The world’s two top super powers can come together and lead a bipolar harmonious world, a subject I have written, expounded and expanded upon in every one of my books starting with the Custom Maid for New World Disorder trilogy, Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle and Custom Maid War.
I am currently writing Custom Maid Fear for New World Disorder. The escalating trade tensions between America and China, Cold War mentality walls and nationalistic fervor, both countries are building and drumming up against each other is very disturbing.
The fear being generated by the possibility of both countries slipping into Thucydides Trap is unnecessary war mongering. There is no reason both countries can’t cooperate.
I was concerned about Thucydides Trap after reading some of the comments made last month at the Aspen Security Forum, a gathering in Colorado of sitting and retired U.S. officials from the U.S. intelligence community and State Department, think tank experts and media pundits, to discuss the major security issues facing the U.S. today. China of course tops the list.
I agree that the Chinese way of doing business, not just with the U.S., is offensive and wrong. China should reconsider its economic and foreign policies to minimize the antagonism it has created. But America is also wrong to label China it’s biggest threat, as it only heightens the tension unnecessarily, making conflict more likely. It sets Thucydides Trap.
The absurdity of the current trade brinkmanship are best represented by the fact that the Trump re-election flags bearing campaign slogans “Trump 2020” and “Keep America Great” are being made in China and will be hit by U.S. imposed tariffs. This as China loses its number two capitalization ranking to Japan last week as the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index slipped into bear territory. Chinese markets have lost $1.6 trillion in market value this year, equivalent to the size of Canada’s economy.
The U.S. and China economies are too intertwined with each other and in the global trading system to start a war. It is time Presidents Trump and Xi have another Summit, to hammer out how the two countries can come together to lead a bipolar world. Enough of the pleasantries. Time to get down to business.
Firm binding commitments on major economic — trade and investment — foreign policy and military issues that produce timely results.
No reason for China today to still be the “world’s principal IP infringer,” accounting for 87% of counterfeit goods seized coming into the U.S.
No reason for America to remain the top law enforcement agent in Asia.
No reason for a lot of stubborn ingrained practices both countries insist on adhering to today, as they have in the past.
We live in a New World Disorder that can only be stabilized and harmonized if the two top protagonists sit down and come together on how to lead a bipolar world.