Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China’s Power Grows
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- čas přidán 15. 11. 2021
- President Joe Biden’s virtual summit Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping follows the two countries’ announcement just days earlier they will work together to confront the climate emergency after Xi did not attend the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. Tension has been mounting between the two superpowers, especially over Taiwan and Hong Kong, with some speculating that a new Cold War is developing. “The United States, in the immediate future, is faced with the possibility of fighting a war over Taiwan … that it would probably lose,” says Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in an extended interview about U.S.-China relations. “China is also working to break the U.S. geopolitical hold over the Eurasian landmass.” McCoy is a prolific author and his newest book is out today: “To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change.”
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America is dying from short-term thinking, corporate capitalism, wealth inequality, and military/industrial spending. And we're still doing it. Our lack of vision is breathtaking.
America should be taking a look at it own human rights record it is appalling!
I've learnt more about geopolitics in the 22 minutes I spent watching this video than I have over the last ten years of reading and watching all the mainstream media outlets in the UK. A big thanks!
The collapse has a lot to do with arrogance and self destruction!
Maybe we shouldn’t have spent 100 years over-throwing govts and destroying countries on this side of the globe, ie: South America
The guy forgetting most of the trillions spent on the afghan war went to American military contractors and American corporations, about 90% I believe. Afghanistan wasn't about winning, it was about corporate profit, especially American corporations profit.
This interview was spot on. The moment I heard China's belt and road initiative, I flashed on the industrial and economic expansion that took place as railroads and freeways spanned the conterminous US. China is connecting unprecedented markets.
"Dividing the world into blocs will bring upon disaster"
The USA got 200 years to build a railroad to Mexico o argentina.they don't even got one from LA to San Francisco so don't blame China.
Scary times for my country of Australia if these predictions are correct. We're making some severe miscalculations by being America's little dog.
Never seen this channel before, its so weird how the host and guests are just explaining stuff. Not shouting at each other like main stream news
I think he's being inaccurate when he says "America sees Africa as a charity case" and that it's only China that has begun to use it's natural resources. In fact the US has long been exploiting poor countries in Africa through extreme debt (through the IMF and World Bank, which they effectively own).
It's significant that the US spent 8 trillion dollars, as Professor Mc Coy pointed out, in Afghanistan only to hand the country over to China which spent nothing on destructive pursuits. While this was happening, the poverty rate has risen in this country, with 40 million and counting still living below the poverty line, constantly worrying about basic needs such as healthcare and education. All to appease the military-industrial complex! It couldn't last!!!
In plain terms, the west discounted the African continent, China did not.
in short, its about to collapsed...
It might be an old news but shocked me that there are 10 Chinese universities ranked in the top 20 world best engineering but only 3 in USA by US News. Also the #1 is not MIT anymore but a Chinese University.
This is the sort of news coverage Americans should be hearing. Thank you for covering it.
I lived in Hong Kong for a while and I lived in Florida and the Chinese are way ahead in intelligence.
usa stopped being a democracy a long time ago. as the princeton study showed, what the people in the lower 90% of income want has nothing at all to do with the choices gov makes. wages have been stagnent for 40 years. people can no longer afford houses, and the truck i bought in 73 for 4k now costs more than 40 while wages are about twice.
The professor is cool and correct.