{"id":41109,"date":"2018-11-30T15:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41109"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:56:46","slug":"g20-summit-top-agenda-item-bye-bye-american-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41109","title":{"rendered":"G20 Summit, Top Agenda Item: Bye-Bye American Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"G20 Summit, Top Agenda Item: Bye-Bye American Empire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/11\/30\/or-41833.jpg?109638\" alt=\"G20 Summit, Top Agenda Item: Bye-Bye American Empire\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/11\/30\/g20-summit-top-agenda-item-bye-bye-american-empire.html\">G20 Summit, Top Agenda Item: Bye-Bye American Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The G20 summits are nominally about how the world\u2019s biggest national economies can cooperate to boost global growth. This year\u2019s gathering \u2013 more than ever \u2013 shows, however, that rivalry between the US and China is center stage.<\/p>\n<p>Zeroing in further still, the rivalry is an expression of a washed-up American empire desperately trying to reclaim its former power. There is much sound, fury and pretense from the outgoing hegemon \u2013 the US \u2013 but the ineluctable reality is an empire whose halcyon days are a bygone era.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the summit taking place this weekend in Argentina, the Trump administration has been issuing furious ultimatums to China to \u201cchange its behavior\u201d. Washington is threatening an escalating trade war if Beijing does not conform to American demands over economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has taken long-simmering US complaints about China to boiling point, castigating Beijing for unfair trade, currency manipulation, and theft of intellectual property rights. China rejects this pejorative American characterization of its economic practices.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, if Beijing does not comply with US diktats then the Trump administration says it will slap increasing tariffs on Chinese exports.<\/p>\n<p>The gravity of the situation was highlighted by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/50679.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/50679.htm\">comments<\/a>\u00a0this week of China\u2019s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, who warned that the \u201clessons of history\u201d show trade wars can lead to catastrophic shooting wars. He urged the Trump administration to be reasonable and to seek a negotiated settlement of disputes.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Washington is demanding the impossible. It\u2019s like as if the US wants China to turn the clock back to some imagined former era of robust American capitalism. But it is not in China\u2019s power to do that. The global economy has shifted structurally away from US dominance. The wheels of production and growth are in China\u2019s domain of Eurasia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G20 Summit, Top Agenda Item: Bye-Bye American Empire The G20 summits are nominally about how the world\u2019s biggest national economies can cooperate to boost global growth. This year\u2019s gathering \u2013 more than ever \u2013 shows, however, that rivalry between the US and China is center stage. Zeroing in further still, the rivalry is an expression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3602,2045,130,7844,16113,344,8203,805,865],"class_list":["post-41109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-american-empire","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-finian-cunningham","tag-g20","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-trade","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41110,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41109\/revisions\/41110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}