The popular theory for China’s remarkable growth from a poverty-stricken agrarian country into an industrial juggernaut that is now grasping towards superpower status is that ” China fueled its former spectacular growth with massive government spending.” But like almost everything in our world today, there is almost always a different reality. According to Richard Haass , the former director of policy planning for the U.S. Department of State and current President of the Council on Foreign Relations, China had enormous help. He states that the West orchestrated China’s growth to create a powerful rival on the former Soviet Union’s doorstep to deter wars in that region.
Not surprisingly, the West has made China into an even more dangerous opponent than the Soviet Union was – a reality that Western leaders purposely ignore as they continue to enable China to strengthen its position as a critical player in the globalist governing […]
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