The Fool wrote: > Thats exactly what happened. We had a an edge. We used it to drive the > Soviet Union into the ground. It was a great plan, exucuted for ~fifty > years, designed with one thing in mind, It was called the arms race. > Very specifically We forced them to spend all their money trying to keep > up with the arms build up of the US, and it worked, well. And given > enough time, the same plan will work with china too.
Maybe, but China might not be playing the same game as the Soviets. If nothing else, they've got the disastrous example of the USSR to guide their decision making. The system might eventually stabilize into some new configuration of superpowers (three or maybe three groups), but the stakes they'll play for (and the nature of how "power" is defined in the future) will probably be different than in the cold war. Nobody can beat the Americans at Arms Race, so the game will change, but the struggle for dominance will go on. Kevin Street
