An insightful article by Professor Lee, but maybe appealing and then expecting the politicians would intellectually choose to revert to the days of the Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods and the UN is fallen on deaf ears.

Your call may be better directed at the disenfranchised Americans who kept voting for one of two parties and kept expecting their votes is consenting to a change for the better, but every four years the senators, congressmen and women as well as your elected president turned out to serve their own or interests than the electorates. The moneyed class and the corporate totalitarians always end up buying the politicians to serve them at the end. That the Americans are still consenting politicians would govern and rule fairly should think again. It is sobering to consider the similarities between America today with the dying days of the Roman Empire.

So here is the reality check- maybe China is America’s existential threat after all, in terms of true governance, ability to look after 1.4 billion of its citizens and in credit worthiness, it’s off the charts compared to how well 350 million Americans have fared under an alleged representative democratic republic system that is at its deathbed, addicted to opioids and perpetual war.