[Peace-discuss] A sanguine view of what China expects to achieve

[C G Estabrook]

In college I was privileged to take courses from America's leading China scholars, John K. Fairbank ("the Harvard history professor who was widely credited with creating the field of modern Chinese studies in the United States“ - NYT obit) and Benjamin I. Schwartz (史华慈 - author of "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao,” 1951).

Several recent brief visits to China (my wife has traveled more extensively there) have shown me what a remarkable transformation has taken place from the China described to me a half-century ago.

Perhaps the most vicious concept in modern foreign policy (comparable to "Lebensraum” ca. 1940) is the US drive to prevent the rise of “peer competitors” in Eurasia. (See e.g. Zbigniew Brzezinski,'The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives,’ 1997.)

Trump became president in part because he attacked 40 years of neoliberal and neocon policies, including the Obama-Clinton wars and war provocations again Russia and China. 

The US political establishment has struggled (hysterically, and largely successfully) to bring him back to the vicious traditional US fp - an extreme danger to the world.  —CGE



> On Jul 15, 2018, at 11:45 PM, E. Wayne Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Jerry Clower the great American philosopher noted that in the 70s
> he was asked to pay a dollar and twenty-five cents for a slice of cantaloupe.
> As a boy in Mississippi he had fed "landslide loads" of cantaloupes to the hogs
> (just to get shed of so much cantaloupe) and he could have
> sent vast amounts of cantaloupes to NYC if he had know it was
> going for $1.25 a slice.
> 
> David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
>> It's important to note that according to one credible data set, China in
>> 1969 had a per capita GDP (in 2010 dollars) of $193, almost the lowest in
>> the world, except for Cambodia, Mozambique, and Djibouti (the latter $17
>> !!). By 2014, their per capita GDP (again 2010 dollars) was $6,000, a
>> multiple of about 30 (that is, doubling almost 5 times) over 45 years.
>> Nothing else like it, obviously in terms of rapid development, although S.
>> Korea & Taiwan grew by multiples of 10 to over $20,000. I assume that the
>> cultural revolution had something to do with the low baseline in 1969,
>> nevertheless...
>> 
>> DG
>> 
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 7:08 PM Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <
>> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>> 
>>> http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/china-opens-to-world-as-trump-erects-protectionist-walls/ <http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/china-opens-to-world-as-trump-erects-protectionist-walls/>
>>> 
>>> Over-optimistic? Yet impressive in its comprehensiveness.
>>> 
>>> —mkb
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