China is on the cusp of overtaking the United States as the world’s leading superpower — thanks to a toxic combination of globalist self-interest and the Obama administration’s ineptitude and disdain for American strength.

In an exclusive interview with LifeZette, Jonathan Roth, writer and director of the new documentary “China on Top: How China is Using America’s Playbook to Take Over the World,” discussed how the globalist policies favored by large corporations were instrumental in China’s rise — and how the Obama administration’s weakness has emboldened China to seize its inevitable position as the world’s leading power.

“China is going to be the No. 1 superpower. It’s just a matter of time.”

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“China is going to be the No. 1 superpower. It’s just a matter of time,” said Roth. He noted that the U.S. currently competes with China in two major ways. “You have this economic competition that’s going on” and “you also have this military competition that’s happening,” he said.

Of course, China is only in a position to compete thanks to America’s free trade with the Communist country, ushered in by Bill Clinton and sustained by globalist corporate interests — and America is in danger of losing the military competition thanks to Obama.

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“There’s no question that millions of American and Canadian and a lot of Western manufacturing jobs … have gone directly to China — and that was done on purpose,” Roth said. “There’s no question that the U.S. government in particular knew that those jobs would leave this country and head to China,” he added.

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“The reckless expansion of commerce with a very low-income, protectionist dictatorship ensured enormous, ballooning trade deficits that by definition killed valuable growth and therefore employment,” economist Alan Tonelson said. “Even worse, the unprecedented economic imbalances that resulted swamped the American economy with cheap credit and thus set the stage for the financial crisis,” he added.

The American government was not only willing to sacrifice the American working and middle classes on the altar of corporate profit, but it did so in a way that directly benefited a country which sees it as a fundamental enemy.

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“All the while, China’s trade profits helped finance a military buildup that increasingly threatened America’s position in the East-Asia/Pacific region,” Tonelson noted. “Both Democratic and Republican presidents have largely winked as U.S.companies transferred to China cutting edge know-how that has keyed the development of ever more sophisticated and potent military systems — or simply knuckled under to China’s demands to turn over their best tech or lose access to the Chinese market,” he said.

Chinese generals are licking their lips at the thought of besting the U.S. military in the South China Sea, while the globalists’ desire to make money is only strengthening the Chinese economy — and its ability to wage war.

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“You have companies like General Motors who is an American company and yet they are selling a vast, vast number of vehicles in China today,” said Roth. “Over time they will actually be selling the majority of their cars in China — not in the United States — so you could make the argument that General Motors will not be an American company anymore — they will be a Chinese company,” he added.

These corporations influence American interests and pursue a pro-China slant in American policy. China’s policy toward the United States, however, is anything but friendly. “You have this where you’re hugging each other very tightly but you’re also in massive competition,” Roth said. In the military sphere, Roth noted, war in the South China Sea may be inevitable.

“China has decided that the South China Sea is theirs and they are going to push the United States out,” explained Roth. “They have correctly on their side taken a look at Obama and his administration, and their approach to world affairs in general, and realize that Obama was not going to push back” against Chinese aggression.

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“These islands that the Chinese have built in the middle of the South China Sea have really created a massive problem for the United States. All the American allies from the Philippines to Vietnam — Australia, countries like that — are realizing the United States is not going to push back against China,” he said. “China knows this and in probably the next two to three years the South China Sea is China’s,” he added.

This will complete Obama’s efforts to see the United States diminished in the eyes of the world. “Every single ally in Southeast Asia and around the world … when they see a country like China essentially cross a red line that the U.S. has put there and the U.S. does nothing about it, that essentially tells these countries that any security guarantee you have from the Americans worthless.”

Roth also noted the role Bill Clinton’s administration played in fueling China’s military might, not to mention its fervent advocacy of free trade with China. “You can go back into the Clinton administration and you can see transfers of … weapons technology that went to China,” he said.

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“Whether it was given or stolen, it’s very hard to tell how that worked out — but there’s no question that the Clinton administration turned a blind eye to China stealing or taking with permission information that has helped them dramatically increase their military prowess,” said Roth.

“The next year to two to three years is going to be extremely interesting — potentially very dangerous,” Roth predicted. “Your next president is going to have some extremely difficult decisions to make.”