High-risk friction in the East China Sea between Asia’s top economic powers is scaling up in the new year, killing hopes of an early solution, as Beijing sends planes,Japan raises its defense budget, and Taiwan tests the waters again.
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By: Andrew Gavin Marshall The process of establishing an American Empire during and after World War II was not – as has been postulated (by those who even admit there is such a thing as an ‘American Empire’) – an ‘accident’ of history, something America seemingly stumbled into as a result of its unhindered economic growth and military-political position as arbiter of world peace and prosperity. A vast literature has developed in the academic realm and policy circles – particularly within Political Science and the think tank community, respectively – which postulates a notion of ‘American empire’ or ‘American hegemony’ as accidental, incidental, benevolent, reluctant, and desirable. Delete the scoop?
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