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2020-05-16 China-Japan-Koreas

A Failure of Leadership, Part III: The Beginning of the End of China

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-05-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 From your mouth to the ear of G*d, Peter. That is, may China collapse peacefully.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-16 00:28|| 2020-05-16 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 "Don't take any wooden nickels " It looks like Xi thinks he can follow the German models. Unfortunately Nationalism brings Nationalism in response. Trump has already canceled the China Post that gave China favored nation status to exports. Now exports you could get in your mail box are running over about two months behind.
Could the US feed China and would it ?

Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-05-16 03:20|| 2020-05-16 03:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Ben Rhodes was supposed to be in charge until 2030 or so. Plan B was not taken very seriously until Trump was inaugurated.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-16 06:45|| 2020-05-16 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 How many billions would Xi spend to have Biden in the Whitehouse and Democratic control of Congress?

Posted by Matt 2020-05-16 09:22|| 2020-05-16 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Wait for November.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-16 09:38|| 2020-05-16 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6 This is probably the best analysis of China we've seen in years. Funny how it took an obscure academic who's not a shill for China or for globalism to come up with this.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-16 12:13|| 2020-05-16 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, he's not that obscure.:)

Posted by charger 2020-05-16 14:45|| 2020-05-16 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Right ... I meant to say, Zeihan's voice has been is almost completely shut out of the usual channels for foreign-policy analysis - you never see him on any cable show, he has no Op-Eds published in NYT or WaPo, and I've never seen any of his articles in the leading foreign-policy journals. Why so?

Posted by Lex 2020-05-16 14:52|| 2020-05-16 14:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Given the "experts" in CIA et al and their precision in predicting the "fall" of the USSR I won't get too optimistic about this until I see some new designs in Chinese lamp post decorations going up.

Posted by AlanC 2020-05-16 15:04|| 2020-05-16 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 He goes against the narrative, of course.

And "reporting" and commentary are all about narrative shaping, promulgation and reinforcement, not informing the audience.

In particular, he actually approves of Trump's handling of China; conceding that Trump does anything right is a no-no, even at many "conservative news sources".

Posted by charger 2020-05-16 15:05|| 2020-05-16 15:05|| Front Page Top

#11 He used to be part of Stratfor, which the mainstream media absolutely loathes.

They don't understand their analysis, find the conclusions troubling and alien, and don't want to think about it at all.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-05-16 15:44|| 2020-05-16 15:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Herb! Mirabile visu.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-16 15:55|| 2020-05-16 15:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Ah, right. Stratfor: makes sense. George Friedman is persona non grata w the media.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-16 16:10|| 2020-05-16 16:10|| Front Page Top

#14 So China has spent itself into oblivion?

And now Pelosi and the Dems want to follow the Chinese Model.

Posted by Bobby 2020-05-16 17:27|| 2020-05-16 17:27|| Front Page Top

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