One may live under a variety of political orders. Life becomes difficult when you’re caught between two systems fighting each other. As an Australian, I had no problems with the rise of China, until the Trump presidency forced Australia to choose between its economic provider and its security provider.
Actually, while he was campaigning, Trump had an advisor, Carter Page, who proposed an entente between China, Russia, and America. But Page was purged along with all the Russophiles, and Trump wanted his trade war with China, and now under Biden, the idea that all nations should be liberal democracies has been restored to the list of reasons why east and west are at odds. And maybe the odds were always against a LaRouche-style peaceful coexistence of such different powers.
The way I see it, America has had supreme power in the world twice, and has a chance at a third time. First was in 1945, when only the USA has the bomb, and everywhere else was in ruins. Then came 1991, when American information society was suddenly the only serious political and economic model remaining. The third chance is due to artificial intelligence, although perhaps it’s more accurate to say that, whatever posthuman order characterizes the era of AI, it’s most likely to first take shape on the territory of America.
So personal preferences aside, there is a sense in which I judge the meta-alliance of “NATO+Quad” as more likely to win than “SCO+Iran”. But winning only because of AI, and only in the sense that it gets to be ground zero of the AI-driven transformation of the world. If it weren’t for AI, I would not expect America to ever be on top again.
One may live under a variety of political orders. Life becomes difficult when you’re caught between two systems fighting each other. As an Australian, I had no problems with the rise of China, until the Trump presidency forced Australia to choose between its economic provider and its security provider.
Actually, while he was campaigning, Trump had an advisor, Carter Page, who proposed an entente between China, Russia, and America. But Page was purged along with all the Russophiles, and Trump wanted his trade war with China, and now under Biden, the idea that all nations should be liberal democracies has been restored to the list of reasons why east and west are at odds. And maybe the odds were always against a LaRouche-style peaceful coexistence of such different powers.
The way I see it, America has had supreme power in the world twice, and has a chance at a third time. First was in 1945, when only the USA has the bomb, and everywhere else was in ruins. Then came 1991, when American information society was suddenly the only serious political and economic model remaining. The third chance is due to artificial intelligence, although perhaps it’s more accurate to say that, whatever posthuman order characterizes the era of AI, it’s most likely to first take shape on the territory of America.
So personal preferences aside, there is a sense in which I judge the meta-alliance of “NATO+Quad” as more likely to win than “SCO+Iran”. But winning only because of AI, and only in the sense that it gets to be ground zero of the AI-driven transformation of the world. If it weren’t for AI, I would not expect America to ever be on top again.