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发帖数: 38600 | 1 The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear, by Robert Gore
https://straightlinelogic.com/2018/06/21/the-eagle-the-dragon-and-the-bear-
by-robert-gore/
China is a major power and is not going to be encircled or regime changed by
the US. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) it cosponsors and finances with
Russia is the centerpiece of a basket of initiatives designed to further
those countries’ influence and leadership within Eurasia and among emerging
market countries. BRI is an apt symbol of the movement towards
multipolarity, with competition shifting from the military to the economic
and commercial sphere. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 It is not just American economics, politics, society, and culture which have
failed — at a deeper level, American thought has failed. Its
intellectuals cannot explain decline, its pundits predict it, its gurus
understand it, or its leaders fix it. That is because American ideas became
ideologies — capitalism, individualism, aggression, cruelty,
rationalism, selfishness, greed — which are all obsolete now…
…this age of human history demands what is truer in us, whether empathy for
suffering, respect for difference………………But because those are
qualities that can only be nurtured, evoked, and cultivated, not “monetized
” and “captured” and bottled and manufactured, American thought simply
cannot produce them anymore than all the hedge funds, algorithms, or stock
markets in the world can produce even a glimmer of sanity, grace, or wisdom. |
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