![]() ![]() There are more members of military marching bands than make up the entire U.S. Second, he says the US foreign service is vastly underfunded and under-respected as a job that takes serious experience: Hence, by spending millions of dollars daily to station American forces in the Gulf, the only country America is helping is China, as it is protecting oil supplies to China. His perspective is that, if anything, America being in the Middle East is helping China more than it helps America: And the points that he made that I agreed with were already part of my understanding of the US/China relationship.įor example, here’s a few things that he takes the US to task for:įirst, spending trillions on wars in the Middle East:įuture historians will no doubt wonder why in the three critical decades after the end of the Cold War, when the Middle East, no longer an arena of US-Soviet competition, lost its importance, and Southeast Asia gained importance as a potential arena of US-China competition, American strategic thinkers and policymakers continued to give so much more attention to the Middle East ![]() On the main, the points he made that I hadn’t considered already, I disagreed with. ![]() The subtitle is “The Chinese Challenge to American Supremacy” ![]()
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