World on the Brink

[@annleland6422]

Thank you very much for the great talk. I will buy the book for more details。

[@jamesu6241]

The inconvenient truth is, in the 1970’s the US actively courted and then won over China to its side, as a counter weight against the Soviet Union during the so-called Cold War 1. As a price, US pledged “there is but one China and that Taiwan is part of China” in the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué. US swiftly abandoned Taiwan (Republic of China) by switching recognition to the communist China (People Republic of China). After winning the “Cold War 1”, during the next two decades US multinationals reaped enormous benefits by using China as a low-cost production base, like what they had done with smaller East Asian countries previously, and now trying to do the same with Vietnam (yes, also run by communists) and India (governed by the increasingly authoritarian Modi). Cheap imports from China, at the expense of Chinese laborers’ health and environmental degradation gave rise to the Great Moderation, a period of low inflation and prosperity in the US that ran from Clinton years until the self-inflicted Sub-Prime Crisis and Great Recession in 2007-09. As it becomes prosperous, China is no longer content playing the US sweatshop. Faced with an increasingly assertive China, which could not be pushed around like the little brother Japan did in the 1980s, the US tune has changed once again. Every US action over the past century smack of self-interest, selfishness and hypocrisy!

[@Goodmaolee]

Is this a scholar or a politician? It's all cliches

[@profriday]

Chinese bot or Chinese troll ?

[@uers-00seven]

It seems that America is full of such low-level scholars.

[@uers-00seven]

Full of mistakes and lies.