If China, with a Socialist system (embracing a
capitalist touch) beats the Democratic System and becomes the No. 1
economic power, that is going to puncture for good the whole superiority
myth espoused by the USA that democracy will always triumph socialism.
It makes nonsense of the boasts when China does overtake the USA, which
it certainly will. The proof will be there, the reality does not lie.
The
Vietnam War was still in the era when the USA and the West were still
touting the superiority of Democracy over Socialism and that was used as
a justification that they were fighting a war to defeat the inferior
Socialism system. Instead, they were defeated. That mantra has now been
turned upside down with China's rise. And the rise of China is so rapid,
it left the Democratic superiority myth in the dust and turning it into
dust as well.
How can the USA and the West accept defeat or
live with the idea that Socialism is now a better system for the world
to follow? They could not and neither could they still use that argument
to denounce socialism as an inferior system.
But notice that
they no longer are using the democracy vs socialism argument in
geopolitical discourse, knowing it holds no water. Rather, they invented
the 'Rules Based Order' nonsense, using human rights issues, fermenting
fear mongering over Chinese threat at every conceivable opportunity and
preventing China from having any influence in other countries.
Anonymous