowadays have forgotten what are virtue and sin, hence they have no self-discipline, self-control or self-restraint. They don't distinguish between humane and inhumane. And do things without regard to the consequences. They pursue money and power as if those things can last, but somehow they themselves cannot last.

@madogsioux5636 11 ай бұрын

Very simply, their Creator in heaven has created everything for them, the chosen race, so why would they need self-discipline or morals?

@klchai7884 11 ай бұрын

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

@mijmijrm 11 ай бұрын

thinking within the US Empire is full to the brim with concerns about "superiority" and "domination" - which makes it important it be brought back into reality and eat humble pie.

@bazs7669 11 ай бұрын

Well said, America is just another country and has no moral or real superiority over anyone else.

@isoboy2125 11 ай бұрын

The mainstream media has peddled so many lies for decades that our ruling elites in the West have effectively disengaged from reality. 😥

@segagenysis6918 11 ай бұрын

@@bazs7669 Is that why you're using an American- made invention like the internet? Or eating at MacDolands? Or drinking Coca Cola? America dominates. Accept it. Loser.

@gandhi9936 11 ай бұрын

Mr Mead is wrong about Putin’s initial objectives for the SMO. Putin, imho, hoped to reach an agreement with NATO, hence the Istanbul discussions in March last year, which were scuppered by America.

@charleschen1408 11 ай бұрын

China has enormous trade surpluses every year. Before BRI, China put surpluses in US bonds for a few % yield. After BRI, China put surpluses in BRI partners. I guess is that BRI overall yields should be no less than US bond yields. In addition to China’s overcapacity in infrastructure buildings. If China can find a customer in needs, it is a really a win-win arrangement.

@Erin-dw9vx 11 ай бұрын

Wow, you really know, I want to get to know you, I'm coming to China

@user-jq2ww7sr5m 11 ай бұрын

🇨🇳美国国债并不是我们愿意或有预谋想购买的，是当时你们的布什总统、奥巴马总统和现在的拜登总统强制要求中国购买的！

@charleschen1408 11 ай бұрын

@@Erin-dw9vx I went to grade school in Shanghai, middle school in Taiwan and college and graduate schools in the US. Want the US and China to be friends.

@havencat9337 11 ай бұрын

@@charleschen1408 talk to the US, they can't accept China to do well. think about that and how can you change this mentality for the sake of the peace

@klchai7884 11 ай бұрын

The following article is written by Ismail Bashmori, he is an Egyptian China watcher. The truth is that China is the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes all other countries look insignificant and contemptible. It is the most brilliant, most industrious, most ambitious, most educated, meritocratic and technocratic, most modern, sophisticated, and civilised, and best-governed by far. It is the first non-white, non-Western country to reach this status since the 1600s. The determination of this country is indescribable. Supernatural. There is no force that can stop it from accomplishing anything it wants to do. 。 It doesn’t matter who we are. Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, even Americans. Next to the Chinese, we are pathetic. We can’t do what they do. We would have a mountain, an Everest of changes to make, and we would whine and bicker and fail at every one of them. China’s story since the 1980s has been one of an almost divine metamorphosis. Next to China the entire Western world from Alaska to New Zealand has stagnated. Next to China the entire developing world from Brazil to Madagascar has progressed only at a crawl. China is the mother of all gargantuan bullet trains. Every day it manages to create something new and astonishing. And unlike the United States, unlike the British Empire, unlike the French, Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically. China is also standing up to the West all by herself. The West can’t believe their four-hundred-year-old global supremacy is being challenged. They hoped that the more China developed, the more it would submit to their influence, interests, and leadership. That didn’t happen. So now they will do anything possible, short of a nuclear war, to make China end. Their goal is to destroy this country. That’s why, although the United States has killed several million people and turned several regions of the earth into hellscapes. China is the worst fear of our planet’s Western masters. They want you to despise and dread a country that’s done nothing to you, that hasn’t invaded anyone, bombed or sanctioned anyone, that hasn’t overthrown any foreign government, or used its military on anything since 1979. China is the only major country in the nonwhite developing world, to stand up to the West. To look it in the eye when challenged or threatened. The Global South are simply Western puppets who submitted long ago. Even the most powerful ones. Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India. Above only part of the article, you can read the full article under the following link. www.dailyexpress.com.my/read/4459/west-can-t-believe-nor-accept-china-s-progress/?fbclid=IwAR3aJYSZC3rbUgM1NwHCO73XxnNzNkJPa9wrSsFp-4KMxTozuJiHBwLJDXU

