strategic-culture | The New Silk Roads – or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – were
launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013, first in Central Asia
(Nur-Sultan) and then Southeast Asia (Jakarta).
One year later, the Chinese economy overtook the U.S. on a PPP basis.
Inexorably, year after year since the start of the millennium, the U.S.
share of the global economy shrinks while China’s increases.
China is already the key hub of the global economy and the leading trade partner of nearly 130 nations.
While the U.S. economy is hollowed out, and the casino financing of
the U.S. government – repo markets and all – reads as a dystopian
nightmare, the civilization-state steps ahead in myriad areas of
technological research, not least because of Made in China 2025.
China largely beats the U.S. on patent filings and produces at least 8 times as many STEM graduates a year than the U.S., earning the status of top contributor to global science.
A vast array of nations across the Global South signed on to be part
of BRI, which is planned for completion in 2049. Last year alone,
Chinese companies signed contracts worth up to $128 billion in
large-scale infrastructure projects in dozen of nations.
The only economic competitor to the U.S. is busy reconnecting most of the world to a 21st century, fully networked version of a trade system that was at its peak for over a millennia: the Eurasian Silk Roads.
Inevitably this state of things is something interlocking sectors of the U.S. ruling class simply would not accept.
