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Cold War politics is back. Soviet Russia's dissolution reignited old rivalries. Scrambling for vital resources followed. Marginalizing Beijing's influence is prioritized. So is challenging Moscow the same way.
Both countries are rising world powers. America's been declining for years. Its military might is used to offset it. Waging war on humanity is a losing game.
Walden Bello calls Obama's Asia pivot "flawed." Critics denounce transgressing areas of traditional Chinese influence.
Obama continues the worst of Bush administration policies. His pivot strategy is more than meets the eye.
It's "a faint," says Bellow, "a maneuver to cover up a strategic retreat from America's disastrous two-decades-long engagement in the Middle East and Southwest Asia."It's Washington attempt "to retreat to an area for imperial power projection that it sees as more manageable than a Middle East that is running out of control."
It's hard understanding how. It won't work. Realpolitik won't let Washington disengage. It's "condemned to a condition of imperial overreach."
Increasing America's Pacific footprint triggers military competition with China. It prioritizes protecting its part of the world. It's doing so "as it races to become the world's biggest economy."
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