The Dilemma of American Security

The balance of power also undermines conventional thinking in terms of how the Western capitalist model of what is none other than extraction and exclusion renders the West superior over all others. The fact of the matter is that the East can also develop without having to resort to the Western capitalist model of extraction … Continue reading The Dilemma of American Security →

The Russian Enigma

And when brought altogether and converged with one another, the aforementioned “master trends” of our day and age ultimately lead to a basic shift in the global balance of power in favor of the East, particularly in favor of Russia and China. What then compounds the enigma or the dilemma or challenge of the balance of power … Continue reading The Russian Enigma →

What Xi’s China Wants

In short, complexity, paradox, and uncertainty. China’s complex and strategic move, orchestrated and initiated by Xi Jinping and aimed at closing China’s system from the West politically and ideologically while seeking good relations with the United States, is essentially a paradox that comes with no certain resolution. In turn, America’s attempt to retain empire on … Continue reading What Xi’s China Wants →

Historical Nihilism

An analysis or study of Xi Jinping should perhaps focus more on what the man has been tasked with rather than zooming in on the man himself, although both the personal and professional components of the personality analysis and study of Xi Jinping are important and valuable. The steely, stoic personality of Xi Jinping stems … Continue reading Historical Nihilism →

Yellow Peril

But is international society really happy about a “Greater China” coming to fruition? Or to pose the question differently, is the West as the focal point and center of gravity of international affairs for the last few centuries happy about the rise of an alternate pole in the international system which is fundamentally challenging and … Continue reading Yellow Peril →