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Australian Peter Myers feels uneasy about the prospect of China eclipsing the Zionist-occupied US as the great power with the most sway over his country. I think his fears are overblown. Who’s right? Watch our sometimes-fiery debate and sound off in the comments! (The debate on China starts in earnest at the 25:50 mark.)

Most smart red-pilled people agree on many things. We’re all on the same page regarding the Kennedy assassinations, 9/11, and Zionism. We all support ending privately-created fiat funny-money and replacing it with public banking. We all want the US to stop fighting and provoking stupid wars waged under false pretenses. We all agree that Western mainstream media peddle lies and half-truths and deserve to be relentlessly attacked and ridiculed. And we are all sick of ever-escalating censorship.

But there is one momentously important topic that we don’t all agree on: the rise of China, and what, if anything, could or should be done about it. Many critics of the US empire’s unbelievably evil and stupid policies frame their critique as follows:

“The idiots running the US empire offshored manufacturing in the 1980s, thereby enabling China’s rise. They colluded with Israel’s 9/11 attack on New York and Washington and were deceived into wasting over $7 trillion destroying the Middle East on behalf of Zionism—a strategic disaster for the US. Instead of triangulating Russia, Iran, and China to contain the only serious challenger, China, they mindlessly attacked Iran and Russia, thereby driving them into China’s arms. Now China has eclipsed the US in PPP-adjusted GDP, and is threatening to leave the US in the dust in terms of technology and the military power it enables. We ought to radically revise our approach before it’s too late, by throwing all of our chips in the ‘contain China’ basket! If we don’t, China will eclipse the US empire and…gasp…rule the world! What a disaster that would be!”

Those of us on the other side of the debate agree with that analysis, except for the last three sentences. We argue that a desperate, belated US attempt to prevent China from becoming a regional hegemon would be at least as foolish as the policies that preceded it.

The first and most obvious reason to accept China’s rise philosophically is its near-inevitability. China’s large, smart, cohesive, highly-educated population makes it a natural regional hegemon. Its population of 1.4 billion boasts a civilization whose identity stretches back for millennia. For most of that period China represented almost a third of global GDP. That 30% share collapsed to single-digits during the 19th century, hitting a low of less than 5% around 1950 before rebounding to its current 20%+. Though the official figures tell us that the US is still ahead, boasting 25% of global GDP compared to China’s 20%, when adjusted for purchasing power parity the US share plunges to 15%, giving China a rapidly-increasing lead. Given the underlying factors and the momentum they generate, onl