I think that it is inevitable that the economic power balance of the world has to be rearranged by the abilities and energy of a couple of billion people in Asia. They simply will not be shut out from a world economy that has been run almost entirely by Americans and Europeans. I think it might be possible to manage the transition in a way that reduces the inevitable disruption to the lives of ordinary people. By not discussing the reality we are missing any possible oportunities to do this. Instead we are rehashing the arguments that might have had some relevance 50 years ago.
And, you know, your dismissal of a very considerable propaganda machine as the work of a bunch of defeated generals re-fighting the war before last, and of arguments concerning American (would-be) hegemony and the EU as 50-year-gone maybe relevant, seem to me to take airy wing above reality.
But, as you see no interest in the topic presented above, we'd better just agree to differ.
