Is American world supremacy over?

 
There are moments in the lives of individuals and sometimes nations when nature gives them such results that they begin to feel that they are at the pinnacle of their success, something that no one in history has achieved and that no one will achieve in the future.

 There was also a recent event in American life in which its rival, the Soviet Union, weakened 30 years ago and fell apart. Undoubtedly, the end of the Cold War was a major achievement in the history of the United States, but today experts say it was actually the beginning of the decline of the United States.

Kishore Mehboobani, author of "Did China Win", belongs to a Hindu-Sindhi family who emigrated from Sindh to Singapore during the Partition. Kishore completed his education in Singapore and was a longtime diplomat in Singapore, representing Singapore at the United Nations and briefly chairing the Security Council. The teens also taught at Harvard and Lee Kuan Yew and wrote several books on China's rise on the world stage.

Your recent book Has China Won? Released in 2020 and has been the focus of debate in the United States and Western life. Inside, he says the US is losing its superpower status and is being replaced by Communist China. In this regard, he points out the many mistakes of the United States and the West and argues that there is still time for the United States to learn from their mistakes and try to remedy them so that they can hold their position to keep the world. He calls himself a friend of the United States and China and stresses the need to end the recent tensions between them. Importantly, your book and arguments are taken very seriously in the United States. In recent months, he has been invited to discuss the issue by numerous American think tanks and universities.

 In the book under review, Kishore states that the living and income standards of 50% of the American population have steadily declined over the past 30 years since the end of the Cold War, and in those 30 years 700 million people in China have declined. to remove poverty. The standard of living provided by the Communist Party government to the Chinese in the form of food, education, health, employment and infrastructure has never been seen in thousands of years of Chinese history, and the United States has ignored this economic reality. leave the communist system.

Kishore also claims that the US is proud of its democratic system, but ignores the fact that Communist China is based on the merit of democracy rather than democracy, which is why it has the leadership of the most intelligent and talented people. best interests. of the country. Under this system, the most talented workers of the Communist Party are promoted to decision-making positions. This merit value is impossible in a democracy. He says running the Communist Party of China over the past 70 years has not been an easy task to manage and keep a country with a population of 1.4 billion united.

His most interesting point is that the central counterpart should be viewed as a party of Chinese civilization rather than a Chinese Communist Party because its aim is to revive China 's historical and ancient glory. Teenagers also say that the rise of the West is only 200 years old, and that India and China have held great powers for thousands of years in world history. In such a case, it is natural that among these nations there is a desire to resurrect and revive their civilization. Having said this, teenagers forget the Renaissance of the Islamic world and the early Sumerian, Persian, Roman and Greek eras.

Kishore says that after the end of the Cold War, the United States was the only superpower and was dependent on power. He says that Francis Fukuyama's book "The End of History" and the philosophy described in it are proof of the revolt that man has Western democratic and liberal values ​​after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the failure of communism. Ascension is the result of ideological evolution.

It calls 9/11 a turning point in US history when the US has become so upset that it has forgotten an important event in the world economy: China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a result, 900 million skilled workers joined the global job market, increasing competition for workers in the United States and around the world, even though the United States could not focus on its workers' skills to improve.

A key factor in bringing about the change is China's free labor, which has attracted US capital to China and other Asian countries. The economic recession of the last 30 years, the frustration of the middle and low income classes, has given Trump the opportunity to rise to power, a severe blow to the US state itself. Due to this economic frustration, hatred of elites is spreading throughout the United States and throughout the West in order to divert attention from economic problems.

Teenager says it's not too late. The US and the West can still do it, but they advise the US to take a minimalist approach, that is, to limit its involvement in global affairs to the extreme. His intervention is creating hatred against him, especially in Muslim countries. His second recommendation is that the United States reduce its defense budget and raise the standard of living and the research and development budget of its people. They say the United States has your own aircraft carriers, each worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Millions of dollars are spent every day on their maintenance. He said Tim Colton, a Harvard professor, said that in a war, an enemy missile from 100,000 to 100,000 is capable of destroying an aircraft carrier.

 The third piece of advice he gives is that the West must free itself from the responsibility it feels to improve the world. Western countries make up only 12% of the world population. It should not bear this burden, but it should work with the United Nations and other agencies to end the hostility towards the rest of the world.

According to Kishore, Sino-US tensions also include Chinese mistakes, including ignoring American businessmen. Previously, whenever the US government wanted to take action against China, a US businessman got in its way, saying that the hostility towards China was against his interests, but in recent years China focused on US businessmen. It has led to numerous trade sanctions. US traders no longer support China.

Kishore also said the US is aware of China's weaknesses but not its positive capabilities, although it is aware of its strengths but not its weaknesses. This analysis of adolescence does not appear to be based on reality as if the United States ignored the words of the intellectuals who predicted its fall, and the adolescents themselves and many analysts predicted that America would fall before them. Zakaria, among others, was warmly received in the United States.

Teens aren't the first intellectuals to talk about the decline of the United States. Earlier, Farid Zakaria's 2008 book American World Post, published by the Indian-American magazine Newsweek and hosted by the US channel CNN, was also critically acclaimed. Predict that the American era is over now. Now China and India are the superpowers of the future. Remember this book was written thirteen years ago today.

 Additionally, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stilgitz talks about the rise and fall of the US economy in China. Stilgitz also sees the end of the Cold War as the beginning of the decline of the United States.

He also called for the US challenge to re-emerge Russia on the world stage, which may be more complicated than China due to its mineral resources and oil reserves, but an interesting analysis-based book on the subject, The Myth. In 2014, a German political scientist named Joseph Joffe came up with the name American Decline, which says the story of America's fall is a myth and this isn't the first time America's fall has been predicted.

After the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellite in the 1960s, there were rumors that the United States was losing its leading position. After the Vietnam War in the 1970s, the United States was said to be on the verge of victory. There was talk of Japan that would overtake the United States. Then in Western Europe and in 2001 Goldman Sachs, an economic advisory group, described the BRICS bloc of five nations, known as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, as the five emerging economic powers in the world, along with the United States. United But so far the United States has been leading in many ways, including defense power and GDP.

There is no doubt that the United States made mistakes after 9/11 and fell into ruin after the Cold War. The White House was dominated by a war-torn neoconservative and a military neoconservative who had a natural alliance with the Zionist lobby and the Muslim Aboriginal Christian Christian lobby, and which led to the survival of Israel and a potential Muslim power. In the face of the growing threat, the Middle East was destroyed, Afghanistan and Iraq were destroyed, and their Arab allies, along with Syria, Yemen and Libya, were destroyed.

These displays of power are deliberate mistakes, even if they were mistakes. It cannot ignore the wishes of Israeli lobbyists and neocons, as well as attract huge profits from US military factories, which require wars to consume them. Yup! It is true that, in its zealous campaign to destroy the Muslim world, the United States has completely ignored the dangers of the emerging power in China and India.

 But even if all of this is taken for granted, US GDP still cannot be ignored at the highest levels in the world. China, India and high-ranking candidates send large numbers of young people to American universities for education and research. Tuition paid by Chinese students alone generates billions of dollars a year for the US economy. Teens and other intellectuals recognize that graduates and researchers who have had the opportunity to study and research at American universities have a significant role to play in the development of these countries.

 Teens consider their Western upbringing to be their fortune and are proud of their Sindhi Hindu family identity and their upbringing in Southeast Asia. Despite China's demands for sovereignty, he says he is a friend of the United States, whatever he is saying for the benefit of the West. He also says that the United States has taught the world to think and reason. Now he must make a realistic analysis of his position in the world in order to save himself from decline and openly acknowledge the position of other world powers.