theory

China’s accomplishments in the realm of production will not produce hegemony unless the Chinese Communist Party develops a globally appealing ideology and addresses the dramatic contradictions within Chinese society itself. In the 1920s, the US produced 85 percent of the world’s automobiles, but it took the Great Depression, the New Deal, and another world war before the economic powerhouse could integrate its own working class and create a new world order. The same principles apply to the military dimension: humiliations in the Persian Gulf demonstrate that the US is not omnipotent, but as long as other countries remain militarily weaker than the US-NATO-Israel-OAS complex, there is no reason that the US cannot enjoy dominance without omnipotence.