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Goldman's latest in the Asia Times: https://asiatimes.com/2023/11/ch ... d-the-muslim-world/
[report by David P. Goldman]
HUMANITY HAS MOVED AWAY FROM U.S.
The Global South, with 85% of the world’s population, has drifted out of the Western sphere of influence, as the United States and its allies discovered when countries with 70% of the world population rejected United Nations sanctions against Russia after February 2022.
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The West found this out a second time October 27 when 120 countries voted for a UN General Assembly resolution opposed by the United States that failed to condemn Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
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By far the biggest driver of this tectonic shift in world politics is China’s growing economic pre-eminence in the developing world.
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CHINA ‘INVASIONS’ HAVEN’T HAPPENED
Notably, China did this with a total forward deployment of 200 troops (marines at China’s base in Djibouti), in contrast to the US$7 trillion that the United States spent overseas in the Global War on Terror during the past twenty years.
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The US Defense Department and various think tanks issue dire warnings about China’s military ambitions in Eurasia, but so far China has employed nothing but soft power.
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CHINA’S NEW SILK ROAD BRINGS CASH, SECURITY
The new Silk Road across Asia has made a major contribution to Chinese exports. The Central Asian former republics of the Soviet Union now take almost $5 billion a month in Chinese goods, up from about $2 billion a month in 2018.
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That has a security vector, to be sure: After America’s disorderly withdrawal from Afghanistan, China concluded that it could not rely on the United States to suppress jihadists on or near its borders; it then poured funds into neighboring economies.
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WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY
American strategists should listen closely to Professor Zhang Weiwei of Fudan University, who told the Observer news site on November 3 that “the world has long entered the post-American era. This does not mean that the United States is no longer important.
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“The United States is still very important. It means the United States … going against the trend.”
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US ‘CHIP’ ATTACKS HURT THE WEST
Referring to US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s catchphrase “small yard, high fence” to describe US controls on technology exports, Zhang said, “We can think of this as the self-restraint of a frog in a well.”
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The United States, Zhang said, “has isolated itself within this high fence around a small yard. Outside is the entire Global South, the entire non-Western world, which has the world’s largest market, largest resources, and most development opportunities.”
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[This is an extract from an article in Asia Times, link in the comments] |
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