N.S. Lyons, in “The China Convergence”, offers a through and convincing analysis of the convergence of the political systems of China and the United States. I was unaware of Lyons’s post when I published “China to the Rescue?” a few days later. But my post rests on the same observation (mine casual; Lyons’s, analytical): We are fast approaching the point at which most Americans (the non-elite “deplorables” who actually produce things of value) will be better off (or at least not worse off) if the U.S. were to surrender (de facto) to China and its allies of convenience: Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
In the course of my argument, I linked to two pieces of evidence (this and this) for the growing likelihood of such a surrender. Here’s another one.
More deeply, of course, there is the corruption of the current president by China, and the extent to which America’s “elites” are in China’s pocket because of globalization.
Some decades ago, the U.S. government under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, made it clear that our main enemy of the time — the USSR — would not prevail in any kind of military confrontation: conventional or nuclear. Now, there is serious doubt that today’s leaders — because of their corruption and failure to maintain adequate military strength — would even try to deter from attacking Taiwan.
That failure, which will occur sometime in the next few years, will open the floodgates to acts of aggression by Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The U.S. will become the functional equivalent of store owners whose merchandise is looted brazenly by flash mobs, which are likewise undeterred because of America’s growingly obvious moral and institutional failures.