“Will US Aggression Stop Eurasian Integration or Accelerate It? w/ Vijay Prashad”, Dec 29, 2022, Rania Khalek, Dispatches, BreakThrough News, at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Note: This is an interview on Youtube, there is no transcript
Introduction by dmorista: The Global Economy that for several centuries was concentrated and focused on the North Atlantic, with its primary nodes in North America and Western Europe, is clearly developing a new and dominant region in East Asia. China is the region's largest economy by far, but there are also the other highly developed economies of Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, and developing economies in places like Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam all playing roles in the massive East Asian region.
The U.S., during its century of Hegemonic Power, controlled Eurasia by maintaining powerful naval forces and forming political and economic alliances at both the European and East Asian termini of Eurasia. The U.S., along with its allies, contained and isolated the two major powers that arose in Eurasia. The Soviet Union was contained, first by being nearly completely isolated, and later by strictly limited economic relations. Later China was ringed by a set of subsidized and economically assisted Capitalist Societies that were given the latest American technology by the U.S., and were granted free access to the U.S. domestic market, namely these were Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It is not merely coincidental that the only two serious rivals to the U.S. for power were the Soviet Union and China. Both of these countries spent decades developing their socioeconomic systems without interference by U.S. Capital. This strongly contrasts with places like Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, and South Africa.
The interview discusses the projects that China is building to tie together the entire massive land masses of Eurasia and Africa. The Chinese engineering and construction juggernaut has built many miles of high speed rail projects, pipelines, and highways, along with several massive ports, airports, and other infrastructural projects. These are all very modern state-of-the-art facilities. The U.S., dragged down by the never ending massive expense of Imperialist oriented military expenditures just does not have the money to bring its infrastructure up to date. Just this very morning, January 11th 2023, the FAA has seen one of its most important computer software systems malfunction. Veteran pilots note that the entire U.S. Air Traffic Control system is antiquated and not up to the standards of the rest of the developed world (and much of the developing world as well). Pilots and air line experts note that the ongoing attempt by the FAA to modernize its systems is not proceeding very well, and the basic system has not changed much for the last 30 – 40 years. At this point the FAA has ordered all airlines to postpone any departures from U.S. Airports until later in the day. Right now they hope to have the malfunctioning software back in operation by 9:00 AM Eastern Time, but that is not a certainty.
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