Will America lose the Cold War this time?

Question

America won the first Cold War because of the collapse of the Soviet Union but inadvertently started a second Cold War by buying the Chinese cheap crap and sending jobs to China thus making the Chinese rich and putting America in debt. China now is the new Soviet Union considering it challenges America economically , diplomatically and it plans to challenge America militarily in the future but for now America has the better more advanced military. America let it's guard down too much after it won the first Cold War and we can clearly see this with the Middle East. America has always really liked the Jews but hated the Arabs but Cold war policy was to have as much allies as possible so America would ally and give aid to some Arab countries so that they wouldn't ally with the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed America basically gave all the Arab countries the middle finger because they are not needed anymore that's why basically all the Arab countries hate America. We can see this with Iraq Reagan gave Saddam billions of dollars in aid so he wouldn't ally with the Soviets and Saddam was also given military aid and funding from America in the Iran Iraq war. When Saddam attacked Kuwait which was after the Cold War America backstabbed him and sent NATO to crush his army and then in 2003 Bush launched a sneak attack and killed him for good. Anti Americanism is now at it's highest in the Middle East, the Arabs would rather ally with China and Russia than America. The only ally America really has in the Middle East is Israel Saudi Arabia only pretends to like America to get their money. Russia under Putin's control is also set to re enter the Cold War because of China's military build up and close proximity to Russia. Russia wants to return to how powerful it was during the Cold War and Putin has started to put this in place by allocating more money to the military. America is on the defensive now because of it's economic problems.

Answer 1

The answer to your main question is probably so. One of the main differences between China and the USSR is that China is a Capitalist country. (Yes, I know they still claim to be communist, but they are not.)



The Chinese have been beating us at our own game when it comes to business, and I expect this to continue. As to the military aspect of it, I think that war with the Chinese is quite unlikely to ever occur. Nuclear armed countries cannot make war with each other without the risk of one or the other side using the doomsday weapons. That's why we never went to war with the Soviets and that's also why we will not go to war with the Chinese.



What's likely to occur is that the Chinese will gain more influence in the world and the US will lose influence. Too bad. Our way of government is better for the world than theirs, but I don't really think that we are going to be some kind of economic turn around that is going to allow us to best the Chinese.



I think its just a matter of time.



Don't feel bad though. These things happen to all great countries. Our day in the spotlight is waning, but we will remain an important country for a very long time. We are too rich and too big to ignore. We just will no longer be the big man on the block.

Answer 2

Every Superpower has its time and Americas was 20th Century and that's ending fast. Remember it was Britain in the 19th Century etc. America is in the Middle East for Oil. Unchecked capitalism has its limits. Basically US has thrived on 'imagined wealth' last couple of decades namely: CREDIT. Capitalism is driven by Consumerism which has been driven by Credit which has been mainly people buying stuff way beyond what they could afford creating an illusion of wealth. Something gives somewhere and the housing Collapse was a big trigger that brought things to perspective.

Welcome to a global economy. China and India etc were only behind due to having not tapped their potential; now they are doing it and by about 2040 China will have more than double US GDP. China had to move from hard core communism and open up a little which is why they have moved so far forward. There's not much that can be done about that. So its not too much a cold war per se but US will NEVER monopolize the Global Political scene any more than it has so far; it has been neutralized by rising powers like China and that trend will not reverse in any of our life times. That's new reality.

Answer 3

I find both Diaper N and Bryan both have correct and well thought out answers.

The "Cold War" one was with guns and bombs aimed at each other.

Now we have bonds and credit cards aimed at each other.

Britian ruled the world for about 100 years,

America ruled the world for about 40 ? or 50 ? years.

China will be the major influence for 10 or 20 years.

and probably India will come up next for 10? years.

It will get shorter and shorter and bounce around a lot more.

China needs us to buy their stuff.

We need China to make cheap stuff.

We're tied together and can't break up, or we both go down the tubes.

China's next big problem is it's people and what happens when they start seeing our old "Happy Days" and "Leave it to Beaver" reruns. They will want the "American Life" and will start to have an Arab Spring type event of their own over the next 5 years? JMHO.

so both Bryan and Diaper N have great answers.

Answer 4

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