@user-gc9yh2ic4q 11 ай бұрын

So the line is really drawn between the the races and colors of skin. I do appreciate the occasional honesty amongst the instinctive lying. Reminds me of the "blond hair and white skin" a year ago. Here let me do some more translation our commitment to the world = we will bomb whomever not submit to us and make an example so that no one else dares to defy balance of power = trick people everywhere to hate and fear each other and go to war with each other so that we can be more important that we really are human rights democracy and freedom = whoever controlled by us and falls into the line of empire Why should any country have "supremacy" in this world? Unless of course, the order is based on the rules made by the one with the biggest stick. Oops, another truth splipped.

@cathysmusic4919 11 ай бұрын

This conversation is geared towards the uninformed, America has never ignored the outside world, American foreign policy is as aggressive as ever with wars every where, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Sudan, Asia... Most wars tiday are American driven and funded...so Americans people are the most philanthropic in the wold but American foreign policy is aggressive and brutal so they make no friends just his stage regimes. Meanwhile at home the middle class is nearly decimated by bad very selfish policies... That's the sad part, our children's future looks bleak with student debt and inflation. Sad very sad..

@havencat9337 11 ай бұрын

when India will rise they will def want a piece of action and US wont like that.

@mz4420 11 ай бұрын

He is the expert sponsored by the US military complex industry.

@dmitrye3212 11 ай бұрын

China may not be self sufficient in energy. But Russia and Kazakhstan can supply oil and natural gas through pipelines and via railways. Even Iran can supply it’s oil through Caspian Sea and Russia. The US has no means to blockade these routs.

@jinsoonchin5205 11 ай бұрын

America is famous of bombing them.

@Shubham89453 10 ай бұрын

Future is solar

@davidoffice9922 11 ай бұрын

All empires end this is just the way.

@jarednovel 11 ай бұрын

Context is often ignored.. A decade ago North Korea did not have capable nuclear weapons and now they do..When the US ruled the waves China was still a poor developing country..Things have now changed forever

@katprowler6805 11 ай бұрын

Don't forget that when China ruled the waves, America did not even exist.

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

@@katprowler6805 No doubt

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

US still rules the waves

@maync1 11 ай бұрын

John, you are wrong. The sanctions did nothing. Russia is doing well, business is up and they are laughing. Instead, the way things went, they imposed a kind of bleeding on the Europeans, economic attrition. Great conversation and Walter made the right points. Much impressed. Thank you.

@hotbird3 11 ай бұрын

The problem with being at the top is that the only way forward is down .

@thomaslee2783 10 ай бұрын

A redneck / hillbilly view of the world !!! Learn a lot from these two's conversation !!!!

@phillipchan6044 11 ай бұрын

He seems to be living in a twisted parallel reality

@madogsioux5636 11 ай бұрын

For fifty years the only thing about the world that Americans are interested in is: How much is it worth in US dollars?

@JK-ix8zi 10 ай бұрын

From year 0 to 1800, the world was not Western in its overall disposition and economic heft. We are reverting to that world once again.

@timetraveller885 11 ай бұрын

China is Spending Trillions of Yuan on Infrasture, High Tech, Education, BRI, SCO, BRICS, RCEP, all in the name of PROGRESS, for GREATER FUTURE MONETARY RETURNS!!!

@danhtran6401 11 ай бұрын

Is that why they are trillions in debt?

