Great passage, pb p. 233.
After he talks about China having declared the US its main enemy, he describes our record playing a secondary balancing role. The US has had not much interest or ability at this, since the founding, really.
Nothing has changed. There are a lot of different kinds of reasons for this.
Another point, the US China relationship as it has developed, and his discussion of the US' balancing role weaknesses, are related, although he does not make any connection directly there.
Why would you promote development of your main adversary as both your main factory and your main creditor, and then, almost immediately, have to talk about playing a balancing role against it?
You're out on the flat ice of globalization.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
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