I remember Jim Rogers (commodity investor) predicted the rise of China in the late 1990’s due to trade surplus, high savings rate while the US borrow and spend. He predicted China will rise and the US will be unable to contain it economically and financially. The US military can ring China’s military but it is not design to stop Chinese influence via money. US has none to counter China’s cash reserves. I remember Rogers saying that as China rises Americans may not like the world China imposes on us. Censoring our MSM and pop culture may be one of them.
In the 1800’s China wanted to be left alone. The West and US said no, and used military force to open her markets, set China’s tariffs and occupied her cities with troops and gunboats. If the US and the West had left China alone, we would not be in this predicament. Our founding fathers were correct, foreign policy should be based on willing trade, not coercion, and if US resources were used to build the shining New World for all of the world to witness and let them decide if they want to copy all or some of it, we would not be the hated world power like Britain became in the 1800’s thru 1900’s prior to WW2. We would achieve the same prosperity thru wealth (thus military strength) without all the blood, treasure and goodwill destroyed thru empire. Instead we chose Spanish American War, China Trade (Opium) and Wilsonian redefinition of US as leader of the free world. At that point the fate of our treasury was doomed.
“as China rises Americans may not like the world China imposes on us. Censoring our MSM and pop culture may be one of them.”
Frankly, I would like to censor our MSM and pop culture.