The International Manifesto Group (IMG) organised a webinar on ‘Trump’s Presidency and the Prospects for Peace in 2025’ on Sunday 19 January, the day before the US presidential inauguration. The speakers were: The event was moderated and introduced by Radhika Desai on behalf of the IMG and was also sponsored and supported by Friends of … Continue reading The US seeks to reverse China’s progress and bring it to heel
As with Cold War One and the Soviet Union, the US seeks to reverse China’s progress and, at best, bring it to heel, through a combination of a debilitating arms race, ideological subversion and economic and technological strangulation.
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China out competes the US on all those. The US can’t even manufacture arms without China. They have spend decades deconstructing their own means of production. How exactly are the going to have a “race” of technology when all of the US tech comes FROM China? lol. Clown shit.
I hold the view that the we can draw many parallels between the current geopolitical landscape and the 1990s, except in reverse. Where the Soviet Union once buckled under Western military, economic, and ideological pressure, today it is the western bloc that appears increasingly vulnerable, its hegemony eroded by strategic overreach, economic stagnation, and the rise of a multipolar order led by BRICS. There are three key dynamics at play here.
Western military and economic support for Ukraine has now exceeded $200 billion, failing to deliver the intended results while cratering European economy. The economic blowback is creating cracks in western unity that hinder operational capacity. Sanctions designed to isolate Russia have instead accelerated de-dollarization and deepened ties between Russia and the Global South. Meanwhile, NATO’s credibility wanes as European defense budgets strain under inflation and energy crises, mirroring Soviet-era resource depletion.
Western bloc was the dominant global economy during the cold war, that was able to put pressure on the socialist bloc. Today, BRICS nations account for around 36% of global GDP using PPP measure, while the G7’s share is around 30%. China’s rise as a tech and manufacturing superpower, India’s growth, and the petroclout of Russia and Gulf states have shifted economic gravity eastward. The West, by contrast, grapples with unsustainable rise in cost of living, deindustrialization, and a looming currency crisis as BRICS push dedollarization.
Neoliberalism now faces global rejection. Austerity, privatization, and deregulation have fueled inequality and populist backlash as seen with Trump, Le Pen, Meloni, Weidel, and others. Institutions like the IMF and World Bank, once arbiters of global finance, are increasingly sidelined by alternatives like the BRICS New Development Bank, and BRI. Even within the West, faith in liberal democracy is starting to fade leading to polarization, distrust in media, and youth disillusionment that echos late Soviet-era apathy.
West’s inability to adapt risks systemic collapse. A defeat in Ukraine is likely fracture NATO, especially given the hostility between Trump and the EU. A debt-driven financial crisis might cripple the dollar’s reserve status. Meanwhile, BRICS’ expansion and trade deals that are increasingly happening outside western financial system threaten to permanently marginalize Western economic leverage. The inability to address internal rot combined with external defiance of the Global South suggests a reordering is inevitable.
We may see the neoliberal west confront its own “unipolar moment” in reverse in the coming years.
lol
Lmao
China out competes the US on all those. The US can’t even manufacture arms without China. They have spend decades deconstructing their own means of production. How exactly are the going to have a “race” of technology when all of the US tech comes FROM China? lol. Clown shit.
Edit: Xi please.
I hold the view that the we can draw many parallels between the current geopolitical landscape and the 1990s, except in reverse. Where the Soviet Union once buckled under Western military, economic, and ideological pressure, today it is the western bloc that appears increasingly vulnerable, its hegemony eroded by strategic overreach, economic stagnation, and the rise of a multipolar order led by BRICS. There are three key dynamics at play here.
Western military and economic support for Ukraine has now exceeded $200 billion, failing to deliver the intended results while cratering European economy. The economic blowback is creating cracks in western unity that hinder operational capacity. Sanctions designed to isolate Russia have instead accelerated de-dollarization and deepened ties between Russia and the Global South. Meanwhile, NATO’s credibility wanes as European defense budgets strain under inflation and energy crises, mirroring Soviet-era resource depletion.
Western bloc was the dominant global economy during the cold war, that was able to put pressure on the socialist bloc. Today, BRICS nations account for around 36% of global GDP using PPP measure, while the G7’s share is around 30%. China’s rise as a tech and manufacturing superpower, India’s growth, and the petroclout of Russia and Gulf states have shifted economic gravity eastward. The West, by contrast, grapples with unsustainable rise in cost of living, deindustrialization, and a looming currency crisis as BRICS push dedollarization.
Neoliberalism now faces global rejection. Austerity, privatization, and deregulation have fueled inequality and populist backlash as seen with Trump, Le Pen, Meloni, Weidel, and others. Institutions like the IMF and World Bank, once arbiters of global finance, are increasingly sidelined by alternatives like the BRICS New Development Bank, and BRI. Even within the West, faith in liberal democracy is starting to fade leading to polarization, distrust in media, and youth disillusionment that echos late Soviet-era apathy.
West’s inability to adapt risks systemic collapse. A defeat in Ukraine is likely fracture NATO, especially given the hostility between Trump and the EU. A debt-driven financial crisis might cripple the dollar’s reserve status. Meanwhile, BRICS’ expansion and trade deals that are increasingly happening outside western financial system threaten to permanently marginalize Western economic leverage. The inability to address internal rot combined with external defiance of the Global South suggests a reordering is inevitable.
We may see the neoliberal west confront its own “unipolar moment” in reverse in the coming years.