@HS-PGA 11 ай бұрын

Friendly reminder it’s called COMMUNIST CHINA

@ortforshort7652 11 ай бұрын

There's a fundamental difference, at least so far, between the US "supremacy" and the Chinese "supremacy" US supremacy stems out of the old European colonial model of interfacing with the global southl. It's based on domination, exploitation and militarism. Chinese supremacy stems out of it's need for more trade with the global south since the west manufacturers have started leaving China in droves over the past decade due to higher taxes and higher wages and, now, due to supply chain disruptions caused by covid. The global south is much more engaged with China and much more interested in dealing with China because of the nature of the relationship. With China it's more of a peer relationship albeit that China is bigger and stronger. With the US it's more of a vassal to master relationship. The loss of US supremacy is because the global south is running towards China as fast as they can and away from the US as fast as they can (altho' they know they have to watch themselves because of potential repurcussions). The only way for the US and Europe to get back in the ballgame is to start treating the global south the way China does - as trading partners not pseudo-colonies. But, realistically, what's the chance of that happening? A more likely result is that the US will try to act militarily and economically with sanctions. A bad idea, but it's hard for a leopard to change it's spots.

@chaitanyakada1341 11 ай бұрын

Global south is not rushing towards China.. Look around and you will see…

@TheRedc0met 6 ай бұрын

It's all human decency. Even school kids can understand. All the white kids bully the hardworking chinese kid in school. The chinese kid makes friends with those that aren't white because they don't bully him.

@pouyabahrami7669 11 ай бұрын

During the unipolar moment we chose continuous wars instead of continuous investment around the world to improve human life and our own influence. That choice has damaged our brand.

@ismailnyeyusof3520 11 ай бұрын

People everywhere get the government that they deserve. The US is no different, which is a real problem, when the US is so powerful.

@spartancrown 11 ай бұрын

Here’s the biggest concern about China versus the U.S. in a Cold War turns hot scenario that never existed under the Soviet threat. Economic power. The Soviets never exceeded 44% the size of the US economy. China isn’t far behind and unless you’re willing to build more shipyards and strike Chinese mainland targets they’re capable of out producing us in the short term certainly and potentially the long term if they can get around sanctions and blockades.

@2841guilherme 11 ай бұрын

correct but let’s take something else in regard China is not Russia in economic terms, you can’t severely sanction it without being severely injured in your economy Even some countries in EU have been maintaining or even strengthening relations with China, like France Germany might do the same Even the BRICS have a BIG share in the world’s food support, Brazil, India, China and even Russia are all top 10 in most categories when it comes to food production

@robertgittings8662 10 ай бұрын

*Nomial GDP subjects to currency pricing and inflation - high inflation usually associated with inflated nomial GDP*

@Nat_Ryder 11 ай бұрын

The greatest, only and current threat to Australia is political and economic isolation. "Friends" are geographically far away while neighbors are antangonised and despised and belittled because of their trade with China. However Australia cannot survive if it hopes to interact and trade only with their "Friends" Correction: Australia has a nearby "friend" Singapore, let's hope Singapore can "save" Australia.

@chadjcrase 10 ай бұрын

Really good comment Nat. In fact though, I think many Asian countries are turning away from China regardless of ties to the West, such as Vietnam and maybe even Indonesia. That is driven by self-interest only, perhaps, but the World is a dynamic place.

@tonivang123 10 ай бұрын

When the rules of law is decaying and corruptions is everywhere in society, the empire is slowly in decline.

@Oldienow 10 ай бұрын

Fast in decline

@tangyokechoon9709 11 ай бұрын

America having gained their supremacy through militarism over the world and especially by economic growth that had probably left the rest of the world under economic growth for a couple of hundred years. However,China having gained tremendous knowledge in economic growth by industrialisation and technology has been able to emerge as a challenger to America. 48:56

@crescent4996 11 ай бұрын

I think Walter dodges a bit in saying we blew our lead due to 'folly and blindness', it wasn't some accidental thing. It was greed and special interest. Western business wanting to get their hands in the cookie jar of the Chinese market, when the governing of the CCP, its record on human rights, etc, never warranted such reckless all in investing. And not only did we build them into a competitor world power in doing that, but we also destroyed our own industrial base and millions of jobs, which laid much of the groundwork for the internal division we now see, certainly in the US, but I would say in other places in the West as well.

