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(Shades of A.G. Frank's "Re-Orient")
In a decade or two, should the need arise, China will be ready to
surgically slice through Washington’s continental encirclement at a few
strategic points without having to confront the full global might of the
U.S. military, potentially rendering the vast American armada of
carriers, cruisers, drones, fighters, and submarines redundant.
Lacking the geopolitical vision of Mackinder and his generation of
British imperialists, America’s current leadership has failed to grasp
the significance of a radical global change underway inside the Eurasian
land mass. If China succeeds in linking its rising industries to the
vast natural resources of the Eurasian heartland, then quite possibly,
as Sir Halford Mackinder predicted on that cold London night in 1904,
“the empire of the world would be in sight.”
full:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alfred-w-mccoy/the-geopolitics-of-american-global-decline_b_7534046.html
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