Excellent article. Very pertinent to us in Australia since our foolish government has signed us up to AUKUS (Australia, UK, US - although some of us prefer to call it USUKA). This deal commits Australia to subsidising the UK and US armaments industries, and to turning Australia into a land-based launch pad for US navy and airforce attacks on China, all aided and abetted by a sycophantic and rabid corporate media. The fact that China has been Australia's best trading partner seems lost on these fools.
So Australia hitches its little wagon to a declining white-man's club, reliving the glory days of empire and Chinese opium wars in a futile attempt to prevent the re-emergence of China as a world power so that the US can continue its fantasy that a unipolar world is normal and eternal.
Great read - but I miss the place of competing ideologies in your dialectic.
The dynamics of material 'infrastructure' and mental superstructure are of course deeply linked or coupled, but we can't reduce one to the other on simple Marxist or Weberian models.
This seems particularly true in the case of current US-China rivalry, partly based on diametrically opposed ideas of human agency.
Excellent article. Very pertinent to us in Australia since our foolish government has signed us up to AUKUS (Australia, UK, US - although some of us prefer to call it USUKA). This deal commits Australia to subsidising the UK and US armaments industries, and to turning Australia into a land-based launch pad for US navy and airforce attacks on China, all aided and abetted by a sycophantic and rabid corporate media. The fact that China has been Australia's best trading partner seems lost on these fools.
So Australia hitches its little wagon to a declining white-man's club, reliving the glory days of empire and Chinese opium wars in a futile attempt to prevent the re-emergence of China as a world power so that the US can continue its fantasy that a unipolar world is normal and eternal.
Excellent geopolitical analysis
Great read - but I miss the place of competing ideologies in your dialectic.
The dynamics of material 'infrastructure' and mental superstructure are of course deeply linked or coupled, but we can't reduce one to the other on simple Marxist or Weberian models.
This seems particularly true in the case of current US-China rivalry, partly based on diametrically opposed ideas of human agency.