@gunsumwong3948 11 ай бұрын

What do you expect? It is a democracy, right? Those guys who invested in China are getting richer. It is their individual's freedom and God given right under the American constitutions! If you are clever enough to be in the top 1% you wouldn't complain.

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

I agree with what you say, but STOP talking about CCP human rights, etc. Unless you have lived in China or visited for 60 days or more, you have no idea what you are talking about. You only know what US/western propaganda tells you. China could say the same thing about the USA. The slavery, the child and human trafficking, the school and mass shootings, the inequality of minorities, the expense and lost opportunities because of education costs, the treatment of immigrants, the CIA and FBI interfering with American's social media accounts, the mainstream media's silence of gov't activities, Snowden's treason when he told the truth of US monitoring its citizens, etc. etc. Greed has overtaken America in people, corporations and politicians. That is why USA is failing. Not because of China, Russia, Iran, etc.

@icet6665 11 ай бұрын

YOUR PRODUCTS WOULD BE TOO EXPENSIVE TO BUILD OR SHIFTED THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND DONT FORGET YOU HAD POWERFUL UNIONS THAT WESTERN CORPORATINS HAD TO DEAL WITH. STOP BLAMING THE OTHER SIDE FOR YOUR OWN PROBLEMS

@realpainediaz7473 11 ай бұрын

Uh, it is CPC

@icet6665 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT The Chinese both the KMT and the CPC fought in the second WW. Many Chinese scholars and inventors contributed to the inventions in the US eg. the first calculator too. Hahaha behind the Japanese and Korean. You are behind the latest news.

@theinfralink6598 11 ай бұрын

I have to say the guest is almost completely wrong in trying to identify lessons learned during the post Soviet period. America did not pay less attention to the world. In fact it increased military expenses many folds in an effort to further boost its hegemony. Look how many wars it has fought since 1991. The problem was the opposite. It got overly confident and didn’t pay enough attention to domestic problems particularly economic problems. In contrast China single minded lay focus on economic development of its own

@0711mama 11 ай бұрын

Most of our problems today are self-made.

@Boudi-ca 11 ай бұрын

People are self sabotaging bc they can’t deal with having everything at their feet.

@phyllisthompson4207 10 ай бұрын

China has learned a very valuable, and important lesson. It is better to sp😅with honey in its mouth, than vinegar. Africa is not the same as it used to be. China did not bring all its workers from China. Anywhere China do business, they understand that the locals has to be involved, while learning from them.

@tonysu8860 11 ай бұрын

The only people who believe in the perspectives of this video are those that watch and read Murdoch journalism. Full of questionable facts, superficial if not disputable and really bad analysis. Enough things that are reported by Murdoch "news" to make the opinions believable but unsupportable for anyone who actually does a bit of research. Trades of fears and feelings of inferiority and lack of understanding of the world we live in when with a modicum of courage supplanted by really digging out the facts should not have trouble understanding the world we live in and lessen the need to have the world interpreted by people who might not really know what they'e talking about, either.

@pemtinify 11 ай бұрын

Most news media in Oz present the basic facts in reportage news. It is how they curate the facts in terms of context and disclosure that makes the difference. The astute and informed observer can discern this bias easily. In regard to editorials and opinions pieces, there is the clear divide in Left and Right thinking or the two views of what is happening and what has value. I do not see much difference in the substance of respective opinions between the "Murdoch press" and the Left-orientated press: they are preaching to two different congregations who buy in as the spin appeals to their prejudices.

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

This is same news paper and British system which believed Johnny Depp was the violent abuser in the relationship...

@anpsinhasinha8499 9 ай бұрын

The most brilliant analysis of global situation I have seen

@0animalproductworld558 11 ай бұрын

Someone said with the 2T that the US spent in the Middle East war. They could have built a good network of high speed rails in America with trains

@colinlee9678 11 ай бұрын

It is a no brianer that Russia is the winner of this Ukraine war from day one , as it could have finished this war on day one by deploying its weapons of mass destruction but it showed its utmost restraint by not deploying them and instead go for a war of longer attrition!

