Comments by "yop yop" (@yopyop3241) on "China Has No Chance || Peter Zeihan" video.
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Have you read the UN Charter? The good nations of the world are supposed to come together to protect human rights and fight against countries and groups that threaten global peace and order. Most US interventions are the system working properly. Chinese non-contribution and piggybacking on the benefits of global order is just another example of China leeching off of others.
This kind of Chinese parasitism is a big part of why the US has begun to view the global order as a failed experiment and is pulling back from the parts of the world that don’t factor into US interests. For example, the US doesn’t trade much through the Red Sea. Those waters matter much more to China, Europe, and India. Against the Houthis, the US is stepping back, and security for those waters is being turned over to Europe and India. Control of those waters is being turned over to Europe and India.
That’s just the start of a long term trend. The Indian Ocean overall is going to be turned over to India. The Western Pacific is going to be handed off to Japan.
Since WW2, the US has ensured free access to all of the world’s oceans. Free from pirates, free from transit fees. For everyone. Going forward, we’ll see how the new owners of the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific choose to play it. Maybe they’ll continue to offer free access to everyone. Or maybe the new owners will charge big transit fees and play favorites: charging a pittance to friends and allies, charging exorbitant fees that basically completely block unfriendlies. We’ll see how it goes.
Hmm. India and Japan. I wonder, which countries do India and Japan view with suspicion?
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