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

Russia only increased its weapon power each time US/UK/EU increased its supply of weapons to Ukraine. After the clumbsy attempted take out of Putin, Russia has unleashed its more advanced weapons. Also striking in several cities at the same time across Ukraine. One missile killed more than 100 Ukraine and NATO commanders. Everyone is silent about this. The 6 bloggers who independently had video of the strike, have been arrested. Luckily for us, they all posted it on social media before their arrest. So NATO cannot denying it took place... just outside Kiev. Will be interesting know how many different country commanders were in that bunker? Doing training???

@kartalpencesi2000 11 ай бұрын

Although we are a NATO country, we Turks wholeheartedly support the Republic of China. America, which invaded weak countries under the name of democracy and persecuted for years, will take a good lesson from the Pacific and will be referred to as the strong country of the past like England.

@JS-ih7lu 11 ай бұрын

I think you mean “People’s Republic of China”. The “Republic of China” fled mainland China in 1949 when they lost the civil war and now resides in Taiwan 😂

@kartalpencesi2000 11 ай бұрын

@@JS-ih7lu Whatever you understand, don't get too caught up in the details. you know what i mean, or i would say taiwan, right?

@JS-ih7lu 11 ай бұрын

@@kartalpencesi2000 If you made the effort to put “Republic” in front of China, you should at least refer to the right “Republic”, or drop the “Republic” altogether and just call it “China” 😂

@hlim431 11 ай бұрын

Introspection requires humility & that's not just an American trait --- In the 30 year period when China's GDP went from $0.4 to $14 trillion and lifted 800 million people out of extreme poverty, the US went from $6 to $21 trillion, an almost identical rise in GDP. Only problem the rise almost exclusively went to the top 1% as wealth of American masses stagnated. If you are a US CEO what you are expected to do is out-source to China, Mexico, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam & India. If ANY CEO refuses to do what every other CEO is doing to enhance profits at the expense of working class Americans, he will be replaced with someone willing to sacrifice fellow Americans. John Anderson during the John Howard years had the benefit of 30 YEARS of China... unlike the Norwegians who banked their oil wealth now has a $1.3 TRILLION sovereign wealth fund but Howard & Co gave it back in Tax cuts to buy Howard a 4th term --- so AU was pronounced by the OECD as the most wasteful of Western economies.

@MikeThompson-yi4gm 11 ай бұрын

I’m so happy you found it it

@paddioche 11 ай бұрын

The decline of America All points to one place, ukraine. soros/davos

@olli-anteropetterharju158 11 ай бұрын

But, that wasn`t "one place". Be more specific.

@mimiginkgo 11 ай бұрын

wumao

@mandelbro777 11 ай бұрын

As long as the MIC can charge $20,000 for a hammer and $100,000 for a toilet seat, they're going to need a warzone somewhere from which to stamp the invoice. Funny how as soon as Afghanistan winds down, there is NATO embedding itself in yet another geopolitically significant region rallying a puppet leadership placed in 2014 during a Washington initiated color revolution, and baiting this puppet to 'join NATO', knowing well the ramifications of this for Moscow.

@sylviam6535 11 ай бұрын

The decline runs far deeper than that.

@mimiginkgo 11 ай бұрын

@@sylviam6535 then comment on China and Russia’s status if you dare

@kshen7485 11 ай бұрын

Walter’s colonial mindset showed up here.

@patricknavas3532 11 ай бұрын

Lame commentaries. He talks realistically and eloquently about the prospect of nuclear war and then goes on to advocate a policy (confronting China over Taiwan) that dramatically increases the likelihood of nuclear war. A war with China is unnecessary (China is not about to invade or attack Nebraska) and would be totally catastrophic. China will only use military force against Taiwan if the US continues to double-down on antagonizing China via Taiwan. The answer, if you sincerely don’t want war, is to stop antagonizing China. The interviewer also engages in shameless projection. It is the US that wants, and that ruthlessly pursues, global dominance, not China. 🤦🏽‍♂️

@elenagalieva5037 11 ай бұрын

I'm already sick when I hear about "democracy promotion". The US has already discredited the word "democracy". Keep your "democracy" to yourself. Let the rest of the world live the way it wants to. Put things in order first in your country.

@juliecheung5278 11 ай бұрын

Question to the guest: - I wonder why there were so many foreign ministers and country heads wanting to meet President Qi recently, especially the U.S !!!

@yongdeng1813 11 ай бұрын

U mean president Xi..

@mandrews1245 11 ай бұрын

I LOVE IT. Xi refused the US from entry into China. He welcomed Macron. But the EU head, he refused Chinese air space to her plane, and she had to reroute and landed 6 hours behind Macron. In addition, no one welcomed her plane. Not even one journalist. She had to go thru the public gates and regular security... Xi doesn't have time for USA. They just want to lecture him about their superiority. He doesn't need US to have economic growth. His allies are South America, Latin America, most African nations, many in Middle East, OPEC and parts of Indo-Pacific. Even Mexico has expressed interest in joining BRICS!

@user-wi8cs9jf3l 11 ай бұрын

Xi not Qi 😂

@burtonlee22 11 ай бұрын

Mead is correct re American folly and blindness

@gunsumwong3948 11 ай бұрын

It is this kind of people that makes US today!

@good2freelance1 11 ай бұрын

Sort of one sided and the US empire is never at fault. All the horrific war crimes done by the US and its ''allies'' are ignored here.

@Ryan49861 10 ай бұрын

It's not a shame to lose to China in GDP as China has 4x the people; it's a shame to seek loss-loss competitions in an attempt to stay # 1 .

@edwinnote655 11 ай бұрын

A lot of country outside western and japan stil remember colonialism. Yes they worried china domination but they rather have 2 giant to work with than 1 super giant, at least if 1 do bad they can run to other. Just like me i want walmart and amazon so i can shop to which ever cheaper.

@edwinnote655 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT what???? Many nations in Asia already have success in trade and culture before Westerners' arrival. Yes, they lack a gun . Budism, Hinduism, Taoism, and islamic are spread all over Asia from trade. So please spread the trade and culture, not war.

@JS-ih7lu 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT Are you intentionally ignorant? Africa and South Asia are in constant civil war and turmoil BECAUSE arbitrary borders were drawn through their land by the Europeans. Each of these Global South regions were richer BEFORE the Europeans got there and robbed them blind. Geez, so far every single comment you’ve made on this video is the opposite of historical fact, it’s like you’re getting paid to spread lies 🙄

@crescent4996 11 ай бұрын

If the super giant is far away, it is much more benevolent to your country because its impossible US will ever try to expand territoriality into your land. While China has territory conflicts with virtually all its neighbors.

@robbiewizz658 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT your obviously not very bright … You act and think that we should feel indebted and thank you for helping form our nations. What you seem to miss out is that the lines on maps drawn up of nations was drawn with the intention of carving up tribal peoples lands and history into collections that colonial powers could share amongst themselves so they could exploit extract and steal wealth. I’ll give you a tip we don’t thank you for you … Divide and conquer create instability and division is your history ..

@edwinnote655 11 ай бұрын

@BrianT this totally wrong point of view. 1st, if you say killing a million and rob God know how much, but build rail road is OK ( they build for themselves, just can not take it home when they out) 2nd, they can do all positive things like spreading Christianity and critical thinking ( which is very important for the world now) without war and colonialism.

@mohamedali2858 11 ай бұрын

The problem of not accepting the idea that countries are ageing is against history, and if things lasted for anyone, they would not have reached us.

@edwardhalpin7503 10 ай бұрын

To suggest the predicament is the result of folly and blindness is insulting. The truth is it's the corruption of the establishment allowed this situation to occur.

@nikolaybilov9539 11 ай бұрын

How delightful to hear all these self-reproaches . I hope we will give you more causes for it in the nearest future

@Gemini73883 11 ай бұрын

If India is as the Prof says and is in the same situation or better (than China), then India will be in the cross-hairs too! Truth be told, America will take aim at whoever comes up in the rear view mirror! If Ozzieland (pardon me, Mr Anderson) came up in said rear view mirror the kangaroo won't be spared! Plaza Accord (Imposition), anyone?

@yttean98 11 ай бұрын

The West must look at itself critically and reform both in the fields of politics and how its economy(*) is being run exclusively in the mound of neoliberalism. If not the deterioration politically, economically and worse still culturally will continue in the downward trend into the future. In the end, who suffers, the middle and lower classes, whereas the rich and elite upper classes will remain powerful and enjoy their wealth. * I can mention a few AREAS of reform but you would not agree.

@phyllisthompson4207 10 ай бұрын

Hope that they will listen to the voices of reason. The world needs peace p

@demonslayer1196 10 ай бұрын

China is a worthy adversary for the US to lose supremacy to. China has shown guts, resilience, wisdom, talent and most of all true leadership enhancing cooperation and world peace. Well played China. Congratulations!

@luljey1 11 ай бұрын

The arrogance and ignorance of these two guys is incredible.

@alantran1914 11 ай бұрын

We have done it to ourselves and we only have ourselves to blame!!!!

@yoshimansxl 11 ай бұрын

As a scholar in macro sociology and also in International Relations specialized in China& International Relations. Let's see where this goes.

@golonawailus4312 11 ай бұрын

Walter's major problem is a rhetoric that excludes the US in the counting of the balance of power. Including the US in the global balance of power is the first time in the world that China could balance the US. Even the Soviet Union was unable to fully balance the US power single-handedly.

@nudisco7882 11 ай бұрын

China can't balance the US for many reasons. Among them is it can't dominate global tech.

@siewkonsum7291 11 ай бұрын

The US Regime didn't lose any supremacy. The World is evolutionary so that nowadays, the global centre of economic activities is shifting back to Middle kingdom of Asia - where it was before the discovery of America!

@gunsumwong3948 11 ай бұрын

Spot on!

@JS-ih7lu 11 ай бұрын

The American century is an anomaly of history. The economic and power centre of the world is shifting back to the East where it has been for most of humanity’s history.

@inquiry21 11 ай бұрын

Mead’s assessment is a type of psychological assessment of our plight that illustrates the limits of the West’s self understanding of its history and current crisis: He says “that without faith in God or some level of Churchillian confidence it is not possible in our time to provide real leadership. The loss of faith in God and loss of civilizational self-confidence is profoundly disabling….We see a society in denial of its real condition. ..A society that has moved away from its faith in God, it’s historical understanding of itself, ours has this sense of disconnection, incapacity, and it looks at these immense historical problems …looming over us is the spectre of nuclear war…so caught between a sort of psychological isolation/ incapacity and then a sort of geopolitical global feature of the world thing, people are not in good shape and are responding as people do in that sort of situation.” He is not wrong, he is just not philosophically precise or deep enough. The particular metaphysics/ form of consciousness that gave rise to the West - through internal critique - collapsed and gave rise to an opposite metaphysics/ form of consciousness. The best philosophic study on this, on the nature of and transformation of the West is ‘The Great Chain of Being’ (1933) by Arthur Lovejoy, online in pdf. Absent from the West’s conception of being, its emphasis upon being as defined by ‘individuality’, and the divine conceived as creator and source of man, are teachings on Self-knowing, realization, releasement from the ego through Self-inquiry. Even if God is admitted, which for most now it is not, the ‘self’, individuality, is conceived as real. The West does not teach nor cultivate Self knowledge and releasement from self/ego. The best and highest teaching about self knowing are to be found in Vedanta, advaita, self-inquiry, see ‘Forty Versus on Reality’ RM, Muruganar, Sadhu Om. The ground Mead speaks of as now most needed is always and only to be found in knowledge of Reality, specifically in the knowledge of our true nature. The West needs to turn to teachings on Self-inquiry.

@dagandom3671 11 ай бұрын

you hit it right on the head. - China's plan winning job contracts abroad particularly is to keep their people working on projects like road contracts etc. helps both ways in creating jobs to Chinese workers and winning contracts. While the locals do not have the opportunity to work. Contractors other than the Chinese most likely hire the locals. I don't see much advantage using overseas contractors like Chinese.

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@raphfelimax2713 11 ай бұрын

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